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  another late one for #BandCampFriday : Echo | Sheila Chandra — https://sheilachandra.bandcamp.com/album/echo

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  If you're still casting around for #BandCampFriday purchases, Wild Gods' "The Glorious Abysmal" starts at dronecore with Gaelic waulking song and gets weirder from there. Review: Wild Gods: The Glorious Abysmal — https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/jul/10/wild-gods-the-glorious-abysmal-review-truly-fascinating-songs-born-of-tweed-beating-and-psychedelic-trips link: https://wildgods.bandcamp.com/album/the-glorious-abysmal

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  The Canadian Amateur magazine (ham radio) seldom makes me laugh, but Brent Dalgleish VE3GXD's "Backyard WSPR Tests with Everyday Metal Objects" was lovely. Using an extension ladder, eavestrough, a stepladder, a shovel and a beach chair as antennas, 3000+ km reception was possible #HamRadio

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  Welp, there goes our attempt to foster water-conserving long grass: we just got hit with a Toronto s.489-3.3.A order to comply. Gotta cut everything down to less than 20 cm by Saturday. Bet it was our neighbour's lawn guy who grassed on us. Was always "offering to help" ...

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  The kittens are snoozing in a heap on the deck. Must be tough work being a kitten

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  At times like this, I remember that George Soros is one of the few native speakers of Esperanto.

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  Opt your code out from thieving bastards: https://huggingface.co/spaces/HuggingFaceCode/in-the-stack

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  Rest as peacefully as this little one was snoozing on our deck this afternoon #caturday #kitten

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  It's baby skunk time! #skunks #skunk #toronto #squee

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  ooh, I just made a spline do exactly what I needed to. Though I've been an Inkscape user for more than a decade, I'm more of a straight lines type

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  Up, at, and have already been bleated at by this baby raccoon. #toronto #TrashPanda

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  For Canada Day, I'd like to share The Most Canadian Picture ever. It also helps me to remember that colder temperatures are possible. This sled thingy was improvised by installers at Dave Rampel Solar farm on Rainy River First Nations land in NW Ontario (it's about 1 km from Minnesota). It was below -35 °C on that day, and the installers were finding that their cable ties were shattering from the cold. So they went home. #CanadaDay #solar

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  If you happen to like Canadian flight suits (Who wouldn't? They're comfy! With pockets in the right places!) and are fairly tall, Hero Outdoors have a bunch of new old stock blue ones for $25. This is an absolute steal. Hero does mail order. They're your standard slightly scary-looking military surplus store, but they are extremely friendly https://www.herooutdoors.com/canadian-armed-forces-blue-flight-suits-medium-long/ #canada #surplus

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  Oh no! He's dicking about with dot matrix pin shapes now! #typography

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  Dammit, I'm going to have to go round to Costco to sort out my order. It's still showing a delivery date of two days ago. What's worse, when I call the order line, it happily reads out the other two parts of the order, but when it gets to the main item it say "Please call back later, we have encountered an error" and hangs up.

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  Satoshi Nakamoto is actually Carmen Sandiego

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  skink → skiink → skünk → skunk

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  If you rot13* the word 'gnat', you also reverse it: gnat → tang *: replace every letter with the one 13 places ahead of it: a → n, t → g (wraps round), etc.

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  Your keyboard isn't cool enough to have a CQ key. (This is from an SRT-3000 RTTY Send/Receive terminal from 1983. It also has keys dedicated to the prosigns SK, KN and DE) #RetroComputing #hamRadio #keeb #keyboard #Gorton

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  "I'm no' really seeing the point of a wean knocking seven bells out of a glockenspiel" — https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3vzy1p7rkno

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  Some little shite called in a bomb threat to VCF East and the place got cleared by armed police Camp Evans is fully evacuated and the bomb squad has been called in. #RetroComputing #vcfeast2026

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  Anyone seen a laser printer that decides to fade off the end of pages? My Brother printer does that for maybe 1 page in 5. It has plenty toner, the drum is clean, as is the corona wire. It's not a driver thing. I'm using good quality paper. I'm going to have to take this to The Printer Wizard, I just know it #laser #printer #brother #fade

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  wait, there's a Canadian Centrist Party? How could they tell?

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  Since everyone seems to be all about space programs, here's a very silly joke device from 50 years back: The Zlotnian Calculator, "Official Digital Calculator of the Zlotnian Space Program" While it was a joke, it was made by a very serious surveying instrument company, the Slope Indicator Company of Seattle, WA. more info: https://www.mccoys-kecatalogs.com/SpecialSubjects/Zlotnian_Calculator/zlotnian.htm

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  "The problem with our new exciting AI era is that it's taken ten minutes and my tired brain to write this answer, whereas Copilot can produce a short essay doubling down with even more nonsense in just a few seconds." — https://github.com/orgs/micropython/discussions/19024#discussioncomment-16417360 by @projectgus

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  The cold and last night's rain must've put the redwing blackbirds' gas at a peep, so no shrieking sneak-attacks for me. I did have to negotiate right of way with a very proper gander, though. He was out promenading with his Lady and did not like the cut of my jib one bit.

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  I was hoping not to see any purple signs this byelection, but alas the PPC has a candidate in SW Scarborough. Eww.

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  What did Kurt Vonnegut do to deserve such shit movie versions of his books? The Slaughterhouse 5 movie is forgettable. The Breakfast of Champions movie is complete mince. The Slapstick movie is (reportedly) unwatchable.

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  all the milestone issues are closed, roll on #MicroPython 1.28.0 ... https://github.com/micropython/micropython/milestone/12

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  I wonder what I can do with a 2017 13 inch MacBook Air? 1.8 GHz dual core Core i5, 8 GB RAM. Apple abandoned it at Mac OS 12.7.6. I haven't powered it on for more than a year, but it's up and charging now