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Paul Tomblin 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧

@xcskipaul.bsky.social
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Drone pilot, occasional surfski paddler and cross country skier, retiree. Chronic pain sufferer. Watcher of pro cycling. Newbie RVer. “I can’t complain but sometimes I still do”

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Paul Tomblin 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧 @xcskipaul.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Dara O’Brien does a good bit about the pregnancy bullshit he encountered in his neonatal class. Like how a tear is better than a cut. His wife, the surgeon, said “oh yes, we often bring a bear in to do the initial incision”.
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Paul Tomblin 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧 @xcskipaul.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
My brother and I are making plans to get to Privateers Wharf in Halifax next summer and sing it (and hopefully some others as well) at the top of our lungs.
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Paul Tomblin 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧 @xcskipaul.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
“One Warm Line”, you idiot.
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Paul Tomblin 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧 @xcskipaul.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I’m make an argument for: “Where the earth shows its bones In wind-broken stones And the sea and the sky are one, There’s god in the trees, I’m weak in the knees, And I’m running naked in the sun” But that’s a lot more obscure.
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Paul Tomblin 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧 @xcskipaul.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Do you know “Garnet’s Homemade Beer”? Also, which is the best recorded version of Barrett’s Privateers, and why is it the partial recording in the documentary “On Warm Line”?
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Paul Tomblin 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧 @xcskipaul.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
@pouchdb.bsky.social I’m trying to store per-user information (like address, phone number) etc in _users on the server using metadata, and monitor it with PouchDB.changes, but I’m getting an error that I’m not logged in as an admin, but I’m logged in as the user I’m trying to monitor?
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Paul Tomblin 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧 @xcskipaul.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Has this guy actually read your socials?
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Paul Tomblin 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧 @xcskipaul.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I really wanted to see Tadej take the leader’s jersey on day 1 and take it all the way to the finish. I don’t think I’ve ever seen that in a Grand Tour in my lifetime. But Mas winning on a mountain top is good too.
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Paul Tomblin 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧 @xcskipaul.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I kinda want them and I don't wear earrings.
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Paul Tomblin 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧 @xcskipaul.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
At least it's not an OnlyFans
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Paul Tomblin 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧 @xcskipaul.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
So what happens if Count Binface wins against Farage? Will he take his seat stil in his costume?
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Paul Tomblin 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧 @xcskipaul.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
My latest drone video: youtu.be/B9vXfoOCY4o
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New York Paddle Champs, Long course
YouTube video by Paul Tomblin
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Paul Tomblin 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧 @xcskipaul.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
@nytimes.com Is there a way to reach your tech support people that actually works? I’ve been unable to log into my NYT Games account for several days and “Report Bug” and “Feedback” aren’t getting me any responses.
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Paul Tomblin 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧 @xcskipaul.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Jonas turned his blue jersey into pink. Does that make today his litmus test? #Giro #chemistryjoke
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Paul Tomblin 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧 @xcskipaul.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
That’s the way it works in sane (parliamentary) democracies.
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Paul Tomblin 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧 @xcskipaul.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
I thought you meant that little picture on my profile for a sec, and I thought “how do they know how big my screen is?”
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Paul Tomblin 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧 @xcskipaul.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Sad to hear Rudi Gulliani has been checked into Mt. Sinai Total Landscaping.
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Paul Tomblin 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧 @xcskipaul.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
New blog post: blog.xcski.com/2026/04/25/f...
blog.xcski.com
First trip of 2026 – Rants and Revelations
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Paul Tomblin 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧 @xcskipaul.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
They are if you put it in Strava. I lost a Strava segment on the canal not to another paddler or even a rower, but to somebody whose “Canoe” activity went down a road at 50 km/hr.
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Paul Tomblin 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧 @xcskipaul.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
The ttt is going to be the whole team on one bike.
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Paul Tomblin 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧 @xcskipaul.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Oh no, where will I get paprika!
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Paul Tomblin 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧 @xcskipaul.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Now do one for remco. And prepare one for mvdp.
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Paul Tomblin 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧 @xcskipaul.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
What a gorgeous dog!
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Paul Tomblin 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧 @xcskipaul.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Pam Bondi is the most recently sub-bussified. Can Pete Kegstand be far behind?
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Paul Tomblin 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧 @xcskipaul.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Commission fulfilled.
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Paul Tomblin 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧 @xcskipaul.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
The guy who represents the Likud Party more than the Democratic Party? I won’t miss him.
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Paul Tomblin 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧 @xcskipaul.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
EMACS has become so bloated by the 24th century that it no longer runs on the Enterprise’s computer. Either that or majel_barrett_voice.el is taking up all the cycles.
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Paul Tomblin 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧 @xcskipaul.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
White supremecists? In our armed forces? The Airborne Regiment would like a word.
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Paul Tomblin 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧 @xcskipaul.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
You’re right about the camera drones, because when they’re watching a playback of some event like a ships log, it will shift viewpoints. Evidently the camera drones have an AI scene director as well.
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Paul Tomblin 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧 @xcskipaul.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
New head cannon: The reason Picard had to tell the replicator that he wanted his tea hot every time is because to set a default, he’d have to edit his $HOME/.replicatorrc file, and nobody taught him how to use vi.
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Paul Tomblin 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧 @xcskipaul.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Mood
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Paul Tomblin 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧 @xcskipaul.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Just very fresh.
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Paul Tomblin 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧 @xcskipaul.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
So the US went to war with Iran without consulting the country that’s been shooting down Iranian drones for years, or the country that’s redefined modern war. Do they have a real Not Invented Here problem? I hope Ukraine makes them pay dearly for hauling their asses out of the fire.
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Paul Tomblin 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧 @xcskipaul.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Would you believe I'm currently fixing a Y2K bug? I'm importing mailbox files from my old server into a new Mailman 3 server. But starting in January 2000, several people's mailers started putting a Date header with the year as "100". I suspect it was Eurdora.
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Paul Tomblin 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧 @xcskipaul.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
How many divisions does the Supreme Court have?
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Paul Tomblin 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧 @xcskipaul.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Begging the question: Is this an insane sale for President's Day, or is it a sale for an Insane President?
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Paul Tomblin 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧 @xcskipaul.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
New blog post: blog.xcski.com/2026/01/31/5...
blog.xcski.com
5 Years of Pain – Rants and Revelations
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Paul Tomblin 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧 @xcskipaul.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
The only thing consistent about Unix command line apps is how inconsistent their arguments are.
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Paul Tomblin 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧 @xcskipaul.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Plus I guess Hugo Boss isn’t doing military uniforms any more.
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Paul Tomblin 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧 @xcskipaul.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
If you're going to call ICE "law enforcement", can we at least get them to wear uniforms instead of this mosh-mash of TEMU military cos-play shit?
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Paul Tomblin 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧 @xcskipaul.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
I’m going to give him my gold medal and make him the best orienteer in Ontario in 1980.
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Paul Tomblin 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧 @xcskipaul.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
If I handed my gold medal to Donald Trump, would that mean he’s the fastest over 60 paddler at the United States Canoe Association’s national championships a few years ago?
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Paul Tomblin 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧 @xcskipaul.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
My wife has my contact in her phone as “ICE” for “In Case of Emergency”. Which lead to a moment of panic when I used FindMy to find her in the grocery store, and she got a popup on her phone saying “ICE is searching for you”.
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Paul Tomblin 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧 @xcskipaul.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Greenland should rename itself to “Epstein Files” so that Trump won’t touch them.
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Paul Tomblin 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧 @xcskipaul.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
No, CITY PERSON goes to the ER for flu symptoms.
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Paul Tomblin 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧 @xcskipaul.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
The Golden Hindquarters
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Paul Tomblin 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧 @xcskipaul.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
When the Dems are back in power, they should pass a law that you can’t name a building after a living person, and give trump 48 hours to either remove his name or die.
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Paul Tomblin 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧 @xcskipaul.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
I expected this of Schumer but not her.
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ja-a.bsky.social @ja-a.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Can a decent set of New Yorkers rid us of our pathetic, immoral Senators? I will vote for anyone with a pulse and just a bit of decency to see @schumer.senate.gov and @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social removed from office. These two are a stain on our politics.
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Paul Tomblin 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧 @xcskipaul.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Too bad that reporter isn’t on his family signal channel any more.
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