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Jared Goring 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @jaredgoring.com · 26/09/2026

Do we all feel that eternal fear of misappropriating breath? To get to day's end and be nothing, but one day closer to death.

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Jared Goring 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @jaredgoring.com · 06/09/2026

Reading articles makes it very clear that some people think the phrase "in good faith" means "beneficial specifically to me".

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Jared Goring 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @jaredgoring.com · 04/09/2026

Yep, little bit - this same view has probably existed since long before people were here, and might long after we're gone. A view that encourages us to try to protect what's left, too, I'd hope!

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Jared Goring 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @jaredgoring.com · 04/09/2026

Thank you! I thought so too - had to try to share! Upsides of the dog waking me up early for a bathroom break XD

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Jared Goring 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @jaredgoring.com · 01/09/2026

📷 Sunrise from yesterday, with Mt Rainier on display.

Orange sun split by horizontal threads of darker clouds fills the space between black silhouettes of branches, with a large mountain shadowed on the horizon.

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Jared Goring 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @jaredgoring.com · 01/09/2026

Luckily it was not pointed toward me and I closed my mouth when the loud hissing cloud began to emerge - so the number of coolants I know the taste of remains uh…low but not zero XD (Most vehicle radiator coolant is upsettingly sweet and tasty! Do not drink it! )

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Jared Goring 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @jaredgoring.com · 01/09/2026

Furore… yeah that one messes me up too. Furory? Fuhrer? XD Oh segue is a good one! I've always segway'd that, but I *do* like seeg now that upbringing brought it up - a la Prague, eh? That's fun!

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Jared Goring 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @jaredgoring.com · 31/08/2026

Absolutely! There's more than one "right" way to pronounce most words!

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Jared Goring 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @jaredgoring.com · 31/08/2026

…and by "accidentally busted" read "drilled right the fuck through because I didn't look around sufficiently first" so uh. Yeah. Whoops.

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Jared Goring 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @jaredgoring.com · 31/08/2026

So in other news I accidentally busted the coolant line on our air conditioner the other day, but I found a cheap one that was a similar size so I could swap them out in an afternoon.

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Jared Goring 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @jaredgoring.com · 31/08/2026

And of course, I would be remiss if I didn't tip my hat toward the following: m.xkcd.com/1053/

m.xkcd.com

xkcd: Ten Thousand

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Jared Goring 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @jaredgoring.com · 31/08/2026

If someone was going to give a big speech, or was asking me for feedback or something, then sure I might - but who cares if they make epitome sound like a fancy book full of EpiPens? The Epi-Tome! Hell, I'm pretty sure I used to say that one when I was young, even.

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Jared Goring 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @jaredgoring.com · 31/08/2026

I don't even correct people on pronunciations anymore; I'll pronounce it the standard way around them so that's there if they want to replicate it, but usually that's all.

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Jared Goring 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @jaredgoring.com · 31/08/2026

She loves both, so I'll give her both! <3

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Jared Goring 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @jaredgoring.com · 22/08/2026

Good question - I suspect it's a bit of a roadmap for that evolution, yep! That they'll either go the way of Facebook and become hollow shells of theirselves, or the way of MySpace and just kinda dissolve.

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Jared Goring 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @jaredgoring.com · 21/08/2026

Absolutely. It viciously attacked her by dropping its arm when she nudged the arm with her nose, so clearly she had to jump twenty feet away and yell at it from as far as her leash would let her go XD

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Jared Goring 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @jaredgoring.com · 21/08/2026

She really is! Such a sweetie too, and so incredibly anxious. She once fought a snowman and lost. She was once scared to the point of fleeing across the street…by a pile of concrete chunks. Just sitting there. Didn't even shift and crumble or anything, it was just new since her last walk XD

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Jared Goring 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @jaredgoring.com · 21/08/2026

Ugh, yeah. Makes me glad I'd mostly shifted away from YouTube - going back there now it feels a bit like a shell of itself, kinda like Facebook? Handy for finding specific things that you know are stored there, but I wouldn't really advise using either in a general sense…

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Jared Goring 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @jaredgoring.com · 21/08/2026

She's so sweet, folks. I need to help her up into bed now because her hips aren't doing so well, but I would lift her into bed for a thousand years if it meant I got to have a thousand years with her <3

I've pulled up the sheet, revealing Tipsy's face looking up to me, big brown eyes and age-whitened eyebrows which have only sharpened her resting look of anxiety over the years.

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Jared Goring 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @jaredgoring.com · 21/08/2026

📷 This old lady loves hiding under the sheets.

The brown snout of Tipsy, the dog, showing a few hints of grey as it pokes out from underneath some bedsheets.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Let me introduce the crew. *points to enormous muscular guy.* This is Big Dog, we call him that because he's huge, ha ha! *points to slim average looking guy* and this is Medium Dog. I'm sure you can guess why! That's right — he communes with the spirits of the departed

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Jared Goring 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @jaredgoring.com · 19/08/2026

"We asked thirteen pirates if these goods were stolen, based on their experience stealing similar goods, and all of them said it was guaranteed that these were stolen goods because they could recognize stolen goods due to their own experiences stealing similar goods."

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Jared Goring 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @jaredgoring.com · 16/08/2026

Yeah I've been wondering about this myself. The thought process there seems uh…suspect, to say the least.

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Jared Goring 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @jaredgoring.com · 09/08/2026

What do you mean? Without Shark Week, I never would've learned that sharks are capable of self-propelled flight if they close their eyes and focus really REALLY hard! And also that they have X-ray vision! And thumbs!

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Jared Goring 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @jaredgoring.com · 08/08/2026

Sometimes a comforting presence is just as important as healing - if not more!

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Ill_Advised_Gaming @thesocialjusticegm.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I have no singular all-consuming calling. I just want to do a variety of things I kinda like until I eventually die.

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Jared Goring 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @jaredgoring.com · 08/08/2026

Stop poisoning yourselves with AI BS. Please, do it for yourself - be selfish, don't use AI, because you'll struggle to get out of that hole if you do. Parkinson's might've put my uncle on that couch, but it's AI that's degrading him far worse.

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Jared Goring 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @jaredgoring.com · 08/08/2026

It's all tainted. If any of the soup is poisoned, it's all fucking poisoned - or it all *might be poisoned*, and sure maybe it's not! Maybe the dosage in any given bowl of soup might be fine. Dispersal isn't uniform…but seriously? You taking that fucking chance? No!

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Jared Goring 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @jaredgoring.com · 08/08/2026

Once you've got AI BS in there, all credibility is gone. "Oh I just use it for visualizations", can't trust that. "Oh it's only for posters in the background", nope. Nope. It's the same with any other sort of plagiarism. You can't say "Okay but just this sentence is plagiarized". You just can't.

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Jared Goring 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @jaredgoring.com · 08/08/2026

I would've rather seen stick figures, because here's the thing…you're telling me a bunch of historical bread facts. Cool. However, also, that loaf of bread is floating and that baker is lifting a 200+kg oak cask with one hand. If you didn't fact-check any of that…how're your "facts"?

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Jared Goring 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @jaredgoring.com · 08/08/2026

Then a pottery shard that an archaeologist had been holding would just start floating in front of them as they looked at it. An inquisitionist would be angrily accusing the empty table five feet away from a bowl of tomatoes (absurd enough that the intention was "blame the tomatoes" to start).

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Jared Goring 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @jaredgoring.com · 08/08/2026

The AI history ones were the worst in a way. Voiceover - which didn't seem to be AI - about historical facts (maybe) while the AI provided visualizations, but…it's AI. They sucked. They'd look normal, enough that for a minute I'd think "oh maybe this is stock footage".

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Jared Goring 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @jaredgoring.com · 08/08/2026

They were so bad. Sometimes in laughable ways (sudden tsunami outside the coffee shop) and sometimes in awful ways (that woman works here and you are a customer this is inappropriate) but mostly just bad.

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Jared Goring 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @jaredgoring.com · 08/08/2026

Recently went back home to the Prairies for a family reunion - and it was great! Stayed with family, excellent, but my post-op uncle with Parkinson's literally does nothing but watch AI vids on YouTube. AI history. AI cozy jazz vibes. Seaside town cozy AI fucking I don't even know.

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Jared Goring 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @jaredgoring.com · 07/08/2026

#WIPSnips "Handle" from FotF#2, Sink or Swim AL has just gotten done yelling at the Captain, and while it wasn't really planned it doesn't go how they'd feared - nor, though, does it go how they'd hoped…

Ebook screenshot from Flight of the Fates, book two, Sink or Swim:
"I turned sharply to leave, and he didn’t say anything behind me, but I didn’t feel triumphant so much as I just felt ill, my stomach roiling and blood rushing through me. I stomped over to the door, grabbed at the handle, and pulled on it.

It didn’t open.

“It’s a future that you’re walking away from, Al.”

He didn’t sound angry and that was such a slap in the face. He should’ve been. I was. I was angry and I was yelling at him about it and I was just some snot-nosed little coalboy shouting at the Captain of the ship, and he should’ve been furious and flying into a rage, and the fact that he wasn’t made it feel like I wasn’t even worth that to him. I wasn’t worth protecting the way the other lads were, I wasn’t worth getting angry at the way Molly was.

I wasn’t worth anything."

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Gracu ✨🌈 @prismagic.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Please remember that it's us that moves posts around on Bluesky, there's not a central algorithm like Twitter or Tumblr or Instagram. If you like art, repost art! Leave comment on art! Even if it's just emotes, it means the world to every artist.

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Jared Goring 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @jaredgoring.com · 06/08/2026

#WIPSnips "Frontier" from FotF#2, Sink or Swim The Compass is primarily a charting ship, so she's plenty used to sailing the edges of the map…but airborne. In the water? Well, she's not as well-adapted…

Ebook screenshot from Flight of the Fates, book two, Sink or Swim:
"A circle in red was out in a blank section of the map, with a rough indication of the island we’d found as well, along with notes of its latitude and longitude and the height of the mountain’s peak – numbers I recognized even if I couldn’t necessarily decipher them. A solid red line led from it to the southeast, dodging more northward or more southward to avoid islands once it made it back to illustrated sections of the map – areas of the known world, rather than the less-fully explored frontiers which we tended to frequent. The line carried all the way back to the coast, ending roughly near the port we’d left from, Calaires, at a seaport which was called Valnellis.

I pointed at a red X partway along the proposed route. “What’s that?”

“That’s where we sink.”"

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Jared Goring 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @jaredgoring.com · 06/08/2026

Need a dislike button for stuff like this.

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

It’s the 88th anniversary today of this immensely enjoyable headline 🧵

12 boys rout fascists
Twelve boys, some of them less than 10 years old, went to Weymouth beach and barracked Mr Robert Saunders, a Fascist speaker.
He ignored them, so they went away and returned with toffee tins half filled with stones.
Using the tins as rattles, they made so much noise that Mr Arthur England, a 63-year-old Weymouth magistrate and superintendent of the beach, approached to stop them.
A crowd of holiday-makers, sympathising with the children, booed Mr England and a sock filled with sand caught him behind the ear.
In the sand battle that followed, the Fascists were pelted off the beach.
About 5,000 people followed them to their car, overturned the trailer attached it, and filled the loud speaker equipment with sand.

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Jared Goring 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @jaredgoring.com · 05/08/2026

#WIPSnips "Box" from FotF#2, Sink or Swim Trying to make their way back to land from the island where they've been stranded, storms leave the crew unable to take a reference from the stars and sun, meaning they're left with just doing math and hoping. Math: final vestige of the hopeless XD

Ebook screenshot from Flight of the Fates, book two, Sink or Swim:
"With each passing day, our own mark on the map became more and more vague. When the sun was out, we were an X, a small cross with the Compass’ position being the intersection of the lines. After a day of dead reckoning, we were a small square, a box about the size of a gambler’s six sided die. After a week and a half of the same, we were a loose circle the size of an inkpot, and one drawn in an increasingly hesitant hand each day.

With each passing day, we came closer and closer to the area of the map marked as potential extensions of those islands. Considered impassible.

On the twelfth day without sun, the circle of our estimated position was so large that it overlapped with the previous day’s. It felt so pointless at that moment to be using a map at all, if we could have been in the same place yesterday and today. Felt like no headway was being made, like none could be made."

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Jared Goring 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @jaredgoring.com · 05/08/2026

Sorry to hear about both the cat and the sickness, but hopefully both have a swift recovery! <3

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Jared Goring 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @jaredgoring.com · 03/08/2026

Aww thank you! Never too late to say - and like, it was only one post so super easy to miss, so don't feel bad XD

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Jared Goring 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @jaredgoring.com · 02/08/2026

Hey! Good to see you again! Well - you know. "See". XD

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Jared Goring 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @jaredgoring.com · 02/08/2026

(And to be clear: in no way comparing the good doctor here to Frank Burns! Burns is an incompetent irritant and generally awful; rather than competent and generally good but just with a poor beside manner)

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