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hewer_of_code@mstdn.ca

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    Kind of depressing to think that all of the terriers in the Terriers song (Kids in the Hall) have long since passed away.

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    I&amp;#39;m not saying every modern conservative is a loser who can&amp;#39;t accept defeat, but being a loser who can&amp;#39;t accept defeat sure does seem to be a core part of modern conservatism.

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    🤔 I have been going out of my way to watch PWHL and NSL games, as well as whatever our national women&amp;#39;s teams are doing in any sport, e.g. rugby. When the sports are in season, I&amp;#39;ve had no trouble finding things to watch. https://www.cbc.ca/sports/womens-sport-report-discoverability-9.7399191

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    The Canadian music scene feels kind of dead.

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    The modern conservative movement does not believe in democracy.

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    I see this on the same day I see the government has $8,000,000,000 for the Ontario Competitiveness Tax Cut. https://www.thetrillium.ca/news/health/ontario-hallway-health-unprecedented-12927163?utm_source=mstdn.ca&amp;amp;utm_medium=mastodon #ontario #onpoli #canada #cdnpoli

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    Look westerners. You did what you did with daylight savings time. I am not doing any conversions for you anymore. All times will be given in Eastern Time only from now.

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    RE: https://mstdn.ca/@hewer_of_code/117525638498488159 You kind of see what a shit leader Doug Ford is when he pins his decision on what to do daylight savings time to whatever New York is doing. I think BC is dumb for choosing &amp;#39;permanent DST&amp;#39; but at least they made that decision on their own.

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    Mastodon should add a feature where other people can add/edit alt text.

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    BC showed us what to do with electoral shenanigans. Can we count on Alberta to do the same if the UCP tries to go through with the gerrymandering they&amp;#39;ve been hinting at?

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    There&amp;#39;s a global rubber shortfall? Anyone know a province having a hard time dealing with an excess of rubber? https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10-30/buried-mining-tyres-going-to-waste-amid-global-rubber-shortfall/107322306 #ontario #Onpoli

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    @intothewestaway@mastodonapp.uk I was scrolling through CBC Gem&#39;s sports offerings, and saw Mackenzie Barwell is doing a thing tomorrow for Canada&#39;s pro cricket tournament. Seems OneSoccer/CanPL is contributing not just to the soccer ecosystem, but also to the sports ecosystem more broadly. I do not normally watch cricket, but I&#39;ll be checking it out. I&#39;m also impressed that they&#39;ve organized a pro competition for a sport that is still pretty niche in Canada.

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    Whenever Trump talks shit about #Canada my reaction is just &quot;Put that on a T-shirt. I&#39;ll wear that.&quot;

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    Given Poilievre&#39;s obsession with tax cuts to solve every economic problem, you could describe him as mono-maniacal. Given his fixation on slogans, you could also describe him as motto-maniacal.

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    Poilievre&#39;s role in the Harper government was attack dog. I don&#39;t think he&#39;s able to shake whatever is that made him suitable for that role, and that makes him unsuitable as leader. Why does he look so awkward trying to be Ordinary Guy? Because it&#39;s not part of his core persona.

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    Can&#39;t talk now. Building a Mechanical Turk.

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    Based on that first poll, I&#39;m somewhat jealous of BC now, seeing the electorate turn on the NDP for their opportunism. Wish Ontario would have done the same to the PCs when Doug Ford called the last election.

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    The Ontario legislature had 130 seats until 1999, when it dropped to 103 and aligned with the federal riding boundaries. There are now 124 ridings. They no longer align with the federal boundaries, and they&#39;re based on population data from 2011, with no indication that they&#39;ll be redistributed. #Ontario #Onpoli

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    Along with the net favourability score, they should publish a &#39;net familiarity score&#39;, calculated as the difference between the percentage of people with a positive or negative view and the percentage of people who don&#39;t know.

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    What&#39;s the opposite of naval gazing?

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    They say that our values are things like freedom, democracy, and rule of law, but our real values are cheap gas.

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    This was a good weekend for Canadian Rugby. The men&#39;s team beat the higher ranked US team. The women&#39;s team tied England, having a much better game against them than the Women&#39;s Rugby World Cup final, and breaking their 39 game winning streak. #Canada #Cdnsports

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    One of my free market capitalist takes is that if free market capitalism is so awesome, it shouldn&#39;t need incentives. The free market capitalism is supposed to be the incentive!

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    I don&#39;t know if I was living in a bubble before, but it really seems like people stopped stopping at stop signs since, say, 2019. I see the same driver behaviour at the intersection where my kids wait for the school bus. It&#39;s a 4 way stop, but even rolling stops can&#39;t be counted on.

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    This is brutal, and it&#39;s the 2nd time it happened in a week. Thank goodness nobody was seriously hurt. (The removal of speed cameras and the impending removal of bike lanes also get mentions.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECgM7TvBqNo #Toronto #TOPoli #ONtario #Onpoli

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    How have the Japanese beetles been in your area? I noticed there there were very noticeably fewer of them this year around here (Lake Simcoe area). I asked my sisters, and one sister, who lives in Brantford, said she has seen very few. No response yet from the other sister. #Ontario

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    Apple&#39;s Macintosh brand (now just Mac) is named after the McIntosh apple. It&#39;s one of the USA&#39;s most iconic brands. The McIntosh apple is Canada&#39;s national apple. It&#39;s Canada&#39;s national apple because it originated here. Was it Trump who said the USA doesn&#39;t need anything from Canada?

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    2nd through 5th best Canadian clubs, according to the CONCACAF club rankings.

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    RE: https://mstdn.ca/@hewer_of_code/117038058366674843 Well, the bug excitement just doesn&#39;t end today. I mowed the lawn this evening, and just I was heading back inside, I spotted something crawling on my milkweed. It was a monarch caterpillar! I was sort of hoping, but not expecting, that growing milkweed would play host to a monarch caterpillar. I mainly just wanted to feed them.

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    I&#39;m putting people who say things like &quot;an LLM has anxiety because it produces text like someone who does&quot; and people who say things like &quot;an LLM is a compiler because I never look at the code it produces&quot; in the same bin.