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😀🚲 @enobacon.urbanists.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@randahl/1173124683… I'm loving this new browser plugin where you never have to hear trump.

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Chris Corrigan @chriscorrigan.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

I have an idea. Pay parents a living wage for each child for the first 23 years of each kid’s life. Otherwise you are essentially hiring mothers to incubate tax payers for a one time payment. Wonder why it isn’t working. www.cbc.ca/player/play/9.7352883

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Anthony Floyd @anthonyfloyd.ca · 22/09/2026

As I was checking that my Bosch Flow (ebike software) -> Strava -> GBBW integration was working, I noticed that I have exactly 4800 rides and ~51,500 km logged on my various bikes in Strava (all time). The circumference of Earth at the equator is a little over 40k. Cooool.

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BigSkyTreasure @bigskytreasure.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

Twenty Black soldiers, one wild bet: could bicycles beat horses? In 1897 they pedaled 80-lb rifle-loaded rigs from Fort Missoula through snow, alkali water, and hostile towns—1,900 miles to St. Louis in 41 days. Crowds of 10,000 cheered. History nearly forgot […] [Original post on mastodon.world]

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Sal Rahman @manlycoffee.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2026

As a patriotic "#ElbowsUp" Canadian, I'd rather provide free word-of-mouth marketing to fellow Canadian businesses than to penalize Canadians for having bought American. #CanadaPolitics #CanPoli

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Chris Corrigan @chriscorrigan.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

So farewell to Kerry-Lynne Findlay. I’m sorry she experienced character attacks but there’s not much sympathy I can express for a person who issued personal smears against Teresa Wat, Peter Milobar’s wife and the educators who are teaching SOGI curricula. She has not been a good example of […]

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Chris Corrigan @chriscorrigan.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

@sillygwailo I mean, it’s a pretty well established technique in contemporary music. As is prepared piano, etc. And a rock and roll player should be grateful that people like Jerry Lee Lewis pounded the shit out of those things. Opened up doors for everyone! 😆

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Heidi Li Feldman @heidilifeldman.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

I no longer read the NYT regularly and almost never refer others to its reporting. There are better news outlets. That said, this story about Trump’s destruction of the Kennedy Center, is the best synthesis of the whole, sad saga I’ve read […]

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

“People are working 12 to 13 hours a day just to press enter.”

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I am done with this shit. It is over. The state of engineering right now is horrible. It has been half a month since I started a new role at a big company.
Nobody knows anything here. The specs, code, tests, PRDs, tickets, resolution of those tickets, reports, etc., everything is made by Claude Code.
Nobody on my team likes this. They are being forced to ship as much as they can. I have heard multiple times from higher management that pushing code is not a bottleneck, so why are we slow?

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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

A rule of thumb that has served me extremely well on social media is to stop reading any stranger's reply the moment they refer to you as "dude".

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Richard Terroriksson @sillygwailo.com · 15/09/2026

Just a heads up that this coming Saturday (September 19th, 2026) is Closing Browser Tabs Day. As the name suggests, that is the day we will close all of our open browser tabs. /cc @browsertabs

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Anthony Floyd @anthonyfloyd.ca · 19/09/2026

In the mid-1980s, Tom Clancy wrote about a war between the then USSR and "the West" due to a fuel crisis after a Russian oil refinery was destroyed and then Russia moved to seize Middle East fuel reserves to satisfy their fuel needs. What? Oh, no, I'm not bringing this up for any particular reason.

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Harold Jarche @harold.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

The tag line of my blog, with +3,700 posts, is — Work is learning. Learning is the work. Without AI. jarche.com

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Harold Jarche – Work is learning. Learning is the work. Without AI.

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Hrefna (DHC) @hrefna.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

I have had measles. Measles is terrible. You do not want measles. You do not want your kids to have measles. You do not want "natural immunity" from measles. Vaccinate your kids.

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roland @roland.devdilettante.com.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

From: www.dpreview.com/articles/this-dpre… "They may reject the photograph, which is perfectly fine, or, as is sometimes the case, give me the dreaded V-sign and pose for the camera." lol i like the v sign. I like people […]

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Richard Terroriksson @sillygwailo.com · 17/09/2026

I really wish Toronto had a smells forecast. Downtown smells really nice right now. Did somebody’s perfume or cologne get into Toronto’s air ducts? Anyway, it would have been nice to know that in advance so that I could get ready to enjoy it.

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Ernie Smith @ernie.writing.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

Good news or bad news depending on your POV: Usenet archives are suddenly easy to dig through, thanks to a new service. It’s built by a big data guy, and it’s packed with every awkward thing you ever wrote in a newsgroup in 1997. My deep dive […]

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Reginald @raganwald.social.bau-ha.us.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

Sorry, Phil Collins, Karen Carpenter is the finest drummer I’ve ever heard sing: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjFoQxjgbrs

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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸 @chris.mstdn.chrisalemany.ca.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

Oh look! Carney is doing that thing absolutely NO ONE voted for him to do!! Selling out our public infrastructure to the highest bidder so we can all pay more for flights that are already expensive and for which we have no land based alternative! Weeeeeeeeeee #elbowssomething Sub headline of […]

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Anna Haunthro @annaanthro.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

I was wondering how the US businesses along the border with #Canada are doing now that #Trump’s tariff war is in full swing. The #Bellingham Washington stores were down 49% over Labour Day as Canadians have stopped crossing to shop even Deep Blue states. This story about a Point Roberts #BC […]

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Anthony Floyd @anthonyfloyd.ca · 16/09/2026

I had to stop on my bike ride into work this morning. Vancouver can be so breathtaking. This is the sunrise from the seawall at Alder Bay looking east through the Spruce Harbour Marina. #bikeyvr #Vancouver

A bay with still water. Low rise buildings in the middle distance on the right, sailboats in a marina on the left. Mountains and haze in the far distance. The rising sun on the right gives the whole scene a yellow-orange tint.

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The Gaffer @thegaffer.hobbitwhispers.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

Dear Members of the Press: It really doesn't matter whether it's "easy" to pay $5,000 per person or not (hint: it's not). What really matters is that it is ILLEGAL to attempt to buy votes under Federal Law. Musk should be in jail for doing this in the last election. And Trump should be his […]

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Do not underestimate the scale of this climate crisis. We are watching feedback loops accelerate, ice sheet collapse, ocean heat content, methane release, that could lock in irreversible warming. We have all witnessed the data, and it is not slowing down.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026

Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.

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Séamus McGuire @seamuspm.mazaska.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

1/2 Awards received by the people of #Minnesota for resistance to #ICE (so far): John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award — The People of the Twin Cities, Minnesota Kettering Democracy Prize — The People of the Twin Cities Aachen Peace Prize — Unidos MN and The Smitten Kitten Collective […]

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Emma Irwin @sunnydeveloper.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

I've moved Open Source Wishlist (oss-wishlist.com) to a stand alone teaching tool. It uses Ecosyste.ms metadata for critical OSS projects to help identify risk, intervention, and expertise required to mitigate that risk. It lives as evidence that - sustainability is an accountability and funding […]

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Emma Irwin @sunnydeveloper.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

#Canada can manage a ton of risk associated with dependency on US tech, by investing in #opensource projects and expertise - but right now the scope of strategy is narrow to AI infrastructure and government itself. I submitted recommendations to Canada's pre-budget consultations - and wrote up […]

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Emma Irwin @sunnydeveloper.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

"Saddle Lake Cree Nation is asserting its Treaty rights and jurisdiction to provide safe refuge for those seeking and providing gender-affirming care." bsky.app/profile/thebreakdownab.bsk… #Alberta #Canada #transrightdarehumanrights

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