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  No no no. Not Jean Luc Picard. 😭😭😭😭 Mon capitain.

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  I just got told that the words "Palestinian genocide" are by definition anti semitic. I can't even right now.

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  The markets don't like Lula's win but the other 99% of the world population would like to thank Brazil for not going full stupid.

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@mattsheffield/117472291100644587 If Canada wasn't busy trying to screw over people and pander to the anti immigrant peeps, we would be the biggest beneficiary of Trump's anti intellectual policies. So many great students trying to get here who can't get visas because Carney.

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  My local city Council candidate has an ad that immediately tells me she knows absolutely nothing about getting the city moving. The words "coordinated traffic planning" lost my vote right away. It's already as coordinated as it's going to get. Get people out of cars you car brained turd.

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  I really hate that the two leading choices for mayor of Toronto are: 1. I'm a proud climate change denier, woman hater, and trans women don't exist. 2. I believe in climate change but we still have to fuck it protect union jobs.

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  All the US midterms news reminds me that it's only been 2 years since 2.0 got unleashed on the world.

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  Just saw an ad selling something and it said "AI surveillance for smarter living" and I'm genuinely wondering who that is supposed to appeal to. I would think most people would run a those words but now I'm questioning the sanity of so many people and wondering if that truly appeals.

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  As I tell my communication students, all safety protocols are written in blood. This is the kind of thing that will rewrite safety protocols. It's also a reminder that climate change is real. Whatever protocols we had in place before (if there were any) assumes a climate that is not the same as it is now. Forest fires are far more prevalent now than they were a half century ago because of the warmer weather. We've denied climate change as long as we can already. We must remind pe...

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  Pfft. As enlightened as the rest of them. White guy supports ban on female ordination of an Asian religion. The best thing I ever did for myself was take a religious studies course in University. At the time, I was lost. I was trying to break away from the Church that my mom dragged me to as a kid. I was struggling with ideas of going to hell, losing family, and add that to the suicide of my best friend. I was in a pretty bad place. I bought myself copies of every major religious works,...

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  I'd like to make an official entry into the #carryshitolympics.

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  I'm hoping it says something about me as an instructor that 60/62 students submitted their first assignment on time. One has an extension as they enrolled in the course the day it was due. So out of 62, only 1 AWOL assignment and could very be one of the accommodation students - haven't checked yet. As a TA, I don't think I ever saw more than 80% submitted on time. Class seems to be taking me seriously. #AcademicChatter

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  I just want to send some love today to anyone suffering from trauma. It's something we don't talk about enough. I had a relatively small bout of trauma from seeing one of my kids get injured. Last night I had another nasty nightmare about a child being injured. Its the kind of nightmare I wake up from screaming. I can't imagine what living with major trauma is like. Just want to send some love today. I'm sure there are lots of people going through stuff suffering silently....

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  Not even good Cantonese. With all the available Cantonese media out there, the huge HK media market of the 90s, they couldn't even pirate enough good Cantonese to make a bot that speaks it properly. https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/tilly-norwood-glitches-piers-morgan-switches-language-speaks-cantonese-9.7352222

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  I'm hanging out at the park and there are two other cargo bikes parked on the side. We will need more space for cargo bikes. Better than making space for cars though.

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  When they say a higher tax rate will disincentize the rich from working more, why is the answer not "great!"? Let someone less rich do the work

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  RE: https://climatejustice.social/@chu/117283927596792623 Update on this. Day 1 of riding with a speaker. One person about to step into the bike lane looked back and did not step in front of me! It's working!

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  I used to think it was obnoxious of cyclists to blast loud music as they went by. Then I realized I was constantly on my bell dinging away as nobody looks at me... so why not blast music? I just ordered one of those speakers that you can attach to a bike handle and trying to figure it out now. Looks like I can put music on a stick and play it. So far, I have the entire Thriller album on there. What else is good biking music to annoy the jerks parked in bike lanes?

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  All of Sheeran's support acts show us what solidarity looks like and why it's important. None of us can fight the power and influence of the billionaire lobby alone. We must stand together. Sheeran is too much of a coward, but I respect the people who stood behind Mackelmore, even at their own professional expense. Solidarity. Sheeran is shining bright as the ass he truly is in this saga. Political neutrality is a joke. That's another word for Nazi. https://globalnews.ca/news/...

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  Got a good reminder today about how small things can make a big difference. First lecture for a cohort of data science students. I teach communications. We talked about how data doesn't speak for itself. It ust be contextualized... and it will get politicized. I said it would be used and abused in fights like women's rights, trans rights, minority rights... Data is never apolitical. A student came up to me telling me how refreshing I was and was nearly in tears as they said no pro...

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  Another update on getting kids a device when they start to walk to and from school alone. My stance on "no" has not changed. Today is a big day for 11. Both kids had to get themselves to grandparents alone. Got fed, and 11 biked alone to taekwondo. I didn't ask for this but I did let people know 11 would be unsupervised till I got there. I got a update from grandparents when they left and just got an update from another friend that they arrived. I will die on this hill - Comm...

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  RE: https://techhub.social/@NSFVoyager2/117274945554081393 Could very well be all that alien anthropologists have of us.

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  A thought about family, community, trust, and privilege. I used to be very careful not to leave the house without my wallet and always carried some emergency cash in an inner pocket just in case. Not only did I stop double checking a long time ago, today, I noticed I deliberately left my wallet at home to have less to carry (as long as it's not a planned shopping run). Granted I'm not going far. I'm in the neighbourhood. Despite being out and about for several hours, I know I&#39...

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  Doc has me off wheat and dairy for 3 months to help diagnose some GI issues. Please send me your Wheat-Free, Dairy-Free life hacks. I am one week in and questioning so many life choices right now.

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  The 11yo is totally ready to be a parent "We're going to the bike park today?!?! Yay!!!!! Oh. Bring some bandages!"

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  I painfully have to call my health insurance company (this is Canada, not even the US). "For safety and security, we sent you a pin to your phone..." "The person you are calling is not taking calls right now. Try again later" And that was that. It just ended. WTF

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  I decided I like the Chinese term for the Milky Way more than English. They call it 星河 -star river. What else do people call it in other places? Edit: in Chinese it is also known as 銀河 - silver river. Star river is an older term for it it seems. I still like both over milky way.

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  That fuckery that's happening to Fauci right now... Yeah. That's literally fascism

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  The Web is so broken now. There's a very specific board game I'm interested in so tried to search. First non FB hit was taobao, a store I don't care to order from. So clicked down a few links. Could not get past security verification on one site, then needed an account to even view the product on another. It's like the Internet doesn't actually exist anymore.

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  Saw a superyacht and wishing orcas came to the great lakes.