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alexander

@varney.me
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yes i can hear you clem fandango software developer | interested in tech, urbanism, maps, & punk rock kitchener, on

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Michael Druker 🇨🇦 @mdruker.app · 24/05/2026
See what I was saying about the need for weekend GO trains to/from Kitchener? Now we need more of them
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
1. London Underground station flooding has reportedly been reduced by around 90% thanks to a group of engineers: beavers. After conservationists reintroduced a family of beavers into a nearby city park, the animals built dams and restored wetlands that now absorb and slow floodwater naturally.
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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Here's a little demonstration of the challenges of data mapping when it comes to Canada. Here's a hypothetical election map. Pretty simple question: which party won, green or yellow?
A map of Canadian federal election ridings created with MapChart (https://www.mapchart.net/canada-federal-ridings.html) where, to the naked eye, pretty much everything looks nothing but green
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Aaron Ross Powell @aaronrosspowell.com · 13/05/2026
Is Bluesky dying? Is it the community's fault? Should people here refrain from criticizing journalists who think J. K. Rowling might have a point? The thing is, it doesn't matter. Because the answer isn't to make Bluesky change. It's to take advantage of Bluesky's tech to build something else.
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The Thing About Griping About Bluesky - Aaron Ross Powell's Blog
Let a thousand mutually suspicious communities bloom.
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Make sure to rotate your pronouns periodically, so that if your gender becomes compromised, attackers can only access it for a short period of time.
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Michael Druker 🇨🇦 @mdruker.app · 23/03/2026
The conservatives we need: we’re going to unleash the private sector, boost our economy, and fix the housing crisis by building productive new cities around GO Transit The conservatives we have:
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more mr. spice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
love when there's an article about how life is sustainable in the superheated waters surrounding a hydrothermal volcanic fissure on the ocean floor and then like six paragraphs in you find out the author's parents are chemosynthetic bacteria 🙄
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Was talking to @mconcagh.bsky.social about this: i genuinely think we underestimate the possibility that the Conservative Party of Canada splits back into the PC wing and Reform wing again: the Western alienation crowd clearly want a AfD/MAGA New Right party while the Bay street types want Toryism
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alexander @varney.me · 21/02/2026
After the tenth time reading this I still cannot comprehend how weird this dynamic is. What the hell even are these people?
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𝔐𝔞𝔤𝔫𝔢𝔱𝔰 🧲 @magnets.eurosky.social · 20/02/2026
unbelievable things are happening in glasgow cuisine
an advert for a curry served in a garlic naan bowl
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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 17/02/2026
People talk about this stuff in terms of how much it'll suck for gaming and I hate to inform you how many MRI machines, X-Rays, all sorts of other vital machinery are just a Windows IoT Edition PC in a beige plastic box with a big magnet/accelerator/whatever attached.
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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 09/02/2026
“Mr. Beast Salesforce ad” - they’re calling it the least appealing phrase ever assembled in any language. They finally did it
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
leaking my soul doc
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
*Sully Sullenberger starts sweating*
2026 is set to be the Year of Geese
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alexander @varney.me · 30/03/2025
this should also be a reason to get put on the no-fly list sorry, you clearly can’t be trusted anywhere near an airplane
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herbie @squorch.com · 29/03/2025
300 kts at 800’ inside class B airspace is insane Wings-yanking insane
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alexander @varney.me · 28/03/2025
vibe coding on deez nutz
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alexander @varney.me · 27/03/2025
busses are the ultimate form of cuboid
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alexander @varney.me · 19/03/2025
It is 2025 why can’t Siri turn on two arbitrary lights in a single voice command
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
it's treason then
Kevin O'Leary going to MAL to merge Canada and the USA
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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
WHICH BIKE LANE DO WE BLAME FOR THIS TRAFFIC? Banner this morning in Toronto on the Gardiner ExpresswayThe people of Ontario have had enough Premier Ford. 📸 @martinreis.bsky.social
A B/W BANNER HANGING ON A HIGHWAY OVERPASS: WHICH BIKE LANE DO WE BLAME FOR THIS TRAFFICexpressway traffic with image of banner hanging on overpass
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alexander @varney.me · 30/11/2024
can you believe that gen z thinks that wd40 is a solvent and not a lubricant. kids these days
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alexander @varney.me · 26/11/2024
People everywhere believe that the drivers and traffic in their city are uniquely worse than the rest of the planet but also that public transit is bad and we should encourage more driving. Make it make sense
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ceej @ceej.online · 21/11/2024
surf rock is only going to become more relevant as sea levels rise
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 20/09/2024
Happy weekend to beloved children’s entertainer Raffi and his deep abiding hatred of Q and the Borg Collective on Star Trek
Raffi just going to town on how boring and awful Q eps are, the other three screenshots are the same thing he just really hates q and the borg
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alexander @varney.me · 22/09/2023
Subway: Eat Flesh™
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alexander @varney.me · 20/09/2023
the Paris metro announcement jingle is an absolute bop youtu.be/PXODto8owxU?...
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💫Dystopia💫 @sparklingdystopia.bsky.social · 15/09/2023
Welcome to Bluesky, we have rules here: 1. We can dance if we want to 2. We can leave your friends behind 3. 'Cause your friends don't dance and if they don't dance 4. Well, they're no friends of mine
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alexander @varney.me · 24/08/2023
I can't believe this place is still allowed to operate, they need to be shut down yesterday
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More than a dozen whales have died at Marineland in the last 4 years
The Canadian Press has learned that 14 whales and one dolphin have died at Marineland over the past four years.
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alexander @varney.me · 22/08/2023
cats don’t know their eyes are reflective
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alexander @varney.me · 21/08/2023
“jesus died for somebody’s sins but not mine” is such a badass line Patti Smith rocks
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alexander @varney.me · 19/08/2023
hello bluesky 👋
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