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Dara Renton

@drenton.bsky.social
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Product, digital government, (currently supporting the post-secondary sector). Sighthounds, LFC #YNWA. Somewhere between Fergus, Kitchener-Waterloo and Toronto. Also a suffering Cowboys fan. “Mundus sine Caesaribus.”

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Dara Renton @drenton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
False balance is such a problem and predates LLMs - just ask the UK about how that went during the Brexit debate. We certainly do not need AI ignoring social, economic and scientific research for the sole purpose of “appearing evenhanded”.
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Dara Renton @drenton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Fergus looking quite pretty tonight
On Tower Street, heading north a photo of the sun setting behind St Andrew’s church in Fergus Ontario, Canada.
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Dara Renton @drenton.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
OMG Nigella Lawson is now on Bake Off! Amazing!
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Dara Renton @drenton.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
“Get on Google, find out how South American biker gangs deal with each other” LOLOLOLOLOL #southpark
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Dara Renton @drenton.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
On seeing Travis Kelce dressed on the sideline: Me: “oh, look, he’s still playing. I thought he had a podcast?” Ian: “I thought he married money.” #chiefs #NFL #broncos
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Dara Renton @drenton.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
JJ Watt with sparkles #packers #NFL
JJ Watt, football commentator, with a screen of sparkles behind him.
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Dara Renton @drenton.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Fun fact, Ian and I spend early Septembers dissecting the layout and info that appears in the score bugs. Fascinated by the timeouts here. Skinny hamburger treatment.
Texas and Ohio NCAA football match scoreboard that shows on screen. 1st quarter, 0-0 14:49, 1st & 10 Ohio
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Dara Renton @drenton.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
City of Toronto “Making the Right Call” webpage www.toronto.ca/home/311-tor...
Illustration: call 311 illustrations of a dead/downed raccoon, Call 911 illustration of a man on the grown holding holding his arm
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MapQuest @mapquest.com · 27/08/2026
We're not changing the name of Lake Ontario. Name it whatever you want at your leisure: gulfof.mapquest.com/lakeontario (tag us so we can see your work 🙂)
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Dara Renton @drenton.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Pls follow Senator Paula Simons pls. As Canada faces significant headwinds from the South and here at home we need her to hear her wisdom and important Canadian perspectives. 🙏
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Dara Renton @drenton.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Football is back!! (A bit of Forest v Leeds from a Costco parking lot.) #EPL
Nottingham Forest V Leeds premier league game on a screen in a car
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Dara Renton @drenton.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Alright, Hull 😂 Wild #EPL #HULL #MANU
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Dara Renton @drenton.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
“It’s not an arms race.” —Jamie Dimon, April 12, 2019, asked on a call with reporters whether JPMorgan would match Bank of America’s pledge to reach a $20/hr minimum wage
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Dara Renton @drenton.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
For a junk drawer to legally qualify as a real junk drawer what is the ONE absolutely mandatory item it must include Canadian Tire Money – Canadian junk drawer Edition
10 cent Canadian Tire bill
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Dara Renton @drenton.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Diogo Jota still overseeing the team at Willibald Farm 🫶 #LFC
Staff at Willibald Farms in Ary Ontario at the kitchen getting plates to serve to restaurant visitors.
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Dara Renton @drenton.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
UEFA = the Straight of Hormuz
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Dara Renton @drenton.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
2026 Templin Garden’s fare - a little Galway Girl and an amazing tree as the sun peaks through. #fergus
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Dara Renton @drenton.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
And we are washing, skunk spray followed by Mustela. Because greyhounds should smell like french babies.
Mitch the greyhound in the shower. Ian doing the bathing.
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Dara Renton @drenton.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Mitch got skunked. Poor pea. We think only him
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Dara Renton @drenton.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
LFC isn’t the Washington Post, no one will be grateful for Bezos’s deep pockets. He will be relentlessly mocked if he steps foot in Anfield. Surely he knows he’s a cartoon villain. Surely??
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Dara Renton @drenton.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Congrats Spain, a deserved win and such an ignominious way for Messi to bow out. They didn’t get here on their own merit, rules were bent for them all the way along. People will remember. He is a gifted player, they didn’t need to cheat for him.
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Dara Renton @drenton.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Look who I ran into this morning 🫶
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General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
🎶 Hold me closer lanky striker 🎶 #NorEng
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Dara Renton @drenton.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
💀 youtu.be/9kT0oLBPiOw?...
youtu.be
Claude's Plan
YouTube video by Jeff Guo - Topic
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Lucy Fisher @lucyfisher.ft.com · 08/07/2026
Bloomberg’s attempt to explain Count Binface to an American audience 😂
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Dara Renton @drenton.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Well this looks well and truly over. USA completely outclassed by Belgium on, and sadly, off the pitch. #FIFA #Belgium #USA
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Dara Renton @drenton.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
The US started the 2nd half stronger than the first, and this game certainly isn’t over, but Belgium are a step up in quality here, their touches, their movement. Once you start playing teams ranked in the top 10, you’re really in a different class. #FIFA #Belgium #USA
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Dara Renton @drenton.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Beaucoup de jaune!! #fifa #canada #morocco
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Dara Renton @drenton.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Dear America, you have it in you to be your best. We in other countries know this. So believe in yourselves as we believe in you. Happy 4th of July 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
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Dara Renton @drenton.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Ugh. What a loss for the footballing world. #portugal #fifaworldcup
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Dara Renton @drenton.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Fable is on its way back www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/t...
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U.S. Lifts Restrictions on Anthropic’s Most Powerful A.I. Models
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Dara Renton @drenton.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
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Dara Renton @drenton.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Look at these beautiful boys!! 🥹🥹🥹 #greyhound #whippet
Mitch (greyhound), Ajax (whippet) and Whistler (greyhound) huddled on the path together.
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Dara Renton @drenton.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
This pic came up as a featured photo today Sarah - in her Ronaldinho shirt - playing street football in Rijeka with some local boys. 💕⚽️🇧🇷🇭🇷 #worldcup #Brasil #Brazil #Croatia #Hrvatska (From 2009)
5 kids (under 12 maybe) pausing a match of street soccer for a photo in Rijeka, Croatia from July 2009.
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Dara Renton @drenton.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Three sighthounds, all bedded down for the night.
A whippet and a greyhound on a sofa in the background, one greyhound on the bed in the foreground. Ready for sleep.
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Dara Renton @drenton.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
If the Golden Knights meet the Habs in the Stanley Cup final, it’ll be the first time a Canadian has set foot in Las Vegas in 18 months.
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Dara Renton @drenton.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
A truly gorgeous night in the Ferg.
View of Grand River and her grassy banks, looking west from the Gartshore bridge, Fergus, Ontario
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Dara Renton @drenton.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
An entirely “Made in the U.S.A.” crisis. The headline is missing the culprit, I guess the WSJ finds it hard to blame their guy. www.wsj.com/business/aut...
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An Aluminum Crisis Is Roiling the Auto Industry
America’s top-selling vehicle, the Ford F-150, bears the brunt of metal-supply-chain woes.
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Dara Renton @drenton.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Spring in the Ferg has finally sprung. Green grass, babbling brook and late afternoon sunshine.
Sunshine through the trees over a babbling brook that runs through a grassy area in Fergus, Ontario.
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Dara Renton @drenton.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
post the best picture you have ever taken of your pet (if you feel like it):
Whistler (white/brindle greyhound) and Mitch (full brindle greyhound) caught at the moment an outside noise caught their attention.
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patak @patak.cat · 09/04/2026
Open source projects should leave X. It isn't easy in many cases, but I hope maintainers will push proposals to their teams when the time is right. @e18e.dev and @npmx.dev are only here, and both projects are thriving.
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John Gruber @gruber.foo · 09/04/2026
So many great ones here: kottke.org/26/04/stunning-art...
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Stunning Artemis II Phone Wallpapers
NASA has made available more than a dozen mobile wallpapers of photos taken during the Artemis II mission for free download. Basic Apple Guy has made some wallp
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Dara Renton @drenton.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
More nerds in space, please. Like take over our media channels 24/7, all of them, and keep telling us how grateful you are about your loved ones and mentors, and the people around you. And just keep being the nicest people in public life right now. #artemisii #nasa
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Dara Renton @drenton.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Nirvana the Band the Show the Movie So good + the most Toronto experience ever.
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Dara Renton @drenton.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Michael B. Jordan!!! #oscars
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Dara Renton @drenton.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Guillermo del Toro is the Andy Reid of film making. He has created a machine that pumps out Oscar winners. #oscars
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Dara Renton @drenton.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Ryan Coogler, YAAAAASSSSSS #oscars
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Dara Renton @drenton.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
F1’s sequel, Caps Lock #oscars 🧑‍🍳🤌
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Dara Renton @drenton.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
A foggy Grand river in Fergus today Beaucoup de brouillard.
Grand river in Fergus facing west, snowy banks and fog is seen Grand river in Fergus facing west, snowy banks and fog is seen
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Dara Renton @drenton.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
If you’re moving from OpenAI’s ChatGPT to Anthropic’s Claude, there is a prompt for that (To bring over your account’s memory) claude.com/import-memory
claude.com
Switch to Claude without starting over | Claude
Transfer your preferences, projects, and context from other AI providers into Claude. Switch without losing what makes your AI useful.
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