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Bruce Johnston (Muxw’m G̲an’aws)

@brucejdragon.bsky.social
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Software engineer @ Microsoft. Gitx̲san on xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, səlilwətaɬ, & Sḵwx̱wú7mesh unceded territory. Opinions are my own. 🌿🌈🌙✨

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Tod Maffin 🇨🇦 @todmaffin.com · 7h
In 1973, Phyllis Webstad, age 6, arrived at residential school in a new orange shirt her grandmother had bought her. To her, the shirt stood for belonging. It was taken away on her first day. Today, in part, is about what was taken from children. 🪶 READ: orangeshirtday.org/about/phylli...
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Museum of Anthropology at UBC @moaubc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Don’t miss UBC’s annual Orange Shirt Day Intergenerational March this Wednesday, September 30 at 11:45 am. The march welcomes UBC community members, families and those in solidarity. 🧡 Learn more: f.mtr.cool/hqan9gicnf
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Bruce Johnston (Muxw’m G̲an’aws) @brucejdragon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Claude Opus: Blah blah blah Me: Oh, blow away, windbag! <switches to GPT Sol>
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Rebecca Bollwitt @miss604.com · 27/09/2026
Truth before reconciliation: 8 ways to identify and confront Residential School denialism:
beyond.ubc.ca
Truth before reconciliation: 8 ways to identify and confront Residential School denialism - Beyond
Denialism obscures the truth about Canada’s Indian Residential School system in ways that protect the status quo
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Kevlin Henney @kevlin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
If there is such a phenomenon as absolute evil, it consists in treating another human being as a thing. — John Brunner
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Gary Stevenson @garyseconomics.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Your mental health is getting worse because you live in a hostile economy
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Tuomas Hietanen @thoriumi.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I made a refactoring tool for myself to fix (agent-generated or old) F# code: github.com/thorium/fsha... Try it and let me know what you think. #fsharp
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GitHub - Thorium/fsharp-refactor: FSharp refactoring tool - The tool clarifies the (agent-generated or old) code's intent, reduces non-alphanumeric noise, and uses built-in .NET libraries more efficie...
FSharp refactoring tool - The tool clarifies the (agent-generated or old) code&#39;s intent, reduces non-alphanumeric noise, and uses built-in .NET libraries more efficiently. - Thorium/fsharp-refa...
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Gary Stevenson @garyseconomics.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Why governments are poorer now
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 02/09/2026
Trade xkcd.com/3290/
Comic. [Person standing holding hammer above raised knee.] PERSON: Listen up, leg. I’ve been sending you rich, oxygenated blood for years, while you send me worthless used-up blood with no oxygen. Time to teach you a lesson about not ripping me off! [caption] Tariffs
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Tod Maffin 🇨🇦 @todmaffin.com · 25/08/2026
Happy 212th “We Burned the White House Down” anniversary, btw 👍🏻 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning...
en.wikipedia.org
Burning of Washington - Wikipedia
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Gary Stevenson @garyseconomics.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
You are being squeezed out
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Rebecca Bollwitt @miss604.com · 06/08/2026
Items stolen from Salish Blanket Co on Granville Island, keep an eye out for these weavings. Details: www.instagram.com/p/Dbq72iKErq...
Screenshot from an Instagram account with a photo of a woven blanket and caption:

aleensparrow STOLEN ITEMS - PLEASE SHARE AND HELP US BRING THESE HOME
Last night, Salish Blanket Co. was broken into. While damaged property can be repaired, something priceless was taken from our store that can never be replaced.
Stolen from the shop was a hand woven blanket created by my son, Isaiah, as his Grade 12 capstone project. He gifted it to me and it is one of my most cherished and invaluable possessions.
The second blanket is a weaving by @atheanapicha gifted to my mother…
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Bruce Johnston (Muxw’m G̲an’aws) @brucejdragon.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Oh, you can fuck RIGHT OFF BC Cons 😡
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Phillip Carter @phillipcarter.dev · 24/07/2026
Found the final boss www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/co...
reddit.com
From the ChatGPT community on Reddit: Remember to take the AI prompt out of your speech, prior to reading it aloud.
Explore this post and more from the ChatGPT community
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
For every home that burns because of climate change, it should be law that a billionaire bug out bunker is also burned to a crisp
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Gary Stevenson @garyseconomics.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
If you want growth and investment, you need normal people to own wealth.
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 09/07/2026
This is Oreo. He will eventually eat the blueberry. But first he must establish dominance over it. 12/10 (TT: oreominibernedoodle)
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Gary Stevenson @garyseconomics.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
How will we change this country for our grandchildren?
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Gary Stevenson @garyseconomics.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
The difference between normal people and the super rich
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Gary Stevenson @garyseconomics.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Share with someone who has a bit of money, and is opposed to wealth taxes on the super rich.
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Gary Stevenson @garyseconomics.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Extreme wealth accumulation is a threat to democracy (@gabrielzucman.bsky.social)
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Phillip Carter @phillipcarter.dev · 15/06/2026
Holy shit this is awesome, hand-cranked LLM inference squeezlabs.github.io/handcrank/
squeezlabs.github.io
CrankGPT — fully offline, human-powered local AI
A local voice assistant running on a hand-crank-powered single-board computer.
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Bruce Johnston (Muxw’m G̲an’aws) @brucejdragon.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Imagine no more token quota anxiety 😵‍💫 www.nvidia.com/en-us/produc...
nvidia.com
NVIDIA DGX Station for Windows — GB300 Deskside AI Supercomputing
Run 1T-parameters locally.
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Bruce Johnston (Muxw’m G̲an’aws) @brucejdragon.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
static.klipy.com
Palpatine Orders Execute Order 66
Alt: Palpatine Orders Execute Order 66
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MichiganTypeScript @michigantypescript.com · 03/06/2026
🤯 sha256, purely in TypeScript types by @montyanderson.net github.com/montyanderso...
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GitHub - montyanderson/ts-sha256: sha-256 computed entirely by the typescript type checker. zero runtime.
sha-256 computed entirely by the typescript type checker. zero runtime. - montyanderson/ts-sha256
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Jen Gentleman @jenmsft.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Working in tech be like this some days
Anakin and Padme talking to each other. "It's not working", he says. She smiles at him and replies saying "You're going to share details about what exactly you're seeing and mean when you say it's not working, right?". He looks back at her intensely, not saying anything. She starts to lose her smile, and repeats, hesitatingly now "You're going to share details about what exactly you're seeing and mean when you say it's not working... right?"
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Someone should probably find out if there was a gas leak at the Globe and Mail. Short of that, it’s hard to fathom why their editorial board thought it was a good idea to publish their piece on potential unmarked graves at residential schools. This navel-gazing, both-sides bullshit hurts people:
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Xe @xeiaso.net · 20/05/2026
"No way to prevent this" say users of only language where this regularly happens xeiaso.net/shitposts/no-way-to-prev…
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"No way to prevent this" say users of only language where this regularly happens
The newest post on Xe Iaso's blog
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Barb Snelgrove @megamouthmedia.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
National Day of Awareness for Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls (Red Dress Day). 📍Support frontline orgs 📍Advocate for Indigenous women, girls, mothers, seniors, 2spirit folks. 📍Familiarize yourself w/ the 2019 MMIW national inquiry report 🔺NO MORE STOLEN SISTERS🔺 #redressproject #mmiwg2s
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Gary Stevenson @garyseconomics.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
What happens if you don't tax really rich people
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Bruce Johnston (Muxw’m G̲an’aws) @brucejdragon.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
💯 I’m only on Threads because some accounts I really like to follow are, for some reason, not here yet.
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Bruce Johnston (Muxw’m G̲an’aws) @brucejdragon.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
After a hiatus for the past few months, I'm working on my #Gitxsan family tree visualizer again. What a difference a couple months makes in the age of AI. It's pretty cool to see #GitHubCopilotCLI "speaking" Sim Algyax into my F# codebase.
A screenshot of GitHub Copilot CLI. The text in the screenshot says:

All complete. Summary:

Domain (F# / Model.fs)

 - Added Pdeek DU (LaxGibuu | LaxSkiik | Ganeda | Giskaast) with [<StringEnum>] under Fable for clean TS interop.
 - Added Wilp = { Name: WilpName; Pdeek: Pdeek } and changed Person.Wilp to Wilp option.
 - FamilyGraph keeps WilpName-keyed maps (no record comparisons in production code) and gains a WilpsByName map + 
findWilp accessor.
 - Initial data: A→Giskaast (red, default), B→Ganeda, C→LaxSkiik, D→LaxGibuu so all four Pdeek render.

Trait rename

 - PeopleTraits.Wilp → RenderedWilp to avoid clash with the new Wilp record. Updated Entities/People.fs, 
Systems/Layout.fs, Entities/Connectors.fs, tests/Entities/PeopleTests.fs.
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Bruce Johnston (Muxw’m G̲an’aws) @brucejdragon.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
May authoritarian dirtbags worldwide quake in their boots.
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Andrew Kurjata @akurjata.ca · 30/03/2026
A B.C. woman who moved to the United States to work, get married and raise her daughter is strongly urging people to reconsider that choice as she is being heldnin custody despite, she says, being there legally www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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B.C. mother detained in Texas says she, 7-year-old daughter held in ‘terrifying’ conditions | CBC News
A B.C. mother detained with her seven-year-old at an immigration holding facility in Texas is warning others about the risks of navigating the U.S. immigration system under the current administration.
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Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @joshuaeakle.com · 15/03/2026
Fukuyama: "The world has become a very dangerous place, because the most powerful country is under the control of a 10 year old boy..." Frank isn't holding back. And we're all here for it.
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Auralnauts @auralnauts.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Andor was so good it made Star Wars weird.
youtu.be
Star Wars: Throne Room (ANDOR Special Edition)
YouTube video by Craven In Outer Space
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Bruce Johnston (Muxw’m G̲an’aws) @brucejdragon.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Canadians have a big blindspot for the very real racism that exists in our society. The lived reality for many does not match that high number.
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Chris Oldwood @chrisoldwood.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Watching devs suddenly discover that the ability to write was important all along...
The Drake meme but for writing docs.
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Bruce Johnston (Muxw’m G̲an’aws) @brucejdragon.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
This article matches my experiences with agentic coding tools so far (I'm using #GitHub #Copilot CLI at work): arstechnica.com/information-... I'm having way more fun than I thought I would, and it's more satisfying too.
arstechnica.com
10 things I learned from burning myself out with AI coding agents
Opinion: As software power tools, AI agents may make people busier than ever before.
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Museum of Anthropology at UBC @moaubc.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
This week! The Coastal Dance Festival returns to MOA from March 4–8! Enjoy a week of dance performances, artist sharing, and festival stage shows celebrating the stories, songs, and dances of Northwest Coast Indigenous peoples and guests. Schedule: f.mtr.cool/uoypaayosu
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Bruce Johnston (Muxw’m G̲an’aws) @brucejdragon.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
This is going to make coordinating with my coworkers in Washington state and California very interesting. Totally worth it though.
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Rebecca Bollwitt @miss604.com · 27/02/2026
Yesterday, 37 MLAs voted for the abolition of human rights in British Columbia 🚨 BC NDPs, Greens, and MLAs Sturko and Boultbee voted nay. It failed at first reading but SERIOUSLY. What.
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Jen Gentleman @jenmsft.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
"This meeting could have been an email" This meeting would have been an email if you had responded to your email
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Bruce Johnston (Muxw’m G̲an’aws) @brucejdragon.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
From now on I’m blocking any account that shows up in my feed where the posts have obvious GenAI cliches like “This is not an A. This is a B.” If you have an opinion you think is worth sharing, share *that*, not ChatGPT’s training set’s take on it.
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Rebecca Bollwitt @miss604.com · 11/02/2026
Dancers of Damelahamid presents the 19th annual Coastal Dance Festival, honouring Indigenous stories, song, and dance from across Canada and around the world March 3-8, 2026. At the Anvil Centre in #NewWest and at @moaubc.bsky.social
miss604.com
Coastal Dance Festival » Indigenous Performing Arts Festival
Dancers of Damelahamid presents the Coastal Dance Festival, a Northwest Coast Indigenous performing arts festival March 3-8, 2026.
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//devdigest @devdigest.today · 17/01/2026
⚡️ F# emerges as the most token-efficient static language 🏷️ #devdigest #dotnet #net #fp #fsharp devdigest.today/goto/5270
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F# Weekly #3, 2026 – Most token-efficient static language?
Welcome to F# Weekly, A roundup of F# content from this past week: News Which programming languages are most token-efficient? – Martin Alderson How to Build Android Widgets with .NET MAUI &#8…
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Tod Maffin 🇨🇦 @todmaffin.com · 05/02/2026
Everything is fine. There is nothing to worry about. Here is a puppy. LOOK AT THE PUPPY. Remember, nothing is wrong. Our democracy is just fine. Nothing to worry about. ISN'T HE CUTE There are no Epstein documents WHO'S A GOODBOY? Please stop talking about Epstein.
A television screenshot of a CNN “Inside Politics” broadcast shows a blonde female anchor holding a small brown dachshund puppy. A banner on screen reads “Meet your starting line-pup” and promotes “Puppy Bowl XXII” airing on Animal Planet Sunday at 2 PM ET. The CNN logo and a live indicator appear in the lower right corner.
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Bruce Johnston (Muxw’m G̲an’aws) @brucejdragon.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 31/01/2026
A manual for ICE's immigrant-targeting computer system, Palantir ELITE, was leaked today. Let's look at it, then step back to evaluate how far we've come along a dangerous road and where that road might take us. 🧵
404media.co
Here is the User Guide for ELITE, the Tool Palantir Made for ICE
404 Media is publishing a version of the user guide for ELITE, which lets ICE bring up dossiers on individual people and provides a “confidence score” of their address.
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