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Mike MacLeod @mmacleod.ca · 03/10/2026

Oh yeah, at home is different. But I recall not wanting my family to see me naked at some point. Definitely a learned modesty. But that College St YMCA sure cured me of any modesty in change rooms. I was often reminded of this old Oatmeal comic.

two-panel the oatmeal comic contrasting locker room etiquette. top panel, "young men in the locker room": two guys changing discreetly — one towel-wrapped pulling up jeans, the other in underwear hunched over a shirt on the bench. bottom panel, "old men in the locker room": four elderly, balding men stand fully naked (pixelated) around the same lockers and bench, loudly bantering about a "piggers" game, one blow-drying his groin with a hair dryer ("WHIRRRRAR!").

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Mike MacLeod @mmacleod.ca · 10/08/2026

Bought a mini PC that was supposed to come with 32GB of RAM and a 1TB NVMe drive. It wouldn't post, so after some troubleshooting I popped it open and... it's been stripped. Guessing this unit was previously purchased, stripped, and returned. It's getting desperate out there.

The guts of a mini PC, revealing that the memory and storage is missing.

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Mike MacLeod @mmacleod.ca · 02/07/2026

May I share the good word with you?

Meme image of an army recruiter inviting you to sit in the chair beside his desk, with the chair labeled ‘Westminster Parliament’

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Mike MacLeod @mmacleod.ca · 11/05/2026

Verbing weirds language. This C&H comic lives rent free in my head.

Three panel calvin and hobbes comic, outdoors in snowy woods.

Panel 1
Calvin: I like to verb words.
Hobbes: What?

Panel 2
Calvin: I take nouns and adjectives and use them as verbs. Remember when "access" was a thing? Now it's something you do. It got verbed.

Panel 3:
Calvin: Verbing weirds language.
Hobbes: Maybe we can eventually make language a complete impediment to understanding.

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Mike MacLeod @mmacleod.ca · 03/05/2026

Looks like it's working to me.

Screeenshot of Luna's skeet with the 'Who can interact with this post?' model overlaid on top showing 'Only users following @imlunahey.com can reply.'

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Mike MacLeod @mmacleod.ca · 31/03/2026

Gotta get yourself into a small little Cessna or something and tour mountains that way. It’s transcendent. We did a float plane tour of glaciers on a trip to Whitehorse, and it was amazing.

A small red four-if-you-squeeze seater Cessna floatplane at a dock.

Some motherfuckin’ mountains, up pretty close

Some more motherfuckin’ mountains up real damn close, also there’s a glacier.

The cliff end of a goddamn glacier that looks about to calve off. The shadow of the plane is visible in the lake below.

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Mike MacLeod @mmacleod.ca · 12/03/2026

So close. My mom got 0.0037, but she was a professional artist.

Your ДЕок JND
0.0039
Okay this is genuinely impressive. You're well below the standard JND of 0.02. The CIE should be sending you a job offer. Or at least a certificate.

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Mike MacLeod @mmacleod.ca · 16/02/2026

Used in earnest one (1) time by a poster in the middle of a meltdown over site changes when the whole platform was like 3 minutes old. Used in jest since, and codified as a label from the sky watch labeler.

Bluesky Elder
This user has been here since before the media tab (August 2023). This label is not a label of honor—no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here.
This label is meant in jest and dates to early experiments in labeling. It is applied to the first 800,000 Bluesky accounts. Appeals honored.
Source: @skywatch.blue

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Mike MacLeod @mmacleod.ca · 09/02/2026

I’ve never watched a Mets game, and have probably watched fewer than 15 baseball games in my life. This is (I believe) my first post mentioning the Mets…

A map of bluesky users, showing the author closest to the “New York Mets Fans” cluster, proving that the map is about as accurate as a monkey playing darts.

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Mike MacLeod @mmacleod.ca · 30/01/2026

ngl, kinda rude of apple to score the sleep of parents with a newborn.

OK Sleep Score
now
You scored a 65 last night due to getting fewer hours of sleep.

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Mike MacLeod @mmacleod.ca · 16/01/2026

Man, fuck this city. I spent a good chunk of my afternoon ensuring my sidewalk and driveway was clear because I need to take my newborn to his first well baby visit first thing in the morning. I don’t fucking need this.

A previously shovelled driveway, now completely impassable with packed two feet of snow from a passing snow plow.

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Mike MacLeod @mmacleod.ca · 21/12/2025

These two tweets about time from @filipamv.bsky.social live rent free in my head.

Screenshot of two tweets from @filipamv.bsky.social:

Tweet 1:
PHILOSOPHER: Time... is an illusion. It's a fiction we tell ourselves
PROGRAMMER: Bruh, you don't even know how right you are

Tweet 2:
EVO MORALES: The Gregorian calendar is in fact a hegemonic device invented by the Pope, out of sync with the rhythms of the cosmos, in order to impose culture and religion
PROGRAMMER (sweating profusely): Oh SHIT

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Mike MacLeod @mmacleod.ca · 12/11/2025

I don’t think it’s an accident they used your deadname handle. Unhinged is right, lol.

Screenshot of a bluesky post that reads:

I could possibly have a male gay friend but I'd tell him that it is a deal breaker on any
PDA, it turns my stomach.

I've always had the most diverse group of friends. I remember this one time I had a Multiple High School Party and everyone was like, "Omg, YOU know Elias??"

I just like cool people.

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Mike MacLeod @mmacleod.ca · 27/10/2025

Me too, Kīlauea lava cricket.

While C. fori can be found at night on lava fields without any equipment, it is apparently especially attracted to cheese.

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Mike MacLeod @mmacleod.ca · 20/10/2025

I used this a lot when working tech support. I also had a slightly different version taped up in my cube (not my pic, but identical alphabet).

A phonetic alphabet for assholes.

A - Aisle
N - Nguyen
B - Bdellium
0 - Ouja
C - Cue
P - Pterodactyl
D - Djembe
Q - Quiche
E - Eye
R - Rzeznik
F - Phonetic
S - Sgraffitto
G - Gnat
T - Tsunami
H - Honor
U - Uber
I - lan
V - Veinte
J - Jalapeno
W - Write
K - Knight
X - Xylophone
L - Llama
Y - Yttrium
M - Mnemonic
Z - Zounds

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Mike MacLeod @mmacleod.ca · 25/09/2025

I dunno, I feel like eating more than half of one of these in one sitting is probably overdoing it.

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Mike MacLeod @mmacleod.ca · 27/08/2025

Some beautiful sunsets in late August up here.

A bright orange sunset over a lake, with a beach and bushes in the foreground. There’s a flagpole in the middle of the frame, and a crescent moon in the upper left.

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Mike MacLeod @mmacleod.ca · 07/08/2025

Skeeted without comment.

Andrew Hutchinson first joined Bluesky during the Public release era. Their style of posting is "Unknown". They are a "Explorer" with normal engagement, averaging 0.0 engagements per post across their follower base of 248.

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Mike MacLeod @mmacleod.ca · 27/07/2025

My daughter, five, was given a keychain for her birthday, but I don’t think the purchaser reviewed the packaging closely. This will inevitably become one of her favourite possessions.

Picture of the side of a box for a cat keychain, advertising its attention to detail. There are two images, the top one shows an image of the bottoms of the paws with kitty beans clearly visible. The bottom image shows an image of the testicles, also clearly visible.

A picture of a black cat keychain, leaning face down on some fabric, highlighting the previously advertised attention to detail, the balls clearly visible even though the cat is all black.

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Mike MacLeod @mmacleod.ca · 03/07/2025

FYI, with the nuclear block behaviour, these kinds of parting shots are pointless because the blockee will never see it (unless they happen to have clearsky open). Also, Roger’s instinct here is correct! He just fails to see how it cuts against his own argument against mod lists.

rogerzenaf.bsky.social 20 minutes ago

This is about MY account and being able to control who can do what with it. For instance, when I'm done typing I'm blocking you. Which means I no longer have to read your bullshit and you can no longer force your bullshit into my feed.See how that works?

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Mike MacLeod @mmacleod.ca · 03/07/2025

😂, you’re upset about moderation lists, but you’re blocking over 180k users with them? You want to give those folks veto power over your bsky experience?

Roger ZenAF
@rogerzenaf.osky.social
User #665,709
2023-08-19
Blocking 184,855 total users via lists

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Mike MacLeod @mmacleod.ca · 30/06/2025

With you on the pointless gold (flavourless excuse to flex), but only moved to the coast in my teens and never got over the glory of regular access to fresh seafood. I’m the kind of foodie that had a food truck that does fried seafood do a midnight visit to my wedding.

Results of an online survey of food preferences, showing that I’m a food slut.

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Mike MacLeod @mmacleod.ca · 10/06/2025

I'm sure you're aware @bubbaprog.lol, but for those that only know vaguely that smart TVs and set top boxes are spying on you, my single Roku device is responsible for over 15% of the requests AdGuard Home has blocked in the last week, enough for second place.

Screenshot from AdGuard Home UI showing over 15% of blocked DNS requests over previous 7 days were for scribe.logs.roku.com.

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Mike MacLeod @mmacleod.ca · 30/05/2025

This sentence is in the third paragraph and not interrogated at all. It’s valuable (financially and probably sentimentally) property, but the kids don’t want it?

The next generation isn't in a position to take it on either.

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Mike MacLeod @mmacleod.ca · 06/05/2025

When you’re waiting for the sous vide to come up to temp and also the honey has crystallized.

An open jar of crystallized honey floating in a sous vide water bath, resting against a pair of tongs to keep the jar from moving

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Mike MacLeod @mmacleod.ca · 27/04/2025

In the same way a group of crows are called a murder, groups like this are known as a fuck you. “Oh look, finally, a fuck you of busses!”

Bus service remains often frequent, but completely chaotic, as it has been since I moved to Toronto - with no buses for 23 minutes and then three buses in
a row being a common sighting.

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Mike MacLeod @mmacleod.ca · 09/04/2025

I'll have you know it's called Market Sentiment, and you must not question it.

Tuxedo Winnie The Pooh meme, with the top panel labelled vibes and the bottom panel labelled market sentiment.

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Mike MacLeod @mmacleod.ca · 07/03/2025

I only just now noticed the @oracle.posters.rip label, and how appropriate it is.

NE Ohio Regional Sewer District
@neorsd.org
Toilet (Space station airlock failure when flushing)

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Mike MacLeod @mmacleod.ca · 20/02/2025

Personally I think it’s perfectly reasonable for school libraries to include books that are international bestsellers and have won the governor generals award. It’s important to discuss our literary traditions!

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Mike MacLeod @mmacleod.ca · 17/02/2025

The age old dilemma of all cat owners. Do I want another cup of coffee enough to disturb Vinnie?

A black domestic shorthair cat on my lap. We’re sitting on a brown couch and there is a colourful rug in the background.

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Mike MacLeod @mmacleod.ca · 14/02/2025

The entire block had done a great job clearing the sidewalk yesterday. After a touch of afternoon sun it was wide dry pavement along this entire stretch. Last night the city sent a plow to make their priorities clear (and still did a shit job of the road).

A residential streetscape. A plow has pushed hard packed snow onto the sidewalk, completely covering them. A driveway is impassable due to a large boulder of snow pushed into the middle of it. The road is still covered in lots of snow.

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Mike MacLeod @mmacleod.ca · 08/02/2025

Sometimes it’s really obvious.

Pinned skeet:
Jonny Five @endmetothemoon.bsk...
Before you block me, ask yourself: why are you so soft?

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Mike MacLeod @mmacleod.ca · 03/02/2025

The Onion captured this scenario exactly.

Heartbreaking: The Worst Person You Know Just Made A Great Point
2/05/18 11:18am
Filed to: WOW

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Mike MacLeod @mmacleod.ca · 02/12/2024

Believe it or not, CAD and USD were at parity in living memory.

DuckDuckGo search results showing 166,000 CAD converts to approximately 118,000 USD.

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Mike MacLeod @mmacleod.ca · 22/11/2024

Holy fuck, I actually read the article and wonder if the author accidentally signed up for Mastodon if this is their observation of the vibes here.

But what's missing from Bluesky isn't merely Nazis, but the centre-left, the unclassifiable, and all snark unaccompanied by righteous political aims. It has no irreverent humour, no bite.
Political uniformity breeds
humourlessness.

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Mike MacLeod @mmacleod.ca · 18/11/2024

They’re not xmas lights, they’re winter lights, and they can go up as soon as the time changes.

Rainbow winter lights, seen through frosted panes of glass in a door.

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Mike MacLeod @mmacleod.ca · 17/11/2024

Post a picture you took (no description) to bring some zen to the timeline

View of Whitehorse, Yukon from the bluffs above.

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Mike MacLeod @mmacleod.ca · 17/11/2024

Also… I don’t think he’s on that list in the first place? He is on “A Very British Bigotry” though:

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Mike MacLeod @mmacleod.ca · 16/11/2024

It’s a type of firewall.

Firewall alignment chart, with form and function dimensions, moving from purist to radical. The top row has a Palo Alto firewall, a BigIP load balancer, and a Dell rack server running iptables. The middle row has a WRT54G, a Cisco router, and a switch using spanning tree. The bottom row has an Azure NSG, HA Proxy, and a CAT excavator.

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Mike MacLeod @mmacleod.ca · 04/11/2024

Not to discourage rabies vaccination, but the protocol depends on jurisdiction. If the animal can be located, Toronto will observe it for 10 days. We still keep our indoor cats vaccinated.

Who is the animal's owner?
• For exposures involving domestic and livestock animals, Toronto Public Health can contact the animal owner to observe its health and determine its immunization status. This information could potentially allow your patient to avoid unnecessary treatment and visits to the healthcare provider.
• Domestic animals (i.e., dog, cat, or ferret) and livestock (i.e., horse, cow, bull, steer, calf, sheep, pig or goat) can be observed for a period of 10 days and 14 days, respectively.

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Mike MacLeod @mmacleod.ca · 30/10/2024

If you see this, post a phot taken in the mountains.

Picture of the northern Rocky Mountains in the Yukon, taken from a high angle in a float plane.

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Mike MacLeod @mmacleod.ca · 23/10/2024

Humber River pedestrian bridge, part of Toronto’s waterfront Martin Goodman Trail.

A pedestrian suspension bridge over a river.

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