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Darcy Casselman @flyingsquirrel.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/10/2026

Chris Moser takes the lead over Chantal Huinink right at the end and this completes the scenario I've been dreading for weeks.

Mayor
Councillor, Region of Waterloo
To be elected: 1
Votes
Chart showing current City of Waterloo election results. Mayor on the left and Regional Council on the right.

Mayor:
Shannon WEBER: 14797 votes (52.09%)
Dorothy MCCABE 8440 votes (29.71%)
and some others.

Regional Councillor (2 to be elected):
Jim ERB: 13671 votes (29.85%)
Chris MOSER: 8493 votes (18.54%)
Chantal HUININK: 8458 votes (18.47%)
and some others.

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Darcy Casselman @flyingsquirrel.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

Lots of #WaterlooRegion events happening today. In particular, #Kwartzlab holding an open house with a bunch of little mini maker workshops throughout. www.kwartzlab.ca/events-2

Poster for Kwartzlab's (145 Bedford Rd Kitchener) Open House and Skill-Share, today until 4. The picture shows the Tinker Truck portable river and the text below reads "Come see the Tinker Truck's portable river and try making your own popsicle stick boat!"

Say hi to Cam for me if you do.

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Darcy Casselman @flyingsquirrel.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

Ooh, also happening today is Climate Fest in the Gaukel Block in Downtown Kitchener.

Poster for Climate Fest 2026 showing a bunch of events that have already happened, but you might catch the Sustainable Cooking Demo and then a talk about Vermicomposting at 4. Concert in the park follows at 5.

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Darcy Casselman @flyingsquirrel.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026

On the blog: Chorus. I enjoyed this somewhat flawed arcade space combat game. It might be I'm desperate for arcade space combat games.

Artwork for the Chorus game. Sulky hero Nara is reclining against her sentient spaceship, Forsa. In the background is a decidedly improbable space environment, perhaps a ring around the planet you can see in the far back except you can see other rings over head and rings don't work like that.

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Darcy Casselman @flyingsquirrel.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/06/2026

I like to think I more closely align with the Right Honourable Prime Minister based on the worldview he espouses, rather than the one he enacts. As those appear to be very different. This is a nuance perhaps lost on non-Canadians (and a lot of Canadians, honestly)

My "Your Results" section of that four-dimensional meme quiz that's going around. Rating me at "75% Woke/25% Chud", 52% Techbro/48% Neo-Luddite", "70% Hopepilled/30% Doomer" and "88% Davos, 12% Dubai"

And, it says, "Your closest match: Mark Carney, Prime Minister of Canada (2025-present)" with a photo of the man himself.

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Darcy Casselman @flyingsquirrel.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/06/2026

[TimeGuessr rage/spoiler] This is far from the most egregious example of Timeguessr doing this to me (and somewhat less enraging because I did get the date wrong, so they're not depriving me of a 10000), but I did go to some effort to determine that the […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Screenshot from today's TimeGuessr Daily, step 1. On the right is a photo of the interior of Chicago Union Station's now-demolished Concourse building. On the right is a map claiming the location of the photo is from the extant Union Station building.

The text says "A view of the concourse at Chicago Union Station during the early 1940s, decorated with Allied flags and bond-promotion displays during World War II," claiming the date is 1943, and that my guess (1942) was 1 year off.

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Darcy Casselman @flyingsquirrel.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/06/2026

On the blog: Star Trek: Resolute. A rather pointles review of Star Trek: Resurgence—a game you can't buy anymore. But I liked it. flyingsquirrel.ca/posts/2026/2026-0… #startrek

The USS Resolute. Screenshot taken from the Star Trek Online videogame

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Darcy Casselman @flyingsquirrel.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/06/2026

Somewhere Else the Tea Is Getting Cold: My ruminations on the new Wilderness Years, speaking as someone who lived through the original ones. #DoctorWho flyingsquirrel.ca/posts/2026/2026-0…

The Doctor and Ace walking towards some shrubs, from the end of Survival, ending the classic series of Doctor Who

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Darcy Casselman @flyingsquirrel.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/06/2026

Hey! I didn't think I'd care that much about this road reconstruction in Cambridge, but I'm actually pretty excited #WaterlooRegion is going to start doing continuous crossings for regional road MUTs... Source: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoTOkKwIDMs

Slide from an regional consultation on the Myers Road reconstruction showing multi-use path crossings at residential streets with stop signs on to the regional road. The heading reads "Continuous Crosswalks at Intersections."

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Darcy Casselman @flyingsquirrel.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/01/2026

For Christ's sake, CBC. "Will your Chinese car spy on you any more than your Tesla already does?" Or better yet, "Will racism finally encourage the Canadian government to finally enact some useful privacy laws?"

Screencap of a YouTube thumbnail from CBC News. "How much could a Chinese EV cost --- and will it spy on you? | Hanomansing Tonight." Posted 3 days ago. 175k views. The thumbnail image shows a line of BYD cars. BYD Dolphin, I think. But I'm not great at picking out BYD cars because I'm not able to buy them and I've never seen one in person.

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Darcy Casselman @flyingsquirrel.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/01/2026

I think it's kind of cute that my doorbell camera recognizes a snowblower as a pet.

Screen cap of a security camera app showing a thumbnail of a man pushing a snowblower. Overlayed on the image are icons representing motion detection, person detection and animal detection.

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Darcy Casselman @flyingsquirrel.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/01/2026

I've seen a bunch of "Zootopia Inspo" tracks popping up at the periphery of my YouTube Music new releases. In the past, I probably would've checked them out for the pure WTF of it all, but I know if I do, this sort of slop will utterly overwhelm my algorithm and I'll never get rid of them.

A screenshot of the YouTube Music new releases page, showing two tracks stacked one on top of the other.

The first, titled "Nick Wilde Fan Club (Zootopia 2 Inspo) is a single by the totally real artist Croco Beat. The cover is a clearly AI-generated album cover featuring Nick descending from a helicopter from a rope ladder.

Below that is "Saja Boys in Zootopia 2 World, " a single by Dj GG. The cover, again, AI generated, features Jinu in a purple fur coat surrounded by tiny Zootopia characters over his shoulders.

This has got be some sort of 4chan thing or something.

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Darcy Casselman @flyingsquirrel.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/12/2025

I mean, this tracks... I'm a bit surprised I only did 9 #WaterlooRegion toots, but I suppose I'm mostly over here boosting.

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Darcy Casselman @flyingsquirrel.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2025

OMG I didn't realize he was referencing the song. Way to go, kiddo.

90s-ish style graphic image of Taylor Swift with lots of pink and cyan, with the text "GOT NOTHING IN MY BRAIN." beautifully embossed.

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Darcy Casselman @flyingsquirrel.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2025

The neighbourhood turkeys blessed us this Thanksgiving.

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Darcy Casselman @flyingsquirrel.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2025

Meet the unicyclist who rides a toilet around K-W www.cbc.ca/player/play/9.6868995 Cong Ta is a motorized unicycle enthusiast who has been bringing laughs to people across Waterloo region by riding a toilet with a poop emoji helmet. His peculiar […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Photo of a man in a poop emoji helmet warning at the camera while sitting on what looks like a toilet with a single wheel. Living the life, obviously.

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Darcy Casselman @flyingsquirrel.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/07/2025

Aww geez, now I actually have to evolve this stupid thing. #PokemonGo

Pokemon Go screenshot of a Gimmeghoul assessed at 100% IVs, with the 9th anniversary background.

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Darcy Casselman @flyingsquirrel.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/06/2025

I love #DoctorWho Maybe just not what’s on the TV all the time. Some thoughts about recent Doctor Who seasons and where to find some actually good nostalgic fanwank. flyingsquirrel.ca/index.php/2025/06…

Screen capture of Carole Ann Ford sitting, looking pensively out across the Thames, with Westminster Bridge and Big Ben in the background.

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Darcy Casselman @flyingsquirrel.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/05/2025

[Doctor Who spoilers] Okay, so the thing about the Rani, is that she's not evil. She's utterly amoral. She's indifferent to suffering. She's chaotic neutral. Not evil. She's not seeking to do harm (or go to battle). But she doesn't particularly care if her […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Painting of Kate O'Mara's Rani from the Magic The Gathering Doctor Who commander deck. She's in her Tardis from Mark of the Rani, pouring glowing green liquid in a beaker, being all sciencey and shit.

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Darcy Casselman @flyingsquirrel.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/05/2025

Retrontario points out Noreen Young, the puppet maker and puppeteer on READLALONG died a few recently. She also made the puppets for Today's Special and Téléfrançais. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noreen_Young #ontario #tvo #retrontario

Photo of Noreen Young with one of her mouse puppets, beside a statue of same. (I recognize the mouse, but can't place it. It's not Muffy from Today's Special, but similar).

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Darcy Casselman @flyingsquirrel.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/04/2025

Canadian superhero Captain Canuck is having a comeback, and we have Trump to thank | CBC News www.cbc.ca/news/canada/captain-canu…

Photo of a table of stacked Captain Canuck comics covered by a Captain Canuck art print poster featuring the good captain grabbing a strange, orange-skinned man in a blue suit and oddly blonde hair. It looks like the Captain may have slapped the man and is now waving a finger at him.

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Darcy Casselman @flyingsquirrel.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/04/2025

Why is the verb for applying #tarriffs always "slapped"? ...No, wait, I think I get it...

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