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data, policy, and feelings hobby collector

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Zuul Nightingale🚪 @danaenight.northsky.social · 09/10/2025
The most experienced and accomplished women in the world are condescended to and belittled by the most inconsequential men you've never heard of (and will never) on a daily basis.
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Heidi @heidi2o.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
I’m only about 10 pages into Gentle Disclipline by Sarah Ockwell-Smith and I honestly think this may be mandatory reading for managers over any of the business school scammer books 🙊
Book titled “Gentle Disclipline: using emotional connection - not punishment - to raise confident, capable kids” by Sarah Ockwell-Smith on a wood table with a matcha and sandwich
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Heidi @heidi2o.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
I’m only about 10 pages into Gentle Disclipline by Sarah Ockwell-Smith and I honestly think this may be mandatory reading for managers over any of the business school scammer books 🙊
Book titled “Gentle Disclipline: using emotional connection - not punishment - to raise confident, capable kids” by Sarah Ockwell-Smith on a wood table with a matcha and sandwich
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Heidi @heidi2o.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Happy Sunday all and a new #weeknote: heidi2o.cc/weeknote_8
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Weeknote 8 - Embodied Data
It’s somehow almost April, but also the slowest year ever? Here’s the bookmarks and radar for this week.
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Heidi @heidi2o.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
#Weeknote 6: this week, 1) the return of the homework portion of these post (a digest of links related to my various areas of interest - data, government, policy, feelings, etc; 2) the first iteration of a lo-fi personal finance dashboard; and 3) varia. heidi2o.cc/weeknote_6
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Weeknote 6 - a Low-fi Personal Finance App and return of the Reading List
I’ve been on vacation this week and spent most of it being at the beck and call of Mishka. She requires a minimum of 7.5 hours of snuggles a day.
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Heidi @heidi2o.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Super excited to have gotten tickets to see @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social in Ottawa in June!! I was so bummed to find out about his last show a week after it happened last time :)
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Pat Murphy 🇨🇦 @noparticularname.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
C’est pas faux.
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Heidi @heidi2o.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Shout out to second langage evaluations, even practice ones, for being uniquely able to make me question my ability to communicate in any language.
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Heidi @heidi2o.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
As per my previous email - er, post, please find attached the current standings of Data Friendship bracelets. P.S. I'll bring some to the Federal Government Innovation Showcase next week 😉 heidi2o.cc/friendship_b...
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Data Friendship Bracelet Ideas
Ranking based on most corporate bland to most spiciest takes.
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Heidi @heidi2o.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
On June 13, I'm hosting a little experimental gathering. Inspired by UKGovCamp and OneTeamGov Unconferences, #GovActionCafe2026 is a 1-day participant-driven gathering for the doers and the helpers to connect, collect, and turn ideas into relentless implementation. heidi2o.cc/GovActionCaf...
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Save the Date for GovActionCafe 2026
Purpose Canada is facing a generational challenge.
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Heidi @heidi2o.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
That’s right I made friendship bracelets for the #GCDataConference2026 tomorrow 💁🏻‍♀️
Four friendship bracelets with the text: Talk Data to Me, Open by Default, c’est la viz, and I ❤️ open data
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Heidi @heidi2o.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
#Weeknote 5 is posted. This week: taking better care of myself while taking care of a partner with Long Covid. heidi2o.cc/weeknote_5
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Weeknote 5 (Feb 9 - 15, 2026)
I realized over the course of the last week that I may have been just going through the paces for a while now.
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Heidi @heidi2o.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
The biggest thing we’ve learned from this module of French class is that my responses for how to treat basic maladies are insane.
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Rob Chambers @robchamberspfc.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work. "No, you don't need a dashboard"
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Heidi @heidi2o.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
#Weeknote 4 is posted. This week: a perfect month, making friends internationally, and sharing a tool for generating a stakeholder map. Read here: heidi2o.cc/weeknote_4
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Weeknote 4 (Feb 2 - 8)
This is going to be a short one1 because I’m a bit under the weather and I should be studying for my French class test on Wednesday.
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Heidi @heidi2o.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
How dare the internet upset me this early in the morning by showing me the minions routine that can’t be performed at the Olympics because of a copyright claim
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Heidi @heidi2o.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
#Weeknote 3 now up a bit late because it needed a bit more time to write. This week: Heated Rivalry, brain stuff, and what do we owe to each other? heidi2o.cc/weeknote_3
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Weeknote 3 (Jan 26-Feb 1)
It’s been a fever dream of a week where Hudson William gave Mark Carney his Team Canada fleece1, it was declared Shane Hollander Day2 in Ottawa, and I was stranded downtown for 2 hours because the tra...
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Andy Baio @andy.baio.net · 01/01/2025
screenshot of old tweet of mine reposting a scan from Compuserv’s Online Today magazine from 1987, with the headline “To Be Young and Online: Youth Explore Databases, Find Friends in Forums” and a group of cool teen models in a red Jeep and motorcycle talking on a huge cell phone, carrying a goldfish, tennis racket, and other random hobbies
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Heidi @heidi2o.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Do you think Shane Hollander's dad got a letter last week to let him know that his position at Treasury Board of Canada is being eliminated? #heatedrivalry #Ottawa
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Heidi @heidi2o.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Do you think Shane Hollander's dad is celebrating Shane Hollander day by participating in transit hell to buy overpriced tiny sandwiches to help "save downtown" for businesses that close before 5pm who keep going on the news to say how much they hate him and his coworkers? #heatedrivalry #Ottawa
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Heidi @heidi2o.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
That's right I am Shane Hollander's dad
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 29/01/2026
having to argue about this shit when your job is on the line is incredibly fucking stressful if you actually do know what you’re doing, and one of the biggest unexamined risks of AI is how many legit experts and pros will just decide that the fight isn’t worth having
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Heidi @heidi2o.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Just a small bean contemplating RTO5 and the meaninglessness of our existence while sitting at Queen St fare for an hour and counting as the Line 1 is running with only 1 train car and 14 have been alternatingly cancelled or delayed 30-60 minutes or too full to get on and Uber is X3 surging
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Vincent Traag @vtraag.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
📣 Our introduction to structural causal models in science studies is now published: doi.org/10.1162/QSS.... @tklebel.bsky.social and I tried to make our introduction as accessible as possible. We illustrate the theory by three case studies based on a simulated model of Open Science. 🧵(1/6)
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Heidi @heidi2o.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Weeknote 2: planning for #GovActionCafe2026, the state of conferences, and being creative again heidi2o.cc/weeknote_2
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Weeknote 2 (Jan. 18-25, 2026)
My brain has been fairly creatively fulfilled and challenged lately. The team I get to work with is really coming together.
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Russell Garner @rgarner.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
"Can you imagine a Socratic dialogue with 50,000 likes?" This is excellent. We've driven out epistemology and driven ourselves mad.
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The Discourse is a Distributed Denial-of-Service Attack
In September 2016, the security journalist Brian Krebs had his website knocked offline by a botnet called Mirai. Hundreds of thousands of compromised devices, mostly cheap webcams and DVRs manufacture...
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Heidi @heidi2o.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Zan and I watched The Great Wall (2016) today. It is a movie.
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Heidi @heidi2o.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Will I keep up with writing #Weeknotes this year? No idea, but here's one. Reflecting on my first week back after vacation (great team, bummer times), progress in French training, and participating as a mentor in the FYN's Career Bootcamp Speed Mentoring sessions: heidi2o.cc/weeknote_1
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Weeknote 1 (Jan 12-17)
Is it too early to say “what a year” yet? It’s felt like a heckuva year these first few weeks of January.
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Heidi @heidi2o.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
As usual @ukgovcamp.com looked like so much fun and I wish I could fly over one of these year or finally get around to starting a GC version.
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Heidi @heidi2o.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
School of Athens cats are happening today 😸
A rolled up pant leg showing a calf with two cats in Greek togas one with a paw pointing up and one with a paw gesturing down
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Heidi @heidi2o.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
I finally bound off on the skirt and joining it to the top 😭 still have finishing to do but it’s the first thing I’ve finished #knitting in months
A maroon hand knitted dress with deep pleats
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Heidi @heidi2o.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Finally had time to replace my Substack! Just uploaded the 2025 year in review: heidi2o.cc/review_2025 It took so long because I've been writing this post for weeks, it got a bit more dark and vulnerable than I expected.
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2025 In Review
For me, 2025 was a year in transition.
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Heidi @heidi2o.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
It's very exciting to finally know enough French to be able to watch interesting things instead of only doing homework. This was a pretty wonderful watch, I loved getting to know everyone in this class 😭 www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKHK...
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Six mois pour apprendre le français | Documentaire | Rad
YouTube video by Rad
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David Buchanan @retr0.id · 03/01/2026
I think a big chunk of the "linux is hard" sentiment stems from the fact that most linux users do weird things with their computers. basically this:
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a popular myth is that people who are Very Computer have computers that work. nothing could be further from the truth. the Very Computer are capable of generating much more novel and fascinating ways to make computers not fucking work and exercise this capability wantonly
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trick-is-a-treat-kat @trickykat.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
captain's log: day one of the bit and I wonder how much longer I can continue
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Heidi @heidi2o.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Mishka had her first senior appointment at the vet even though she’s a teeny tiny baby, but she’s a certified very pretty girl 💅🏻
Mishka, a fluffy brown tabby, snoozes on her side facing toward the camera, a hand holds her tail and back paw
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Heidi @heidi2o.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
Ya so I think I’ve been crying since 5 minutes into this 6 hours long Eras Tour Documentary. What an amazing crew that put these shows together. Just finished the episode about Majorie and I never get tired of hearing peoples connections to that song
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Heidi @heidi2o.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
It should be noted that ever since my brother went through his first breakup, my mum has exclusively referred to him as Sad James in all correspondences
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Heidi @heidi2o.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
This years homemade Christmas presents are these Mishka zines drawn digitally so I can print and make more copies to give out
A stack of 6 zines with a doodle of a fluffy tabby cat frowning titled “How to train your humans by Mishka”
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Heidi @heidi2o.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Zan gets to show me one horror movie a year and this year it is Alien
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a close up of a person 's face with the words `` all right , i 'm in '' written on it .
Alt: a close up of a sigourney weaver 's face with the words “all right , i’m in” written on it .
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Heidi @heidi2o.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
You can stop asking me yes I’m watching the gay hockey show and yes this is 100% reactivating my hockey and gay hockey romance special interest that has been dormant for a while
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Heidi @heidi2o.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
The French training seems to be going well. I had an end of module exam and my evaluator asked me if my teacher is from Quebec because my accent is pretty distinct lol - a big improvement from barely being able to pronounce anything 😆
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Heidi @heidi2o.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Eeek. Just uploaded the last doc required in my application for a Master in Library and Information Science. Now the wait 😧
text: "Application Status: Awaiting Decision"
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Heidi @heidi2o.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Noise canceling headphones are probably the most important and usually only adaptive tech I use. I got the Sony WH-1000XM5 3 years ago and they died last month 😭 I’m trying the Sennheiser Momentum 4 this time
Cardboard box with a line drawing of headphones with text Sennheiser Momentum 4 Special Edition
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Dan Hon @danhon.com · 23/11/2025
become a systems thinker, they said you'll have a better understanding of how the world works, they said yeah and you'll also spend every waking moment in despair
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Jorge A. Caballero, MD @datadrivenmd.social · 18/11/2025
Terrible day to be literate
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Heidi @heidi2o.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
So here's the thing with vibe coding when you don't actually know the language (typescript). I had an error on my static webpage generator that I gave to gemini - it generated a whole bunch of code to replace the config with. The actual solution is this one missing line...
4 lines of text with comments surrounding 1 particularly which was missing and broke the rest of the code
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Heidi @heidi2o.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Huzzah - got my French results back for reading and writing and got a C and B, so will be able to attempt the oral exam for the first time in the new year 🥳😅
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