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Matt Thompson

@matthewsthompson.com
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Number-wanger, Technology geek and generally eco friendly bod. Previously M_at on bird site. Brit in Toronto.

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Matt Thompson @matthewsthompson.com · 03/10/2026
Today I am taking a test to prove that I can communicate in English because reasons. The entry phone to the test centre does not work. You are expected to make enough of a fuss outside at 7:30am on a Saturday that the staff hiding out of sight will hear you.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The techbros don't want you to see this trailer. Pass it on.
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Matt Thompson @matthewsthompson.com · 26/09/2026
It’s a Luke warm take but this isn’t a problem. Plug in hybrids are not designed for long distance use even though they’re sold as a solution to range anxiety. Hauling an engine around and trying to run on battery as much as possible is dumb. Bite the bullet and get a full EV.
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Matt Thompson @matthewsthompson.com · 20/09/2026
What blows my mind isn’t the price. It’s that the third decimal place needs to be presented as a fraction for the bunnies to understand it. You’re literally representing a fraction of a fraction.
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Matt Thompson @matthewsthompson.com · 13/09/2026
Breville Eye Q toaster review: a ‘revolutionary device’ that makes perfect toast without me trying - The Guardian apple.news/A-n8B-RvOQoa... I can’t help but think that @techconnectify.bsky.social has thoughts on this.
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Breville Eye Q toaster review: a ‘revolutionary device’ that makes perfect toast without me trying — Guardian US
I toasted just about every kind of bread in Breville’s new Eye Q – and each slice came out perfectly toasted
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Matt Thompson @matthewsthompson.com · 31/07/2026
What the actual flight. Downloaded videos are not available, despite downloading them beforehand, while on a plane because the app thinks I’m in a country that I’m not allowed to view the content in. That country: USA. @paramountplus.com this sucks. And it’s a great way to alienate people.
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Matt Thompson @matthewsthompson.com · 30/06/2026
Dear AI, make me a scam Canadian Government email but really screw up the flag.
A scam email with a hilariously wrong Canadian flag in the mast head.
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Matt Thompson @matthewsthompson.com · 14/06/2026
Toyota veteran reveals his worst fear as EVs surge: The company's hydrogen bet may be a dead end. If only people had been saying this for years. apple.news/AYw21_I0sQoi...
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Toyota veteran reveals his worst fear as EVs surge: The company's hydrogen bet may be a dead end — The Cool Down
"Kodak Veteran Reveals His Worst Fear: Everybody Is Shifting To Digital." Jun 14, 2026 Toyota's long-running push into hydrogen is facing renewed scrutiny after a veteran company executive reportedly ...
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Matt Thompson @matthewsthompson.com · 06/06/2026
It’s June. In Toronto. With 25°c and humidity because it’s raining. Of course the TTC has the heating on in the subway.
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Matt Thompson @matthewsthompson.com · 18/05/2026
Motorist stranded after bollards hoist £40k Audi - The Telegraph Let’s be clear. @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social will hoist any value car. Not just cheap Audis.
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Matt Thompson @matthewsthompson.com · 29/04/2026
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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a man in a suit and tie says there is literally no one in the world that i don 't hate right now
Alt: The West Wing character Toby Ziegler says there is literally no one in the world that i don 't hate right now
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Matt Thompson @matthewsthompson.com · 23/04/2026
Oh lord.
iPhone lock screen screenshot showing an alert from The Standard: “Russell Brand announces plan to run for London mayor” followed by a Breaking News alert from the Guardian: “Russell Brand says he had ‘exploitative’ consensual sex with girl, 16, at height of his fame. 
Posted 1358 UTC Thursday 23 April.
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Matt Thompson @matthewsthompson.com · 03/04/2026
I never realised this was a documentary…
Still image from TV Show: The Big Bang Theory showing Sheldon and Raj mending a “space toilet”
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Matt Thompson @matthewsthompson.com · 09/03/2026
I do wonder what creates the bubble that people who write into local newspapers live in. The local paper has published a letter stating that Canada needs to abandon its HSR plans for a maglev. Never mind that the world’s longest maglev is just 30km compared to the 1,000km proposed Alto HSR.
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Matt Thompson @matthewsthompson.com · 07/03/2026
Because Starbucks won't let you change an email address yourself but will allow you to delete an account guess what I did. Not allowing email address changes is crazy bad customer experience.
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Matt Thompson @matthewsthompson.com · 16/02/2026
I did wonder when astrology and infosec would finally converge. Today will be a tumultuous day for Virgoans as their moon is rising indicating an increase in the likelihood of a DDoS attack.
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Matt Thompson @matthewsthompson.com · 15/02/2026
Has anyone here ever successfully changed their email address? The verification logic seems to fall down - the click here link in the emails doesn't work and now I've tried to verify the address too many times. And @bsky.app support is not yet mature enough for me to trust they'll get it right.
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Matt Thompson @matthewsthompson.com · 10/02/2026
There are some parts of the Eglinton Line that I really like. It’s smooth through the tunnels. It has more space internally than the streetcars. And the Mount Dennis complex has some nice building reuse.
The former Kodak Building at Mount Dennis station.
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Matt Thompson @matthewsthompson.com · 09/02/2026
I popped into the new Eglinton Line station. Given much of it has been complete for years I’m amazed that only two elevators already need maintenance. When Berlin had delays with their airport half the site needed maintenance or replacement by opening time.
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Matt Thompson @matthewsthompson.com · 01/02/2026
This is so embarrassing. Only 5 places in the east of Canada to recycle a Brita cartridge. Meanwhile the UK website shows about that many for an area just to the north of a small city to the north of Birmingham. Clorox Corporation you need to get your act together and do the right thing here!
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Matt Thompson @matthewsthompson.com · 01/02/2026
Just watched the most passionate video from @techconnectify.bsky.social Please go watch it through to the real end. This is my position too.
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Matt Thompson @matthewsthompson.com · 17/01/2026
Why do Shell think that EV owners don’t want to wash their car?
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Matt Thompson @matthewsthompson.com · 03/01/2026
Wait. What?
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Matt Thompson @matthewsthompson.com · 22/12/2025
Thi seems like quite a story about how bad Canada Post can be. A country where virtually everything (Outside Quebec) is named after somewhere in the UK and they decided that Leicester was in Sri Lanka.
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Matt Thompson @matthewsthompson.com · 15/12/2025
Campaigners for Canadian English up in arms over Carney Government’s use of British English. “We demand the government randomly use American English or British English depending on what each computer is setup for as the Founding Fathers intended.”
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Canadian English supporters urge Carney to abandon federal shift to British spelling — The Canadian Press
Promoters of Canadian English say the federal government is sending the wrong
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Matt Thompson @matthewsthompson.com · 05/12/2025
So, how much is my Netflix subscription going to go up now?
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Matt Thompson @matthewsthompson.com · 30/11/2025
I worked out why the Eglinton Crosstown isn’t running. They only built a tiny part of it at Kennedy!
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Matt Thompson @matthewsthompson.com · 28/11/2025
How on earth does an organisation the size of @timhortonsofficial.bsky.social not have drive through menus that can hide items that are sold out or discontinued?
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Matt Thompson @matthewsthompson.com · 19/11/2025
A beautiful sight this evening on my way home. The sat nav caught a Toyota Mirai overtaking me.
A Toyota Mirai on a low loader being towed on Highway 401 in Canada.
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Matt Thompson @matthewsthompson.com · 13/11/2025
What is W AR?
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Matt Thompson @matthewsthompson.com · 07/11/2025
apple.news/Abw2D5UiHSQK... This will achieve nothing because we can hardly make out the manual announcements anyway.
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TTC rolling out system to 'call out' bad behaviour over station speakers — Village Report
Pilot project will be starting at Union and Dundas stations
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Matt Thompson @matthewsthompson.com · 02/11/2025
How many years have we been changing clocks twice a year? And how many years will it take for software developers to understand how and when it happens? *sigh*
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Matt Thompson @matthewsthompson.com · 27/10/2025
Today is Day One at a new job for me. It’s been a while unemployed after emigrating from the UK to Canada. I’ve been lucky enough to find somewhere that has planned day one down to the extent of providing slack time, providing lunch, and filling the day with social activities such as meeting teams.
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Matt Thompson @matthewsthompson.com · 24/10/2025
I’m not sure that Doug Ford could make any more missteps if he tried. He’s wrong on Bike Lanes. Wrong on Speed Cameras. Wrong on Metrolinx. Wrong on Tunnels. And now he’s wrong on Trade Wars. He’s costing Canada not just Ontario and he needs to go. Now! apple.news/A3eu7dzRCRfi...
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Trump says he’s ending trade talks with Canada over Ontario anti-tariff ad — The Globe and Mail
The ad, which Trump calls ‘egregious,’ features late Republican president Ronald Reagan decrying American protectionism
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Matt Thompson @matthewsthompson.com · 20/10/2025
Loving RBC’s EV savings calculator. It doesn’t list half the cars available as EVs but does list a bunch of plug in hybrids. 2 out of 5 here are EVs. The EX40 and EC40 are missing. The Dual motor EX30 is missing. 🤦‍♂️
RBC website showing EV savings, except it doesn’t list many of the EVs available.
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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
I am once again begging you to boycott Tesla
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Matt Thompson @matthewsthompson.com · 12/10/2025
This man makes me want to move to New York.
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Matt Thompson @matthewsthompson.com · 04/10/2025
The noise in Ontario surrounding speed cameras is just dumb. By calling them a cash grab the premier has now caused the trigger points to be released. He single handedly raised the effective speed limit in Toronto by 11km/h in a city that already has a speed problem…
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Matt Thompson @matthewsthompson.com · 03/10/2025
When the clock strikes 00:00 @viarailcanada.bsky.social assume that all the trains magically arrived on time. Why is it that I'm still on the 17:08 from Toronto to Montreal then? And now I can't see what the progress is without manually checking off stations against a timetable.
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Matt Thompson @matthewsthompson.com · 02/10/2025
Why do so many people in Toronto seem drawn to trespassing on the tracks? East bound @viarailcanada.bsky.social service is disrupted right now.
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Matt Thompson @matthewsthompson.com · 02/10/2025
Me: I wonder why @techconnectify.bsky.social hasn’t had many videos out recently. Alec: Tears down car to make a video. Me: Oh that’ll be why. Oooh cute socks. These are going to be neat videos.
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Matt Thompson @matthewsthompson.com · 01/10/2025
Toronto made The B1M. Oh. youtu.be/e8mLZ7EE81I - How not to build a railway.
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Why Canada Desperately Needs This $13BN Railway
YouTube video by The B1M
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Matt Thompson @matthewsthompson.com · 01/10/2025
SLEEPY JOE BIDEN COULDN’T SHUT THE GOVERNMENT DOWN BUT I, DONALD J TRUMP, HAVE DONE IT IN BOTH MY WONDERFUL TERMS. SOME SAY THE BEST SHUT DOWNS EVER. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION IN THIS MATTER.
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Matt Thompson @matthewsthompson.com · 01/10/2025
I grew up with the phrase “the enemy within” in WWII referring to Nazi sympathisers. I wonder if the administration will set the military loose against themselves. apple.news/AluawXwMoR-W...
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Trump Tells Generals the Military Will Be Used to Fight ‘Enemy Within’ — The Wall Street Journal
President says some U.S. cities he considers dangerous should become training grounds for American troops
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Matt Thompson @matthewsthompson.com · 30/09/2025
Thursday’s trip to Montreal is going to be so good thanks to VIA Rail running directly to Montreal on the train I booked. What? CN have found a way to scupper it? If the Liberal government wants to seriously make Alto work then strip the rails away from CN. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Via postpones direct Montreal-Toronto pilot | CBC News
Via Rail has announced it's postponing a pilot project that would have seen trains travel directly between Montreal and Toronto, skipping several eastern Ontario stops along the way.
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Matt Thompson @matthewsthompson.com · 22/09/2025
Self driving with only vision is not going to work with current computing power. But it’s damn funny watching Tesla shareholders fail in their bid to show that it does. apple.news/A4KT0SUz2Sr-...
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Tesla influencers tried Elon Musk’s coast-to-coast self-driving, crashed before 60 miles — Electrek
A duo of Tesla shareholder-influencers tried to complete Elon Musk’s coast-to-coast self-driving ride that he claimed Tesla would be able to do in 2017 and they crashed before making it about 60 miles...
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Matt Thompson @matthewsthompson.com · 21/09/2025
A reminder that Trump’s successes will be copied by right wing entities everywhere. It is vital that freedom to report is protected.
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Matt Thompson @matthewsthompson.com · 20/09/2025
During WWII the US Administration was Anti Fascist. The current US Administration is declaring Anti Fascist as a terrorist movement. Which would put the current US Administration on the side of Fascists. The dumb. It hurts.
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Matt Thompson @matthewsthompson.com · 19/09/2025
Yeah. This is it. This is what they’re aiming for.
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Matt Thompson @matthewsthompson.com · 18/09/2025
Sometime you should just resign. Canada is not here to please the Ambassadors assigned to it. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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U.S. ambassador 'disappointed' with anti-American sentiment in Canada | CBC News
The U.S. ambassador to Canada is expressing frustration over the anti-American sentiment he sees in this country, including from politicians, after U.S. President Donald Trump hit most of the world wi...
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