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  Three times we rescue a tiny bat from our pool. First time, box to dry out in, water to drink, arrange for a vertical so #manbat can take off. He took off, got lost in the garden. Try again with box. He seems to have dried off and left. Nope: found him in the pool twenty minutes ago. Rescue, back to box... I go in pool to cool down: what this? the bat. Rescue third, time back in the box. Looks like he can climb out of the box on his own now. Bats in our backyard are common, swooping f...

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  @OpenMediaOrg@mastodon.social https://action.openmedia.org/page/192033/action/1? #openmedia call to action on Rogers illegal fees.

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  @sjn@chaos.social The one with the "Made with #AI" mark has no copyright, so you can just make as many copies as you like. It has no value, thus any price on it is nonsense.

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  https://bsky.app/profile/richardbrooks.bsky.social/post/3mkip2mnvws2q says: "nstead, Carney is taking $25 billion of taxpayer money, during an affordability crisis, creating a whole new "Crown" corporation and directing it to do something that sovereign are set up NOT to do - invest in risky, yet to be built, Canadian projects - incl. oil and gas" 5 things wrong with this:" (a graphic containing text)...

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  #ottawa report on Automated Speed Enforcement cameras via Councillor Sean Devine. From https://www.seandevine.ca/april_28_2026_newsletter: "At the safety level, the statistics could not have been more clear. In school zones alone, ASE was a proven tool for reducing speeds. The original ASE pilot of 8 cameras in school zones showed that speed-limit compliance went from an abysmally low 16% to a remarkably high 87% in only 4 years. And when it came to high-end speeding, i.e. speeding at...

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  I for one, will from now on, talk about how I get Epic Fanny. https://www.patreon.com/posts/like-thunderbolt-156230695

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  I was thinking about romantic walks on the beach, exploring grottos and tides. I then considered spring/syzygy, thinking that these high tides happen when there is alignment, and for a rotating on the planet, the moon and sun are aligned at noon and midnight. So, one can never experience the spring tide at dawn or dusk. Then I read about: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunitidal_interval which is basically like inductance/reactance, and that delay is three to eight hours! So, one can do a lun...

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  @rdm How does one become a mermaid? Is there a course? Do I have to write a certification exam? Are there any yearly fees?

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  Help me convince them to #mastodon. Is there a #mastodonsports or a #mastodonski ?

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  I have now managed to move my desktop #devuanlinux system away from chrome to #librewolf. Wasn't that hard, just a lot of context. And passwords in chrome which my two other password managers had not been updated with. (Two. Because the old one was homebrew shell scripts. New on is pass(1)) It helped that I had many Firefox profiles for banking, media, and development. All those had been moved to #librewolf a few months ago. The kicker was that last two chrome updates seemed eat huge am...

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  In https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-16-2026 Heather Cox Richardson from Letters from an American wrote: > Today the Senate passed House Joint Resolution 140, a bill that > overturns a 20-year mining ban upstream from the Boundary Waters Canoe...

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  I have been doing #email for just under 40 years now. FidoNet, UUCP ( lsuc!nrcaer!fts1!Latour!MCR ), ocunix.on.ca, and sandelman.*ca since. I wish the #crtc would take the do not call list seriously, and I wish the #rcmp would spend some real effort on the fraudsters. I think it is much like the Broken Window Theory: "People in the community help with crime prevention. Newman proposed that people care for and protect spaces that they feel invested in, arguing that an area is eventually...

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  What I'm reading: we used grep to parse XML files.

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  "To prevent potential submission issues, ensure that the Name, Address, Country, and Province fields contain valid text and are not left blank or filled with spaces. As a best practice, if no information is to be provided for a given optional tag, remove the tag entirely rather than replacing its content with blank spaces. Thank you for your understanding a...

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  You may also encounter the following error while submitting your XML file if you are accessing the IFT application with a Web Access Code (WAC), on the T619 page after selecting “Submit”: Error: We cannot process your request at this t...

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  https://jamesfell.substack.com/p/terry-fox-begins-his-marathon-of April 12, 1980, Terry Fox started. "I'm not crying, you are crying". I lived in Fredericton, NB. I was 9, and I couldn't really understand how difficult a challenge this was. I didn't know Four Seasons had supported him. I remember seeing the sign outside Thunder Bay on our 2018 trip. I only vaguely remember him travelling through Fredericton.

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  Does my #mastodon instance/account keep track of number of people who follow me (that I don't follow back) who then have their accounts killed/removed? 90% of people following me in the past few months have been real, interesting people who I definitely wanted to follow back. But, in the past few weeks it's been 90% empty accounts, which I assume are phisphing.

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  #microslop ! (ham, eggs and ...) #microslop [Would be nice to get independent confirmation of this]

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  "The cool thing about solar and wind energy is that it doesn't need to pass through the Strait of Hormuz" ("kirtzimmer"). #operationepsteinfury #operationenduringepstein

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  An article https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/26/adhd-symptoms-high-stress on why #adhd #neurodivergent "stay" calm in a crisis.