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Nick Yorke

@nickyorke.bsky.social
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Programmer by day; reclusive gamer and TV watcher by night. Interested in technology, photography, internet culture, and local news and events. Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada

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Nick Yorke @nickyorke.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
It's not a trade "war", it's just a trade "special operation". www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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'It's a little unhinged' for Canada to call dispute a trade war: Jamieson Greer | CBC News
U.S. President Donald Trump's top trade official says it's "unhinged" for Canadian leaders to characterize the administration's tariffs as a trade war against Canada.
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Nick Yorke @nickyorke.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Taking the #NYT dialect quiz for shits and giggles and came across this question. All options other than "sunshower" are absolutely crazy.
Crazy options for what people refer to rain that falls while the sun is shining.
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Nick Yorke @nickyorke.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
"I've self-diagnosed my symptoms and it's *not* looking good..." - My wife
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Nick Yorke @nickyorke.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I might buy this Hippopottoman solely for the pun name.
Hippopottoman.
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Nick Yorke @nickyorke.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I've said "clock it" and done the hand motion thing about 30 times so far today. I'm hoping to make it uncool as quickly as possible for my kids so that it doesn't get out of hand like six-seven did.
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Halifax ReTales @halifaxretales.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
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Nick Yorke @nickyorke.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
"They have some ethics... maybe..." - My younger cousin, in application development, talking about the various #AI companies.
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Nick Yorke @nickyorke.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
The American President - who wanted to burn more "beautiful clean coal" - seems to be more upset about Canadian wildfire smoke than I would have guessed.
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Nick Yorke @nickyorke.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Guy points #Grok #AI at his screen while playing #GTAV in order to trick it into thinking this is all happening live. Comedy ensues. 😂
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Nick Yorke @nickyorke.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Jaws 2: Brody freaks the fuck out because there's a shark in the ocean, but driving home drunk after getting fired is no big deal.
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Nick Yorke @nickyorke.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
#Reddit discussing the benefits of a #Wealthsimple chequing account.
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Nick Yorke @nickyorke.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
The green algae seems to be winning the battle of the reflecting pool. I wonder if offering it $300 billion would give #Trump the off-ramp he needs in this confrontation.
Green algae in the Washington Reflecting Pool after Trumps renovations.
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Nick Yorke @nickyorke.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
I've been watching a lot of the Bricks & Minifigs drama lately and I have questions. For starters, is "Legos" really the correct pluralization? I've always referred to them as "Lego" no matter how many sets or pieces.
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Nick Yorke @nickyorke.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
All these very large companies rushing to go public in the coming weeks makes me feel like they're frantically looking for retail investors to be the bag holders when things go down in the near future.
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Nick Yorke @nickyorke.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
In 1994's D2: The Mighty Ducks, the underdog American team faced the "big bad" Icelandic team in a hockey tournament. Population of USA: ~337,000,000 Population of Iceland: ~400,000
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
This is absolutely nuts: hackers are hijacking high-profile Instagram accounts by simply asking Meta's AI chatbot to change the email on the account. Meta's AI does it, hacker gets password reset code, they're in. A staggering security issue www.404media.co/hackers-simp...
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Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It Worked
The exploit shows the extreme risk of offloading technical support to AI.
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Nick Yorke @nickyorke.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
www.cbc.ca/news/world/i... "Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Trump's post." I mean, why would he? He probably wrote Trump's post himself after all.
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Trump demands Arab countries sign Abraham Accords with Israel as part of deal to end Iran war | CBC News
Iran and the United States played down hopes for an imminent breakthrough in the three-month-old war on Monday, while President Donald Trump called on several countries to join the U.S.-led Abraham Ac...
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Nick Yorke @nickyorke.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
I feel like this should be a case study for marketing classes. Consumers don't want to hear that a brand is going to "take over their lives".
Wealthsimple Takes Over Your Life
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Nick Yorke @nickyorke.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
#WealthSimple has a mech shop and I would NEVER buy something so redicu- omg I need this...
Baseball hat with "In this economy?" Written on it.
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Nick Yorke @nickyorke.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
openai.com/index/where-... The leading theory is #ChatGPT was told not to specifically think of itself as a human, and therefore began self-identifying as a goblin over time.
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Where the goblins came from
How goblin outputs spread in AI models: timeline, root cause, and fixes behind personality-driven quirks in GPT-5 behavior.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 17/08/2023
Standing perfectly still so I don't accidentally spend money
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Greenpeace EU @greenpeace.eu · 22/04/2026
#earthday
it's the simpsons meme with the sign that said 'don't forget, you're here forever' and instead of having pictures of maggie to make it read 'do it for her' it's got pictures of the earth
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
With the help of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited deal to take over InfoWars. We've enlisted the help of @timheidecker.bsky.social, who will be InfoWars' Creative Director. Please stand by for more.
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Nick Yorke @nickyorke.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Can you imagine an ad like this running 10 years ago in Canada? 😂
Pizza Pizza Ad: We're rolling into 4/20 with something new...2 for $5 pizza pre-rolls.Order now (with steam/smoke) around them.
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Tim Bousquet @timbousquet.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Trump was right, a great empire died last night.
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Nick Yorke @nickyorke.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
A recap of #Trump's posts in the last two weeks.
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Nick Yorke @nickyorke.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." Turns out #WW3 is being fought with AI generated Lego rap videos.
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Nick Yorke @nickyorke.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Kristi Noem's husband definitely had Goodbye Horses playing in the background during those photos he took, didn't he.
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Ygrene @ygrene.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
the human body was not designed to know what the worst person in the world is doing every fifteen minutes
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Nick Yorke @nickyorke.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
If you shits don't IMMEDIATELY open the Strait of Hormuz - which we TOTALLY don't even need or use - then we're going to bomb the hell out of you!!! Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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Nick Yorke @nickyorke.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Don't trust #AI because sometimes it hallucinates? Listen buddy, I also hallucinate so take your pick.
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Nick Yorke @nickyorke.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
"Do dragons throw up lava?" - My 7 year old asking the tough questions.
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Over 40% of global shipping by volume exists to move fossil fuels from one place to another. A huge share of the world's maritime infrastructure has been built around a system that is going to change dramatically as renewable energy and electrification displace fossil fuels.
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Nick Yorke @nickyorke.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Looks like #AI is also being used for the opposite of home staging where you might want to show what an interior space would look like empty, without having to physically remove all the furnishings. It works, but it also "glamorizes" things that otherwise shouldn't change like the fireplace.
Interior photo of a living room with furnishings present.Same interior photo of a living room, but with furnishings removed using #AI.
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Nick Yorke @nickyorke.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
I found it weird how in the movie when Dobby dies, Harry Potter is like "I want to bury him. I want to do it properly. Without magic." but then digs him this really shallow grave. It was a nice gesture, but maybe he should have used the magic.
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Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
The Ford Pinto had a death rate of 85 people for 10 million cars sold. The Cybertruck hasn't sold 10 million, but the fatality rate so far maths out to 1,452 people killed per 10 million sold. The Cybertruck may be the deadliest road car, for the occupants, ever sold. fuelarc.com/evs/its-offi...
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It's Official: the Cybertruck is More Explosive than the Ford Pinto - FuelArc News
We now have a full year of data for the Cybertruck, and a strange preponderance of headlines about Cybertrucks exploding into flames, including several fatalities. That’s more than enough data to comp...
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Nick Yorke @nickyorke.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
I just found out the #Android keyboard lets you combine emojis using #ai and the results are surprisingly impressive. 🧵 /1
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Nick Yorke @nickyorke.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Corporate parody videos are usually pretty brutal, but #Wyze did a good job of hitting the mark with this one. #Ring www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROFb...
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Definitely Only for Dogs: Ring's Superbowl Commercial (Parody)
YouTube video by Wyze
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Nick Yorke @nickyorke.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
The drone view as they chase the super-G skiers down the hill is really impressive to watch. #Olympics #MilanoCortina2026
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Nick Yorke @nickyorke.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Watching Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince with my 7 year old son when he yells "SIXXXX SEEEEEVVVEEENNN!!!" #67
Scene from Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince where Ginny and Harry are standing with their quidditch uniforms showing the numbers 6 and 7.
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Theo Sanderson @theo.io · 08/02/2026
I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself! bluesky-map.theo.io I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail
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Bluesky Map
Interactive map of 3.4 million Bluesky users, visualised by their follower pattern.
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🏴‍☠️ Maddox 🏴‍☠️ @maddox.xmission.com · 08/01/2026
Guys, trust the puppy-killer defending the masked man who shot an unarmed woman in the face for protesting an unaccountable secret police force tasked with deporting people with decades-old marijuana convictions on behalf of an orange pedophile who lead a failed coup.
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.
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Nick Yorke @nickyorke.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
I'm glad Dipshit Derek got the ending he deserved in the #StrangerThings finale.
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Nick Yorke @nickyorke.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Nova Scotia Power, Dec 17th: Your power bill is $40.26 Nova Scotia Power, Dec 18th: Your power bill is $-226.28 I guess they finally got around to reading my meter.
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Nick Yorke @nickyorke.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
#SpotifyWrapped
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Nick Yorke @nickyorke.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
"We don't want ALL of the fun to be in one spot..." - @michelle1929.bsky.social critiquing my exterior Christmas decoration arrangement.
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Nick Yorke @nickyorke.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
I highly recommend BBC World's 13 Minutes To The Moon Podcast: open.spotify.com/playlist/6q2... Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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13 Minutes To The Moon
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Nick Yorke @nickyorke.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Someone managed to get two gold condoms behind the glass of the Sidney Crosby exhibit at Cole Harbour Place.
Sidney Crosby exhibit in Cole Harbour Place with two gold condoms in it.
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