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Phil Ollenberg @philollenberg.ca · 01/10/2026

Denounce racism in all its forms, especially on a day like today, meant to honour the lost and harmed children of the colonial residential school program.

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Phil Ollenberg @philollenberg.ca · 01/10/2026

It looks good but even I couldn't eat a whole cake in one sitting!

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Phil Ollenberg @philollenberg.ca · 30/09/2026

Yikes... A very popular PrEP (HIV prevention) clinic in Canada is getting acquired by a company with a long history of problematic political alignments and data usage. Promptly cancelling & requesting an information deletion before they can hand-over all my health records for skimming.

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Phil Ollenberg @philollenberg.ca · 28/09/2026

Watching church-going, cross-wearing, Christian “Family Feud” contestants fumble over naming Bible characters, while two 𝓱𝓸𝓶𝓸𝓼𝓮𝔁𝓾𝓪𝓵 atheists sitting at home are nailing all the answers. Religious piety ain't the same as actually literacy.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 27/09/2026

“Most LLMs (including those from OpenAI) are built on millions of scraped webpages and other large text datasets, and almost none of this content has been obtained with its owners’ knowledge or consent.” This is how tech executives talk when no one thinks they’re listening.

motherjones.com

AI exec: We may have pulled off “the largest theft of labor in human history.”

Documents from our lawsuit reveal how tech leaders talk when they think no one is listening.

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Phil Ollenberg @philollenberg.ca · 28/09/2026

If wasn't already a decided voter, immediately turned off by lack of logic here. Taxes need to move with the economy and wealth.

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Phil Ollenberg @philollenberg.ca · 27/09/2026

"IT'S BRITNEY BITCH" "oh good morning gramps"

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Phil Ollenberg @philollenberg.ca · 27/09/2026

Sometimes I forget that not every fellow fag runs as fast-and-loose with pronouns as I do. I referred to myself as a "career woman" and my buddy was very confused. My typical pronouns are he/him, but I also go with use/what/ever for me as long as it's meant with dignity.

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Movement: Metro Vancouver Transit Riders @movementyvr.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

There will be TWO elections this October, and we hope transit riders vote in both of them! It can be confusing to figure out which level of government is responsible for what (especially when candidates make promises they can’t follow through on).

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Phil Ollenberg @philollenberg.ca · 24/09/2026

I'd support the Disney board firing him again if they could, for good measure.

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The Province @theprovince.com · 23/09/2026

Important dates and timelines for the 2026 B.C. provincial election theprovince.com/news/bc-elec...

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Phil Ollenberg @philollenberg.ca · 21/09/2026

I hear her cat already quit and moved to sit as a straydependant.

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Phil Ollenberg @philollenberg.ca · 21/09/2026

But if he makes people think it's a possibility, his equally doofy followers will somehow attribute it back to the PM with full-on quotes of exactly when he allegedly said it.

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Phil Ollenberg @philollenberg.ca · 21/09/2026

You fire your former leader, you un-fire your former leader, you fire your former leader, and you tell him to get out. You do the quitty-quitty and you leave and then you pout. That's what politics seems to be about.

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The Wiggles & Mascots Do The Hokey Pokey

ALT: The Wiggles & Mascots Do The Hokey Pokey

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Phil Ollenberg @philollenberg.ca · 19/09/2026

Call centre annoyance: when the hold music keeps telling you to "go to our website to do this thing" when their website explicitly says you can't do the thing through their website.

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Phil Ollenberg @philollenberg.ca · 19/09/2026

Ooh to what degree? I know some folks will avoid obviously knowing other people going out in case they think, like, "I'm the fuck buddy and they might be out with their conservative boss" or whatnot.

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Phil Ollenberg @philollenberg.ca · 19/09/2026

Hwhat? Did you maybe wrong them somehow, unknowingly? Were you in a disguise? Are you sure it was Ernie & Bert, and not their twins Bernie & Ert?

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Phil Ollenberg @philollenberg.ca · 17/09/2026

"The whole airport can hear Pat's call right now, ops team. They all know your confidential Q2 project plan. Thanks for letting me join the call, Pat."

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Phil Ollenberg @philollenberg.ca · 17/09/2026

In hindsight, that FIFA Fan Zone on Granville, *post* World Cup was more like a Snore Zone. Any time we'd go up Granville, it didn't add any meaningful tszuj. Lots of potential, all lost after the soccer energy was gone.

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Phil Ollenberg @philollenberg.ca · 16/09/2026

"Give us a call." Or, as us millennials call it, "ew no thanks, I can do business with another company." Buh-bye.

Screenshot of a website displaying the text "Give us a call" in large blue letters

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Phil Ollenberg @philollenberg.ca · 10/09/2026

I can't wait to age into the demographic of dude who barely steps into the (empty) train, then immediately stops and blocks the entrance for everyone else.

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Ddpeewee Ddpeeweebored

ALT: Ddpeewee Ddpeeweebored

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Phil Ollenberg @philollenberg.ca · 09/09/2026

Want to check how busy someone who claims they're so "busy" is? Text them during the workday. If they can always respond in under 60 seconds, THEY'RE NOT BUSY.

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Phil Ollenberg @philollenberg.ca · 09/09/2026

It takes a certain level of self-absorption to be texting with both hands while driving a moving vehicle that has a "BABY ON BOARD" warning sticky in the back window.

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Phil Ollenberg @philollenberg.ca · 06/09/2026

Just had one of those wonderful "fuck, I love my city" moments. Doesn't take much around these parts. ❤️

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Phil Ollenberg @philollenberg.ca · 04/09/2026

At this point, isn't her caucus just her?

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Alex Usher @alexusherhesa.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

With 22 out of 24 Ontario colleges having published their financial statements, we can have a good look at the annus horribilus of 2025-26. Sector-wide: Total fee income down 43% (about $2bn) Total income down 30% (about $2.3 bn) Net margin went from +8% to -3% (625M surplus to $160M deficit)2

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Phil Ollenberg @philollenberg.ca · 30/08/2026

Just found a new nickname for my dog tonight: Scratchy Lee Snifford.

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Phil Ollenberg @philollenberg.ca · 29/08/2026

I mean yes but 🤏. Can't wait for a new PSA being like, "hey you evil planet killer, baby hater, and bunny hater. Stop flying in airplane and using a hair dryer. Sponsored by ExxonMobil and Amazon Data Centers."

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Phil Ollenberg @philollenberg.ca · 22/08/2026

Are Elmo's pronouns elmo/elmo/elmo? Maybe Elmo DOESN'T talk in third person, Elmo's gender is also elmo, and elmo are Elmo's preferred pronouns.

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Elmo Looks Around

ALT: Elmo Looks Around

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Phil Ollenberg @philollenberg.ca · 22/08/2026

As someone who cleans his instant pot (erm—everything) with bleach, it freaks me out there are people getting maggots because they didn't clean the lid or… like… any part.

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Phil Ollenberg @philollenberg.ca · 20/08/2026

I couldn't find this as a GIF online, so I created it as a GIFt to the world. The Simpsons’ Mr. Smithers injects himself with a syringe, then smiles and flails his arms. The macro text "I love boobies!" is superimposed.

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Phil Ollenberg @philollenberg.ca · 19/08/2026

Seeing an Indigenous nations recognised separately brings joy to my heart. ❤️ (Also why all these games gotta be in Washington DC. I wanna goooooo!!!)

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Phil Ollenberg @philollenberg.ca · 18/08/2026

Malicious compliance: Bank says I cannot escalate a complaint until 14 days after I raised the initial complaint. So I sent the escalation today, 14 days + 1 minute after my initial complaint, documenting the 6 efforts I made to resolve the issue.

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Phil Ollenberg @philollenberg.ca · 17/08/2026

I've never been "woofed" by the dude sitting across from me at the lab. Until today. 🤣

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Phil Ollenberg @philollenberg.ca · 17/08/2026

Listen, when I had a couple of friends who had two cars but only one had a driver's license, and they owned a mcmansion they couldn't afford or keep-up, I was like

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Sigourney Weaver as Dana Barrett: You're The Problem

ALT: Sigourney Weaver as Dana Barrett: You're The Problem

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Phil Ollenberg @philollenberg.ca · 17/08/2026

Adulting is replacing your hopes and dreams with nopes and screams.

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Phil Ollenberg @philollenberg.ca · 15/08/2026

And yes, to pre-empt any piety about 2FA, yes 2FA is important. But not when it becomes 🤷FA.

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Phil Ollenberg @philollenberg.ca · 15/08/2026

My insurance company just made 2FA stand for "too fucking annoying." Them: Do you want a text or an email? Me: Text please! CLICK! 𝘞𝘢𝘵𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘚𝘔𝘚 𝘢𝘱𝘱 𝘸𝘢𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘦𝘹𝘵 𝘞𝘢𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘞𝘢𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 Their site: You selected text. Let us know when you'd like it!

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Phil Ollenberg @philollenberg.ca · 12/08/2026

I'm starting to wonder if there's a correlation between susceptibility towards AI slop and mental decline like dementia or Alzheimer's.

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Phil Ollenberg @philollenberg.ca · 12/08/2026

There was a very important announcement on the #SkyTrain this afternoon. I transcribed it for everyone: PRURRAH WUNNAH THUH OHHMUNNAH, OF ZZHH RAVVAH YEHNAA MOWWUH, AN NURRAH AHWUNNA. THUH VUMMAH OHH YEMMAH, OF ZZH RUMMA WAAHNUH MURRAVA. THUH YEHAH MURRAH A NUMMAA. THHHHK YOOHHH.

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Alex Usher @alexusherhesa.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Oh look! Another Globe op-ed about higher education with literally no sense of history. (the value of various types of degrees are largely unchanged over the past 50 years, but sure, tell me more about how "everything is different now").

theglobeandmail.com

Opinion: What’s university even for? Schools are broke, and degrees are worth less and less

The era of sending arts and humanities graduates into the world to fend for themselves is ending

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Phil Ollenberg @philollenberg.ca · 09/08/2026

But doesn't Microsoft licence Copilot's engine /from/ OpenAI? So Microsoft is paying OpenAI who then pay Microsoft again?

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Phil Ollenberg @philollenberg.ca · 08/08/2026

Today I learned I've been to the U.S. state of Ohio. To the city of Cincinnati. As an adult. As a grown up real adult. Intentionally. Knowingly.

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Phil Ollenberg @philollenberg.ca · 06/08/2026

Maybe the dems /won't/ win the midterms and in 2027 if their whole plan is in-fighting and rejecting people's viewpoints.

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Phil Ollenberg @philollenberg.ca · 04/08/2026

I wonder what the ratio is of folks who see a branded cybertruck and go "ooh I want to shop there" vs the "ew that's on my blocklist" crowd.

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Phil Ollenberg @philollenberg.ca · 04/08/2026

So thank you, Vancouver Pride, every participant and every spectator. ...And thank you to every protester, because you just guaranteed we’ll have another pride with more noise, more investment, more sponsorship, and more donors next year. Thank you, protesters, for guaranteeing more queer events.

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