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Absolutely. My mother lives below the poverty line in her friend's basement. Another senior family member has bought two condos with cash in less than a year. One of these individuals does not need OAS.

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Dawn Smith @saffyre9.bsky.social · 9h

I found out about it from a women's travel group on FB where someone was complaining that the weather was looking too "hurricane-y" for her trip to Mexico in hurricane season lmao

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Dawn Smith @saffyre9.bsky.social · 9h

Silly me for thinking my mother might be about to offer empathy when she asked how I was doing. Nope, just another opportunity for her to offer unsolicited advice!

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Dawn Smith @saffyre9.bsky.social · 14h

There's even a selfish argument for people with no children - today's children are tomorrow's adults who will be making decisions about the world we will live in as seniors.

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Dawn Smith @saffyre9.bsky.social · 14h

I just finished a task I've been putting off for weeks. And yes, it took less time than I built it up to in my head.

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Dawn Smith @saffyre9.bsky.social · 16h

I'm voting for both. You can't make me pick lol.

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Dawn Smith @saffyre9.bsky.social · 16h

Oh come on, you cannot pit these two against each other in the first round! This is an impossible choice.

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Dawn Smith @saffyre9.bsky.social · 16h

There is a point where residents need to be a little bit curious and willing to seek out information themselves.

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Dawn Smith @saffyre9.bsky.social · 17h

As a laid off former corporate middle manager replaced by AI, this is hilariously correct. I mean, I am real. But the job is not.

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Kevin 🚀 @astro-kevin.com · 09/10/2026

Them: How's dating going Me I've discovered that my true nature is that of a CICOFEA (Completely Independent Celestial Object that will Fade into Eternity Alone)

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Dawn Smith @saffyre9.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

My advice is to ignore the tasks and take the gummies anyway, so it sounds like you're doing it right. Hope you can spend some time with loved ones this weekend, Mike. 🫂

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Dawn Smith @saffyre9.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

After reading articles about Canadian customers no longer having a domestic supplier, and employees claiming all of their orders were Canadian and therefore not impacted by tariffs, I think Cleveland-Cliffs is being disingenuous and nationalization is the answer.

cbc.ca

Could Canada nationalize Stelco in Hamilton? Ottawa should consider it, legal expert says | CBC News

Stelco has begun laying off workers at their Hamilton steel plant, leading to calls for Ottawa to nationalize the company. Nicolas Lamp, associate professor at the faculty of law and school of policy ...

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David Moscrop @davidmoscrop.com · 09/10/2026

No. Stop.

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Dawn Smith @saffyre9.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Having been sent on a bit of a wild goose chase by AllTrails myself last week, honestly - fair. (Although in my case I was never more than a few kms from my car and not nearly such precarious terrain)

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Dawn Smith @saffyre9.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

He'll figure it out when someone in DND tells him how much more time they're spending keeping rogue AI out compared to Russian hackers

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Dawn Smith @saffyre9.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I think incumbents especially think they can get away with as little campaigning as possible. Those are the ones I'm hearing the least from in my town. Jokes on them though, since I'm new I don't know who any of them are lol

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Dawn Smith @saffyre9.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This is my first small town municipal election, and yeah. Same. Why bother running if you're not going to campaign?

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Dawn Smith @saffyre9.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Fortunately it's just once a year!

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Dawn Smith @saffyre9.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I had one on Tuesday, and it wasn't the worst one by far, but my boob STILL hurts 😫

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Dawn Smith @saffyre9.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

My parents often played tapes of Disney stories for me at bedtime. Not that dissimilar to letting AI do it, really. In other news, I try to avoid engaging with my mother as much as possible these days.

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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026

Basically AI allows software engineers to produce shitty code *faster* and in higher volumes which increases the amount time spent on code reviews and revisions nullifying the productivity gained from producing the code in the first place.

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Dawn Smith @saffyre9.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It's the same kind of people who think it's fine to upload their entire phone contacts to "find your friends" without a second thought. So many have no idea or don't care that these apps are harvesting all this data.

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Dawn Smith @saffyre9.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

That has GOT to be violating a bunch of data privacy laws.

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Dawn Smith @saffyre9.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This just...hits too close to home

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Mike Schreiner @mikeschreiner.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Young people are already struggling to get by in an economy stacked against them. Doug Ford needs to reverse these OSAP cuts, take accountability for his own mismanagement, and hold the bad actors responsible instead of punishing all students.

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Dawn Smith @saffyre9.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Why is Canva showing me pricing in MX 😭

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Dawn Smith @saffyre9.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Oh look, Canada can enforce legal action against parties to an offense, except just when it's some guy and not a billionaire.

cbc.ca

U.S. resident charged with offering advice, money to Tumbler Ridge killer in months before mass shooting | CBC

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Dawn Smith @saffyre9.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Just saw an AI slop ad for a vegan restaurant that showed an egg and cheese mcmuffin 🤦‍♀️

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Dawn Smith @saffyre9.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

WOW. No wonder the real thing tastes so great!

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Dawn Smith @saffyre9.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Canadians, we need more signatures on this! The nation-building projects so far are all in male-dominated fields. Women and women-dominated fields need to be part of how we define nation-building, too. #CanPoli

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Prof Nisreen Alwan @nisreenalwan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

No one, not matter how brilliant, is irreplaceable in the workplace. You’re only irreplaceable to yourself. Good to remember that sometimes.

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Dawn Smith @saffyre9.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Are they just trying to woo devs back from Apple?

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Dawn Smith @saffyre9.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Reading an article about community push back on a developer trying to bring closer-to-affordable properties to the market and one of the concerns was "whether rentals fit into the neighbourhood at all". Like fuck you, just come out and say you don't want the poors in your neighborhood.

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Dawn Smith @saffyre9.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Wait, carnitas is supposed to be deep fried? The whole shoulder?

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ceej @ceej.online · 05/10/2026

we don't have time for another plague apocalypse. we already did that. we're on to robot apocalypse now, try to catch up. next in line is fungal apocalypse. please consult the schedule

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026

I don’t understand why people just jump to the conclusion that voters are the root of electoral outcomes but don’t consider that the people who control the most sophisticated ‘info’ output & surveillance networks on the globe have figured out how to reliably subvert the democratic process by now

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Dawn Smith @saffyre9.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I'm not gonna lie, all of these names are new to me, do uhh... apparently I am that old lmao

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Dawn Smith @saffyre9.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

That is WILD. I was today years old on this one, and the tank looks so tiny!

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Dawn Smith @saffyre9.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I just started watching season 20 of Heartland and that is impossible because there's no way I'm old enough to have been watching this show for that long.

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Dawn Smith @saffyre9.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Doctor Who in the 80s terrified me to the point that as an adult, I have to skip the intro because the theme song STILL fills me with dread (I'm no longer afraid of the show, just the music lmao)

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Dawn Smith @saffyre9.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It's going to bite them in the ass, eventually, at least in Enterprise software. When clients are paying like $500k/yr for software, they're not going to stand for shit that doesn't work for very long before lawyers start getting involved.

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Dawn Smith @saffyre9.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I see a few H1s around from time to time, and they're definitely smaller than a new F150

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mothra stewart @gorl.gay · 30/01/2026

i’m so tired of aging 2,947,286 years every time i check the news

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Dawn Smith @saffyre9.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Trying to buy rodent bait refills and my options are either "not enough bait and you also get yet another bait station" or "enough bait for an entire farm for 3 years".

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Dawn Smith @saffyre9.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It's fine when pipelines don't break even. But we expect everything else to for some reason.

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