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Aaron Hoyland @aaronhoyland.bsky.social · 16h

Sometimes, at the end of a long day, you just need an ice cold beer.

Photo of an opened can of sugar-free root beer sitting next to a glass filled with that root beer.

Aaron Hoyland @aaronhoyland.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Guys, it's simple. Danielle Smith is just spending $130M to ask if AB wants to separate but also $4M advertising that she doesn't want us to separate but also the UCP president says she's neutral on separation but also she says she's not neutral on separation. What's so hard to understand?

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Aaron Hoyland @aaronhoyland.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I’ve started playing a new game anytime I drive somewhere where I count the number of gambling billboards I see. There are no winners.

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Aaron Hoyland @aaronhoyland.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

The CRTC banned device connection fees, so Bell has introduced a $40 "device handling fee". The audacity of these MFers...

Screengrab of a table on Bell's website showing a $40 device handling charge. Text says: A one-time device handling charge ($40) will be applied to your next bill to cover fulfillment costs associated with your device order.

Not applicable to smartwatches. Additional one-time fees are subject to change over time.

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Aaron Hoyland @aaronhoyland.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

We got a new microwave and the start and cancel buttons are reversed from our old one and this is honestly going to mess me up for weeks.

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Aaron Hoyland @aaronhoyland.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

It’s almost like the practice of providing political parties almost carte blanche access to the personal information of millions of Albertans was absurd from the outset and never should’ve been permitted.

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Aaron Hoyland @aaronhoyland.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

The girls made me birthday cards and they’re so cute it broke my brain a little.

Photo of two homemade birthday cards with “Happy birthday daddy” written in the penmanship of very young children.

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Aaron Hoyland @aaronhoyland.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

BREAKING: Mark Carney actively conducting interviews for newest members of Liberal caucus. Leading candidates include Maxime Bernier, Tamara Lich, and that guy who used to steal your lunch money in middle school.

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Amy Colleen @amycolleen.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Hey Alanis, editor here. Just wondering if you'd be open to "Bad Luck" instead. Yeah, no, just from a linguistic perspective--

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Aaron Hoyland @aaronhoyland.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Shopping for a washing machine in 2026.

A version of the Batman slapping Robin meme. Robin says "Our washer as AI-sensing..." and Batman says "NO".

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Aaron Hoyland @aaronhoyland.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Believe me when I tell you: moving sucks. Don't do it. Wherever you live now is perfect. There is nowhere better for you out there.

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Aaron Hoyland @aaronhoyland.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Dennis Modry defrauded his aunt and uncle of more than $1 million. Jeffrey Rath has been reprimanded by the Law Society twice in the last year. It's nice to be reminded that not only are Alberta separatist leaders comically incompetent, they're also deeply terrible human beings.

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Aaron Hoyland @aaronhoyland.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Nothing threatens my belief in the inheritance goodness of people like the number of abandoned shopping carts in the Costco parking lot when it’s snowing.

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Aaron Hoyland @aaronhoyland.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Fortunately, I have young kids, so I’m already used to waking up at the ass crack of dawn for something that’s going to end up ruining the rest of my day.

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Aaron Hoyland @aaronhoyland.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

[me spending weeks worrying about how to tell our kids that we're looking at moving and whether they'll be upset or scared and how to help them manage their big feelings] [my 3-year old, marching up the steps of the very first open house we go to] YAY IS THIS OUR NEW HOUSE???

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Aaron Hoyland @aaronhoyland.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

“You’ll miss these days” I mutter to myself as my 3yo screams at me for stirring her yogurt too much.

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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

"Never Again" means "never again will we allow fellow human beings to be degraded, dehumanized, displaced and brutalized", not "as long as we don't do a shot-for-shot remake of the Holocaust we're good, we'll just change it up a bit next time"

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JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 12/01/2026

It's been up for over a month but today is the last day of my 50% off paper prints sale. Shipping is $25 (my cost) in Canada, the UK & the EU so pick up a couple. NOT shipping to the US.

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Aaron Hoyland @aaronhoyland.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

When Ieft my kids’ room, my 3-year old was laying at the bottom of the bed. When I checked the camera five minutes later, she’d moved up to her pillow and tucked herself in, and friends, I am not remotely okay. 😭

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 03/01/2026

If your position is that regime change should be forced on countries where the president does not respect democratic norms and regularly kidnaps opponents using an officially sanctioned paramiliatary, have I got news for you about your position on the United States

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Aaron Hoyland @aaronhoyland.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

I did her nails earlier, so it’s only fair.

Photo of a little girl painting Aaron’s finger nails a seafoam green colour.

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Aaron Hoyland @aaronhoyland.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Had the first of several Christmas dinners today. Forever grateful to have been raised in a “If you cook, you don’t clean up” family instead of a “the men sit on their ass” family.

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Aaron Hoyland @aaronhoyland.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

No, I don’t want to search with Gemini. I don’t want to edit with Copilot. I don’t want to ask ChatGPT, joke with Grok, or write with Siri AI. I’ll never create an image with Nano Banana and hell will freeze over before I use Claude to code. I just want to use my ACTUAL HUMAN BRAIN.

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Aaron Hoyland @aaronhoyland.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

The best parenting decision I ever made was who I chose to have kids with. The second-best parenting decision I ever made was buying *the largest capacity washing machine that I could possibly fit in my house*.

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Aaron Hoyland @aaronhoyland.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

I’ve been struggling with the…less fun parts of parenting lately. Yesterday, one of the girls was sick and fell asleep for 40 minutes on me, which hasn’t happened in FOREVER. Sometimes, the universe knows exactly what you need.

Photo of a toddler in a pink sweater nestled into a man’s torso.

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Aaron Hoyland @aaronhoyland.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Not sure what counts as art, but this is the closest thing I have to contribute to #ArtAdventCalendar. Two nightstands I built this summer to replace the awful Ikea ones we'd used for a decade.

Photo of two walnut nightstands against a white backdrop. They each have two drawers with a strip of brass inset into a circle in each drawer face for a handle. The carcass of each is attached to four legs splayed outwards and floats above a lower shelf.

Photo of the top and side of one of the nightstands, showing how the grain of the wood appears to flow from the top to the side in a continuous "waterfall" effect.

Close-up of one of the drawer faces, showing a strip of brass inset into a circle to act as a drawer handle.

Close-up of the lower shelf and how it sits atop a stretcher to attach to the leg assembly.

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Aaron Hoyland @aaronhoyland.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Am I a 40-year old grown man with a house and a career and a family? Yes. Was I VERY excited to crack open the chocolate advent calendar that my dad dropped off over the weekend? Also yes.

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Aaron Hoyland @aaronhoyland.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

I’m so glad that the Conservatives lost the election so we didn’t have to worry about a federal government that would repeal the carbon tax and try to ram through new pipelines and pass BS border security laws and let Alberta skirt the Canada Health Act and…oh.

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Aaron Hoyland @aaronhoyland.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

We made it with seven minutes to spare. I AM UNSTOPPABLE.

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Aaron Hoyland @aaronhoyland.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Tonight I have 90 minutes to pick two 3-year olds up from daycare, get them home, feed them, change them into swimsuits, get them halfway across the city to swimming lessons, hike across the parking lot, find lockers, have them use the potty and get them into the pool. This is my Dad Everest.

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Aaron Hoyland @aaronhoyland.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

When reached for comment, Justice Minister Amery stated “AI legislation could be sloppy, amateurish, and might even make shit up, so we are confident it will be indistinguishable from anything else we’ve put into law.”

Screenshot of a CBC News article headline: Alberta government eyes AI to write legislation for 1st time

Forthcoming whisky legislation considered as test case for new technology

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Aaron Hoyland @aaronhoyland.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

I cannot emphasize strongly enough how much adding the words "with AI" to a product make me less likely to buy that product.

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Aaron Hoyland @aaronhoyland.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

We are being governed by the guy you went to high school with who slept through Social 20 and knows the cheapest place to buy ivermectin.

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Aaron Hoyland @aaronhoyland.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

The narrative that we are being sold that our children's safety is somehow threatened by trans people participating in all aspects of public life as their authentic selves is the exact same bullshit that was peddled about queer folks 30 years ago. It was a lie then and it's a lie now.

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Aaron Hoyland @aaronhoyland.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Their gym shirts: “Blood, Sweat, Respect” “Harder Than Steel” “Live the Grind” My gym shirt:

Photo of a black tank top with the words “Everything hurts and I’m dying” written in white lettering.

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Aaron Hoyland @aaronhoyland.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

The Alberta Advantage™️: waiting an hour on the phone to book an appointment in four weeks for my children’s Covid shots that I will have to pay $100 (each) for.

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Aaron Hoyland @aaronhoyland.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

“It’s a spider carrying a hot dog!” Honestly, I think she nailed it.

Photo of a young girl drawing on a folded piece of pink paper. She has drawn an elongated cylinder with a series of ~15 vertical lines underneath it.

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Aaron Hoyland @aaronhoyland.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

The Liberal Party of Canada is one seat closer to a majority and there’s a good chance that a Muslim democratic socialist is about to become the next mayor of America’s largest city. Things may be bleak, but take solace in the fact that the worst person you know is having a really bad night.

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Aaron Hoyland @aaronhoyland.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Two years ago, my football team lost in the Super Bowl in overtime. I was devastated. 36 hours later, my toddler had a medical episode and ended up in the ICU for a couple days. I still care about sports. A lot more than I should, really. But on days like today, that perspective is really helpful.

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Aaron Hoyland @aaronhoyland.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Just ate one apple, which will completely counteract any potential negative effects from the 34 mini chocolate bars I’m going to crush tonight. I love nutrition.

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Aaron Hoyland @aaronhoyland.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Have kids, so instead of getting a long, restful sleep, you can be woken up at 1:30AM by a toddler who insists that it’s time to cut her toenails.

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Aaron Hoyland @aaronhoyland.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

$3812. That’s what it cost our family for my wife to be on strike for the past 3 weeks. We’re lucky. We can afford it. But knowing that after all that time and money, the only thing that’s changed is she and 50K of her fellow teachers have fewer rights than they did before? It doesn’t feel great.

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Jen the Feisty Librarian @feistywaters.com · 22/10/2025

This is a @rajahmaggay.bsky.social and @gisellegeneral.bsky.social appreciation post. You are both Edmonton gems and I know you'll keep advocating for your communities, even though not on city council. ❤️

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Aaron Hoyland @aaronhoyland.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

The next time someone argues that conservative parties are more fiscally responsible, please remind them that the UCP is forcing cities to spend millions more to hand count ballots just to pander to conspiracy theorists who don't understand the difference between voting machines and vote tabulators.

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Aaron Hoyland @aaronhoyland.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

My 3-year old wanted to make a pudding dessert from one of her books. She came to the grocery store. She helped make the pudding. She mixed in the berries and cookie pieces. She even tried it before we were done and said it was "Yummy!". Then dessert rolled around and she refused to eat it.

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Aaron Hoyland @aaronhoyland.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

I would never recommend tying your mental health and happiness to the actions of a group of men playing a game thousands of miles away. But sometimes, it really works out.

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Holly Nichol @trusteeholly.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

The emails, texts, and tags are flooding in with voter support and I am so grateful! If you’ve already voted - or if you’re heading out to the polls still - please feel free to share this post to help spread the word! #hollyfortrustee #publiceducationmatters #yeg #vote #abed #abpoli #epsb #wardc

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David Keegan @drdavidkeegan.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

🚨 This is inexplicable news to share. If in Alberta and you want flu and covid shots for NEXT year (2026-2027), you have only until December 15 of THIS year to order them. This is not incompetence. It’s a deliberate choice to prevent as many people .. bookvaccine.alberta.ca/vaccine/s/pr... 1/2

bookvaccine.alberta.ca

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Aaron Hoyland @aaronhoyland.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

AB’s finance minister has said the province set aside $2.6 billion to cover the costs of a new 4yr teacher contract, and that the ATA’s latest offer would cost $2B over that, which works out to $1.15B/yr. Wanna guess how much the recent income tax cut is costing the province? $1.2B/yr. Priorities.

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