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Maître de langue en anglais @ScPoLille. RTs = complete & utter endorsements, views reflect the deepest, darkest beliefs of my employer. 🇨🇦. 🏳️‍🌈. He/Him

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Joined February 2011
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Colin Walmsley retweeted
If the Interior Minister of Japan started committing war crimes with our tax dollars we'd get to know him.
NYT's Bret Stephens whines that Democrats know "Smotrich and Ben-Gvir" but not "the interior minister of Japan." Their "obsession" with Israel drives him "crazy." (Being politically informed on Israel is now anti-Semitic.)
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Colin Walmsley retweeted
For the international crowd, the Conservative Party of British Columbia won because it purged the more MAGA wing of the party in a civil war.
JUST IN: Conservatives just won a landslide majority in British Columbia, Canada, returning to power for the first time since 1928. And Brazil is about to elect a conservative President Flavio Bolsonaro. MAGA is spreading worldwide.
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At a certain point, you just have to overrule this kind of thing. The central government needs to take it out of their hands. Celebrating blocking a low-cost grocery store that provides both jobs and essential goods, after a relentless 4-year campaign, is simply unnaceptable.
Planning Application for a Lidl superstore on the London Road, Bath REFUSED
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Feels like we're about to get the second once-in-a-lifetime box office run of the year
Can see something special brewing. Looks like $2.5M+ MON for #YouCanSeeEverything. $18M+ cume. First week could reach around $25M. Expanding wide next week.
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this is such a bad way to engage with art and film. there’s such a value in watching media that is confronting things that challenge you or are exploring topics that feel...thorny and complex. it’s literally part of the human experience.
I’m just not interested to see a movie about a sociopath, narcissistic, white woman, who knowingly defrauded cancer patients, lied to/compromised the health of thousands of people & scammed investors. Especially with this current administration. Not a needle mover for me. 🤷🏾‍♂️
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Colin Walmsley retweeted
“Emily in Paris” but she’s getting radicalised into voting for Le Pen
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Colin Walmsley retweeted
mon lycée est 2 fois plus vieux que cette mairie pourtant personne n'a parlé de ses 45°C par salle lors du bac et de ses fenêtres qui attendent un remplacement depuis 10 ans que la région ne nous a toujours pas donné. Un monument devient important que quand il brule apparemment
La Mairie de Limoges. Dating back to 1883 😯🙄
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Colin Walmsley retweeted
I doubt that this is widely known by American voters.
Polish Foreign Minister Sikorski: "Since January of last year, the U.S. has not contributed a single cent to the defense of Ukraine. We are doing it, Europe."
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One again I need to remind everyone that America already has MAID its just self inflicted via firearm
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To be clear: Some facts are neither in dispute nor unclear. Our photographer was clearly marked as Press. She was clearly beaten. These are not partisan or risible statements, but indisputable. We urge a thorough investigation and accountability.
The Prime Minister’s Office: The facts surrounding the confrontation near Abu Falah, during which Washington Post photojournalist Heidi Levine was allegedly assaulted, remain unclear and are under investigation. Israel unequivocally condemns violence against anyone—Jews, Arabs, Christians or journalists. Those responsible will be held accountable. But serious questions remain. Reports indicate some 200 Arabs and far-left activists confronted approximately 40 Israeli youths. Footage shows masked individuals on both sides hurling objects, amid reports of fireworks fired at Jewish youths. Other footage appears to show Levine knocked down and immediately helped to her feet by the same unidentified individual. The investigation must establish the facts, including who initiated the violence. We will not allow disputed incidents to be exploited to demonize the hundreds of thousands of law-abiding Jewish residents of Judea and Samaria. The facts must determine the conclusions. Not the headlines.
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I can’t stress enough that this would mean the complete extinction of human culture. You need art because it connects you to all who’ve gone before you; it challenges you to embrace perspectives not your own. Media generated to your exact preferences is the death of the soul.
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Colin Walmsley retweeted
This is absolute bullshit. After October 7th the entire world stood in solidarity with Israel. They painted the Brandenburg Gate, Eiffel Tower and Empire State in Israeli colors. But we squandered that sympathy by committing the worst crimes imaginable.
Even as a scholar of antisemitism, I can't wrap my head around how the worst massacre since the Holocaust didn't earn Jews any sympathy or solidarity, only int'l scorn that began while bodies were still warm on October 7. Now, 3yrs later, nowhere in the world is safe for Jews.
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Colin Walmsley retweeted
its like watching the hunger games unfold irl with the riots happening a few blocks away from this fashion show
Lionsgate has transformed Paris’ Musée Rodin into the Capitol for ‘THE HUNGER GAMES: SUNRISE ON THE REAPING.’ Out November 20th.
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Colin Walmsley retweeted
Has there ever been another party in Canada that went being founded -> win a majority -> win a bigger majority-> party ceases to exist all in a ~ 15-year window? I can’t think of another example?
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I’ll start
funniest moments in canadian politics, go 🍁
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In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity.
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Of all the negative impacts of generative AI, I think the most haunting may be the way it revealed that a significant number of people have seemingly no emotional attachment to the art they consume whatsoever. For some reason that part in particular is really upsetting to me.
I am not joking when I say this. Spotify, Apple Music, and streaming in general is over. AI music is now very, very good. You just don't know yet because all AI music circulating today is from ~2-3 generations ago. Suno v6 pro et al has solved infinite personalized music.
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I met loads of politicians when I was editor of Attitude magazine, loads of PMs. Ed Miliband was the nicest, kindest, most caring and most sincere. Just fyi. He also lost his mum this year.
What the hell was Ed Milliband crying for? 😬
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Colin Walmsley retweeted
Lmfao holy shit dude
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