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Darren Kirby @dragonbyte.ca · 28/09/2026

A lot of words to avoid saying 'I realize there's close to %0 chance of me getting elected as an NDP in this riding'.

UGH, yeah, my other pet peeve is parachute candidates. I get that life is complicated, but I don't think it would be particularly onerous on our democracy to require that candidates live primarily in the riding for at least a year prior to running in an election, and stay living there.

Fair Vote Canada 🗳️🍁 @fairvote.ca · 22/09/2026

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Just like in ON and NS, first-past-the-post incentivises parties to trigger snap elections when polling shows an increased majority, even without majority voter support. Proportional representation fixes this toxic dynamic, encouraging cooperation over political gamesmanship.

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I live in one of the ridings that elects potted plants as long as they're Con/Lib/right, so I'm effectively disenfranchised anyway. I will, however, have a good laugh when the current floor-crosser MLA learns she can't win here under the NDP banner.

Agree, but I'm getting strongly pushed into DGAF territory. Between this, and Carney at the fed level, I am so tired of our broken electoral system forcing us to vote against those we hate, rather than for candidates we can get behind. This is how you kill voter engagement.

This is accurate except I've seen the show, and thought it was terrible.

Blatantly selfish and self-serving nonsense. No one wants an election. The only reason the NDP have a boost in the polls is because of the conservative sideshow. I don't know anyone who thinks the NDP are actually doing a good job of governing.

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Darren Kirby @dragonbyte.ca · 21/09/2026

Shitty move by Eby, IMO. I'll be sitting this one out, or maybe waste my vote on Green, as in my riding the NDP candidate will be a formerly Conservative floor-crosser, rather than the actual NDP candidate I FUCKING VOTED FOR in the last election. Get bent, Eby.

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We think things are bad now. Give it another 20 years when an entire generation have outsourced their cognition.

Advance voting started on Friday, and her name is on the ballot (under the Conservative Party banner), so, I guess she's running.

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It's baffling. This guy isn't an AI techbro, he's a professor of genetics. I don't understand how he can't see that encouraging his students to outsource their scientific literacy is a counter-productive dead end. These are hard-skills that must be practised over a career, or they will be lost.

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Finally starting to realize that I am much more productive when I'm not constantly taking my hands off the keyboard.

Interesting talk. I had been using a full KDE desktop on my Linux machines since ~2000 or so but recently switched to Niri, a tiling WM and find it much better suits my workflow. This is coincident with leaving behind big and heavy click-centered IDEs for nvim with a judicious selection of plugins.

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Ugh, yeah. Like how your identifications differ by ~500 or so depending on which page you look at.

If you were purposefully trying to completely destroy scientific credibility in general, I can't think of a better way to go about it.

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Darren Kirby @dragonbyte.ca · 19/09/2026

And on the other end they want you to use AI to crunch the data, a different AI to author the paper, and yet another AI to 'peer review' it. So by the end there's no scientific discovery, no dissemination of knowledge, just the world's stupidest game of hallucinogenic telephone.

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Just parroting propaganda. Be fucking better than this

Darren Kirby @dragonbyte.ca · 19/09/2026

Just checked, it's at 112,316. I didn't bother to go back and check who got the 112,000th, but I'd bet $20 that it was Bob.

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Darren Kirby @dragonbyte.ca · 19/09/2026

It's the milk run, so to speak...but it's s a real route and has been for years. www.bcferries.com/routes-fares...

bcferries.com

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Тsфdiиg @tsoding.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

To all the people asking me about what Architecture I use for my Software: my brothers and sisters in Christ, I program in C. The Architecture is obviously Brutalism.

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Darren Kirby @dragonbyte.ca · 11/09/2026

American exceptionalism is downplaying a structured attack on a whole other country's sovereignty as the trolling of a 'bored' individual. I have no patience for this kind of patronizing American liberal/leftist. I'd rather deal with MAGA. At least they're honest about their contempt for Canada.

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Darren Kirby @dragonbyte.ca · 09/09/2026

Others will of course disagree, but I'm not of the opinion it means much of anything outside demarcating a ~30 day window around when you were born. I tend to agree with Doug Stanhope's take on it 😂 www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaHi...

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Doug Stanhope - Astrological Signs...

YouTube video by bspete1

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Darren Kirby @dragonbyte.ca · 09/09/2026

Myers–Briggs Type Indicators. It's mostly unreliable, self-administered nonsense, but a bit less nonsensical than astrology, I suppose. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers%E...

en.wikipedia.org

Myers–Briggs Type Indicator - Wikipedia

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Darren Kirby @dragonbyte.ca · 08/09/2026

Hey. Nice to see you again.

Darren Kirby @dragonbyte.ca · 06/09/2026

Last time I used it was the KDE 2.x.x days back in the 90s. I think they were just called Kword, Kspread etc.

Darren Kirby @dragonbyte.ca · 05/09/2026

I appreciated these Metro grocery stores whilst in ON and PQ. They all had a sushi counter with pretty good grab and go Poke bowls.

Darren Kirby @dragonbyte.ca · 02/09/2026

Sucks to be that one spot south of Prince Rupert, I guess.

Darren Kirby @dragonbyte.ca · 01/09/2026

See, the entire premise of this poll is fucking stupid because you don't forgive someone for egregiously harming you after some arbitrary event or some arbitrary length of time. You *might* forgive them when they stop the harm, show genuine remorse for the harm, and make things right. So...never.

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Darren Kirby @dragonbyte.ca · 30/08/2026

I guess so. It finally rained here yesterday (Okanagan). First significant precipitation in two and a half months!

Darren Kirby @dragonbyte.ca · 30/08/2026

Honestly, I'm more surprised that the reservoir is so high than I am about the island. I get that BC is big, and weather varies, but I thought it was pretty droughty everywhere. Where did the water come from?

Darren Kirby @dragonbyte.ca · 30/08/2026

I do appreciate your total commitment to this bit.

Darren Kirby @dragonbyte.ca · 27/08/2026

Americans shut the fuck up about Canada challenge.

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Darren Kirby @dragonbyte.ca · 27/08/2026

Clown country full of clowns exhibit B:

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Darren Kirby @dragonbyte.ca · 27/08/2026

Clown country full of clowns. I think a $100K fee to transit the St Lawrence, and another $100K fee to transit the Welland Canal for American shipments is in order. If the yanks don't like it, ship your shit on the Erie Canal. Clowns.

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Darren Kirby @dragonbyte.ca · 25/08/2026

She was even nicer than warranted to Jolene...

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Darren Kirby @dragonbyte.ca · 25/08/2026

I guess I shouldn't be surprised that the billionaire shopify douchebag who thinks poor people shouldn't get to vote and rich fucks like him should get multiple votes is involved in noted eugenicist douchebag DHH's "Linux for Fascists" Omarchy garbage.

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Darren Kirby @dragonbyte.ca · 22/08/2026

Season 4's Last Exit to Springfield is the best episode by far and this is non-negotiable. From the era when they packed five episodes worth of jokes in 22 minutes.

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Darren Kirby @dragonbyte.ca · 21/08/2026

Well enjoy your Great Value! I generally try to avoid Walmart, but at that price it might be worth a trip. I definitely don't have enough bacon in my life currently.

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Darren Kirby @dragonbyte.ca · 21/08/2026

It's just a hack to get around automated copyright detectors. I'm unsure if the practice has been tested in court, but I doubt it would hold up.

Darren Kirby @dragonbyte.ca · 21/08/2026

Genuinely miss her from Twitter. I guess she did not make the leap here...

Darren Kirby @dragonbyte.ca · 20/08/2026

Based on year-round range expansion, I'd probaly accept a change to Turdus non-migratorius, but yeah...