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  I saw this little one person electric vehicle in a mall parking lot the other day and then again blocking traffic on a 60 km/h road nearby where I'm pretty sure the Ontario electric vehicle experiment doesn't allow them. I wondered because I don't think there's any way to get to this mall legally in this – they're allowed on 50 km/h streets, and this mall can only be reached by a 60, a 70 and a shared use (bike) path. #electricVehicles

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  I should take a camera on the dog's every first trip out in the morning. Today's surprise was a cluster of large ink cap mushrooms under the tree. (Tennis ball for scale.)

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  From The Onion News Network: U.S. Military Bans Men With Girl Names From Participating In Combat https://youtu.be/LXjvr9CPQjs

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  Another example of why I don't believe AI is going to replace humans. The automatic captions should read "Globe and Mail journalist Andrew Coyne"

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  From CTV today: “I feel sorry for Americans,” said B.C. Premier David Eby. “If you can’t be friends with Canada, then you almost certainly do not have a friend anywhere in the world. “And that is a very lonely place to be.”

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  Of the food borne illnesses in the news I wondered what happened to good old fashioned ptomaine poisoning. Why isn't anyone getting the dreaded ptomaine poisoning any more? Ptomaine is a generic term for decomposition products like cadaverine and putrescine, which are not particularly dangerous, it's the bacteria that makes people sick. Now I need to go look up Lumbago ...

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  With a second (and spectacular) fire in a few months, the Ottawa fire service says that removing weeds with a propane torch is a bad idea. Even a short time after getting 10 cm of rain. #weeds https://youtu.be/UGgbDtI8BzA

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  I came across this excellent explantion of "humidex" on Reddit Humidex is kind of goofy. It's designed to approximate using a Canadian as a thermometer. If you ask the Canadian, "What temperature does it feel like to you?", their answer will probably be something close to humidex. I'm not making this up. 1/3

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  RE: https://syzito.xyz/@selzero/116838744194258399 From the video: "it's not because you have very strong views, it's because you can't explain a single one of them"

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  From the article "The vehicle was impounded for a week, and the driver’s license was pulled for 90 days." I can't imagine him going to pick it up at the impound lot. Arnprior man charged after ditching flaming vehicle on Highway 29 | 96.1 Renfrew Today https://www.renfrewtoday.ca/2026/06/26/314988/

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  I can see why the Canadian Wood Council wants more wooden apartment buildings, but I don't think I'm going to be comfortable with six or more flights of flammable exit stairs. #buildingcode Ontario sees jump in mid-rise wood construction following 2023 building code change - North Bay News https://www.baytoday.ca/local-news/cost-effective-and-efficient-residential-wood-construction-growing-in-popularity-12404128

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  I have it on good authority that the same cat food tastes better out of the other cat's dish. #cats

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  I was taking pictures in the grocery store to show how it was laid out, and somehow got this surreal image of the vegetable guy. #pixelart from a #google pixel phone

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  With Canada setting up a sovereign wealth fund, I suppose the sovereign citizens are going to be even more sure that they will soon be able to trade their birth certificates for this cash that was set aside for them. #sovereigncitizen

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  I wonder how many people have started using 8647 as their pin number.

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  @TechConnectify The last time I was able to buy dishwasher detergent as a box of powder, it was actually a solid lump in the shape of the box. Not so easy to scoop as I had hoped. I hate dishwasher pills, and I hate unwrapping them, and I hate having to touch them while unwrapping them.

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  You've probably seen how the police like to do press announcements with a display of drugs and guns laid out on a table. Well, this isn't it. #police #press

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  I'm not sure what I've done right today, but a good fraction of my YouTube recommendations are for Sesame Street''s Lefty the Salesman. https://youtu.be/hbJecXQ1Hgk

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  This is patently stupid; #YouTube seems to think I'm a teenager. Also doesn't seem to have noticed that I'm in #Canada where there are no social media age laws. Nor do they seem to know how long I've had a gmail account. #gmail #ageverification

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  @weirdestate This house in Ottawa was once an ordinary bungalow, but a big room and fireplace was added to the front, and the decor is not something I can easily describe. I don't know what is holding up the middle of the old part, there used to be a wall. (Bonus challenge, try to find the basement stairs.) https://www.realtor.ca/real-estate/29406769/33-rutherford-crescent-ottawa-9001-kanata-beaverbrook

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  @ryanc@infosec.exchange @mjg59@nondeterministic.computer A sensor in my homebrew thermostat quit responding yesterday morning, immediately after reporting a temperature of minus 40. The house was getting nicely toasty on a cold day ...