Michael Druker
@mdruker.app
Cities, justice, bad jokes. Dad. Immigrant 🇨🇦⬅️🇺🇸⬅️Ru. Staff eng on break, advocate at @tritag.ca, bsky tinkerer at @feeds.mdruker.app. he/him. Support 🇺🇦
📍 Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario
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📍 Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario
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Michael Druker
@mdruker.app
· Jan 27
I don’t know who needs to hear this but you should try — within reason — to make personal choices that are better for society, even knowing that personal choices are not sufficient for addressing large systemic issues. Just be normal about it.
customer service: For extra verification, please answer this security question you provided.
me [sweating as I open 1Password]: OK.
customer service: What was the first concert you attended?
me: Um... airline unity gates homey agree.
me [trying to play it cool]: They were pretty good I guess
me [sweating as I open 1Password]: OK.
customer service: What was the first concert you attended?
me: Um... airline unity gates homey agree.
me [trying to play it cool]: They were pretty good I guess
November 11, 2025 at 6:53 PM
customer service: For extra verification, please answer this security question you provided.
me [sweating as I open 1Password]: OK.
customer service: What was the first concert you attended?
me: Um... airline unity gates homey agree.
me [trying to play it cool]: They were pretty good I guess
me [sweating as I open 1Password]: OK.
customer service: What was the first concert you attended?
me: Um... airline unity gates homey agree.
me [trying to play it cool]: They were pretty good I guess
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One pilot in Canada took to the skies for a #RemembranceDay tribute. Dimitri Neonakis has a history of special sky art in Canada, most recently a flight path supporting the Toronto Blue Jays in the World Series. See www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraf... for playback of this flight and others.
November 11, 2025 at 5:41 PM
One pilot in Canada took to the skies for a #RemembranceDay tribute. Dimitri Neonakis has a history of special sky art in Canada, most recently a flight path supporting the Toronto Blue Jays in the World Series. See www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraf... for playback of this flight and others.
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Decoration Day, Armistice Day and Remembrance Day have all been days to honour Canada's veterans.
For a time, our day of remembrance fell on the same day as Thanksgiving.
But Remembrance Day as we know it has been celebrated 1931.
This is the story.
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For a time, our day of remembrance fell on the same day as Thanksgiving.
But Remembrance Day as we know it has been celebrated 1931.
This is the story.
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November 11, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Decoration Day, Armistice Day and Remembrance Day have all been days to honour Canada's veterans.
For a time, our day of remembrance fell on the same day as Thanksgiving.
But Remembrance Day as we know it has been celebrated 1931.
This is the story.
🧵 1/9
For a time, our day of remembrance fell on the same day as Thanksgiving.
But Remembrance Day as we know it has been celebrated 1931.
This is the story.
🧵 1/9
Friends don't let friends build things they care about with VC
Maybe the biggest fumble of my lifetime lol
Rad Power Bikes faces possible shutdown as it tries to survive ‘significant financial challenges’
A potential closure, detailed in a required state filing, would spell the end of the company and mark a stunning collapse for Rad Power Bikes, which was once Seattle’s highest-profile consumer hardwar...
www.geekwire.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Friends don't let friends build things they care about with VC
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Camera guy Dave will be steaming the ceremony:
CTV Kitchener will have a livestream of the Remembrance Day Ceremony at the cenotaph on Duke Street in downtown Kitchener. You can watch Tuesday’s livestream on this page. The service is scheduled to start at 10:45 a.m.
www.ctvnews.ca/kitchener/ar...
CTV Kitchener will have a livestream of the Remembrance Day Ceremony at the cenotaph on Duke Street in downtown Kitchener. You can watch Tuesday’s livestream on this page. The service is scheduled to start at 10:45 a.m.
www.ctvnews.ca/kitchener/ar...
Where to watch Remembrance Day Ceremonies
Here’s a list of local Remembrance Day ceremonies and other events around our region on Nov. 11.
www.ctvnews.ca
November 11, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Camera guy Dave will be steaming the ceremony:
CTV Kitchener will have a livestream of the Remembrance Day Ceremony at the cenotaph on Duke Street in downtown Kitchener. You can watch Tuesday’s livestream on this page. The service is scheduled to start at 10:45 a.m.
www.ctvnews.ca/kitchener/ar...
CTV Kitchener will have a livestream of the Remembrance Day Ceremony at the cenotaph on Duke Street in downtown Kitchener. You can watch Tuesday’s livestream on this page. The service is scheduled to start at 10:45 a.m.
www.ctvnews.ca/kitchener/ar...
The normies want blood but are being given milquetoast
I do think this is a point of radicalization because a lot of angry, angry normal people were ready to dig in and suffer a lot in order to make fascists suffer a little, and their resolution was sold out and made into a mockery
November 11, 2025 at 2:17 PM
The normies want blood but are being given milquetoast
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As I’m sure you already know, the Edmund Fitzgerald met her doom 50 years ago today. In honor of this somber occasion, here’s a very detailed bathymetric map of Lake Superior.
November 11, 2025 at 5:21 AM
As I’m sure you already know, the Edmund Fitzgerald met her doom 50 years ago today. In honor of this somber occasion, here’s a very detailed bathymetric map of Lake Superior.
Welcome new followers! While you’re here, don’t forget about Ukraine, whose cities Russia is trying daily to cut off from electricity and heat as winter approaches. Donate to their defense:
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November 11, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Welcome new followers! While you’re here, don’t forget about Ukraine, whose cities Russia is trying daily to cut off from electricity and heat as winter approaches. Donate to their defense:
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Every time someone’s like “put that in the louvre,” my head now goes “and then steal it from the louvre, the security password is louvre”
November 11, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Every time someone’s like “put that in the louvre,” my head now goes “and then steal it from the louvre, the security password is louvre”
Canada has basically no manufacturers of shoes, but still a number of manufacturers of boots. I wonder what could possibly explain it
November 11, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Canada has basically no manufacturers of shoes, but still a number of manufacturers of boots. I wonder what could possibly explain it
I love rooting for mayoral candidates in cities I’ve never been to
November 11, 2025 at 1:54 AM
I love rooting for mayoral candidates in cities I’ve never been to
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mayor-elect mamdani, my people are suffering under the 1000 year doug ford imperium, please send bodega cats to annex southern ontario
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Ontario Provincial Polling:
PCPO: 51% (+8)
OLP: 23% (-7)
ONDP: 19% (-)
GPO: 3% (-2)
Others: 4%
Abacus / Nov 6, 2025 / n=1000 / Online
(% Change with 2025 Election)
Check out more ON details on @338Canada at: www.338canada.com/ontario
Ontario Provincial Polling:
PCPO: 51% (+8)
OLP: 23% (-7)
ONDP: 19% (-)
GPO: 3% (-2)
Others: 4%
Abacus / Nov 6, 2025 / n=1000 / Online
(% Change with 2025 Election)
Check out more ON details on @338Canada at: www.338canada.com/ontario
November 11, 2025 at 12:03 AM
mayor-elect mamdani, my people are suffering under the 1000 year doug ford imperium, please send bodega cats to annex southern ontario
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every single week they're throwing this guy a special oval office love-in that appears to be the presidential equivalent of letting your dog scarf an entire big mac and fries before that last trip to the vet
Pirro: "Mr President, there is in this room a group of people who love you, who believe in you, and who are so proud to be in this Oval Office and to be part of this amazing day because you have changed the course of America."
November 10, 2025 at 9:10 PM
every single week they're throwing this guy a special oval office love-in that appears to be the presidential equivalent of letting your dog scarf an entire big mac and fries before that last trip to the vet
Speed cameras could prevent behaviour like this, but Doug Ford banned them
Driver in Woolwich charged with travelling nearly 100 km/h over the speed limit
www.therecord.com/news/waterlo...
www.therecord.com/news/waterlo...
Driver in Woolwich charged with travelling nearly 100 km/h over the speed limit
Range Rover caught doing 174 km/h in Woolwich Township
www.therecord.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Speed cameras could prevent behaviour like this, but Doug Ford banned them
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two people at spadina carrying sleds down the stairs into the subway, winter in toronto has officially begun ❄️
November 10, 2025 at 10:53 PM
two people at spadina carrying sleds down the stairs into the subway, winter in toronto has officially begun ❄️
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He hasn't been seen or heard from since this happened. No one knows where he is
RFK Jr's response to someone collapsing nearby him was to haul ass out of the room as quickly as possible
November 10, 2025 at 11:00 PM
He hasn't been seen or heard from since this happened. No one knows where he is
Imagine caring about how many exhaust tips a car has
November 10, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Imagine caring about how many exhaust tips a car has
On the one hand, the hashtag resistance crew on here is not exactly what I want my social media feed to look like. On the other hand, they seem keen to refresh the tree of liberty with the blood of the tyrants, so I will let them cook
November 10, 2025 at 7:21 PM
On the one hand, the hashtag resistance crew on here is not exactly what I want my social media feed to look like. On the other hand, they seem keen to refresh the tree of liberty with the blood of the tyrants, so I will let them cook
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MPP @aislinnclancy.bsky.social and I are hosting an end-of-year party and we'd love to have you join us!
We'll be at Catalyst on Thursday November 27th at 7:15, and I'm thrilled that we'll be joined by the leader of the Green Party of Canada Elizabeth May.
RSVP: app.gvote.ca/rsvp/eve_507...
We'll be at Catalyst on Thursday November 27th at 7:15, and I'm thrilled that we'll be joined by the leader of the Green Party of Canada Elizabeth May.
RSVP: app.gvote.ca/rsvp/eve_507...
November 10, 2025 at 5:29 PM
MPP @aislinnclancy.bsky.social and I are hosting an end-of-year party and we'd love to have you join us!
We'll be at Catalyst on Thursday November 27th at 7:15, and I'm thrilled that we'll be joined by the leader of the Green Party of Canada Elizabeth May.
RSVP: app.gvote.ca/rsvp/eve_507...
We'll be at Catalyst on Thursday November 27th at 7:15, and I'm thrilled that we'll be joined by the leader of the Green Party of Canada Elizabeth May.
RSVP: app.gvote.ca/rsvp/eve_507...
If you’re politically on the side of “government should help build a better world”, it behooves you to care about what policies will actually work
In 2018, then-Mayor Ada Colau called Barcelona’s new 30% inclusionary housing requirement for projects over 600m^2 a “paradigm shift,” making housing “a right and not a commodity.” It was supposed to produce 330 affordable units a year. The reality: just 31 affordable apartments in all these years.
Cuando se ha aprobó esta medida dije repetidamente que iba a ser un fracaso y que no construirían nada de vivienda asequible. Se ha probado en mil sitios y no funciona.
Acerté. www.lavanguardia.com/local/barcel...
Acerté. www.lavanguardia.com/local/barcel...
November 10, 2025 at 5:53 PM
If you’re politically on the side of “government should help build a better world”, it behooves you to care about what policies will actually work
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Unfortunately still true bsky.app/profile/adam...
American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
November 10, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Unfortunately still true bsky.app/profile/adam...
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Also Canadians:
That's my friend riding their winterized unicycle (yes, sometimes we all know each other).
That's my friend riding their winterized unicycle (yes, sometimes we all know each other).
“no one rides in the winter”
Canadians:
Canadians:
Good morning to the person who passed me on a winterized unicycle (?!) as I was walking to the LRT this morning.
November 10, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Also Canadians:
That's my friend riding their winterized unicycle (yes, sometimes we all know each other).
That's my friend riding their winterized unicycle (yes, sometimes we all know each other).
“no one rides in the winter”
Canadians:
Canadians:
Good morning to the person who passed me on a winterized unicycle (?!) as I was walking to the LRT this morning.
November 10, 2025 at 2:20 PM
“no one rides in the winter”
Canadians:
Canadians:
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Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...