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  "Smith, meanwhile, maintains that she and her family “weren’t trying to make a political statement.”" Yeah. Sure. I almost wish they were trying to make a statement, because otherwise... how fucking stupid are you? https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/article/michigan-ceo-posts-ai-photo-of-her-familys-lake-america-sweatshirts-during-canada-visit/

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  oh noes i’m missing out on california wine https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/california-wine-quebec-9.7270161

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  Fucking train system in this country. Sitting in a siding waiting for a freight train. And once it's gone by we get to go to another siding and we get to wait for another freight train.

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  freya and tilly pulled off a heist last night, broke into the pantry cupboard where the high-test cat food was (as it turns out, un-)securely stored. wee bastards

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  Zombie sea cucumbers. As if we didn't have enough to worry about. https://gizmodo.com/zombie-chunks-of-sea-cucumber-refuse-to-die-raising-questions-about-what-it-means-to-live-forever-2000765758

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  ...I arrived at the airport perhaps earlier than I really needed to, but there's something to be said for being able to sit somewhere quiet with a cup of coffee and people watch. So many little dramas playing out .

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  We're... 570th? I guess that's good, if these things mean anything which I rather don't believe. https://cwur.org/2026/carleton-university.php

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  Schipol achieved. But I have to find a bus operated by KLM now. Some bloody signs or staff who know things would be nice #klm!!!

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  “Mamdani is proof that if your political representatives don’t fix stuff, strengthen your community and make people’s lives better, it is simply and only because they do not want to.” https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2026/may/18/heres-a-list-of-things-zohran-mamdani-has-done-in-just-four-months would that we had vision here in #ottawa

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  RE: https://flipboard.com/@cbcnews/calgary-s2m5l3ffz/-/a-IPix8YvoRGGObSMf1GU89g%3Aa%3A107108217-%2F0 Top. Schools.

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  Putting cider into cans and bottles today and everything is going so slow. Can't figure it out.

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  Shocked I tell you. Angela Lansbury in the mirror crack'd (1980), more Jessica Fletcher than Miss Marple, smoking a cigarette with dinner, holding it like a joint...

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  We use a couple of these to fill our cans and bottles of #cider. https://duofiller.com/ just sharing with y'all because when I have questions or need help, the folks at duofiller are incredibly quick and generous, so yeah: recommend!

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  The gentlest of comments. Republicans lose their minds. https://www.cbsnews.com/detroit/news/university-michigan-professor-derek-peterson-commencement-speech-israel-gaza/

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  For the novelists amongst us, this looks neat. I'm amazed at what has gone into building this as an #obsidian plug-in. https://github.com/PixeroJan/obsidian-storyline

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  They let the kids in the band write each other's bios for the program, for tonight's performance. This was a mistake.

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  our family's #cider mill opens for the season next weekend! (well, we're actually open now, but we're making a fuss next weekend). C'mon by if you want to see me in my aspect as cider maker and agritourism booster. #ottawa

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  The large centralized university in its current form cannot hold. I imagine a future with small colleges dispersed across the land. Federated coops of students, staff, and faculty. Block schedules, classes of no more than 12. Student devised majors. The future of learning has to be social, personal, community. It must be the antithesis.

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  anybody here done anything recent with the Flickr api?

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  "That Conservative leader and House leader questioning our prime minister’s economic education and experience is like a third-line, beer league hockey player questioning Conor McGregor’s hockey skills" Canadian burn. But seriously. This is the angle PP is taking? That Carney isn't educated or know anything about economics? I might not disagree with the PM's direction on things, but c'mon. This is extra stupid from the man who lost. https://archive.ph/G...

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  there you go. strangle funding, claim the recipients mismanaged the funding (as if it was their fault they had no funds), destroy local oversight and ‘run as a business’ https://theconversation.com/what-ontarians-need-to-know-about-student-achievement-reforms-that-will-run-school-boards-like-businesses-280618

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  ‘as a business’. as if businesses were something holy.

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  "we are good fiscal managers. There is no money for x. You school boards have behaved badly with your money, we will take over. Also we bought a jet for the premier fuck you". https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/doug-ford-private-jet-9.7167824

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  Studio DH at Carleton and Amanda Montague on the radio this morning! https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-100-ottawa-morning#episodes

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  Term is over. The sense of being overwhelmed continues.

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  What are folks using these days for research involving Instagram? Once upon a time it was relatively straightforward to collect materials...

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  What's Ford hiding? https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ford-government-foi-rule-change-9.7168713

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  “ Making money isn’t proof to me that I know something any better than someone else. Wealthy people who believe that they do aren’t as smart as they think. I’m sort of the Forrest Gump of the internet in that way. I was in the right place, at the right time, and I don’t exactly know why.” -https://archive.ph/ZvrCZ …i know some academics who could similarly reframe their heads, re tenure.

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  “The failures are the curriculum. The error messages are the syllabus. Every hour you spend confused is an hour you spend building the infrastructure inside your own head that will eventually let you do original work. There is no shortcut through that process that doesn't leave you diminished on the other side.” https://ergosphere.blog/posts/the-machines-are-fine/

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  hey! The DH Awards 2025 are open for voting! http://dhawards.org/dhawards2025/voting/ (...and is that Practical Necromancy on the list? Why yes, yes it is!)