Average Rando (not) on twitter

Average Rando (not) on twitter

@averagerando.bsky.social

Left/Green politics, partially recovering tech worker, feminist, father of adult 🏳️‍🌈, 🏳️‍⚧️, cis, straight children. Thinks nobody should kill anyone, actually.

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Eby gonna need a dressing change for that bullet wound on his foot soon. Probably the natural gas gave him brain damage.

Éric Grenier@ericgrenier.bsky.social

BC Election Tracker update: CON🔵 46.0% / 57 seats NDP🟠 41.0% / 34 GRN🟢 10.6% / 2 OBC🟡 1.2% / 0 CBC🔴 0.8% / 0 Full details: www.thewrit.ca/p/the-writs-...

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the reason “AI will create so much abundance we will have a utopian society” rhetoric falls so flat is that the people building it will never, ever share their bounty unless it is taken from them and we all know it

Gianmarco Soresi@gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social

Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon

So, not only will it take more than 50 years to pay back the current trans mountain pipeline at the new lower rates, but 60% of that oil is going to the US so it’s not doing a whole lot to diversify. But one more pipeline will fix that right? Right?

From landslide majority to 0 seats is…wow. If this holds up, just wow.

Éric Grenier@ericgrenier.bsky.social

Quebec Election Tracker (final?) update: 🔵PQ 29.6% / leading in 65 seats (winning 58.1 on average) 🔴LIB 23.2% / 37 (36.2) ⚫CON 20.4% / 17 (16.0) 📘CAQ 15.4% / 0 (9.8) 🟠QS 10.1% / 8 (6.9) Full details: www.thewrit.ca/p/the-writs-... Full analysis up tomorrow morning!

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Privatizing airports is a terrible deal for travellers, workers, and the public purse. Around the world, it has led to higher travel costs, fewer jobs and worse working conditions.

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Replying to @jmgilligan.org

Bottom line: voters want candidates who stand for something, who have values that matter more to them than winning elections. When candidates make it clear that they'll say anything to win, voters learn that they can't trust anything those candidates say.

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at this point: carbon removal is, at best, essentially a research project. renewable expansion is a policy project

Bill McKibben@billmckibben.bsky.social

At the moment we have no real idea how to scale up carbon removal--it's a hair on the mole of the ugly backside of the global hydrocarbon industry But we do know how to scale up solar panels and wind turbines and batteries. So that's our job billmckibben.substack.com/p/facts-on-t...

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The ultra-wealthy keep trying to pit the rest of us against each other with scare tactics ("communists!" "men in the ladies room!!" "brown people!!!" "drag queens!!!!") to keep us from noticing that our real problem is THEM. They want us to fight *any* war—except a class war. Happy Labor Day.

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Remember when Kristen Welker would always ask every Republican guest to repudiate the statements of Nick Fuentes, Jack Posobiec, Benny Johnson, or other MAGA racists? Neither do I.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Raskin after Kristen Welker plays him clips of controversial Hasan Piker comments and asks him to react to them: "I think all of that is an irrelevant distraction"

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If you want 1.5C, 1.8C, 2C, overshoot, no-overshoot, etc, then they all require the same thing: rapid short-term emission reductions reaching net zero CO2 emissions as soon as possible. This has been clear from the IPCC Special Report on 1.5C, which depicts "overshoot" on its cover! 1/

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#ClimateChange is ridiculously expensive! — more so than phasing out fossil fuels. A new study says that NY State will surpass half a trillion dollars on infrastructure spending related to climate change by 2050. Now this is just one state. And one type of cost! www.nytimes.com/2026/07/23/n...

nytimes.comNew York Faces Half a Trillion in Storm Prevention Costs, Report Finds (Gift Article)A study from a group called Rebuild by Design estimates that the money will be needed to repair the effects of climate change in the next 24 years.

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Replying to @gabederoche.bsky.social

Taken together, this is a body of evidence that acknowledges that climate change has moved lower on the list of voters' priorities, but it shows that the recommendation to back away from pro-climate policy commitments is wrong, and likely a vote-loser. [13/13]

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Replying to @gabederoche.bsky.social

Among people open to voting Democrat, making climate a priority yields a 5.9 point boost. Making climate a top priority yields a 7.2 point boost. If the climate hush/climate backlash theory were true, these effects would be negative, not positive! [6/13]

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Hi media wildfires don’t start spontaneously! These heat waves are not normal! Maybe you could explain what the cause is! Sheesh!

FYI neither of these things have happened in Canada.

Joseph@jamusco.bsky.social

My hot take is decriminalizing weed was wise; making it a widely available retail product is a public health disaster. And the same right wing dickheads that run big tobacco and alcohol are going to run weed. No thank you. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Replying to @zekehausfather.com

A tripling of emissions by 2100 was probably never plausible. But a doubling was. The fact that we're no longer on that path is progress — not, as some pundits claim, an indictment of climate science. And we still have a long way to go get emissions to zero and stabilize global temperatures 11/11

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I feel like his skills could have been put to better use at that specific point in time

Jill Twiss@jilltwiss.bsky.social

This Wall Street Journal headline might be the thing that breaks me

Looking forward to the post from this guy tomorrow complaining how he’s getting cancelled on Bluesky. (Btw, yes I’ve had a verified case of COVID this winter despite being vaccinated in the fall)

Would you miss it?@strkanerve.bsky.social

Before y’all say covid is still killing us, I was at the doctor this week and she said she has seen hard flu cases and no covid cases. We vaccinated that shit into obscurity.

Reminder that “UBI provides a disincentive to work” is just fancy repackaging of “the poor are poor because they refuse to work hard to better themselves”. (And before you @ me, yes there are valid arguments against UBI - even though I don’t agree with them, but this isn’t a valid one)

This isn’t an issue. EV batteries last longer than most people seem to think. That doesn’t mean someone who’s barely scraping by can afford to buy one (the main point in this thread), but if you do need to buy, there’s not much need to fear a battery about to die. Check the SOH. That’s it.

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Today in AI: Canada rejected the PR application of a McMaster postdoc from the Sorbonne who works in the immunology of aging because the generative AI being used to process applications (😱) entirely hallucinated her credentials. Everyone involved should be fired. archive.is/ELrCI#select...

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Replying to @seancasten.bsky.social

In other words: if the GOP just took the offer on the table, FEMA, Coast Guard, and TSA would all be funded at normal levels and ICE would have ~3x historic levels because of BUB. And yet they are demanding more in spite of an obvious lack of need.

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Replying to @tamarhaspel.bsky.social

So here's the thing. All of these are true: 1. Limit your UPF consumption because most UPFs are crap. 2. It's not the processing that makes them crap. It's the garden-variety stuff like sugar, fat, and calories that make them crap. 3. Research on UPFs is also crap. Thanks for listening.

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Replying to @adamserwer.bsky.social

Every day I see a clip of a right wing podcaster saying this or that group contributes nothing to society. Unlike podcasting