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David Hope @davidhope.ca · 05/10/2026

Feels like dead internet theory is in full effect here. My employer's IP is blocked by stack overflow. Likely to prevent scraping from bots for LLMs.

Screenshot from stackexchange:

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When contacting us, please include the following information in the email:

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Lindsay Ellis @lindsayellis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Yeah I don’t know why sexual assault gets a pass from these people (I mean we know why but) - like if it came out that I had done vehicular manslaughter while under the influence, I think people would be well within their rights to not want to support my stuff anymore, even if I was mega sorry.

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David Hope @davidhope.ca · 03/10/2026

For me the hardest to lose was Arcade Fire. I really loved their early music and it meant a lot to me. However, I can't enjoy listening to it any more after learning what a creep the lead singer was. Fortunately, they are not the only band out there.

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David Hope @davidhope.ca · 03/10/2026

I'd come to this conclusion as well, long before this incident. There are so many talented people out there, I have no compunction about moving on when folks are found to have hurt others. I get the pain of no longer enjoying something that you'd previously cared for, but go find something new!

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Nebula @nebula.tv · 01/10/2026

Jacob Geller is no longer a part of Nebula. Ongoing projects have been terminated effective immediately, and his content has been removed from our catalog.

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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 01/10/2026

#Recall: Gazelle USA Recalls Urban Arrow Cargo Electric Bikes; The front bolt in the seat post clamping mechanism can break, causing the seat to become loose, posing a fall hazard. Get repair. www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2027...

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's not even destroyed buildings and rubble it's just dust and ash

Cover of the Scottish national showing the genocide in Gaza (it's just complete annihilation)

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

One way we all die is... this.

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Aidan Moher @aidanmoher.com · 26/09/2026

Breaking my no Substack rule for this because you should read it.

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Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 25/09/2026

We're publishing new guidance to support trans people who do fieldwork (any work outside the office)! Now we need your help to get them seen so please share! inclusivefieldwork.leeds.ac.uk/trans/

a cartoon of three fieldworkers. One has a small trans flag. The logos of the university of leeds, research england, and canopy robin are shown, as well as the URL: InclusiveFieldwork (dot) Leeds (dot) AC (dot) UK (slash) trans

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Tom Hentoff @tomhentoff.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Red-necked phalarope spinning and scooting about in the Capitol Reflecting Pool this afternoon. 🪶

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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

it's important to arrive at sturdy ethical principles that you can't be annoyed out of. people are annoying as shit

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David Hope @davidhope.ca · 22/09/2026

Critics: "What about making a public bank in Canada Post?" Goverment: "Best I can do is partner with a pay day lender"

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It's Consent Awareness Week! Do you want to learn the building blocks of community care? If you give me 1 hour of your time on Zoom (cameras and mics muted! Very chill!) I will teach you how to de-escalate & support those targeted by sexual harassment. Join me! zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Image of a nighttime cityscape with the words "Stand Up! Bystander intervention training to end street harassment. Happening September 22 from 6-7pm EST. Zoom webinar"

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Judy Trinh @judytrinh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Seniors who were protesting Mark Carney’s Bill c39 and fast tracking of environmental reviews arrested and charged with trespassing on Parliament Hill.

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David Hope @davidhope.ca · 22/09/2026

Critics: "What about making a public bank in Canada Post?" Goverment: "Best I can do is partner with a pay day lender"

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Laura G Mitchell @lauragmitchell.com · 21/09/2026

A person could get much more silly/clever about it, but here’s a very basic one. 😆

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Sundance @sundance.bikesky.social · 20/09/2026

10 reasons why I think you shouldn’t start riding bikes. Feel free to add your own personal reasons, I’m sure there are like hundreds.

The classic red circle with a line through it style road sign with a picture of a black bicycle on white background

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Nothing was beautiful and everything hurt

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Jer Thorp @jerthorp.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Friends! Can I ask you a favour? My 🐦 + 📊 course starts next week. I'm super excited but registration is worryingly low. Can you share this with your weirdo nature + art + code friends? jerthorp.me/learning

jerthorp.me

LEARNING | jerthorp

Online courses and wokshops about birds, data and creative coding. Binoculars to Binomials is for coders who are interested in cultivating an observational practice, and for birders who want to dive ...

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Jan Vanhove @janhove.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

New blog post: "Cluster analysis: A skeptic’s guide". In which I ask a few questions that social scientists wishing to identify hidden classes in their data ought to address. janhove.github.io/posts/2026-0...

Table of contents:

Refresher: What is cluster analysis?
What are the clusters for?
What clusters, exactly?
Does the pipeline work?
What does the solution look like?
When running follow-up analyses, how is the uncertainty in the cluster assignments taken into account?
Was it worth it?
Conclusion
References

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 18/09/2026

This is an *excellent* post on cluster analysis. If you ever thought about applying cluster, latent class or latent profile analysis to psychological scales, you absolutely should read this!>

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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026

Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!

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David Hope @davidhope.ca · 16/09/2026

I really struggle with how terrible most scientific publishers are. There are maybe one or two in my field I'm ok publishing with in my field.

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John Michael McGrath @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I liked NJB's nuanced take on this: it also has had the effect of making car owners by definition a wealthy demographic with some perhaps perverse results. youtu.be/E_SJ1NBMrH0?...

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Is This Peak Hot-Weather Urbanism? (Singapore)

YouTube video by Not Just Bikes

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(VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve @braak.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

[the day before the trillions of AI investments are supposed to start paying off] "Ahh actually I *think* that, for the safety of all humanity, we should probably *slow down* AI progress. Not because it doesn't work obviously but because it probably works too well."

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Alex Bozikovic @alexbozikovic.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Some drivers whine like toddlers at any hint of inconvenience, and media treats their whining with respect. Having to drive a couple of blocks out of one’s way is not hard. This does not constitute imprisonment.

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David Hope @davidhope.ca · 10/09/2026

If I vote for QS, does that make me a separatist?

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Rhi Faux @rhifaux.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This is my neighbourhood & this reporting is lousy - as are the people leading these efforts. The traffic calming here was well-advertised, involved extensive consultation, and does not barricade anyone in their own neighbourhood. It has made the area much safer for people walking and rolling. 1/

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ScarletCoral @scarletcoral.ca · 09/09/2026

✅ 🚗+🎧 ❌ 🚲+🎧 « Ça donne l’impression que les automobilistes sont des gens occupés et professionnels qui ont besoin de passer des appels, mais un cycliste, non? » se désole @magbebronne.bsky.social , directrice des programmes à @velo.qc.ca #sécuritéroutière #veloqc #velomtl

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David Hope @davidhope.ca · 09/09/2026

This sucks. Independent businesses seem like an impossibility in many sectors now. Sports echange allowed us to get used sports equipment for all out kids and now that'll just get more difficult and expensive. www.ledroit.com/affaires/aff...

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Sport Échange Outaouais annonce sa fermeture

Après 35 ans en affaires, le magasin spécialisé d’articles de sports Sport Échange Outaouais a annoncé sa fermeture, effective dès décembre prochain.

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David Hope @davidhope.ca · 08/09/2026

The number of times I had close encounters with speeding drivers in that area is more than the number of customers this cafe lost, I can guarantee that. Guess the owner would rather whine about change than welcome an increase in bike and pedestrian customers.

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David Hope @davidhope.ca · 08/09/2026

Oh no, help I've been mildly inconvenienced as a driver. Save me from my oppression. Also, traffic calming modal filters have been place west of Nanaimo for decades, adding them east of Nanaimo seems like an expansion of a successful program, not government overreach.

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Mac & Charlie Crying in Smoking Jackets - Sunny

Alt: Mac & Charlie Crying in Smoking Jackets - Always Sunny in Philidelphia

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Gavin Simpson @gsimpson.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

So I did tell the editor where to shove it — politely of course

Dear Professor Bee,

Thank you for your email, and again for the time that you, the handling editor, and the reviewers have devoted to my manuscript, "Method: Using generalized additive models in the livestock animal sciences". I am very grateful for the constructive review of the paper and was pleased that it was accepted for publication in animal – open space.

I have considered the requested changes to remove first-person formulations such as “I show”, “I describe”, and similar expressions. I respectfully disagree with this stylistic requirement and am not willing to revise the manuscript throughout to adopt an impersonal style. The use of first-person, active prose is a deliberate authorial choice, and there is substantial contemporary guidance encouraging clearer, more direct scientific writing of this kind, including Brennan (2024, *PNAS*, doi:10.1073/pnas.2316966121) and guidance from Nature advocating active rather than passive scientific prose (https://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/effective-writing-13815989/).

I would therefore be very happy for the manuscript to remain with animal – open space and proceed to publication, subject to normal copy-editing, provided that the requirement to convert first-person formulations throughout the manuscript to an impersonal style is withdrawn.

If the journal considers this stylistic change to be a condition of publication, please treat this email as my formal request that the manuscript not proceed to publication.

As I signed the publishing agreement following acceptance, I would be grateful if, in that event, you could confirm in writing that the manuscript will not be published by animal – open space and that, pursuant to the “Reversion of Rights” provision in the agreement, all rights granted under the exclusive publishing and distribution licence have reverted to me. I would also appreciate confirmation that I am free to submit the manuscript for consideration by another journal.

I regret that we have reach…

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Amanda Hu @amandalhu.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Parents of girls over 12 all over Alberta are now receiving “permission forms” requiring their birth sex as female in order to participate in sports as a result of the Government of Alberta’s “Fairness and Safety in Sport Act”. The more parents who file a challenge in response, the better.

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

So, after seeing a discussion of why drivers hate cyclists so much I thought, what does social science say? and found this. "Altruistic punishment" also explains the rage against shoplifters I hear daily. If anyone has newer/more/better research, happy to have it! www.bbc.com/future/artic...

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The psychology of why cyclists enrage car drivers

It’s not simply because they are annoying, argues Tom Stafford, it’s because they trigger a deep-seated rage within us by breaking the moral order of the road.

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David Hope @davidhope.ca · 06/09/2026

My autocorrect is having a fun time with me. I don't think "confortation" is the word I was going for there. Confrontation perhaps?

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David Hope @davidhope.ca · 06/09/2026

Anyway I am once again left embarrased about how angry I got and probably will just follow the pedestrian signals in the future. It doesn't matter if I'm correct, I'll still be dead if a driver decides they get to go first or aren't thinking about me because they see the red hand.

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David Hope @davidhope.ca · 06/09/2026

However the word "or" (ou) is pretty definative that cyclists can follow either a green light or a walk signal. I also doubt the driver was confused by the wording in the code and just annoyed by a person on a bike going first.

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David Hope @davidhope.ca · 06/09/2026

To be absolutely the fairest I can to them the code does get a bit confusing as it has a whole section on cyclists following pedestrian signals if there is an advanced walk signal and it isn't super clear.

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David Hope @davidhope.ca · 06/09/2026

I was correct, though I'm regularly honked at by drivers who don't understand this and think cyclists have to follow pedestrian signals. I'm so exhausted of confrontations while I bike from drivers in massive vehciles.

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David Hope @davidhope.ca · 06/09/2026

Had a confortation with a driver yesterday at an intersection where he got mad because I was riding on a green light, despite the red pedestrian hand. Most annoyed that several weekend warrior cyclists backed him up. So naturally I'm awake at 6 reading the Quebec highway code.

Screenshot from Saaq cyclist guide. Sign on Lett has a pedestrian walk signal with a bike in a green circle on the left. Wording to the right is:

Indicates that cyclists must
obey a pedestrian light.
IMPORTANT: Where this
sign is not posted, cyclists
can cross obeying the
pedestrian light or obeying
traffic lights for road
vehicles.
Indicates that there is a
parking lot near a bikeway.
Indicates a bicycle
crossing.
Indicates a paved shoulder
intended for cyclists along
a cycling route.

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David Hope @davidhope.ca · 05/09/2026

This is such an excellent response. Yes, we have no meaningful way to remove CO2 quickly so what we've done is locked in for our lives, but every action we take can prevent things getting worse. It is never too late to reduce emissions and every action we can take matters.

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It's me @justmeinottawa.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

“Seems fine, just another day, hahahaha it’s so funny, nothing we can do, yeaa water rescue team, I need more Starbucks coffee, what’s for dinner, good day” Thinking process for most people reading this story

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