Contra Tenore

Contra Tenore

@cntrtnr.bsky.social

Some guy. https://linktr.ee/contratenore

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Eu exalto a agulha!

mathieu gallard@mathieugallard.bsky.social

🇧🇷🗳️L'actualisation de la projection des résultats finaux de #ElectoMaps sur désormais plus de 40% des bureaux dépouillés : ➡️Chances de gagner 🔴Lula 97 % ⚫️Flávio 3 % ➡️Résultats finaux 🔴Lula 51,5 % ⚫️Flávio 48,5 %

As a writer, your ear is your most important attribute. Language is music, has its own rhythm, meter, lilt, flow. When I edit my own work it's to get it to sound right.

Justin Đoàn@soundaholism.bsky.social

I've been thinking a lot about visible vs invisible skill layers. i.e every craft has outer layers of skills that laypeople can recognise, and inner layers that you need expertise and experience to perceive at all. Could y'all think of examples of visible vs invisible skills in your own discipline?

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Citing anti-ICE protests, Steve Bannon and Jack Posobiec agree that Bill Pulte was chosen as DNI to “start digging in on the domestic side of terrorism”

Donald Trump: eco radical.

Patrick De Haan@gasbuddyguy.bsky.social

Tomorrow, U.S. distillate inventories will likely fall under 100 million barrels for the first time in over 20 years, exacerbated by high exports due to the closure of the Strait of Hormuz- this is a powder keg waiting to go off if a deal to reopen the Strait doesn't happen soon

The social contract continues to erode. We don't teach or understand ethics any more.

Toronto Star@thestar.com

Earlier this month, an Ontario Court Justice stayed charges against a man accused of striking a police officer with a motorcycle after the judge found Goldenberg angrily told a cop who testified for the defence and whose evidence risked hurting the Crown’s case: “We protect our own.”

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I'm going full luddite. Nuke the data centres.

Maggie Harrison Dupré@mharrisondupre.bsky.social

NEW: An "independent label" is publishing huge amounts of AI slop featuring AI-generated "viking" rappers and Christian rockers and blasting it across social media + streamers, where it's raking in views/listens. The guy behind the label claims the artists are real: futurism.com/artificial-i...

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I find it revolting to see the posts of one single nazi never mind hundreds or thousands of them. I am aware they exist without having to encounter them. I am aware there are maggots and worms writhing under a wet log in the woods too I don't need to check every day.

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dozens were injured in the stampede as hundreds of centrist influencers clamored to jerk senator mcconnell off after hearing this statement

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social

BREAKING: Mitch McConnell just slammed the Trump slush fund: "So the nation's top law enforcement official is asking for a slush fund to pay people who assault cops? Utterly stupid, morally wrong – Take your pick."

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Ok for real though let me know

Eric Wickham@ericwickham.ca

If you are a famous, rich person that loves my work and also PressProgress please tell me right now. Don't be shy about it ok

They all look so fucking old

The New Republic@newrepublic.com

Through twilight-hour shifts, President Trump’s executive assistant Natalie Harp supplies the president with stacks of printed-out drafts and awaits his approval before hitting post. Her work has included posts of the Obamas as apes and an AI-generated image of Trump as Jesus Christ. trib.al/qySE74R

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sorry, i work at a university in a red state, and it’s illegal for the women & gender studies faculty to spend research money to attend their conferences. what in the fuck are they talking about

Larry Glickman@larryglickman.bsky.social

What “distressing” ideas? How are they “cocooned”? It’s amazing how much publicity one can get by reinforcing cliches that accord so little with the experiences of so many of us who actually teach college students.

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I say AGAIN: #AviLewis is speaking my language. There is a choice beyond the Conservative #Poilievre & the conservative-in-all-but-name #MarkCarney. There's far worse things than a #LiberalMinority with #NDP as #OfficialOpposition, in fact, that's how we got #UniversalHealthcare. #cdnpoli #abpoli

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Anyone who has ridden a bike in a city knows something else about speeding cars: it doesn't even help! We all end up together at the next red light anyway, but not all of us needed to travel at killing speeds to do it

It's Jamie@sjamieit.bsky.social

The City of Ottawa posted the raw speed data from before and after Doug Ford banned speed cameras and the effect is so obvious it's not even necessary put a line marking when that happened. This chart shows the percentage of drivers going 15km/h or more over the posted limit.

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Public housing is every bit as much a federal responsibility as a provincial one. The federal government used to directly fund and build public housing until they downloaded it to the provinces in the 1990’s.

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Lucy Watson steps down as national director of the NDP, and can't help but offer some dross about "practical progress" in her goodbye letter. The NDP is on the verge of doing something truly different now, deo gratias.

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elon musk spends two-thirds of his time spreading racist pseudoscience and hating trans people and here is Ezra Klein in 2026 saying Musk is relentlessly focused on the only things that matter to him: EVs and going to Mars. I'm sorry but the guy's just very very dim

In a just world, Elon Musk would be charged with crimes against humanity.

Anjali Dayal@anjalikdayal.bsky.social

“The dismantling of USAID, according to models from Boston University epidemiologist Brooke Nichols, “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children,” Gawande wrote.” hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-s...

Ah yes now commuters will hop on a 787 to get from Mississauga to downtown Toronto.

Scott Robertson@sarobertson.bsky.social

Pierre Poilievre says the Billy Bishop runway expansion would have "an enormous environmental benefit" because "it will take cars off the road."

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Children as young as 4 years old are subjected to frequent hearings and forced to provide updates on their cases, in some instances without legal help, and in such fear, they wet themselves. trib.al/LXzTEZx

Criticising this is antisemetic apparently

Al Jazeera English@aljazeera.com

According to the Lebanese National News Agency, these panels supply the town with electricity, which is needed for its water supply, and Israel destroyed homes, roads and olive trees as well.

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According to the Lebanese National News Agency, these panels supply the town with electricity, which is needed for its water supply, and Israel destroyed homes, roads and olive trees as well.

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But you'll never get articles about how the Republican Party needs to move to the left and adopt more mainstream positions on transgender issues because that isn't something that animates the dozen or so individuals setting the agenda the way the reverse does.

Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com

1. A new Fox News poll shows Democrats at +13 on transgender issues. Voters find Democrats positions on trans people much more preferable to Republicans. This includes urban and suburban voters, moderates, religious voters, and more. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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Brendan Nyhan@brendannyhan.bsky.social

The addled president fired the secretary of the Navy for failing to deliver an impossible supership he made up in three years

All it took was creating an international energy crisis that rivals the 1970s literally out of nothing.

Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social

New Fox poll is absolutely crushing for Trump: *Approval on economy: 34-66 *Approval on inflation: 28-72 (!) *Dems now lead GOP on economy *55% say Trump mentally unfit for office On the pod, @gelliottmorris.com is so illuminating on all these numbers and much more: newrepublic.com/article/2094...

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“If shortages continue to deepen, the city could implement rolling blackouts of water availability, shifting its supply to sections of the city at a time.” “After that, authorities would oversee managed evacuations, and most residents of Corpus Christi would need to find somewhere else to live.”

Melissa Gira Grant@melissagiragrant.com

"No modern American city has ever run out of water. But chances are rising that Corpus Christi could be the first..." "While city pools and splash pads consume almost 2 million gallons of water over the course of a summer, a single Exxon plastics plant consumes 13 million gallons per day." hmmm

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This law is as authoritarian and undemocratic as anything Trump has ever pushed. Members of the Conservative party and ONLY the Conservative party are now 100% shielded from any Freedom Of Information requests from the public or reporters. And it's retroactive, too. Some real Innocent Guy shit.