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Rob Russell @oration.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

I already considered AI to be a fuckton of bullshit, I suppose it makes sense for it to be a metric fuckton of bullshit now that they're using SI.

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Andrea Zanin @andreazanin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Just as true in Canada.

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Rob Russell @oration.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

RE: mas.to/@sosaglidingbot/117230469604… A good 226km flight yesterday, successfully completing all 3 #ProvingGrounds tasks in a single flight! Some very unfortunate employment circumstances kept me from getting in much solo flying this summer, let's hope for more good days in 2026 […]

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Leiracal @leiracal.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

This concept was introduced to me as "run the dishwasher twice" and was an important part of my executive functioning recovery as well as my path to self-acceptance.

When I was at one of my lowest (mental) points in life, I couldn't get out of bed some days. I had no energy or motivation and was barely getting by.

I had therapy once per week, and on this particular week I didn't have much to 'bring' to the session. He asked how my week was and I really had nothing to say.

'What are you struggling with?' he asked.

I gestured around me and said 'I dunno man. Life.'

Not satisfied with my answer, he said 'No, what exactly are you worried about right now? What feels overwhelming? When you go home after this session, what issue will be staring at you?'

I knew the answer, but it was so ridiculous that I didn't want to say it. I wanted to have something more substantial.
Something more profound.

But I didn't.

So I told him, 'Honestly? The dishes. It's stupid, I know, but the more I look at them the more I CAN'T do them because I'll have to scrub them before I put them in the dishwasher, because the dishwasher sucks, and I just can't stand and scrub the dishes.'

I felt like an idiot even saying it.

What kind of grown ass woman is undone by a stack of dishes? There are people out there with *actual* problems, and I'm whining to my therapist about dishes?

But he nodded in understanding and then said:

'RUN THE DISHWASHER TWICE.'

I began to tell him that you're not supposed to, but he stopped me.

'Why the hell aren't you supposed to? If you don't want to scrub the dishes and your dishwasher sucks, run it twice. Run it three times, who cares?! Rules do not exist.'

It blew my mind in a way that I don't think I can properly express.

That day, I went home and tossed my smelly dishes haphazardly into the dishwasher and ran it three times.

I felt like I had conquered a dragon.

The next day, I took a shower lying down.

A few days later. I folded my laundry and put them wherever the fuck they fit.

There were no longer arbitrary rules I had to follow, and it gave me the freedom to make accomplishments again.

Now that I'm in a healthier place, I rinse off my dishes and put them in the dishwasher properly. I shower standing up. I sort my laundry.

But at a time when living was a struggle instead of a blessing, I learned an incredibly important lesson:

THERE ARE NO RULES. RUN THE DISHWASHER TWICE!!!"

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Claus Dahl @clausdahl.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Context: OpenAIs hack of HuggingFace. The company did a crime. It doesn't matter it was their AI that did it if we want safe AI at any point in the future this was them, not the AI

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BitterOldPunk @bitteroldpunk.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

these Young Male Christians should form some sort of Association, then they could offer services beyond gymnasiums and shower facilities, such as short-term lodging at which it might be fun to stay

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lee cyborg @leeborg.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Please hire me as a postdoc. I have many useful skills (programming, electronics, digital fabrication, writing) that can be applied to many areas (feminist STS, disability studies, media studies,HCI, outer space) with many possible outputs (research creation, publications, products). I am also nice.

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pork, cheese, broccoli rabe @garlicbuffalo.gobirds.biz · 28/06/2026

this is actually a good reminder that you should delete the tracking nonsense off of any url that you share online. just delete everything after the ? (including the question mark) and share like you usually would

a screenshot of a youtube url showing the actual url as everything before the ? and everything after as “tracking nonsense”

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Mark Shaw 🇨🇦✌️🇪🇺 @markshawtoronto.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Okay Toronto started the public survey on Church Street pedestrianization. I need you to tell the city it’s great. We only got 92% positive on Kensington market and it failed, let’s blow that out of the water. haveyoursay.toronto.ca/churchstreet

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Church Street Pedestrianization Pilot

Learn more about the Church Street Pedestrianization Pilot and provide feedback on the impacts and outcomes by September 7, 2026.

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Ben Zanin @gnomon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/05/2026

It is my birthday, if you happen to have some extra boosts lying around I could give them a good home

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regular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

watched this on repeat losing my shit for two nights now

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si oppington ☣️ @stillwellgray.ca · 02/05/2026

"just because you EAT trash doesn't mean you ARE trash, Gary"

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Ben Zanin @gnomon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/04/2026

Hey #Ontario folks, just a note: if we're sticking to the provincially recommended six month schedule, you'll want to get a COVID-19 refresh now-ish so that your next shot can land in time to maximize your protection during the winter holiday season. Plan ahead; help keep your friends and family […]

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Rob Russell @oration.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/04/2026

Voting has opened for which movie we're watching on Tuesday, Apr 28th! Submit your votes now at cinema.tion.ca and check back after 5pm on Tuesday to join in. Pre-drinking will start before 6, and we'll start the movie around 7pm Eastern. #cinema_tion_ca

Screenshot of the Muppet Show, where all the Muppets are in little boxes, just like my friends are on zoom.

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Rob Russell @oration.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/04/2026

RE: disabled.social/@MikeImBack/1164203… I'd like to share a few fun facts about this $30M private jet. . . . it would require a 50% runway length extension to takeoff from Toronto City Center Island Airport. It can't operate on the gravel runways in Northern communities like […]

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Jason Hutt @jthutt.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

By using a device ISS was using, we would save money on certifying the hardware. Every piece of equipment flown has to go through a series of testing. That testing takes time and money. The operations software on the tablet was developed in Windows for ISS, so we needed a windows tablet.

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Rob Russell @oration.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/03/2026

On Tuesday, Mar 24th we're watching Death Of A Unicorn (2025, 1:47)! Check back at cinema.tion.ca after 6:00pm on Tuesday to join in. Pre-drinking will start before 6, and we'll start the movie around 7pm Eastern. #cinema_tion_ca

Screenshot of the film, showing an immortal snoozing Paul Rudd in an airline seat with a snoozing lady leaning on his shoulder.

Caption reads: "Seatbelts."

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Rob Russell @oration.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/03/2026

Voting for #cinema_tion_ca has closed! Here's our transparency link: jcszamosi.github.io/MovieNight

Stacked bar chart of voting results, with winner announced in the next toot and detailed results as posted to GitHub

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Rob Russell @oration.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/03/2026

Voting has opened for which movie we're watching on Tuesday, Mar 24th! Submit your votes now at cinema.tion.ca and check back after 5pm on Tuesday to join in. Pre-drinking will start before 6, and we'll start the movie around 7pm Eastern. #cinema_tion_ca

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Rob Russell @oration.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/02/2026

On Tuesday, Feb 24th we're watching John Candy: I Like Me! The zoom and download links are now posted at cinema.tion.ca for you to join in. Pre-drinking will start before 6, and we'll start the movie around 7pm Eastern. #cinema_tion_ca

Screenshot of the film, showing John Candy in army fatigues, looking in to the camera and holding a rifle, with a marching band in the background.

Caption reads: "We salute first a patriot who always professed and promoted"

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Rob Russell @oration.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/02/2026

On Tuesday, Feb 24th we're watching John Candy: I Like Me! Check back at cinema.tion.ca after 6:00pm on Tuesday to join in. Pre-drinking will start before 6, and we'll start the movie around 7pm Eastern. #cinema_tion_ca

Screenshot of the film, showing Bill Murray, seated, looking at a filmmaker's clapboard in front of his face.

Caption reads: "Be care... Hey, be careful with that thing."

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Rob Russell @oration.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/02/2026

Voting for #cinema_tion_ca has closed! Here's our transparency link: jcszamosi.github.io/MovieNight

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Rob Russell @oration.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/02/2026

Voting has opened for which movie we're watching on Tuesday, Feb 24th! Submit your votes now at cinema.tion.ca and check back after 5pm on Tuesday to join in. Pre-drinking will start before 6, and we'll start the movie around 7pm Eastern. #cinema_tion_ca

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si oppington ☣️ @stillwellgray.ca · 14/01/2026

people: if we had everything we need crime would almost disappear rich people: that can't be true because i have everything i could possibly want and i still do crime people: that's a you issue

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Rob Russell @oration.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/01/2026

On Tuesday, Jan 13th we're watching Stand By Me (1986, 1:29)! The zoom and download links are now posted at cinema.tion.ca for you to join in. Pre-drinking will start before 6, and we'll start the movie around 7pm Eastern. #cinema_tion_ca

Screenshot of the film, showing a white pre-teen boy with mid-length brown hair and glasses, sitting in a treehouse.

Caption reads: "Didn't I just say I was French?"

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Rob Russell @oration.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/01/2026

On Tuesday, Jan 13th we're watching Stand By Me (1986, 1:29)! Check back at cinema.tion.ca after 6:00pm on Tuesday to join in. Pre-drinking will start before 6, and we'll start the movie around 7pm Eastern. #cinema_tion_ca

Screenshot of the film, showing a white pre-teen boy with short blond hair sitting in a treehouse.

Caption reads: "Hey, how do you know a Frenchman's been in your backyard?"

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Rob Russell @oration.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/01/2026

Voting for #cinema_tion_ca has closed! Here's our transparency link: jcszamosi.github.io/MovieNight

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Rob Russell @oration.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/01/2026

Voting has opened for which movie we're watching on Tuesday, Jan 13th! Submit your votes now at cinema.tion.ca and check back after 5pm on Tuesday to join in. Pre-drinking will start before 6, and we'll start the movie around 7pm Eastern. #cinema_tion_ca

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Scary Macy ⚔️🦇 @macydaisy.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

This is who you’re asking to apply for 10 jobs a day.

Just a little guy. Maybe a sea lion? A seal? They in a pool looking cute.

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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

I WILL NEVER DIE.

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Rob Russell @oration.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/12/2025

On Tuesday, Dec 9th we're watching Anna and the Apocalypse (2017, 1:48)! The zoom and download links are now posted at cinema.tion.ca for you to join in. Pre-drinking will start before 6, and we'll start the movie around 7pm Eastern. #cinema_tion_ca

Screenshot of the film, showing an animation of three zobbies creeping up on Santa Claus

Caption reads: "Forget your troubles"

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Rob Russell @oration.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/12/2025

On Tuesday, Dec 9th we're watching Anna and the Apocalypse (2017, 1:48)! Check back at cinema.tion.ca after 6:00pm on Tuesday to join in. Pre-drinking will start before 6, and we'll start the movie around 7pm Eastern. #cinema_tion_ca

Screenshot of the film, showing an animation of Santa's sleigh (with the incorrect number of reindeer) over a rooftop at night.

Caption reads: "What a time to be alive"

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Rob Russell @oration.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/12/2025

Voting for #cinema_tion_ca has closed! Here's our transparency link: jcszamosi.github.io/MovieNight

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scott daGHOSTtino @scottdagostino.ca · 05/12/2025

Canada Post has been screwing its union over for *two years now* because Canadians can’t grasp this either 👇🏼

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'Nathan Burgoine (he/him) will be at Can*Con! @nathanburgoine.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Ten years ago on December 14th I posted "Dolph," after a conversation among some queer friends and fellow authors about "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer," and it started a tradition of re-telling holiday stories through a queer lens that’s been going for a decade now.

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Dolph

He was named Rudolph when he was born, but like so many born different, he eventually shed the one he was given. And if it hadn’t been for a foggy night and a hard decision, the rest of us fr…

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Rob Russell @oration.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/12/2025

Voting has opened for which movie we're watching on Tuesday, Dec 9th! Submit your votes now at cinema.tion.ca and check back after 5pm on Tuesday to join in. Pre-drinking will start before 6, and we'll start the movie around 7pm Eastern. #cinema_tion_ca

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Dave DiCello @davedicello.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

This composition had eluded me for nearly a decade, but yesterday I was finally able to capture it. A train rolled through just as the Duquesne Incline was crossing over the tracks in #Pittsburgh, creating a picture perfect winter scene. It was worth the hours and hours I've waited over the years.

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Rob Russell @oration.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/12/2025

Wherein PM Mark Carney explains his idea of affordable housing to Toronto Life Magazine Source: torontolife.com/deep-dives/prime-mi…

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Question from Toronto Life: You’ve announced plans to rapidly increase the pace of housing supply. From where I sit, however, the problem Toronto’s housing sector faces is not a lack of supply so much as a supply of the wrong thing. Torontonians really crave two- and three-bedroom units. How do you incentivize developers to build those when they’re less profitable?

Answer from PM Mark Carney: It’s an astute observation. Sometimes people talk about the housing market as if it’s one market, when in truth it’s really segmented. There has been a huge build-out of small condos that function as places for people to live but also as investment properties. And simultaneously there has been very little built in Toronto and across the country of affordable housing—that is, not the deeply affordable housing for the more vulnerable in society, but just basic affordable housing for the masses. The federal government is stepping up to build a new Canadian industry—cheaper, factory-built housing, cheaper for people to live in and more energy efficient. We recently announced our first project in Toronto, at Downsview, which will be a step toward almost 65,000 units built by Canadians, with Canadian technology, for Canadians, and many of them skewed to affordability. So yes, the family that wants the two- or three-bedrooms will hopefully be able to access them.

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Stephanie 🍉 @ageofoddish.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread

My hand holding a shortbread cookie in the shape of an airplane. There are red sprinkles in the pattern of the survivorship bias plane.

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SOSA Gliding Club @sosaglidingclub.aircrew.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 28/11/2025

Our Black Friday deal is the best on the internet today, you can get your loved one the best possible gift: flight! www.sosaglidingclub.com/introductor…

A classy lady with a classy denim blue bucket hat, sitting in the cockpit of an ASK-21 sailplane and looking at the photographer. Image text is copied from a recent Google review: "It was the most fabulous flight. Everyone was very kind and helpful and Joe was great at telling me what was going on."

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