attaboy.ca
Eternal optimist, daily pessimist
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- Parallel on Geary is fantastic, and a great space architecturally.
- Campechano for tacos
- Alma for delightful modern Chinese fusion, and lots of great food, drinks, shops generally in the area (Bloor west of Dufferin)
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Even if it’s not church, we need people, places, and ideas IRL that challenge us to be the best version of ourselves. I’ve found it really therapeutic to spend 1 day a week at a co-workspace @1rg.space with a focus on community. We talk about stuff! Face to face!
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My local polling station in Toronto was busy but efficient this morning. I bumped into many neighbours, and waited maybe 10 minutes to vote. Canadian elections continue to be refreshingly analogue—voter lists on paper with rulers and pens to cross names off, paper ballots, cardboard boxes.
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I always think about my history teacher in grade 12 (“senior year” in American 😏) and his careful use of “o”-prefix, hyphenated syntax for bi-national concerns—e.g. Sino-Russian relations, or the Franco-Prussian war.
That makes you Amero-Canadian in my books.
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We’ve got plenty of room, eh?
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Have we figured out the tariff rate on importing The Onion to Canada yet? 🥲
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Saxon from White Lotus as a metaphor for 2025 America, hey-o…
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+1, bourbon fan here and I strongly endorse Lot 40 Dark Oak
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That’s probably true, but I wonder if the speed of razing will ultimately backfire on the administration. Most authoritarian regimes have had some kind of populist policy to placate the masses—jobs, houses. welfare, clean streets, etc.
Even Putin made sure the retirees got their pensions at first.
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(Also published by The Guardian: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...)
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“Detained” might be the official terminology, but it also sounds like one got stuck in traffic, or a meeting ran long. This is really imprisonment, and even worse, this unjust treatment has occurred for many years across multiple administrations—even if the current one is showing the most zeal.
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Also, this clip from the rally just suggests how Republican politics is the real DEI — so many mediocre white dudes falling up, depriving Kia dealerships of assistant sales managers
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👋🏼 🥃
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🔥🍓
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Elon: the world needs more babies
Also Elon: because many of them will die of pollution-related diseases
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@dijkstracula.bsky.social “Ford reiterated that Ontario will have its own response, which he says would include an end to sales of American wine, spirits and beer, and to exports of nickel to the U.S. He also threatened to halt electricity exports…” In tonight’s Star: www.thestar.com/politics/fed...
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Not just tech IP though, see also drug patents. “Canada should retaliate by reverting to a compulsory licensing regime for US drug patents that allowed generic drug manufacturers to pay a fee and obtain a license to sell a patented drug cheaply” www.thestar.com/politics/fed...
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Once the tariffs got postponed, so did the booze ban. I guess it’ll be back on tomorrow. 🙃
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As a tech dad this is immediately appealing of course, if perhaps too niche. But if there are ways to reduce Canadian supplication to Google, Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, and Apple, that’s probably more of a win-win. Tariffs on bourbon and Tesla are fine too, but we should be thinking about our future.
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Last week I attended a lecture by Canadian-American Cory Doctorow. His spiciest take was that Canada should retaliate not through our own tariffs on US goods but by ending our lockstep compliance with US intellectual property law. pluralistic.net/2025/02/26/u...
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Tariffs are going to be awful. For everyone. Buying anything is about to get stupid, and jobs will go down the toilet, especially in Ontario. But it’s at least a small comfort to know that so much of Canadian dependence on the US is out of laziness and convenience, rather than necessity.
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In part there’s more Canadian: lettuce, tomatoes, strawberries. But also Mexican, European, and South American. Sweet onions from Peru. Chilean peaches and plums.
Meanwhile US products are getting cheaper, almost desperately so. Price gouging and shrinkflation on cereal are a fading memory.
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True, that is a MASSIVE swing when you weight it properly for only including Quebec voters.
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Hey, Hey, RFK!
How many kids did you infect today?
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Tr•mp’s insistence on the “Gulf of America” is more limited, obviously; it is targeted at news organizations and government institutions, all of whom will now be expected to repeat the gesture or suffer dire consequences if they display defiance against his regime.
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So I took one small step today. I migrated my custom-domain email from Gmail to Fastmail. It was surprisingly easy! Tweak the DNS settings, and Fastmail offers a really simple migration tool. Their quick setup tools for iOS and Mac also worked really well.
I'd been paying Google for years. No more.