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Spent decades building expertise in areas I don't pay attention to anymore. Now read a lot about plants. Wikipedia says I'm best known for a wrestling history book. Southwestern Ontario.
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Should have been "another 20 with 47% or more".

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

By my count (no spreadsheet yet, so this is a manual count), the PCPO won 40 seats with over 50% of the vote and another 20 with 48% or more. Even the most optimistic anti-vote splitting campaign would only have reduced the majority, not prevented it.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

More municipalities look for alternatives to X after Cambridge drops the social media platform

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Voted. Was pretty sparse at the early voting station. My wife and I doubled the number of voters there and one of the other two was at the wrong place.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Good for Cambridge!

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

I'm still amazed that Justin Trudeau and the entire Government of Canada is still there and not here.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

11 years ago, OTHER people go to Cincinnati ... and I'M the one still eating Skyline chili. Thanks @amandastratton.bsky.social and @joelcadams.bsky.social

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

When you send everyone $200 to try to buy their vote, you got to make some cuts somewhere. #Ontario

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

"If you rolled your eyes at the Council of Canadian Innovators, wait till you meet us!"

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

I don't think I've ever seen an organization announce a new CEO without a single sentence about what they did before this appointment. ... which MaRS did today. They found room to talk about the two new board members, but chose not to for the new CEO.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Headline writer at the Record had fun with this one. (About doing doughnuts in cars.)

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

I didn't want to read the details in the Neil Gaiman story from yesterday, but they must have been pretty gruesome since both ChatGPT and NotebookLM refused to answer questions about the article.

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

An important reminder of the vital role that local journalism plays in communities

submitted 56 days ago • 1 comment

Cunk on Life was okay, but a big step down from Cunk on Earth.

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

I'd say they lived up to the hype. Could only eat two ... I said before starting a third. Don't have them around here.

submitted 74 days ago • 1 comment

Who knew? Chuck Berry owned a house in Kitchener from 1966 to 1991. www.chuckhowitt.com/post/we-call...

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments

There's nothing notably toxic about poinsettias -- to humans or pets. Have to say "notably" since everything is toxic at high enough doses. People have died from drinking too much water. No one has been killed by ingesting poinsettias.

submitted 92 days ago • 0 comments

Enjoying NotebookLM as a way to "read" books I've had for years and, realistically, was never going to get to. Can put them into NotebookLM, get an overview, and then ask questions that will be answered from the content of the book. Also listen to the AI "podcast" about the book.

submitted 94 days ago • 0 comments

My life these days: spending a week reading about whether it's okay to water houseplants with ice cubes. (And, after all that, the answer is we don't really know. Maybe.)

submitted 111 days ago • 1 comment

I wanted to like Mastodon but its idea of decentalization seemed like a clumsy kludge. I wanted to like Threads, but still no lists. Bluesky has lists and even a Tweetdeck dupe. Maybe more people will show up now. Fortunately, I don't have anything to say so it doesn't really matter.

submitted 117 days ago • 3 comments

Thank goodness Russell T Davies is back

submitted 464 days ago • 0 comments

Future case study: is it better for a new social media site to die a sad death with everyone on a waitlist for an account or with everyone having an account they abandon in a couple of weeks?

submitted 464 days ago • 1 comment