OK - pie discourse - best pie story: In 2016, we were living in Andover, in the UK. My wife was assigned as an exchange officer at the Army Air Corps base at Middle Wallop (yes, really).* The US Army has a tradition: senior leaders, in dress uniform, serve junior troops Thanksgiving dinner. /1

zoom in to see how happy tbh

The Republican solution to gun deaths. Make sure more people have guns. 🤦‍♂️🤡

Benny Johnson had perhaps the best 2025 of any streamer on the right, drawing more than 1 billion YouTube views as he hobnobbed with Trump administration power players and GOP elites. His job is to have no principles. Business is booming. www.mediamatters.org/benny-johnso...

Lane changes can come early, or late, or both.

God damn! The Russia proposed “peace” agreement is a complete sell-out of the world order developed by the Allies after World War II. Its apparent acceptance by Trump is a betrayal of Ukraine, NATO, Europe AND the United States.

There are all kinds of heroes. 🙏 (Deleted and reposted to correct typo.)

Let's see if the internet (and Bluesky in particular) can help solve this mystery. Who can help Ben find "Linda" who appears to be from the UK but traveled to Moscow in 1984 and wrote (but did not send?) this postcard?

Ever since the “they are eating the pets” incident, where Vance admitted he is willing to lie for political advantage, I give his pronouncements all the respect they deserve, which is to say “none”.

The federal supremacy clause immunity for official duties comes from a case where a Marshal shot a man while defending a Supreme Court Justice. Just think, we could have had an interesting test case where a state official shot an ICE agent while defending a judge.

Petty fun: I fed gpt the Elon v Lebron hypo, and when it said Lebron, I told it I didn’t believe it because of Grok, and got this.

So much land. So much valuable land now in the hands of a government that has been trying to sell off the greenbelt, provincial parks and Ontario place. It is not conspiratorial. It's recent history.

Karma Co-Op Recognizes Transgender Day of Remembrance: November 20, 2025. The Co-Op wants to shout out the new Glad Day Lit space on Lisgar as a resource for all and also highlight the Trans Pizza Day Fundraiser

Karma Co-Op Recognizes Trans Day of Remembrance

Just straight up Nazis: "Here's the 'bad guy other' that is responsible for every one of your problems. No, no don't look beyond that statement - just remember it's THOSE PEOPLE who are making life hard! Now don't you want to help us eliminate them so your life gets better?"

The year is 2035. The Meta People's Liberation Army breaks into my underground printing press. But I've already escaped on my pedal-powered flying machine. "Death to the machines!" I yell before crashing into the city's last remaining tree. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...

The Southern Ontario Seed Strategy (SOSS) will help prioritize actions to grow more native plants, grow them better, and support the goals of reconciliation and restoration. caroliniancanada.ca/seed

Missed my number being called tonight (#609) to speak via phone to Vancouver City Council during their multi-night meeting on the city’s very controversial 0% austerity budget. Remarkable to have that many speakers, and to have almost all opposing the proposed cuts, instead asking for a % increase.

Alberta's government is engaged in something I can only describe as psychopathic politics. What else do you call it when a government so set on pushing ahead with policies that WILL cause more trans youth to try to leave us? When they'll trample on the charter to hurt these kids? It's disturbing:

Lovely tribute to Indigenous activist Nick Kakeeway by John Clarke

"Quiet, piggy!"

November 18, 2025

SINCE THIS HAS COME UP AGAIN... WHAT TO DO IF YOU FIND YOURSELF THE TARGET OF A FEDERAL INVESTIGATION.

did the AI guys think to ask AI how to make AI accurate and reliable and profitable

Call me cynical, but wouldn’t an amendment in the Senate require it to come back to the House, where Johnson could attempt to bury it again?

Ok @hankgreen.bsky.social is my anger translator regarding stupid controversies about Jimmy Wales and @wikipedia.org. I was going to say something, but Hank says everything I would have said here. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zi0...

Sometimes I hate the history I learn from “Letters from an American”. This is not a criticism of the author. Nobody does a better job of weaving the past into an analysis of the present. (Stupid oligarchs.)

Repost this everywhere you’re active on social media. Send to your friends and family who aren’t.

Bsky hasn’t heard the story about the time that I was giving a virtual colloquium to the Aspen Center for Physics in September 2020 and Lawrence Krauss, Geoff Marcy, Christian Ott all attended as a group ACP now has a policy that would prevent this from happening, because of that incident 🔭

So Trump is accidentally admitting what we all knew, that his tariffs are causing the high prices in the U.S., because tariffs are paid by the business and citizens of the country that levies them.

may this moment deliver us from The Dersh

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if we take it to be true that the tariffs are aimed at getting americans to buy US-made products, then what's the point of rolling them back when they become painful? the entire point is to cause financial pain to change consumer behavior. what's the strategy here?

Read up for the whole thread on why societies tend toward co-operation, and why conservatives who tend toward exploitation are the unsustainable exceptions.

🍫 Check out our new series of bite-sized articles highlighting the people and principles behind your favourite Fair Trade treats! Read the first article of the series here interviewing folks from Camino, the Ottawa-based cocoa co-operative www.karmacoop.org/news/camino-... #FairTrade #Chocolate

Old Houses on Sherbourne Street John Kasyn 1978

I think this is in Philadelphia. Thread has other good examples.

Well done, Boston Mayor @wutrain.bsky.social, well done. The friendship between our two countries, Canada and the United States, may have been irreparably damaged by Trump’s illegal attacks, but the special relationships between many of our cities and regions can and should remain strong.

This is the relationship Canada and the United States had, and in some ways still has. This is the relationship Trump has tried his absolute best to deliberately destroy.

Once again, an excellent job of reporting on a complicated meeting. Just the right combination of facts, analysis and snark. Glad to see that even on contentious issues, my Councillor (Moise) votes as I would.

Importance: High subj: An article for U (gift link) i wrote ,,,,,, about jeff epstein. s emails. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

And by “least woke” I mean “most Nazi”.

There are over 35,000 NYPD officers. This is called a Friday.

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For folks who are just now seeing this thread at the midway point, wondering what it's about and whether they've missed anything, we are raising money for the 11th Annual Bull City Foodraiser to buy groceries for elementary school kids for winter break! Thread starts here: bsky.app/profile/greg...

Greg's telling the Foodraiser history which everyone who doesn't know should read (scroll up and then back down from the post below). Year 4 is where I came in just as someone who donated. Little did I know where it would lead ...

smash cut to Derek Guy's cellphone vibrating on his desk