Dave Shea

If the first 45 seconds of scenery hooks you, I assure you this solo trek through Haida Gwaii is worth all 40 minutes on the largest screen you can watch it on. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGN1HSWu4vk&t=655s

2026-01-03 18:40:16 UTC

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a lot of low-hanging fruit to work through first I suppose, but that's not exactly ideal either.

2026-01-03 18:30:55 UTC

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*glances around nervously*

2025-12-29 01:21:41 UTC

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the few weeks I tried Nextdoor made me realize entitled complaining is a natural human state, no matter where you are.

2025-12-25 16:53:54 UTC

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TIL. I’m not at all surprised big food is using cheap extenders to stretch profitability, but actual meat for that instead of soy is surprising.

2025-12-25 00:33:10 UTC

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the chicken part is wild

2025-10-23 03:52:58 UTC

Whooooaaaa... URL redacted obvs, but that's gonna be a successful new phishing attack.
https://media.cosocial.ca/media_attachments/files/115/421/439/266/668/932/original/b00c99ade35eea13.png

2025-10-23 03:43:55 UTC

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only thing that comes to mind here is terroir of the actual ingredients having different levels of various compounds, including the yeast used to ferment. Minerality is a very faint possibility due to differing water sources/profiles.

2025-10-23 03:28:43 UTC

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without going too deep on those, you're not going to know which is/are used in a beer ahead of time like 99% of the time, so may as well consider that all beers have hops to a degree and some you might luckily be less allergic to than others. But it's the hop product that'll determine that.

2025-10-23 03:26:39 UTC

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that's not correct. Starch sources for beer that lead to fermentation/booze can be barley, corn, rice, rye, oats, etc. Grains, or just straight up sugar in some cases.
Hops are a flavouring agent over and above the sugar source, used to bitter and add aromatics. Basically any commercial beer on the market from any country has hops, with just a few types of specialty beers aside.
Hop product can be all over the place tho, and it's possible some types will be less reactive than others.

2025-10-15 17:14:37 UTC

All that my Worldle (https://worldle.teuteuf.fr/) streak hitting a month tells me is that there hasn’t been a random tiny Pacific atoll country in a while.
https://media.cosocial.ca/media_attachments/files/115/379/304/715/798/339/original/cd4cd2988f61c7d7.jpeg

2025-09-20 22:41:31 UTC

1999: business fundamentals don’t matter, profitability is overrated, excess spending can go on forever because you can always borrow more.
No reason.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/stop-worrying-about-ais-return-on-investment-d5cbc822

2025-09-14 00:28:46 UTC

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you’re certainly starting to make me question my conviction about Apple’s camera system.

2025-09-13 04:49:47 UTC

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the colour tone and contrast in this shot is incredible

2025-08-20 23:55:59 UTC

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ah yes I see they’re continuing the timeworn tradition of opening the first location in a tiny town I’ve never heard of in the corner of the state closest to California.

2025-08-08 21:08:06 UTC

Second guessed using “PEBKAC” in a channel full of Millenials and Zoomers, on the hunch that you have to be GenX or older for that one.

2025-08-01 01:07:20 UTC

Totally normal things to have stoll toward you while out for a ride in our city parks. 🇨🇦
https://media.cosocial.ca/media_attachments/files/114/950/827/662/140/484/original/0be41f8f77d9b2c2.jpeg

2025-05-07 00:21:38 UTC

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in 70 years historians will look back at this era wondering, surely, they must have known they were on the brink so why did no one stop the escalation?
Assuming, of course, there are still historians.

2025-04-15 17:01:16 UTC

On the weekend someone interjected into the conversation that we were “talking about things that happened in the 1900s”
Something about that framing really does put it in sharp relief that anything that took place in years with a 1 in front of them happened over a quarter of a century ago.

2025-04-08 17:39:31 UTC

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that will be an interesting reversal.

2025-04-06 00:18:32 UTC

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definitely that too. Team are the ones fully opposed to the BP, and with the number of nimby / election signs I’ve seen around the Broadway corridor I’m expecting them to do quite well, unfortunately

2025-04-05 23:09:51 UTC

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advance voting was the same way. People are unusually riled up for this one, my hunch is that it’s a mini-referendum on the Broadway Plan now that enough redevelopment signs are up and the impact it will have is starting to become more apparent. Watching TEAM’s results in particular.

2025-03-24 22:44:32 UTC

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in a past job, we had a financial controller with an off-by-one email address to the team-wide alias. The first sensitive email leaking PII didn’t lead to a fix, but the second one leaking salary details sure did.
And I thought *that* was amateur hour.

2025-03-03 21:14:00 UTC

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waiting on a last minute repeal again before the real panic sets in, perhaps.

2025-02-21 22:14:51 UTC

It says a lot about today’s layer for hyperlocal connectivity that the only places I can reliably see the endless string of “earthquake??” messages are now Slack instances.
(It was a 4.7 and I felt nothing)

2025-02-08 05:19:44 UTC

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nah, too soon. Won’t happen economically, and your top commanders will need to be much further down the slippery slope before that’s an order they’ll follow blindly.

2025-02-02 20:52:16 UTC

That was quick.
https://media.cosocial.ca/media_attachments/files/113/936/271/400/740/909/original/7a3d4c121d1ff544.png

2025-01-15 20:58:55 UTC

This pigeon-sized Merlin falcon came to say hi on the 12th floor.
https://media.cosocial.ca/media_attachments/files/113/834/375/924/619/959/original/b8bda56d1e423bf9.jpeg

2025-01-08 17:10:48 UTC

I believe “absorb a nation that would upset the electoral balance enough to ensure you never hold power again” qualifies as an extreme lack of ability to think ahead to consequences.

2025-01-01 00:35:27 UTC

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a very pleasant 2024 memory for me was unexpectedly coming across some original comics during a recent trip. https://cosocial.ca/@daveshea/113529017330406105

2024-11-23 01:29:22 UTC

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a good 80% of my wardrobe is from that shop

2024-09-27 17:26:40 UTC

Ever edit a PDF in MacOS Preview and have it mysteriously go password protected, effectively locking you out?
It's been a bug for at least two years, and the workaround I've found is to edit the PDF in Chrome instead – which you can still do even after the MacOS password has been inflicted on it. Which I have many questions about.
PDF is the gift that keeps on giving.
https://www.reddit.com/r/mac/comments/10fxqr0/mac_set_password_on_my_pdf_file_without_my/

2024-09-15 22:48:01 UTC

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your angle on that third photo is incredible

2024-09-10 01:42:59 UTC

There has never, not once in the entire history of this planet, been a person who has been able to nail the Markdown syntax for a link without looking up which order the brackets go in.

2024-08-22 23:45:26 UTC

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glad he’s okay, that intersection is a killer. Literally, more than once. I wait until cars are fully stopped before I even think about crossing now.