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I'm just reminded of those two winters when I see charts like this:

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The last mega 𝘦𝘭 𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘰 in our area: multiple blizzards, days of freezing rain thunderstorms. 50+ cm of snow in 6 hours one day. The mega 𝘦𝘭 𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘰 before? *The* ice storm. 100 mm of freezing rain in a few days. Complete electric grid collapse.

People stand beside cars, with multiple collapsed hydro pylons in the background (at least 6 of them). Photo taken after the January 1998 ice storm.

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I've got a mid-progress batch for you coming right up.

Maybe? Depends - like every other model producer I'm super behind on my work but we'll see what happens.

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This one quick trick makes your Gmail app work: either get a new phone for $1200 or erase everything you've done for the last 3 years on your current one!

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It really feels like a Google Phone with Google OS loading a Google App for a Google Service should be one of their "just works" features but I guess having a badly photoshopping AI is a bigger marketing feature.

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Really bummed out that the Gmail App (on Android) has been so enshittified that I can't read emails in any of my sorted folders (Promotions, Updates, etc.). A full app reset only makes it work for a few hours.

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"By shooting motes into kernels, worldken folk have shifted samesteads of one firststuff into samesteads of another. Thus did they make ymirstuff into aegirstuff and helstuff, and they have afterward gone beyond these."

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Philip Bulsink 🇨🇦 @philip.bulsink.ca · 19/09/2026

Want to remember what it's like to be a chemist undergraduate, struggling through the language we use every day in the field? Enjoy this bit of writing, you fellow minglingkens. #ChemChat

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Uncleftish beholding

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The Aramco Saudi Arabian GP (Hockenheim edition) The Emirates Abu Dhabi GP at Watkins Glen The Qatar Airways Qatar GP (ft. Kyalami Circuit)

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Philip Bulsink 🇨🇦 @philip.bulsink.ca · 16/09/2026

Works today. Maybe I was searching too early yesterday and it hadn't make it through the gates yet.

Philip Bulsink 🇨🇦 @philip.bulsink.ca · 16/09/2026

My old Yaris has 300k+ km on it. I might need to replace it in a few years. I'd love to get a European small car instead of having to find the smallest McMansion-on-Wheels currently in the Canadian market.

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Doug van den Ham @dvdham.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

If Canada is going to become an Associate Member of the EU, a great spot to start would be recognizing EU vehicle safety and emissions standards. That would open an easy pathway to increase the availability of small, fuel efficient vehicles in the Canadian market.

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Philip Bulsink 🇨🇦 @philip.bulsink.ca · 16/09/2026

I wasn't able to find it in the Positron extensions list. Do you know if it's that because of a license incompatiblity or has it not been approved to their subset of extensions?

Philip Bulsink 🇨🇦 @philip.bulsink.ca · 13/09/2026

They did some flyovers at the Spencerville fair too.

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Philip Bulsink 🇨🇦 @philip.bulsink.ca · 12/09/2026

I was cleaning out under the shelves in my back shed just the other day when I found a copy of fable, just chillin' there, waiting for a chance to copy itself yet again.

Philip Bulsink 🇨🇦 @philip.bulsink.ca · 11/09/2026

It was relatively cold out overnight, so with the high air exchange rate in the lab we're still only at 17 °C inside. It's officially solid DMSO weather in the lab! #chemchat 🍂

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Philip Bulsink 🇨🇦 @philip.bulsink.ca · 10/09/2026

Completely bonkers. You get laid off after the international red eye flights have finished boarding? To the gulags! You get laid off formally by your company going under, after not having been paid for weeks and having no liquid assets? To the gulags!

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** If my boss is reading this - I absolutely would ask you for permission first, don't worry.

Ask forgiveness not permission? Or get facilities staff to do the same? You could always get the hood flow tested after you do the installation if someone gets nervous.

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Not a flow dynamicist etc., but we have a few hoods with various (closed/sealed) access ports through the side walls and there's no issues with the face flow. I think as long as you're sealing it up reasonably ok it should be fine?

Artisan coffee, using fluid bed roasting technology, focusing on single origin beans.

Ordered coffee beans for delivery from a local #Ottawa roaster last evening. They showed up today at lunch. Roast Date on the package? This morning. Thanks Brown Bag Coffee!

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Philip Bulsink 🇨🇦 @philip.bulsink.ca · 04/09/2026

Of course with an 85mm a wide shot isn't possible, but you could use it to find unique features (interesting curves, a mis-placed tree, whatever) or head toward abstract shots?

Philip Bulsink 🇨🇦 @philip.bulsink.ca · 04/09/2026

I have a 50mm f/1.8 and I love it for layering landscape/building shots to highlight a unique feature with foreground and background blur. It makes the shot a little more unique because most often those shots are done at like f/8 or f/11 so everything is in focus.

Philip Bulsink 🇨🇦 @philip.bulsink.ca · 31/08/2026

Nope, (former) oncology/ICU nurse, so more of an 😇

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Philip Bulsink 🇨🇦 @philip.bulsink.ca · 31/08/2026

That's literally the first comment I remember from my wife the day when we met!

Philip Bulsink 🇨🇦 @philip.bulsink.ca · 24/08/2026

Around me the motorized garden tiller with the rotating tines is called a rototiller, so it never sounded weird to me to call it a rotovap.

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Philip Bulsink 🇨🇦 @philip.bulsink.ca · 19/08/2026

This, to me, implies Max goes to Aston Martin, and RB doesn't see themselves signing Alonso or Stroll (hahahaha) as a one for one trade, nor finding another driver compelling enough to pinch from somewhere else.

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Philip Bulsink 🇨🇦 @philip.bulsink.ca · 19/08/2026

Conspiracy theory time: this is how Red Bull give Liam Lawson another experience to see if they can replace Max at the end of the year through promotion instead of a new driver signing. #F1

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Philip Bulsink 🇨🇦 @philip.bulsink.ca · 13/08/2026

Ah well, at least someone got notice then!

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Philip Bulsink 🇨🇦 @philip.bulsink.ca · 13/08/2026

Crazy thunderstorm rain and wind in Ottawa now (Nepean). Hardest I've ever seen. No warning from Environment Canada?

Philip Bulsink 🇨🇦 @philip.bulsink.ca · 11/08/2026

Finally no more tornado warnings in Kanata for rotation near Hawkesbury (or vice versa)