MichaelB

@michaelabuckley.bsky.social

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Toronto burger. A real person who should probably be doing something else.

Zukhov
Charles, in red.
Chad Ukrainian stop oil activist.
"You cannot kill me in a way that matters" in needlepoint.
Marvin the paranoid robot and Arthur
"move or die"
Roadkill movie poster. "a rock'n'road movie about a girl who learns to drive".
Doug Ford is a vandal. Change my mind.
“When you elect leaders who are completely and utterly unaccomplished prior to entering politics and who have entered politics in their 20s, you are going to be very vulnerable to running against somebody who has actually done something with their life.” “And why [Andrew] Scheer is still sitting in the caucus is the same reason why Poilievre will end up sitting in the caucus after he’s done being leader: because he is unemployable in any other job,” Teneycke added.
chad Ukraining stop-oil activist actually stops oil
Sunset through some flies.
When NATO's American supreme commander tells him during this same period that the Americans are certain Russia will invade Ukraine, Bauer pushes back. 'The days of taking you at your word are over. You lied in 2003. Not a little bit - you lied big. If you want people to believe you, you're going to have to show them.'
list of muted words, with "Shumer" expired.
Fountains at the old Sherway Gardens
Government Involvement in Housing Supply, Canada, 1947-1985 Bar chart showing a marked drop in government participation in housing construction starting in 1981. From https://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2017/schl-cmhc/NH15-518-1987-eng.pdf
Machine-learning Quadrant cosmo quiz answer; The Kontextmaschine patron saint: kontextmaschine It's real, it's powerful, and you find the panic about it as tedious as the hype. You're not interested in whether AI is good or bad — you're interested in who captures the value, who loses their leverage, and which institutions are using it as a story to do what they were already doing. Same as it ever was.
David Byrne is a big suit
Shardik, by Richard Adams
But from another, deeper perspective: we shouldn't involve outselves in lines of development where the ultimate victory condition is emulating dead people. There's no appeal in that. It's bad for us. That kind of inherent mournfulness is just not a good way to be human.
NATO would have to be on board with this, but the signs are encouraging, especially the security interests promoted by NATO’s five European Nordic countries (Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, and Iceland). This new outlook has some immediate consequences for decision making, including what fighter jet makes the best fit for Canadian requirements; what early-warning aircraft does the same; how we build out an early-warning radar system; what kinds of surveillance and early-warning platforms we put into space; how much greater capacity we need for foreign intelligence collection and analysis to understand threats; how much money we put into military research and development; how we partner with industry and academia on the development of new countermeasures.
Chad Ukrainian stop oil activist
Yellow-red cherries almost ripe
Virgin/chad stop oil by bomb bomb bomb
The river from the air
White bellied wood mouse peeking out of her cage.
Sunset in pink
The plan9 bunny
Asked for his reaction to news of the charges against the Toronto Police officers, Quiron, of the anti-abolition sex-workers’ association, said it was not the alleged violence that surprised him but the public acknowledgment that law enforcement was allegedly involved. “My view on the subject is that the fact that police agents are involved in, let’s say, an incident with a prostitute is normally just kept secret by the media for discretion. They do not (mention) the status of the police agent and all the controversy disappears instantly,” he said.
Canadian immigration rates by year, with a spike to 450k over COVID
Interac deposit notice for the bread fixing settlement.
Magaret Trudeu hanging out with Mick Jagger
Several families of goslings.
My bike
virgin western stop oil activist - glues hand to - interrupts sporting events - destroys paintings - blocks traffic - glues hand to road. loses hand - laughing stock - doesn't actually stop oil - ineffective chad Ukrainian stop oil activist - bombs refinery - bombs another refinery - bombs more refineries - actually stops oil
Former Comptroller David Walker's recent piece in Fortune frames it bluntly: cost of essentials rose 3.2% annually since 2001, against 2.5% for overall CPI, with shelter for renters climbing from 23% to 29% of spending while staying flat at 18% for owners.
Skittles pops
I gain ask "what am I supposed to do, lie?" She responed w/ "We protect our own.".
The fund is linked to planned federal support for what the government describes as nation-building projects, including ports and natural resources projects.
Fruit blossom against a brick house.
history of USA inflation, mortgage rates, and unemployment from 1960 on.
Bermuda business dress
And they were like: "We're anarchists, dude. We're not into that shit." I said: "Is it just that this stuff's too boring for you? Can we find a model?" You still have to vote and get organized. I ended up as an activist in a very different place from where I started. I thought that if we just redistributed resources, then we could solve every problem. I now know that's not true. There's a funny moment when you realize that as an activist: The off-ramp out of extreme poverty is, ugh, commerce, it's entrepreneurial capitalism. I spend a lot of
Morons
Snowball the cat, playing with her favourite red ball.
So controversial, yet so brave.
.... ... ... ..... ..... ... ..... ... Since I had no power of thought, I did not compare one mental state with another. So I was not conscious of any change or process going on in my brain when my teacher began to instruct me. I merely felt keen delight in obtaining more easily what I wanted by means of the finger motions she taught me. I thought only of objects, and only objects I wanted. It was the turning of the freezer on a larger scale. When I learned the meaning of "'" and "me" and found that I was something, I began to think. Then consciousness first existed for me. Thus it was not the sense of touch that brought me knowledge. It was the awakening of my soul that first rendered my senses their value, their cognizance of objects, names, qualities, and properties. Thought made me conscious of love, joy, and all the emotions. I
Before my teacher came to me, I did not know that I am. I lived in a world that was a no-world. I cannot hope to describe adequately that unconscious, yet conscious time of nothingness. I did not know that I knew aught, or that I lived or acted or desired. I had neither will nor intellect. I was carried along to objects and acts by a certain blind natural impetus. I had a mind
"But now we shall both surely drown" said the Frog. "Lol" said the Scorpion, "lmao".
The price of our common stock has been volatile following the commencement of the Chapter 11 Cases and may decrease in value or become worthless.
How many brigades can the IRCG throw at us?
Echidna