Albertan by choice. Staff SRE @ Interval. Previously @chainlink @dapperlabs @salesforce @datadoghq. Hacks with Golang, loves scuba and 3 gun. Tweets are my own.
Calgary, Alberta
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Dear @JustinTrudeau
In 2020 you prohibited my big game rifle, some small game rifles and my competition rifles.
I replaced them, but today you prohibited every last replacement.
I no longer have any legal hunting or competition rifles.
I have no firearms that are useful as predator protection in the wilderness.
I will take solace in the fact that I will keep them until you're all removed from office.
And then I'll get them back and will continue the fight to enshrine property rights for all 🇨🇦.
I will never forget that you have repeatedly used the threat of jail and death to steal my property, in order to prop up your failing @liberal_party.
You've been playing politics with public safety for far too long - the game is up.
Nobody believes anything you say, you're going to get crushed with a historic wipeout.
#cdnpoli #ccfr
They’ll never stop.
The next types will be the “sniper rifles”.
And so on and so on.
Hunters wake up. They’re coming for yours too. Mine are just first.
I’m trying to secure our sandbox infrastructure and have been getting these all week.
Today I’m trying to review a patch that closes a security hole in a proxy.
So frustrating @OpenAI
I’m using GLM via @OpenRouter in the meantime.
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Of course.
NEMETH: Ottawa’s leaked EU deal strangles Alberta’s resources and sovereignty with regulations
westernstandard.news/opinion…
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"There is no core identity, no mainstream in Canada. There are shared values - openness, respect, compassion, willingness to work hard, to be there for each other, to search for equality and justice. Those qualities are what make us the first postnational state." - JT 2015
“There is, in fact, no such thing as a French culture; there is a culture in France, and it is diverse, it is multicultural"
- Emmanuel Macron, Lyon, 2017.
Lyon, after 9 years of broken borders, is on fire. Violent crime is up 63pc.
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That shows the political nature of the prosecution of @LichTamara
He killed someone and “he’s just misunderstood” or “🇨🇦 is racist” or “it’s not his fault”. Why else would murder be given 20 months?
She embarrassed the regime so she must be punished.
The crown attorney wanted more time in jail for @LichTamara than this murdering repeat offender got. 20 months for murder. Let that sink in folks. torontosun.com/news/local-ne…
An example “Canada’s leading journalist” everybody.
Why we don’t believe any of you reason 162345.
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Know your place Albertans.
You fail to understand that breaking up the country isn't an option for Alberta. It's never going to happen, nor should it happen. If you think it can happen, I'd like to remind you of the power of the federal government to stop such things by all necessary means, and I will fully support those means too, as will the rest of Canadians. We'll have to figure these things out peacefully, unless you think otherwise.
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"When the money and the rhetoric aligned with causes closer to the CBC’s heart, it was activism. When it doesn’t, it’s interference. The inquiry, the coverage, and the sudden vocabulary all tracked that distinction
And CBC wonder why the audience loses trust 🤦♂️"
Shachi Kurl (Angus Reid) just said the quiet part out loud
US groups funding anti-pipeline campaigns, paying protesters daily stipends on Burnaby Mountain 10–15 years ago? Not called foreign interference. Canada’s foreign interference inquiry barely looked at US influence either
Now a tweet from Elon Musk, or digital campaigns whose donors are harder to trace, is treated as a national-security emergency that could “destabilize” referendums
Same activity. Different target. Different media reaction
When the money and the rhetoric aligned with causes closer to the CBC’s heart, it was activism. When it doesn’t, it’s interference. The inquiry, the coverage, and the sudden vocabulary all tracked that distinction
And CBC wonder why the audience loses trust 🤦♂️
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Contrast this with the 3 year jail sentence for an Edmonton man with a firearms license - who printed firearms - for his OWN use.
Our judiciary needs to be gutted and rebuilt from the bottom up.
#BREAKING: BC Supreme Court Justice Catherine Murray has ruled that banning people from possessing drugs for trafficking purposes is unconstitutional, claiming such laws "discriminate" against drug users and violate their right to "life, liberty, and the security of person."
This is one of the very few regional police services in Ontario that signed up whole heartedly for the forced confiscation of lawful owners' firearms.
We are seeking assistance locating a lost firearm magazine.
On September 26, 2026, an on-duty WRPS officer lost their Service-issued magazine from their ballistic vest. The magazine, which was loaded, is similar to the one pictured.
The magazine is believed to have been lost in Woolwich or Wellesley Township.
Anyone with information is asked to contact police at 519-570-9777.
More: wrps.info/4hrCx7v
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Of course it's Brookfield.
How many options from Brookfield are in @MarkJCarney "blind trust" again?
Hey media - this is a classic conflict of interest. That you're ALL not screaming from the rooftops is bonkers.
Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and Brookfield Asset Management to launch joint $50-billion fund to invest in strategic sectors, sources say @globeandmail theglobeandmail.com/business…
As usual you don't really get it.
Alberta independence is simple: we want our votes to mean something.
We can't change health care laws - that's federal.
We can't change bail and criminal laws - that's federal.
We don't care if other provinces want to self destruct and enact insane policies - drugs, bail, criminal justice, health care, firearms, net zero - that's on them.
We want OUR votes to be able to change what happens in Alberta. We can't do it inside of Canada.
When you were in federal power you didn't change any of the structural problems with Confederation.
When you were in provincial power you wrote strongly worded letters and did nothing else.
We're going to campaign for independence so that our votes mean something.
Separatists like this guy👇 live in their own vivid fantasy world.
Two separatist candidates* ran in the Battle River-Crowfoot by-election a year ago (in what they claim is a hotbed area for separatism,) and got 1% of the vote between them. @PierrePoilievre thrashed them with 81% of the vote running on a "Canada first, Canada last, Canada always" message!
The last time western separatists ran as a federal party was 2021, at the height of Justin Trudeau's unpopularity. For the first time they had an ostensibly credible leader (former CPC Whip Jay Hill,) but they could only recruit 29 candidates out of the 107 ridings in Western Canada.
Combined, they won 35,000 votes, an average of ~1000 votes or 2% per riding, and that was with almost exclusively rural candidates. Two years later they ran a candidate in the Calgary Heritage by-election, who won whopping 131 (0.5%) votes.
Separatists candidates have run in a dozen federal elections in Western Canada since 1980,** never coming remotely close to winning a single riding, even during the National Energy Program, i.e. the high water mark of Western alienation.
The most likely electoral consequence of the Alberta separatist movement is the exact opposite of what this👇 anger merchant predicts. Most polls indicate a recent surge in support for the Liberal Party of Canada in Alberta, moving from 15% in 2021 to ~35%. Undoubtedly one element of this shift is patriotic Albertans registering unease with the separatist threat emanating from the populist hard right in Alberta.
Federal Conservative MPs know this. They were elected with enormous mandates on a "Canada first, last and always platform." The Conservatives for Canada campaign is a brilliant way of reminding the broad mainstream of Albertans that the Conservative Party is the party of Confederation, of national unity.
But beyond any political calculation, they are patriots. They believe in Canada, and know their role is to work for a change in government to deliver a better deal for a strong Alberta in a united Canada, not to cater to the perennially angry voices of destruction and division.
To their credit, they are demonstrating real political courage. By launching this campaign, they know that they will be threatened and attacked, including by some long time supporters. But that's a price they are willing to pay to do the right thing.
* Separatists often run in pairs, because they can never agree with each other.
** The party names keep changing, because historically after each election the separatists start squabbling amongst themselves, or are too incompetent to file their returns and so end up being deregistered by Elections Canada.
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The summit continues the 🇨🇦 tradition of government being in the way and the majority of the problem.
1. Get the government out of the way.
2. Restore investor confidence by dropping the bad laws.
Until we do that - nothing will change.
Capital will continue to flee.
I’ve been fairly optimistic about this summit. But this article gives me pause. Is this about restoring confidence in Canada as a place to invest in, or pitching economically dubious but politically preferred major projects?
“The breakout sessions where the pitches will be made will be restricted. Only the Prime Minister, select ministers and the premiers will be in the room with the principal of each investor group”. What are they pitching they don’t run businesses!?
I wanted to test a headless Omarchy and got annoyed because sshd can't start until you unlock the encrypted filesystem. So Codex and I worked on a solution for a remote LUKS unlock over SSH:
gist.github.com/darron/5c571…
As always YMMV - but it works for me at home.
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Yes.
Hey @MarkJCarney - please slap an export tax on Alberta's products.
In the middle of a referendum campaign.
I'm sure it won't affect the "Leave" side at all.
Signed,
Every Independence Supporter in Alberta
Former PM Jean Chrétien:
- If we’re going to have to stand on our own, we need to hit him where it hurts
- when he excludes energy, oil, gas, and potash from his tariffs it’s because he needs them.
- the advantage of export taxes is that they pay for them, not us
- the states that are most supportive of the republicans are the southern agricultural states, and they need potash
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The modern environmental movement is anti human.
Referring to “Limits to Growth” like it’s in any way a model forward is bonkers.
It was great to finally have someone admit the truth: climate doomerism is about one world government, ending democracy and impoverishing the world.
The idea that we must impoverish humanity to save it is not just absurd, it's a suicide pact. Sovereign nations will never accept it, and people will never vote for it.
I don't believe in suicide for token gestures towards not solving a problem you're claiming to solve.
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Liberals at 54% because:
1. "PP is mean" gets splattered across the media airwaves day in and out.
2. Almost zero mainstream media outlets will hold the Liberal party to account - because see 1.
3. Boomers eat that slop up.
Lather, rinse, repeat for next CPC leader.
Tariffs skyrocket as there is no deal.
Economy craters.
Liberals are unable to demonstrate that they in any way tried to avoid this, have no strategy to present, and no plan to build our resilience to this sort of thing.
Nanos releases a poll showing the Liberals at 54%.
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