Stephen Burridge
sburridge.bsky.social
Stephen Burridge
@sburridge.bsky.social
Retired guy in Ottawa
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November 8, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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I can’t get over a media that spent years dwelling on gaffes telling us which Presidential crimes aren’t a big deal
October 25, 2025 at 10:01 PM
It seems to me that Trump has already been totally “normalized” by virtue of having been twice elected president. There is no going back.
October 25, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.
October 13, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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This book title sounds like something an old Newfoundlander would say as profanity
September 13, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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That Trump and Trumpism are fascist doesn’t explain the sheer vandalism of unleashing mass murdering mayhem via RFK to replace medical/scientific institutions of immense value and prestige with medieval peasant superstitions. That is a criminal madness facilitated by but above and beyond fascism.
August 30, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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Scalpers Jack Up Price Of Colorado Rockies Ticket To $11 https://theonion.com/scalpers-jack-up-price-of-colorado-rockies-ticket-to-11/
August 29, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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The reason why older generations burnt the shit out of their meat and boiled the shit out of their vegetables, was your kid died if you didn't.

Medium rare steaks and roasted Brussels sprouts are a side effect of an intact food safety infrastructure
"The Agriculture Department will not require poultry companies to limit salmonella bacteria in their products, halting a Biden Administration effort to prevent food poisoning from contaminated meat."

www.seattletimes.com/business/usd...
USDA withdraws a plan to limit salmonella levels in raw poultry
The Agriculture Department says it is withdrawing a plan to limit salmonella bacteria in poultry products.
www.seattletimes.com
April 25, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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Donald Trump’s immediate family is making a dizzying sum of money that would be unimaginable without his Presidencies, including profits from overseas deals and at least five different crypto ventures. nyer.cm/zB0NNxq
August 11, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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August 9, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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I had a great time talking Parker, Stark, and Westlake with a new Parker-focused site, Tough Business. We’ve needed a Parker site since Trent Reynolds idled his Violent World of Parker, so it’s good to see that gap being filled.
New interview over on Tough Business, our Richard Stark's Parker website! @lilyslabo.bsky.social & I had the pleasure of interviewing @levistahl.bsky.social about the University of Chicago Press editions, Parker's enduring appeal, & much more! Link below:

toughbusiness.neocities.org/interviewlev...
August 6, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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1) Build text and image generators, and the best chatbots anyone's ever seen.

2) Call that artificial intelligence.

3) ??????

4) Digital genie that can do anything.

Hype and planning for step 4, all relying on the assumption that step 3 will just sorta happen if we throw money and compute at it.
July 30, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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These are choices. Editorial framing is a choice. Points of emphasis are a choice. Placement is a choice.

Someone high up at NY Times decided that the Trump-Epstein story is about how Trump’s cooperating and working to disclose info. They chose to paint a picture that is the opposite of accurate.
July 19, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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This cartoon is everywhere on my social media right now.
My cartoon in this weeks @newyorker.com
July 1, 2025 at 5:24 AM
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It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this
June 22, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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I am a descendent of survivors of genocide so being a Leafs fan is nothing
May 15, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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Early exit polls suggest the new pope did particularly well with male voters aged 45-79.
May 8, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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the Florida Panthers are a championship juggernaut whose depth and physicality will overwhelm the Leafs, who will win the series in six games.
the nature of being a Leafs fan is that I am simultaneously convinced that Berube has turned them into a well-oiled machine whose gears have methodically ground the Sens into dust, and also that malicious gods are setting us up for a reverse sweep. both are true until one is false.
May 5, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Opinion | That four-year-old cancer victim is no angel.
April 27, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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i was so determined not to be an Everything Peaked When I Was Young guy but then the world started getting objectively worse as i aged
April 26, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Oh, to be able to switch off the inane 'rewards' on the Kindle reading app. I don't need congratulating for reading for 'so-many' days in a row like a toddler with a star chart. I've been reading independently on a daily basis for over 55 years. A blank day on the app means I'm reading on paper 😆
April 5, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Democrats are claiming that a global recession is coming. But the reality is, places like Madagascar and New Guinea are unlikely to suffer economically. Five Pinocchios.
April 3, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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It’s like watching a troop of chimpanzees smashing a watch
April 3, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Call it another savvy Trump inspiration: the politics of the 1930s must be matched by its economics.
April 3, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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The former ambassador to Denmark for the United States, Rufus Gifford, posted this video on his Facebook account:

Ht: @hpsc24.bsky.social
March 29, 2025 at 3:26 PM