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Young Thos

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Into the face of the young man there had crept a look of furtive shame, the shifty hangdog expression which announces that an Englishman is about to speak French. orthographi.ca

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Young Thos @digitalogic.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I love how Radio-Canada's baseline assumption is that you would never even think of going to watch a huge prestigious international event happening in your city and that your only interest in life is knowing where you can go vroom vroom with your car. #Montreal #Montréal
Push notification that reads: Mondiaux de cyclisme : les courses contre-la-montre battent leur plein dimanche. Voyez quels secteurs sont à éviter et quelles artères sont fermées à la circulation.
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Young Thos @digitalogic.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I just had a bad feeling that whole year — sometimes it seems like English Canadians know Americans better than they do — so I decided to pop down one last time (Acela, Downeaster, Ethan Allen). Happened to be in Pennsylvania the day Biden dropped out & briefly doubted my instincts, but in the end…
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Young Thos @digitalogic.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
My Amtrak points also just expired in August following what I had described at the time as my 2024 Farewell Tour. Too bad, eh
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Young Thos @digitalogic.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
It is perhaps a sign of the times that searching the phrase 'great satan' is turning up some of the most interesting journalistic coverage out there these days
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Young Thos @digitalogic.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Prime Minister Mark Carney addresses European Parliament in Strasbourg the day after European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen proposed opening door to Canada becoming first associate EU member. Featuring English, French and a smattering of German #cdnpoli www.cpac.ca/headline-politics..
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PM Mark Carney Addresses European Parliament
Prime Minister Mark Carney addresses the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France. The address comes one day after European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen proposed opening the door for Canada to become the European Union’s first associate member. (September 17, 2026)
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Young Thos @digitalogic.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I had the same thought. And he has to be back in Strasbourg for his own speech tomorrow. After the big investment conference in Toronto yesterday. He seemingly never stops
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Young Thos @digitalogic.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Mark Carney apparently had the time and energy, between today's EU state of the union in Strasbourg and his own speech in Strasbourg tomorrow, to leg it up to Liverpool to meet with the British PM and take in a bit of the footie. Seems like quite the character, this prime minister of ours 😮 #cdnpoli
Andy Burnham held a bilateral meeting with Mr Carney at Everton's Hill Dickinson Stadium in Liverpool before the team's third-round game with Wolves on Wednesday.

Carney and Burnham in the stands at Everton's Hill Dickinson Stadium in Liverpool
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Young Thos @digitalogic.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
incorrect
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Young Thos @digitalogic.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
perhaps the most braindead take I've seen so far. and dripping with the unjustified self-satisfaction of an author who thinks they have uncovered some great insight
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Young Thos @digitalogic.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The thing with totalitarianism is that suing is rarely sufficient
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Young Thos @digitalogic.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I'll remember this too
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Young Thos @digitalogic.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
They caved on Wednesday
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Young Thos @digitalogic.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Interesting, when I checked them out this morning I saw they still had Lake Ontario but I forgot to check the Gulf of Mexico. So I guess they don't have a principled stance, they're just very slow
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Young Thos @digitalogic.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
at this point, I almost want him to rename everything so we can see how spineless these companies truly are
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Young Thos @digitalogic.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Give it time to propagate
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Young Thos @digitalogic.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I see… I am seeing reports that the UK is being shown Lake America, I think it's only a matter of time before it propagates to Ireland bsky.app/profile/rjnello.bsky.socia…
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R(obert). J. Nello (@rjnello.bsky.social)
Even here in the UK, it’s “America.” Wow. Charles, Canada’s head of state, needs to know. If like Google, Apple calls the FULL lake “America,” it’s enabling Trump’s sinister aim to undermine Canada. Ottawa owns HALF, so Trump has no more right to rename the full lake than he does to rename Toronto: [contains quote post or other embedded content]
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Young Thos @digitalogic.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
no they are not
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Young Thos @digitalogic.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
most assuredly they would. as the kids say, murica is cooked ♨️
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Young Thos @digitalogic.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
And to think I almost bought that insanely overpriced Mac Mini they just put out. Close call on that one 😅 I can handle the Linux desktop, but does this mean I have to figure out how to be a Linux phone guy now? 😬
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Young Thos @digitalogic.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
For your sake, I hope it is a matter of when and not if
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Young Thos @digitalogic.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
If you need to navigate public transportation navigation in your city, @transit.app — made in Montreal and beloved worldwide — remains the obvious choice. apps.apple.com/ca/app/transit...
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Transit • Bus & Train Times App - App Store
Download Transit • Bus & Train Times by Transit App, Inc. on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips and more apps like Transit • Bus &…
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Young Thos @digitalogic.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I have now moved to the amusingly named HERE WeGo mapping app, which I am told is Dutch. I just checked using an American computer, and they are still showing Lake Ontario. apps.apple.com/ca/app/here-we...
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HERE WeGo Maps & Navigation App - App Store
Download HERE WeGo Maps & Navigation by HERE Europe B.V. on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips and more apps like HERE WeGo Maps &…
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Young Thos @digitalogic.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Apple Maps has followed suit and is now showing Lake America. The absolute Quislings #cdnpoli #googlemaps #applemaps #lakeontario
Apple Maps showing Lake America
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Young Thos @digitalogic.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Update: they kissed the ring
Apple Maps showing Lake America
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Young Thos @digitalogic.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
It sure is www.cbc.ca/news/busines...
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Google Maps now says 'Lake America.' The bigger issue is Canada's dependence on U.S. tech | CBC News
U.S. President Donald Trump's push to rename Lake Ontario "Lake America" underscores Canada's reliance on U.S. tech giants like Google and Apple.
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Young Thos @digitalogic.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Haha that's so funny, great minds really do think alike!
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Young Thos @digitalogic.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
One would think, but these thrashings happen every time they capitulate, and then blow over. Americans have short attention spans, keys will be jingled elsewhere to distract them. Apple & others have thusfar calculated that tariff relief and other curried favours outweigh any briefly lived backlash
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Young Thos @digitalogic.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
No reason except protecting their unfettered ability to rake in profits, I suppose. Apple didn't have to donate to the inauguration, give him a big golden trophy or have the CEO attend a private screening of the Melania movie, and yet they did.
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Young Thos @digitalogic.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
In this, the first day of the post 'Tim Apple' era, new CEO John Ternus has a chance to make his mark and move on from the inauguration donations, golden trophies and Melania screenings. What will he decide, I wonder? www.cbc.ca/news/world/trump-a...
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Trump asked Apple directly to change Lake Ontario to 'Lake America': official | CBC News
U.S. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum says Apple Maps could "soon" change the name of Lake Ontario to "Lake America," after President Donald Trump signed an order last week to rename the lake amid Canada-U.S. trade tensions.
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Young Thos @digitalogic.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I will be following this closely. My work computer is a remote machine located in a Virginia data centre, and all day today they seem to have been showing Lake Ontario. Coincidentally, today is the first day in the post 'Tim Apple' era — the new CEO has a chance to make his mark
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Young Thos @digitalogic.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The sooner this clown gets wiped out by the bond market, the better. #cdnpoli
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Young Thos @digitalogic.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Wow, our paths almost crossed (sort of)! We took the train to Vaudreuil and then biked to Hudson with a plan to take the ferry across to Oka and then return with the REM, but the ramshackle ferry was once again out of service without notice 🫠
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Young Thos @digitalogic.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I'm sure Danielle Smith addressing the Nashville Chamber of Commerce will have a huge effect on geopolitics
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Young Thos @digitalogic.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
A day that will go down in infamy — getting this country off American tech has never been more urgent www.cbc.ca/news/canada/google... Que Dieu blesse l'Amérique, as the old saying goes
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Lake America replaces Lake Ontario on multiple Canadian websites after Google Maps update | CBC News
Some Canadian websites, including for the federal government, displayed maps with Lake Ontario renamed as Lake America on Sunday, a day after Google Maps announced the change to align with an executive order by U.S. President Donald Trump.
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Young Thos @digitalogic.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
The entire list can be consulted here orthographi.ca/techno-dystopi... …and who knows, one of these days I may even get around to writing another blog post!
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Techno-Dystopic Book Club 📚
An evolving list of books going back decades that inform the techno-dystopia we live in today.
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Young Thos @digitalogic.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
And lest we forget, France is also on the case 🇫🇷
Book covers of ‘Apocalypse Nerds’ and ‘Technofascisme’, hot off the presses from France
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Young Thos @digitalogic.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Also very much looking forward to reading 'Hyperscale: The Ambition and Excess of Big Tech's Data Empires' by Canada's very own @parismarx.com when it comes out later this fall: www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/boo...
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Hyperscale by Paris Marx | Penguin Random House Canada
“A tremendous contribution to a debate that is of existential importance to us all.” —Naomi Klein, bestselling author of Doppelganger“Hyperscale is a book Big Tech does not want you to read.” —Malcolm Harris, bestselling author of Palo AltoAn eye-opening account of how the data center boom is pushing our planet past its breaking point
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Young Thos @digitalogic.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Also added to the list (discovered via the aforementioned Durán) is 'Cyberselfish: A Critical Romp through the Terribly Libertarian Culture of High Tech' by Paulina Borsook. www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/boo... Originally published in 2000, now reissued in 2026 and seemingly more relevant than ever
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Cyberselfish by Paulina Borsook | Penguin Random House Canada
Truer now than when it was written—the prophetic classic now back in print. Twenty-six years after its original publication, Borsook’s “smart, funny and irreverent” (The New York Times) critique of high-tech has proved a prescient assessment of a toxic ethos which has seeped into every corner of our world.
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Young Thos @digitalogic.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I can't get over how good of a title 'The Nerd Reich' is. www.simonandschuster.ca/books... I have added this new book by @gilduran.com, and a handful of others, to my ever-expanding techno-dystopic reading list 📚
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The Nerd Reich
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “This transfixing debut from journalist Durán investigates the antidemocratic ideologies espoused by tech billi...
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Young Thos @digitalogic.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
We already were on guard, it's in our anthem. #ElbowsUp #cndpoli
l'administration des ricains met le Canada en garde
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Young Thos @digitalogic.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
While I appreciate the sentiment, I would rather you get yourself a #Kobo or other ereader instead of a Kindle. And you don't even have to pirate, the public library is right there! But overall, this guy gets it. Bonus points for the Casio scientific calculator 🤓 youtu.be/HEDAZQuFIDM
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Be a nerd: get a Kindle and pirate books.
Nerds only have three essential pieces of technology: a Casio Scientific Calculator, a Linux desktop and a permanently off-line Kindle Paperwhite to pirate books. An addendum to @saintdonoghue If you are wrong and so do not agree with me, feel free to give me your flawed reasoning via email: rafanelli.rosatti@gmail.com
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Young Thos @digitalogic.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Looking forward to the documentary on Radio-Canada for sure. And my personal favourite pieces of merch would have to be the dad hat and the crewneck
dou dou dou dat hat60 ans de métro moments anniversary illustration crew neck
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Young Thos @digitalogic.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Full details here: www.stm.info/fr/a-propos/deco...
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60 ans de métro-moments
Le 14 octobre, le métro de Montréal célèbre ses 60 ans.
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Young Thos @digitalogic.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
The #STM has gone all-out with more activities and documentaries and merch than you can shake a stick at for the 60th anniversary of the #Montreal Metro www.stm.info/fr/presse/commun...
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60 ans de métro-moments: La communauté montréalaise appelée à célébrer son métro!
D’ailleurs, la STM fait également appel à la communauté afin qu’elle partage ses propres métro-moments qui feront l’objet d’une œuvre collective dévoilée le 14 octobre prochain. Un formulaire à cet égard est disponible sur son site web. Des Alouettes au CF Montréal, des Piknic Électronik à Alexandra Strélinski, des Maisons de la culture aux bibliothèques, toute une programmation a été développée pour faire vivre de nouveaux métro-moments à l’ensemble de la communauté montréalaise au cours des prochaines semaines. La programmation complète est disponible au stm.info/60ansmetro.
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Young Thos @digitalogic.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
The #STM has gone all-out with more activities and documentaries and merch than you can shake a stick at for the 60th anniversary of the #Montreal Metro www.stm.info/fr/presse/commun...
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60 ans de métro-moments: La communauté montréalaise appelée à célébrer son métro!
D’ailleurs, la STM fait également appel à la communauté afin qu’elle partage ses propres métro-moments qui feront l’objet d’une œuvre collective dévoilée le 14 octobre prochain. Un formulaire à cet égard est disponible sur son site web. Des Alouettes au CF Montréal, des Piknic Électronik à Alexandra Strélinski, des Maisons de la culture aux bibliothèques, toute une programmation a été développée pour faire vivre de nouveaux métro-moments à l’ensemble de la communauté montréalaise au cours des prochaines semaines. La programmation complète est disponible au stm.info/60ansmetro.
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Young Thos @digitalogic.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Shows how much he knows, it's actually a monarchy
Netanyahu brands UK the 'Islamic Republic of Britain'
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Young Thos @digitalogic.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Un feel-good movie? Après, c'est ce même @ledevoir.com qui va dire que c'est nous les anglophones qui dénaturons le Québec par le seul fait de notre existence. Pour sauver le français, il faudrait élargir le mandat de l'OQLF à la traque et la punition des anglicismes des francophones. #polqc #qcpoli
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Young Thos @digitalogic.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
It's quite something to behold that the current wave of Alberta separatism kicked off the day after the federal election, when the country chose a prime minister from Edmonton instead of a prime minister from Calgary. Truly, the new crybabies of confederation. #cdnpoli
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Young Thos @digitalogic.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Parfait, merci!
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Young Thos @digitalogic.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Merci! Sauriez-vous vers quelle heure on prévoit le premier départ vers Anse-à-l'Orme depuis la gare centrale? Je sais que l'évènement comme tel commence à 9h, mais est-ce que le premier train part plus tôt pour arriver à Anse-à-l'Orme pour 9h? Ou…?
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