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morspin @morspin.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Why does dopamineshop.co have no 'about us' link? Interesting concept. I would have a contest to see who could fill up a cart the fastest with no duplicate items (dozen eggs counts as 1) and get closest to $1 mil without going over.

dopamineshop.co

Dopamine Shop — Free Shopping Simulator

Free fake online store and shopping simulator. Browse real products, fill your cart, and checkout — without spending a dollar. The best retail therapy app on the web.

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morspin @morspin.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Reminds me of what Matt Groening had one of his characters say in "Life in Hell": "Yes means no and no means yes: Do you want me to hit you?" (Yes, this is in the famous and unfortunately non-googlable "Lies my Older Brother and Sister Told Me" episode. The last lie is classic trump.)

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morspin @morspin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Woke up a dream where I was making paint pigments from scratch with author Sheila Heti, who was showing me how to get the pHs correct. I believe this dream was intended for someone else and there was a mixup at the factory

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morspin @morspin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Not going to go throught the timeline, but lemme explain the point of red diesel. It's sold with less tax because it's intended for farm vehicles that don't use the publicly funded roads. Which are funded partly by that tax. It's dyed red so the cops can tell you're on a public road unlawfully

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morspin @morspin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Has sam entered his late-stage Robert Moses phase?

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morspin @morspin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

That first doc: he said the acid helped him get the visual language of modern American infrastructure. With the sacramento mall as the example

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morspin @morspin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Actually I have to quibble. The last year where you could spend a summer delivering pizzas listening only to top 40 was 1984. 1983 was just a prelude.

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morspin @morspin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Type 1 jamming at the pdx brian fallon show but of course I’m not complaining

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morspin @morspin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I thought it was actually from the top-tier public Vancouver high school he attended (Point Grey, not to be confused with the private West Point Grey Justin had taught at)

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morspin @morspin.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

From the article: "The hackers were able to copy the camera’s storage and recover an encryption key stored on the device". The company replied: “Flock takes security seriously." Apparently not seriously enough

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morspin @morspin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Coming up: a juggling festival and a Brian Fallon show

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morspin @morspin.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

If you're planning a trip to Tokyo and want to see the Studio Ghibli museum, tickets go on sale on the 10th of every month for entry in the following month. Except if you're reading this, it's probably the 9th for you. Don't ask how I know this.

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morspin @morspin.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

If it's Uyghur food you're craving and the West End is more convenient, there's a newish stall on the second floor of the Robson Public Market at Robson & Cardero, across from 9 Dumplings. I didn't notice anything else at Henderson's you can't find at the Parker Place food fair.

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morspin @morspin.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

www.foodcourtinsession.ca/mall-profile... Justin and company profile my favourite failed YVR mall, the mysterious Henderson Place. I think I might have found our winter juggling practice place

foodcourtinsession.ca

Mall Profile #15: Henderson Place, by Justin McElroy

Henderson Place has a good food court, a good design, a good location, and yet, a third to a quarter of all its storefronts are empty. Why?

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morspin @morspin.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

github.com/golang/go/is... is an interesting issue because it shows how what seems like an innocuous cosmetic change can break other software at a distance. In a world with so much interdependence, it's best to do as little as possible, especially when it comes to messing with code. Even comments.

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go/doc: reconsider comment rewrites of `''` to `”` · Issue #54312 · golang/go

In ae3d890 as part of addressing #51082, a change was made to go/doc that rewrite all '' to ”. This makes semantic changes to comments where ' is used as a prime and '' is used as double prime, com...

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morspin @morspin.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

If you're at all familiar with this album and have never heard the acoustic Thunder Road outtake, here's your chance archive.org/details/the-...

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morspin @morspin.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Paul Allen was a nerd's nerd. He spent his money on things he obsessed on and brought him enjoyment, bringing millions of others along for the ride. Plus in a 90s interview in Wired he owned the mistake that was the backslash for a directory separator, blaming it on his dyslexia

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morspin @morspin.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I’m still getting over the urinal next to the common sink in a restaurant on trendy Blvd Saint Germain in Paris. Where else. Did not have the guts to use it

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morspin @morspin.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

All I remember about Raising Arizona is this. Plus diapers

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morspin @morspin.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I'll leave it to Justin's expertise to determine the Platonic ideal of mallness. Certainly no one would call that collection of a dollar store, hair salon, and package/mail store in the hallway next to the Save-On at Main & 13th a mall. Isn't Evergreen closer to the Haney mall than that hallway?

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morspin @morspin.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Also Henderson Mall in Coquitlam a couple of blocks from the regional centre is notable for how mostly empty it's been from what I hear is its whole life. I went for the Uighur spot in the food court, but now there's a more centrally located one in the Robson Public Market. Just as good.

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morspin @morspin.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

You going to get to Evergreen Mall at Fraser Hwy & 152nd? maps.app.goo.gl/X5QdADgC4nZR... - No proper food court, but there is a Ricky's which gives it high Vancouver-area cred.

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morspin @morspin.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

My wife bought a new air tag to help her find the car at the Crystal Palace and Metrotown

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morspin @morspin.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Took us an hour to get out of the parking lot. And Apple kept notifying us of an unrecognized air tag traveling with us in the car. If you dropped one and it floated down the lot it somehow got attached to our car. You know where to find it

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morspin @morspin.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

@jmcelroy.bsky.social What is going on with en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in... ? Apparently there is no "Pacific X Time" zone in Canada anymore? How did we let the best time zone in Canada just get cancelled?

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Time in Canada - Wikipedia

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morspin @morspin.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I have a working CB radio for cheap if anyone needs one bsky.app/profile/tres...

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morspin @morspin.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

At least I know I'm going to be eating Chef James' baos almost every weekend for the next two months. Hope he finds a new home for his business.

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morspin @morspin.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

What I'm wondering is why the Hot Chocolate was priced at 19¢ and not just 20¢? I realize a penny was actually worth something back in the days of those skating rink menus, but still...

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morspin @morspin.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Geese vs Goose: how to tell them apart with two covers: Geese: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLrz... (Television) Goose: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JP7T... (Billy Joel) Disclaimer: I like both bands, but they occupy totally different venn diagrams

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Geese - Marquee Moon (Television) - Music Hall of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY | December 5, 2024

YouTube video by Chris Connelly

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morspin @morspin.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Hey @songfishapp.com you misspelled "Canadian" and Montreal isn't a capital city (re release 1.25). But as someone who advocates using names from different categories in test suites, I approve in general. (Think kigali, luanda, gaborone, etc. instead of "test1", "test2", "test3" )

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morspin @morspin.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

After listening to these guys for 7 years finally seeing Goose live, and in Vancouver a short walk from the condo

Goose at the Vancouver Commodore Ballroom

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morspin @morspin.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

slate.com/technology/2... Another case where the cloud is no place to store permanent data - keep it on redundant local storage media (disks, thumb drives, disks in spare working computers) and update them annually. The cloud's still a good solution to let physically disparate people share data.

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The Quiet Decision Microsoft Made That Devastated Thousands of Nonprofits

When the tech giant retired a popular software grant, years of nonprofit data vanished with it.

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morspin @morspin.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

And who's going to look after all the out-of-work insurance executives huh?

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morspin @morspin.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I would buy a book full of nothing but Village Voice clippings announcing upcoming Wetlands gigs

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morspin @morspin.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

"SENT SENT" with some strange spacing?

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morspin @morspin.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

"I think the Supreme Court's decision to <FILL IN THE BLANK> is likely to have negative long-term consequences." Not just untethered sports gambling, but it's as good a start as any

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morspin @morspin.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

In the 80s at U of Toronto Urban Geog Prof. Spelt showed us a slide of cars on a Netherlands street at night. Their lights were a little brighter than parking lights but dimmer than the non-bright headlights used at the time. Of course the Dutch had this figured out 40 years ago

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morspin @morspin.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Did Christie end up marrying the lobsterman of her dreams?

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morspin @morspin.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Every American's favorite painting!

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morspin @morspin.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

These shirts were discussed on metafilter in what feels to me 15 years ago. I say no coincidence their appearance coincide with the rise of trumpism

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morspin @morspin.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

In second place: "Kranepool flies to left. Agnew resigns."

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morspin @morspin.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

@jmcelroy.bsky.social My dad has a 30-year-old Camry with a tape deck. I borrowed it this wknd & pulled out a Throwing Muses tape I bought at a yard sale last year to finally hear it. Opened it to find a generic tape with a 1994 As It Happens clip about yvr homeless. lmk if you want it

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morspin @morspin.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

According to trends.google.com/explore?q=ye... no one was using the term "Yesteryear" until Burke's book shipped in April. So please stop doing it unless you're referring to this specific book. I'm trying to search for takes on the book and running into too much cuteness

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Explore - Google Trends

Explore what the world is searching for on Google Trends

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morspin @morspin.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Oh yeah - all that's missing is a list of questions before the author's acknowledgments

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morspin @morspin.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I just zipped through it as well, and have some spoiler-laden questions. Before I thought it was a white take on Octavia Butler's "Kindred". Now I know it's something else, that Burke was methodical, but would like to discuss. Is there a zoom-based book club somewhere that's doing this?

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morspin @morspin.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Bellingham's city flag >>>> Seattle's city flag en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of... Of course the designer heard Roman Mars' Ted talk and did something about it

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Flag of Bellingham, Washington - Wikipedia

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morspin @morspin.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

ELP was my gateway to classical music. Which I set aside until rediscovering Sibelius and Saint-Saens at the Clifford Ball 25 years later

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morspin @morspin.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Skateboard park bounce juggling

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