Patrick Cain

The Rot Is Real And There Is More To It The Atlantic Piece Just Scratched The Surface

Just sent out a free piece to expand on my article in @theatlantic.com yesterday. The signs of rot in US military and diplomatic capabilities are real and even more extensive than I could say in that article. Here are more-and a gift link to the original article. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

Very disturbing implications for a couple of places where I’ve lived, and encouraging ones for the place where I’m from.

From Pew: “We asked people around the world to rate the morality and ethics of others in their country.”

Stop making people file freedom-of-information requests via snail mail.

Nobody wants this. Nobody benefits from this but Big Chequebook.

There is an unresolved tension between Carney’s desire to project a new, purely realist Canadian stance driven by pragmatic need, and his desire to create a break from the U.S. sphere and play a major role in the alliance of surviving liberal democracies, defending their values. Visible here.

A brief reprieve from the US-Israel-Iran war news to share some photos from Lviv, because the western Ukrainian city was absolutely glorious today, on this first day of spring. Signs point to the long, horrible winter and freezing cold being over. The Russian attacks, however, are likely to continue

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It’s a lot like being 8 and making a complicated sand structure at a beach that the sea then interacts with, but GROWNUP! and PURPOSEFUL!

As I was saying…

A couple of years ago after a heavy snow I started by finding ours on Google Street View (exactly in front of a light post, as it turns out, easy to remember)

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

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The @thestar.com editorial board on the tragedy in Tumbler Ridge www.thestar.com/opinion/edit...

Awesome creative use of rising bollards!

Redeem Your Faust Coupon! Within the next few days a Faust Representative will call at your home and present you with a valuable coupon. This Coupon will save you money. Take it to your grocer and redeem it. Serve appetizing Faust Macaroni or Spaghetti tonight. Be sure to redeem your coupon at once. [image of Faust pasta] --St. Louis Globe-Democrat, 5 Apr 1929

oh is that what they mean by a Faustian bargain

Toronto is months away from hosting the FIFA World Cup, but the province still hasn't confirmed funding | CBC News The city is still negotiating with the province over provincial funding to host six World Cup matches this summer, according to a new report presented to Toronto's World Cup subcommittee Wednesday. Th...

Uhhhh nope. The biggest of nopes. Thanks - www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

The award looks like - something a sculptor might come up with if asked to design an international memorial for shipwreck victims.

senators only do this when they're in extreme distress

Federal NDP torches Ontario NDP's Doly Begum for joining Carney's Liberals | CBC News Interim federal NDP Leader Don Davies is accusing Ontario NDP deputy leader Doly Begum of undermining democracy after announcing she will run federally as a Liberal for the seat vacated by former MP B...

I think that makes *four* upcoming Toronto by-elections federally and provincially, when you count University-Rosedale www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

This seems much more sensible than waking up a hibernating groundhog to demonstrate that it cannot see its shadow.

Bruce County dignitaries, *nobody* is here for speeches.

Bilbo looking at his phone top on bottom is ChatGPT After all, why not? Why shouldn't I keep it? You're absolutely right — you found it, it's been with you a long while, and it's only natural to feel fond of something that's served you so well, especially when someone like Gandalf suddenly seems to want it for himself.

Hey @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social I was also going to point this out - this is potentially a very sinister and deniable form of police brutality

It reminds me a bit of this classic: theonion.com/third-amendm...

(quickly Googles the tenth amendment)

Worth noting that one reason you’re benefitting so fully from the Star-Tribune’s timely, extensive coverage of unfolding events is that it’s a metro newspaper that hasn’t been systematically starved to further enrich shareholders and executives.

Yes, unfortunately the metaphor can extend that way.

Bonhomme has killed before, and he will kill again.

Canadian Army Firefight In Afghanistan YouTube video by glacebay4u

“They stayed back a little, off the front lines.”

The President of the United States

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