@sbirlios It is eternally infuriating. I do a light purge of American accounts that I follow on a quarterly basis.
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Dave's Got Slacks
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@ToolUsingMammal
Union construction - IWW - Punks 🤝 Skins united against hatred
Purgatory, Québec Inscrit le Temmuz 2020
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Imagine being an American at this moment in history and thinking you have any right to be snide and condescending about literally anything. If you're not going to put your body on the gears at least have the decency to shut the fuck up.
Natalie Wynn@ContraPoints
Seriously where are the revolutionaries? Are they at brunch?
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@Pagmenzies @CanadianPM Eggs also represent the trinity and hold historic cultural significance of rebirth that predate the institutionalized Christian use of the cross by millennia.
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Prime Minister Carney wishes a happy and blessed Easter to everyone celebrating. pm.gc.ca/en/news/statem…
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@snackowska I should give that book a go. Your description makes me think of some stuff from Hinterland by Phil Neel, which I really enjoyed.
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there's a great book by Louise Mozingo, Pastoral Capitalism, about how corporations moved to the suburbs in the postwar era. their placement in a green landscape - one that strives to be ahistoric - reflects how US culture represents the economy as part of an unchanging nature
Virginia Cotts@folly_oh
If bourgeois democracy were truly democratic, it would extend to the economy. We bicker over ballots and analyze a politician's every utterance. Meanwhile the economy is treated as a separate beast, untouchable and ungovernable. Yet it literally holds power over life and death.
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@malazanmarxist BG2 is my favourite but BG1 is still absolutely outstanding. I'm waiting patiently for the modders who are recreating BG1 in the BG3 engine as a custom campaign.
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The Lord of Murder shall perish, but in his doom he shall spawn a score of mortal progeny. Chaos will be sown from their passage. So sayeth the wise Alaundo
Dave@GamewithDave
For those who used a computer between 1995 and 2001, what's the computer game from that time that sticks with you the most, and why?
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@ToolUsingMammal In an unrelated lol
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Underdog MLB@UnderdogMLB
Bo Bichette as a Met: 1-11 7 K
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Dave's Got Slacks retweeté
Sask NDP Leader Carla Beck declines Avi Lewis’ meeting request, in letter below.
Toronto Star@TorontoStar
Update: Saskatchewan and Alberta NDP opposition leaders Carla Beck and Naheed Nenshi are already taking aim at new federal leader Avi Lewis. #cdnpoli trib.al/ocXBi4p
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@jengerson I was initially a tepid Ashton supporter but I doubt he has read Rousseau or understands the context of "eat the rich". It's become an old recycled DSA slogan popularized in the Sandernista days. The NDP much like the Cons need to stop looking South to be successful imo
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Canadian politics are amazing. Every day I am both delighted to be alive, and look forward to death just a little bit more.
Alex Zoltan@AmazingZoltan
HAPPENING NOW: Union activist and NDP leadership candidate Rob Ashton suggests we "eat the damn rich" to thunderous applause at the party's convention.
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@JohnJoh85902498 I initially didn't like Lewis because he's a nepo baby. Then he made gross statements like these about my brothers and sisters (many indigenous themselves) which was a line in the sand for me
Worried he'll also drive some progressives to the Liberals
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Victoria Mancinelli@vcmancinelli
What in the actual grotesque F is this? Not only does @avilewis completely disregard the thousands upon thousands of tradeswomen working on projects that keep our country strong, he blatantly discriminates against construction workers. Tradesmen show up every damn day, in the cold of winter and in the heat of summer to build the country you take for granted. The roads you drive on, the transit you rely on, the power that lights your home, none of it exists without them. They are sons, fathers, brothers. They are proud, skilled workers who show up with integrity and respect for the tradeswomen they work alongside and the women across our communities. Your comments aren’t just ignorant, they are disgraceful. You owe Canada’s tradesmen an apology. As I’ve clearly stated time and time again, the NDP stopped being a worker’s party a long time ago. They abandoned blue-collar workers for ideological theatrics that halt progress, divide communities, and insult the very people who keep this country running. The self imploding embarrassment that is the @NDP continues. Absolute shame.
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@ToolUsingMammal I work blue collar construction and I like Avi :) Rob was my first choice but I really like Avi’s rhetoric
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I should have voted for Avi. He epitomizes exactly what a leader of today's NDP should be, exactly what it's become. It was never perfect but it's gotten very bad. It's an NDP that hates blue collar workers. We need a better left wing party in the future. I hope the NDP dies.
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When I become president of West Quebec and the Ottawa Valley I will guarantee all citizens a free shawarma every week. I will also make sure that employers provide extra shawarma sandwiches through their benefits programs.
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@sulliedgraves2 Best song I heard was this
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@sulliedgraves2 One of my favourite songs, permanently on my playlist. I was lucky enough to see Jake Burns perform an acoustic set years ago. He closed with Alternative Ulster, an absolute banger as well.
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What's the best song you listened to today?
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Dave's Got Slacks retweeté
Start the fucking season already I can't wait to see this loser get domed by Toronto again all season
✦✦✦ 𝙿𝚊𝚖𝚙𝚑𝚕𝚎𝚝𝚜 ✦✦✦@PamphletsY
🚨🇺🇸 CRINGE — "Do It for Da Troopz" Aaron Judge speech doomed Team USA
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lol that second pint he shows is as bad as the first
Pierre Poilievre@PierrePoilievre
My St. Patrick’s Day beer with Mark Carney. We need less foam and more beer!
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@ToolUsingMammal I hope you're on the mend, Dave. All the best.
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A few years ago, a friend was told eight months for an MRI for a non-emergency that was causing them a lot of pain/quality of life issues. Out of curiosity, I googled MRI clinics in Buffalo and called the first hit. Asked when they could take an appointment.
Same day.
David Zhao@davzhao
Why does Canada have the longest MRI wait times in the developed world? The Ontario health ministry has a central licensing department for all imaging. In 2024 less than 30 licenses were given out. I know imaging centres that have machines collecting dust for years waiting to be licensed. This is a classic Soviet style artificial supply constraint created by bureaucracy. Meanwhile Canadians are driving to Buffalo or overseas for private MRIs.
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@mattgurney I had cancer progress stages due to similar delays with imaging a number of years ago. I still ended up waiting 3 months for a Canadian private clinic (which ironically I have advocated against). Something needs to change.
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I told them same day wasn't feasible as the person would be driving down from Toronto, and they offered me a bunch of spots the next morning. You could pick your 15 minute window.
Long delays for imaging is absolutely fucking insane.
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Dave's Got Slacks retweeté
As a Canadian, I'm proud of all the Canadian Oscar winners but I'm most proud that a movie with Kevin O'Leary in it lost all of its Oscar nominations.
Pop Base@PopBase
‘Marty Supreme’ lost all of its #Oscars nominations.
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