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Database person with 2 cats On the unceded territory of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations (aka Vancouver, BC) (she/her/hers) I post more on mastodon
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‘Salmon relatives come back to their homeland’: Okanagan fish passage, blocked for decades, set to be re-opened Fishway is expected to be finished by late June — finally allowing salmon access to their historic migration route into kɬúsx̌nítkʷ after more than 70 years indiginews.com/news/okanaga...

I reported this in mid-Feb. But I did not know that the threat came from Trump himself. "He told Trudeau that he did not believe that the treaty that demarcates the border ... was valid &...wants to revise the boundary. He offered no further explanation." www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/w...?

Don’t trust a person who doesn’t meow back at their cat

We have come full circle

STARTREK/SHELBY1.GIF

Balatro predicted an egg that gets more expensive forever, and nobody listened

we could all use a bit of wonderment right now 🌊

No word if any of them are employed by DOGE. futurism.com/young-coders...

I’m making a charm for others harm

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i keep reading posts from people getting laid off in genuinely every possible tech industry you can imagine and it's so fucking insane that the thing people have to worry about isn't "can an AI do my job" but "can a very stupid person convince my boss that an AI can do my job"

I will attempt to flesh out why the CBC's broadcast of Cross Country Checkup was so toxic today, since there are some people still expressing confusion or dismay at the criticisms, including my own, leveled at it. 1/? 🧵 #Canada #CBC

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Ian Hanomansing leading off hour two on Cross Country Checkup: We are absolutely not normalizing Canada as 51st state. Ian (literally 30 seconds later): So John, how would your life change if Canada were the 51st state? Today I learned that Ian doesn’t understand what “normalizing” means.

just wanna state for the record i cancelled my CBC gem subscription because of today’s cross country checkup, not for anything that took place in december of 1969

"Give me the gasoline," The Humungous thunders at the besieged encampment, "and I will let you live." He clears his throat and adds, "To learn more about this generous offer, be sure to tune in tonight to Cross Country Checkup — host Ian Hanomansing and I will speculate about your right to exist."

Meaningful employment often eludes disabled Canadians, and when they do find work, recent data suggests they’ll still be at an economic disadvantage. thewalrus.ca/constantly-prove...

In refining 0x5D45F : 0xAEFDE3 (Moonbeam) in 00h 05m 38s 795ms I have brought glory to the company. Praise Kier. 2️⃣1️⃣7️⃣4️⃣0️⃣ 4️⃣1️⃣1️⃣1️⃣2️⃣ 1️⃣4️⃣1️⃣7️⃣5️⃣ 4️⃣2️⃣1️⃣8️⃣5️⃣ 7️⃣1️⃣1️⃣9️⃣4️⃣ #mdrlumon #severance 🧇🐐🔢💯 lumon-industries.com

The politicians behind mask bans are holed up in their offices, fully vaxxed, with access to the world’s best healthcare. But they want the “common people” too sick to protest, too fatigued to fight back, and kept in the dark when it comes to public health threats. Protect yourself accordingly.

fondly remembering when the most embarrassing new york times coverage of canada was “they’re calling it c-day” instead of “after we conquered those cute perky people which of our leaders would they vote for?”

In my city there is one cybertruck and one DIY parody of a cybertruck and the parody truck has become a local celebrity. Meanwhile, I always wish I had some rotten eggs to throw at the tesla whenever I see it.

Well if it's good enough for Mango Mussolini

We're stoked to introduce the 'No Gen AI' seal for indie games! Indie devs can use it on their game's store page to assure potential players that their game was made without the use of Generative AI. You can grab it from the Polygon Treehouse website:- www.polygon-treehouse.com/no-gen-ai-seal

GRANDKID: what were the first Cybertrucks like? ME: oh they sucked lol seeing one felt like punishment THE ALL-SEEING PANEL ON THE WALL: twenty Patriot Points subtracted. Privileges rescinded: trousers. ME: *donning petticoats* also they exploded

Botany valentine. Another from years past. New one on Monday!

There are a lot of things to dunk on with this post. But, if you think using an LLM is the way to deal with a json file (json is a ubiquitous, highly structured format for data storage), you are a bad, inexperienced coder. And, you definitely shouldn't be rewriting the US Treasury codebase.

sorry, I have 10,000 episodes of "How It's Made" playing simultaneously in my mind

Found out that TWENTY emails is considered a lot to politicians on an issue. TWENTY. As in, they call that getting slammed. So next time you see a request to email your rep, or call, keep that in mind. TWENTY is a lot.

True Blue Cherish Who's That Girl Oh Father Human Nature (A very GenX answer)

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Elon Musk Offers Self $10 Billion Federal Buyout theonion.com/elon-mu...

WIRED is tracking numerous reports of Musk-related shenanigans across the federal govt. We're looking for fed employees open to discussing the activity they're seeing or to help confirm other reports. Anonymity offered. Please use @signal.org (contact dell.3030). Do not use work networks/devices.

One of the ten-year forecasts from Institute for the Future’s 2015 research, collab with @cascio.bsky.social