Martin Grasdal 🍁
Old IT guy, nearing retirement. Living proof that a degree in Engl. Lit & Philosophy is far from useless. Lover of fiction (including sci-fi & fantasy), history, classics, etc,. Classical music lover.
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- Reposted by Martin Grasdal 🍁Once again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”
- Reposted by Martin Grasdal 🍁The Right has spent years trying to push a return to child labor and attacking age of consent laws. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that they’re exposing us to mountains of the most horrendous stuff imaginable while also normalizing it. So much of what’s happening is the destruction of childhood.
- Reposted by Martin Grasdal 🍁www.parklandinstitute.ca/end_of_medic... Prevent the usa insurance companies from invading AB, CANADA!
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- Reposted by Martin Grasdal 🍁#Bitcoin explained in two posts: $BTC
- Reposted by Martin Grasdal 🍁I’ve been thumping the table about this for years. Now it’s accelerating. I wish I could get my private college colleagues to realize that if it’s not stopped, it’s coming for us, too. “But we’re private!” Sure, ask Orban or Erdogan what an autocrat does with private higher ed.
- Breaking, from me: An executive order from Oklahoma's governor directs most of the state's public colleges to "phase out tenure." #AcademicSky #HigherEd @chronicle.com www.chronicle.com/article/tenu...
- Reposted by Martin Grasdal 🍁Every American needs to watch this:
- Reposted by Martin Grasdal 🍁Yup. This is also why I get annoyed when people start suggesting "golden age" science fiction titles to people who are new the genre and are asking for suggestions. You want to turn a modern 15-year-old off science fiction forever, recommend stories that were old when her grandparents were her age.
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- Ski day! View from the top of the Knob chair lift in Jasper National Park, AB, Canada.
- Lol. Peter MacKay is an arrogant, self-deluded twat, who gave us one of the worst governments ever and played a significant role in enabling the ignorant, extremist right to exercise political power through the CPC. Why do these fools think they alone can save us? nationalpost.com/opinion/step...
- Quite the read. "Though Epstein has gone, the cryptocurrency infrastructure he helped to rescue, the ideological antipathy to regulation in Silicon Valley, and the dark, unaccountable influence of crypto politics in our democratic elections remain one of his most damaging legacies."
- This piece is a gold mine. Epstein was in direct contact with Putin, boasting of personal invites to St Petersburg. He co-owned Thiel’s Valar Ventures w/ Ehud Barak, backing Israeli surveillance firm Carbyne. bylinetimes.com/2026/02/03/i...
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- Reposted by Martin Grasdal 🍁MAGA Adult Male assaults Texas High School students protesting ICE
- For the Notepad++ users, such as myself, out there. notepad-plus-plus.org/news/hijacke...
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- Reposted by Martin Grasdal 🍁She keeps getting chances to show some loyalty to Canada -- and keeps turning them away in order to defend Alberta separatists and their cause. It's who she is. It's time we all started saying it. #cdnpoli #abpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2026/02/02/o...
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- Reposted by Martin Grasdal 🍁Just so everyone is clear: the valve here releases pressure that would otherwise build on her leadership from within her party. She would rather lose the country than her own job.
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- Reposted by Martin Grasdal 🍁Everyone agrees our 🇨🇦health care system needs some fixing. So the Liberals are running Dr. Danielle Martin in Uni-Rosedale to succeed Ms Freeland. Dr. Martin has published ‘Six Big Ideas to Improve Health Care for All Canadians’ and testified before the US Senate on our 🇨🇦public system. 1/8
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- [A] more serious form of oppression: right-wing Christians being told it’s immoral to support a brutal, racist assault on their neighbors.
- Reposted by Martin Grasdal 🍁The GOP blames women for undermining them on issues like abortion & ICE & thus hopes to pass the “SAVE Act,” which will make it harder for married women who changed their last names to vote. But they want you to think it’s about “election integrity”. 1/31/26 #HandmaidsTale 1/
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- A government by the pedos, for the pedos.
- Gift article. Don't think it is unlimited. Worth a read. www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/8cf43f7...
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- Reposted by Martin Grasdal 🍁This is hilarious!! 🤣 🤣
- Ski day!
- Read the room.
- President Roomba.
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- Another reason for white supremacists to hate science. Turns out genetic diversity might be an advantage. "In a preliminary report published this month, researchers suggest that the participants’ genetic diversity could have a role in their resilience." www.nature.com/articles/d41...
