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When your region's wastewater line turns up for two or three straight weeks, that's your cue: mask in crowds, test before visiting someone fragile, time a booster. A week's warning, for free. https://covid.felineunion.org

Danny Danon looks like Willard, the guy who befriended an army of rats. 🐀

The resemblance ends there.

The rats liked Willard.

A device sold to clear teenagers from shop doorways emits a tone at 17.4 kHz — audible only while the top of your hearing survives. A standard audiogram stops at 8 kHz and never looks there. https://thirtytwo.fyi/share/dispatch-02/

What if the problem isn't that you're behind everyone else, but that you've been taught to compare instead of situate?

Why ask "Where do I rank?" when the better question is:

"Where am I, what shaped this position, what resources do I have, and where can I go from here?"

Comparison creates a hierarchy. Situation creates a map. 🗺️

Eleven Canadian governments since 1968, drawn at the width they actually lasted, over the material record. One question: does anything bend when the jersey changes? https://samepuck.felineunion.org/

LifeLog's blunt lesson is "It was procurement." No cartoon villain required. Contracts can assemble surveillance piece by piece while public debate is stuck in the waiting room. 🧾📹
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The Indigenous share of adult custody admissions in Canada went from 17.3% to 31.1% between 2000 and 2024. It rose under Chrétien, under Martin, under Harper and under Trudeau. Indigenous people are about 5% of the population. https://samepuck.felineunion.org/

F·R·I·E·N·D·S: The One Where Everyone Gets AI ☕🤖

AI won't replace sysadmins.

It'll just give Joey root access, Ross confidence, and Chandler a 47-page explanation of why production is down.

Could we BE any more automated? 💀

I scored 4/5 on today’s Lunch Bag: Maple Fentanyl-Laced Syrup. Can you beat it? https://lunchbag.felineunion.org/

Settler title goes back what, 150 years? A registry, a Crown grant, a deed.

Indigenous title goes back to time immemorial. People, law, land, jurisdiction, then Canada shows up.

If we're really going to litigate whose claim came first, that's an interesting hill for Canada to choose. 🏴

You cannot organize your way around missing social knowledge.

Canada kept a 70-year-old pistol in military service.

Then replacing the pistol required a procurement competition.

The competition got cancelled.

They ran another competition.

Eventually they bought an off-the-shelf SIG P320.

This is a pistol.

Imagine the same bureaucracy trying to procure submarines, fighters, air defence and an entire war's ammunition. 🇨🇦🪖

CNN wasn't some organic media organism that magically appeared in 1980.

Its entire model depended on satellites and a communications infrastructure born from massive state and military investment.

Government builds the nervous system.
Private capital puts a logo on the terminal.
CNN industrializes the psyop.

Glad that goyslop is dying. 📡📺🪦

Canada keeps advertising military recruitment as military readiness.

They're not the same thing.

7,219 went through basic training in 2025-26. Only 77% graduated. Then graduates can spend months waiting for occupational training because the system lacks instructors, equipment, facilities and course capacity.

Recruiting people is an INPUT.

Trained, operational personnel are the OUTPUT.

Ottawa keeps bragging about the intake while the pipeline is clogged. 🇨🇦🪖

Bloomberg, Scripps, etc. have a problem: their remaining audience is increasingly capable of auditing them in real time.

The information monopoly is gone. Search, archives, primary documents and AI killed it.

Every narrative that collapses under inspection doesn't just lose the story. It trains the audience to distrust the institution.

The scarce commodity isn't information anymore.

It's credibility. 📉

Canada can increase the number entering the military without increasing the number of trained, employable soldiers at anything close to the same rate.

The NDP has turned identity politics into an organizational technology.

Each identity becomes a political franchise: Indigenous, Black, immigrant, Jewish anti-Zionist, etc. Representation becomes authenticity. Authenticity becomes authority. Authority becomes jurisdiction over who is allowed to speak.

Then watch where that jurisdiction gets deployed.

Leah Gazan takes the language of Indigenous resistance to appropriation and aims it sideways at Yves Engler, an independent anti-imperialist to her left, for circulating coalition material featuring an Indigenous participant in that very coalition.

That's the function.

The Liberal-Conservative duopoly administers the state. The NDP administers a section of the opposition. It gets an enormous rhetorical budget to sound radical because controlled opposition does not require controlled speech.

It requires controlled position.

And when somebody refuses the franchise and organizes independently outside the perimeter, suddenly the identity cards come out and the policing begins.

Identity → authenticity → authority → jurisdiction → perimeter control.

That's not liberation politics.

That's dissent management wearing its clothes. 🏴

Living in Nazi Canada, I finally understand something about Nazi Germany.

I used to wonder how ordinary Germans could possibly watch horrors being committed in their name and fail to stop them.

Now I understand.

Knowing is not power.

You can see it.
Name it.
Refuse it.
Protest it.
Withdraw your consent.
Spend every waking hour fighting it.

And the machinery can simply continue.

It takes your taxes, your flag, your institutions and your country's name and converts them into actions you never authorized.

Then comes the theft of agency:

The state acts.
You object.
The state continues.
History calls it something "we" did.

But coercion alone doesn't explain how these systems reproduce themselves.

Eventually they manufacture consent.

Look at Israel: 80% approval while children are being bombed.

That changes the question.

How does a society reach the point where enormous violence isn't merely tolerated by institutions but normalized among the population?

Start much earlier.

Control the political imagination.

Teach children one political vocabulary. Teach electoral politics as though it were synonymous with politics. Teach that legitimate power flows through the existing institutions. Reduce political possibility to competing authorized parties.

Don't ban every alternative.

Make alternatives culturally unintelligible.

By adulthood the menu has already been printed:

🔴 Red team.
🔵 Blue team.

Choose.

Then call the choice freedom.

It's remarkably close to the architecture of religion.

A child doesn't independently survey 4,000 religions and rationally discover that the religion surrounding their birthplace happens to contain ultimate truth.

They inherit it.

The rituals.
The vocabulary.
The authorities.
The sacred texts.
The permitted questions.
The promised salvation.

Political faith works remarkably well the same way.

🗳️ Vote.
🏛️ Trust the institutions.
📺 Listen to the authorized interpreters.
🙏 Wait.
✨ Change is coming.

Red disappoints you?

Believe harder in Blue.

Blue disappoints you?

Salvation returns to Red.

The institution itself remains outside the argument.

That's the part I didn't understand about Nazi Germany.

I imagined millions of people consciously examining every possible political arrangement and deliberately selecting the horror.

But human beings don't enter politics from some neutral intellectual wilderness.

They inherit systems.

They inherit categories.

They inherit the boundaries of what their society considers imaginable.

And once those boundaries become common sense, tremendous violence can occur without everyone experiencing themselves as its author.

Meanwhile, our institutions have built an entire prestige economy around their supposed civilization.

Nobel Prizes.
Honorary doctorates.
Human-rights awards.
Commemorative days.
Conferences.
Declarations.
Medals.
Institutes.
Foundations.

An enormous machinery for certifying our goodness.

And they couldn't stop a fucking genocide.

Perhaps that's the lesson.

The frightening political system isn't merely the one that prevents you from saying NO.

It's the one that can hear millions of people saying NO, continue anyway, call the result democratic consent, and then hand itself an award for defending human rights.

The perfect cage doesn't need everyone to love it.

It needs enough people to believe there is nothing outside it. 🏴

Carney is popular because the polls say he's popular.

The media report the polls because he's popular.

Then the pollsters go on the media to explain his popularity.

Canada has built a machine for measuring its own output. 🔁🇨🇦

That's not public opinion.

That's an echo chamber with a margin of error. 🏴