James Baker 🍁

Dadland, eh?

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2026-04-23 19:05:40 UTC

ME MISSED #WHISKERSWEDNESDAY BUT ME STILL HERE FOR #BOOPSDAY, SO CAN HAZ BOOP NOW? #CatsOfMastodon
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2026-04-10 22:11:40 UTC

It’s been a hell of a week, friends, but at the very least, to close it out, you can enjoy this fuzzy potato. #CatsOfMastodon
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2026-04-07 19:50:09 UTC

ME IS MOST BEST GUARD CATTO AN KEEP HOUSE SAFE. CROSS ME, SQUIRBEL, AN U WILL SEE HOW BEST. #CatsOfMastodon
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2026-04-04 15:52:17 UTC

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@nprofile…px8z Real strong Chris Ware vibe there…

2026-03-18 02:05:25 UTC

Beautiful as always, @nprofile…6jyx !
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2026-02-16 02:16:11 UTC

ME AM MUCH OF THE DISAPPOINT!
‘Bout what, buddy…?
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MUCH DISAPPOINT.
#CatsOfMastodon
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2025-12-15 19:41:06 UTC

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@nprofile…s67t It’s like the last time I backed up my Rush MP3s…

2025-11-24 01:57:01 UTC

Well, dang. Liberals in 2020: “Canada is proud to have a feminist foreign policy, not because it looks good, but because it produces tangible and measurable results.” Liberals today: “I wouldn’t describe our foreign policy as feminist foreign policy.” As Katy Perry would agree, Justin Trudeau looks better every day… - “No more feminist foreign policy, Carney says” https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-carney-feminist-foreign-policy-g20-johannesburg-south-african-joint/

2025-11-19 18:23:16 UTC

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@nprofile…mrzh An old boss of mine said “If I don’t hear that restart chime every 30 minutes, I know you’re not working hard enough!”

2025-11-18 15:36:12 UTC

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@nprofile…s67t Well, parka, but sure…

2025-11-14 21:05:48 UTC

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@nprofile…s67t The challenge in Canada, though, is that no one wants to be anywhere than where they are (other than Winnipeggers). Why would anyone want to travel to travel at all, if that means leaving Toronto, or Montreal, or Vancouver…?

2025-08-26 00:47:41 UTC

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@nprofile…xcsy Aw, beauty, eh? Just in time for back to school!
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2025-08-21 01:12:13 UTC

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@nprofile…wuyc It’s my own biases, sure, but I find WordDepressed just god awful for modern web development, but do many of them hacks and kludges added by plugins even worse…

2025-08-20 22:54:18 UTC

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@nprofile…wuyc Autoptimize or one of those kooky things?

2025-08-20 22:37:49 UTC

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@nprofile…wuyc Cleared the browser cache? I find these updates always mess up the browser, when it loads old, remembered css & js.

2025-08-13 23:04:27 UTC

@nprofile…wuyc Oof, things continue to look ominous…
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2025-08-13 03:41:04 UTC

@nprofile…wuyc Looking your way from Hornby, doesn’t look good…!
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2025-08-12 21:42:26 UTC

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@nprofile…wuyc @nprofile…5mxg Yeah, I don’t think WP does much meta tagging on its own, just description, maybe. But I think there’s a plugin for just og tags, if you don’t want Yoast for some reason (and there are probably many).

2025-08-12 21:32:18 UTC

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@nprofile…wuyc @nprofile…5mxg Do you need Yoast SEO for that, or a different plugin? og:image is almost certainly it.

2025-07-24 18:06:54 UTC

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@nprofile…wuyc And crazy that the one who (allegedly) ate a bat seemed like the sane one, in the end…

2025-07-14 14:48:35 UTC

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@nprofile…wuyc There is research showing that dental health in a community is a very good indicator of other health measurements, from mental to physical. It's really all connected, and healthier people participate in and contribute to society more.

2025-07-08 05:05:49 UTC

Legend. #CatsOfMastodon
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2025-07-02 05:07:23 UTC

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@nprofile…93zc Uh, well, as it was for Canada Post, there was some Canadian content required: Shatner, Doohan, and Colicos in the first wave. Additional waves focused on the captains. I’m not aware of any significant Nichols/Canada connection…

2025-07-02 01:16:00 UTC

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@nprofile…kvnh Slightly related, and not a meme, but for Canada, I was at the agency that designed these li’l beauties back in 2016, for Trek’s 50th: https://www.thetrekcollective.com/2016/05/canada-posts-star-trek-stamps-collection.html The lenticular in particular was quite cool!

2025-07-01 15:13:40 UTC

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@nprofile…wuyc Dang, we were up there at the same time, the car’s thermometer showing us temperatures it never had before, and seeing Lytton break this records every day, until… This is our present, never mind future!

2025-06-20 17:00:56 UTC

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@nprofile…wuyc Could be wrong, but I think Democratic voters, and those working for the party, have two very different agendas, only one of which may actual concern getting shit done.

2025-06-19 21:51:04 UTC

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@nprofile…wuyc Where the the hell was he on the ballot when we needed him last month? 10 out of 10, would have nailed that landslide, I guarantee it.

2025-06-18 14:36:34 UTC

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@nprofile…kvnh Coming from a Mennonite background, and hearing the family history entwining immigration with the flight from fascism, and survival during the Depression, I think kind of set us up to be left leaning from the get go, but not allied to any particular party or ideology (I hope!)

2025-06-04 17:38:04 UTC

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@nprofile…wuyc Well, you know, we live post-factually now, where words mean only what they vibe, and the same people putting forth "decarbonized oil pipelines" are probably also complaining there are too many letters in that danged woke "LGBTQ2S" nonsense…

2025-05-20 19:15:11 UTC

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@nprofile…wuyc It feels vaguely treasonous to mention donuts, esp. around the rink, but there we are…

2025-05-15 22:19:52 UTC

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@nprofile…wuyc DID THEY PAY IN CANADIAN TIRE MONEY is the obvious question…

2025-04-05 00:53:23 UTC

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@nprofile…wuyc Impervious to ridicule and shame, indeed… Just wasting time pointing out hypocrisy, too, when They. Don’t. Care. Or even wear it as a badge of pride.

2025-03-24 21:40:24 UTC

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@nprofile…wuyc I don't think of myself as a wealthy person (certainly not in today's world), but I think we all need to pay *more* tax — tax is the reason my hospital bill was $200, not $200,000; tax put ok computers and wifi in the kids' school; tax is why my water is drinkable, and it's a goddamned embarrassment that not all Canadians get to say that. Someone needs to make a better case *for* tax, not *cuts*.

2024-12-01 23:34:26 UTC

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@nprofile…hrkg I’m sensing a start up opportunity here… Quick, know any VCs?

2024-09-11 14:41:09 UTC

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@npub1qw5…037m I was wondering, cause I’m all for the guy dressed all in red showing up at my door imploring me to “Vote Char Aznable!”

2024-06-12 21:45:55 UTC

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@npub1c0m…xqjl That it's a statement and not a question seems more like an Abbott & Costello gag…?

2024-05-14 22:15:12 UTC

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@npub1c0m…xqjl Isn’t everything going to be subsumed by Vision anyways? Spatial : touch :: touch : mouse, or something…?

2024-03-15 19:46:14 UTC

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@npub1c0m…xqjl Hey, takes a while to upload the CSV file, you know?

2024-02-27 15:31:10 UTC

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@npub1qw5…037m We use them in the office, but after a week or so, they’ll start to fail every little while if you haven’t rebooted the Mac.

2024-02-21 20:37:17 UTC

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@npub1c0m…xqjl "Post-Quantum"? Isn't that a literary genre for DFW aficionados…?

2023-10-25 19:45:18 UTC

Huh. Wondering if this is one of those there Betteridge's Law things, @npub1yyx…qa5g…? “Geddy Lee Visits Krist Novoselic and Rob Trujillo in New Docuseries: Are Bass Players Human Too?” https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/geddy-lee-krist-novoselic-rob-trujillo-docuseries-1234861293/

2023-10-25 18:42:36 UTC

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@npub1c0m…xqjl It has to be doing as much business as the iPod Shuffle…!

2023-10-25 18:32:13 UTC

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@npub1c0m…xqjl BlackBerry, clearly. Have you even looked outside recently? It’s pie season!

2023-08-10 19:58:07 UTC

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@npub1c0m…xqjl High five, buddy!
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2023-08-10 19:11:00 UTC

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@npub1c0m…xqjl You can always become the prime minister of Canada, I'm not sure what the qualifications are, but how hard could it be?

2023-08-09 19:12:29 UTC

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@npub1khx…geyg I love stuff like this. While not nearly as visual, the framing of the universe and earth as 24hr clocks has always blown the kids' minds, too, to communicate large numbers: https://web.archive.org/web/20150325080603/http://cassian.memphis.edu/history/jmblythe/Global%20F05/UniversalClock.htm

2023-08-02 20:49:27 UTC

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@npub1qw5…037m Rush's 2112: we’re headed for some bleak imperialist nonsense but humanity’s salvation will come from a kick ass guitar solo we haven’t heard yet

2023-08-01 23:16:24 UTC

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@npub1qw5…037m @npub1sm2…lftg Guess we’ll find out this week, if they hired him for his dancing skills…

2023-07-31 15:44:42 UTC

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@npub1qw5…037m They're only skinny because they live in that one weirdo hippy neighbourhood on the east side that doesn't have a Tim's on three of the four corners…

2023-07-31 14:48:24 UTC

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@npub1qw5…037m Le bingo. Spock has to be allowed to grow into the man we know, who is also not the elder Spock we see in the films, the one who finally seems comfortable in his ways (thinking the “Logic, logic, logic…” bit in UC — it takes him a lifetime to learn that).

2023-07-31 14:42:57 UTC

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@npub1qw5…037m I am effing here for it. At the very least, they’re, what, still nine years out from the beginning of TOS? Assuming they even make it to five seasons, that’s still a four year black hole to get from here to there, so really they should be free to do what they want and what’s fun for the here and now.

2023-07-20 21:47:55 UTC

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@npub1qw5…037m Sounds about right: me telling the kids they’d have to step up (pun intended) when I couldn’t stand, and do more cooking and cleaning lasted about a week. Then back to <shuffles downstairs> so ‘s there a dinner plan…?

2023-07-20 21:42:03 UTC

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@npub1qw5…037m Form of… Enchilada!

2023-07-20 21:18:54 UTC

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@npub1qw5…037m Twinsie!
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2023-07-20 21:17:00 UTC

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@npub1qw5…037m Ah, the guillotinage years…

2023-07-18 23:11:41 UTC

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@npub1qw5…037m He was barely 40 when we were all bitching about Tin Machine…!

2023-07-16 17:06:20 UTC

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@npub1c35…9pmh @npub13rw…nfd8 I asked Amorphia here to make me this shirt, for which I wrote him a (doggerel) poem: https://amorphia-apparel.com/hirsute/margaret-hamilton-a-nasa-apollo-programmer-shirt

2023-07-14 14:26:03 UTC

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@npub1qw5…037m I got home from ER and had to ask a buddy to run out and buy me a couple pairs of the biggest, baggiest sweat pants he could find, as the pants I was wearing at the time could only be cut off… So long, favourite jeans!

2023-06-16 16:02:04 UTC

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@npub1qw5…037m One of my favourite album credits ever is for a Tibetan anus flute, which now sounds right up M’Benga’s, um, alley…

2023-06-06 20:49:54 UTC

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@npub1c0m…xqjl Oppolescence, amirite?

2023-05-11 21:31:33 UTC

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@npub1c0m…xqjl So… not blue Dalmatian, you're saying…?