Mark Hayes 🇨🇦🤷🏻

Mark Hayes 🇨🇦🤷🏻

@hayeselaw.com

Canadian lawyer and arbitrator specializing in technology, privacy, e-commerce and IP. Golf, travel, art, music, culture. Usually found in Toronto or Athens, Greece. www.hayeselaw.com I welcome civil differences of opinion, arseholes I immediately block.

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Bro, if your doctor is doing a cognitive test every time you get a physical, there’s a reason for that, and it’s not because you keep acing them.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "I'm the only one that took the test -- the aptitude test or whatever. Every time I do a physical, I do a mental test. And I aced it. Where's my doctor? I travel w/ more doctors than any human being. If people get sick in the audience, they leave them alone. They call them collateral damage."

The stench of desperation is overwhelming.

Josh Marshall@joshtpm.bsky.social

Omg this made my day. Turns out if you don’t demand patients pay their bills and sue them you are yourself subject to criminal prosecution! Lapsed TPM subscribers, sucks to be you! (I don’t make the rules)

For years at my golf club west of Toronto, one lonely male turkey roamed the forest and appeared from time to time on the fairways. This year there are at least 20 turkeys about, which appear to be from 3 or 4 separate families. A turkey population explosion! www.thestar.com/news/gta/wil...

thestar.comWild turkeys are back in Toronto, a century after being wiped out in OntarioSince the spring, a wild turkey has been spotted around High Park, an example of a successful reintroduction and the species adapting to human-changed landscapes.

Mark Hayes 🇨🇦🤷🏻 reposted

“Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.” Charles Mackay, “Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions,” 1841

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This is objectively psychotic and every member of Congress and Senate should be ashamed if they don’t try to remove him from office before this happens

Axios@axios.com

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says the public will be able to watch the Fort Hood shooter's execution

Narrator: In fact, baseball players are still not allowed to bet on baseball games. How about that?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "Charlie Hustle -- he maybe gambled. Today you're allowed to gamble on games! How about that? Bad timing."

Would all Canadians please disconnect from X, cancel Starlink and don’t buy any Teslas - NOW. Sooner if possible.

Pjv (fka Errol Musk)@omnidion.bsky.social

@charlieangus104.bsky.social Elon is leading the charge and likely funding separation all across the country: montrealgazette.com/news/elon-mu... this is various serious stuff and the alarm bells should be ringing 🚨

This story is from 2021. Nothing has changed. Nothing will change. If anything, wealth inequality has become much worse.

ProPublica@propublica.org

ProPublica obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes, even nothing. From the archives:

It occurs to me that the arrogant assholes who promote the “law of the jungle” view of international relations (might makes right, to the victor go the spoils, etc.) would not last an hour in a real jungle.

Modern China is not communist. Like Russia, it’s an authoritarian single party state that operates a tightly controlled capitalist system. Many people get rich if they are friends of the ruling party - that isn’t communism. There has never been a true communist state in the world.

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You can understand a lot more about why Trump can both love Putin, Xi and Un and still decry “communists”. None of these guys are communists - they are authoritarian strongmen, and that’s what Trump aspires to be.

DOJ HR: So these are promising candidates. Miller: Any Nazis? DOJ HR: As a matter of fact there’s this one….. Patel: That’s who we are looking for! Offer him double the usual salary…..

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I am disappointed there aren’t more video cuts to the aghast UN delegates whose jaws are dropping at this utter monstrosity.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump to the UN: "Do I annihilate the Islamic Republic, and do it quickly? Do I drive them into hell?"

Unnecessary and childish re-naming of things that are totally beyond your control is definitely not a sign of super-intelligence.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump tells the UN he is officially changing the name of Artificial Intelligence to "Super Intelligence" and says all US government documents will now be changed to refer to "SI"

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You’re right—that plane shouldn’t have gone there. That’s my fault, and I should have made sure there wasn’t a terminal in the landing path. Would you like me to call emergency services, or assist with lining up takeoffs?

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Gulf states realigning as Chinese clients would be... pretty pretty bad.

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social

* EXCLUSIVE -- CHINA HAS PRIVATELY ASKED IRAN TO USE ITS INFLUENCE TO HELP REIN IN YEMEN'S HOUTHIS AFTER SAUDI APPEAL TO BEIJING, THREE IRANIAN SOURCES SAY @reuters.com

Mark Hayes 🇨🇦🤷🏻 reposted

Trump today: the idea that “Robots will be marching into our cities” is a wild hoax Trump last week: posts multiple images of himself leading robots marching into cities

I think his manic insecurity is because he was counting on Musk (and others?) rigging the election like he did in 2024 by making “adjustments” to votes in crucial states, and he’s now being told that vulnerable states may have tightened things up and it might not work this time. As a result, PANIC!

E.J. Dionne@ejdionne.bsky.social

Trump’s rant showed us how vulnerable he thinks he is in this election & how old his act is getting. He’s ignoring GOP advice: Please go into hiding because you’re killing us in the polls. Appreciated this NYT Opinion conversation with Carlos Lozada & Robert Siegel www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/o...

Mark Hayes 🇨🇦🤷🏻 reposted

Why do people only supposedly get the $5,000 if Republicans win in November? Republicans control everything and have for 2 years. Why didn’t they do it before? Why don’t they come back into session tomorrow and pass it right now? Because it’s all a lie, like everything else.