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Family doc doing primary care and low risk obs in Treaty One territory. Former software dev. Host of the Life, the Universe & Everything Else podcast. On Mastodon @spurll@ramshackle.town. Trans rights are human rights. Website: spurll.com

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gem @spurll.com · 25/09/2026
Got a fun weekend planned!
Cardboard boxes containing laptop parts, labelled "Framework Laptop 14", "USB-A", "MicroSD", "USB-C", and "USB-C".
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gem @spurll.com · 25/09/2026
Comrades in Winnipeg, come hang out with the Wobblies and a bunch of other leftist friends on Sunday 15 November 2026!
IWW & FRIENDS PRESENT:
RED NOVEMBER BLACK NOVEMBER
SUNDAY NOVEMBER 15 11AM-4PM
HONOURING LABOUR'S DEAD AND THOSE WHO'VE FOUGHT FOR WORKERS' RIGHTS WITH JOY, COMMUNITY, AND CONNECTION

Red and Black Themed Buffet

All Ages Dance Party

Featuring CWG Entertainment
Crafting Corner, LeftieSelfieBooth, and Anti-Capitalist Board Games!
Organizer Networking Opportunities

323 BRUCE AVENUE
$15 OR PAY WHAT YOU CAN

For tickets, e-transfer winnipegiww@gmail.com
Please leave a note with # of guests
NOVEMBER FIFTEENTH!
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gem @spurll.com · 17/09/2026
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gem @spurll.com · 03/09/2026
Solidarity with the workers at Dynacare, who have authorized a strike action against their employer. Dynacare maintains an effective monopoly on laboratory testing in Manitoba. Sadly I missed the picket yesterday (I was in clinic all day) but I was there in spirit!
I'm standing with laboratory professionals at Dynacare. MAHCP.Lab pros are feeling the pinch.

Wages at Dynacare have fallen 20-50% behind public hospital laboratories since Dynacare, a for-profit American-owned corporation, became Manitoba's only private outpatient lab provider in 2017.

These lab professionals serve nearly
1.2M patients a year in Manitoba, performing over 15M labs tests during the last fiscal alone.
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gem @spurll.com · 11/08/2026
Huge fan of @kavehmd.bsky.social, but even I have trouble imagining how you stretch "lol fuck no" to an hour and five.
Screenshot of the Podcasts app showing the latest episode of The House of Pod, titled "Should You Go To Med School?" with a runtime of 1h5m.
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gem @spurll.com · 13/06/2026
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gem @spurll.com · 05/06/2026
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gem @spurll.com · 05/06/2026
The existence of the "home" feed on Patreon that I have to switch away from every time I open the app is a travesty
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gem @spurll.com · 05/06/2026
The fact that I have to go through every one of my dozens of Patreon memberships and manually disable these emails is indescribably frustrating and has me considering non-Patreon methods of support
"Previews of posts not included in your membership" and "When this creator recommends other creators" checkboxes disabled in notification settings
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gem @spurll.com · 28/05/2026
lol just replicated it and gpople is doubling down
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gem @spurll.com · 26/05/2026
thanks i hate it
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gem @spurll.com · 18/05/2026
Gandalf, with the campaign: "Fly, you fools!"
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gem @spurll.com · 17/05/2026
Sickos meme. "Yes... ha ha ha... YES!"
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gem @spurll.com · 16/05/2026
The cast of the musical SIX
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gem @spurll.com · 15/05/2026
Absolutely appalling behaviour from the Ontario Medical Association. wordsofjustice.org/campaigns/wo...
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gem @spurll.com · 27/04/2026
lol www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...
Tom's Hardware headline: Claude-powered AI coding agent deletes entire company database in 9 seconds — backups zapped, after Cursor tool powered by Anthropic's Claude goes rogueSowing/reaping meme:
Me sowing: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!!
Me reaping: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.
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gem @spurll.com · 19/04/2026
"Daily Struggle" meme with the caption "Suddenly realizing you've sent someone three texts about something completely unimportant" and two buttons marked "Take a deep breath and go for a walk" and "Send a fourth text apologising for the other three".
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gem @spurll.com · 08/04/2026
"Won" on my very first run. Huh.
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gem @spurll.com · 04/04/2026
If only there were some historical parallel we could point to. Alas.
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gem @spurll.com · 04/04/2026
this guy's got krycek's eyes and edgar's grin wtf
Alex Krycek from The X-Files (his eyes are black because of alien goo)Edgar from Men in Black (his face is lopsided because he's an alien bug wearing a human's skin)Lee Zeldin doing his best impression of a human being
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gem @spurll.com · 04/04/2026
you cannot convince me that this is not an alien wearing human skin
Time headline: Who Is Lee Zeldin? Possibly Trump's Next Attorney General
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gem @spurll.com · 27/03/2026
Here's hoping this is only the beginning
Headline from the Wall Street Journal: "OpenAI Scraps Sora Video Platform Months After Launch"
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gem @spurll.com · 17/03/2026
Until a couple weeks ago I had no idea Erasure was still making music, but this album kicks ass
Slipcase for Erasure's album The Neon
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gem @spurll.com · 15/03/2026
Celebrating pi day with chocolate cranberry.
A freshly baked cranberry pie with chocolate crust, with a π-shaped vent hole.
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gem @spurll.com · 13/03/2026
Can this be a solution?
The Strait of Hormuz meme illustrating a log driver from the 1979 National Film Board short "The Log Driver's Waltz" dancing atop a floating barrel of oil, with the caption "Bypass blockade with waltzing log drivers".
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gem @spurll.com · 05/03/2026
Absolutely horrifying stuff. The government is full to the brim with cowards and warmongers. I have lost track of the number of times the Liberal government has crossed a bright red line that would prevent me from ever voting for them again, "strategic necessity" be damned.
Quotation from an email blast from CJPME:
When Carney finally took questions at a press conference on Tuesday, he admitted that “it appears that these actions [the US-Israeli attacks] are inconsistent with international law,” and called the war a “failure of the international order.” He even said that Canada had supported it with “regret.” However, he reaffirmed that it doesn’t matter either way, because Canada continues to support the war regardless.''
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gem @spurll.com · 02/03/2026
I urge everyone to support international medical graduates in Ontario, where the Ford government is attempted to effectively IMGs from matching to residency. This is a violation of their Charter rights (and a transparently racist policy).
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gem @spurll.com · 21/02/2026
lol grow up dude
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gem @spurll.com · 15/02/2026
Sure, I didn't spend the extra 90 seconds to selectively print only the actual core, but...
Bones McCoy meme: Damn it Jim! I'm a doctor, not a programmer!
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gem @spurll.com · 15/02/2026
Finally polishing off Blue Prince...
>>> core(19,1,6,5)
15.0
109.0
2.6
21.6
65.0
-1.83333333333
>>> core(3,12,1,25)
-225.0
-24.75
1.4
-0.36
-18.75
11.0
>>> core(20,15,5,19)
19.0
-12.3333333333
15.5263157895
1.31578947368
-69.6666666667
41.0
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gem @spurll.com · 10/02/2026
Miles O'Brien from DS9 smiling with the caption: "He was more than a hero: he was a union man."
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gem @spurll.com · 07/02/2026
Tuesday February 10th I'll be at the screening of Punishing Solidarity, a new short documentary about Palestinian allyship, sponsored by Independent Jewish Voices Winnipeg @ijvcanada.bsky.social
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gem @spurll.com · 04/01/2026
Obviously the fact that Musk and his team have facilitated the widespread generation and dissemination of CSAM is as awful as it is predictable, but the fact that so many news sources are quoting Grok's "acknowledgement" of the issue is so absurd on its face that it makes me want to cry.
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gem @spurll.com · 03/01/2026
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gem @spurll.com · 18/12/2025
Wild how consistently tech enthusiasts take the wrong lesson from Star Trek. Sam Altman sees Reg Barclay as a hero instead of a sad incel who desperate needs to forge real connections with actual people, while OpenAI has convinced the End of History Guy that ChatGPT is his personal Leah Brahms.
Reginald Barclay embracing a holographic recreation of Deana Troi in the TNG episode Hollow PursuitsGeordi La Forge being massaged by a holographic recreation of Leah Brahms, a famous warp engineer he's never met but has convinced himself he's in love with
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gem @spurll.com · 06/12/2025
And of course
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gem @spurll.com · 06/12/2025
If you see this, repost with your model of positive masculinity.
Gandalf the White
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gem @spurll.com · 05/12/2025
I too hope to one day be awarded a Very Real Peace Prize by the Soccer Cartel
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gem @spurll.com · 12/11/2025
asking my divorced friends if this is how they found out
Email from Google Families that begins, "Upcoming changes to Laura's role in your family group..."
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gem @spurll.com · 07/11/2025
My @robzacny.bsky.social approved gamer chair has finally arrived
HÅG Capisco chair with green upholstery and a black base
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gem @spurll.com · 25/10/2025
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy describes the Marketing Department of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation as: "A bunch of mindless jerks who'll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes."

Curiously, an edition of the Encyclopedia Galactica which fell through a rift in the time-space continuum from 1000 years in the future describes the Marketing Department of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation as: "A bunch of mindless jerks who were the first against the wall when the revolution came."
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gem @spurll.com · 25/10/2025
"If you talk about something sad you’ll see its facial expressions react almost immediately..." Microsoft is out here building robots with Genuine People Personalities. www.theverge.com/news/804106/...
Marvin the Paranoid Android from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005), with the caption, "Awful, isn't it?"
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gem @spurll.com · 20/10/2025
Absolutely disgraceful behaviour from Danielle Smith, who continues to push laws that blatantly infringe on the Charter rights of trans, two-spirit, and gender-diverse Albertans. cpath.ca/wp-content/u...
Statement from the Canadian Professional Association for Transgender Health
(CPATH) on the Alberta Government’s Anti-Trans Legislation and the Use of the
Notwithstanding Clause October 19, 2025

The Canadian Professional Association for Transgender Health (CPATH) is an interdisciplinary
professional organization consisting of clinicians, researchers, educators, health systems and
policy leaders, and community members, dedicated to the health and well-being of
transgender, Two-Spirit, and gender diverse Canadians.
CPATH is deeply alarmed that Premier Danielle Smith intends to invoke the notwithstanding
clause to shield three pieces of legislation targeting TTGD individuals in the realms of
healthcare, education, and athletics from constitutional challenge (The Education Amendment
Act; Fairness and Safety in Sport Act; and Health Statutes Amendment Act). These pieces of
legislation represent the most extreme attack on TTGD rights ever seen in Canada, and will
cause profound harm to TTGD individuals, as well as their families and communities.
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gem @spurll.com · 14/10/2025
lol www.404media.co/lawyer-using...
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gem @spurll.com · 08/10/2025
hey this sucks
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gem @spurll.com · 16/09/2025
if u see this quote with the energy u bring to bluesky
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gem @spurll.com · 13/09/2025
An upper arm tattoo depicting a sledgehammer and a hoya vine.
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gem @spurll.com · 01/09/2025
Maybe too on brand, but it's gotta be @themountaingoats.bsky.social in Poker Face.
John Darnielle of the Mountain Goats in Poker Face
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gem @spurll.com · 28/07/2025
You get zero points for suddenly noticing something bad is happening in Gaza www.discourseblog.com/p/it-is-lite...
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gem @spurll.com · 24/07/2025
Breaking news
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