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Meta violating privacy? No way! (Beyond the parts that they do openly admit to, I mean)

I absolutely think the frontier US cloud AI companies would already be trying to enshittify like this if it weren't for the challenge of open models giving users other choices.

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Tim Amor @timamor.bsky.social · 14h

Having children feel safe & welcome as full participants as part of our churches on Sunday morning is more important than an adult’s preference for things that cater to them. We’re the adults. They’re the kids. Let’s stop throwing our selfish, self-serving tantrums.

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Perrsun @perrsun.bsky.social · 13h

Work IT just sent out an email saying “Stop clicking on web ads and pop ups” with info about fake download/error buttons, etc. I (not-IT) want to just tell them “You either deploy adblockers or you deploy malware” but will probably have to find a gentler way to do so.

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Mark Jones @markjonesmotion.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Fever fans gonna Fever…

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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

WNBA Finals broadcast schedule: Game 1: ABC/ESPN Game 2: USA/CNBC Game 3: Fubo/Ask a Neighbor If You Can Come Over Game 4: Radio only Game 5: Projected Onto the Underside of the Kosciuszko Bridge (Barge reservation req'd) Game 6: Buy an old Nintendo DS on eBay Game 7: Read About it the Day After

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Ryan Robinson @ryanrobinson.ca · 29/09/2026

I do really hope the candidate who proposed a 15km/h speed limit on the trail made a typo and meant 25 (otherwise she seems good).

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Tri-Cities Transport Action Group @tritag.ca · 29/09/2026

Announcing our Waterloo Region election questionnaire for 2026! We have had 84 candidates respond so far to our questionnaire on key issues around walking, biking, and transit:

tritag.ca

Waterloo Region Election 2026

Municipal candidate responses to our top transportation policy questions

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Lanrick Bennett @lanrickbennett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

#IdeasAtWork When has car parking ever helped to reduce or eliminate congestion on roads? Wonderful explainer of maximum road capacity, with fancy colours overlaid on of most recent Critical Mass ride for context by Brian Tao h/t @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social @ffsafestreets.bsky.social #BikeTO

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Ryan Robinson @ryanrobinson.ca · 29/09/2026

FYI: the Pixel Watch has a theatre mode to stop the screen from turning on every time you reach for popcorn.

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Ryan Robinson @ryanrobinson.ca · 28/09/2026

The US oligarchs don't only control the US government; they have a massive influence over pretty much the entire world. Maybe we should try allowing some of our companies to compete with them instead of anti-circumvention laws, or at minimum move our governments away from giving them more power?

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Ryan Robinson @ryanrobinson.ca · 28/09/2026

Not that Toronto is perfect when it comes to cars by any means, but I see pictures like this and am so thankful that all the Toronto teams either play right beside the big central train station or one train stop away on the most busy line.

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Phil @philmarfisi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The government of self-professed fiscal responsibility and congestion relief is setting millions of dollars on fire to tear up our provincial capital's busiest roads and make congestion far worse, all because of a manufactured culture war that a rounding error of residents care about.

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Ryan Robinson @ryanrobinson.ca · 28/09/2026

But these are for the manliest of manly men who want to spend 30% of their income looking tough instead of on their families. Scooters and bikes are just for women and the poors and the disabled, right? We barely count. (Not to do an "everything is gender" meme, but yeah, it kind of is)

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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Albertans with Canadian flags attached to their car in 2026 and Albertans with Canadian flags attached to their car in 2021 are completely non-overlapping groups.

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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

talking about water use policy is impossible because "AI data centers use a lot of water to cool the computers" sounds way more believable than "they're draining the Great Salt Lake so the Governor of Utah can sell alfalfa to Saudi Arabia" and yet

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Micah @rincewind.run · 27/09/2026

the reason the water thing annoys me so much is that there are real water issues that need to be solved and water issues at scale are "it's the agriculture, stupid" and the data center water freakouts convince people that those issues can be solved by data center moratoriums that is simply wrong

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Ryan Robinson @ryanrobinson.ca · 27/09/2026

#WNBA playoff time, let's go! After mostly watching a lot of Tempo losses for the past couple months, this will be a refreshing change.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

one trillion liters of water is less than the dairy and beef industry uses in one day

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ebikes-international @ebikesinternatl.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Another Huge Turnout of Cyclists for Critical Mass Ride in Toronto in Support of Bike Lanes #safecycling #saferroads tinyurl.com/4akerdcd

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James McLeod @jamespmcleod.ca · 26/09/2026

There are a lot of reasons why Canadians are visiting the USA much less, but I think this is a big one that isn't even on the Americans' radar. torontolife.com/city/can-you...

torontolife.com

Can your cellphone be searched at the US border? - Toronto Life

A new US court ruling stokes a lingering fear

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026

I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility

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Ryan Robinson @ryanrobinson.ca · 26/09/2026

Never have I woken up to a Beat Goes On (used physical media store) notification of something being in stock and rushed to buy as fast as this one.

The Muppet Christmas Carol Blu-ray for $18.99 Canadian

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Bill Comeau 🇨🇦 @bill-comeau.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Many thanks to all the Canadians who buy Teslas and participate on X. /s

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Ryan Robinson @ryanrobinson.ca · 25/09/2026

I kind of love that I live somewhere that if my car-driving wife who usually does grocery shopping is out of town I can get to two different stores within a 5 minute bike ride first thing in the morning and still be home in time to start work. #WatReg

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Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ @padresj.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

These are NOT "shots fired." This is just what GOOD leadership looks like: unafraid, empathetic, transparent. ... If you think that the Pope is attacking your choice of leader, then it means that you KNOW your choice of leader is none of those things.

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The Rev. Keakealani @keakealani.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Call myself a biblical literalist Christian evangelical but only the parts that are like “sell all your possessions” and “jubilee year”, and act confused that there are other things in the Bible

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Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Cookies have very few vitamins. That’s why you have to eat so many of them.

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Ryan Robinson @ryanrobinson.ca · 25/09/2026

The Sun are up by 2 at halftime in the great tank-off with the Toronto Tempo. Or down by 2, I guess, depending how you look at it. #WNBA

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I often think about the speed camera chopping vigilante who returned to the scene of their crime on Parkside Drive multiple times but Toronto police didn’t catch them & it led to Doug Ford banning speed cameras for 16 million people & now speeding is at epidemic levels & people will die.

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Michael Druker 🇨🇦 @mdruker.app · 24/09/2026

It is wild how little accountability there has been for anyone for Conestoga College. It should have been (should still be) a political scandal but somehow it’s been all about the singular president of the college instead of the apparatus that let him misuse that power for years

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Ryan Robinson @ryanrobinson.ca · 23/09/2026

Let's go Tempo! Get those Juju Watkins odds!

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Catelli @catelli.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Big tech decides, it ain't regulated, and we have to live with the results. They have appointed themselves masters of our lives, whether in the private or public sphere. And they continue to do that while we distract ourselves by arguing the specifics of each solution, how bad it is or isn't...

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Catelli @catelli.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is the Trump "Trade Deficit" stupidity rephrased in a more wordy argument. The problem with AI Data Centers has nothing to do with with either AI, profit, or Data Centers. It's about the unregulated power and control that large tech companies have to make decisions for all of society.

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Mia Tsai says buy her books @itsamia.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

not beating the sex cult allegations with this one

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Walking Eagle News @theeagleist.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

BREAKING: This ok when Liberals do it

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Mike Morrice @morricemike.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Carney opened Parliament by introducing a bill that undermines the right to strike and pre-approves pipelines in ways Harper’s Conservative government only dreamed of. While being sold to us as a way to stand up to Trump, these measures do the opposite. There is a better way forward.

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Anna Mehler Paperny @mehlerpaperny.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I know Canadians want to feel safe. I get it. But imagine if any other prime minister kept introducing laws that said "I and my minister get to decide what laws apply, when, and we get to unilaterally and retroactively remove conditions on multi-billion-dollar projects."

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Dekila Chungyalpa (བདེ་དཀྱིལ་) @dchungyalpa.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It angers me when people scoff at the thought of faith leaders and institutions doing resistance work. You know who is being arrested in the TENS of thousands up and down this country right now? You know who runs food pantries? You know who is holding the hands of undocu folks at appts?

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Ryan Robinson @ryanrobinson.ca · 21/09/2026

Firefox offers a totally optional separate window in beta adding a partnership with a French local model. All the replies scream about how AI is forced on them and sending data to fascist US Big Tech. Nobody reads. They just see "AI" and get mad.

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Ryan Robinson @ryanrobinson.ca · 21/09/2026

I think about half of the emails I've received in the past couple weeks have been things I didn't sign up for. Somebody else has been on a big streak of using my email address to do lots of shopping.

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Ryan Robinson @ryanrobinson.ca · 20/09/2026

It wasn't the most competitive of games, and the Coca-Cola Coliseum experience definitely leaves a lot to be desired, but I'm still very happy I got to go to my first Toronto Tempo game (and my first regular season WNBA game). And I got a t-shirt and a stuffed banana from Instacart.

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Ryan Robinson @ryanrobinson.ca · 20/09/2026

Pretty good representation of Toronto Tempo gear on the Lakeshore West train heading toward the game (including me in my shirt and Kiki Rice jersey).

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 20/09/2026

I enjoyed fall more before I moved to Canada and it started carrying with it a sense of impending doom.

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Ryan Robinson @ryanrobinson.ca · 20/09/2026

Parables in Matthew 20:1-16 (vineyard workers) and 25:14-30 (talents/valuable coins) are both about a rich man and his relation to labour. One pays generously according to the needs of the labourers, warning against the labourers seeing each other as competition in a quest for more wealth.

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Ryan Robinson @ryanrobinson.ca · 20/09/2026

In case you needed a cute groundhog to break up the doomscroll, we saw this one yesterday at the University of Guelph.

A chunky groundhog facing toward the camera, surrounded by delicious grass.

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Ryan Robinson @ryanrobinson.ca · 19/09/2026

The last one is true, though, even now. Americans should be terrified of our army of geese.

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 19/09/2026

And this is why, when folks hijack conversations about AI safety to talk about the rise of the [benevolent|terrible] machine God, we should tell them to go play outside while the grownups are talking. Because the actual conversation is about the harms humans do, not about fictitious nonsense.

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