Zazzoo 🇨🇦

Your typical Canadian social democrat living in the capital. Software architect. Dog lover. Rank amateur photographer. Rusty artist. Nintendo nut. He/Him.
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2026-06-03 23:21:56 UTC

Nothing to see here, just another day in the life of history's most offensive US ambassador to Canada.
Seriously, can somebody get this asshole out of our country?
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/51-state-carney-trump-hoekstra-trade-talks-9.7221755
#CdnPoli

2026-03-15 01:28:35 UTC

The return of winter temperatures is such a downer, even the moon stayed inside.
#Photography #Ottawa
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2026-02-27 15:54:27 UTC

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You have captured my vibe perfectly for today. Thank you.

2026-02-18 17:50:04 UTC

Everything in tech needs to be viewed through a mass public surveillance lens.
Everything.
From mobile phones and wearable glasses, to doorbells, to needing ID to use a website. It's all about surveillance.
Everything.

2026-02-16 21:30:05 UTC

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So he considers a Canadian tour honouring Charlie Kirk to be part of his job description? People voted for an MP and instead got a Turning Point USA spokesperson? Who's paying his salary again?

2026-02-16 18:33:35 UTC

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I find the fact that Carney is not a run-of-the-mill leg-up politician to be a challenge. I never know what opinion to have about him - a big bag of pros and cons. On one hand, he answers questions, which is refreshing. On the other he often leaves specifics unspoken so you end up having to speculate what it all means. I've basically given up trying to understand him through an ideological lens and have been taking the approach of addressing him point-by-point.
And yes, I agree, his domestic policy is certainly one place he needs some serious clarification.

2026-02-16 17:09:51 UTC

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You have to toe the line down there just to survive any political appointment. I'm sure that's what Goebbels had to deal with also. An entire administration of tacos.

2026-02-16 17:02:28 UTC

Scott Bessent says Carney has to stop virtue signalling. I don't think he knows what that phrase means.
The Government of Canada has, by all accounts, been assuming that CUSMA negotiations will be another opportunity for the Trump regime to exercise leverage to extract unreasonable concessions. That "integration that becomes the source of your subordination", as was said in Davos.
They've been pursuing trade deals in every direction to diversify our trade and have been showing some great success in doing so.
In short, as much as I have misgivings about the guy, Carney does seem to be walking the walk overall.
Virtue signaling is when you pay lip service. When you don't follow though. When you want to be seen as aligned with something but are unwilling to put your neck out for it.
Taco, in other words.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/us-treasury-secretary-scott-bessent-mark-carney-9.7064976
#CdnPoli

2026-02-11 22:17:03 UTC

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Exactly. Adherence to rules based on an implied presupposition.

2026-02-11 19:22:11 UTC

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And yet it's so rare to find anybody in the media willing to question why Israel thinks it has any right to dictate who or what goes or out of Palestine.

2026-02-04 19:50:37 UTC

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Policy. "Fuuuuck offf" seems to be the most appropriate response to this manufactured garbage.

2026-02-03 06:40:58 UTC

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Don't you just love how they fabricate a hypothetical and then turn themselves into martyrs over it? Nobody's taking their damn book of magic away just because they want to ban anything they feel is 'too woke'. Hypocrites.

2026-02-02 21:42:37 UTC

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Trying to place the location. Assuming Ottawa. Queen Street?

2026-02-02 18:29:28 UTC

I thought this bit in the latest piece by @npub1fdr…lvhs speaks best to the CPC's obsession with slashing the capital gains tax, here talking about a book by Ray Madoff and the US reality:
> For tax purposes, dividends are "ordinary income," meaning that they are taxed at up to 37%. Meanwhile, if you sell your shares after a stock buyback juices the price, the profits are treated as "capital gains," whose tax rate caps out at about half that (20%). This means that shareholders pay half the tax on money that comes from strip-mining a company than they would get from money derived from managing a company for sustainable growth.
https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/02/corprophagia/#that-makes-me-smart
If you want to encourage the development of industry at home, government policy should reflect that with incentives for people to want to stay in business, rather than cash out at the earliest convenience.
Vampire capitalism is the worst capitalism.
#CdnPoli

2026-01-31 02:21:24 UTC

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Chanting: "Pee - Air! Pee - Air! Pee - Air! Pee - Air!"

2026-01-31 02:20:45 UTC

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Guys in the white cowboys hats there laughing and nodding thinking he's made a point. 😂

2026-01-31 02:12:14 UTC

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Ohhhhhh, it's going to be one of THOSE speeches. Gotcha.

2026-01-31 02:10:27 UTC

Poilievre live, baby.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/livestory/pierre-poilievre-speech-conservative-convention-leadership-review-live-updates-9.7068829
#CdnPoli

2026-01-27 00:25:06 UTC

Not sure what brought that person with Georgia plates to town but maybe next time you visit Ottawa in January it would be a good idea to leave the car at home? Driving in snow conditions clearly isn't your thing.
That said, it would be *really* nice if the city maybe, I dunno, sent out a plow or two. It's hairy out there, some areas more than others.
Take care, everybody. Particularly you, Georgia.
#Ottawa #Weather

2026-01-24 03:02:12 UTC

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Very nice. *Excellent* technique.

2026-01-22 14:39:31 UTC

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Speaking of those who refuse to 'see the world as it is rather than how they want the world to be'.
I think what I enjoyed most from Carney's speech came after when, one by one, everybody in alignment with Washington proceeded to prove Carney's points.

2026-01-16 15:14:10 UTC

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Well, we kind of knew that was a lie at the time, though. They were here at the behest of the oil industry.

2026-01-11 20:42:07 UTC

Oh yeah, I made this handy chart for the weirdos running the farm south of the border. And, and if I make something then, dammit, I'm sharing it and you can all have it.
https://cdn.mstdn.ca/media_attachments/files/115/878/385/525/737/640/original/ac298c85d75471b2.png

2026-01-11 02:16:40 UTC

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Gotta laugh at Microsoft making their OS all 'agentic' but then AI making RAM, and thus high-end PCs, expensive. Nobody asked for this crap.
And you know what runs best on machines with low memory? Linux.

2026-01-09 16:58:08 UTC

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Mastodon needs a 'super boost' function.

2026-01-07 17:12:05 UTC

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The icing on the cake. There's also distribution of content that violates our hate speech laws and allow harassment under the banner of 'free speech'. I was annoyed by that aspect long before AI or Elon were even a thing - and not just Twitter, but all of the walled gardens.

2026-01-03 18:34:23 UTC

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I dunno if I'd call it that. Our government had blunt words about the illegal invasion of Iraq, after all.
It's just the Liberals doing the math within their caucus. It's probably a contentious issue inside the party. So rather than take a principled stance one way or the other, they'll just balance on the fence in way that pisses off everybody on all sides.

2026-01-03 18:19:05 UTC

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Libs are taking the Palestine approach - they will die on their vaguely-worded noncommittal hill.

2025-12-20 03:28:39 UTC

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Me too 🤷‍♂️

2025-12-19 20:45:50 UTC

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Is it standards? I'm asking, I don't know one way or the other. I know my daughter's dream of some-day owning a Japanese K-Truck EV are being dashed by safety standards.
But we also originally had the Auto Pact that murdered our domestic automakers in exchange for a shared Canada/US industry and also created a closed system that was resistant to external competition. Imported vehicles would get huge tariffs. I remember the big "crisis" of the 80s where Japan started making cars in North America to get around import tariffs and the North American makers desperately trying to demonstrate how Toyota and Honda shouldn't count as domestic because, mostly, racism, and then largely failing. I also know the Auto Pact expired in 2001, so I'm not sure if any of this is still relevant.
I do know that arguments about why we should be protective of what is essentially a US industry have to do with jobs in Ontario.

2025-12-19 20:24:43 UTC

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There's a bunch of EU cars I wouldn't mind. Had my eye on the Renault 5, for example. Nope, not here, must have closed markets - have a monster truck instead!

2025-12-19 20:20:52 UTC

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If not lower tariffs on foreign EVs, at least a "war-effort" level investment to kickstart a domestic EV sector. Like what Japan did and, later, South Korea.

2025-12-10 14:40:14 UTC

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Perhaps this is an admission that, after decades of 'streamlining operations and focusing on core competencies', nobody in government even knows how government works anymore. Send in the looters and profiteers to tell them how to do it, each armed with a vision on how they are uniquely positioned to solve any issue. Let's discuss it more over golf.
What a sad, avoidable disaster.

2025-12-05 18:02:57 UTC

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I wonder if it glows if you touch it?
https://cdn.mstdn.ca/media_attachments/files/115/668/257/765/549/641/original/24f3b66c909e5fb3.png

2025-12-04 18:38:08 UTC

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When you think about it, it's really the only reason for these publicly-published polls to exist. If you're voting for policy and personal preferences, what does it matter how others are intending to vote?
Whether polls or media bobble-heads talking about momentum, it's all there because it works.
How many time have we all heard people say "Well, damn, I like that NDP, " for example, "but I won't throw away my vote on them. They'll never win."

2025-11-30 18:58:17 UTC

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Love your work, Aure.

2025-11-30 18:48:13 UTC

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"one of our key allies?" Not arguing about the injustice of starting an unprovoked war with Venezuela or it's use as a weapon of mass distraction, but c'mon - how many times has the US attempted to overthrow their government now through black op funding of mercenary groups and far-right political figures? By generating narratives of stolen elections and liberation, a stale play out of their own Jan6 playbook."The "left stole the election" cry subsequently used by a half-dozen far-right losers in other countries. This has been going on for decades, ever since Chavez dared to attempt to lift the country up from being a foreign-controlled petro puppet state.
No, they are not a US ally - the US and OPEC burned that bridge themselves under Bush II despite many examples of attempted good-will from the Chavez government to normalize relations - and Venezuela, like Cuba before it, has been forced firmly into the Russian and Chinese fold for survival. Slow clap for the *serious* *thinkers* in Washington.

2025-11-29 21:19:41 UTC

Lol, TF is a 'streaming' ethernet cable? Can I still read my email on this?
When I asked in the store they told me that if I wanted to stream even faster I could get the Cat 8 version.😂
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2025-11-21 18:23:00 UTC

I think one thing that's unspoken here is that massive mobilizations of investment money like what we're seeing in AI could be applied to any activity. Saying things like:
"AI spending is propping up major swaths of the U.S. economy."
Tends to lend at least some credibility to the industry, even in a critical piece like this, as in "on one hand it's a dangerous bubble that will one day burst, but at least in the short term it's propping up a failing economy."
But really, if you sunk trillions of dollars into *anything* it would have the same effect. You could be spending it on painting rocks and it would have the same effect. Think of the millions of workers you'd need to paint them all, the boon it would represent for paint and brush manufacturers.
Or hey, better yet, spend it on something like infrastructure or schools or health services. Something that actually benefits people in the long run. 🤷
https://qz.com/ai-bailout-trump-white-house
h/t @npub10n2…e0q7

2025-11-09 00:02:53 UTC

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Another play right out of the U.S.A. to bend media.

2025-10-30 16:28:41 UTC

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US oil interests say what?

2025-10-28 19:54:41 UTC

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I'll treat this as rhetorical, since I know you and the rest of us here know damn well why they choose the words they use.

2025-10-21 13:54:35 UTC

When in Cuba it's not uncommon to see billboards, posters, broadcasts talking about the revolution. Sure, back in 1953, Cuba was intolerable and Batista a puppet of foreign colonial power for whom no rope could be made short enough, but you're left wondering: When is the right time to just move on? At some point you have to focus on building an identity based on your own vision rather than the traumas inflicted by your oppressor.
Yes, I am well aware that authoritarian governments the world over use these national traumas as a tool of control. Focus people on the 'why' rather than the 'how'. Nobody would dare question the 'why' without looking like a 'them', but they may be able to get away with questioning the 'how' and that's dangerous.
This is kind of my point after reading through some US media today. You can't get much more than 2 paragraphs into any topic without encountering the language of the revolution. The war on. The war against. The battle for.
Man, 1776 was a *long* time ago.
#CdnPoli

2025-10-18 17:15:40 UTC

It's bad enough when people skirt regulation in the name of profit *disrupt* the hotel and taxi industries, ultimately making them less safe, but if there is one industry that should be tightly regulated, it's nuclear.
As the article states, CNSB has been a captive regulator for a while now. That needs to end.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/owner-of-ottawa-medical-manufacturer-says-he-has-no-money-to-comply-with-nuclear-regulator-9.6941410
#CdnPoli #Ottawa

2025-10-18 16:57:29 UTC

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Just saw all your wonderful photos from last night, Mike. Very nice. I also boosted your Bare Fax photo because I'm a Carleton alumni and it's a bit of a running joke 😂

2025-10-18 16:28:55 UTC

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"How smart, engaged Ottawa locals learn about local news, events, restaurants and civic issues."
Well, damn, I want to be smart and engaged! I signed up - thanks!

2025-10-18 16:20:21 UTC

What the heck? How'd I miss this? My daughter saw it promoed on her Tiktok feed 15 minutes after it had already started. Exactly the kind of weirdness I'd want to be part of.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBUDSioUtUg
#Ottawa

2025-10-14 19:34:57 UTC

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I can't recall anybody looking into Koch and whether they are Russian assets. Putin and oil industry propaganda is so strikingly similar.

2025-10-13 05:18:06 UTC

The whole country, pretty much, experiencing drought. We knew that, though - that's why everything's on fire all that time.
Nova Scotia's particularly hard hit, but not just Nova Scotia.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/ns-nb-experiencing-exceptional-drought-9.6935970
#CdnPoli #Climate
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2025-10-11 17:55:07 UTC

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@adorkable/115353723884011231
Absolutely fascinating video about chains in space, but I'm grateful to @npub1ptm…jjuj for reminding me about Poe's Law, originally about Creationists:
> Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is utterly impossible to parody a Creationist in such a way that someone won't mistake for the genuine article.
During the Bush II years, that got generalized to "you cannot parody the Republican Party without sounding like the Republican Party" and now "the reason we must all put /s at the end of our snarky comments, no matter how obvious we think they may be."
The thing is, by indicating humour, you end up killing the joke. Yes, it's true, satire is dead.
#note1h5j…5re6

2025-10-07 18:58:22 UTC

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Oh, you see this outside the Ottawa courthouse today?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z37_DrCAULc
Guy in black had good side control.

2025-10-07 18:14:19 UTC

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It's like a horror that never ends. Just go away!

2025-09-14 00:20:16 UTC

I posted previously about the versatility of what I call the *Hi-tech* *Multi-tool* aka a paperclip bent into a U shape. But I had forgotten one of it's applications.
My partner's PC didn't turn on today. Yup, this PSU is dead.
https://cdn.mstdn.ca/media_attachments/files/115/199/775/618/266/200/original/e7dcffc610549b9a.png

2025-08-29 19:51:52 UTC

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Would that mean I'd have to cancel my plans to move to coal?

2025-08-25 21:33:19 UTC

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Aren't we all 😂

2025-08-25 17:49:24 UTC

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At least from the Firefox browser on my Android, there's a 'continue on web' button subdued in the top corner. Hope this helps. It's an interesting take on what happened.
For non-mobile devices (PCs) you can just close the log in window and watch it.
https://cdn.mstdn.ca/media_attachments/files/115/090/651/947/075/453/original/9b04e019bcd15770.png

2025-08-25 16:15:44 UTC

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Sutcliffe can always be depended on to be gross.

2025-08-24 23:11:36 UTC

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Maybe they "caved" rather than caved, if you know what I mean. If all this is true, then brilliant. Pride is defiance. Pride is an act of protest.

2025-08-24 23:00:30 UTC

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Okay, so my older daughter was working at the parade this year and while this still isn't official, she's saying that the parade shutdown was likely orchestrated. The article I posted backs this up a bit when you read that Q4P *asked* the Pride grand marshal to stop the parade it was agreed.
You'll remember that Pride's inclusion of the Pro-Palestine cause last year caused all manner of drama. The theory I'm working with is that this year's shutdown may have been an act of defiance against the City and fair weather sponsors.
@npub1nxf…5pq2 @npub13jt…h96s

2025-08-24 22:01:59 UTC

Chaos at the Pride parade today in Ottawa. Honestly, I'm still trying to figure it all out.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/pride-parade-cancelled-after-being-halted-by-pro-palestinian-protesters-1.5554689
#Ottawa #Pride

2025-08-22 14:55:19 UTC

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The Government of Canada stores data in the cloud, not to mention being all in with M365 services (Teams, Exchange, etc) and various other 3rd party cloud-based SaaS offerings.
Shared Services has contracts with Azure, Google and AWS - all approved for Protected B data storage - that's information that includes items of national security and detailed information about Canadian citizens - on the basis that it complies with Canadian data residency.

2025-08-01 00:48:52 UTC

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Two words: Shawinigan handshake.

2025-07-31 01:46:51 UTC

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I'd guess a dancer, or perhaps basketball.

2025-07-31 01:42:28 UTC

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Who's the little guy there? A wasp? Dragonfly? Hard to get a sense of the scale of it.

2025-07-31 01:36:33 UTC

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You made art of your neighbour's broken chimney! This is awesome!

2025-07-25 14:37:46 UTC

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😍 And I love the beeez! Even though one jerk bumble stung me when I was a kid. It probably had its reasons.

2025-07-25 04:41:58 UTC

Oh hey @npub1jay…80k8 I saw somebody posting beeeez just now and realised I forgot to mention the beeeez balm is balming and the bumbles are here!
I was getting worried I wouldn't see a single one at all this year!
All my photos are terrible, but look at this guy, arms outstretched, as if to say "behold!"
https://cdn.mastdn.ca/media_attachments/files/114/912/024/008/689/486/original/798a9a36568eb2d5.png

2025-07-23 15:39:31 UTC

I wonder who's funding this cross-country MAGA musical tour? The concerts are on public land, tickets are free and you just know the dude's going to be there spewing his nonsense to the crowds.
Good on Parks Canada:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/permit-revoked-maga-concert-sean-feucht-1.7591743
In Ottawa he'll be at Jacques Cartier Park, NCC land.
#CdnPoli #ONPoli #NSPoli #Ottawa

2025-07-21 20:42:47 UTC

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I could see that.
I just discovered Carleton, my own alma mater, has a flag too. I guess they all do, but I never saw this before in my life. Kind of ugly, frankly. Looks like a heavy book squashed a maple leaf.
That's probably why I never saw it. 😂
https://cdn.mastdn.ca/media_attachments/files/114/893/138/554/573/543/original/4be0e4b0a1bce1b8.gif

2025-07-21 19:57:27 UTC

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Sorry, just joking around, reflecting back on my own days at university.
I never even knew universities had flags!

2025-07-21 19:47:48 UTC

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I found myself obsessing over the flag in the window. Not a national flag, it's the flag of Queens University. This in Kingston? Above a nightclub seems like an ideal student residence.

2025-07-21 17:35:15 UTC

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Good ol' CBC, always expressing concern on behalf of the landlords.
They don't need help, not the way they're gouging everybody on rent.

2025-07-17 21:30:15 UTC

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Oh, one look at that and I can bet the beeeeez love it.

2025-07-17 19:40:31 UTC

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😂

2025-07-17 18:27:48 UTC

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Just missing "snowfall" then we'd have the full set! 😂

2025-07-17 18:26:38 UTC

And just like that... it's nighttime.
#Weather #Ottawa
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2025-07-17 16:18:18 UTC

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Been a while since I looked into them from a technical perspective, but back when I was a customer I used to shake my head at how little Internet Rogers did. They supplied the cable network, but everything else was contracted out, usually to some US company. All the early Rogers@Home stuff was basically just Yahoo over cable. And everything got routed through the US.
This doesn't surprise me.

2025-07-17 14:57:26 UTC

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I love heat. It's nice having AC in the house, but I find I miss the connection to the real world. It feels like missing summer.

2025-07-17 14:50:48 UTC

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Dammit, guess I won't be setting up my backyard office again today. 😞

2025-07-10 15:58:50 UTC

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My daughter manages the gardens and, yes, she's big on native species. We've still got that grove of milkweed we were talking about last summer along with various other foraged plant species.
I'll try here not to criticize her choice of including nettles in the garden mix.

2025-07-10 15:56:11 UTC

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Same here, I'm concerned as well, at least pollinator-wise. Plenty of other bugs including some I haven't seen for a while - like I saw a mantis yesterday. Waaaaay too many ladybugs. Dragonflies, yes. Flies of various types, check. Those bloody mosquitos and deer flies. Just no bees - bumble or otherwise.

2025-07-10 15:47:34 UTC

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Aww you're so lucky. I'm still looking for signs of bees and flutterbys 😞
Got plenty of mosquitos though.

2025-07-08 19:52:02 UTC

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They didn't push it via the mobile network?

2025-07-08 19:43:13 UTC

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I was thinking of Texas precisely while writing that. Simply shameful. 😞

2025-07-08 19:39:57 UTC

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Just ask those people if they'd prefer it the other way around. It seems some people just demand absolute certainty about very uncertain things. Personally, I'll take the false positives over the false negatives every time.

2025-07-04 17:18:35 UTC

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I don't know if you would enjoy it, honestly, I suppose that's my point. There's no right way. How we listen to music is as individual as which foods we enjoy eating.

2025-07-04 17:07:41 UTC

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Never met anybody who doesn't like music, but it's interesting how everybody has their own way to enjoy it - there's no right way, of course.
For me music is all about the message, whether subversive like a RAtM bomb track or some vacuous pop hit that invites you to tune out and party. When I hear a new song I'll drive right into the lyrics, get to know the artist, put the track into context of their other work.
Mind you, all my favourite bands are political, so...

2025-07-03 15:57:01 UTC

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I'm with you Alison. Focusing on bias rather than the argument itself fosters blind tribalism. And CBC is an excellent example - their journalism is typically pretty balanced*<sup>,</sup> but their opinion pages are all over the place, bias wise.*<sup>Certain</sup>
topics aside *cough*Gaza*cough*

2025-07-03 01:37:51 UTC

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And no butterflies yet!

2025-07-02 22:11:40 UTC

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I was noticing the same on the weekend. Plenty of cute little wasps and we've got a couple dragonflies I've seen, but not a single bee - honey or bumble. It's very odd, there's usually so many of the bumbles around. I hope they're okay and just found a better yard.

2025-06-30 18:12:36 UTC

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I noticed that too. People know they need to vote 'strategically' because of FPTP, but they don't know how to do that!

2025-06-30 18:10:21 UTC

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If you close your eyes, you can almost imagine the CPC had won the election. But there's one small consolation, I told myself on election night: At least with the Liberals the streets are still ours.

2025-06-26 17:39:47 UTC

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That's why I was careful, even with my embarrassingly wrong seat counts above, to point out the assumption of people voting along party lines. Even now I'd like to think there'd be broader, cross-party support at the individual level. This isn't a partisan issue at all, it's about not being a racist and having a bit of empathy.

2025-06-26 17:01:17 UTC

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Yikes, guess who was looking in the 2021 column by accident? Any guesses? You'd think I would have clued in to the double-digit beside 'NDP' but no. 🙄

2025-06-26 16:19:51 UTC

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You got me curious. At least at the party level NDP, Greens, Bloc all want action do they not? That's 60 seats if members vote along party lines. Still incredibly sad that Liberals are not taking this more seriously. CPC you kind of expect it.

2025-06-22 22:05:10 UTC

Most of Ontario is lit up on Environment Canada's website. It's all "how not to die in the heat" and "here's where the wildfires are" and "how not to die from wildfire smoke" and "severe weathers alerts."
Meanwhile every level of government is singularly focused on achieving unfettered economic growth and seem willing to trample on people to make it happen.
FFS.
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2025-06-19 16:17:20 UTC

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I wonder if somebody like Luigi Mangione could use that line of defense - that Brian Thompson had pre-existing gunshot wounds - or if this is an argument only a cop can get away with?

2025-06-19 15:25:21 UTC

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You missed the part where the judge seemed unable to determine if the internal hemorrhaging that killed the victim was the result of being beaten. I mean, he could have been suffering from massive internal bleeding as a preexisting condition, yes?
And for what it's worth, these people may have been cops, but they were off-duty and not acting in any kind of official capacity when this happened. Nice to know the cop card works outside the office.

2025-06-19 03:09:57 UTC

Doug Ford on Ontario's indigenous peoples today:
“When I first came into office, I told Minister (Greg) Rickford, ‘Treat them well, give them what they need, whatever they want for them to prosper.’ But there’s going to be a point that you can’t just keep coming hat in hand all the time to the government, you’ve got to be able to take care of yourselves,” Ford said.
Colonialist thinking is alive and well, folks.
https://www.cp24.com/politics/queens-park/2025/06/18/doug-ford-says-he-treats-first-nations-like-gold-but-they-keep-coming-hat-in-hand/
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2025-06-18 17:04:18 UTC

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They love hiding their power grabs behind the children.