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Richard Eriksson @richard.eriksson.ca · 18h

I recommend that all Canadians read the Charter of Rights and Freedoms on a yearly basis. It’s brief! It almost, but not quite, fits in the palm of my hand.

A small copy of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, held in a man’s hand, in front of a print of a painting of a wintry Toronto streetcar scene by Amy Walsh-Harris.

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Sean Marshall @seanyyz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Yes, this is what being a public broadcaster should be about!

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Richard Eriksson @richard.eriksson.ca · 28/09/2026

“In all the animal kingdom, no mother is more devoted than the blue jay.”

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Richard Eriksson @richard.eriksson.ca · 24/09/2026

Truly one of Canada’s best flags.

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Richard Eriksson @richard.eriksson.ca · 24/09/2026

I’ll be in British Columbia on Election Day, it turns out.

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Joseph Planta @joeplanta.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I started the 23rd year of the podcast today. I had a good chat with Mike McCardell, who's written a new book Girl on the Roof, about his late wife Valerie and their fifty-eight year marriage. thecommentary.ca/ontheline/24...

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Mike McCardell | thecommentary.ca

The broadcaster and bestselling author Mike McCardell discusses his new book Girl on the Roof: Memories of a Remarkable Life (Harbour Publishing, 2026), with Joseph Planta.

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Richard Eriksson @richard.eriksson.ca · 20/09/2026

I struggled with the wording of this one, because there are 10 questions. I encourage you to read them, if for the fact that there are 10 questions. Separation is deeply unpopular there, so don’t spend a lot of energy worrying about that.

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myles @myles.garden · 18/09/2026

I'm hosting Silent Reading Club at 1RG on the autumn equinox, Tuesday 22nd September at 6pm (luma.com/sde0jnxi?tk=...). Bring whatever you're reading, find a comfy spot, and enjoy a few hours of quiet company with friends old and new. 🧵 Four things you could read, below.

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1RG Silent Reading Club · Luma

Bring a book (or an e-reader, or a magazine, or that long article you've had open in 47 tabs) and read in good company. No discussion, no pressure, no pop quiz…

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Richard Eriksson @richard.eriksson.ca · 18/09/2026

No question in my mind: impressed. I know how to cook now.

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Richard Eriksson @richard.eriksson.ca · 23/11/2024

If you’re looking for the silly gwai lo, or the emotionally vulnerable gwai lo, I don’t think you’ll find him here. He is on Mastodon, though. You can follow him here via @sillygwailo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy (this assumes the bridge stays up) or directly at mastodon.social/@sillygwailo

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Richard Eriksson (@sillygwailo@mastodon.social)

6.15K Posts, 165 Following, 274 Followers · Current interests (you'll never guess which hashtags I follow): the PWHL, Toronto (as well as the DLWS), Moby-Dick, mapping and geolocation, Ingress, Drupal...

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Bruce @contrasoma.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Sure, "I used to be with it, but then they changed what it was" is a classic, but the older I get the more Marge's mom no-selling a reference to Judge Reinhold feels like the apter metaphor for pop culture disconnect. You just stop caring.

Frame of Jacqueline Bouvier in The Simpsons saying "I don't know who that is" to Marge.

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John Michael McGrath @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"The self-response rate also reached a new record of 91.2%." oh my homeland, my beloved nation of dork keeners, I love you so much

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mechanical twerk @ruhee.ca · 13/09/2026

Just in time for Dylan Cease's start, I'd like to present my newest dumb baseball website: STACHECAST Were you wondering whether Cease pitches better with that giant stache, with the long beard, or with something else? We have the answer. Maybe. stachecast.lol

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STACHECAST

Investigating the question on everyone's minds: how does Dylan Cease's facial hair affect his starts?

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Richard Eriksson @richard.eriksson.ca · 11/09/2026

RT with your home river. My home river is the Courtenay River. It’s very short (allegedly it’s the shortest navigable river in the world), and very pleasant to swim in during the summer. (I did so 7 days out of the 10 when I was there recently.) Here’s a 2024 article about it from @thediscourse.ca:

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How the Courtenay River changed as the city grew

What should residents know about the history of the Courtenay River? And what is happening for flood management in the future?

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Owen @oweninvan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

TIL Canada Post is trying to build an Amazon marketplace competitor. canadashops.ca

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Richard Eriksson @richard.eriksson.ca · 11/09/2026

I wrote it out, so I’ll file it in my journal, but I don’t think there’s anything especially interesting about what I was doing or where I was on September 11th, 2001.

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Richard Eriksson @richard.eriksson.ca · 10/09/2026

This seems unconstitutional to me.

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Richard Eriksson @richard.eriksson.ca · 10/09/2026

Texture is more interesting than friction.

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Mason Wright @thismason.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

[Gift link] New from me! A breakdown of the international pipeline to MLB, and the past and present stars who have impacted the game. www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/99e38a6...

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Yordan Alvarez, Shohei Ohtani and the international stars who set the stage for greatness

These foreign-born players walked (and hit, and pitched) so today’s baseball luminaries could run

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Richard Eriksson @richard.eriksson.ca · 06/09/2026

This reminds me of one of my favourte sports articles, “Playing The Long Con: A Look At All-Time Team Records”, an assessment of the six MLB teams at the time (2012) whose all-time franchise records were closest to .500.

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Playing The Long Con: A Look At All-Time Team Records

An assessment of the six teams whose all-time franchise records are closest to .500: the Pirates, Astros, Blue Jays, Braves, Angels and Diamondbacks.

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Rusty Foster @rusty.todayintabs.com · 03/09/2026

An easy way to migrate away from 1Password is to delete every account and throw all your computers in a deep hole in the earth. 🌈⭐️

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1RG @1rg.space · 01/09/2026

Introducing: 𓊍 Community Co-Work. A Friday of serendipity where a broad intersection of 1RG-aligned individuals and groups work and interact in situ. The space is open for free to our friends, members, and the public, every Friday. 🝮 We hope to see you around. luma.com/community-c...

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Tom MacWright @macwright.com · 26/08/2026

Placemark is now _fully_ open source, thanks to @bskyum.bsky.social macwright.com/2026/08/25/p...

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Placemark is now fully open source

Replacing Mapbox with MapLibre in an update

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Richard Eriksson @richard.eriksson.ca · 21/08/2026

I know this is right at the last minute, so apologies to anybody who had planned on supporting my campaign, but I have decided not to register as a candidate for municipal office this year.

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Richard Eriksson @richard.eriksson.ca · 21/08/2026

As I’m going on vacation, I’m logging back on for at least the next couple of weeks.

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Richard Eriksson @richard.eriksson.ca · 09/08/2026

I throw up the “peace” sign every time I think I’m in somebody’s photo or livestream or video call. I don’t want to be in it, so fuck it, I’m the one who’s going to ruin it.

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Richard Eriksson @richard.eriksson.ca · 10/06/2026

This seems unconstitutional to me.

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Richard Eriksson @richard.eriksson.ca · 20/04/2026

I’m going to log off from here for a while. It shouldn’t be too hard to figure out how to get a message to me if you need to.

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Adam Bunch @adambunch.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Weird fog, Toronto

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Richard Eriksson @richard.eriksson.ca · 16/04/2026

Same. I can’t make it to any of the games, so I’m giving away my ticket to all of them. @tssrovers.bsky.social

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May Likes Product @productnerd.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Toronto Product Conference - May 28 - speaker announcement! Hype! Some of my favourite product people are speaking! @johncutle.fish @thatandream.com @focusedchaos.co Tickets: www.tpma.ca/conference/t... #Toronto #TorontoProductCon #productmgmt

Poster for the Toronto Product Con, Conference + Unconference on May 28, 2026 at the Ted Rogers School of Management.

Headliners: April Dunford, Ben Erez & Marc Baselga, Ben Yosovitz, Colin Matthews, John Culter, Radhika Dutt.

Speakers: Abinandhini Raju, Andrew Shaw, Amber Foucault, Andrea Michalek, Andrew Williams, Angeli Mehta, Balaji Gopalan, Daniel de Repentigny, Emily Reid, Jenya Farris, Joan Milway, John Stetic, May Wong, Mike Ho, Iris Guo, Ross Saunders, Rowan Noronha, Scott Miller, Vlad Vanzha + more TBA.

Sponsors: Lodestone, Bizby, Toronto TechWeek, Toronto Metropolitan University, The Product Recruiter.

Event hosted by the Toronto Product Management Association.

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Luke Andrews @attaboy.ca · 14/04/2026

After a long period of inactivity, I finally updated electoralcartogram.ca, my map of federal election results in Canada. It now includes data from every election and floor crossing since 2015 (including yesterday's by-elections!), and the map reflects the latest electoral district redistribution.

Screenshot of the Electoral Cartogram of Canada, showing election results for the House of Commons in Canada as of April 13, 2026.

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Richard Eriksson @richard.eriksson.ca · 15/04/2026

This brings to mind when Glen Clark and Mike Harcourt proposed an MLB team in Vancouver.

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Richard Eriksson @richard.eriksson.ca · 14/04/2026

I wish I had thought of “Dick Sakura” as my alias. 🌸

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Richard Eriksson @sillygwailo.com · 12/04/2026

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Two small pots, each with a yet-to-bloom hyacinth, one purple and one white. The backdrop is a print of a wintry scene in Toronto of a TTC streetcar.

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Dylan Reid @dylanreid.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Bremner Boulevard becomes a pedestrian space after a Jays game

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Chenoe Hart @chenoehart.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

What’s going to be the next new social media format after TikTok, if there is one? Where do you pivot after pivoting to video?

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Richard Eriksson @richard.eriksson.ca · 11/04/2026

This seems unconstitutional to me.

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Richard Eriksson @richard.eriksson.ca · 11/04/2026

That’s still fewer modes than when I would go from Vancouver to visit my parents on Vancouver Island.

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Mary Robinette Kowal @maryrobinettekowal.com · 11/04/2026

I'm struck by the number of modes of transit these astronauts will experience today. 1. Slicing through the Earth's atmosphere in a spaceship 2. An inflatable raft 3. A rope swing 4. Helicopter 5 Aircraft carrier 6. Airplane. 7. Van.

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Nic @nschlut.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

At Camden Yards too! Here there was a replay shown between innings. And a PA shout-out Baltimore native Reid Wiseman.

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Richard Eriksson @richard.eriksson.ca · 11/04/2026

“How can you not be romantic about baseball?”

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Richard Eriksson @richard.eriksson.ca · 11/04/2026

Hopefully they have a game that they can play to pass the time.

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Charlie Loyd 🌯🛰️ @vruba.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Hard not to be jealous of anyone bobbing gently the Pacific with three friends and no signal right now.

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