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Anthony Floyd @anthonyfloyd.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/07/2026

@Anibyl Ugh, I've done that climb. Once. Exactly once. Good luck on your trip! Hope it gets better. Do you have a Spot or InReach device in case of emergency?

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Anthony Floyd @anthonyfloyd.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/04/2026

@StacieBee Wow. I lose cell reception if I look at my phone wrong! We don't even get reception in our own home! (Thankful for WiFi calling)

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Anthony Floyd @anthonyfloyd.ca · 08/04/2026

My youngest, Quinlan, will be performing with the Pre-Professional Theatre Troupe in the Arts Umbrella production of Macbeth on Granville Island. He's playing the title role. There are 3 public performances: Apr 25 (7pm) & May 2 (2pm, 7pm). Get your tickets now: artsumbrella.tickit.ca/events/33338

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Anthony Floyd @anthonyfloyd.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/04/2026

@IanAMartin were you going to create a bluesky bridge for this new account?

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Miguel Arroz @arroz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/02/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@stroughtonsmith/11… This is one of the worst takes from LLM enthusiasts. Compilers are deterministic, extremely well tested, made out of incredibly detailed specifications debated for months and properly formalized. LLMs are random content […]

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Anthony Floyd @anthonyfloyd.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/01/2026

I just non-ironically just blurted out "pants are for suckers". cc: @lazarus7

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Ben Zanin @gnomon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/12/2025

OK, if you're a huge nerd who spends Saturdays online too much I'm sure you've heard about the NIST NTP servers failing and being taken offline¹ ² ³. If you're in Canada, please know that our own NRC offers stratum-2 time sources as a government-funded public service⁴ & monitored/auth'd […]

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Anthony Floyd @anthonyfloyd.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/12/2025

@IanAMartin Nope, I have no experience with "essential tremors" and he says he's already used a trackball in the past.

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Anthony Floyd @anthonyfloyd.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/11/2025

@Anibyl @IanAMartin Understood, but recent academic studies show that benefits of changing the limits are real, even if enforcement doesn't follow. Agree 100% on cameras.

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Anthony Floyd @anthonyfloyd.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/11/2025

@IanAMartin @Anibyl 40 is a start but all the evidence points to 30 km/h as the sweet spot. Most European cities use 30. I'm frustrated by the fictional exceptionalism NA cities believe in. But it's a start.

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Anthony Floyd @anthonyfloyd.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/10/2025

@StacieBee It's been a while since we've seen you on social media and I hope that helps! Still, I want to take a moment to wish you a Happy Birthday! I hope things are well with you, friend! 🎉🎂🎈🎁🎊 HAPPY BIRTHDAY! 🎊🎁🎈🎂🎉

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Anthony Floyd @anthonyfloyd.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2025

@dunks Thought I might see you at the Lynn Valley event today! Alas. I'll still come to North Shore events; maybe one time we'll be at the same event 😄

A woman (the District of North Vancouver Head Librarian, Caroline van Dyk) speaks into a microphone in a large room with large windows. There are a few table cloth covered tables and a few chairs visible.

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Anthony Floyd @anthonyfloyd.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2025

@shireenj.bsky.social I was on Shaw for internet for many, many years and it was extremely stable. Shaw was bought out by Rogers a year or two ago, and random disconnects are a regular occurrence now. They usually only last for about 5 minutes, but still, extremely irritating.

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Anthony Floyd @anthonyfloyd.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2025

@IanAMartin I'd ask if you were with Rogers -- which was out for me earlier this morning -- but I have a working connection now, so I doubt that. It's amazing how much out lives rely on this connection now. Hope you're enduring. Here's a cat.

A long-hair tortoiseshell cat sitting on a black blanket. Except the cat is sitting like she's a person in a chair, with her back legs stretched out towards the camera, her tail straight towards the camera, and her front paws crossed between her back legs and her back straight up and down. She's looking straight at the camera.

No, I don't know why she's like this.

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Anthony Floyd @anthonyfloyd.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2025

Ooh, Chéticamp! Where people cannot be understood in either official language! I kid. A bit. The people I knew from there, however, had some of the thickest accents I've ever encountered in Canada, outside of rural Quebec and Newfoundland.

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Anthony Floyd @anthonyfloyd.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2025

This afternoon, it's The Play That Goes Wrong (put on by Black Box Theatre) at the somewhat misleadingly named Waterfront Theatre on Granville Island. #TheatreYVR #YVRArts #theatre

A playbill held out in front of a stage.

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Anthony Floyd @anthonyfloyd.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2025

Tonight, it's the world's highest-grossing Broadway show, The Lion King. My enthusiasm is contained. #TheatreYVR #BroadwayAcrossCanada #BACVancouver #MusicalTheatre

The Lion King playbill held in a hand in front of the stage curtain which is dark with orange iconography

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Anthony Floyd @anthonyfloyd.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2025

Our rooftop garden plot is doing so well this year. We've not had success with carrots in the past 4 years; they've always been short, thin, and malformed. However, @gwenfloyd just pulled these two tonight. Yowza! #UrbanGardening #VancouverLife

A woman standing inside an apartment side-eyes two large carrots (with greens still attached) that she's holding. The woman is wearing a black Pusheen t-shirt that says "Whatever".

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Anthony Floyd @anthonyfloyd.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/08/2025

Renewed our auto insurance today. Apparently we put all of 1,820 km on our only motor vehicle. Each one of us put at least that on our bikes, with some of us doubling that. After the kids move out (ha!) maybe car-free is in our future.

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Anthony Floyd @anthonyfloyd.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/07/2025

Bounty from urban gardens! The right half is from our rooftop community garden, including the biggest beet I've ever seen, some cukes, carrots, and beans. The left half is our CSA share this week from Sole Foods Urban Farms: shallots, leeks, potatoes, and more cukes. #UrbanFarming #Vancouver

A shot of a basket full of all those vegetables, looking down from above.

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Anthony Floyd @anthonyfloyd.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2025

Our first CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) allotment from Sole Food Street Farms! Some leeks, beets, garlic, cukes, cukes, dill, and broccolini. They're literally a block or two away. #UrbanFarming #SoleFoodStreetFarms

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Anthony Floyd @anthonyfloyd.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/07/2025

Holy crap, "The Weeknd" is playing BC Place and is SO LOUD we can hear it clearly across the water in the Olympic Village. #Vancouver SO LOUD

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Anthony Floyd @anthonyfloyd.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/07/2025

@emd @anthonyfloyd It was fun! A balanced cast, nobody outshone the others.

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Anthony Floyd @anthonyfloyd.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/07/2025

Tonight, it's Legally Blonde The Musical at Theatre Under the Stars in Stanley Park. #theatreyvr #musicaltheatre #TUTS #yvrarts

A photo from the audience of a covered outdoor theatre stage with a pink semi-transparent curtain and some pink neon lights on the wings.

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Anthony Floyd @anthonyfloyd.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/07/2025

Youngest child has decided that Halloween this year will be Spidey Noir, and is getting a jump on his costume. Here's the mask base after 24hrs #3dprinting. Only 1 more hours to go.

3D printed Spider-Man mask in all black, 95% printed, still in the 3d printer.

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Anthony Floyd @anthonyfloyd.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/07/2025

Canada Day in Vancouver starts with the False Creek Ferries performing their "ferry ballet". Here's the fleet heading down to Science World to begin. #LittleBlueFerry #CanadaDay #Vancouver

Eight False Creek Ferries sailing down False Creek in a wedge formation, as seen above from the Cambie St Bridge.

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Anthony Floyd @anthonyfloyd.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/06/2025

@IanAMartin Gotcha. Good to keep the grey matter lubricated :)

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Anthony Floyd @anthonyfloyd.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/06/2025

Marked safe from False Creek Geese again this morning. But it was close. So👏Many👏Geese👏 #bikeyvr #vancouver #geese

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Anthony Floyd @anthonyfloyd.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/05/2025

@IanAMartin To be fair, there's a whole segment of society that believes that listening to experts in any field is pointless and they will "do their own research". Smile and nod. Smile and nod.

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Anthony Floyd @anthonyfloyd.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/05/2025

Chat, I did _not_ make it in before the band of heavy rain crossed Vancouver nor did I make good choices with regards to my riding attire. Those people who live life with no regrets? Today, I am not one of those people. #bikeyvr

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Anthony Floyd @anthonyfloyd.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/05/2025

Number of vehicles in the dedicated bike lanes I was in on my 13 km ride home today: 3. Remember kids, road safety is a shared responsibility. #blessed #bikeyvr

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Anthony Floyd @anthonyfloyd.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/05/2025

Assassin's Creed Shadows is an unbelievably beautiful game.

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Anthony Floyd @anthonyfloyd.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/05/2025

Good reminder from @roland this morning! My BlueSky is bridged to Mastodon here: @anthonyfloyd.ca

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Anthony Floyd @anthonyfloyd.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/05/2025

Dear LEO spokespeople everywhere: unless you mean that a vehicle was accelerating quickly, you should say "high speed" not a "high rate of speed". USE PLAIN LANGUAGE, DAMNIT.

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Anthony Floyd @anthonyfloyd.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/05/2025

So, use plain language folks. Notices like this don't make you sound smart, they make you sound incompetent and thoughtless.

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Anthony Floyd @anthonyfloyd.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/05/2025

How many people know what "riser water" means? Or "DHW"? And it talks about drainage. Does that mean sinks? Toilets? Everything? Should residents expect no water at all? Just "drinking hot water" (DHW)? Our building has many people without English as a 1st language or a plumbing background.

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Anthony Floyd @anthonyfloyd.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/05/2025

Ticked off at this notice shoved through our door at 20h30 tonight. What does it mean for residents? What effect will the shutdown have on residents? What should residents do or not do? This memo is full of technical jargon and details that mean nothing to 95% of people. USE PLAIN LANGUAGE.

Notice advising of a "water riser shutdown" and later a "riser water and drainage shutdown" due to the need to replace a drainage pipe and "DHW" pipe

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