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Kyle Memoir 🍉🐧 @f800gecko.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 6h

Been a while since I posted but I am still cycling and shooting local pics. More details in the #alttext #stratford #ontario #canada #cycling #photography

A classic red barn and silo on a near horizon just west of an old farmhouse nestled in a copse of trees. The foreground is a field of golden stubble bordered by sky left and top and a row of maples wearing every colour from summer green to fire of Hades red and orange. The sky is American midwest/World War II silk stockings a soldier gave to a French girl blue - gently textured and delicate as a robin's egg.

A stark Skeletor-like leafless tree stands like an inverted granite lightning bolt before a wide open Montana-like sky over gold fields either side of a lonely gravel road. It is sunny, dry and cool out this late October day, but also unusually warm.

Fluffy grasses gone to seed by the roadside tilt left in a gentle breeze as we whizz home just west of St. Pauls near the centre of southwest Ontario. The sky is pale blue with streaks of cirrus.

Nearly home, we enter town from the southwest and just passing the Jobsite brewpub, we find this lovely view down the main CNR line toward the station whose roots reach back to the 1830's. Some Halloween decos (a ghost-sheeted skeleton minding a skeleton dog) sit on the lawn of a period Ontario cottage painted to match today's sky - see related pics in this post. The road and the tracks diverging and converging in the foreground help lead the eye around the whole image. Clearly, it’s a lovely fall day and we've had a fantastic little ride out there in the barren wilderness of local farmland.

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Kyle Memoir 🍉🐧 @f800gecko.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

From a major Canadian bank. We are well and truly fucked. Microsoft is busy embedding this shit in the o/s. Your own bank is probably slurping it up like a kid with a drippy ice cream on a hot Sunday. We're putting chimps in charge of humanity, folks, and […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

me to Simplii AI agent: you just told me this: To move money from your Simplii account to your own account at another Canadian financial institution, you can use either: Flinks Funds Transfer, if the other institution supports it.

Now you are telling me the opposite; how can believe anything you say?

AI: You're right to question that. | gave you contradictory information, and my earlier statement that Flinks Funds Transfer could send money from Simplii Financial to another bank was incorrect.

The correct information is that Flinks is used to move money from an eligible
external Canadian financial institution into an eligible Simplii Financial
account. It does not provide a confirmed method for sending money out of Simplii Financial to another bank.

I'm sorry for the confusion. I should have... blah, blah, blah...

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Kyle Memoir 🍉🐧 @f800gecko.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

A pal asked if I could turn a two-bottle LCBO gift box into a mini-cajon. The results were pleasing. I bought a snare wire for $20, a strip of cedar for the sound board, and some 3/8 quarter round to reinforce the box. The thin plywood bottle separator […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

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Kyle Memoir 🍉🐧 @f800gecko.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

A handful of shots from a walkabout yesterday evening, post-tempest. 1. Wires down on Well St. 2. Tree limb down near Regent St. 3. Post-storm bus station & single passenger with walker 4. Lights out north of the river, generators clacking away at a couple […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

Dusk approaches as a couple in a pick-up call in a downed live wire to a single dwelling whose lights are out. The three limb lays across the road and the wire, noticed on closer approach hangs from a nearby pole beneath it.

A big tree limb down beside a house dating to early in the last century or perhaps late in the century prior. Its a big chunk of wood, a ton or two maybe, clothed in still vibrant summer greenery.

A stormy sky, all sharp cloud edges, strata and campfire colours provides the backdrop to a single passenger awaiting the bus at a small town station. The bus's lights are lit, full darkness being not far off.

Towering cumulus stands castle-like above and below (reflected via the lake) a residence dimly lit by a portable generator in the midst of a local power outage. The colours are all grey and taupe in the late twilight glow of approaching night.

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Kyle Memoir 🍉🐧 @f800gecko.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

Perth County & others under severe weather and tornado watch/warning. #wx #onstorm #ontario #canada

Colourful screen-cap showing two huge blobs with lotsa lightning - one blob over the area in question - the large tongue of Southwest Ontario sandwiched between several of the Great Lakes - the other blob approaching Toronto.

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Kyle Memoir 🍉🐧 @f800gecko.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

Who knows why, but today out cycling came to mind a long ago colleague who did BA work for y2k who always referred to the 'physical year' in relation to budget matters. Brought to mind an ad heard on a telepersonals service around the same time by someone […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

County Road 135 between St. Marys and Stratford. A crowd of roadside rushes, rust stalked and green topped, stands in the foreground of a wide shot taken on a stinky hot humid day on the ride back to town, km 55 or so of a stinky hot rural cycle outing. A lone telephone pole stands off to the right some 50 meters southeast of the crossroads we’re at (135 and 16, I think), a golden field of stubble to the left, and a long distance off a few trees under a hazy pastel sky of scrambled blue, white and grey just starting to show signs of lifting and cumulus development.

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Kyle Memoir 🍉🐧 @f800gecko.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026

Spooky weird derelict structure out back of beyond in Hooterville (Kirkton), Ontario. Kinda place that might be seen in a rural America true crime doc on TV... #gravelbike #cycling #photography #ontario #canada

A building probably constructed in the 1940's or 50's when the highway system was in development, now dilapidated, abandoned and locked. Weeds and rubble line its foundation, its metal roof is rusting and decades old formerly white paint is streaked with stains. An overhang casts a long shadow over a concrete riser running its full frontal width and behind some bushes nature has installed, it appears connected to an ancient concrete silo that's about a third of the height of any serious farm silo. One can only guess at its former ownership and purpose.

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Kyle Memoir 🍉🐧 @f800gecko.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 25/07/2026

Found two closed bridges still open to foot traffic today. Last pic is new computer's first road test beside old one. Got a long-retired cadence sensor half-price for this 'classic' piece (harkening to another era) and finally got it to pair. Cadence info is […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

Bridge out in nowheresville with caution signs and hefty concrete blocks barring the way.

Gravel road goes on forever. This is near the Thames above Woodstock.

Plenty of room for a gravel bike tho.

Long shot on approach to the first deprecated bridge. It looks tiny at the end of a hall of tall green midsummer trees. We’re on gravel and loving it out here.

The rusted overhead ironwork of an early 20th century country bridge, signposted with a 16 ton max load, supporting a concrete deck against a flat blue late afternoon sky.

A view over the bars of a gravel bike with a sharp-cornered German made Sigma cyclocomputer looking very Panther tank-like showing a speed of 39 km/h and crank RPM of 106. An intersection looms in the near distance.

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Kyle Memoir 🍉🐧 @f800gecko.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2026

We had a power outage in yesterday's winds. Mighta had something to do with this (Regent St). Plus, farm-to-table same day. #stratford #canada #gravelbike #cycling #photography #food

A small town telephone pole snapped clean about six feet up. An orange cone, low wire flags and cleanliness give evidence of the utility having been at work on this street of late 19th century houses.

A pale courgette and some beets still on the stalk against a black background. The beet stalks look a bit like organized wiring.

BBQ with aforementioned veggies and two chicken breasts becoming nicely browned.

The presentation is over last night's leftovers of couscous, roasted red pepper and roasted cremini mushrooms.

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Kyle Memoir 🍉🐧 @f800gecko.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 19/07/2026

A nice breeze out there late this aft - and a break in the forest fire smoke. Steady 35 km/h, gusts to 40. So a nice quick burn homebound. #cycling #gravelbike #photography

A lonely country road, dry and grey in the summer heat, stretches out to some trees and a distant horizon on a windy humid day on the tail end of a major toxic smoke event across eastern North America. A pastel castle of cumulus rises in the background, but the tempests have passed with the front and not rained hereabouts. We get a colourful sky and only a parsimonious break from the heat instead.

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Kyle Memoir 🍉🐧 @f800gecko.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 19/07/2026

The configuration arguments give a pretty good summary of how I built my coin toss app, I realized today. job_config (n, runs, Kb, Kbt, Lb, Kf, Kft, Lf, rK, nitro, turbo, summary, new_csv, cold_restart, multi_engine, cpu_sys, cpu_mp) Almost done coding […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

Screen grab from high-performance coin toss app in development giving some interesting stats in run summary 1 from a 12 run job, each run a hundred million tosses, totalling 1.2 giga-tosses, or 1.2 billion.

Run time about 3/4 of a second.

Start? >> [Enter], 'Q' >> Quit:

Pooling 4 engines...
Dispatching Run 1 (Nitro, noTbo)...
Dispatching Run 2 (Nitro, noTbo)...
Dispatching Run 3 (Nitro, noTbo)...
Dispatching Run 4 (Nitro, noTbo)...

>>> Flight 1.00 of 3.00 (4/12 runs) dispatched <<<

Dispatching Run 5 (Nitro, noTbo)...

Run Summary 1 of 12

n = 100,000,000

Heads: 50,006,338 Tails: 49,993,662

Spread: 12,676 (0.01268%) Score ties: 4,378

Ratio: 1 / 0.9997465121321222

Longest streaks: Heads: 24 Tails: 27 Alternating: 25

First longest streak of 27 at: n = 30,289,129

Longest streak ties (repeat & sub-ties ignored): 18

Longest streak last newly tied at 25 at: n = 29,164,794

run time: Oh Om 0s 737.200796604ms

(est 55.0%)
Dispatching Run 6 (Nitro, noTbo)...
Dispatching Run 7 (Nitro, noTbo)...

Run Summary 2 of 12

sample ends here

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Kyle Memoir 🍉🐧 @f800gecko.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 16/07/2026

Just finished this one. A couple of factual inaccuracies (no, 'G' in physics does not mean 100 times your weight - it is earth's gravitational constant 'g' in this context, and yes, chimps do actually teach one another), plus some idiocy no fault of the […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

The cover of Jon Cohen's 'Almost Chimpanzee' subtitled 'Redrawing the Lines that Separate Us from Them'.

The title and subtitle are cream and red respectively, displayed over the image of a chimp seen from behind, his dark fur shimmering in silhouette against a black background, the formidable compact musculature of his neck and shoulders as striking as the pale tips of his ears.

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Kyle Memoir 🍉🐧 @f800gecko.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 15/07/2026

Orange forest fire haze, Southwest Ontario. (No filter or adjustments applied to photo of five min ago.) It smells like a campsite/factory outside. We should stop calling them 'wildfires,' btw. They're human-boosted by our waste heat drying their fuel, and […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

A few cars can be seen on a four lane street in small town Southwest Ontario. A yellow-orange haze of forest fire smoke from up north has settled on this part of the world, adding a toxic garnish on top of a sustained >30C heatwave now in day three. Even the nearest large tree, about 100 feet away, is tinted by the tainted air. The way downtown is entirely obscured by the noxious swath about a mile west of our vantage point.

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Kyle Memoir 🍉🐧 @f800gecko.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 09/07/2026

Gravel cycling. 100 km today, mostly blacktop. I didn't realize it was 31C 'til I passed a time/temp sign somewhere halfway. Tonight's supposed to cool a bit. Good because we still have no a/c - it's chooched atm. It’s like old-fashioned summer. Pix note […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

A sand coloured gravel bike about 45 km from home rests against the post holding up a historical plaque described in the next photo's alttext.

Historical sign in the middle of nowhere (Whalen Corners), Southwest Ontario.

The sign gives a history of the corners in the horse and wagon age, the postal services of the time, the general store (gone), with its postmaster (long-deceased), and a highway smoothing of 1935 that led to the razing of a few other places.

Plus the mob murder of a Donnelly brother (mistaken for someone else) by a local gun-toting church group ('The Peace Society') on the heels of their murder of his parents, another brother, and a cousin.

It's a long local/national story with books about it.

Aside: OCR failed miserably on a transcription attempt, sorry.

Looking down a deserted rural road in Southwest Ontario. A hot summer day: blue sky, a few billows of cumulus, greenery in riot at the edges of fields and in the valleys and towns where it still has a foothold, and the empty road

Very similar to prior shot but with a large tree at right that gives scale to our small presence on an entirely human-powered gravel bike out back of nowhere in Canada's hay, corn and soybean country.

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Kyle Memoir 🍉🐧 @f800gecko.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 04/07/2026

Good question! We'd be happy to sell it back to you! S7: 'we'll be glad to provide you access to your Personal Information. Sometimes, there may be a small processing fee' S3: 'You can opt out of the use of your Personal Information for marketing purposes […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

text from 407ETR website / client account

menu location: Travel With Us, Billing & Payments, Community, Support, Search

query text: prevent personal information sharing

reply: We found O results for your query prevent personal
information sharing

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Kyle Memoir 🍉🐧 @f800gecko.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 03/07/2026

@mpjgregoire Interesting - I'd not bumped into the Gini coefficient before. It's a slippery eel of a thing. I ran a few familiar countries and see India beats all for 'income equality'. Oxfam provides another perspective, as would any visit to India […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

Gini inequality index showing India as having a more 'equal' income distribution than a list of about 20 other first world nations (mostly North American & European)

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Kyle Memoir 🍉🐧 @f800gecko.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 29/06/2026

Here's a place in Southwest Ontario hosting tribute bands for those of longer aged vintages. Anything from swing to near-contemporary (meaning the 90's and early-aughts). I've seen one show: commendable, if workmanlike, periodically corny, touching, and […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

Walters Theatre, housed in a red barn, sits beyond a grey outbuilding, the gift shop, both nestled on a hill between a mottled blue and white background sky and a green spring grass and grey pavement foreground.

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Kyle Memoir 🍉🐧 @f800gecko.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 28/06/2026

Sometimes, you're alone out there. Kinda like going solo in a kayak on one of the Great Lakes. These near Fullerton. #cycling #stratford #ontario #canada #photogrpahy #gravelbike

A gently rolling stretch of empty country road takes the eye down into a forest beside a river bed over yonder (not shown). It’s overcast and humid, we’re making good time in the calm thin air.

A flat section of dotted-yellow-lined country road shoots straight ahead, bisecting a distant green woodlot.

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Kyle Memoir 🍉🐧 @f800gecko.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 22/06/2026

Seen while gravel riding along Ontario's Upper Thames today. There must be stories. #cycling #gravelbike #photography #canada #alttext

A puddled lane leading off to an old farm outbuilding divides the frame between what makes sense (shrubbery at left, the lane) and what doesn't. On the right is a farmhouse in ruins, its collapsed walls and windows at vertiginous angles, the top floor having fallen at all but one corner. There is junk everywhere, a green tarp, as if the ruin has perhaps been used as a dwelling. No humans to be sensed or seen anywhere. The bushes are starting to assert themselves. Impossible to tell whether weather caused, contributed or didn't affect the chaos. Abandoned gardens, long forgotten projects. But fairly fresh KEEP OUT signs.

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Kyle Memoir 🍉🐧 @f800gecko.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 19/06/2026

Nice to see Mastodon in the list, even if the login is only on .social. Also nice not to see the twit site listed. #billC22 #canada #petition #cdnpoli

Extract of confirmation email reading:

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Kyle Memoir 🍉🐧 @f800gecko.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 17/06/2026

Got a 2.5h gravel ride done just before this muck rolled in today. St. Marys via Wildwood. Glad I left early! #stratford #canada #wx #gravelbike #cycling

A line of convective buildup squeezes out the last of a sunny blue morning over the Festival Theatre, Stratford's main stage. A tilt-shift filter has been applied to reduce emphasis on cars parked on the ring road where we are finishing a cross-country cycle, leaving the distant bank if cloud sharply defined. It thundered and rained about an hour later.

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Kyle Memoir 🍉🐧 @f800gecko.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 15/06/2026

When it’s raining and you wanna free up a hand and keep your snack dry... #snacks #rain #wx

A bag of tortilla chips nestles on thin black spars below the webbing of a navy blue and red umbrella opened in yesterday's rain.

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Kyle Memoir 🍉🐧 @f800gecko.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 06/06/2026

Harrington Grist Mill. As recently as the 1960's, this mill was still operational. It remains in great shape after restoration. www.exploreharrington.ca/grist-mill #ontario #canada #cycling

Beyond some tall green grasses on the back of a grassy berm holding back a mill pond out of frame, nestled in a copse of trees and greenery, sits a 19th century mill of wooden timbers and what looks today like a red metal roof. It’s a hot early June day that could easily be mistaken for mid-summer, the sky a painterly blend of humid blue and white.

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Kyle Memoir 🍉🐧 @f800gecko.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 04/06/2026

A family member retires from teaching this summer. By chance I found the perfect gift in a local book-lend. First published as 'Boners' in 1931 (I had an ancient wire-haired Scottish shop teacher in grade school who still used the word that way; never […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

Cover of 'Herrings Go About the Sea in Shawls' illustrated by Dr. Seuss. The cover shows various Seuss-style creatures on a back drop of large happy orange and yellow dots on a white backdrop.

Text transcript from a random page...

Let us compare the Constitution to a boat with Washington, James Madison and the several others fishing from it with the states as fishes. Some of these little suckers got hooked right off but New York and Virginia, the bass, put up a hard fight in which Patrick Henry took Virginia's part against James Madison. Patrick Henry won but the line was too strong and he along with Virginia came aboard. New York was caught easily and only Rhode Island remained. She would not be caught so they threatened to dynamite the pool, that is, to treat her as a foreign country, so she bit and the thirteen states stood a “New Nation under God.”

Horace Greeley was the worst defeated candidate ever elected.

Another random page...

An oboe is an American tramp.
A mayor is a he horse.
An optimist is a man who looks after your eyes, a pessimist looks after your feet.
Oracles was the greatest orator of his day.
An oracle is something named after Oracles because he did what cannot be done.
A momentum is what you give someone when they are going away.
The Papal Bull was a mad bull kept by the Pope
A monologue is a conversation between two people, such as husband and wife.
Mussolini is a sort of material used for stockings.

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Kyle Memoir 🍉🐧 @f800gecko.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 23/05/2026

Got a photo on our pre-dinner walk. He's now on my bed, snuggling with the orange cat. All his ribs still showing, nervous and twitchy, but a truly gentle soul. #dogs #galgo #animalwelfare #nature

A galgo rescue from Spain - indistinguishable from the sleek all-black female greyhound I had until she passed last spring (osteosarcoma, common to that breed), and he's equally sweet and gentle. Definitely a sight hound, zeroing on squirrels and the like outdoors, but perfectly peaceable in the house, like the hound I had before Zelda.

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Kyle Memoir 🍉🐧 @f800gecko.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 20/05/2026

Gravel bike repair. All this for one popped spoke. The blue-handled item (brake disc lock-ring tool) & little black nub on the paper towel (gear cassette lock-ring tool) together cost about $100 -- what a shop job woulda cost and I'm good for the next […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

A gravel bike suspended from a plant hanger over a wooden deck. The rear wheel has been removed and the chain hangs in lazy unstressed parabolic loops. On the deck surface, the naked wheel, parts of the brake system and the rear gear cassette are strewn, along with a new rear tire waiting to go on and various tools, some of which are in a plastic tub to prevent them going astray.

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Kyle Memoir 🍉🐧 @f800gecko.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 18/05/2026

Otherwise in cycling, I finally found a config for my fwd-facing mirror that has me reasonably happy. It’s a perceptual challenge to begin with (image upside down, more jerky on minor steering corrections than the outboard mirror & targets are against a diff […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

Looking down from the rider's view, the controls of a gravel bike, outboard rearview mirror on the far left of the left bar and the inboard forward-facing mirror (same small egg-shaped type) mounted on the handlebar stem. The keys to comfort are: a clear unobstructed view in both, having both on the same lateral plane so either remains visible when the other is being peered into, and lots of practice to read the upside-down image while also monitoring lane position, road edge, etc.

Close up of the forward view mirror. I'd hoped for a crisp image of the road ahead as I see it riding, but of course my phone zeroed in on the high contrast black frame, leaving nothing else in proper focus. But it gives an idea of the upside-down view ahead one has to get used to.

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Kyle Memoir 🍉🐧 @f800gecko.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 18/05/2026

Got my Python performance-enhanced coin toss prog ('Toss-Up Nitro' - lol) running a billion tosses & analysis in under 5 seconds via multiprocessing and a bit of other magic. Here's the perf mon when it lights up 6 of the 8 cores I have on my 13 y-o machine […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

A colourful chart from a Linux performance monitor shows CPU activity coming to live as an idle system completes a test run of 8 billion coin tosses.

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Kyle Memoir 🍉🐧 @f800gecko.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 16/05/2026

Oh, yeah - it’s Caturday, right? This guy's name is Ziggy. At the farm he came from, they called him French Fry, which I wasn't keen on. Never forget the look of surprise he gave me that first day as a fresh-from-the-country adolescent when I noticed a […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

An butterscotch streaked orange cat blissfully stretched out and snoozing across the border between blue jeans and a white t-shirt. His closed eyes, nose and whiskers are clear and crisp, the rest of the frame is soft bokeh.

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Kyle Memoir 🍉🐧 @f800gecko.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 02/05/2026

Picked this up at the local bookstore today. I'm close to done buying books online—it’s vapour the minute they decide. Fuck the oligarchs and billionaires, and may they all boil in their own sweat as they watch us die ahead of them, which unfortunately is […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

Cover of The High Road by former Toronto homicide cop Hank Idsinga, who in recent interviews has angered his former colleagues by calling out the hazing, racism and antisemitism he saw routinely while serving as a senior member of the force. The book cover features a fabulously dark and foreboding view of downtown on a dark and stormy day (lol) with the tip of the CN tower lifting one's gaze up into the austere white and mustard sans serif type of the book's title.

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Kyle Memoir 🍉🐧 @f800gecko.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 02/05/2026

Caturday wrestling stance could go either way... snuggly or ugly #caturday

An orange cat with a slightly malevolent look in his eye rests and arm across the back of his black cat buddy.

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Kyle Memoir 🍉🐧 @f800gecko.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 02/05/2026

Love the placement of these two items on the Atlantic's 'Latest' page this morning... #ai #love #tech

First story says AI a great tool for perps to make fake ID. Story two places down asks: Can AI help me find love.

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Kyle Memoir 🍉🐧 @f800gecko.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 29/04/2026

Relative yanking my chain on some family business stuff... #ai #technology

relative: re spreadsheet, get AI to help
me: [Captain Kirk voice] riiiiggghhttt...

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Kyle Memoir 🍉🐧 @f800gecko.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 29/04/2026

This is such a cunning, shameless, beautiful scam. Got an email from Equifax (who exposed zillions of records to hackers not long ago if memory serves), the gist of which was: 'Nice credit rating you got there. Be a shame if something happened to it...' I […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

email from Equifax warning of people accessing credit info potentially being scammers

Link followed to see what can be done about this - the Equifax page provides an option promising help

Maybe an agent can clarify. They've got a bot helper, so I ask it. Nope, no agents available. But you can call a 1-866 number and spend oodles of unpaid time waiting for someone to tell you you're wasting your time (which you already knew).

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Kyle Memoir 🍉🐧 @f800gecko.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 21/04/2026

No leaves in this shot from an early ride last week or thereabouts; this week the buds are popping. #stratford #canada #photography

A deserted intersection on a county road, mid-April. The sky is a wash of white and light blue. A stop sign cherry atop a skewer, the white 'stop here' line, a lone telephone pole, empty road ahead, though not far from town.

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Kyle Memoir 🍉🐧 @f800gecko.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 11/04/2026

The astros obviously saw a giant cat back-side of the moon (waiting for mice to go for the cheese, doubtless) and NASA is not telling us. #caturday #artemis #nasa #photography

A view of partially-lit Earth from behind the moon cropped to look like a sharp feline claw.

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Kyle Memoir 🍉🐧 @f800gecko.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 02/04/2026

Rotational symmetry in physics. - from Guido Tonelli's 'Genesis: the Story of How Everything Began' #physics #science #humor

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Kyle Memoir 🍉🐧 @f800gecko.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 30/03/2026

Will LLM's eventually hold hostage our entire body of technical knowledge and understanding of how stuff works? And eventually charge us a fee/sign-up to get at anything that was once freely and openly available? See: superfastpython.com @pluralistic #python #ai #llm

SuperFastPython

The website SuperFastPython.com has shut down.

Why? I don't see the need for the books and tutorials, given the era of LLMs.

If you require support for books/bundles purchased from the website, contact me directly: Jason.Brownlee65@gmail. com

If you're interested, you may be able to access the tutorials via the Wayback Machine on archive.org: https://web.archive.org
RIP SuperFastPython.com November 2021 to March 2026.

Jason Brownlee

March 2026

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Kyle Memoir 🍉🐧 @f800gecko.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 14/02/2026

So, how do you feel about Caturday? Hmm... What do you think of the president? #caturday #politics

An orange cat with jaw fully exposed as if to crush the spinal cord of its prey.

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Kyle Memoir 🍉🐧 @f800gecko.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 25/01/2026

The minimap of the first python app I've written that's really made me happy (a 50:50 analyzer - billions of dice throws—gah!!) looks like my home cityscape turned on its side... Isn't that the Dome? #linux #python #mathematics #science #alttext

A mostly black canvas with towers of colour made by pixelated code turned on it's side. Maybe we're looking from across a black bay under a black sky - as befits the times.

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