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Mike Connor @mconnor.net · 20/07/2026

In Montreal for IEEE PES, booked a hotel off Trivago mostly on price/proximity, only to discover this terrace, which is a lovely place to sit and not talk. And I'm pretty sure I was at an event here with @stevetex.bsky.social in 2023.

Fifth floor balcony view of downtown Montreal and the SAT.

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Al Yankovic @alyankovic.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

You sure about this, Google?

A Google alert announces Chappell Roan concert tickets, but the image is of Weird Al

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Mike Connor @mconnor.net · 24/04/2025

This is a great thread for anyone traveling to the US. Do not make assumptions about what is and isn't allowed. In 2011 a CBP officer decided my answer (unchanged in six years of travel) meant I was doing work, and I ended up needing a work visa for the next seven years.

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Mike Connor @mconnor.net · 15/02/2025

I've told a bunch of people the story about learning to drive the year we had snowbanks taller than me. TIL that year was the all time record for my hometown. By tomorrow we'll have broken the all time February record in 16 days, after coming close to the all time January record.

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a woman wearing glasses and a blue shirt is asking what a week huh ?

ALT: a woman wearing glasses and a blue shirt is asking what a week huh ?

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Mike Connor @mconnor.net · 25/01/2025

So it sure sounds like the Office + Copilot rollout is going well. It's enabled with no off switch for people who have confidentiality requirements.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 20/01/2025

Everyone excusing Elon Musk’s behavior due to his alleged autism should be chased into the sea with pitchforks it’s both profoundly insulting to autistic people and also obviously not true

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Mike Connor @mconnor.net · 18/01/2025

Saw this earlier and thought of old friends so I had to buy it. #mfbt @johnolilly.bsky.social @beltzner.bsky.social

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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

My favorite part of Zuckerberg's Joe Rogan interview is when he suggests there is not enough masculine energy at his company, where two out of every three employees is a man.

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Mike Connor @mconnor.net · 12/12/2024

Early ride into the city for breakfast with some OG Moz folks.

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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

A Ba'athist, a Stalinist and an anti Semite walk into a bar. The barman says Stop the War's memorial for Assadism is upstairs.

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Alison Malört @alisonmalort.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

It has snowed in Chicago and YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS! Time to remind everyone that we light our train tracks on fire to prevent the switches from freezing.

A set of railroad tracks with parts of them set on fire as a commuter train prepares to cross.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

If Democrats didn't want a philandering rapist who supports extrajudicial killings running the world's largest military, maybe they should have appeared on more podcasts.

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Mike Connor @mconnor.net · 20/11/2024

So when does Bluesky get their own version of the fail whale? I feel like that's the only part of early Twitter that I'm missing. @pfrazee.com

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Mikel Jollett @mikeljollett.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Annual morbidity in the 20th century, before and after vaccines: Measles: Before: 530,000, After: 47 Mumps: Before: 160,000, After: 429 Rubella: Before: 50,000, After: 3 Diphtheria: Before: 20,000, After: 2 Smallpox: Before: 30,000, After: 0 Polio: Before: 16,000, After: 0

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 22/08/2024

It looks like his barber got 45% of the way through the haircut and sliced his own jugular to avoid continuing to talk to him

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