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Jonathan Newell

@Edweirdian

Weird fiction, fantasy cartography, monsters, roleplaying games. Credits include Genial Jack, work on Dolmenwood. He/him. Blog: https://t.co/ggD9PpneTP.

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Jonathan Newell
Jonathan Newell@Edweirdian·
I have big news. I've launched a patreon for the Hex setting, including monthly maps, fully-illustrated installments of the Hex Guidebook detailing every single street, a playtest version of The Hex Hack system, and an archive of older high-resolution maps. Subscribe below.⬇️
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Thomas Chatterton Williams@thomaschattwill·
This makes no sense. Bill Clinton won twice running as a centrist in 1992 and 1996 Barack Obama won twice as a centrist in 2008 and 2012 Joe Biden won—again, running if not governing—as a centrist in 2020. How is centrism the problem?
@adammanross.bsky.social@adammanross

Al Gore lost in 2000 as a centrist. John Kerry lost in 2004 as a centrist. Hillary lost in 2016 as a centrist. Kamala lost 2024 as a centrist. If we’re going to win the 2026 midterms, we must abandon centrism all together. If the Democratic Party is to survive we must go left

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J.J. McCullough@JJ_McCullough·
I feel like it says something about the pointlessness of the Canadian far-left these days that all the NDP can come up with as a “big idea” is this plan to bring literal Soviet-style grocery stores to Canada. A truly bizarre solution in search of a problem.
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Jonathan Newell@Edweirdian·
@captive_dreamer It's absolutely vital Richmond stays like this. The best dim sum you will eat on this continent.
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captive dreamer@captive_dreamer·
Checking in on Richmond, Canada:
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Jonathan Newell@Edweirdian·
@shahadrashidd @tboyblues @JakeLandauTO Not really an argument but sure. I just don't see why the single toughest spot for the NDP ought to be the cornerstone of the strategy. It's like saying the Democrats must win the Bible Belt to stand a chance.
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Jake Landau (He/Him) 🇨🇦🇵🇸🇻🇪🇺🇦
Honestly, if he can run up the seat count by focusing on just B.C., Québec and Ontario, he's set to make the NDP a major player in politics. A lack of seats in the prairies simply would not matter for his political goals.
Polling Canada@CanadianPolling

Avi Lewis Net-Favourables In: 🟢 Canada: +4% 🟢 BC: +13% 🟢 QC: +13% 🟢 ON: +7% 🔴 ATL: -4% 🔴 MB/SK: -5% 🔴 AB: -23% Liaison / April 11, 2026

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Jonathan Newell@Edweirdian·
@shahadrashidd @tboyblues @JakeLandauTO I don't really agree here. The Prairies have generally gravitated pretty hard to the right and are very, very resistant to green politics. Tough ground. Democratic socialism is focused on urban affordability and pitched to educated but downwardly mobile millennials/GenZ.
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Jonathan Newell@Edweirdian·
@archaicf0ssil I've always read them as a foil for humans with the implication their civilization went through a similar collapse but turned hard right instead of left.
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Yaffa the Lesbian Witch🖖@archaicf0ssil·
The interesting thing about Cardassians is that they're not evil because they're born as some villainous race, they're people so varied and nuanced that has fascism ingrained so deep inside their culture that it'll be hard to ever fully recover
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i need star trek to have a restorative justice system quickly
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Stephen Gordon@stephenfgordon·
Any competent economist can explain why this idea is dumber than a sack of hammers. Avi Lewis doesn't care, because he knows - as all Canadian economists do - that Canadian economics journalism sucks ass. He knows he will never be called out on this idiocy.
Scott Robertson@sarobertsonca

Avi Lewis: "We have a very clear plan to cut grocery prices by 30-40% for Canadians at a cost to the federal government ... We'd subsidize it. It costs $350m to launch and $300m a year, which is one-half of 1% of the current defence budget."

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Jonathan Newell@Edweirdian·
@goblin_formula I think there were conceivable ways to incorporate them elegantly but boy did they not stick the landing.
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ed edd and eddington@goblin_formula·
the only bad thing about this episode is how they brutally shoehorned section 31 into every star trek project going forward. putting them in enterprise was a huge mistake; leaving whether or not sloane was lying about s31 predating the starfleet charter ambiguous was much better
TrekMovie.com@TrekMovie

OTD, the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Inquisition" premiered, which introduced Section 31 for the very first time. #StarTrek

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Jonathan Newell@Edweirdian·
@John_Attridge The secret seventh revisionary ratio in the anxiety of influence after Apophrades.
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John Attridge@John_Attridge·
Each literary movement mogs its predecessor. The Romantics emotionmogged the classicists. The modernists formmogged the Romantics. Literary history is nothing but a series of moggings
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🥋@DojoWarVeteran·
We do things a bit different down here in Dorne. Family and good food means everything to us
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Jonathan Newell@Edweirdian·
@MikeIsaac If 9/10 flights don't crash would that be acceptable? If 9/10 of a lawyer's citations were genuine? If the pharmacist gave you the right medicine 90% of the time? If your online ordering system processed 9/10 orders correctly? If a calculator got 9/10 arithmetic questions right?
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rat king 🐀@MikeIsaac·
glass half full: 90 percent accuracy is an impressive accuracy rate glass half empty: 10 percent error rate for a company that does more than 5 Trillion search queries per year is still a gigantic number nytimes.com/2026/04/07/tec…
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Jonathan Newell@Edweirdian·
@MichaelSolberg Layton wanted to cancel oil subsidies and invest in green energy instead. He called the Northern Gateway pipeline a "monster." Mulcair lost the party 59 seats.
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Michael Solberg 🇨🇦
Michael Solberg 🇨🇦@MichaelSolberg·
I was as critical of the @NDP as any when I worked in the Harper Government, but @ThomasMulcair was so clearly ahead of his time. A New Democrat like he or Jack Layton could form Government today. The fringe has deeply co-opted the NDP away from everyday working Canadians, a cohort that the NDP once built their foundation on. Sad to see.
Scott Robertson@sarobertsonca

Tom Mulcair responds to Avi Lewis' criticism: "Mr. Lewis seems to be more intent on convincing other people that he's right and getting them to see his point of view than in dealing with the real differences that exist across Canada and he doesn't even want to run in a byelection."

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Nida Kirmani
Nida Kirmani@NidaKirmani·
Tens of thousands of studies based on faulty evidence, & these will be cited by tens of thousands more, which may include even more AI-generated hallucinations, which will be cited by even more....This is how the very foundation of what we call knowledge is destroyed.
nature@Nature

Tens of thousands of publications from 2025 might include invalid references generated by AI, a Nature analysis suggests go.nature.com/4dnjvil

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Jonathan Newell@Edweirdian·
@ExnerPirot It's precisely the national scale of the proposed public grocery option that would be the biggest driver for affordability, so this comparison doesn't really hold. Avi talks about this on today's Frontburner: cbc.ca/radio/frontbur…
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Heather Exner-Pirot
Heather Exner-Pirot@ExnerPirot·
Everyone needs to be reminded that a not-for-profit grocery chain exists in Canada: Co-op, and they’re across western Canada. Prices are comparable to for-profit chains. Also Saskatchewan has a publicly owned telecoms company, SaskTel. It is a competitive market and some people still choose for-profit providers. These are good options but not magical ones! They don’t solve poverty and hunger and they definitely aren’t 35% cheaper.
cbcwatcher@cbcwatcher

Avi Lewis on CBC claims "We're talking about, for instance, with groceries developing a chain of 50 publicly owned and operated grocery stores across the country with six or seven regional distribution hubs that would be able to provide groceries to Canadians 30 to 45% cheaper than what they're paying right now." Then he claims "To just blast this idea out there on social media platforms and we got thousands of responses from conservatives who were interested in this idea of a public option for groceries." Margins at grocery stores are notoriously low in the 3–5% range. Looks like Avi's strategy is to out BS Mark Carney, Master BS'er @avilewis

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Jonathan Newell@Edweirdian·
@IsidroZapata9 @sarobertsonca Crown enterprises have a long history in this country, and many work very well. State-owned enterprises are common throughout the world. This isn't particularly new or experimental, it's just sensible in the face of anti-competitive practices and market consolidation.
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Zapata Isidro 🇨🇦 🇳🇮@IsidroZapata9·
I don’t belive in that , if there is people in need , and I want to help , ease , will give food stamps according to the income , ease I will have no operation cost , and we help to the people that really need , I am not agains that , operational cost are huge , management, plush chain supply , is stupid what Toronto is planing to do.
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Scott Robertson
Scott Robertson@sarobertsonca·
Avi Lewis: "We did a digital ad-your-name campaign during the leadership campaign to just blast this idea out there on social media platforms and we got thousands of responses from conservatives who were interested in this idea of a public option for groceries."
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