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"Reformation is necessary and despair is criminal." Computational biologist; US-Canadian (Team Canada); he/him. Vancouver is unceded land. https://mastodon.tds.xyz/@tim, https://tds.xyz wife guy of @liangding.ca was @kumokasumi, @biotimylated

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i asked gemini "what legal mechanism would allow the canadian prime minister to suspend the collection of the digital services tax temporarily (before tabling legislation to repeal it permanently)?" and it gave me an apparently cogent answer (remission orders?) which i do not trust at all

submitted 15 hours ago • 1 comment

elbows are... down, now? elbows down, right?

submitted 15 hours ago • 3 comments

au contraire, mon frère

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

it's worth giving haaretz your email address in order to read this. Utter madness

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Remembering that I saw a BAe 146 taxiing at YVR last week and that I did a hard double take. It's distinctive; there's not a lot of regional-sized high-wing quadjets out there. Evidently a couple of the airlines serving the north use them. Photo from www.airfleets.net/photo/Summit...

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Website/device age verification is a privacy and security nightmare and everyone who tells you that this is a solved problem is lying to you.

submitted 2 days ago • 38 comments

went to drive Liang to the airport last night but her car had a flat. about to be the proud owner of the third-worst torque wrench on amazon.ca

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BREAKING: Palestinian witnesses and hospitals say Israeli forces opened fire toward hundreds of people waiting for aid trucks in central Gaza, killing at least 25 people.

submitted 6 days ago • 180 comments

Apart from everything else he is such a weird man

submitted 6 days ago • 27 comments

I had the luxury of voting NDP in the last election and, believe you me, I took advantage of it

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

This is not about the merits of Iran’s nuclear program. No president has the authority to bomb another country that does not pose an imminent threat to the US without the approval of Congress. This is an unambiguous impeachable offense.

submitted 8 days ago • 1116 comments

Greetings from #sd25! It's a two-day single-track conference hosted by @tigerbeetle.com. I'll be aiming to liveskeet as many of the talks as I can. Super excited to be here! systemsdistributed.com

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

We've all been frog-boiled into forgetting what a dumb brand name WhatsApp is. Absolutely nose-blinded

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the False Creek Mahony's changed hands and is switching concepts in stages. The newest branding, which is on the building now, is "Bae Side," which would have been a killer name, ten years ago, if False Creek were a bay

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

i assumed we were all just abruptly precipitating out of solution

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Concord Pacific claims to support a fairly eclectic group of charities. I think my favourite is the physics cranks

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

“latest shooting of gazans seeking food”

submitted 13 days ago • 51 comments

Chaos commute this morning! A woman was leaving Andy Livingstone Park with a couple of dogs when one of them BOLTED into traffic. She went chasing after it, across Expo and Pacific towards the seawall. Other dog just stayed behind, sitting on the corner.

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

i was flirting with becoming a Notetaking Guy until i realized that all of the organizing and processing methods require a lot of effort and discipline. might pivot and become an evangelist for the system behind my own life's work, which i like to call Just Forget Everything

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

Saw Arts Club's "Waitress." The performers and production were excellent; songwriting impeccable; story and characters extremely problematic ahahaha oh my god

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Canadians clutching their pearls about ICE barely know the Liberals are pushing through a bill right now giving the gov the ability to check your mail, get your IP and internet history, and makes immigration and asylum seeking way more difficult

submitted 15 days ago • 34 comments

Crowd at the Vancouver, BC #nokings #notyrants rally at Jack Poole Plaza is growing. Megaphone is being drowned out a bit by an exercise class in the Fairmont courtyard across the street 🤷