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Mick 🇨🇦

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Average middle-aged guy from various places in Ontario. Into #running, #books, #videogames, the #fediverse. At least a little bit #buddhist. Trying to lead an examined […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ cosocial.ca/@mick, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Mick 🇨🇦 @mick.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 2h
Siri: still embarrassingly bad
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Mick 🇨🇦 @mick.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/pi…
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The Bayeux Tapestry of Fascism: The Stephen Collins cartoon
Contemporary British political life is a rich tapestry indeed
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Mick 🇨🇦 @mick.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026
Happy Friday
Regardless of whether the
driving ideology is socialist or
capitalist, the end result is a
modern slave state where
people spend their lives in
endless toil and passive
entertainment, with little else
besides.

In Praise of Idleness
Third Earl Bertrand Russell and
Bradley Trevor Greive
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David August ❌👑 @davidaugust.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026
Canada weaponized a spreadsheet against a fool who thinks tariffs are foreplay. ifloz.substack.com/p/remind-me-to-n… #USpol #Canada #trade #TradeWar #TrumpTariffs #tariffs #economy
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Daniel Lakeland @dlakelan.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026
Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it.
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Mick 🇨🇦 @mick.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026
Maybe skip the kimchi when you’re on the train? Your neighbours thank you.
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Tim Bray 🇨🇦 @timbray.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026
Researchers from the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research conclude — hold on, I know this is difficult to believe — that the #GenAI business is financially unsustainable. “AI Companies Are In a Race Against Time” […]
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Mick 🇨🇦 @mick.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026
Such a punchable photo.
The image shows two men engaged in a close conversation, both smiling. One man has light, tousled hair and an orange complexion, while the other has curly brown hair and is wearing a suit.  They are two of the worst humans who have ever lived.  The orange one is named Don, the curly one is Mark.
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Mick 🇨🇦 @mick.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026
Wordle 1,929 X/6 ⬛⬛⬛🟨🟨 ⬛🟩⬛🟩🟩 ⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛ ⬛🟩⬛🟩🟩 ⬛🟩⬛🟩🟩 ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 WordleBot Skill 67/99 Luck 25/99 First loss in 416 puzzles 😭
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Mick 🇨🇦 @mick.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026
Super
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Mick 🇨🇦 @mick.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026
😂 theonion.com/creatively-tapped-out-…
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John Siracusa @siracusa.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026
OK, let’s try this: FB24976658: My Apple Account is locked every day Any help from any Apple folks to get this seen by the right people would be greatly appreciated! 🙏
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M.S. Bellows, Jr. @msbellows.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026
I'm so old, I remember when software that spread into the wild and infiltrated other people's computers and did harmful things to them that the users didn't ask it to was called "malware" instead of "AI" and the people that spread it were prosecuted instead of given billions in venture capital […]
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Maj - 🇨🇦 @maj.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026
I'm beginning to suspect that the monetized algorithm doesn't have my best interest in mind. #meirl #joke #sarcasm
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Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸 @evan.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026
Just got our firewood for the winter #canada #country #winter #firewood
A big stack of firewood
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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
Owning the libs. Renting to own the libs. The installment plan... for the libs. Falling behind on your payments for the libs. and now your water might get shut off.
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Mick 🇨🇦 @mick.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
Ok, I’m hearing a lot of you expressing skepticism about our new product that promises to eliminate millions of jobs, poison the atmosphere, raise your electricity rates and usher in a whole new era of disinformation. I get it. Change is scary! But what if I told you there’s a small chance it […]
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Mick 🇨🇦 @mick.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
‘Officials who spoke with me stressed that the mere presence of the Egyptian intelligence chief in Israel should have demonstrated the urgency of the issue. “The messenger was the message,” a former Israeli official told me. “There is no world,” this official said, where top Israeli officials […]
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Boris Mann @boris.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
I wrote a proposal in the #CoSocialCa members forum about making services we already run on @cloudron for general co-op operations. Git hosting (we run @gitea) is of interest to me personally. Any other members want Canadian git hosting & code collaboration? […]
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Mick 🇨🇦 @mick.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026
“She’s trying to walk the middle of the road, between the moderate, business conservatives and the far-right populist base that’s still angry over COVID restrictions,” said John Santos, data scientist with Janet Brown Opinion Research. “Still angry over COVID restrictions” 😂 […]
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Adrianna Tan @skinnylatte.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026
SF Democratic Party stands behind.. Flock They even have two people on Flock’s payroll! Who didn’t recuse themselves from the vote! Feckless, gormless politicians missionlocal.org/2026/09/san-franci… #SanFrancisco #Flock
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S.F. Democratic Party stands behind Flock surveillance cameras in sweeping vote
Two Democratic committee members work for Flock, but were allowed to vote regardless S.F. Democratic Party stands behind Flock surveillance cameras in sweeping vote
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Mick 🇨🇦 @mick.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026
Is there video of #Trump trying to say “Thucydides” someplace?
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Mick 🇨🇦 @mick.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026
😎
On Tuesday, B.C. Premier David Eby called a
snap election, two years into his term. He said
the province needs to show a strong response
to American aggression.

This was just two days after the leader of the
Opposition, Kerry-Lynne Findlay, resigned,
following a tumultuous four months that
included a string of firings and defections,
leaks from caucus meetings, and allegations
of spying.
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Mick 🇨🇦 @mick.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026
Being an adult means choosing to listen to Steve Paikin’s podcast, and sitting through an ad for toy and lube from the Stag Shop - delivered by Uber. Apparently.
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Mick 🇨🇦 @mick.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026
I remember seeing a demo of the surveillance system that the #prc had imposed on its people in 201X and thinking it a good thing that we lived in a democracy where our every move wasn’t surveilled by the state. I remember the very idea of state-owned cameras everywhere as a dystopian nightmare […]
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Mick 🇨🇦 @mick.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026
😂 theonion.com/xi-jinping-impressed-w…
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Mick 🇨🇦 @mick.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026
How do we stop Disney from making any more Toy Story movies, and is there some way we can get them to unmake the 4th one?
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Stefan Bohacek @fediverse.stefanbohacek.online · 03/09/2026
Interesting to see the fediverse and the Atmosphere starting to take up similar shape, as with FASPs, fediverse servers will be able to connect to shared infrastructure. bonfirenetworks.org/posts/building-… via […]
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Quinn Norton @quinn.social.circl.lu.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026
Fuck, this AI nonsense is exhausting.
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Mick 🇨🇦 @mick.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026
“Under the old international order, major powers did not, as a general rule, conquer and annex the territory of their neighbors. The global trading system was based on reciprocity, tariffs were historically low, and markets were relatively open. And, although it was the world’s strongest country […]
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Mick 🇨🇦 @mick.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026
Standing before the UN General Assembly, he threatens to annihilate a country of 90 million. He boasts that he’s conquered a state and claimed their natural resources as his prize. He declares that he intends to do so again. He explains that it is the natural right of the mighty to claim […]
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Mick 🇨🇦 @mick.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026
The first person who says to me “actually we’re calling it super intelligence now” is going to get punched in the mouth
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Mick 🇨🇦 @mick.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026
This is some truly villainous shit www.nytimes.com/live/2026/09/22/wor…
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Mick 🇨🇦 @mick.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026
The Jewish community has started a fundraiser for Constable Jeff Smith, who was badly injured in yesterday’s shootout outside the Sons of Jacob Synagogue in Belleville. “In Judaism, *pikuach nefesh*, the preservation of human life, is among our highest obligations. Const. Smith fulfilled that […]
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Tamara Munzner @tamara.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026
We're hiring at UBC CS in our tenure-track teaching stream. We're in search of systems expertise: our greatest needs are in operating systems and computer architecture; also networking, distributed systems, database systems, cloud computing, and systems security […]
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Tamara Munzner @tamara.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026
Ravebots Tech or Treat What If 2027 Sound Camp Fundraiser Join us for a night of beats, bass, and bots as we get the Vancouver Burning Man community warmed up for the season. This will be a taste of the Ravebots experience. It's a little treat before we reunite […] [Original post on cosocial.ca]
Ravebot logo: stylized robot head wearing DJ headphones, with a newly customized neon-yet-subtle color palette of green / cyan / purple against a dark background.
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Boris Mann @boris.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026
RE: cosocial.ca/@coop/117304257857053771 Thanks @dawn for your work in pushing things forward and prepping for the AGM - a nice morning of coworking where I got email for the atproto PDS working and tinkered with the operator admin panel that @gov installed. Progress! And met @ansate […]
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Mick 🇨🇦 @mick.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026
Sure, bud. Go for it. The best reading of this is that Canadian potash provides real leverage over the cost of growing crops in the US. Getting any quantity from Belarus is not practical for a bunch of reasons. As a signal this is probably intended to tell Carney to not even think about using […]
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Mick 🇨🇦 @mick.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026
We’ve got the AFD in Germany, the National Rally in France, Reform or Restore in the UK, Law and Justice in Poland, Vox in Spain… all surging. The political center-left is failing and the extreme right is ascendant. IDK if Canada is going to find the EU/UK a safe haven from the madness that […]
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Mick 🇨🇦 @mick.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026
I have been blessed to live with many dogs and all were beautiful but none were as cute as this one is #dogsofmastodon
Imagine the most adorable puppy conceivable. Now imagine her in pajamas.
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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026
*Laughs in Saskatchewan which hasn't switched to daylight savings time in decades* then *Cries in Saskatchewan as I realize that starting in November I am going to have people in meetings I regularly organize in PDT, PST/PDT, MDT, MST/MDT, MST, CST, CDT/CST, EDT/EST, European time zones, New […]
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GhostOnTheHalfShell @ghostonthehalfshell.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026
Remember to tell everyone you know that the site Votesafe.org Is an Elon Musk scam that will steal everything it can about your personal information including which toilet paper do you like. The site you want to go to regarding your registration is Vote.org
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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026
It's nowhere near the worst or most consequential thing he's done, but I think Trump's threat to demolish the Kennedy Center if he isn't allowed to name it after himself is the clearest demonstration yet that he's gone mad with the imagined power of his office. It doesn't advance any policy […]
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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026
🖋️💖 #fountainpen #fountainpens
Handwritten cursive note in teal blue ink, reading:

A woman posts with pride and self-satisfaction about her latest accomplishment in her favorite creative hobby, which has been a recurring source of joy and peace ever since she discovered it while gravely ill eleven years ago. 

A man she’s never seen before in her life walks into her mentions and informs her that hobbies are inefficient.

This isn’t a joke setup; I blocked him. And now I’m inefficiently doing my hobby about it.

Doesn’t KWZ Iron Gall Turquoise pair perfectly with this pen? [a metallic teal fountain pen rests across the notebook]
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M. Grégoire @mpjgregoire.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026
RE: mstdn.ca/@avilewis/1172934737118798… That was quick. Shouldn't the government at least announce this measure to Parliament before they hire the bankers to make it happen? #CanPol #cdnpoli #privatisation #airports
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Mick 🇨🇦 @mick.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026
RE: masto.ai/@Nonilex/117287812225565794 In #Ontario we call this a “Science Centre Scam” #onpoli #dougford
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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026
I'm so ad blocked that when I happen to see one? I hiss! Like a cat. It's involuntary.
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Flipboard Culture Desk @culturedesk.flipboard.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026
Macklemore has announced he is donating his $1 million net earnings from the Ed Sheeran tour he to organizations that support the Palestinian people. The rapper, who was dropped from Sheeran's tour at the behest of billionaire Robert Kraft, urged Kraft to match his donation. “With everything […]
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John Siracusa @siracusa.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026
After being bounced back and forth multiple times between regular Apple support and Apple Developer support, both claiming that this is the other party's problem to solve, I am now looking for anyone at Apple who can put me in touch with the folks that control the system that "locks" Apple […]
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Mick 🇨🇦 @mick.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026
In 2008 the financial crisis was triggered by a relatively obscure financial instrument that no one was really talking about until the bomb went off and tanked the economy. Whereas the insane over-investment in hyperscaling AI that is likely to cause the next financial crisis is plain as day […]
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