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Great to hear from you Alison😱!!! Even if you never touch ...

2026-10-28T04:16:20Z

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Great to hear from you Alison😱!!! Even if you never touch another politician again, it's just a joy to hear from you whenever or on whatever! 🧡💛💙💜

<whispers>True North's been acting up in your absence. 😉

M. Grégoire (npub1pz3…dwqw) TrueNorthSpice 🇨🇦 (npub14vh…479l) [@crispius](https://prtb.fname.ca/a/crispius/video-channels ) Catelli (npub19vv…5xaw)

Have these 'click to agree' fake contracts not been ...

2026-10-25T20:20:48Z

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Have these 'click to agree' fake contracts not been tested in courts yet? It's been decades of 'by using this you agree...' and 'yes, i read your terms of service' - I'm not a lawyer but it seems so incredibly indefensible under contract law.

Cheap. I remember when we used to get the entire moon for half ...

2026-10-19T20:59:26Z

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Cheap. I remember when we used to get the entire moon for half the price. 😡

Have you tried this one? It's quite approachable. ...

2026-10-16T15:42:45Z

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Have you tried this one? It's quite approachable.
Stéphanie (npub1jay…80k8) Mike 🇨🇦 NuanceRhymesWithOrange (npub1s08…4ntt)

Me at a tasting: "Mmm, good. Next one? Mmmm, good." 😂 ...

2026-10-16T14:43:54Z

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Me at a tasting: "Mmm, good. Next one? Mmmm, good." 😂

Mike 🇨🇦 NuanceRhymesWithOrange (npub1s08…4ntt)

Hey I've done the vineyard tastings, I enjoy a good wine. But ...

2026-10-16T14:38:33Z

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Hey I've done the vineyard tastings, I enjoy a good wine. But ultimately, while breaking down the flavour profiles etc is objective as a description it's ultimately just wanking. What matters is if you like the taste and want to drink it - that part is entirely subjective and no one person's opinion is better than another.

When I think of people with 'discerning' tastes my mind turns to the image of a 5 year old boy who refuses to eat the meat if the peas have touched it.
Mike 🇨🇦 NuanceRhymesWithOrange (npub1s08…4ntt)

That too - same as 'driver chooses the music'! I was ...

2026-10-16T14:28:16Z

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That too - same as 'driver chooses the music'!

I was thinking along the lines of how obnoxious wine snobs are. Does it taste good? You like it? Isn't that good enough? Get over yourself.

Mike 🇨🇦 NuanceRhymesWithOrange (npub1s08…4ntt)

If the friends are wine snobs then that's their problem, ...

2026-10-16T14:24:38Z

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If the friends are wine snobs then that's their problem, truly. She should have gone with the Bodacious.

Where "stock market" is defined as crypto and AI ponzi ...

2026-10-07T17:24:14Z

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Where "stock market" is defined as crypto and AI ponzi schemes, of course.

Better call up the National Gallery, get a whole new art ...

2026-09-28T17:38:11Z

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Better call up the National Gallery, get a whole new art controversy going.

We're a week away from the first special advanced polling ...

2026-09-24T17:27:45Z

We're a week away from the first special advanced polling dates for Ottawa municipal elections.

https://ottawa.ca/en/city-hall/elections/learn-more-about-municipal-elections/key-dates-2026-municipal-elections

C'mon people! Municipal elections are what affect us most directly but they always have the worst turnout. This is why we always end up with the most dysfunctional councils.

Turn up and vote! Help your friends and neighbours vote!

Here, I made this to inspire you, even.

#OttPoli #Ottawa

Good question, random YouTube ad: In the AI era, why am I still ...

2026-09-23T19:15:16Z

Good question, random YouTube ad: In the AI era, why am I still using the same old vacuum cleaner? They don't even have a subscription service! 😱

Not much of a fan of bric, but that's some fine brac you got ...

2026-09-23T17:28:27Z

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Not much of a fan of bric, but that's some fine brac you got there.

A wild by-law officer! Pretty common but they have good stats. ...

2026-09-16T18:10:32Z

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A wild by-law officer! Pretty common but they have good stats. What kind of Pokeball did you use to catch it?

Ha! The Beaverton has been hitting it out of the park lately. ...

2026-09-03T19:10:20Z

Ha! The Beaverton has been hitting it out of the park lately.

"Hegseth pauses busy schedule of inspecting soldiers’ scrotums to make weird comments about Canadian teens’ bodies"

https://www.thebeaverton.com/2026/09/hegseth-pauses-busy-schedule-of-inspecting-soldiers-scrotums-to-make-weird-comments-about-canadian-teens-bodies/

Billboards with empty promises. This is probably the most ...

2026-08-30T00:59:03Z

Billboards with empty promises. This is probably the most truthful one I've seen.

Good potential for a meme blank though.

#Photography #Ottawa

Mmmmmm, picked up some Moo Shu ice cream this evening on ...

2026-08-24T02:45:58Z

Mmmmmm, picked up some Moo Shu ice cream this evening on Wellington Street W.

#SupportLocal #Ottawa

Noooooooooooooooooooooo... another historic location from my ...

2026-08-11T18:32:56Z

Noooooooooooooooooooooo... another historic location from my misspent youth going away.

Honestly, I was a bit surprised to learn today the Stittsville Flea Market was still there - I don't get out that far west very often. But when I was a teen I spent a lot of money there. In the 80s it was the best place to get Soviet flags, stolen merch and discarded computer hardware.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/stittsville-carp-road-flea-market-closing-9.7303058

Thanks, enjoyed your post!

2026-07-30T17:25:16Z

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Thanks, enjoyed your post!

RE: https://mstdn.social/@dalfen/117009564902173088 Many ...

2026-07-30T17:21:36Z

RE: https://mstdn.social/@dalfen/117009564902173088

Many governments have succumbed to corporate executive thinking, summarized by this mantra:

> Act in accordance with how you want things to be, not as they are.

You want to be a market leader? Act like a market leader. If something is not real, just make it real through confident insistence and brute force. That's how we got Uber.

In 2004 Bush II went on about reality v faith based communities. Reality was the problem. Reality demands facts. It allows us to be bound by the limits of the universe.

While his use of 'faith' in that speech was specific to religious communities, one can see how they extended that out to *all* *the* *things*:<li>Iraq has weapons of mass destruction</li><li>Future technologies will save us from climate change</li><li>The economy will grow forever</li><li>AI research will lead to a general purpose hyper intelligence</li>

or<li>Venezuela is a major supplier of fentanyl to the US and fishermen are narco-terrorists</li>

So, yeah, if you want Nigeria to be a landlocked country so, then, it will be.

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RE: https://mstdn.social/@dalfen/117009519796741795

So encouraging to know that the US government is blindly relying on the brilliance of AI 😳
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Outside of Shaniko Oregon, seems to correspond to a bit of what ...

2026-07-21T19:21:30Z

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Outside of Shaniko Oregon, seems to correspond to a bit of what looks like highly-"managed" bulldozed land. Maybe whatever is there doesn't burn.

How many CN Towers is that?

2026-07-21T18:38:19Z

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How many CN Towers is that?

Boom boom boomy boom boom boom #Ottawa #Weather ...

2026-07-21T18:32:48Z

Boom boom boomy boom boom boom

#Ottawa #Weather

Rather enjoying the beauty of the web slowly fading to black as ...

2026-07-19T21:04:46Z

Rather enjoying the beauty of the web slowly fading to black as site after site ramps up its invasiveness. They say I need to disable my script blocking, give up my privacy, my data, my bandwidth, my time to read their probably-AI-generated crap. I need to suffer their ads, popovers and auto-play video promos - just no. Calmly and without any anger, no. I know they finance themselves that way, but we are all free to make choices. My choice is no.

I just shrug and move on. Yet another site is dead to me - nothing lost.

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2026-07-01T21:18:26Z

Aaannnnnd now hail.... great day!

We must all do our part. ...

2026-06-26T17:52:18Z

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We must all do our part.

Bet they didn't have to shut down any wind or solar did they? ...

2026-06-26T15:33:00Z

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Bet they didn't have to shut down any wind or solar did they? Just saying.

As governments march forward with their absurd plans to ban kids ...

2026-06-23T14:28:26Z

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As governments march forward with their absurd plans to ban kids from social media platforms, I wonder how these glasses, in the hands of adults, fit in with stated goals of the legislation. These glasses give Meta the abilities to photograph, track and collect data from children who are unable to consent or even use those Meta's platforms.

I'd like to see Zuck explain this.

Cory Doctorow (npub1fdr…lvhs)

Particularly annoying for a government to be scooped up this ...

2026-06-04T17:30:31Z

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Particularly annoying for a government to be scooped up this garbage. Lots of talk about job reductions, but I've never heard a single thing about job creation. That's because there is none. Like pipelines, it's a government fast tracking a technology with no upside to everyday people.

Nothing to see here, just another day in the life of ...

2026-06-03T23:21:56Z

Nothing to see here, just another day in the life of history's most offensive US ambassador to Canada.

Seriously, can somebody get this asshole out of our country?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/51-state-carney-trump-hoekstra-trade-talks-9.7221755

#CdnPoli

RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116662894831026350 > ...

2026-05-30T17:55:46Z

RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116662894831026350

> Trudeau's "Third Way" eventually proved so unpopular that he opened the door to an authoritarian takeover of Canada by an otherwise totally unelectable, Trump-aligned far-right maniac. The only thing that saved Canada from a fate dumber than Trump was Trump himself, who wouldn't stop promising to make Canada the 51st state, an idea that was even more repellent to Canadians than five more years of Third Way bullshit

Exactly so, well said.
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Who needs functioning public transport when can have all this, ...

2026-05-29T20:22:49Z

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Who needs functioning public transport when can have all this, eh?

Cloud master strikes again. Very nice photo!

2026-05-12T18:05:10Z

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Cloud master strikes again. Very nice photo!

Damn if LibreOffice didn't just open this WordPerfect file ...

2026-05-01T20:54:38Z

Damn if LibreOffice didn't just open this WordPerfect file from 1993 with the 8.3 filename without even blinking. Impressive.

Anecdotally I think the difference between people who prefer ST ...

2026-04-23T16:44:03Z

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Anecdotally I think the difference between people who prefer ST or DST comes down to whether they're 'morning people' or not.

Me, I hate mornings. I'm up all night and would sleep until the afternoon if I could. That puts me in camp DST, with its later sunsets.

It's funny how Hungary's Tisza Party is described as ...

2026-04-12T20:13:45Z

It's funny how Hungary's Tisza Party is described as 'right-of-centre' in terms of positioning, yet 98% of their membership believes in a full-funded public healthcare system (including barring public money going to private services), 96% believe the rich need to be taxed more and 81% believe the poor should be taxed less.

Meanwhile, in Canada, these appear to be views reserved for the 'radical left'.

#CdnPoli

The return of winter temperatures is such a downer, even the moon ...

2026-03-15T01:28:35Z

The return of winter temperatures is such a downer, even the moon stayed inside.

#Photography #Ottawa

You have captured my vibe perfectly for today. Thank you.

2026-02-27T15:54:27Z

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You have captured my vibe perfectly for today. Thank you.

Everything in tech needs to be viewed through a mass public ...

2026-02-18T17:50:04Z

Everything in tech needs to be viewed through a mass public surveillance lens.

Everything.

From mobile phones and wearable glasses, to doorbells, to needing ID to use a website. It's all about surveillance.

Everything.

So he considers a Canadian tour honouring Charlie Kirk to be part ...

2026-02-16T21:30:05Z

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So he considers a Canadian tour honouring Charlie Kirk to be part of his job description? People voted for an MP and instead got a Turning Point USA spokesperson? Who's paying his salary again?

I find the fact that Carney is not a run-of-the-mill leg-up ...

2026-02-16T18:33:35Z

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I find the fact that Carney is not a run-of-the-mill leg-up politician to be a challenge. I never know what opinion to have about him - a big bag of pros and cons. On one hand, he answers questions, which is refreshing. On the other he often leaves specifics unspoken so you end up having to speculate what it all means. I've basically given up trying to understand him through an ideological lens and have been taking the approach of addressing him point-by-point.

And yes, I agree, his domestic policy is certainly one place he needs some serious clarification.

You have to toe the line down there just to survive any political ...

2026-02-16T17:09:51Z

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You have to toe the line down there just to survive any political appointment. I'm sure that's what Goebbels had to deal with also. An entire administration of tacos.

Scott Bessent says Carney has to stop virtue signalling. I ...

2026-02-16T17:02:28Z

Scott Bessent says Carney has to stop virtue signalling. I don't think he knows what that phrase means.

The Government of Canada has, by all accounts, been assuming that CUSMA negotiations will be another opportunity for the Trump regime to exercise leverage to extract unreasonable concessions. That "integration that becomes the source of your subordination", as was said in Davos.

They've been pursuing trade deals in every direction to diversify our trade and have been showing some great success in doing so.

In short, as much as I have misgivings about the guy, Carney does seem to be walking the walk overall.

Virtue signaling is when you pay lip service. When you don't follow though. When you want to be seen as aligned with something but are unwilling to put your neck out for it.

Taco, in other words.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/us-treasury-secretary-scott-bessent-mark-carney-9.7064976

#CdnPoli

Exactly. Adherence to rules based on an implied presupposition.

2026-02-11T22:17:03Z

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Exactly. Adherence to rules based on an implied presupposition.

And yet it's so rare to find anybody in the media willing to ...

2026-02-11T19:22:11Z

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And yet it's so rare to find anybody in the media willing to question why Israel thinks it has any right to dictate who or what goes or out of Palestine.

Policy. "Fuuuuck offf" seems to be the most appropriate ...

2026-02-04T19:50:37Z

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Policy. "Fuuuuck offf" seems to be the most appropriate response to this manufactured garbage.

Don't you just love how they fabricate a hypothetical and ...

2026-02-03T06:40:58Z

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Don't you just love how they fabricate a hypothetical and then turn themselves into martyrs over it? Nobody's taking their damn book of magic away just because they want to ban anything they feel is 'too woke'. Hypocrites.

Trying to place the location. Assuming Ottawa. Queen Street?

2026-02-02T21:42:37Z

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Trying to place the location. Assuming Ottawa. Queen Street?

I thought this bit in the latest piece by @npub1fdr…lvhs speaks ...

2026-02-02T18:29:28Z

I thought this bit in the latest piece by Cory Doctorow (npub1fdr…lvhs) speaks best to the CPC's obsession with slashing the capital gains tax, here talking about a book by Ray Madoff and the US reality:

> For tax purposes, dividends are "ordinary income," meaning that they are taxed at up to 37%. Meanwhile, if you sell your shares after a stock buyback juices the price, the profits are treated as "capital gains," whose tax rate caps out at about half that (20%). This means that shareholders pay half the tax on money that comes from strip-mining a company than they would get from money derived from managing a company for sustainable growth.

https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/02/corprophagia/#that-makes-me-smart

If you want to encourage the development of industry at home, government policy should reflect that with incentives for people to want to stay in business, rather than cash out at the earliest convenience.

Vampire capitalism is the worst capitalism.

#CdnPoli

Chanting: "Pee - Air! Pee - Air! Pee - Air! Pee - Air!"

2026-01-31T02:21:24Z

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Chanting: "Pee - Air! Pee - Air! Pee - Air! Pee - Air!"

Guys in the white cowboys hats there laughing and nodding ...

2026-01-31T02:20:45Z

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Guys in the white cowboys hats there laughing and nodding thinking he's made a point. 😂

Ohhhhhh, it's going to be one of THOSE speeches. Gotcha.

2026-01-31T02:12:14Z

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Ohhhhhh, it's going to be one of THOSE speeches. Gotcha.

Poilievre live, baby. ...

2026-01-31T02:10:27Z

Poilievre live, baby.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/livestory/pierre-poilievre-speech-conservative-convention-leadership-review-live-updates-9.7068829

#CdnPoli

Not sure what brought that person with Georgia plates to town but ...

2026-01-27T00:25:06Z

Not sure what brought that person with Georgia plates to town but maybe next time you visit Ottawa in January it would be a good idea to leave the car at home? Driving in snow conditions clearly isn't your thing.

That said, it would be *really* nice if the city maybe, I dunno, sent out a plow or two. It's hairy out there, some areas more than others.

Take care, everybody. Particularly you, Georgia.

#Ottawa #Weather

Very nice. Excellent technique.

2026-01-24T03:02:12Z

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Very nice. *Excellent* technique.

Speaking of those who refuse to 'see the world as it is ...

2026-01-22T14:39:31Z

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Speaking of those who refuse to 'see the world as it is rather than how they want the world to be'.

I think what I enjoyed most from Carney's speech came after when, one by one, everybody in alignment with Washington proceeded to prove Carney's points.

Well, we kind of knew that was a lie at the time, though. They ...

2026-01-16T15:14:10Z

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Well, we kind of knew that was a lie at the time, though. They were here at the behest of the oil industry.

Oh yeah, I made this handy chart for the weirdos running the farm ...

2026-01-11T20:42:07Z

Oh yeah, I made this handy chart for the weirdos running the farm south of the border. And, and if I make something then, dammit, I'm sharing it and you can all have it.

Gotta laugh at Microsoft making their OS all 'agentic' ...

2026-01-11T02:16:40Z

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Gotta laugh at Microsoft making their OS all 'agentic' but then AI making RAM, and thus high-end PCs, expensive. Nobody asked for this crap.

And you know what runs best on machines with low memory? Linux.

Mastodon needs a 'super boost' function.

2026-01-09T16:58:08Z

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Mastodon needs a 'super boost' function.

The icing on the cake. There's also distribution of content ...

2026-01-07T17:12:05Z

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The icing on the cake. There's also distribution of content that violates our hate speech laws and allow harassment under the banner of 'free speech'. I was annoyed by that aspect long before AI or Elon were even a thing - and not just Twitter, but all of the walled gardens.

I dunno if I'd call it that. Our government had blunt words ...

2026-01-03T18:34:23Z

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I dunno if I'd call it that. Our government had blunt words about the illegal invasion of Iraq, after all.

It's just the Liberals doing the math within their caucus. It's probably a contentious issue inside the party. So rather than take a principled stance one way or the other, they'll just balance on the fence in way that pisses off everybody on all sides.

Libs are taking the Palestine approach - they will die on their ...

2026-01-03T18:19:05Z

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Libs are taking the Palestine approach - they will die on their vaguely-worded noncommittal hill.

Me too 🤷‍♂️

2025-12-20T03:28:39Z

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Me too 🤷‍♂️

Is it standards? I'm asking, I don't know one way or the ...

2025-12-19T20:45:50Z

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Is it standards? I'm asking, I don't know one way or the other. I know my daughter's dream of some-day owning a Japanese K-Truck EV are being dashed by safety standards.

But we also originally had the Auto Pact that murdered our domestic automakers in exchange for a shared Canada/US industry and also created a closed system that was resistant to external competition. Imported vehicles would get huge tariffs. I remember the big "crisis" of the 80s where Japan started making cars in North America to get around import tariffs and the North American makers desperately trying to demonstrate how Toyota and Honda shouldn't count as domestic because, mostly, racism, and then largely failing. I also know the Auto Pact expired in 2001, so I'm not sure if any of this is still relevant.

I do know that arguments about why we should be protective of what is essentially a US industry have to do with jobs in Ontario.

There's a bunch of EU cars I wouldn't mind. Had my eye on ...

2025-12-19T20:24:43Z

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There's a bunch of EU cars I wouldn't mind. Had my eye on the Renault 5, for example. Nope, not here, must have closed markets - have a monster truck instead!

If not lower tariffs on foreign EVs, at least a ...

2025-12-19T20:20:52Z

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If not lower tariffs on foreign EVs, at least a "war-effort" level investment to kickstart a domestic EV sector. Like what Japan did and, later, South Korea.

Perhaps this is an admission that, after decades of ...

2025-12-10T14:40:14Z

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Perhaps this is an admission that, after decades of 'streamlining operations and focusing on core competencies', nobody in government even knows how government works anymore. Send in the looters and profiteers to tell them how to do it, each armed with a vision on how they are uniquely positioned to solve any issue. Let's discuss it more over golf.

What a sad, avoidable disaster.

I wonder if it glows if you touch it? ...

2025-12-05T18:02:57Z

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I wonder if it glows if you touch it?

When you think about it, it's really the only reason for ...

2025-12-04T18:38:08Z

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When you think about it, it's really the only reason for these publicly-published polls to exist. If you're voting for policy and personal preferences, what does it matter how others are intending to vote?

Whether polls or media bobble-heads talking about momentum, it's all there because it works.

How many time have we all heard people say "Well, damn, I like that NDP, " for example, "but I won't throw away my vote on them. They'll never win."

Love your work, Aure.

2025-11-30T18:58:17Z

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Love your work, Aure.

"one of our key allies?" Not arguing about the injustice ...

2025-11-30T18:48:13Z

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"one of our key allies?" Not arguing about the injustice of starting an unprovoked war with Venezuela or it's use as a weapon of mass distraction, but c'mon - how many times has the US attempted to overthrow their government now through black op funding of mercenary groups and far-right political figures? By generating narratives of stolen elections and liberation, a stale play out of their own Jan6 playbook."The "left stole the election" cry subsequently used by a half-dozen far-right losers in other countries. This has been going on for decades, ever since Chavez dared to attempt to lift the country up from being a foreign-controlled petro puppet state.

No, they are not a US ally - the US and OPEC burned that bridge themselves under Bush II despite many examples of attempted good-will from the Chavez government to normalize relations - and Venezuela, like Cuba before it, has been forced firmly into the Russian and Chinese fold for survival. Slow clap for the *serious* *thinkers* in Washington.

Lol, TF is a 'streaming' ethernet cable? Can I still read ...

2025-11-29T21:19:41Z

Lol, TF is a 'streaming' ethernet cable? Can I still read my email on this?

When I asked in the store they told me that if I wanted to stream even faster I could get the Cat 8 version.😂

I think one thing that's unspoken here is that massive ...

2025-11-21T18:23:00Z

I think one thing that's unspoken here is that massive mobilizations of investment money like what we're seeing in AI could be applied to any activity. Saying things like:

"AI spending is propping up major swaths of the U.S. economy."

Tends to lend at least some credibility to the industry, even in a critical piece like this, as in "on one hand it's a dangerous bubble that will one day burst, but at least in the short term it's propping up a failing economy."

But really, if you sunk trillions of dollars into *anything* it would have the same effect. You could be spending it on painting rocks and it would have the same effect. Think of the millions of workers you'd need to paint them all, the boon it would represent for paint and brush manufacturers.

Or hey, better yet, spend it on something like infrastructure or schools or health services. Something that actually benefits people in the long run. 🤷

https://qz.com/ai-bailout-trump-white-house

h/t br00t4c (npub10n2…e0q7)

Another play right out of the U.S.A. to bend media.

2025-11-09T00:02:53Z

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Another play right out of the U.S.A. to bend media.

US oil interests say what?

2025-10-30T16:28:41Z

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US oil interests say what?

I'll treat this as rhetorical, since I know you and the rest ...

2025-10-28T19:54:41Z

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I'll treat this as rhetorical, since I know you and the rest of us here know damn well why they choose the words they use.

When in Cuba it's not uncommon to see billboards, posters, ...

2025-10-21T13:54:35Z

When in Cuba it's not uncommon to see billboards, posters, broadcasts talking about the revolution. Sure, back in 1953, Cuba was intolerable and Batista a puppet of foreign colonial power for whom no rope could be made short enough, but you're left wondering: When is the right time to just move on? At some point you have to focus on building an identity based on your own vision rather than the traumas inflicted by your oppressor.

Yes, I am well aware that authoritarian governments the world over use these national traumas as a tool of control. Focus people on the 'why' rather than the 'how'. Nobody would dare question the 'why' without looking like a 'them', but they may be able to get away with questioning the 'how' and that's dangerous.

This is kind of my point after reading through some US media today. You can't get much more than 2 paragraphs into any topic without encountering the language of the revolution. The war on. The war against. The battle for.

Man, 1776 was a *long* time ago.

#CdnPoli

It's bad enough when people skirt regulation in the name of ...

2025-10-18T17:15:40Z

It's bad enough when people skirt regulation in the name of profit *disrupt* the hotel and taxi industries, ultimately making them less safe, but if there is one industry that should be tightly regulated, it's nuclear.

As the article states, CNSB has been a captive regulator for a while now. That needs to end.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/owner-of-ottawa-medical-manufacturer-says-he-has-no-money-to-comply-with-nuclear-regulator-9.6941410

#CdnPoli #Ottawa

Just saw all your wonderful photos from last night, Mike. Very ...

2025-10-18T16:57:29Z

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Just saw all your wonderful photos from last night, Mike. Very nice. I also boosted your Bare Fax photo because I'm a Carleton alumni and it's a bit of a running joke 😂

"How smart, engaged Ottawa locals learn about local news, ...

2025-10-18T16:28:55Z

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"How smart, engaged Ottawa locals learn about local news, events, restaurants and civic issues."

Well, damn, I want to be smart and engaged! I signed up - thanks!

What the heck? How'd I miss this? My daughter saw it promoed ...

2025-10-18T16:20:21Z

What the heck? How'd I miss this? My daughter saw it promoed on her Tiktok feed 15 minutes after it had already started. Exactly the kind of weirdness I'd want to be part of.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBUDSioUtUg

#Ottawa

I can't recall anybody looking into Koch and whether they are ...

2025-10-14T19:34:57Z

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I can't recall anybody looking into Koch and whether they are Russian assets. Putin and oil industry propaganda is so strikingly similar.

The whole country, pretty much, experiencing drought. We knew ...

2025-10-13T05:18:06Z

The whole country, pretty much, experiencing drought. We knew that, though - that's why everything's on fire all that time.

Nova Scotia's particularly hard hit, but not just Nova Scotia.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/ns-nb-experiencing-exceptional-drought-9.6935970

#CdnPoli #Climate

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@adorkable/115353723884011231 ...

2025-10-11T17:55:07Z

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@adorkable/115353723884011231

Absolutely fascinating video about chains in space, but I'm grateful to A. Adair B. A. :rebelverified: (npub1ptm…jjuj) for reminding me about Poe's Law, originally about Creationists:

> Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is utterly impossible to parody a Creationist in such a way that someone won't mistake for the genuine article.

During the Bush II years, that got generalized to "you cannot parody the Republican Party without sounding like the Republican Party" and now "the reason we must all put /s at the end of our snarky comments, no matter how obvious we think they may be."

The thing is, by indicating humour, you end up killing the joke. Yes, it's true, satire is dead.

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Alright, I've long been stuck on the idea that people on spacecraft won't be sucked (or more accurately, blown) out of an airlock nearly as dramatically as Hollywood would make us believe.

(For the curious, from the time the hatch opens? You'll probably die within 30 seconds, but with most airlocks that humans design, it might be a few weeks before your body makes its way out the hatch...)

Anyways, I think I might have a new topic to mull over when it comes to crewed spaceflight: Chains.

In the short term, a link in a chain in motion will continue to follow the path that previous links had traveled.

Links in a chain have very little friction between them, so where a rope will tend to stick out straight, chains will instead orient themselves along gravity gradients.

And, evidently the behavior of chains in null G are absolutely hell for people to predict. (This might be an interesting point in a story.) Our intuition when it comes to removing energy from a chain is to stretch it out... but elastic potential energy (even from a metal chain) will quickly prove that intuition wrong.

Whelp, the ISS has helped to do experiments with chains in null G, thanks to some random Youtuber (Poe's Law warning: I'm fully aware that Steve Mould is more widely known that the astronauts he talks about), the planning done by my favorite astronaut of this era, Samantha Cristoforetti who commanded the ISS for expedition 42, and the playfulness and curiosity of astronaut Don Pettit. And, well... here's the highlights:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtZaP8VMv0c

I'm going to CC Winchell Chung ⚛🚀 (npub19tt…6nnr) , since he's a hoopy frood who knows where his towel is.

Oh, you see this outside the Ottawa courthouse today? ...

2025-10-07T18:58:22Z

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Oh, you see this outside the Ottawa courthouse today?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z37_DrCAULc

Guy in black had good side control.

It's like a horror that never ends. Just go away!

2025-10-07T18:14:19Z

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It's like a horror that never ends. Just go away!

I posted previously about the versatility of what I call the ...

2025-09-14T00:20:16Z

I posted previously about the versatility of what I call the *Hi-tech* *Multi-tool* aka a paperclip bent into a U shape. But I had forgotten one of it's applications.

My partner's PC didn't turn on today. Yup, this PSU is dead.

Would that mean I'd have to cancel my plans to move to coal?

2025-08-29T19:51:52Z

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Would that mean I'd have to cancel my plans to move to coal?

Aren't we all 😂

2025-08-25T21:33:19Z

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Aren't we all 😂

At least from the Firefox browser on my Android, there's a ...

2025-08-25T17:49:24Z

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At least from the Firefox browser on my Android, there's a 'continue on web' button subdued in the top corner. Hope this helps. It's an interesting take on what happened.

For non-mobile devices (PCs) you can just close the log in window and watch it.

Sutcliffe can always be depended on to be gross.

2025-08-25T16:15:44Z

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Sutcliffe can always be depended on to be gross.

Maybe they "caved" rather than caved, if you know what I ...

2025-08-24T23:11:36Z

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Maybe they "caved" rather than caved, if you know what I mean. If all this is true, then brilliant. Pride is defiance. Pride is an act of protest.

Okay, so my older daughter was working at the parade this year ...

2025-08-24T23:00:30Z

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Okay, so my older daughter was working at the parade this year and while this still isn't official, she's saying that the parade shutdown was likely orchestrated. The article I posted backs this up a bit when you read that Q4P *asked* the Pride grand marshal to stop the parade it was agreed.

You'll remember that Pride's inclusion of the Pro-Palestine cause last year caused all manner of drama. The theory I'm working with is that this year's shutdown may have been an act of defiance against the City and fair weather sponsors.

Pinchy63 🇨🇦 (npub1nxf…5pq2) TanekRune (npub13jt…h96s)

Chaos at the Pride parade today in Ottawa. Honestly, I'm ...

2025-08-24T22:01:59Z

Chaos at the Pride parade today in Ottawa. Honestly, I'm still trying to figure it all out.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/pride-parade-cancelled-after-being-halted-by-pro-palestinian-protesters-1.5554689

#Ottawa #Pride

The Government of Canada stores data in the cloud, not to mention ...

2025-08-22T14:55:19Z

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The Government of Canada stores data in the cloud, not to mention being all in with M365 services (Teams, Exchange, etc) and various other 3rd party cloud-based SaaS offerings.

Shared Services has contracts with Azure, Google and AWS - all approved for Protected B data storage - that's information that includes items of national security and detailed information about Canadian citizens - on the basis that it complies with Canadian data residency.

Two words: Shawinigan handshake.

2025-08-01T00:48:52Z

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Two words: Shawinigan handshake.

I'd guess a dancer, or perhaps basketball.

2025-07-31T01:46:51Z

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I'd guess a dancer, or perhaps basketball.

Who's the little guy there? A wasp? Dragonfly? Hard to get a ...

2025-07-31T01:42:28Z

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Who's the little guy there? A wasp? Dragonfly? Hard to get a sense of the scale of it.

You made art of your neighbour's broken chimney! This is ...

2025-07-31T01:36:33Z

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You made art of your neighbour's broken chimney! This is awesome!