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Carl Marxman

@carlmarxman.bsky.social

Random middle class, middle aged, tech guy in Canada. It can happen here, whatever "it" may be. "Screw you, I've got mine" is not the highest moral calling we can aspire to.

created November 14, 2024

2,785 followers 3,711 following 11,466 posts

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Profile picture Carl Marxman (@carlmarxman.bsky.social) reply parent

I would expect nothing less.

2/9/2025, 3:27:33 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carl Marxman (@carlmarxman.bsky.social) reply parent

I'm not sure we can be friends anymore.

2/9/2025, 3:09:38 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carl Marxman (@carlmarxman.bsky.social) reply parent

Should I ask, or am I better off not poking the bear?

2/9/2025, 3:05:38 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Phil (@philmarfisi.bsky.social) reposted

My first act as prime minister will be nationalizing Nelvana Studios to save the Magic School Bus franchise

2/9/2025, 2:53:07 AM | 10 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carl Marxman (@carlmarxman.bsky.social) reply parent

After a short browse it was definitely suboptimal.

2/9/2025, 2:06:04 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carl Marxman (@carlmarxman.bsky.social) reply parent

This seems ... suboptimal.

2/9/2025, 2:04:02 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carl Marxman (@carlmarxman.bsky.social) reply parent

As the old saying goes, it's only paranoia if they're not actually out to get you.

2/9/2025, 2:02:42 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carl Marxman (@carlmarxman.bsky.social) reply parent

Goddamn it. Take my goddamned upvotes.

2/9/2025, 1:44:46 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carl Marxman (@carlmarxman.bsky.social) reply parent

... *whistles innocently*

2/9/2025, 1:13:17 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carl Marxman (@carlmarxman.bsky.social) reply parent

That sounds delicious. I gotta start baking more. Nothing's as nice as a good home made baked good.

2/9/2025, 1:01:06 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carl Marxman (@carlmarxman.bsky.social) reply parent

They look good. How do they taste?

2/9/2025, 12:57:05 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carl Marxman (@carlmarxman.bsky.social) reply parent

If it's any consolation I don't know who this person is.

2/9/2025, 12:49:40 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carl Marxman (@carlmarxman.bsky.social) reply parent

I admit that I do consider it something of a moral failure that I haven't gone vegan. I could make excuses all I want, but I just like the taste and texture of meat.

2/9/2025, 12:24:02 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carl Marxman (@carlmarxman.bsky.social) reply parent

Oof

2/9/2025, 12:16:26 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carl Marxman (@carlmarxman.bsky.social) reply parent

What's the first, out of curiosity?

2/9/2025, 12:13:13 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carl Marxman (@carlmarxman.bsky.social) reply parent

Ok I gotta hand you custom cd mix tapes. A playlist just isn't the same.

1/9/2025, 11:56:57 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture draglikepull (@draglikepull.bsky.social) reposted

A fun thing to remember on Labour Day is that Mark Carney eliminated the Cabinet role Minister of Labour, a position that had existed for more than a century under governments of all stripes, and Canada is currently without a labour minister for the first time since 1909.

1/9/2025, 11:41:59 PM | 166 92 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carl Marxman (@carlmarxman.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh I had some big feelings, but thought better of putting them on the internet.

1/9/2025, 11:51:33 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carl Marxman (@carlmarxman.bsky.social) reply parent

Yes and no. If I never have to re-spool a cassette again I will die happy.

1/9/2025, 11:50:17 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carl Marxman (@carlmarxman.bsky.social) reply parent

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1/9/2025, 11:49:03 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carl Marxman (@carlmarxman.bsky.social) reply parent

Biblical Jesus anyways.

1/9/2025, 11:48:38 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Big DeVito Energy (@mayawest.online) reposted

Happy Labour Day may all your workplaces be unionized may we all shed our chains 🖤

Rom from DS9 reading the Communist Manifesto, “workers of the world unite”
1/9/2025, 11:39:32 PM | 58 21 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carl Marxman (@carlmarxman.bsky.social) reply parent

...

1/9/2025, 11:41:29 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Luke LeBrun (@lukelebrun.ca) reposted

Every PressProgress article carries this union bug because our newsroom is 100% unionized with secure, good-paying, full-time journalism jobs You can be a union job creator too by becoming a PressProgress member and supporting unionized journalism jobs: pressprogress.ca/become-a-mem...

PressProgress union bug
1/9/2025, 7:42:54 PM | 97 21 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carl Marxman (@carlmarxman.bsky.social) reply parent

They're not my favorite but glad you liked them.

1/9/2025, 11:25:27 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carl Marxman (@carlmarxman.bsky.social) reply parent

There's a difference between acute panic and this longstanding dread. For example the 2018 Hawaiian missile false alarm did result in a birth rate bump. We've all been watching the collapse for years and it's just an exhausting slog.

1/9/2025, 11:21:44 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carl Marxman (@carlmarxman.bsky.social) reply parent

Welp bsky.app/profile/theb...

1/9/2025, 11:03:47 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Beaverton (@thebeaverton.com) reposted

Mark Carney celebrates Labour Day by ordering labourers back to work

1/9/2025, 10:51:08 PM | 381 87 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carl Marxman (@carlmarxman.bsky.social) reply parent

Just embrace that you are a monster, and lift her off your lap.

1/9/2025, 11:02:49 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carl Marxman (@carlmarxman.bsky.social)

Sharing this as it seems to be a short but succinct guide to non toxic interaction. I'd like to hear Bluesky's thoughts. Tagging in some seed people. @erinbiba.bsky.social @criminalerin.bsky.social @fuzzywuzzyto.bsky.social youtu.be/iYX5IF_h27Y?...

1/9/2025, 10:59:04 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carl Marxman (@carlmarxman.bsky.social) reply parent

Kinda wish they had used a drone to do it.

1/9/2025, 10:55:02 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carl Marxman (@carlmarxman.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh no!

1/9/2025, 10:54:31 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carl Marxman (@carlmarxman.bsky.social) reply parent

... mmmmmaybe

1/9/2025, 10:51:37 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carl Marxman (@carlmarxman.bsky.social) reply parent

Is he still employed at bluesky?

1/9/2025, 10:50:11 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carl Marxman (@carlmarxman.bsky.social) reply parent

I am so very very mad right now.

1/9/2025, 10:49:14 PM | 13 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carl Marxman (@carlmarxman.bsky.social) reply parent

Glad you're safe!

1/9/2025, 10:47:17 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jordan Roberts (@corruptario.bsky.social) reposted

LOL. Grocers defrauded customers, but we won't tell you which ones. And it doesn't matter anyway, because nothing will happen as a result. Backwards and corrupt, that's us. www.cbc.ca/news/busines...

1/9/2025, 10:44:13 PM | 46 25 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Public Universal Cyberwitch 🌀 (@ontological.bsky.social) reposted

I am the intrusive thought that tells you that you need to spend more time studying because you don’t know enough about how the world works. The ontological curiosity intrinsic to all humans, manifested as a shitposter who calls you out for when you don’t take the time to learn before you post.

16/8/2025, 9:13:35 PM | 13 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carl Marxman (@carlmarxman.bsky.social) reply parent

And that would be bad, and do a lot of damage.

1/9/2025, 10:42:37 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carl Marxman (@carlmarxman.bsky.social) reply parent

Ok, should I ask about myself?

1/9/2025, 10:36:49 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andrea Junker (@strandjunker.com) reposted

On this Labor Day, let us remember that it wasn’t the CEOs and billionaires who saved us during COVID-19. It was the janitors, nurses, cleaning crews, grocery and food workers with their hard, often invisible labor.

1/9/2025, 4:14:05 PM | 2230 718 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carl Marxman (@carlmarxman.bsky.social) reply parent

*audibly grinds teeth*

1/9/2025, 10:35:06 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dena McMartin 🇨🇦 (@dwmcmartin.bsky.social) reposted

What a huge loss in the world. Graham Greene brought characters to life and authentic representation to the big screen. RIP, Mr. Greene.

1/9/2025, 10:28:28 PM | 228 70 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carl Marxman (@carlmarxman.bsky.social) reply parent

here-it-comes.gif

1/9/2025, 10:18:20 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Courtney Heard 🇨🇦 (@godlessmom.bsky.social) reposted

Girls were trafficked between polygamist cults in British Columbia… and no one stopped it. I've just updated my deep-dive on BC's infamous polygamist settlement: www.godlessmom.com/post/bountif...

1/9/2025, 9:42:58 PM | 11 5 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carl Marxman (@carlmarxman.bsky.social) reply parent

That's probably the concern. He could do a lot of damage being controlled by Thiel while he flails around, trying to hold onto power.

1/9/2025, 10:11:47 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carl Marxman (@carlmarxman.bsky.social) reply parent

I know I say this to a lot of your posts, but ... what?

1/9/2025, 10:09:18 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Canadian History Ehx (@cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social) reposted

For seven seasons and 122 episodes, Canadian children were transported through television to the world of a department store where amazing things happened. The show remains a high-water mark of children's entertainment in Canada. This is the story of Today's Special! 🧵 1/9

A group photo featuring three individuals and two puppets in a colorful, whimsical setting. The person on the left is a woman with a large afro hairstyle, wearing a pink dress with red trim and a matching belt, smiling warmly. The person in the center is a man with curly hair, wearing a red and white checkered vest and cap, also smiling. The person on the right is a man dressed as a puppet character with a white beard, large nose, and a colorful polka-dot bow tie, holding a puppet with a dog-like face adorned with a pink flower and yellow feathers. In the background, there are green and purple structures with arched windows and a display of various stuffed animal toys hanging on the wall.
1/9/2025, 1:02:33 PM | 149 29 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carl Marxman (@carlmarxman.bsky.social) reply parent

Possibly. That won't lessen my relief when Trump is out of the picture.

1/9/2025, 10:02:36 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carl Marxman (@carlmarxman.bsky.social) reply parent

Just... let us have this, universe.

1/9/2025, 9:59:24 PM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carl Marxman (@carlmarxman.bsky.social) reply parent

*crunch crunch crunch*

1/9/2025, 9:59:02 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carl Marxman (@carlmarxman.bsky.social) reply parent

The future sure is weird, isn't it?

1/9/2025, 9:51:53 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carl Marxman (@carlmarxman.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh what the hell

1/9/2025, 9:51:00 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carl Marxman (@carlmarxman.bsky.social) reply parent

Siiiiiiiigh

1/9/2025, 9:47:44 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carl Marxman (@carlmarxman.bsky.social) reply parent

It took me far too long to realize this. I think the final straw was when a 30something female friend of mine showed me her dating app inbox. ... It was not good. And these were people who were theoretically trying to get a date.

1/9/2025, 9:44:05 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Coach Finstock (@coachfinstock.bsky.social) reposted

Homeschooling is used to keep abuse under wraps. And I consider this kind of shit abuse too. Fucking up your kids chance to survive because you're a selfish moron or a disgusting pervert. Neither are good.

1/9/2025, 8:57:36 PM | 280 35 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carl Marxman (@carlmarxman.bsky.social) reply parent

I gotta admit, that feeling of looming dread hanging over me isn't doing wonders for my sex drive. Sorry.

1/9/2025, 9:22:12 PM | 8 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carl Marxman (@carlmarxman.bsky.social) reply parent

Are you trying to imply that our mayor might not have the best labour relations?

1/9/2025, 9:19:47 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Kakotheres (he/him) 🌾 (@farther-afield.bsky.social) reposted

Sucks that they didn't listen to the community and disinvite you.

1/9/2025, 9:15:50 PM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carl Marxman (@carlmarxman.bsky.social) reply parent

You better not tear up the couch!

1/9/2025, 9:18:36 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carl Marxman (@carlmarxman.bsky.social) reply parent

Respectfully, haven't you broken 3 strikes recently?

1/9/2025, 9:17:13 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tim Onion (@bencollins.bsky.social) reposted

"Blueskyism" helped make The Onion one of the largest newspapers in the world in less than a year. If we had spent all of our time on Twitter, we'd be poorer, dumber and terminally ill with internet poisoning. He's just angry he's wasting away over there in a nazi agnostic lane that doesn't exist.

1/9/2025, 8:51:37 PM | 12212 1770 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carl Marxman (@carlmarxman.bsky.social) reply parent

So can that therapist friend give you a reference? Or you can go to an ER and get the help you need.

1/9/2025, 8:59:39 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carl Marxman (@carlmarxman.bsky.social) reply parent

I kind of wish I liked watching sports

1/9/2025, 8:45:54 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carl Marxman (@carlmarxman.bsky.social) reply parent

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-f-...

1/9/2025, 8:08:24 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carl Marxman (@carlmarxman.bsky.social) reply parent

*gack* I do not like blue cheese.

1/9/2025, 8:00:19 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture consbegone.bsky.social (@consbegone.bsky.social) reposted

Remember how the CBC & corporate media pumped this grifting far right bozo up as Captain Canada during an early election -- called mid-winter as part of his voter suppression scheme? 😡 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

31/8/2025, 6:21:24 PM | 21 11 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carl Marxman (@carlmarxman.bsky.social) reply parent

Keep them warm for ... 5 days? I'll drive right over.

1/9/2025, 7:54:20 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carl Marxman (@carlmarxman.bsky.social) reply parent

Nice!

1/9/2025, 7:49:46 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carl Marxman (@carlmarxman.bsky.social) reply parent

It would be nice if they took a moral stand for once.

1/9/2025, 7:21:15 PM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture cartoon dog gf (@jazzpomegranate.com) reposted

i remember chapo will talking about how if a million people died, they’d have to rename corona extra beer but people just threw ironic corona beer parties instead. that made me think about society, honestly…

1/9/2025, 7:14:36 PM | 27 5 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carl Marxman (@carlmarxman.bsky.social) reply parent

What now?

1/9/2025, 6:51:32 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carl Marxman (@carlmarxman.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh. Well, you like what you like. I'm replaying cyberpunk 2077. It's pretty damn good now.

1/9/2025, 6:38:58 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carl Marxman (@carlmarxman.bsky.social) reply parent

Hugs bugs

1/9/2025, 6:37:10 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carl Marxman (@carlmarxman.bsky.social) reply parent

My wife's holding off on the switch 2 until the next animal crossing. In the meantime hit me up for some helldivers.

1/9/2025, 6:35:38 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carl Marxman (@carlmarxman.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh for Dagon's sake GET A ROOM.

1/9/2025, 6:33:03 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carl Marxman (@carlmarxman.bsky.social) reply parent

Worth a shot

1/9/2025, 6:32:36 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carl Marxman (@carlmarxman.bsky.social) reply parent

Hard to keep track of these things nowadays.

1/9/2025, 6:28:32 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carl Marxman (@carlmarxman.bsky.social) reply parent

Aren't you two married or something? You seem like you're married.

1/9/2025, 6:24:02 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carl Marxman (@carlmarxman.bsky.social) reply parent

That would involve meaningful enforcement of the law against large corporations.

1/9/2025, 6:20:10 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pam M 🇨🇦 (@pam111.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

Is misrepresentation for gain, not considered fraud? I thought Canada had fairly strict regulations for labeling, etc. If @mark-carney.bsky.social wants us to buy Canadian, he needs to ensure bad actors aren't preventing us from doing so with their sneaky tactics.

1/9/2025, 2:59:09 PM | 16 5 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carl Marxman (@carlmarxman.bsky.social) reply parent

Well, his voting record and media clips are there for all to see.

1/9/2025, 6:19:03 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carl Marxman (@carlmarxman.bsky.social) reply parent

Fair enough.

1/9/2025, 6:18:06 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carl Marxman (@carlmarxman.bsky.social) reply parent

Fair enough. Just means that you can't draw from 40k lore for dank memes.

1/9/2025, 6:15:38 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carl Marxman (@carlmarxman.bsky.social) reply parent

I hadn't realized you met him so long ago. But yeah, he's the embodiment of "well, actually" spoken in a nasal, whiny tone.

1/9/2025, 6:14:43 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carter P. Hayes (@allchronology.com) reposted

Everything we take for granted at work — weekends, sick leave, safer conditions, even the end of child labor — exists because of unions.

1/9/2025, 6:00:28 PM | 111 35 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture CyKoore 🇨🇦 🍉 (@cykoore.bsky.social) reposted

People have no idea how bad things have gotten in Antarctica (and the Arctic, too), and how close we are to a worldwide environmental cataclysm.

1/9/2025, 5:52:45 PM | 14 9 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike The Canstralian 🇦🇺 🇬🇧 🇨🇦 (@aussieinto.bsky.social) reposted

Happy Labour Day from Doug Ford, whose favourite Village Person is of course the construction worker.

Doug Ford with construction workers.
1/9/2025, 6:01:27 PM | 6 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carl Marxman (@carlmarxman.bsky.social) reply parent

I really gotta check the date stamps. Thanks for the check. Later.

1/9/2025, 6:01:18 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carl Marxman (@carlmarxman.bsky.social) reply parent

You're a charming asshole, though. A curmudgeon, if you will.

1/9/2025, 5:58:05 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carl Marxman (@carlmarxman.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh what is it now?

1/9/2025, 5:56:43 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carl Marxman (@carlmarxman.bsky.social) reply parent

They've got a pump hooked up to an IV and they inflate him with enough stimulants and fluid for 5 minute photo sessions. Then its back to the intensive care bed.

1/9/2025, 5:55:58 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Guy Gavriel Kay (@guygavrielkay.bsky.social) reposted

There are naive sorts who believe it is summer for 3 more weeks. Any Boomer who has ever been to school in Canada knows fall begins when school does, right after Labour Day, ie it is autumn tomorrow, this is the last day of summer. Some say fall starts TODAY, and that’s a fair position to take.

1/9/2025, 1:24:55 PM | 47 6 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jeff Leiper 🛴🚲🚇♻️🚌📊 (@jleiper.bsky.social) reposted

Trade and professional unions build and make better cities that work, protecting the quality of life for their members and to all our benefit. Happy Labour Day to all the brothers and sisters making Ottawa better.

A member of ATU marches with a union flag in front of a bus displaying ATU 279 on its sign. Operating engineers on a float with a mini-excavator simulator. Members of the carpenters union on a float. A carpenters union T-shirt.
1/9/2025, 5:44:33 PM | 18 4 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Audley (@audleyzdarke.bsky.social) reposted

Michelle Obama: Come on kids, let's go play outside! RFK Jr.: We must cull the weak.

1/9/2025, 5:44:05 PM | 43 8 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carl Marxman (@carlmarxman.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh 100%

1/9/2025, 5:50:50 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carl Marxman (@carlmarxman.bsky.social) reply parent

No worries

1/9/2025, 5:45:36 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carl Marxman (@carlmarxman.bsky.social) reply parent

The day *is* labour union themed. Hint hint.

1/9/2025, 5:43:22 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carl Marxman (@carlmarxman.bsky.social) reply parent

Can't hurt.

1/9/2025, 5:38:17 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carl Marxman (@carlmarxman.bsky.social) reply parent

I ... uh. I don't actually understand the quoted post. Still, hugs?

1/9/2025, 5:37:52 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view