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🇨🇦 Mike S @gnuwf.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Holy cow, I wasn't at the extreme snowfall anomaly for NDJF when I made that comment. #nlwx

🇨🇦 Mike S @gnuwf.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

@sciencevs.bsky.social Ok, ok, I get it. It's on people's minds. Thankfully Betteridge's law of headlines applies. #thebridge #petermansbridge

Science Vs. and The Bridge have nearly identical headlines for their podcasts: Will AI kill us all?

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🇨🇦 Mike S @gnuwf.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I don't know what the ChatGPT folk are thinking when they made those ads from the phone's pov. The strangers are sweaty, eating a sandwich or doing something equally effective in eliciting a negative visceral reaction. I don't want a person looking down my face taking a big bite of a sandwich.

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🇨🇦 Mike S @gnuwf.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

This makes so much sense to a large portion of the population it's criminal not to popularize it.

A top down/left to right table design for recipes which makes it immediately clear what to do in a recipe.

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🇨🇦 Mike S @gnuwf.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Sweden's solution to head on collisions on two lane highways: add passing lanes and put a steel cable barrier between the opposing traffic. Traffic deaths dropped 70-90% NL already has the passing lanes. #nltraffic (YouTube embedding isn't working for some reason) youtu.be/jyNEnYaBszk

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🇨🇦 Mike S @gnuwf.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

quote post with a female superhero you love

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🇨🇦 Mike S @gnuwf.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Before I started playing, ADG had a pop-up course on the large fields on top of the hill. The whole area is great for mountain biking, forest hikes, snowshoeing, snowmobiling and fat biking. It's a very underappreciated area that's being lost acre by acre to development. #yyt #stjohnsnl

Google maps view of the top of Kenmount Hill, with two large hayfields interconnected with a smaller one. The larger one is 500m long, the other over 200m.

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🇨🇦 Mike S @gnuwf.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Between 2010 and 2026, large stands of Kenmount Hill forest has died off. From what? Below compares 2026 imagery on the left, to 2010 on the right. Note the large patches of grey dead wood. With hotter, drier summers, how long before the entire hill catches fire? #nlwx #stjohnsnl #yyt

https://map.stjohns.ca comparison map of the south side of Kenmount Hill.

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🇨🇦 Mike S @gnuwf.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

If you want to see some of the nicest car dealership buildings around, Come to St. John's. The new buildings are wild. The Hyundai dealership has a restaurant.

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🇨🇦 Mike S @gnuwf.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

I'll keep remnding folks that Star Trek's best episodes were woke and politicized from the get go. As was intended. S01E04 of ST:TNG, "Code of Honor", notwithstanding.

Image from "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield", two peoples at war, the only difference was the sides their black and white pigments were on.

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🇨🇦 Mike S @gnuwf.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

YouTube acknowledges Soul Metal is a genre. This was needed: Go listen to Bill McClintock's mashups and you'll swear they were the original recordings. Marvin Gaye and Ratt, Stevie Wonder and Van Halen. So much yes.

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🇨🇦 Mike S @gnuwf.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Not a single crosswalk or traffic light. Every single person hates it.

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🇨🇦 Mike S @gnuwf.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Yet more reason why Kelsey Drive is a city planning disaster area. Not related to this accident in particular, but there are no traffic lights or crosswalks between Kiwanis and Messenger drive.

SUV DESTROYS METROBUS SHELTER
(May 19th)

Emergency crews responded to a single-vehicle crash on Kelsey Drive near Walmart in St. John’s on Friday afternoon (May 15th).

At approximately 3:00 p.m., firefighters with the St. John’s Regional Fire Department (SJRFD), along with the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary (RNC) and NL Health Services (NLHS), were called to the scene after an SUV left the roadway and crashed into a Metrobus shelter, destroying it.

When emergency crews arrived, they located an SUV, which was extensively damaged and found one injured person. Firefighters and paramedics assessed the person at the scene before loading them onto a stretcher and transporting them by ambulance to hospital with what were described as non-life-threatening injuries.

A second person at the scene was also assessed by firefighters and paramedics and wrapped in a blanket for warmth. That individual did not appear to be seriously injured.

Traffic on Kelsey Drive was reduced to one lane in both directions while emergency personnel managed the scene and conducted their investigation.

Officers with the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary (RNC) Traffic Services East and Collision Investigations Team responded and carried out a detailed investigation into the crash. The vehicle was reportedly travelling northbound on Kelsey Drive before it left the roadway and struck the shelter.

More information regarding the incident will be released once available.

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🇨🇦 Mike S @gnuwf.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

For real? 30+ cm of snow Friday into Saturday? #nlwx

Spotwx 2:30 am 2 day forecast for precipitation, highlight showing 27 cm at the end of the forecast, 2:30 am

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🇨🇦 Mike S @gnuwf.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Hard to say would would be worse. Using ATV trails for a MTB race was not a good choice. Puddles grow from constant silt washout until they become kiddie pools. Then the trail widens more and more as ATVs route around the pool. I've seen holloways well over a metre deep from ATVs.

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🇨🇦 Mike S @gnuwf.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Here is the cassette to be used, and it sound fantastic.

1982 Maxell UD. Black shell, silver and black label, white hubs, clear tape window, stood up in the cassette case, with the black and grey j-card, repeating patterns of vertical lines in increasing widths.

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🇨🇦 Mike S @gnuwf.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

I should add it's next to probably the city's worst shopping area for pedestrians, Kelsey Drive. That whole area around Kenmount Road is one big pile of car dominated fail. #yyt #cardominated #safecity #fail

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🇨🇦 Mike S @gnuwf.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Parts of the city are not legally safe to cycle to, including Kenmount Terrace. It is completely cut off to bicyclists that aren't mountain or XC. It's not hard to see why, surrounded by undeveloped land, industrial park, the worst four lane stroad in the city and a high speed arterial.

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🇨🇦 Mike S @gnuwf.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

How these three videos lined up on my Youtube feed: * GEN explaining how private equity is buying out some of the biggest Youtube channels * Veratasium (a prime example in GEN's video) with their split video/celeb appearance money grab * Berm Peak saying he's a stakeholder of a product he's pushing

Links to the videos:

Veratasium https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPJ6NJkmDAo
Berm Peak https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7A39kS2QMQ
GEN https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoibAbdQf58

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🇨🇦 Mike S @gnuwf.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Thanks. I think so too. Here's the image of what looks like circumzenithal arc.

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🇨🇦 Mike S @gnuwf.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Dildo lighthouse today with circumsolar rings. Weathers coming. Can anyone identify the arcs? There was also a ring around the zenith as well, but it was hard to capture with the cell phone camera. @eddiesheerr.bsky.social @rcbstormpost.bsky.social @isotachtics.bsky.social #nlwx

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🇨🇦 Mike S @gnuwf.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Here is city hall. A divided highway dumping into a stroad out in front, no paths for bikes, and a giant parking garage.

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🇨🇦 Mike S @gnuwf.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Yes there are lots of vacant accessible parking spaces. Here's one reason why:

The end of the concrete wheelchair access ramp in front of a public building has not been cleared of snow. This doesn't even address the poor state of the ramp itself.

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🇨🇦 Mike S @gnuwf.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

When an account professing to be Canadian responds to your Canadian post, but their feed is nothing but posts about the US. Not suspect at all.

A screenshot of my comment on PM Carney's responce to the Iran war, and the account "Magic Man" with a Red maple leaf in their PFP responds with "It's not"

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🇨🇦 Mike S @gnuwf.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Incredible! To think exactly four years ago here it was this. #nlwx #yyt #wildweather #weatherswings

Pussy willow buds in front of a completely bare Mundy Pond trail

A wide shot of the gazebo on the hill on the shore of Mundy Pond,, showing a bare trail, no snow at all, open pond, beautiful puffy cloud sky.

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🇨🇦 Mike S @gnuwf.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

There were lots of snow needles falling around 1 pm today in central St. John's. #nlwx

Looking from inside a car, 2-10mm long and less than a mm thick snow needles stick to the exterior of the side window.

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🇨🇦 Mike S @gnuwf.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

I was invited out for a round of disc golf on the coldest day of the year, but the inviter couldn't make it. No odds, it was gorgeous and quite toasty in the right clothes. (excuse the stiff posture!) #nlwx

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🇨🇦 Mike S @gnuwf.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

With reproduction inlay. I can't do much to save the paper label. I could possibly order adhesive cassette labels. Possibly a new white shell, but at that point, use better tape and then nothing's original! Restomods/reproductions comes to cassettes. (No, it ain't a bootleg!)

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🇨🇦 Mike S @gnuwf.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

in a desktop environment that is focused on simplicity, the Files app in @gnome.org displays 3 different dropdown menus: hamburger, kebab & arrow + 2 search icons. Cosmic Files with its 3 item menu bar + nav breadcrumb menu is a much simpler design. #gnomeorg #cosmicde #desktopenvironment

Screengrab of the poor interface layout of the top bar of the Files app on Gnome 49. Blue circles highlight both search icons, red squares represent three menu dropdowns.

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🇨🇦 Mike S @gnuwf.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Funny how the "VU meters" on this 1981 cassette deck only go up to +3 dB as the magnetic tape of most cassettes during that time couldn't handle signals over that. Yes, I have a cassette deck on my desk. Who needs streaming?

Close up of the two LED level meters of a silver LXI cassette deck pegged at +3, in the red.

A close up of a 1981 open well silver LXI cassette deck on a cherry coloured desk, playing a 90s clear Memorex dB, with the tape spools on full display. A computer monitor and speaker is on top of it while a headphone among and headphones are plugged in.

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🇨🇦 Mike S @gnuwf.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

YouTube runs awful AI Slop ads. Look at Prime Minister @mark-carney.bsky.social 's hand! I've flagged these ads a number of times and YouTube refuses to do anything about them.

YouTube AI slop ad of PM Carney handing an excited family the keys to a new home in a typical American suburb in the golden hour.

Screencap of YouTube AI slop of PM Carney being lead away in cuffs, with the police also in cuffs for some reason.

Screencap of a false AI slop CBC article being advertised on YouTube of PM Carney also being lead away in cuffs, without wearing cuffs.

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🇨🇦 Mike S @gnuwf.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Road conditions are live again on NL 511. #nlwx #nltraffic

Screenshot of the web interface 511nl.ca showng the map of NL with black lines representing road conditions, with a camara on the left side and the legend on the right side

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🇨🇦 Mike S @gnuwf.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

We had a visitor at Twillingate lighthouse lookout who stopped by to say hi. #nlwx #nltraffic @eddiesheerr.bsky.social

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🇨🇦 Mike S @gnuwf.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Whoever manages advertising at Google allows bald faced lying on YouTube with doctored or AI generated images and video of political figures and tv personalities.

AI generated image of Prime Minister Carney being led in handcuffs by police with the quite "The silence ends now"

Still from AI generated video of a beaten up Kevin O'Leary with the caption "new opportunities level the field", talking about tariffs.

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🇨🇦 Mike S @gnuwf.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

I've discovered the perfect writing implement for compact cassette winding. It *is not* a Bic Crystal. It is the Uniball Jetstream retractable ball point pen. 1/3 #uniball #jetstream #cassetteculture

The silver tip held over unopened new old stock blank cassettes, including a TDK MA-XG, one of the most coveted cassettes of all time.

The tip shown engaged with the hub of a Maxell Capsule UD-II 100, the teeth fitting perfectly into the indents of the tip.

A close up of the entire click pen from the tip. The shaft is black, rubberized and has a silver back window in the shaft saying "Jetstream". on a grey and black fabric background. The grip has clear window slits to view the internals.

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🇨🇦 Mike S @gnuwf.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

See the irony here? Meta and other tech bro driven AI crazed companies don't get it.

Screen cap of Facebook Meta AI saying "ask Meta AI to imagine anything" and the prompt is "imagine an artist drawing" shows an image of a female artist in a river valley physically drawing a landscape.

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🇨🇦 Mike S @gnuwf.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

The thing I dislike most about IT and tech in general is more complexity as the solution to most problems, while recreating its tools and systems unnecessarily. It's a result of the complexiphilia that most in tech tend to have.

Massive JVC RX-1001V AVR with 89 buttons on the front panel, a huge front display with as many ore more LCD segments

Marantz remote control with about 40 buttons and LCD display, a representative for almost all horrible remote controls (except the horribly over simplified Apple TV touch remote

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🇨🇦 Mike S @gnuwf.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

A very smoky sunset from Bauline this evening. Cropped in you can really see the southern front of the Kingston fire. @eddiesheerr.bsky.social #nlwx

Smoky cropped in sunset of the far shore of Conception Bay, showing the loppy water, the far hills in layers of smoke,,with the burning edges sending up horizontal plumes up smoke. The sun is nearly hidden in layers of local and western Canadian smoke.

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🇨🇦 Mike S @gnuwf.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Solar can absolutely work in Newfoundland! On the beautiful resettled Exploits Islands, only accessible by boat, I saw at least six cottages/houses that were completely off grid. They had big screen TVs, clothes washers and dryers, dish washers, on demand hot water and internet. #nlwx

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🇨🇦 Mike S @gnuwf.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

The temperatures on Exploits Islands in Notre Dame Bay were BRUTAL a few days ago. 34°C and zero wind. I'd never thought I'd experience a day like that out there. #nlwx

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🇨🇦 Mike S @gnuwf.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

My (and my friend's) allergies are the worst they've been in years, yet pollen reports are consistently low. What's going on? #nlwx #yyt

Pollen forecast for today for St. John's. 1: very low. Trees are very low, grass and weeds are none.

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🇨🇦 Mike S @gnuwf.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

The driver was seen lighting a cigarette at the scene.

Man on the side of the road in 80s white pants and brown leather jacket. A Ferrari 512 is just off the side of the road, against a tree. "Good tires," Bob mused, casually lighting a cigarette, "but certainly not great tires."

-Peter Egan, PS (May 1983)

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