Does this evening make two days in a row with no t'storm warning? 🤔
#yegWx
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"I suppose none of you are sitting on a thistle by any chance?"
"I believe I am," said Pooh. "Ow!"
He got up and looked behind him.
"Yes, I was.
"I thought so."
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@Daveography@yeg.bike
@Daveography@yeg.bike @famousringo@mstdn.ca Yes, the form offers only choices that express the badness of bike lanes. I figured that if I picked the least offensive badness and entered text expressing my bike-positive opinion I would be counted as someone against bike lanes. 😞
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@msh@coales.co
@msh@coales.co Thank you. You know how I worry when you're MIA Sunday evenings! 😄
#monsterdon
Sadly, a third of the tree across the street blew down during the high winds and heavy rain from earlier this evening. #yegWx 😟
Green ash?
"Someone asked me the other day if I still felt proud to be an Albertan. The question caught me short..."
--Paula Simons
https://forwardweekly.ca/alberta-i-know-canada-we-need
#abpoli
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@Lana@beige.party
@Lana@beige.party That is an unusually astute and entertaining take, thank you!
The Parable of the Sandwiches.
"Failing grades soar as professors see greater AI usage, dwindling math skills in UC Berkeley computer science classes." 😂
https://www.dailycal.org/news/campus/academics/failing-grades-soar-as-professors-see-greater-ai-usage-dwindling-math-skills-in-uc-berkeley/article_16fad0bf-02cb-4b8c-8d88-888ffd9f8608.html
Good quality, free-for-now compost.
The twisted story of how the UCP encouraged the growth of Alberta's population while halving the the province's support of city budgets. Plus the premier's apparent plan to gerrymander city ridings.
https://thewalrus.ca/alberta-called-people-came-and-now-cities-are-stuck-carrying-the-costs/
🇨🇦 federal bill C22 is a thin and dangerous wedge. Law enforcement around the globe has wanted access to 100% of our digital lives for some time.
https://dontsurveil.me/c22.html
(Signal says they will cut off service to Canadians rather than obey.)
Went to The Soban Sushi & Asian Taste for the first time. Totally yummers.
8943 Whyte Ave. Used to be near 75 and Whyte. #yegFood
"Canada's Fernandez, Mboko to square off in Strasbourg quarterfinals"
https://www.sportsnet.ca/wta/article/canadas-leylah-fernandez-advances-to-quarterfinals-at-strasbourg-international/
A Canadian will make it to the semis!
Go vs NestJS; made me laugh (emphasis mine):
"The explicit error handling that makes Go safe also makes it repetitive. Expect to write if err != nil hundreds of times. Some developers find it MEDITATIVE."
Dumpster fire on wheels? Just now, near 75 and 82 Ave, YEG.
Montreal eliminates Buffalo in OT!! #nhl
I thought the Sabres had Big Mo going but the Habs are for real.
Ooh, Pringles with 50% less sodium, therefore 50% less guilt...
Ugh, hard no.
Holy moly Batman! It takes 4 to 8 hours for a fresh build of Chrome browser on an average developer's machine.
Hannah Fry describes how a large flock of birds can swoop about together without a leader.
https://youtube.com/shorts/z-rSAGTVAPk?si=-l_zVT0pBkui_vvB
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@michaelgemar@cosocial.ca
@michaelgemar@cosocial.ca @alexwild@mastodon.online
Sneaky tramps... Harsh for such beautiful creatures. 😅
I have to clean up some mouse droppings and luckily stumbled on this...
"Droppings should not be swept or vacuumed, the agency said. Instead, residents should spray the area with a disinfectant or a mixture of one part bleach to nine parts water, and let it soak for 10 minutes.
"The soaked droppings can be wiped up with paper towels or a mop. When finished cleaning, residents should wash their gloves in disinfectant and hot, soapy water before taking them off, and then thoroughly wash their hands"
https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/spring-cleaning-hantavirus-protection-9.7196501
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@aarbrk@mstdn.mx
@aarbrk@mstdn.mx Named in the photo's alt text: "nail driver". Lee Valley sells them.
TIL there is a tool that makes driving small nails into wood (in my case, quarter inch dowling) much easier.
We planted an Evans Cherry tree and a Hardi-Mac apple tree late last summer. So happy to see they survived their first winter!
This photo is of the cherry tree. Probably. Yeah, I think this is the cherry tree. 😄
#caturday Almost 20 years ago, when Spencer and Kate were learning about 'puters 😸
Recently the City of Edmonton announced yet another reorg. If you know someone who has worked for the city for a while, ask them how about this and past reorgs. Be prepared to listen for a while and to be supportive.
#yegPoli
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@Aaron_DeVries@mastodon.social
@Aaron_DeVries@mastodon.social
@sundogplanets@mastodon.social
Inexpensive satellites, aluminum-free! 😀
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@maleve@zeroes.ca
@maleve ☝️
>> The Vatican was so alarmed by the Pentagon’s warning that Pope Leo cancelled his plans to visit the U.S. later in the year, reported Hale, who noted that “many in the Vatican saw the Pentagon’s reference to an Avignon papacy as a threat to use military force against the Holy See.”
WTAF
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@puzzled@coales.co
@hrheingold
macOS Pages users can also export to EPUB and Plain Text (although plain text does not work for you).
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@hrheingold@mastodon.social
@hrheingold No worries. I don't use #Pages but I'm pretty sure you can export your story as a PDF.
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@jack_daniel@mastodon.social
@jack_daniel
TIL a poet named Gil Scott-Heron wrote "Whitey on the Moon", nominally about the first moon landing.
https://genius.com/Gil-scott-heron-whitey-on-the-moon-annotated
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@hrheingold@mastodon.social
@hrheingold Nice idea.
BTW, the URL is for a Pages file, not readily viewable on Android.
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@jonsnow@mastodon.online
@jonsnow@mastodon.online @GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social
That's depressing. At least Apple & Google aren't in bed with the world's biggest orange tyrant. 😑
Interesting commentary on Avi Lewis's win.
https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026/03/31/Albertas-Panicked-Media-Warn/
>> To give Alberta Premier Danielle Smith her due, she made me laugh out loud in CTV’s social media clip when she offered this evidence of the federal NDP’s drift toward Socialism with Canadian Characteristics. “They want everyone to have a heat pump!”
and
>> The national NDP is now dominated by what was not so long ago its ideological fringe, just as the UCP under Danielle Smith is now dominated by what, as recently as during former premier Jason Kenney’s leadership, was the Alberta Conservative movement’s ideological fringe.
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@satchmo35@mas.to
@satchmo35@mas.to I remember Lewis, Camp and a third person (?) on a weekly CBC TV political panel back in the day.
Lewis's voice in the UN was strong.
I admired him greatly.
Stephen Lewis, 1937 -- 2026
>> In a statement on its website, the Stephen Lewis Foundation said Lewis "touched countless people's lives with his relentless work for social justice and human rights."
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/stephen-lewis-obituary-9.7148606
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@dyckron__dup_33177@mstdn.ca
@dyckron For fans of infosec, this post ☝️ is interesting.
>> "You cannot bolt on security," says Perrig. "You cannot get to a truly secure global network unless you actually change the design. It's like saying you want to go to the Moon, so let's put rocket boosters on an airplane. No, you have to design the vehicle differently.
They replaced BGP!