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@hoverbeaver.pinball.horse
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Hairy humanist. Proud progressive red seal sparky. Electrical educator. Pinball Lizard. Brewer. Radio. Traiiiiiins. Union by choice. He/him. Views are my own… of course.

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hoverbeaver @hoverbeaver.pinball.horse · 12h
I have not paid for credit monitoring for over a decade because apparently none of the government or banking entities that safeguard my information are capable of hiring an IT department competent enough to do so
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hoverbeaver @hoverbeaver.pinball.horse · 23h
the plan: ban 1.5% of the children applying for lessons this is some serious monkeys-paw-curling stuff, mark
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hoverbeaver @hoverbeaver.pinball.horse · 29/09/2026
Anyone here with experience integrating ring flood sensors with a whole-home shutoff valve? We had an incident last night that I’d prefer not to repeat
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hoverbeaver @hoverbeaver.pinball.horse · 28/09/2026
what happened to lord haw haw?
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Notorious RBMK @comraderobot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
parents beware: geometry teachers are showing kids the new shape that turns you trans
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hoverbeaver @hoverbeaver.pinball.horse · 27/09/2026
Tiki two days in a row may have been a mistake, @ehrenenglish.bsky.social
At false idol San Diego. Electroceratops is getting girl drink drunk in front of a wall of Polynesian totemsWe’re in a cyberpunk neon bao bar
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ElectroCeratops @ehrenenglish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"OWL RLY" Acrylic and paint marker on birch panel. My piece for the Hoot art show, part of the Ottawa International Animation Festival this year. It's up right now for another 2 days at Beyond the Pale Brewing in the Byward Market. Painting is also for sale! #art #owl #retrogaming
An acrylic painting of a snowy owl character playing an original game boy. Bright retro colours and an abstract background. Perhaps a resemblance to an ancient meme.
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hoverbeaver @hoverbeaver.pinball.horse · 23/09/2026
𝒽𝑒𝓇𝑒 𝓌𝑒 𝑔𝑜 𝒶𝑔𝒶𝒾𝓃
An impromptu mobile workstation — my office for the week on a convention centre table. There is an iPad propped up, displaying the logo of the IBEW 41st convention in San Diego. It bears the words “Powering a brighter future.” My notepad is open to a new page, where I have written the date, and the words “Here we go again.”
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hoverbeaver @hoverbeaver.pinball.horse · 23/09/2026
dropkick @ ibew with @ehrenenglish.bsky.social
selfie, two nerds at nightdrop kick murphys on stage
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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 22/09/2026
Happy mushroom season!
A comic titled "Types of mushrooms" with 12 mushroom species. A wrinkly-looking morel is labeled "creepy but tasty". A brownish deadly galerina is labeled "boring but deadly". A witch's butter on a branch is labeled "jiggles if you poke it". A large puffball is labeled "egg". A creepy red-dripping bleeding tooth fungus is labeled "deeply disconcerting". A fly agaric with a green treefrog sitting under it is labeled "frog umbrella". A black chanterelle is labeled "chalice for forbidden elixers". Three straight-stemmed entolomas are labeled "haha, nipples". A bright purple viscid violet cort is labeled "purple is nice". A birch polypore sticking out of a birch trunk is labeled "tree nose". A complex yellow-tpped coral fungus is labeled "cursed citadel where dwells a fairy queen". A Ravenel's stinkhorn is pixellated at the top for your safety, and labeled "NSFW".
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hoverbeaver @hoverbeaver.pinball.horse · 20/09/2026
i am at a chris jansen concert i’ll get okay, no tears, just whiskey and truck cars
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hoverbeaver @hoverbeaver.pinball.horse · 18/09/2026
and touchdown in sunny california, but i promise i won’t enjoy myself. it’s all business for the next few days and then hopefully they’ll let me back into canada
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hoverbeaver @hoverbeaver.pinball.horse · 18/09/2026
behold the salton sea
a photograph taken from a plane window of a large body of water surrounded by desert
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Today is Friday in California @fridaypacific.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
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hoverbeaver @hoverbeaver.pinball.horse · 18/09/2026
united airlines is not calling it lake america, which is nice
an inflight map tracking a flight from Ottawa Canada to Washington, DC, USA. We are now just over Lake Ontario, and the map is not calling it anything else
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hoverbeaver @hoverbeaver.pinball.horse · 18/09/2026
i’m drinking a baileys coffee in an airport bar at five am and they’re playing whip it this is a whole ass mood
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hoverbeaver @hoverbeaver.pinball.horse · 16/09/2026
The Chief Coroner of Ontario has released a breathtaking review of construction deaths that occurred over the last decade, including memorial statements from the families of victims, and recommendations for change. This will be a long, difficult, sobering read: www.ihsa.ca/pdfs/news/co...
ihsa.ca
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hoverbeaver @hoverbeaver.pinball.horse · 15/09/2026
Testing a new antenna in the back yard, before things got too cold to continue. My tiny ten watt signal was heard as far away as Australia.
A nighttime view of the backyard, overlooking a table filled with radio equipment. A transceiver is tuned to the 20 meter band, and a small laptop is displaying a list of stations being received. In the yard behind the table is a large set of rabbit ear antennae, extended about six metres on either side.
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hoverbeaver @hoverbeaver.pinball.horse · 14/09/2026
I am teaching high schoolers right now and I am not enjoying it or finding it professionally fulfilling
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hoverbeaver @hoverbeaver.pinball.horse · 13/09/2026
what the fuck, walt
A vintage Jungle-book-themed advertisement from maple leaf. A cartoon tiger is laying on the ground holding a plate of wieners while giving you bedroom eyes and saying “mmmmmmm hotdog”
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hoverbeaver @hoverbeaver.pinball.horse · 12/09/2026
Headed to the OARC ham fest. This is the original Ottawa geek market. Come on down! oarc.net/activity/oar...
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OARC Carp Hamfest 2026 – Ottawa Amateur Radio Club (OARC)
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hoverbeaver @hoverbeaver.pinball.horse · 12/09/2026
This sweet kitty found me and @ehrenenglish.bsky.social having barbecue on the back porch and hung out. Eventually we said goodnight and turned off the lights but she wouldn’t leave. Turns out she was lost so we invited her in until her family picked her up.
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hoverbeaver @hoverbeaver.pinball.horse · 11/09/2026
anyway, moral of the story is to tell teenagers they’re cringe there has not yet been a six seven yet
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hoverbeaver @hoverbeaver.pinball.horse · 11/09/2026
I currently have a group of high school students taking my health and safety classes before they start co-op placements One of them started musing openly about walking out “for kirkiversary” I told him that was the most cringe and embarrassing thing I’ve ever heard. everyone stayed
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Ryan @ryanwright.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Welcome to the Ontario (nothing to see here) Centre.
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hoverbeaver @hoverbeaver.pinball.horse · 08/09/2026
my birthday is but three months away
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hoverbeaver @hoverbeaver.pinball.horse · 08/09/2026
more vendomats everywhere immediately
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hoverbeaver @hoverbeaver.pinball.horse · 04/09/2026
it is fish time
a tiny charcoal grill is grilling tiny fish
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hoverbeaver @hoverbeaver.pinball.horse · 02/09/2026
when poilievre is finally forced out of the conservative leadership, whoever replaces him will still be a shitty little pissbag liberals will enthusiastically hollow out institutions and burn public services as long as they can distract us with the first thing
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hoverbeaver @hoverbeaver.pinball.horse · 01/09/2026
one of the more lovely aspects of amateur radio (and paying one’s embarrassingly cheap dues to the national bureau) is that every two or three months I receive a large envelope with postcards from people all over the world that I’ve made contact with
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hoverbeaver @hoverbeaver.pinball.horse · 01/09/2026
I know everyone wants mapquest to be it right now but I just tried it over CarPlay and let me assure you that it is not it It is not it at all
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Dave @allcaps.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The fix is fairly simple: when invoking maps, you need to add "region=CA" e.g. maps-dot-googleapis-dot-com/maps/api/js?key=[API Key]... &region=CA Note, if you're using a mapping plugin/app etc this may be buried somewhere and using the default region and require a bit more effort to fix.
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Captain Disillusion @captaindisillusion.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Been trying so hard to get left behind by AI
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hoverbeaver @hoverbeaver.pinball.horse · 31/08/2026
watch out, mean mark comin tomorrow
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hoverbeaver @hoverbeaver.pinball.horse · 31/08/2026
posted a thing on another platform about Canada seeking eurovision entrants and was immediately beset with a dozen replies calling it jew-controlled israeli media and I hate that this is the state of discourse in 2026. Eurovision is neither; go touch some fucking grass you insufferable bigots
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hoverbeaver @hoverbeaver.pinball.horse · 31/08/2026
Take the Fight Against AI with this Video : I Will survive AI with your hlep
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Take the Fight Against AI with this Video : I Will survive AI with your hlep
YouTube video by The Last DJ Nick Hayes
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hoverbeaver @hoverbeaver.pinball.horse · 26/11/2025
am sharing a workshop with someone whose algorithm is feeding him ai country music one song that has played twice now has the chorus “i’ll get okay, no tears, just whiskey and truck cars” and i’m thinking of just walking toward the light and letting the universe scatter my electrons
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Jeff Leiper @jleiper.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
To the 2SLGBTQ+ community in Ottawa, let me be clear: I will always have your back. À la communauté 2ELGBTQ+ d'Ottawa, soyez clair : je vous soutiendrai toujours.
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hoverbeaver @hoverbeaver.pinball.horse · 28/08/2026
why is there a trans march but no trans august
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ElectroCeratops @ehrenenglish.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
TOMORROW. Come buy a set of postcards or some anti AI stickers or go get some patches or vintage clothes or get a rad haircut.
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hoverbeaver @hoverbeaver.pinball.horse · 26/08/2026
/almost serious i have to go to a big American convention in three weeks. Do I know anyone in Ottawa with covid/measles/the plague/syphilis right now so I can get it out of the way before I go?
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hoverbeaver @hoverbeaver.pinball.horse · 26/08/2026
my city is so damn weird that they made a press release to announce snack vending machines in transit stations years after they evicted the magazine stands and coffee windows
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Jason Scott @textfiles.com · 26/08/2026
static.klipy.com
Tim Curry: Uncorrupted Space
ALT: Tim Curry: Uncorrupted Space
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hoverbeaver @hoverbeaver.pinball.horse · 26/08/2026
Dolly Parton and Tim Curry, my poor heart can’t take much more of this
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hoverbeaver @hoverbeaver.pinball.horse · 26/08/2026
wake up babe new uscsb just dropped
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Fatal Fog: Liquid Nitrogen Release at Foundation Food Group
YouTube video by USCSB
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hoverbeaver @hoverbeaver.pinball.horse · 25/08/2026
Canada could rename the St Lawrence seaway “The Strait of Our Moose”
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hoverbeaver @hoverbeaver.pinball.horse · 25/08/2026
I keep seeing folks talking about Pierre Poilievre declining a security clearance And I keep wondering if the same folks actually understand what was and still is part of obtaining a Top Secret clearance in Canada
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hoverbeaver @hoverbeaver.pinball.horse · 24/08/2026
hey you sweaty freaks set a pr to this
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Brian Bennett - Chain Reaction (2017 Remaster)
YouTube video by LeCarltonMusic
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hoverbeaver @hoverbeaver.pinball.horse · 24/08/2026
The terms AMAB/AFAB carry a significant explanatory burden when used among the uninitiated. Instead, use the acronym BWW or BWW, Born Without and Born With Wiener, respectively. Never expand. Example: “Hey what’s Chase’s… y’know?” “𝘊𝘩𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘉𝘞𝘞.” “What does that mean?” “𝘐𝘵 𝘮𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘴 𝘴𝘩𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘶𝘤𝘬 𝘶𝘱.”
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hoverbeaver @hoverbeaver.pinball.horse · 24/08/2026
On this day, 212 years ago, British forces from Canada captured and burned Washington, D.C., setting fire to the United States Capitol, the White House, and the Washington Navy Yard.
Capture and Burning of Washington by the British, in 1814, wood engraving, 1876.
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