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Lunch Bag · Friday, October 30
The Trust Ledger

“The historical details were more varied, but the durable principle is sound: authenticated records and institutional accounts could substitute for carrying the original money throughout the journey.”

Today's poll: where do you stand on that?

Ten things, five questions, ten minutes.
Today's plate: The Golden Bulgur Lunch.

https://lunchbag.felineunion.org/bag/2026-10-30/

Holidays 2020: Canada told its citizens to avoid all travel abroad. At least 27 office-holders flew anyway, and every one was caught by someone who saw them. The Prime Minister was seen by no one for twelve days. https://theinquiry.fyi/advised-against.html#verdict

Eight house rules of the club you are not in. Every one of them is on the public record. https://theclub.felineunion.org/

🚨 "Tear gas" is a euphemism.

It's an aerosolized chemical pain weapon, not merely a gas that makes you cry.

☠️ Banned as a method of warfare under the Chemical Weapons Convention.

👮 Permitted for domestic policing.

Same chemicals. Same nervous system. Different legal rules.

Too cruel for war. Legal against civilians.

How could tear gas affect menstruation?

"This is my country," says the settler, on Indigenous land, to a woman wearing a hijab.

"We’re not doing a CBDC" is true. It’s also the most load-bearing misdirection in money right now. https://therails.felineunion.org

Only five of eighteen tracked Canadian data-centre projects are operating.

I got 5/5 on today’s Feline Union quiz on Canada Compute Map. Where are you on it? https://felineunion.org/poll/2026-10-29

I scored 5/5 on today’s Lunch Bag: Canada Compute Map - Canada’s data-centre boom, counted honestly. Can you beat it? https://lunchbag.felineunion.org/

Please keep the aisle clear.
The price tags are listening. 👁️

Lunch Bag · Thursday, October 29
Canada Compute Map - Canada’s data-centre boom, counted honestly

“AWS, Vantage, TELUS Rimouski, QScale, and Vantage Quebec City draw on Hydro-Québec’s near-100-percent renewable grid.”

Today's poll: where do you stand on that?

Ten things, five questions, ten minutes.
Today's plate: The Golden Bulgur Lunch.

https://lunchbag.felineunion.org/bag/2026-10-29/

The Facebook Files, the Australian Robodebt Royal Commission, the FTC dark-patterns report: the operators' own internal documents say the harms are real, measurable, and known. The public discourse is a decade behind their inboxes. https://theloop.felineunion.org

One publisher reports serving 99% of U.S. public K–12 districts. So who gets to edit what it prints? https://authorityofgenius.felineunion.org/

Academic effect sizes are small per intervention. The operators don't run one intervention. They run thousands per user per week, for years, against a metric they keep tuning. https://theloop.felineunion.org

👻 The outgoing villain becomes a ghost blamed for everything. The incoming villain becomes a promise excused from everything.

𝗣𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿 lives comfortably between the two.

Its purpose is dead, but its procedures keep walking. Another meeting. Another resolution. Another minute of silence while people die.