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Steve Dinn 🇨🇦 @steve.social.dinn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

Does anyone know anything about "ehnow.ca"? I mean, I guess I applaud the effort and the sentiment, but I feel like it's going against the current to stand up yet another segregated social network.

A screenshot of a marketing email I received from "ehnow.ca". Text Bernie is quoted from the email.

INDEPENDENTLY CANADIAN

Canada deserves its own social

EH! is an independent, woman owned Canadian company, built and operated right here at home. Your data stays in Canada under Canadian laws, because Canadians deserve a place to connect that isn’t controlled by a global tech giant.

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Steve Dinn 🇨🇦 @steve.social.dinn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

This Google TV background low key reminds me of Mic Mac Mall's Woody the Christmas Tree.

A Google TV background that I know nothing about. It seems to involve a yellow face embedded in what looks to be the base of a vertical spire of some sort.

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Steve Dinn 🇨🇦 @steve.social.dinn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

My wife was reading an obituary from someone she went to high school with. It sucks knowing that people your age are dying, but that's beside the point that obituary was one of the most un-hinged I've ever read. Take this paragraph for example. I know people […] [Original post on social.dinn.ca]

A screenshot of some text that reads:
> She is survived by her partner Darren, two sons Hudson (Ashlin) and Jager (Payton), mother Susie, brothers Clayton (Corealee), Chris (situational), sisters Paula (Rob), and Stacey (still, of no one).

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Steve Dinn 🇨🇦 @steve.social.dinn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

Our neighbourhood deer are all grown up... Just look at those antlers!

A deer that we've seen around our neighbourhood for months now has a burgeoning set of antlers. Never knew it was a buck until today.

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Steve Dinn 🇨🇦 @steve.social.dinn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026

The salt that my daughter takes for her fries. That's gotta be at least a dozen packets.

An extreme amount of salt packets on the edge of a good court tray that my daughter has taken for her fries.

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Steve Dinn 🇨🇦 @steve.social.dinn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2026

The new album from Rick White & Julie Doiron is probably the closest thing we'll get to an Eric's Trip reunion album. It's pretty good. The early 90s nostalgia is peak. rickwhitearchive.bandcamp.com/album…

A screenshot from my media player, featuring the cover of the Rick White & Julie Doiron album "Together" (downloaded from BandCamp).

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Steve Dinn 🇨🇦 @steve.social.dinn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 28/06/2026

Tonight's beverage is North Brewing's Cosy Oatmeal Stout. 5% ABV.

A can of North Brewing's Cosy Oatmeal Stout.

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Steve Dinn 🇨🇦 @steve.social.dinn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 22/06/2026

I don't know why I'm so late to the party, but I have just (last week) discovered chili crisp and my life has changed for the better.

An image of a bottle of Spicy Chili Crisp.

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Steve Dinn 🇨🇦 @steve.social.dinn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 21/06/2026

This is all that's left of the oldest corporation in Canada.

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Steve Dinn 🇨🇦 @steve.social.dinn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 16/06/2026

Is this the ultimate insult? Real weeds growing in the artificial turf field.

Organic weeds growing in the artificial turf

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Steve Dinn 🇨🇦 @steve.social.dinn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 29/05/2026

At my kid's soccer practice. FFS, I thought it was going to be June on Monday. It's COLD here.

Me, on May 29th, in a puffy jacket and toque, sitting on aluminum bleachers and freezing my ass off.

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Steve Dinn 🇨🇦 @steve.social.dinn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 23/05/2026

My god, what some people are willing to do just to look younger... Won't somebody think of the elves?!?

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Steve Dinn 🇨🇦 @steve.social.dinn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 19/05/2026

What my daughter does with her fake eyelashes after dance competitions

A pair of fake eyelashes stuck to a bottle of facial cleanser, making it look like it has a pair of closed eyes.

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Steve Dinn 🇨🇦 @steve.social.dinn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 19/05/2026

My daughter's My Hero Academia fan art. Dry-erase marker on whiteboard.

Caracature images of some of the main characters of My Hero Academia (Shoto Todoroki, Izuku Midoriya, and Katsuki Bakugo) hand-drawn by my daughter on our fridge's whiteboard.

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Steve Dinn 🇨🇦 @steve.social.dinn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 23/04/2026

My wife hates it when I drink tea out of this mug, but I do it anyway because I'm a rebel with a devil-may-care attitude who doesn't play by the rules.

A large, gray, ceramic mug with cursive writing on it saying, "All of me loves all of coffee."

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Steve Dinn 🇨🇦 @steve.social.dinn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 20/04/2026

Finally caught the cold my wife has had for a week. This coffee is 100% necessary. #MorningCoffee #Coffee

A white ceramic mug with black text and a black rim, full of black coffee that reads: "Last night I wanted to drink coffee. This morning I am drinking coffee. A little reminder to follow your dreams."

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Steve Dinn 🇨🇦 @steve.social.dinn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 19/04/2026

The Starbucks in my local Indigo (Chapters) book store has been closed for a few years now, but the sign is still up. I get sad every time I'm there.

The closed Starbucks in my local Indigo (Chapters) bookstore.

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Steve Dinn 🇨🇦 @steve.social.dinn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 17/04/2026

The #Alzheimer Society sent me a card because somebody made a donation in memory of my dad. It's exactly my kind of dark humour that they inlcluded a packet of flower seeds. They're Forget-Me-Nots. I know it's intended to be comforting, but I think it's […] [Original post on social.dinn.ca]

A card from the Alzheimer society saying that a donation has been made in memory of my father. Complete with a paket of forget-me-not seeds.

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Steve Dinn 🇨🇦 @steve.social.dinn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 12/03/2026

@spencer Wanted to let you know that I got a phishing email that tried not very hard to appear to be from CIRA.

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Steve Dinn 🇨🇦 @steve.social.dinn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 16/02/2026

The sheer audacity of this giant banana. Banana for scale.

A straight, long banana, spooning with a banana of a more average shape and size.

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Steve Dinn 🇨🇦 @steve.social.dinn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 16/11/2025

Tonight's beverage: Mongo's Sweet Revenge Gingerbread Brown Ale from North Brewing (6.2% AbV).

A can of Mongo's Sweet Revenge Gingerbread Brown Ale from North Brewing (6.2% AbV).

The artwork shows Halifax Harbour, complete with ferry, looking at the Halifax side with many recognizable buildings, including Purdy's Wharf and the MacDonald Bridge. The foreground is dominated by a gigantic demonic gingerbread man

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Steve Dinn 🇨🇦 @steve.social.dinn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 04/11/2025

Oh, and the dog destroyed the pom-pom of my toque.

An olive green and steel blue toque from Mountain Equipment Co-op (I believe this was from before Mountain Equipment Company) with the pom-pom laying shredded beside it on a kitchen counter.

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Steve Dinn 🇨🇦 @steve.social.dinn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 01/11/2025

Can't believe I almost didn't post this

The grim reaper comes to the door of a plump woman on Halloween while other children are trick-or-treating.

The grim reaper says, "I'm not wearing a costume, I'm here to take your sou--Holy shit, full-sized Snickers. Never mind Margaret, we're good."

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Steve Dinn 🇨🇦 @steve.social.dinn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2025

You can't look at this bush and tell me it's not fall.

A firey red bush on a green lawn with orange-and-yellow-leaved trees in the background.

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Steve Dinn 🇨🇦 @steve.social.dinn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2025

Don't get lead poisoning from your protein powder, folks. Yikes. www.consumerreports.org/lead/protei…

There are protein powders with over %1000 of Consumer Reports' "level of concern" of lead PER SERVING.

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Steve Dinn 🇨🇦 @steve.social.dinn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2025

So, the "limited edition" Taylor Swift vinyl version of *The Life of a Showgirl* is for sale by the crate at... Costco

Crates of copies of *The Life of a Showgirl" at Costco.

Futurama Fry meme: Not sure if Taylor sold out or Costco went hipster.

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Steve Dinn 🇨🇦 @steve.social.dinn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2025

Saw a large number of these guys over the weekend at my in-laws' cottage in central Nova Scotia. My father-in-law thought they were stink bugs, but Google says they're "seed bugs". www.google.com/search?q=brown+marmo…

Google calls this the brown marmorated seed bug.

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Steve Dinn 🇨🇦 @steve.social.dinn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2025

Water level in the lake is the lowest I've ever seen it. Use that tree in the left foreground for reference

The lake at the highest water level I've seen it at, in 2023. It has been higher in previous years though.

The lake today. The water level is really low. This low-rainfall summer is no joke.

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Steve Dinn 🇨🇦 @steve.social.dinn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2025

Almost certainly our last time at the cottage this year. It was a little bit chilly, but what a great day! And look at these colours!

A photo looking out onto the lake just after sunset. The sky is blue above, but orange and pink on the horizon.

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Steve Dinn 🇨🇦 @steve.social.dinn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2025

So, I guess I'm horribly out of the loop because I just learned that Canada Post workers have recently been on strike. I had absolutely no idea.

Postal workers back on nationwide strike over Canada Post reform

Union rep says directive comes because of move to stop home deliveries, close rural post offices

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Steve Dinn 🇨🇦 @steve.social.dinn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2025

One of the Sobeys stores near me apparently does not use the maple leaf to indicate Canadian products, but just to sell more American shit. ALWAYS READ THE LABEL. And maybe think twice about shopping at stores that behave this way.

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Went to Sobey's Panavista today, noticed they had a Compliments version of Clamato Juice with a red maple leaf beside the price tag. So I looked at the label to check ingredients and see where it was produced. Product of USA. I mentioned it at the front desk and told them if they corrected it that I would not post it. Two staff members had me point it out and that's where the fun started. According to Sobey's staff placing a maple leaf by the sticker does not indicate that it is Canadian. If the price tag does not say product of Canada then they did nothing wrong. I explained that people in a hurry look for the leaf to signal canadian products and they replied that they shouldn't. So ignore the leaf Sobey's puts by price tags because according to them it doesn't mean anything.

Photo of a price sticker with a Canadian flag next to it, directly below a product's label saying that it was made in the U.S.A.

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Steve Dinn 🇨🇦 @steve.social.dinn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2025

Had some more deer visitors in my backyard this evening.

Two deer out my back window. I used AI to attempt to remove the Venetian blind slats.

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Steve Dinn 🇨🇦 @steve.social.dinn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2025

Why are English muffins always packaged like the first pic and not like the second pic? I've never understood this. Is it a British thing?

A package of English muffins, as they come from the store, in two stacks of three.

A package of English muffins, inserted into the bag vertically, similar to slices of bread.

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Steve Dinn 🇨🇦 @steve.social.dinn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2025

Nova Scotia traffic jam. I actually got stuck behind this family trying to get into the mall

A family of Canada geese cross the road in front of traffic.

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Steve Dinn 🇨🇦 @steve.social.dinn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2025

Goddamn it, I hate when you get a motion notification from your doorbell camera and it's this!

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Steve Dinn 🇨🇦 @steve.social.dinn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2025

This is the largest spider I've ever seen in the wild (granted, I do not frequent the places where large spiders live). It has taken residence in the window above the landing in my split-entry house such that it actually casts a shadow onto the upper floor […] [Original post on social.dinn.ca]

A fairly large spider on its web in an upper window in the front of my house.

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Steve Dinn 🇨🇦 @steve.social.dinn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 09/08/2025

I really need to mow my lawn, but it's been about a month since we've had significant rainfall and if I mow it, it'll look like the centre of my cul-de-sac. At least, currently, it's green, even if it is mostly weeds.

A small white dog in a harness and on a leash walks on the brown, grassy center circle of a cul-de-sac.

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Steve Dinn 🇨🇦 @steve.social.dinn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2025

My male grooming appliance has a clipper guard specifically for eyebrows. They don't get to tell me how long my eyebrows should be! I still use it though.

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Steve Dinn 🇨🇦 @steve.social.dinn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 03/08/2025

It's the August long weekend and I just got a new coffee mug.

A blue coffee mug depicting a lake scene including some coniferous trees and waves. Above are the words "Lake it easy".

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Steve Dinn 🇨🇦 @steve.social.dinn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 24/07/2025

@boostventilator Hey, you might know...Were any of these cassettes ever released in a digital format or is my only recourse to find a cassette player? I mean....I have one, it just hasn't been hooked up in years.

A photo of the label edge sides of 8 cassette tapes (remember those?), mostly from bands from Halifax or Atlantic Canada at large from the early 1990s:

- The Motes - Gesner
- No Class - A compilation of high school bands from Atlantic Canada
- Thee Suddens - s/t
- Stinkin' Rich - Chin Music
- Madhat - Freak
- Raleigh Sport - Task Force on Primary
- Moon Socket - Socket to Me
- Moon Socket - s/t

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Steve Dinn 🇨🇦 @steve.social.dinn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 21/07/2025

What would Consumers distributing be selling now if they were still around?

You can only bring back one Canadian store:
1. Saan
2. Biway
3. Future Shop
4. Zellers
5. Sears
6. Woolco
7. Eatons
8. Consumers Distributing
9. Lewiscraft

Honourable mention: Hudson's Bay Company. Too soon?

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Steve Dinn 🇨🇦 @steve.social.dinn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 18/07/2025

If you're in the Halifax area, go watch some roller derby on Tuesday. "Watch gays hit each other on skates" LOL!

Roller Derby Pride Scrim
Tuesday, July 22.
Doors open @ 7pm
Cole Harbour Place: Scotia One arena
Entry by donation
Watch gays hit each other on skates

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Steve Dinn 🇨🇦 @steve.social.dinn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2025

Have people been donating more to these bins lately or are they just being collected less often? Seems like things that have been left out in the elements will be less useful to anyone.

A donation bin with "Diabetes Canada" on the side. Bagged and boxed items are overflowing from the drop chute and are surrounding the bin on the ground.

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