Mat Hill 🇨🇦🍁
@jollyfishheads.bsky.social
Retired Canadian, and proud of it . Blue Jays, Leaf’s. Digging into WWII history. Looking for simple news feed far from Elon Musk. Happy driver on an EV
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I've spent a lot of years studying a lot of collapses, and the truth of the matter is that they're always mundane: mild climatic shifts that reduce crop yields, a dumbass in power who makes some terrible decisions, neglecting things that obviously matter but the will to fix them can't be summoned.
Certain kinds of smart people tend to have a "sexy apocalypse" problem when it comes to thinking about risk. E.g. skynet turning everyone in paperclips, while bad, is also *kind of cool and fun* at the same time. Where the reality is that most actual disasters are both stupid and disappointing.
September 18, 2026 at 5:04 PM
I've spent a lot of years studying a lot of collapses, and the truth of the matter is that they're always mundane: mild climatic shifts that reduce crop yields, a dumbass in power who makes some terrible decisions, neglecting things that obviously matter but the will to fix them can't be summoned.
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Just tell them it has to be run on 100% renewables or it cannot be built
Two planned datacentres will have higher UK carbon emissions than ExxonMobil, analysis finds
Exclusive: Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire sites predicted to emit 4.5m tonnes a year when fully running
www.theguardian.com
August 25, 2026 at 11:41 AM
Just tell them it has to be run on 100% renewables or it cannot be built
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It was never about trade. It was about accepting American hegemony and the whims of a corrupt king and his courtiers. No more.
August 22, 2026 at 11:26 AM
It was never about trade. It was about accepting American hegemony and the whims of a corrupt king and his courtiers. No more.
@wilnerness.bsky.social If both teams keep bunting this game will never end!
August 9, 2026 at 8:45 PM
@wilnerness.bsky.social If both teams keep bunting this game will never end!
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suppose the silver lining for Harry Kane is that he now has more time to golf with his racist pedophile friend
July 15, 2026 at 10:09 PM
suppose the silver lining for Harry Kane is that he now has more time to golf with his racist pedophile friend
@teutsmcgroots.bsky.social Lord Hardthrasher is really good, so is Forgotten War podcast.
We’ve been loving Lord Hardthrasher’s series on the Burma Campaign-they’re superbly witty & thoroughly well researched. We cannot endorse them enough,everyone should be watching these videos not just because it’s a less well known theatre but because they’re bloody brilliant
youtu.be/kfENAJece48?...
youtu.be/kfENAJece48?...
July 12, 2026 at 4:29 PM
@teutsmcgroots.bsky.social Lord Hardthrasher is really good, so is Forgotten War podcast.
11 - 0 Mariners, let's see what France - Paraguay are doing.
July 4, 2026 at 10:17 PM
11 - 0 Mariners, let's see what France - Paraguay are doing.
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Carney signing onto an oil pipeline.
Regressively stupid and pandering to both a dying industry and a treasonous Premier.
Carney is killing this country, but differently from how the right say he is.
Regressively stupid and pandering to both a dying industry and a treasonous Premier.
Carney is killing this country, but differently from how the right say he is.
May 15, 2026 at 7:48 PM
Carney signing onto an oil pipeline.
Regressively stupid and pandering to both a dying industry and a treasonous Premier.
Carney is killing this country, but differently from how the right say he is.
Regressively stupid and pandering to both a dying industry and a treasonous Premier.
Carney is killing this country, but differently from how the right say he is.
How???? Toronto Maple Leafs 1st
May 5, 2026 at 11:23 PM
How???? Toronto Maple Leafs 1st
Now I have to vote NDP no matter how bad they are.
I know Carney is conservative. But accepting this floor crossing shows an absolutely astonishing deficit in values and judgement
In 2016, now Liberal MP Marilyn Gladu praised Donald Trump for having “restored freedom of speech to America”
April 8, 2026 at 5:48 PM
Now I have to vote NDP no matter how bad they are.
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"We invoke international law and the 'rules based international order' when adversaries engage in unlawful actions, but abandon those same rules entirely when it’s the Americans doing the bombing."
#Opinion from former foreign minister Lloyd Axworthy
#Opinion from former foreign minister Lloyd Axworthy
Lloyd Axworthy: Canada once rejected America’s aggressive, unlawful foreign policy. Today Mark Carney embraced it
By endorsing preventive strikes on Iran during ongoing diplomacy, and after Washington itself shredded the previous agreement, we are embracing the very doctrine we used to reject, writes Lloyd Axwort...
www.thestar.com
March 1, 2026 at 2:09 PM
"We invoke international law and the 'rules based international order' when adversaries engage in unlawful actions, but abandon those same rules entirely when it’s the Americans doing the bombing."
#Opinion from former foreign minister Lloyd Axworthy
#Opinion from former foreign minister Lloyd Axworthy
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Excellent article in today’s Globe and Mail
February 21, 2026 at 5:06 PM
Excellent article in today’s Globe and Mail
Sam Bennett is still the same Sam Bennett, costs Canada a goal.
February 20, 2026 at 4:11 PM
Sam Bennett is still the same Sam Bennett, costs Canada a goal.
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“We’re very concerned, but we’re going to keep letting it happen for now.”
The minister of digital asbestos is committed to doing the absolute least possible about regulating deepfake porn/CSAM machines.
January 8, 2026 at 6:53 PM
“We’re very concerned, but we’re going to keep letting it happen for now.”
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If you care about the values of liberal democracy or the rule of law, you don't celebrate this the way Pierre Poilievre just did. You deplore it.
January 3, 2026 at 4:00 PM
If you care about the values of liberal democracy or the rule of law, you don't celebrate this the way Pierre Poilievre just did. You deplore it.
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The chief executive officer of the USA is raising revenue through import duties without consulting the representatives of the people; exactly 250 years on from the start of the American Revolution.
Sing it, Alanis.
Sing it, Alanis.
October 26, 2025 at 8:43 AM
The chief executive officer of the USA is raising revenue through import duties without consulting the representatives of the people; exactly 250 years on from the start of the American Revolution.
Sing it, Alanis.
Sing it, Alanis.
That home run joins the bat flip and the Alomar off Eck on the legendary Blue Jay list, still topped by Joe Carter of course!
October 21, 2025 at 3:13 AM
That home run joins the bat flip and the Alomar off Eck on the legendary Blue Jay list, still topped by Joe Carter of course!