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• Post #4292616

  hoping for a morning update on the situation in Boston Bar because mannn it seems like bad scene down there. some structure losses seem inevitable at this point but hopefully they manage to save as much as possible and avoid any serious injuries

• Post #4292615

  well that's a feature of GrapheneOS I wasn't previously aware of US citizen returning from vacation allegedly provided U.S. border agents with a "duress" passcode that wiped the contents of his phone when they entered it https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/24/us-accuses-american-of-allegedly-wiping-his-phone-using-a-duress-password-during-border-search/

• Post #4292614

  good news for BC 🙏 > The BC Wildfire Service says 25 Yukon firefighters will arrive on July 27 with 66 members of Alberta Wildfire showing up the following day. On Aug. 3, 114 personnel from Mexico will arrive. https://www.castanet.net/news/BC/626050/B-C-bringing-in-wildfire-reinforcements

• Post #4292613

  some real monkey's paw energy in this update on the Clinton fire lolsob "Where the fire has crossed Highway 97, east of Clinton it is burning into an old burn scar, which is helping to decrease fire activity and behaviour as fuels are sparse." https://wildfiresituation.nrs.gov.bc.ca/incidents?fireYear=2026&incidentNumber=C40983&source=map

• Post #4292612

  I'm not saying I have a great security mindset, but my first thought on this was "throwing some junk into your annoying neighbour's recycling bin seems like a great way to get them fined $500" 😅 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/contaminated-recycling-wishcycling-9.7279807

• Post #4292611

  wild. not sad to see it go, but that thing's probably a more iconic Sudbury landmark than the Big Nickel, lol https://www.sootoday.com/local-news/vale-contractor-chips-away-at-sudburys-superstack-12597659

• Post #4292610

  M7.1 quake in Kumamoto, Kyushu, Japan. 😥 https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/07/28/japan/strong-earthquake-kyushu/

• Post #4292609

  115. votes. we were 115 fucking votes from not electing this fucking disaster as our MPP. https://www.sootoday.com/local-news/chris-scott-affair-staffer-arrested-spousal-abuse-12599538

• Post #4292608

  welp! good a time as any to start looking for other local coffee options https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/tim-hortons-harry-potter-jk-rowling-9.7287100

• Post #4292607

  christ these guys are going to negatively polarize me into giving a shit about this airport aren't they https://www.thestar.com/politics/provincial/billy-bishop-airport-expansion-isnt-dead-ford-minister-insists/article_39cd7268-b51f-47bc-a0db-b46378156780.html

• Post #4292606

  things I actually got to write at work today: "Time cannot stand still, no matter how forcibly the user legislates against it."

• Post #3860872

  "the wildfire smoke has provided some relief from the heatwave by blotting out the sun" feels like real monkey's paw shit

• Post #2142128

  sign of spring: forgs are back 😊 🐸

• Post #1924800

  ah yes, just checking in on the party of "Governments shouldn't pick winners & losers" > Budget airlines pitch US government assistance on $2.5 billion relief plan, WSJ reports https://www.reuters.com/business/budget-airlines-pitch-us-government-assistance-25-billion-relief-plan-wsj-2026-04-27/

• Post #1924799

  wild to have a mayor of NYC who understands football. is there anything this guy doesn't know or can't do? https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-28/new-york-announces-five-free-fifa-world-cup-fan-zones/106614404

• Post #1924798

  watching Rs contemplate a bajillion dollar bailout for low-cost airlines...who are in financial trouble partly due to skyrocketing fuel costs I simply would not have bombed the living shit out of the region that the rest of the world gets most of its oil from

• Post #1924797

  rescuing a moose then wrapping him up in blankets in your front yard so he can recover must be one of the most canadian things possible https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/tow-truck-driver-rescues-moose-trapped-in-ice-9.7180811

• Post #1924796

  mannn they demolished the Frederick St Bridge! is the Highway 7 expansion that's been promised since I was in uni actually happening? 😅 https://www.ctvnews.ca/kitchener/article/frederick-street-bridge-finally-comes-down/

• Post #1924794

  re: lb, maybe instead of buying electronics, you would prefer a "Since the images are completely black, I cannot fulfill the request. I am unable to generate a title based on a blank image. If you can provide a valid image, I am happy to create a title" https://www.amazon.ca/completely-fulfill-request-generate-provide/dp/B0FS5LVB86

• Post #1924793

  idk man, has the city considered actually fixing the potholes themselves > Montreal warns vigilante pavers to stop patching potholes https://montrealgazette.com/news/montreal-tells-vigilante-pavers-to-stop-patching-city-potholes/

• Post #1924792

  #TravelMoose has excellent foraging skills; he managed to find berries even in Toronto. 😋

• Post #1327117

  @vaurora not sure if you've seen this vid before, but it still slays me every time too. complete with eurobeat soundtrack & everything 😂 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByWdhCECS_8

• Post #996621

  mannnn not great when you find a security incident runbook that's like # Scenario: Horse Escape Remediation steps: 1. Close the barn door. 2. Admonish devs not to open barn door in future. 3. Mark incident as resolved.

• Post #963894

  freezing rain here in #TheSoo for the last half hour or so. one of those days where you want a cup of tea for spiritual reassurance as much as physical warmth 😅

• Post #963893

  shocking reveal: telling all your friends & allies to fuck off results in all your friends & allies fucking off https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/01/trump-to-declare-iran-war-is-winding-down-and-others-need-to-resolve-hormuz-00854265

• Post #963892

  mannn it's a real choice to try and claim you're not Maple MAGA, then pull this kind of elmu/DOGE bullshit frankly the MPs should be asking Poilievre to prove his value, not the other way round! but that ship has already sailed, lolsob > Conservative MPs bristle as Pierre Poilievre asks them to justify their roles https://www.thestar.com/politics/political-opinion/conservative-mps-bristle-as-pierre-poilievre-asks-them-to-justify-their-roles/article_91ae5e9f-22e3-4d8c...

• Post #963891

  elsenet: American polisci prof trying to argue that the USA is still a more reliable partner than China Canadian replies "at least China has the decency to stab us in the front" and I haven't read anything that real in a long damn time 😂💀

• Post #963890

  too real, lolsob "After years of overlapping crises, Irish people have “run out of shock” and are “emotionally checking out”" https://www.irishtimes.com/life-style/people/2026/04/04/the-irish-public-has-accepted-chaos-is-no-longer-temporary-and-instead-are-tuning-out/

• Post #963888

  always somewhat smug when I can read a passage that machine translation screws up, lol 😏

• Post #805002

  some folks seem puzzled by the Air Canada + both official languages thing, and understandably so as in, aren't they a private company? why do they have to operate in both English & French? not quite 🙃 Air Canada used to be a crown corporation. when a deal was reached to privatize it, back in the 1980s, the gov't set out several conditions for that to happen. these are laid out in the Air Canada Public Participation Act: https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/a-10.1...