🇨🇦 robyn 💜

data monkey in tech 📊

posts / geeks out mostly about:
🖥 #privacy, #FOSS, the ""#AI"" bubble 🤖
🌐 the #smallWeb #indieWeb
🐧 #Linux #popOS

🍁#TrueNorthStrongAndFree 🇨🇦

#noBots #noBridge

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2026-05-23 13:34:34 UTC

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@nprofile…8p63 uh... yes? we know? your point being?

2026-05-22 17:47:53 UTC

me, this morning, yet again 🫩😩
#abpoli #ableg
https://yeg.bike/system/media_attachments/files/116/619/476/021/080/138/original/cfea6788348b1799.jpg

2026-05-20 21:38:23 UTC

Now that I have an annual pass for the Muttart: Do I know anyone who has visited during the adults-only hours on Wed evenings, and knows how admissions work there?
Basically I am unclear on whether my annual pass is good for Wed 5-9pm as well, or if I'd need to purchase admission separately since it's kind of an "event night," but not really?
#yeg #Edmonton

2026-04-06 22:47:50 UTC

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@nprofile…6jyx It's amazing. I had to work today, but was SO glad my workday ended before the Earth came into view, and before loss of signal. I really wanted to witness both. 🥹

2026-04-06 22:44:01 UTC

🥺 what a day
https://yeg.bike/system/media_attachments/files/116/360/167/584/840/033/original/4f7aea1ff15a7a4e.png

2026-03-10 15:57:33 UTC

"annual performance review" time at work.
the funniest bit? we have been explicitly told that even if you are the most perfect employee under the sun, they *cannot* leave the part where they tell you all the ways in which you suck blank. they *have to* put something that you can ""improve"" on.
my takeaway:
be who you are, do what aligns with your values, as people will find fault with whatever you do anyway. and some of it may be entirely made up.
🤷‍♀️
#tech

2026-03-02 15:18:39 UTC

good morning fedi
acquaintance of mine is named "Al"
just wondering how rough exactly that has got to be these days, in a world full of "AI"

2026-02-27 22:02:53 UTC

Had to buy a new calculator because my current one, a Casio fx911-ESPLUS from middle school (!!), is too advanced for an upcoming exam. Sigh.
It ended up being a Canon (I'm really more of a Casio girl myself, but hey, that thing was half off and I wasn't able to find a basic enough Casio in local stores...), and LOOK AT THIS INSTRUCTION MANUAL. PLEASE DO NOT DO THESE THINGS, YOU ARE SCARING HIMB,,, 🥺
https://yeg.bike/system/media_attachments/files/116/144/824/282/741/509/original/da6fe79a913ef0a2.jpg

2026-02-26 18:09:29 UTC

oh. uh. neat
#yegWX #abStorm #Edmonton
https://yeg.bike/system/media_attachments/files/116/138/264/023/309/771/original/cc74d534f6c81e20.png

2026-02-09 16:15:21 UTC

🎼 Fastest country Canadaaaa
why get your data
anywhere else
DING
https://yeg.bike/system/media_attachments/files/116/041/558/699/503/110/original/eb202684f31bc076.png

2025-11-30 13:52:31 UTC

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@nprofile…dtdq The point is that avocados are now cheaper than cucumbers though?

2023-09-20 02:44:55 UTC

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@npub16mz…hm5n yup, see you laterrrr!! my spouse played that. A LOT. 🤣
(we're still together)

2023-08-25 18:55:15 UTC

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@npub1k4q…3lsq so that's f*cking awful and I'm sorry you and your kids had to experience that. That is some serious entitlement (and racism) on that woman. Wow.

2023-08-20 03:43:36 UTC

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@npub16mz…hm5n Oooh the joy. :/ sorry this happened to you. As a fellow Wheezy... I first developed asthma after I moved to yeg. Somehow have a hunch the air quality here had something to do with that. Could have been just one bad substance in your case though, since you mentioned the bad smell.
Do take your rescue inhaler with you. Much better to have it and not need it 99% of the time than get caught without and get suuuper spooked.
Hopefully just a single episode! If not, check in with your doc 💜

2023-08-14 19:52:50 UTC

OK this has to be one of my favourite #NotJustBikes videos yet.
It articulates so well what I've been feeling in North American cities. And the mental map stuff at the end? Made me realize THAT was why I felt disoriented when I first moved to NA!! Sure "it's a grid", and "it's easy", but... there's no #places!! 🤯
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOc8ASeHYNw
#urbanism #cities

2023-08-14 18:22:59 UTC

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@npub16mz…hm5n Oh geez. This should never have happened & I'm sorry for all the additional work this makes you do.
If it helps, when I got PR and went to renew my health card with all the documentation in hand, they STILL issued me an expiring card, at which point I promptly called them and said "uh wtf?", and nothing changed, except two months later they mailed MY SPOUSE telling him my health insurance would expire if I didn't show them my "new work permit" soon.
🙃
All very difficult, apparently..