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  Pfft. As enlightened as the rest of them. White guy supports ban on female ordination of an Asian religion. The best thing I ever did for myself was take a religious studies course in University. At the time, I was lost. I was trying to break away from the Church that my mom dragged me to as a kid. I was struggling with ideas of going to hell, losing family, and add that to the suicide of my best friend. I was in a pretty bad place. I bought myself copies of every major religious works,...

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  I'd like to make an official entry into the #carryshitolympics.

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  I'm hoping it says something about me as an instructor that 60/62 students submitted their first assignment on time. One has an extension as they enrolled in the course the day it was due. So out of 62, only 1 AWOL assignment and could very be one of the accommodation students - haven't checked yet. As a TA, I don't think I ever saw more than 80% submitted on time. Class seems to be taking me seriously. #AcademicChatter

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  I just want to send some love today to anyone suffering from trauma. It's something we don't talk about enough. I had a relatively small bout of trauma from seeing one of my kids get injured. Last night I had another nasty nightmare about a child being injured. Its the kind of nightmare I wake up from screaming. I can't imagine what living with major trauma is like. Just want to send some love today. I'm sure there are lots of people going through stuff suffering silently....

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  Not even good Cantonese. With all the available Cantonese media out there, the huge HK media market of the 90s, they couldn't even pirate enough good Cantonese to make a bot that speaks it properly. https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/tilly-norwood-glitches-piers-morgan-switches-language-speaks-cantonese-9.7352222

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  I'm hanging out at the park and there are two other cargo bikes parked on the side. We will need more space for cargo bikes. Better than making space for cars though.

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  When they say a higher tax rate will disincentize the rich from working more, why is the answer not "great!"? Let someone less rich do the work

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  RE: https://climatejustice.social/@chu/117283927596792623 Update on this. Day 1 of riding with a speaker. One person about to step into the bike lane looked back and did not step in front of me! It's working!

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  I used to think it was obnoxious of cyclists to blast loud music as they went by. Then I realized I was constantly on my bell dinging away as nobody looks at me... so why not blast music? I just ordered one of those speakers that you can attach to a bike handle and trying to figure it out now. Looks like I can put music on a stick and play it. So far, I have the entire Thriller album on there. What else is good biking music to annoy the jerks parked in bike lanes?

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  All of Sheeran's support acts show us what solidarity looks like and why it's important. None of us can fight the power and influence of the billionaire lobby alone. We must stand together. Sheeran is too much of a coward, but I respect the people who stood behind Mackelmore, even at their own professional expense. Solidarity. Sheeran is shining bright as the ass he truly is in this saga. Political neutrality is a joke. That's another word for Nazi. https://globalnews.ca/news/...

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  Got a good reminder today about how small things can make a big difference. First lecture for a cohort of data science students. I teach communications. We talked about how data doesn't speak for itself. It ust be contextualized... and it will get politicized. I said it would be used and abused in fights like women's rights, trans rights, minority rights... Data is never apolitical. A student came up to me telling me how refreshing I was and was nearly in tears as they said no pro...

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  Another update on getting kids a device when they start to walk to and from school alone. My stance on "no" has not changed. Today is a big day for 11. Both kids had to get themselves to grandparents alone. Got fed, and 11 biked alone to taekwondo. I didn't ask for this but I did let people know 11 would be unsupervised till I got there. I got a update from grandparents when they left and just got an update from another friend that they arrived. I will die on this hill - Comm...

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  RE: https://techhub.social/@NSFVoyager2/117274945554081393 Could very well be all that alien anthropologists have of us.

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  A thought about family, community, trust, and privilege. I used to be very careful not to leave the house without my wallet and always carried some emergency cash in an inner pocket just in case. Not only did I stop double checking a long time ago, today, I noticed I deliberately left my wallet at home to have less to carry (as long as it's not a planned shopping run). Granted I'm not going far. I'm in the neighbourhood. Despite being out and about for several hours, I know I&#39...

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  Doc has me off wheat and dairy for 3 months to help diagnose some GI issues. Please send me your Wheat-Free, Dairy-Free life hacks. I am one week in and questioning so many life choices right now.

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  The 11yo is totally ready to be a parent "We're going to the bike park today?!?! Yay!!!!! Oh. Bring some bandages!"

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  I painfully have to call my health insurance company (this is Canada, not even the US). "For safety and security, we sent you a pin to your phone..." "The person you are calling is not taking calls right now. Try again later" And that was that. It just ended. WTF

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  I decided I like the Chinese term for the Milky Way more than English. They call it 星河 -star river. What else do people call it in other places? Edit: in Chinese it is also known as 銀河 - silver river. Star river is an older term for it it seems. I still like both over milky way.

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  That fuckery that's happening to Fauci right now... Yeah. That's literally fascism

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  The Web is so broken now. There's a very specific board game I'm interested in so tried to search. First non FB hit was taobao, a store I don't care to order from. So clicked down a few links. Could not get past security verification on one site, then needed an account to even view the product on another. It's like the Internet doesn't actually exist anymore.

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  Saw a superyacht and wishing orcas came to the great lakes.

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  RE: https://mastodon.scot/@kim_harding/116997262133211532 Holy Shit. This is next level. Not even pretending anymore.

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  USA doesn't ban guns because guns don't kill people. People kill people. They won't ban AI because AI doesn't do bad things, people do bad things. Oh... it did a bad thing on its own. Uh.... It's "unprecedented" Um... Hm... We still can't ban it because uh....

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  The rich people's problems are OUR problems messaging is so subtle and insidious that it's easy to miss. New (to me) computer and I have yet to turn off all the crap I don't want on it. I have a little ticker on the bottom that's a graph and a curving upward arrow. I hovered over it and it was telling me that the TSX (Toronto Stock Exchange) is up .88% like this is important news that effects me the same way the weather does (the icon has now changed to a cloud with the tempera...

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@KristopherWells/116955954653490033 I remember this well. Over Boxing Day dinner my brother and I argued about this. My mom had some church friends over. I got a scolding from one of the church bigots. I stormed out the front door of my own house while my mom hosted her shallow church friends. The next year I told my mom she could choose to have her big Christmas holiday church friend gatherings or have me home for Christmas. It would not be both. That bigots di...

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  I am optimistically including "Ethics" as part of proposal writing criteria. I know I am lying through my teeth telling students that ethics in business matter. But still. I will lie.

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  There are some paths of logic I will never understand. Some grandkids of my parents' friends are making up for lost time and now learning to swim. It never happened before as the now ex wife was scared of the kids drowning. She's out of picture now so the dad is getting them swimming lessons. I don't get it. I'm worried about kids drowning so I will make sure they don't have basic water survival skills. 🤔🤔

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  Masto friends, Looking for some help. If you've come across any particularly good or annoying sales pitches in your inboxes, can you screen shot and send it my way? It's for a communications course I am teaching and writing a pitch one of the elements. I figure we can analyze some real world examples. Thanks!

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  These are Ford Fires. Our politicians own this. They play politics with fire fighting budgets, climate change science, and lives. Heads need to roll and I no longer care if this expression is figurative. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/namaygoosisagagun-first-nation-wildfire-9.7272350

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  People of Ontario, please start referring to these wildfres as "Ford Fires". He cut over $184 million from the wildfire funding because climate change is his love.