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Norman Wilson (⚠️Ontario is not America) 🔵

@oclsc.bsky.social
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Programmer, UNIX old fart, friend of cats, once and maybe future cyclist, non-motorist, rail passenger (>766000 miles), amateur^2 photographer, iconoclast, cynic, observer of odd things, revolve top insights (11). Cis he/they. Also @oclsc@mstdn.ca.

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Amy Mebberson @amymebberson.bsky.social · 1h
US employers have to verify citizenship/green card status before hiring. 🇺🇸 companies CANNOT HIRE A FOREIGNER without going through a shitton of paperwork and fees to prove there’s no American available to do the job. 💩🤡 can kiss my arse.
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the fool @agnoster.net · 01/10/2026
I love the Bay Area It’s the Bay Aryans I can’t stand
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Norman Wilson (⚠️Ontario is not America) 🔵 @oclsc.bsky.social · 1h
According to the so-called super-intelligent White House bot at america.gov: No. Official certified results do not show Donald J. Trump receiving 85 million or 87 million popular votes in 2024, and I cannot verify that a lower published total was caused by a “rigged” count.
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Find answers from official government sources and clear next steps for the services you need with America.gov.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h
it didn't even occur to me that the government might try to execute someone a second time if they torture the person but fail to kill them during a first botched attempt. truly grotesque and a moral stain upon all involved.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 4h
Lot of words when the term “stalking” already exists.
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2 Pinellas deputies arrested for tracking people they were interested in, sheriff says
One deputy queried a license plate reader database 300 times to track a woman, Sheriff Bob Gualtieri said.
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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 7h
If the argument for women should know better than to go into a rape den like a frat house, explain to me why a rape house like a fraternity is allowed to exist at all.
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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 23h
Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.
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Norman Wilson (⚠️Ontario is not America) 🔵 @oclsc.bsky.social · 4h
I spy with my little eye a City Council candidate who very much doesn't suck.
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Mike Schreiner @mikeschreiner.bsky.social · 6h
Put another way, Ford wants to spend more on removing bike lanes in Toronto ($48M) than he's spent protecting all of Ontario's businesses from an international trade war. Ontario deserves serious leadership, that follows through on promises, and actually puts people before profits.
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Theo Moudakis @theomoudakis.bsky.social · 6h
Please enjoy my cartoon for Friday's Toronto Star
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Tom the Dancing Bug, by Ruben Bolling @rubenbolling.bsky.social · 7h
Guys, I suspect his graph is wrong. It seems to graph annual visitors from each country. So you might ask, how can 2026 be included if the year isn't over yet? The graph seems to use the available data for 2026, through June, as the FINAL annual number. Which is why the decline is so dramatic!
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marythetrainer🦋🐢🤷🏻‍♀️😏🌎 @marythetrainer.bsky.social · 7h
Katie Mack, the Time Being.
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Leah Torres, MD @leahntorres.bsky.social · 10h
You can accept or reject facts, but the laws of physics are undeniable. My personhood supersedes any importance anyone places on my pregnancy because the laws of physics are irrefutable. feminist-rising.ghost.io/fetuses-aren...
Excerpt from my post titled “Fetuses aren’t People” linked here. Highlighted portion: “This bears repeating: the pregnancy cannot exist without me, my body, my existence.”
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Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 8h
I do think if you survive a state execution then you should get to walk out of prison the next day. That is totally fair and square to me.
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Oliver Moore @oliver-moore.bsky.social · 9h
Unclear from the article whether this rack inside or outside the apartment complex. Either way, who locks at $10,000 bike to rack and walks away for two weeks?
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 10h
i FOOLISHLY took aarons advice and read this and it literally looks like time magazine mixed up the order of the questions and the answers so nothing lines up or makes any sense
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 23h
I went to Geneva a few weeks ago and spoke on a panel about the nature of time for a Geneva Watch Days event. While I was there, on a lark, I entered a competition to most precisely calibrate a Swiss watch. And today I found out that I won! 😃 www.instagram.com/reel/Dd6hUTB...
Me peering through a little magnifier at a tiny watch mechanism connected to some monitoring equipment, while making adjustments with a small screwdriver
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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
No no please give me AI written slop sex scene. "Jesse looked longingly at Clara and said I see you have some concerns about the way I removed my trousers. I'm sorry about that. Let me try again. Would you like to input some workarounds?"
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
every day it seems like a brand new sentence is written to describe the state of the world
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Chuck Grassley also did not share the texts with Democratic senators before the hearing, breaking protocol.
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Theo Moudakis @theomoudakis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Please enjoy my cartoon for Thursday's Toronto Star
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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 30/09/2026
I feel dumb even just having to say this but the reason passports are mailed out in plain regular envelopes is that so that people do not attempt to steal easily recognizable passports in the mail. bsky.app/profile/carn...
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 30/09/2026
I’ve been asked to weigh in on the debate over whether to bring an iced coffee to an interview. It doesn't matter. Iced coffee is NOT why it's hard to land a job right now, and it's NOT why Gen Z can't get ahead. Our economy is rigged. We need to change that.
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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 30/09/2026
NEW: People who chug their own piss have emerged as MAJOR supporters of AI futurism.com/artificial-i...
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People Who Drink Their Own Pee Are Obsessed With AI, Using It to Reassure Themselves That It's a Miraculous Cure-All
Urine therapy devotees are sharing ways to break past AI guardrails in order to brainstorm ways to use pee as medicine.
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Amy Klobuchar @amyklobuchar.com · 30/09/2026
Iowa Hawkeyes. Atlanta Hawks. Not the same team, not even the same state. Get your facts straight before calling someone a dirtbag. Instead of this distraction, we should have hearings on health care costs, 8 million Americans losing coverage, and tariffs crushing our farmers.
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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 30/09/2026
And the wild part is that a lot of people now think that the direct-speaking method is *more* reliable, and that folks are *better* at determining truth and logic through videos than reading. And I don't think it's true for most of us, actually.
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 30/09/2026
I am once again asking places to Google things before naming them iaitam.org/csam/
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CSAM – IAITAM
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 30/09/2026
BREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome
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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
So much respect for this, and the framing. ABC, the right wing version of Progress Toronto, has used health care workers/hospitals as reason to rip them out. This puts a lie to that (and on University ambulances can bypass cars in the wide bikelanes if needed). So many lies.
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Matt Elliott @graphicmatt.com · 30/09/2026
Fascinating UofT School of Cities project on the correlation between neighbourhood characteristics and mayoral vote over the last few decades. Looking at the strongest positive correlations for Olivia Chow voting areas in 2023 sure tells a tale. schoolofcities.github.io/place-and-po...
A data visualization showing Pearson correlation coefficients between neighborhood characteristics from the 2021 census and voting for Olivia Chow in the 2023 election, with blue bars indicating positive correlations and red indicating negative correlations.
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Jake Williams @malwarejake.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Inside of you there are two wolves. One went to a Hawks game. The other went to a Hawkeyes game.
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oz yigit @longword.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Onion spot on again.
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Google and Apple immediately update their maps.
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Mykael Wyvern — 🔮🧙🏻‍♂️🐉 @wyvern.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Going to be darkly ironic when we get "Trump Shuts Down America" headlines
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
oh man he named the fucking chatbot "America"
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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The same columnist who wrote he was scared of Christie Pits in July (and mocked by the Post’s photo editor?) nationalpost.com/opinion/yoni...
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Yoni Goldstein: The decline of Toronto's Christie Pits Park is unacceptable
This gem of the city should be a safe place for families to take their kids, not a hotbed for urban disorder
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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
With alt text. I know someone who actually did this
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On my first big overseas client conference, I was at a dinner seated next to a drunk client who kept trying to fondle me under the table. I was young, distressed, and had no idea what to do. I moved my legs as far away from him as I could, moving into the space of the man next to me, who then started patting my legs! The Regional Manager was a French woman who caught my eye, gestured for me to go to the bathroom and when I came back had switched chairs with me. What happed next was epic. A few minutes after I sat back down, she raised her hand with his hand captured in hers and announced loudly "Does anyone know whose hand this is? I found it in my lap." There was dead silence at the table. She threw his hand back at him and said calmly "next time I pick it up with my fork." Then she started a new conversational thread and things moved on. After the meeting she found me, gave me a hug, and said seriously "Never be afraid to make some noise. It is their shame, not yours."
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 28/09/2026
like this is not the website for non-neurodivergent people! that's tiktok and threads! this is the website for weirdos who still enjoy text-based media in 2026!
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Let this sink in. Cornell University refused to refund Jane Doe's tuition the semester she was raped. Without this money, she could not transfer to another school. Essentially, she was forced to stay on campus where she saw those seven rapists frequently. Eventually she dropped out of college.
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Steve Munro @swanboatsteve.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Toronto Transit as Greek tragedy: Mary Wiens and Emmett Shane interview "the two Steves", me and @stephenwickens.bsky.social about the Ontario Line, the gods of Metrolinx and the sad fate of those who warn against Trojan horses. torontonianpodcast.ca/ep302/
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Toronto transit as a Greek tragedy | The Torontonian
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Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Mussolini and his regime went about not only controlling the government but every aspect of Italian society. He also plastered his image on everything and cultivated a macho, aggressive strongman image. anntelnaes.substack.com/p/me-me-me
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Joe Uchill @joeuchill.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I'm still looking for infosec researchers who've published research outside of traditional academic journals (e.g., at a hacker conference or as a corporate report) for a research project. If that's you, send me a note. Ostrich for engagement.
Woman hitting ostrich skeleton with picnic basket says "take that, you ostrich skeleton!"
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Norman Wilson (⚠️Ontario is not America) 🔵 @oclsc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
SI stands for Stupid Intelligence. Many people don't know that.
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
United States President Donald Trump issues executive order instructing federal government agencies to "use the terms 'Super Bushes' and 'SB' in place of 'trees' and will not acknowledge the usage of 'trees' in any applicable setting."
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 29/09/2026
A thing I learned not too long ago is that when an LLM selects a token that leads it down an incorrect path (factually), it has no way to back up, or even know that it should back up, it's just on to the next likely bit. Literally every LLM is just posting their way through it. What an image.
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Oliver Moore @oliver-moore.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
What a nightmare www.wsj.com/real-estate/...
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Portland Real Estate Is Such a Mess That All Housing Is Affordable Housing
Rarely has the Oregon city seen such a narrow price gap between market-rate and affordable units.
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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
5 potatoes cubed is still 5 potatoes because potatoes are root vegetables
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I give up. I’m moving into a cave.
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Joe Uchill @joeuchill.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Reposting this with alt text: Near as I can tell, you can't see a home Atlanta Hawks game from section 109 row 1 - the rows in section 109 are lettered not numbered. Not the case for the DC-area UMD Terps, who Catlin Clark put 38 on during the Feb 3 game. Their 109 has numbered rows.
Atlanta Hawks seating chart shows Section 109 has lettered rows UMD seating chart shows Section 109 has numbered rows.
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Joe Uchill @joeuchill.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Independent has a photo of the slide we weren't able to see during the Smith hearing. No texts from Smith in it.
JP Cooley: Is 109 Row 1 reserved for Jack? 
JP Cooley: Damn. Thank you for saving -- but we are good. Ask Harbach. 
Gavin Wallach: He is already down here. Thanks.
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