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mkuplens.bsky.social
Builder of software, maker, singer, and conductor.
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@joeycoleman.ca pump truck burning on Sherman by Main. Fire (P6) just arrived.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

I’m George Takei and I approve of this message.

submitted 4 days ago • 2368 comments

Wee bit of prototyping today - 4-card wallet with a cash slot that opens on the top & side for easy access. Need to adjust the pocket depths a little and tweak the stitch placement but generally pleased with the pattern. Time to launch that online store?

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

And fully half of it is a humiliating error where they mistake the value of a contract by 1000x confusing 8 million with 8 BILLION

submitted 4 days ago • 2407 comments

That’s how you write a headline, people.

submitted 4 days ago • 568 comments

The thing about super rich people is that they famously don’t care about money, excellent point

submitted 5 days ago • 389 comments

Why would we abandon the prosperous, democratic nations of Europe, our allies for one hundred years, to "partner" with weak, poor Russia, a longtime adversary and dictatorship currently in the middle of an unprovoked invasion of a neighboring state? Treason. It's treason

submitted 5 days ago • 360 comments

@joeycoleman.ca looks like someone in roads is on Bluesky and has a sense of humour/irony 🤣

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

A reminder that municipalities must manually adjust tax revenues every year. They cannot borrow money and run deficits. Whereas, income tax revenues (and similar taxes such as sales) automatically increase with inflation. Therefore, every year, we see municipal tax "increases" but not provincial

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Wow. Stunning slide from Frank Graves, EKOS research. It appears the next election may be a battle for Canada. A large swath of the Conservative/PPC supporters on the right approve of Trump's handling of his job. Hardly anyone supports Trump outside of those parties.

submitted 8 days ago • 17 comments

@joeycoleman.ca one more for the list… lovely show of commitment to safe school routes. At Sherman/Delaware.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

@joeycoleman.ca some brilliant work by the city’s snow crew. Here’s a cracker at St Giles (Main/Holton) - sidewalk snow ploughed into a pile blocking the intersecting sidewalk.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Brianna Keilar: Do you think that calling Elon Musk a dick is effective messaging? Congressman Robert Garcia: Well, he is a dick.

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The UN Charter was drafted in 1945 by people who had learned the lessons that the aggression, isolationism and tariff barriers of the 20’s and 30’s had led the world into a conflagration. Article One makes it clear: threats of annexation are illegal. So are unilateral tariffs.

submitted 30 days ago • 16 comments

Via Michael de Adder #USpol

submitted 21 days ago • 4 comments

Venus is very bright tonight (beside the very blurry moon)

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@joeycoleman.ca I’d love to see those new shelters up close. Very curious how much they differ from the ~$2k models available on Alibaba (e.g., www.alibaba.com/product-deta...)

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

A couple of hours of cooking on my birthday was well worth it… lasagne from scratch. Yum yum.

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

This week’s project: game ball wallets, made with leather from a Wilson ‘Official Game Ball’ (in this case autographed by Todd Sauerbrun). Step 1: disassemble…

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

Saw one of those Tesla dumpsters driving around yesterday. Just about the only positive thing about them seems to be that the flat body panels seem reasonably easy to slice up and reuse for something actually useful.

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

There are people in Latvia who can create the Flow that is currently followed by the world. Congratulations to @gintszilbalodis and his team for winning Best Picture- Animated at #GoldenGlobes  Great moment for the team, great moment for Latvia!

submitted 48 days ago • 1 comment

It’s a good weekend to work on the smallest journal size I’ll be offering… held closed by your pen/pencil.

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

This was a fun commission - colleague was eager to own a traveller’s journal and, learning I make leather goods, was thrilled to engage in co-designing one to suit her tastes. Hand-dyed, veg tanned, as always. Need something made?

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

Ripped down the WordPress/WooCommerce based site I was working on. Premium theme made it an absolute nightmare to work with and WP wasn’t making it any better.

submitted 55 days ago • 2 comments

One of the creative things I get to do lately is to conduct the Toronto Latvian Choir. This month they very kindly agreed to record my arrangement of a contemporary Latvian Christmas song. I hope you enjoy it - and have a very merry Christmas and happy new year! m.youtube.com/watch?v=PPxw...

submitted 64 days ago • 0 comments

I miss WordPress themes that were actual page templates rather than fragile constructs of demo content and junk plugins that fall apart the moment you exhale at them.

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

@edgarsrinkevics.bsky.social Toronto Latviešu Kora vārda novēlu gaišus svētkus un laimīgu jauno gadu! www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPxw...

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments

Wondering how long a municipality would have to keep a traffic lane removed with diagonal slashes before installing a bike lane in order for it to not count as a lane replacement…

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments