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oclsc.bsky.social

Programmer, UNIX old fart, friend of cats, cyclist, non-motorist, rail passenger (>766000 miles), amateur^2 photographer, iconoclast, cynic, observer of odd things, revolve top insights (11). Cis he/they. Also @[email protected].

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See that beautiful moon tonight? So full. Joe Biden never made a moon so full. And the people up there. On the moon. It’s so full and clear.You can even see the people. Beautiful people. They’re up there. Screwing together iPhones. On the moon. Nobody ever thinks about making iPhones on the moon.

submitted 2 hours ago • 6 comments

Vaccines save lives. And no, they do not cause autism.

submitted 11 hours ago • 210 comments

FUR AND INTERFERENCE AND MISINFORMATION

submitted 4 hours ago • 18 comments

what if we just collectively blocked all politicians on social media, threw campaign emails in spam, didn’t attend any rallies, & only committed to reading a single one-page double spaced times new roman 12-font bullet point summary of their policies written by snopes fact checkers

submitted 8 hours ago • 9 comments

lately Pierre Poilievre the populist is claiming that “Mark Carney controls Trump”, as mind-bogglingly bizarre as that sounds. I can’t wait for him to claim (days before the elxn) Trump tariffs are Carney’s fault too, somehow. #cdnpoli

submitted 11 hours ago • 1 comment

Canada, abortion is the canary in the coal mine. Restricting abortion is a tool of authoritarian regimes. Which party has the forced birth candidates? The conservatives! www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

submitted 1 day ago • 56 comments

“Oh, Sorry, I'm Actually Canadian": The Case for a New, Unified Canadian Accent www.brittlestar.com/p/oh-sorry-i...

submitted 14 hours ago • 22 comments

must-read essay by Frank Graves, founder of EKOs research macleans.ca/politics/how...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

#yorku needs to smarten up and stop trying to trade safety for admin convenience. What plausible explanation is there other than that their lawyers are realizing they have a problem, and rather than trying to fix it they're taking a page from the Trump playbook and trying to loosen the standards?

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

An Australian man with a US work visa was detained upon reentry, called a “retard” and told, “Trump is back in town; we’re doing things the way we should have always been doing them.” He was held with 100 people including many Canadians. Posters celebrating equity had DEI scribbled out in marker.

submitted 1 day ago • 88 comments

Called my congressman who voted for the SAVE act. Me: What documents will I need to vote if this passes? Staffer: a DL and birth certificate. Me: The documents don’t match Staffer: Then a marriage certificate. Me: Will my husband need the marriage certificate too? Staffer: No Me: See the problem?

submitted 1 day ago • 1591 comments

It's amazing how TTC can take down activists' signs showing better wayfinding in hours when their own outdated signs stay posted for months, even years. www.thestar.com/news/gta/way... @ttcriders.bsky.social

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

My father-in-law is a builder. He is insanely gifted. We were at a heritage-listed Victorian pissoir together years ago and I asked him what it would cost to build it today. I will never forget his answer… “We can’t, we don’t know how to do it.”