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Dafydd Hughes @dafydd61.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Hi friends! My partner and I are looking for great 2-player card games. What are your favourites?

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Dafydd Hughes @dafydd61.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We’re at the point where Sam Altman’s dog is coaching people on how to do mass murder and everyone’s like oh look a talking dog. CW: recordings of ChatGPT coaching a person on how to do mass murder. www.cbc.ca/radio/frontb...

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Disturbing new allegations about ChatGPT, Tumbler Ridge | CBC Radio

An investigation reveals shocking new allegations about the conversations that the Tumbler Ridge shooter had with ChatGPT.

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Dafydd Hughes @dafydd61.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Vision Zero hahaha. I’m generally anti-incarceration but there should be automatic jail time for anyone who does this within view of two ghost bikes. #BikeTO @diannesaxe.bsky.social this is still your ward for a week or two. The company is called Turbo and their number is on the side of the bin.

Bloor at Avenue Rd. FG: north side: a ghost bike memorial for a woman who was killed by a motorist when she was forced into car traffic because a contractor had left a disposal bin blocking the bike lane. BG: south side: company called Turbo has parked a truck and a large disposal bin obstructing the bike lane.

Turbo’s bin obstructing the bike lane. They have helpfully placed traffic cones to push cyclists into car traffic, because that wasn’t already obvious.

Turbo’s bin. Their number is 905 602 4562

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

seeing this going around, i assumed I had heard it and just didn’t know what it was but I just put it on and …nope i had not heard it before www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

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What Some Folks Really Mean When They Claim to Have Never Heard 'Choosin' Texas'

Claiming to have never heard Ella Langley's record-setting country song 'Choosin' Texas' is similar to saying, 'I listen to anything but country.'

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Dafydd Hughes @dafydd61.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Every once in a while I have to marvel at how much musical gear I have only because Jack Long would rent shit to anybody, and apply a ridiculous proportion of the payments to owning the thing.

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Dafydd Hughes @dafydd61.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I have never been so proud to have gone to high school with someone.

The torso of a headless mannequin. The lighting is such that we can only be in a bar - blues and purples that make is a little difficult to see what we’re looking at. The mannequin is wearing a custom made t shirt printed with a one-star review of the Capitol Bar in Hamilton Ontario. The review reads:

THE CAPITOL BAR

You had better hope you don't encounter anyone identifing as Sue, because they will ruin your night out of spite

Press and hold to react

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Dafydd Hughes @dafydd61.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I didnt really understand what properly secure really meant until I wiped my old phone, assuming Signal would just transfer all my chats and contacts when I signed in on the new one.

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Dafydd Hughes @dafydd61.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Hey guitarists! How do we feel about Schecter guitars? My kid is looking at a 7 string left-hander for around $600 but I know nothing about this company. Kid is still learning, but learning fast. Mostly into shoegaze/hardcore/mathy type stuff.

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Dafydd Hughes @dafydd61.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I have never been so proud to have gone to high school with someone.

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Dafydd Hughes @dafydd61.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Hey just keep your dog on an effing leash, then you don’t have to chase after it when it chases after me, k?

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Dafydd Hughes @dafydd61.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I missed the intro, but I believe I just heard the owner of Handlebar in Kensington Market talking about their policies on smart glasses in the bar and AI usage and let’s all support Handlebar.

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Dafydd Hughes @dafydd61.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I will say it again, slightly rephrased: nobody gets to talk about property values or their FUCKING FIREPLACE until everyone has a secure home they can afford k?

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Dafydd Hughes @dafydd61.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I will never get tired of taking this picture.

A green Marinoni touring bike on a bridge the Lower Don Trail where it crosses the river. The steel structure of the bridge is covered with graffiti. In the background, a railway bridge, with graffiti in big block letters. The water is calm and the sun is out.

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Dafydd Hughes @dafydd61.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Is the US obsessed with Greenland because they’re still using the Mercator projection and they think it’s the same size as South America?

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Dafydd Hughes @dafydd61.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I’m in Matawatchan this weekend, to take part in the Griffith Terry Fox Run tomorrow. There’s still time to find a run and join, or to support a runner (oh look there’s one).

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Dafydd Hughes @dafydd61.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Opening acts is one thing, but when your touring band quits, that’s a choice you’ve made.

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Dafydd Hughes @dafydd61.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

In case you’re wondering why you shouldn’t vote for Brad Bradford, he just chastised Olivia Chow for not standing up to Doug Ford on bike lanes. Dude has no grasp on what he did last week.

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Dafydd Hughes @dafydd61.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The ingenuity of an undergrad phys comp student trying to breadboard with an Amazon-purchased surface mount IC is both unparalleled and highly flammable.

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Dafydd Hughes @dafydd61.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Yesterday, a cyclist I respect a great deal described me as an “exceptionally gentle rider” and friends if I wasn’t married already…

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Dafydd Hughes @dafydd61.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I used to teach intro to Physical Computing courses at uni and the first time I saw Gemini instructions for building a LED lamp all I could see was my first years in tears trying to put out a fire in their dorm room the night before their final project was due.

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Rob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · 13/09/2026

Please do this, please let the chatbot run wild with your credit card ordering parts for imaginary gear that will probably burn your house down when you try to turn it on

Screenshot of an OpenAI post on Instagram, showing a screenshot of a Twitter post:

nim @eminimnim

Vibe hardware is here.
I gave Astra my credit card and asked for a Teenage Engineering-style mini DJ controller.
It generated a concept image, sourced parts, read Chinese datasheets, built a CAD model, ordered everything, then made a Blender animation showing how to assemble it.
62 / BAR
A motor with a brain.
032 mm
3-phase
I'm building my first DJ machine.

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Dafydd Hughes @dafydd61.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Next Sunday Sep 20, I’ll be participating in the Terry Fox Run to raise funds for cancer research. If you’d like to help out and are able, please consider sponsoring me (or running – it’s happening across Canada, and there’s still lots of time to sign up). run.terryfox.ca/page/dafyddh... #TerryFox

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In 1980 Terry showed us what courage, compassion and determination look like. Today that example is needed more than ever and I am inspired to join more than 100,000 Terry Foxers this fall who are...

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Heather J. “Lives in a city on Lake Ontario” Wood @rollwithheather.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Amphibian theatre kid relationship issues

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 08/09/2026

I have received news of a perfectly named cafe located on the waterfront of Nova Scotia's capital, if you know what I mean

"Broken Man cafe" sign on a big plate glass window, through which one can see cafe tables and chairs and backs of people's heads. In the distance, a sign indicates that this is Pier 22 on the Halifax waterfront

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Toronto Boris @torontoboris.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Hypnotic Biidaasige. The surrealist city revealed through the electromagnetic spectrum. #infrared #infraredphotography #EastCoastKin #BlueSkyArtShow

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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

NEW! "Fine, We're Doing a Helmet Episode." After Mayor Mamdani posted a video showing him wearing a bike helmet, social media exploded. But what are helmets designed to do? Who sets the standards? And what is it about the mere mention of them that causes people to lose their minds? bit.ly/4gFMJub

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Dafydd Hughes @dafydd61.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

PSA: if a bike shop tells you they don’t have a Presta pump, yes they do.

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Dafydd Hughes @dafydd61.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Me: can I use your air? Bike shop guy: what kind of valve? Me: Presta BSG: You’ll need to buy a valve adapter for $5 Me: You’ll don’t have a pump with a Presta valve? BSG: No. And people keep stealing our adapters. You need to buy one.

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Dafydd Hughes @dafydd61.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

My dad, a cartographer, spent my grade 2 parent-teacher interview trying to convince my homeroom teacher that Greenland is smaller than South America, and that she should stop using the Mercator Projection.

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Elle @biknmusicmama.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

How much has the Mercator projection warped your view of the world? The US was the only country to vote against the UN resolution urging people to stop using a map made for sailors navigation needs in 1619 to educate people about the world

aljazeera.com

Can you guess the real size of each country on the new world map?

Pick which country is bigger, then watch it morph from Mercator to Equal Earth projection to see how close you were.

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Dafydd Hughes @dafydd61.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The idea Ford is trying to distract us from “more serious” issues with the bike lane thing only holds water if you either a) can’t hold 2 things in your head at once or b) don’t understand how it’s just another facet of the same core attack as privatizing healthcare and gutting public education.

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Dafydd Hughes @dafydd61.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Rest in peace, Cassandra Wilson. One of the best concerts I’ve ever been to was hearing her play at the Toronto duMaurier Jazz Festival. I wore this record out. youtu.be/N9bgKaz9yD0?...

youtu.be

You Don't Know What Love Is

YouTube video by Cassandra Wilson - Topic

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Dafydd Hughes @dafydd61.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

We can keep saying we’ll just take the lane now, but that misses the point. Bike lanes aren’t just for people who are comfortable mixing with traffic. The Bloor St bike lanes allowed my kid to ride to and from school for grades 7 & 8. #BikeTO #ONPoli

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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The world isn’t going to end because of AGI; the world is going to end because someone gave an LLM internet access, bad instructions, and the ability to output JSON

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Hi, this is your seasonal reminder to back up your computer, your cell phone, your voice recorder, your memory cards, anything you think is important. Make multiple copies, because hard drives fail and are very expensive right now. Sometimes you drop you phone into a lake. Do it sooner than later.

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Dafydd Hughes @dafydd61.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Feels like it’s worth reviving this one.

A tweet by me from the before times (2022):

Max switched Waze to use the Paw Patrol voice and now there's a police dog warning me about speed cameras. Discuss.

Reply from Waze:
Gotta love a pup in uniform (e
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scruss @scruss.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

yes, I mean motorists are just in the way and they don't pay taxes

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Dafydd Hughes @dafydd61.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Make your favorite film sound as boring as possible without giving away the title: Two guys use DIY tech to play the stock market and end up fighting.

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Dafydd Hughes @dafydd61.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Tonight at Critical Mass a woman got out of her SUV and planted herself, holding her newborn, in the middle of a stream of cyclists to petition us to let her turn left so she could get her baby to sleep (we let them turn). Imagine doing that with cars.

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Dafydd Hughes @dafydd61.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Also, the chant “Every bike is one less car/Look how many of us there are” works to the tunes of both Lucky Star (Madonna) and Life in One Day (Howard Jones). Sorry.

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Dafydd Hughes @dafydd61.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I feel bad for the motorists who had to wait while we rode along Danforth for Critical Mass tonight, but they could have just taken side streets.

A panorama of a fuckton of people on bikes leaving to ride Danforth out to Bad Badford’s office.

Looking back on Danforth at a fuckton of cyclists chatting, ringing their bells, doing cyclist things. Cyclists almost as far as the eye can see. Not pictured: about the same fuckton in front of me. The picture is skewed because I was just king of holding my phone up and hoping.

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