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Litui (Aria) 🇨🇦

@litui.ca
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Opinion-haver, job-seeker, programmer, musician, gamer, anime-watcher, and maker. An @uwu.engineer. I know some things about a lot of things. I'm the creator and maintainer of @shrampybot.gsg.live. 🏳️‍⚧️✡️ Free Palestine #yyc #treaty7

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Litui (Aria) 🇨🇦 @litui.ca · 27/09/2026
Yep, gotta be covid. Flu doesn't give me insomnia like this
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Litui (Aria) 🇨🇦 @litui.ca · 26/09/2026
Am sick. Either flu or covid prolly. I feel like absolute butt.
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Litui (Aria) 🇨🇦 @litui.ca · 20/09/2026
Bunch of ghouls.
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Litui (Aria) 🇨🇦 @litui.ca · 20/09/2026
My provincial leadership is a fucking joke and I hate it.
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Litui (Aria) 🇨🇦 @litui.ca · 20/09/2026
Woah, super cool. :)
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Litui (Aria) 🇨🇦 @litui.ca · 20/09/2026
Ooo dulcimer?
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Litui (Aria) 🇨🇦 @litui.ca · 18/09/2026
Their web app seems nice if a touch slow at the moment though. Using it for the first time now.
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Litui (Aria) 🇨🇦 @litui.ca · 18/09/2026
Oh I realize I wasn't particularly clear that I had, in fact, switched over. But yeah, I still need to use the bsky app as my frontend, though the login server differs.
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Litui (Aria) 🇨🇦 @litui.ca · 18/09/2026
Damn, Beaverton didn't hold back on this one at all =) Free Palestine!
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Litui (Aria) 🇨🇦 @litui.ca · 18/09/2026
Y'know, in all this Alberta separation discourse, let's not pretend that walking all over the treaties isn't an act of racist colonialism in itself. Canada's hands aren't clean, full stop, but I don't think the zeitgeist has a re-embrace of Manifest Destiny on its bucket list in 2026. #abpoli #ableg
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Litui (Aria) 🇨🇦 @litui.ca · 18/09/2026
For me since I use a custom domain the only real advantage is my data remains in Canada under northsky auspices. So it depends what you need. In the end I still use the bsky app so haven't shaken all my dependence on the US.
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Litui (Aria) 🇨🇦 @litui.ca · 16/09/2026
I roll initiative.
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Litui (Aria) 🇨🇦 @litui.ca · 14/09/2026
Neat map by way of @wealthsimple.bsky.social's newsletter today. US states by top importer. Canada being first across 23 states.
Image from Wealthsimple's TLDR newsletter. Heading reads "We're No. 1! (in 23 states)"

Paragraph reads "If you're wondering why Carney is playing hardball on tariffs with the U.S. this map sums it up: he's hitting them where it hurts. Canada is the top importer for nearly half the states."

Most of the image is taken up by a map of the US including Alaska and Hawaii that shows Canada as the top importer for most of the central states, several of the northeastern states, Washington state, and Alaska.

Below is a citation reading "U.S. Census Bureau, 2025 data, h/t Visual Capitalist" and the TLDR logo.
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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
BREAKING! "Saddle Lake Cree Nation is asserting its Treaty rights and jurisdiction to provide safe refuge for those seeking and providing gender-affirming care. Any Albertan will be able to access gender-affirming care on Saddle Lake Cree Nation reserved lands and territories"
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Litui (Aria) 🇨🇦 @litui.ca · 10/09/2026
Wooooo fuck yeah Treaty 6 First Nations and Dr. James Makokis www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
theglobeandmail.com
First Nation plans to flout Alberta law that restricts gender-affirming care for transgender youth
Asserting treaty rights, Saddle Lake Cree Nation says it will establish safe haven for the treatment on reserved lands
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Litui (Aria) 🇨🇦 @litui.ca · 10/09/2026
Is it bad that the Konosuba character I most identify with is Darkness? Asking for a friend :p
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Litui (Aria) 🇨🇦 @litui.ca · 10/09/2026
Interesting, I actually had no idea of this. Thank you.
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Litui (Aria) 🇨🇦 @litui.ca · 09/09/2026
I agree, though by the same token he is also not Christian. I was responding to your assertion.
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Erin Candy 🍒🇨🇦 @erincandy.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Anyone who studied authoritarianism (me) knew Trump was a fascist who was going to dismantle democracy. Trump regime checked all the boxes for warning signs of fascism. I got called a fear monger.
Incoming Trump Regime is checking all the boxes.
He's saying he wants to be a dictator. Marching right towards a one party totalitarian state with control of every branch of government.
EARLY WARNING SIGNS OF FASCISM
POWERFUL AND CONTINUING
NATIONALISM
DISDAIN FOR HUMAN RIGHTS
IDENTIFICATION OF ENEMIES
AS A UNIFYING CAUSE
SUPREMACY OF THE MILITARY
RAMPANT SEXISM
CONTROLLED MASS MEDIA
OBSESSION WITH NATIONAL SECURITY
RELIGION AND GOVERNMENT
INTERTWINED
CORPORATE POWER PROTECTED
LABOR POWER SUPPRESSED
DISDAIN FOR INTELLECTUALS & THE ARTS
OBSESSION WITH CRIME & PUNISHMENT
RAMPANT CRONYISM & CORRUPTION
FRAUDULENT ELECTIONS
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Litui (Aria) 🇨🇦 @litui.ca · 07/09/2026
This is realpolitik. Canada is pivoting elsewhere because it is impractical, uneconomical, and increasingly unsafe to be partnered with the US. US capital doesn't support this they need to also learn pragmatism and get these chuds out of power.
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Litui (Aria) 🇨🇦 @litui.ca · 07/09/2026
Conservatives (and their shill editorials on American conservative-owned publications) handwringing about Canadians doing business with China are so absurd. China is absolutely not perfect, but only idiots and hucksters pretend the US ever was.
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Litui (Aria) 🇨🇦 @litui.ca · 07/09/2026
Hell yeah. Technical language is a bit lacking ("algorithm" in contemporary terms is not algorithm in programmatic terms) but this is very good.
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Litui (Aria) 🇨🇦 @litui.ca · 07/09/2026
I agree with this in a modern context but original superman was Jewish and at least somewhat progressive forward.com/culture/5043...
forward.com
10 Jewish things you probably didn't know about Superman
Yes, the man from Krypton's creators were Jewish, but do you know which biblical figures he was modeled after?
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Litui (Aria) 🇨🇦 @litui.ca · 07/09/2026
The POTUS has no idea what hell he has unleashed by pissing off US hockey moms. apnews.com/article/cana...
apnews.com
The US tariff on Canadian imports could send already soaring hockey gear prices even higher
Hockey families in the U.S. are feeling the pinch from rising equipment costs. Kelly Rand, whose teenage sons play in Minnesota, says gear prices have skyrocketed.
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Litui (Aria) 🇨🇦 @litui.ca · 06/09/2026
PSA to fellow ADHDers: please stop making new to-do list apps and personal organization tools (or using AI to) while obviously procrastinating on other things.
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Keri @keriqbaum.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
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Litui (Aria) 🇨🇦 @litui.ca · 03/09/2026
1. Omarchy is not a distro, it's opinionated scripts on Arch 2. DHH is a racist shitheel and anyone promoting his work now is an immediate unfollow from me. 3. Deeply disappointed and reconsidering my use of @1password.bsky.social on account of their recent choice to support him.
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Litui (Aria) 🇨🇦 @litui.ca · 02/09/2026
Which would be an excellent point if I hadn't attended university at all.
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Litui (Aria) 🇨🇦 @litui.ca · 01/09/2026
AI bros who are allergic to humanities courses deciding what is the best direction for the future of humanity need to sit tf down.
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Pere Jes @perejes.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I've known more stupid people with masters and doctorate degrees than I ever thought possible. Nothing is better than a person who has passion for their field of work, no matter their formal education.
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Litui (Aria) 🇨🇦 @litui.ca · 29/08/2026
Sent some replies and appreciate the thoughtful responses :). Muting now so my watch stops buzzing lol.
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Litui (Aria) 🇨🇦 @litui.ca · 29/08/2026
I don't disagree at all. I've been to university twice, about 5 years total, no degrees. I treasure what I learned there deeply. I don't think gamifying the degree attainment as a prerequisite for employment was ever the right call.
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Litui (Aria) 🇨🇦 @litui.ca · 29/08/2026
I can agree with that, though a college education isn't valuable for the degree so much as the education. I've been twice, for things other than tech. Around 5 years total, no degrees. Many important skills and learnings I've taken away from it regardless of a bit of paper.
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Litui (Aria) 🇨🇦 @litui.ca · 29/08/2026
I think "school of hard knocks" is a perfectly acceptable way to learn so long as lives aren't at stake. There has to be room to make mistakes and learn from them, for those coming in with degrees and those without.
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pepperoni-dogfart.bsky.social @pepperoni-dogfart.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
As a degreed mechanical engineer who spent 28 years in the auto industry: Agreed Pretty much all the jobs I did required nothing from school, software does the advanced math and analytics. Almost everything technical is a journeyman's trade but nobody wants to admit that. You're there for tactics
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Litui (Aria) 🇨🇦 @litui.ca · 29/08/2026
There are of course lessons to be learned from the university-educated on a team as well. There's a theoretical depth sometimes that's hard to pick up with only hands-on experience. But requiring a degree is a limiter.
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Litui (Aria) 🇨🇦 @litui.ca · 29/08/2026
In my experience as a hiring manager in tech, it's those Juniors who have a degree whose skillset is most narrow. Those who are self-taught or learned via the "school of hard knocks" bring the breadth. Those with only the degree have to learn that more exists outside the sanitized bubble.
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Litui (Aria) 🇨🇦 @litui.ca · 29/08/2026
All jobs with a qualifier that 9 times out of 10. Fair though, I am not talking about every job. If my doctor had no degree I'd be seriously worried lol
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Litui (Aria) 🇨🇦 @litui.ca · 29/08/2026
Nah, not anymore in this day and age. Anyone who lacks the commitment can fudge it with AI to cross the finish line. Been the case for a couple years at least. I stand by my statement even before that happened but it's even more the state of affairs now.
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Litui (Aria) 🇨🇦 @litui.ca · 29/08/2026
Agreed! Why I've been to post-secondary twice in my life to learn more about things I was curious about and didn't know where to start. No degrees though; I got what I wanted and left.
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Litui (Aria) 🇨🇦 @litui.ca · 29/08/2026
(and arguably they should verify their assumptions when hiring because a degree no longer means the student was using their own brain to finish the work)
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Litui (Aria) 🇨🇦 @litui.ca · 29/08/2026
There's definitely merit, for many learners, to have a structured curriculum, and for certain fields it makes it easier to bank on assumptions that new hires have at least looked at specific things. But a hiring process could also verify these assumptions directly regardless of degree.
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Litui (Aria) 🇨🇦 @litui.ca · 29/08/2026
I would strongly argue these days that both those assumptions have become increasingly meaningless. Maybe once upon a time they actually had merit but we're in AI land now. Attending just means you could afford it. Ask anyone in tech hiring juniors fresh outta school and brace yourself.
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Litui (Aria) 🇨🇦 @litui.ca · 29/08/2026
Hot take as a middle aged tech/dev person with no degree: very few jobs on this planet need their workers to have a degree. All jobs need particular, job specific skills that can 9/10 times be learned on the job or solo.
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Litui (Aria) 🇨🇦 @litui.ca · 29/08/2026
A sticker that looks like a workplace safety sign reading "Caution" in all caps with the text "safety cat ears must be worn in this area" below
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Litui (Aria) 🇨🇦 @litui.ca · 29/08/2026
Me, a middle aged tran as I scroll while waking up, cuddling a plush dinosaur: yeah, this is fine and good.
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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 26/08/2026
Report: Tim Curry's death to be investigated by suspicious group of eccentrics gathering at his house
thebeaverton.com
Report: Tim Curry's death to be investigated by suspicious group of eccentrics gathering at his house
LOS ANGELES - Following the death of beloved 80-year-old British actor Tim Curry, observers have noted a coterie of anonymous upper crust suspects arriving at his mansion in order to investigate the m...
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Tyson @lscpunk.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
If Dolly was our constant reminder that it was Good to be Good, Tim Curry was our reminder that it was Good to be Weird. Embrace your strangeness, sing with Muppets, wear your lingerie with a leather jacket, and fuck with uptight people who hate anything that makes them remotely uncomfortable.
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