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You’ve read Laundry Files right?
U of T CERES 2025 Great king, strong king, king of the Four Corners, king of the Universe
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You’ve read Laundry Files right?
conaljarvis.bsky.social (@conaljarvis.bsky.social) reply parent
Baby pool meme with the skeleton being indigenous people
conaljarvis.bsky.social (@conaljarvis.bsky.social) reply parent
Unfortunately, we don't officially do that. CSIS's remit is just domestic. (Dear god, do we ever need a foreign intel service...)
conaljarvis.bsky.social (@conaljarvis.bsky.social) reply parent
FWIW, both girlfriends I’ve had I met IRL. I know they suck, but they aren’t essential
conaljarvis.bsky.social (@conaljarvis.bsky.social) reply parent
A) is unfathomably based
In summary
conaljarvis.bsky.social (@conaljarvis.bsky.social) reply parent
Also depended on bore size/throw weight of the shot too no?
conaljarvis.bsky.social (@conaljarvis.bsky.social) reply parent
Mormonism for Mutants...
conaljarvis.bsky.social (@conaljarvis.bsky.social) reply parent
Does this mean you'll finally be able to watch screen media again? I know that's been essentially impossible for you for the last couple decades
conaljarvis.bsky.social (@conaljarvis.bsky.social) reply parent
I’ll take your word for it- Chrysalids was assigned reading in my grade 10 English class and I haven’t read anything else from Wyndham
conaljarvis.bsky.social (@conaljarvis.bsky.social) reply parent
So like the Chrysalids but not 50s
conaljarvis.bsky.social (@conaljarvis.bsky.social) reply parent
Tbh all you need to know about that episode is that it’s a QAA episode with Julian leading, so it’s inevitably a disaster
conaljarvis.bsky.social (@conaljarvis.bsky.social) reply parent
I agree with the rest of this thread, but I have to quibble here: it’s never too late. Best day to start was a decade ago, second best is today
People think if you just write knowledge down people can just pick it up later, underrating the importance of the time spent thinking and developing the skills to read scholarship. It's an advanced skill; no one trained = no capacity to access the knowledge. A seed bank is not an ecosystem.
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@theophite.bsky.social
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See, this is why I can’t stand the fragments of Dan Abnett’s prose I’ve seen from the end and the death. I have a master’s degree and can keep up with Lovecraft, I should not have to grab a dictionary to figure out WTF he’s talking about
conaljarvis.bsky.social (@conaljarvis.bsky.social) reply parent
Can I do this in Warhammer
conaljarvis.bsky.social (@conaljarvis.bsky.social) reply parent
The Akkadian crack is great LOL
conaljarvis.bsky.social (@conaljarvis.bsky.social) reply parent
I maintain that one of my better in-class insights is that the hero joining the mystery cults is effectively joining the 2nd-century version of Scientology.
conaljarvis.bsky.social (@conaljarvis.bsky.social) reply parent
Yeah, this is one of the big reasons I’ve been disappointed by Carney thus far
conaljarvis.bsky.social (@conaljarvis.bsky.social) reply parent
Ohhhh so we just uplifted them or something
conaljarvis.bsky.social (@conaljarvis.bsky.social) reply parent
Wait I thought humans had only made contact with one alien species (the Foreigners?)
conaljarvis.bsky.social (@conaljarvis.bsky.social) reply parent
Dude I screenshotted this at the time and literally just saw it again sorting through old pictures tonight
conaljarvis.bsky.social (@conaljarvis.bsky.social) reply parent
Plus the anecdote about Duplessis knowing his father by reputation and being a dick about it when he was in his 20s
This, "Thu-Coohoo", I've heard, he's quite nasty, a disgusting creature really. you can't even look at him, he's so horrible, he will turn you into a radical-left-lunatic, a lunatic, totally crazy, that's what they're calling him. On MSDNC, they love Coo, uh, Coothool, what are we gonna do folks?
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Just Islamophobia- laïcite x10 with a helping of language politics on the side
conaljarvis.bsky.social (@conaljarvis.bsky.social) reply parent
I also suspect that the Black Speech is partially inspired by Akkadian (the internet will suggest Hurrian, but I maintain that the evidence is weak)
conaljarvis.bsky.social (@conaljarvis.bsky.social) reply parent
Better that than 30-50 feral hogs LOL
conaljarvis.bsky.social (@conaljarvis.bsky.social) reply parent
Can second this- went a decade ago, so am a bit out of date but enjoyed it (not as good as the ROM tho)
conaljarvis.bsky.social (@conaljarvis.bsky.social) reply parent
Dunno if your interests extend to this, but the HMS Belfast is a fun couple hours!
using this
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Forerunners of the Vor’cha-class?
Putting a fake mustache on the ancient languages professor, assigning them a class titled "Improving Stakeholder Value in the Metallurgical Industries by Addressing Customer Feedback" and hoping no one notices
conaljarvis.bsky.social (@conaljarvis.bsky.social) reply parent
U of T does Sumerian, and that’s it from your list at the top. (Side note: my god, Elamite sounds like a fun course)
A placard on the nineteenth-century fur trade describes Canada as a sovereign country."
If this is true about Greenland, what does that say for Canada?
"Danish intelligence services have uncovered a network of “at least three” people working on “influence operations” in Greenland to drive a wedge between Denmark and the territory, in a bid to pave the way for it to get closer to the United States." www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
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Honest to god, this seems to occur everywhere in modern Western politics. Putin is a force of nature we can only react to. Trump is a force of nature we can only react to. Voters are forces of nature we can only react to. Laws are ironclad rules of reality that can only be changed by the other side.
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Have you tried Scarborough?
conaljarvis.bsky.social (@conaljarvis.bsky.social) reply parent
They will live in the apartment and they will eat the tacos and they will like it
conaljarvis.bsky.social (@conaljarvis.bsky.social) reply parent
Heh heh
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You may be amused to know that thanks to you I managed to drop that phrase into a discussion in my Nubian archaeology class about Egyptian garrisons and their communications with the palace
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@mattitiahu.bsky.social Who does this remind you of LOL
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On another note, this was the same group project where we had a member derail a meeting with the prof to ask if it was a good idea to include a bit about “working with Russia to demilitarize the Arctic”, despite IIRC the group saying no beforehand. Also had an odd affinity for Gaddafi’s Libya…
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This obviously was incorrect. I think the Americans are far too unpredictable and vindictive at this point for the bear hug option to work, and any acquiescence by Carney will be taken as a sign of weakness. We’re going to get hammered economically anyways and he threatened annexation, so…
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So I took a course last year on strategic policy implementation at Munk, and did a group project on US-Canada relations where this was essentially our strategy. A year on, I’m less convinced. The model I had of a (very unlikely) Trump 2 was essentially Project 2025: hardcore crazy but stable.
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I think lab-grown meats should help with this- I think the first one has hit the market?
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@sharonk.bsky.social New book of the bible dropped
conaljarvis.bsky.social (@conaljarvis.bsky.social) reply parent
Checkmate, libs! (Also I think they said Baalbek was built by aliens too, so chalk that up to two big things aliens built for white people)
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God, that would be a great RPG setting. AIs trying to define a place for themselves in an Abrahamic theology. Turns out, the smokeless fire of the djinn was electricity!
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Is this the shit I miss by only listening to their podcast
conaljarvis.bsky.social (@conaljarvis.bsky.social) reply parent
Optimistically the model is Wisconsin. Pessimistically, Ukraine.
conaljarvis.bsky.social (@conaljarvis.bsky.social) reply parent
ADHD devils acting up?
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God I was thinking of this just the other day. I picked up a book on the archaeology of Vancouver Island and some of the opening makes clear exactly how well-established ownership and property, both of possessions and natural features was by peoples like the Nuu-chah-nulth
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Ah fair enough!
conaljarvis.bsky.social (@conaljarvis.bsky.social) reply parent
Don’t forget Egyptian either! Satzinger has an article on this I think
INDO-EUROPEAN #1: *h₁ey, *knh₃ck *knh₃ck INDO-EUROPEAN #2: *kʷo's *thh₂re? IE 1: *Larry IE 2: *Larry *kʷo? IE 1: Laryngeal! 😁 IE 2: ... IE 1: *gh₂ddit? 🤣 IE 2: that was so bad I think we need to all get in our chariots and head out in all directions just to get as far away as we can from you
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Many people are saying this! (I am many people)
Your reminder that Hobby Lobby illegally bought artifacts from Iraq on the black market.
conaljarvis.bsky.social (@conaljarvis.bsky.social) reply parent
they assign to everyone who isn’t them. This is also why they apply it to women, because they can’t see women as anything other than an appendage of a man. IDK. I know this isn’t particularly coherent but I hope folks know what I’m getting at.
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draws more on the Confederate slaveholder tradition: the societal Other is quite literally not human, because they’re property. It’s like expecting a hair dryer to have a vibrant inner life, an inherent contradiction. Both groups only see the in-group as fully human, but they differ in the role…
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I had a not particularly baked thought about this a couple days ago- I think it gets back to the differences between MAGA and the Nazis and their vision of the ideal society. AIUI, the Nazis saw Jews et al. as untermenschen: a lower order of human, but still human (if only technically). MAGA…
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There’s a Curious George joke to be made from this thread but I can’t structure it rn
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@beijingpalmer.bsky.social Do I even have to say it?
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@theophite.bsky.social
It continues to surprise me how many Canadian and European decision makers are a) unaware of how bad the situation inside the US is, and b) deny the internal context has much to do with the foreign policy context
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Como soy dice “Black Hawk Down”
conaljarvis.bsky.social (@conaljarvis.bsky.social) reply parent
What about the federation intel dude from A Stitch In Time
If Canada had an ounce of sense we would be opening our doors to the inevitable outflow of talent from Ming Dynasty America
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I say this with the greatest of love 😝
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Single word no, but I think vastator museorum (destroyer of museums) is probably close enough
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What’s the status of Tibet?
conaljarvis.bsky.social (@conaljarvis.bsky.social) reply parent
Imagine if Pritzker did an online ad and got Khusugtun or the Hu to do background music- he has enough money and he knows about the meme…
conaljarvis.bsky.social (@conaljarvis.bsky.social) reply parent
Heh- Central America or Africa, if we’re going with an extremely loose definition of “North Atlantic”
conaljarvis.bsky.social (@conaljarvis.bsky.social) reply parent
Also, why is there no mention of POW swaps or the return of abducted Ukrainian children? What about the rights of non-Slavic minorities in Russian-occupied territory, like the Crimean Tatars and Koreans? Since North Korea is a co-belligerent, why are they not mentioned in these terms?
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Like, good chunks of this article are fundamentally in tension with each other. Why does Germany only get to be on the UN council of India and Brazil are present? Where are all the UN peacekeepers supposed to come from? How are neutral parties defined, given large chunks of the world have sold arms…
conaljarvis.bsky.social (@conaljarvis.bsky.social) reply parent
So apparently mutual defence is bad when US and CAN are involved, but when the EU does it Lieven is fine???? (Or does he just not know about the mutual defence clause for EU members…) www.europarl.europa.eu/meetdocs/200...
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Doug, everything you tell me about Florida makes me more concerned
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I told you that I taught one of the Akkadian students at U of T to mentally sub in chad/gigachad for LUGAL/LUGAL.GAL right?
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@gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social This sounds familiar…
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Where is this from?
conaljarvis.bsky.social (@conaljarvis.bsky.social) reply parent
I mean, I’d push it back to Clinton with Chechnya being ignored
conaljarvis.bsky.social (@conaljarvis.bsky.social) reply parent
Yeah- is it you who’s been beating the drum on here about the Houthis being closer to the NVA end of proxy groups? Can’t remember
conaljarvis.bsky.social (@conaljarvis.bsky.social) reply parent
Houthis have been doing it for a decade (IN A CAVE! WITH A BOX OF SCRAPS!), glad to see the Ukrainians doing it better
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Similar: started wanting to do palaeontology, but washed out of calc and chem. Kept bio as a minor but went for history as the family trade. I have a huge list/pile of textbooks for courses I wish I could take if money/time/energy weren’t issues. I’ll do them someday, but not yet
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Increasingly glad I took a Gender and IR course in undergrad ngl
conaljarvis.bsky.social (@conaljarvis.bsky.social) reply parent
Also, speaking as a Canadian, where’s Carney? I seriously doubt a meeting with Doug Ford trumps (heh) this particular outing
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AIUI, the Maddy in Toronto to a T
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state isn’t a natural end-state of interstellar republican polities in the Star Trek universe.
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The more disturbing thing is this: why is it that the Federation, Cardassians and Romulans all independently develop para-state intelligence agencies with alarming levels of control of civilian governments, explicitly or implicitly? The poli sci part of my brain wonders if this kind of security…
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So my personal theory here is a bit of both: essentially, they’re like Delta Green. Initially an official organization (albeit ultra-secret), and post-DIS S2, they’re dissolved. By DS9, they’re an alarmingly well-supported old boys club that everyone looks the other way on.
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Also, IIRC a lot of the homophobia in Uganda has been stirred up by American preachers? (Obv not a gay paradise before them, but they’ve made things way worse)
Here are links to both: Johnson drive.google.com/file/d/1Cz4b... Vieira drive.google.com/file/d/0B4Z9...
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Just so depressing reading that much wasted effort from smart people
Amount of policy pieces I read these days has plummeted because of this. Not sure what the point is to much of it
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She says, “Thank you Bluesky person! I say hello from the green sky!” (She’s going for a bad pun)
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HABEMUS DOMINAM!!!!!!!!!! Grace defended her thesis today (accepted with minor revisions!) and Conal very proud.
We don't make enough of the fact that the first Christian denomination with which extraterrestrials made contact of the Third Kind (in Papua New Guinea in 1959) was Anglicanism (they even stayed for the duration of Evensong)
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Ooooooooooo