the magpirate 🇨🇦 (@magpirateca)

cheap as life Life has become cheap. Blame it on late-stage capitalism. Blame it on right wing dehumanization of those who disagree. Blame it on the long arc of the waning social contract fading into cliche.  The end game seems muddy, but there is a sinister point to the erosion of our worth as human beings: the fraying […]

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06.03.2026 09:28 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

informational attack In my heart  I know that we have already lost a war. For decades following the Second World War and as nuclear armament escalated across a global stalemate we were all told that the next big war would be nuclear. Bombs would fall from the sky, cities would be razed by fire, a dystopian dark […]

From the Archives: informational attack - http://magpirate.ca/2026/informational-attack/

05.03.2026 20:13 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

informational attack In my heart  I know that we have already lost a war. For decades following the Second World War and as nuclear armament escalated across a global stalemate we were all told that the next big war would be nuclear. Bombs would fall from the sky, cities would be razed by fire, a dystopian dark […]

From the Archives: informational attack - http://magpirate.ca/2026/informational-attack/

05.03.2026 06:51 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

click incentive Do you ever scroll through social media and see a post that has you just itching to reply? You know the kind. Sometimes it’s asking an inane question with an obvious answer, or occasionally someone will say something just so incredibly wrong that you scratch your head immediately get the urge to correct them. Do […]

From the Archives: click incentive - http://magpirate.ca/2026/click-incentive/

04.03.2026 17:23 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

phone scam Do you answer the phone? Do your remember the last time you answered the phone without checking the caller ID? Used to be, and I might just be old enough to remember those days, you picked up the phone without a second thought simply because it rang. Maybe it was a friend or family member. […]

From the Archives: phone scam - http://magpirate.ca/2026/phone-scam/

04.03.2026 03:27 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

take to the seas Freedom of speech is dead. Long live freedom of speech. From the AI slop to the foreign propagandists all of it immersed in an ocean of corporatization of social media, to a media at best lazy and defaulting to artificially balancing imbalanced equations, is there nowhere left for real people to turn for truth? I […]

From the Archives: take to the seas - http://magpirate.ca/2026/take-to-the-seas/

03.03.2026 13:41 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

it’s a circle, duh We hear so much about the political spectrum, left versus right, that I think we’ve fallen into the trap of thinking that its an idea to be understood as drawn upon a straight line. That going back and forth is kind of a tug of war and no matter how far we go, it just […]

From the Archives: it’s a circle, duh - http://magpirate.ca/2026/its-a-circle-duh/

03.03.2026 00:16 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

click incentive Do you ever scroll through social media and see a post that has you just itching to reply? You know the kind. Sometimes it’s asking an inane question with an obvious answer, or occasionally someone will say something just so incredibly wrong that you scratch your head immediately get the urge to correct them. Do […]

From the Archives: click incentive - http://magpirate.ca/2026/click-incentive/

02.03.2026 10:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Maybe i’m just getting a bias in my feed lately, but it seems a lot like the cons are positioning PP in a “good cop” role against Scheer’s “bad cop” who has suddenly reemerged spouting all the hard core BS.

I mean, same circus, same clowns, but they seem to be changing up the act.

02.03.2026 02:38 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

comfortably wrong Breaking is easier than building. Following is easier than leading. Believing is easier than understanding. It’s not that we want to call anyone lazy, but there are certain leanings that are definitely the easier path, and the more comfortable choice to be made. It’s easy to shout and stomp your feet that something isn’t working, […]

From the Archives: comfortably wrong - http://magpirate.ca/2026/comfortably-wrong/

01.03.2026 20:58 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Literally the conservative communications strategy: accuse everyone else of doing what you are in fact doing to undermine the counter-argument.

01.03.2026 14:39 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

original ideas The internet is one giant game of broken telephone. I remember growing up in the 1980s. Every night the news was on the television in our house. There wasn’t a set channel or a preferred broadcaster, at least not that I can recall, but rather at dinner time each night and later at ten in […]

From the Archives: original ideas - http://magpirate.ca/2026/original-ideas/

01.03.2026 06:46 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

misguided truths How does one fight misinformation and disinformation? It’s not an easy task. The people who fall for it seem to be shielded from reality by layers upon layers of even more falsehoods. Smart, if terrible, people are actively using mistruths to gain money and power. The purveyors of those falsehoods devalue the truth by twisting […]

From the Archives: misguided truths - http://magpirate.ca/2026/misguided-truths/

28.02.2026 16:35 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

misguided truths How does one fight misinformation and disinformation? It’s not an easy task. The people who fall for it seem to be shielded from reality by layers upon layers of even more falsehoods. Smart, if terrible, people are actively using mistruths to gain money and power. The purveyors of those falsehoods devalue the truth by twisting […]

From the Archives: misguided truths - http://magpirate.ca/2026/misguided-truths/

28.02.2026 02:28 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

unreal truths One of the tactics of propagandists, you know… people and organizations bent on twisting your mind and opinion to their will, is to dehumanize the alternate opinion to diminish contrary viewpoints. This happens on all sides, but I will tell you about one specific example that is dividing our province even today. A few years […]

From the Archives: unreal truths - http://magpirate.ca/2026/unreal-truths/

27.02.2026 13:10 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

original ideas The internet is one giant game of broken telephone. I remember growing up in the 1980s. Every night the news was on the television in our house. There wasn’t a set channel or a preferred broadcaster, at least not that I can recall, but rather at dinner time each night and later at ten in […]

From the Archives: original ideas - http://magpirate.ca/2026/original-ideas/

26.02.2026 23:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

unreal truths One of the tactics of propagandists, you know… people and organizations bent on twisting your mind and opinion to their will, is to dehumanize the alternate opinion to diminish contrary viewpoints. This happens on all sides, but I will tell you about one specific example that is dividing our province even today. A few years […]

From the Archives: unreal truths - http://magpirate.ca/2026/unreal-truths/

26.02.2026 09:12 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

take to the seas Freedom of speech is dead. Long live freedom of speech. From the AI slop to the foreign propagandists all of it immersed in an ocean of corporatization of social media, to a media at best lazy and defaulting to artificially balancing imbalanced equations, is there nowhere left for real people to turn for truth? I […]

From the Archives: take to the seas - http://magpirate.ca/2026/take-to-the-seas/

25.02.2026 18:16 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

comfortably wrong Breaking is easier than building. Following is easier than leading. Believing is easier than understanding. It’s not that we want to call anyone lazy, but there are certain leanings that are definitely the easier path, and the more comfortable choice to be made. It’s easy to shout and stomp your feet that something isn’t working, […]

From the Archives: comfortably wrong - http://magpirate.ca/2026/comfortably-wrong/

25.02.2026 04:23 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Some days it’s tough to keep up with all the stupid.

25.02.2026 03:41 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

phone scam Do you answer the phone? Do your remember the last time you answered the phone without checking the caller ID? Used to be, and I might just be old enough to remember those days, you picked up the phone without a second thought simply because it rang. Maybe it was a friend or family member. […]

From the Archives: phone scam - http://magpirate.ca/2026/phone-scam/

24.02.2026 14:10 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

take to the seas Freedom of speech is dead. Long live freedom of speech. From the AI slop to the foreign propagandists all of it immersed in an ocean of corporatization of social media, to a media at best lazy and defaulting to artificially balancing imbalanced equations, is there nowhere left for real people to turn for truth? I […]

From the Archives: take to the seas - http://magpirate.ca/2026/take-to-the-seas/

24.02.2026 00:19 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

the fascism squad is parked at the 23rd and rabbit hill rd in edmonton right now #yeg

23.02.2026 18:41 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

phone scam Do you answer the phone? Do your remember the last time you answered the phone without checking the caller ID? Used to be, and I might just be old enough to remember those days, you picked up the phone without a second thought simply because it rang. Maybe it was a friend or family member. […]

From the Archives: phone scam - http://magpirate.ca/2026/phone-scam/

23.02.2026 11:02 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

so true!

22.02.2026 23:58 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

mainlining propoganda I recently took a mini-vacation to the mountains here in Alberta and I spent a couple nights in a hotel near the ski hills. All sorts of local folks do this… and then spend their evenings chilling in...

How could a single conversation attempt to compete with a firehose of hate and misinformation?

magpirate.ca/2026/mainlin...

22.02.2026 23:05 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I could use a couple good pro-canada anti-separating starter pack recommendations to get this account rocking. tia

22.02.2026 22:05 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0

My grandparents fought fascists in Europe.

Never figured we’d be still fighting them in Tim Hortons eighty years later.

22.02.2026 21:57 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Remember? Alberta’s Premier won the leadership on a ranked ballot technicality and an election in a province where rural votes seem to count twice as much as city votes. The majority do not agree with her and her nationalist politics.

22.02.2026 21:54 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

If you need to claim that you’re “real” anything you’re probably actually fake as funk.

22.02.2026 21:51 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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