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Colin Finkle @colinfinkle.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

JJK 21 was a wild ride. And I didn't think it could get any more epic than 20! #jujutsukaisan #manga

Colin Finkle @colinfinkle.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

If any company or nation calls this big, beautiful lake anything but Lake Ontario, the average American won't care but Canadians will never forget. #canadastrong

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Colin Finkle @colinfinkle.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

If Google or Apple changes the name of Lake Ontario on their maps products, whether viewed from either side of the border, Canadians like me will remember that forever.

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Colin Finkle @colinfinkle.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Trump wants to be worshipped or hated. Just split the difference and ignore him.

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Colin Finkle @colinfinkle.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I feel good reading and listening to the recent Canadian clap-backs, but the best response to Trump is indifference.

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Colin Finkle @colinfinkle.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

What a horrifying day for world news.

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Colin Finkle @colinfinkle.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

OMG. The 14 infants dying in a maternity ward fire in Pakistan is unbelievably tragic. My heart weeps for the parents, and what a loss. Those babies missed out on entire beautiful lives.

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Colin Finkle @colinfinkle.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

God help those affected by the Nepal-Tibet flash flood. That is the most horrifying natural disaster footage I have ever seen. My God!

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Colin Finkle @colinfinkle.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I am so proud as a Canadian that we are standing firm against the US and their last-minute demands. We cannot accept either bad faith negotiating tactics or threats to our sovereignty, let alone both!

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Colin Finkle @colinfinkle.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

There is a real lack of appreciation for moral leadership. It's the "get your grift on" era. People don't equate financial success with value generation; instead, we assume there is a hidden scam.

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Colin Finkle @colinfinkle.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

As a Canadian, I am humbled, thankful, and grateful that wildfire fighters from Mexico and Costa Rica are joining the fight in Canada. Amazing allies!

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Colin Finkle @colinfinkle.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Clearly LG thought they could bring their surveillance capitalism policies from their TVs to their monitors. It's bad on TVs, but it is completely unacceptable on computer monitors. People view far more intimate, sensitive, and private stuff on their computer monitors.

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Colin Finkle @colinfinkle.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

More info about LG's heinous treatment of their high-end monitor customers: gizmodo.com/lg-monitors-fill-pcs-wi…

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Colin Finkle @colinfinkle.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

From Gizmodo: "LG's privacy policy that's linked to the LG Monitor App Installer's listing on the Microsoft Store mentions LG can track device usage data and online activity, including what sites you visit and what activities you perform on those sites." Shameful.

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Colin Finkle @colinfinkle.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

LG used Windows Update to push adware onto computers connected to LG monitors. Their privacy policy states LG can track device usage, online activity, sites visited, and actions taken on those sites. Unbelievably invasive.

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Colin Finkle @colinfinkle.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Lost my Uncle Doug this week. He was quietly one of the most influential people in my life — passionate about photography, tech, climate, and big ideas long before they were mainstream. He taught me what it looks like to care deeply about things. I'll miss him enormously.

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Colin Finkle @colinfinkle.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Surreal Rain 1. Colin Finkle, 2026 Digital drawing on tablet, pencil and charcoal tools. A red umbrella, floating, with a man revealed in the reflection of a puddle holding the red umbrella.

Charcoal-style illustration of a red umbrella floating alone in grey rain, with the reflection below showing an upside-down figure in a dark coat holding it, walking beneath the water's surface.

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Colin Finkle @colinfinkle.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

There was a heat warning yesterday in the Northwest Territories. Can we take climate change seriously now?

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Colin Finkle @colinfinkle.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

I ban any reference to winter in advertisements that run in the summer. I have decreed it.

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Colin Finkle @colinfinkle.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

There was a virtual signing of the Iran peace deal?! Did Trump get sent a DocuSign? 🤣

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Colin Finkle @colinfinkle.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Revoking Claude's fable and mythos could be a heroic story of safety and sober governance, or the start of access control and the corruption that follows.

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Colin Finkle @colinfinkle.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Wow, the US government blocks Anthropic from serving Claude Fable and Mythos to any non-Americans, including foreign nationals on US soil, which is why Anthropic did a worldwide block of the models.

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Colin Finkle @colinfinkle.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Congratulations to Louise Arbour, our 31st Governor General. I couldn't be more impressed with you as a person and the accomplishments of your life so far!

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Colin Finkle @colinfinkle.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Watching Scott Pelley's NYT interview on leaving 60 Minutes after 37 years is heartbreaking. Corruption in an institution hurts everyone — management and workers alike. No one isn't struggling with their role in this history. Some simply had more choice than others.

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Colin Finkle @colinfinkle.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

I have a broad definition of corruption. Corruption is anything that displaces objective effectiveness from the highest value of a person, organization, or task. Money, ego, complacency, and outside influences are the most common reasons effectiveness takes a backseat.

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Colin Finkle @colinfinkle.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Eric Schmidt presided over Google's shift from serving customers to generating ad impressions. Early Google benefitted from faith in tech built up by people like Steve Jobs. Now, graduates and the public are suspicious of technologists.

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Colin Finkle @colinfinkle.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

The graduates Eric Schmidt was talking to have never known anything other than the dark patterns era of the tech industry where they are the product, don't own anything, are siloed and pitted against one another.

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Colin Finkle @colinfinkle.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Re. his commencement speech: Eric Schmidt presided over tech's shift from serving customers to generating ad impressions. Early Google benefited from faith in tech built up by people like Steve Jobs. Now, graduates he was delivering a speech to are suspicious of tech.

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Colin Finkle @colinfinkle.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Early tech users paid for products, motivating companies to improve them or lose customers. Late tech users didn't pay, motivating companies to exploit data or lose users and advertisers to competitors.

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Colin Finkle @colinfinkle.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

It makes so much sense to put solar panels over irrigation and drainage canals. www.thecooldown.com/green-tech/sola…

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Colin Finkle @colinfinkle.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Playing around with N8N is so much fun. My home server crashed, so now I am back on a more appropriate and hopefully more stable server running Open Media Vault on a Raspberry Pi 5.

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Colin Finkle @colinfinkle.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

I had a blast with Chainsaw Man. Both the first season and the Reze Arc. It's strangely one of the most true depictions of being a hormonal, love-starved teenage boy. My inner 16-year-old could relate.

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Colin Finkle @colinfinkle.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Isn't a "stay in Canada" referendum question effectively a seperation question? Flipping the question just changes who votes "yes" and who votes "no". #alberta

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Colin Finkle @colinfinkle.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Since when did the Disney+ app turn into hot garbage on my Samsung TV? It took me 8 minutes, 2 infinite loading screens, and 1 accidental jump into the National Geographic section just to get to Mail Shadow Lord. The app is so slow, it feels like my remote doesn't work.

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Colin Finkle @colinfinkle.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Built from a black canvas up... white pencil and charcoal strokes in Infinite Painter. The prompt was Light and Dark, but somewhere along the way it became about duality. The bright mask we show the world, and the honest, imperfect side we keep in the dark. What do you see in it?

A high-contrast digital portrait rendered in black, white, and grey on a black canvas. A woman's face is turned slightly upward, with a dramatic diagonal shaft of bright white light cutting across the left side of her face and hair, leaving the right side receding into deep shadow. The light catches loose strands of hair and the edge of her cheek and collarbone, while her features — rendered in soft charcoal tones — emerge gradually from the darkness.

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Colin Finkle @colinfinkle.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Nice to see a daffodil blooming. These signs of spring are such a breath of fresh air after a challenging winter.

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Colin Finkle @colinfinkle.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

I am looking forward to more Forward Guidance video's from @mark-carney.bsky.social . If I were Prime Minister, I would do a weekly podcast! Take people along the journey!

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Colin Finkle @colinfinkle.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Surveillance pricing poses an interesting question: do consumers have the right to know what everyone else is paying? We take for granted the transparency of the sign saying Strawberries $3/lb. But with surveillance pricing, you could be getting charged the most and have no idea you are the sucker.

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Colin Finkle @colinfinkle.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Congratulations to Danielle Martin and Doly Begum on their bi-election wins, and I am excited to see what Mark Carney and the Liberals can achieve with their newfound majority! Fingers crossed for Terrebonne.

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Colin Finkle @colinfinkle.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Congratulations to the people of Hungary for reclaiming your government and evicting the corrupt Viktor Orbán. Your ability to see the truth through the disinformation and gaslighting is admirable.

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Colin Finkle @colinfinkle.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

From Reid Wiseman to William Shatner, there are so many people who go up to space and come back with an extreme sense of gratitude for what we have on Earth. Let's all appreciate it and protect it.

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Colin Finkle @colinfinkle.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

"It's a special thing to be a human, and it's a special thing to be on planet Earth." - Reid Wiseman, Artemis II astronaut

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Colin Finkle @colinfinkle.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

I am super excited for the Artemis 2 launch. Wishing clear skies and smooth sailing to the crew! I am so proud that a Canadian, Jeremy Hansen, is journeying to the far side of the moon. #artemis2 #canada

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Colin Finkle @colinfinkle.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

The war correspondent bribed and threatened to change his reporting by people trying to win a Polymarket bet is just the beginning. Betting is a corrupting influence on everything it touches. If there is money on the line, there is money and motivation to influence outcomes.

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Colin Finkle @colinfinkle.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

I didn't have Apple making the most affordable, repairable laptop on my bingo card for the year, but I could not be more happy. I really hope this holds the feet to the fire the manufacturers of Windows laptops and Chromebooks.

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Colin Finkle @colinfinkle.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

I can't believe the people at Grammarly would trade on the reputations of famous writers and journalists, and put words in their mouths. Tech companies feel entitled to everything. Give a thought to whether you would want your identity stolen before implementing that feature.

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