Amir Attaran @amirattaran.bsky.social

Professor. Litigator. Scientist. Bicyclist. Husband. Father. Son. Wrecks grifters, creeps, anti-vaxxers & scientific illiterates. Personal account (not @uOttawa).

Happy Friday.
I deactivated my X account.
It’s GONE.
GONE FOR GOOD.

(Oh, and fuck u, Elon 😘)
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Anyone who makes a true “final offer” is NEVER in a hurry to leave but wants to keep the other guy talking, hoping they wear down or circumstances change to make them accept.

This is why it’s stupid negotiation strategy to do as Vance did. Amateurish.
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Lawyer translation of this👇🏼

When a party leaves negotiations saying they made their “final offer”, it’s bullshit. It just means they hit their final *idea* and need time to think. A true “final offer” may come later, but never on the way out the door.

Vance is an amateur negotiator.
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So this bureaucrat, who got busted breaking the rules to hire her friend, says she did it because he’s Black and she was thinking of diversity.

Really?

What else do you do for diversity, Lady, apart from exploit someone else’s race to save your lying White ass? ottawacitizen.com/public-service/defence-watch/christiane-fox-responds-to-conflict-of-interest
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There’s just been a war where the USA spectacularly failed to control Hormuz. So why would Iran agree to “joint control”? It’s laughable and the White House can’t organize a piss up in a brewery.
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Vance is high on his own supply if he thinks the USA is owed “joint control” of a passage on the opposite side of the planet. Iran will sooner fight than let that happen.
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Grandpa is having a hard time accepting he’s lost his touch.
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Great opportunity for China to test and perfect its weapons on American targets. Add that to Trump’s total failure.
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Here @markusoff.bsky.social nails it on the head.

A province can’t posit a constitutional right to secession where Indigenous nations have constitutional rights *within* Canada.

Alongside the fed/prov, Indigenous nations are a third level of government that trumps the provinces now.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social
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they didnt prepare or research any of this in advance because they think they have superior genes and are an evolutionary leap for the human race so itll all just work out
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This is the best journalism I read last week. It reports how Israel manipulated Trump into war, overriding White House advisors who called its plan “farcical” and “bullshit”.

Make Israel Great Again, I guess.

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/us/politics/trump-iran-war.html
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YES! Benefits of Canada and Europe forming an economic and social union:

- Free migration. Go live, study, work or retire in Europe.

- Sharing strengths. European tech + Canadian resources = prosperity

- Alternatives. Can we keep trusting the USA? Hell no!

This should happen.
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South Korea is wise. They understand that Iran matters to them more than Israel and are carefully adjusting their diplomacy. Great explaining by @sslee.bsky.social.
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Chanea Bond @heymrsbond.com
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Every single one of the astronauts who went to the moon and back on Artemis II was educated at a public school.

Thinking of the teachers who poured into Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen tonight. You helped send a kid to the moon!

🌕 💛
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Les Perreaux @perreaux.bsky.social
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Jusqu'à ce qu'un agent ICE demande à Hansen ses papiers.
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The funniest thing: NASA can go to the moon and back but once landed the cell phone on the spaceship doesn’t work. ET couldn’t call home.
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Really hoping the heat shield problems don’t BBQ the excellent crew tonight. Folks my age are still living with Space Shuttle Challenger anxiety.
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Reporting at 7:12 pm: No further threat (if ever there was one) which is a relief.
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If you do not communicate through a crisis, you lose trust, @uottawa.ca. Everyone knows this.
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Okay, it has been nearly 90 minutes since this alert and @uottawa.ca is still not telling us what the “violent threat” is.

We are learning more details from journalists than our employer. Totally unacceptable communication.
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Evie @evieghj.bsky.social
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And if you're NOT at UO, AVOID THE AREA.
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If you are on campus take shelter.

If not on campus PLEASE STAY AWAY. The situation is “violent” and do not put yourself in harm’s way.
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If you’re at the University of Ottawa, please lock down and stay safe!
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I prefer to look at this optimistically. No other Middle Eastern society, apart from Iran, can code-shift Western as this video does. Imagine the horror of the Saudis trying! Which means that Iran and the West actually can have a future together.
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I don’t think it is gratuitously antisemitic in the context. Israel is at war with Iran after all, so mocking Israeli tropes or emblems (the Magen David) is par for the course of war propaganda.
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Is it antisemitic? To some, yes. But it is also awesome communication that exactly, accurately lampoons Trump starting a war for Israel and to silence Epstein. 10/10 brilliant.
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social
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I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.
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Jeremy Appel 🍉 @readtheorchard.org
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Chiefs raise concerns about collaboration between separatist and government lawyers
open.substack.com/pub/theorchard/p/chiefs-raise-concerns-about-collaboration?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
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Hat tip to the @thestar.com for the worst science story I have read in years. No, you can't report something is an "HIV cure" before it has had a single clinical trial. That's untrue and unethical journalism. www.thestar.com/life/health-wellness/local-scientists-say-theyre-on-the-cusp-of-a-made-in-canada-hiv-cure--priced-to-be-accessible-to-all/article_9d802360-cc4c-4e39-a97f-46649f3f102e.html
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Ed Tubb @edtubb.bsky.social
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Iran has no cards, except the one card I really, really don't want them to play, for which I have no response, but am tweeting about anyway.

Sun Tzu, I hope you're taking notes up there.
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Jerimy Earl @jerimyadamearl.bsky.social
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This whole episode was bizarre. It was like the Freedom Convoy's direct to DVD sequel. Lower budget, shittier plot, etc..

The number of chronically online culture war people that suddenly developed strong feelings about ostriches and farming regulations was ridiculous.
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