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Bob Jonkman
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Fan of #aNONradio, computer wrangler, #SysAdmin, #GreenParty politicus, #Biking, #CommunityRadio techie. Located in #WaterlooRegion, #Ontario, #Canada […]

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Best part of starting to clean out my home office room is that I found a bunch more stickers, so my laptop is way better prepared to face the world now.
December 7, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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@bobjonkman I like that one!
December 3, 2025 at 2:01 AM
@gnomon

"Jewelry" or "Bricks".
December 3, 2025 at 1:32 AM
The @kwlug meeting is underway! Here's @uxmark's online presentation of @CyclingGuide

Mark gives a shoutout to all the followers on Mastodon!

https://kwlug.org/node/1447

#waterlooregion #biking Cycling #kwlug #openstreetmap
December 2, 2025 at 1:40 AM
@sundogplanets

I haven't seen anyone call them a "dickie" (although Wikipedia does list it as an alternate name).

My Mom always called them dickies, and coincidentally I just found the bag with my Mom's dickies that I was going to use for biking.

Until we […]

[Original post on mastodon.sdf.org]
December 1, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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Nice to know from replies that there is a wide range of different names to call the neck-tube thing! (which I did not know existed before living in Saskatchewan, and now wear every day for probably ~1/3 of the year)

This is the pattern for my favourite one (the one that I need to find...) and […]
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mastodon.social
November 30, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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My father cleaning the snow off the windows of the truck
November 29, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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What makes you an "experienced" knitter is you figured out how to fix them rather than setting your entire yarn stash and half your clothes on fire and running away screaming and just buying your socks at walmart.
November 28, 2025 at 5:52 AM
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And then ... I very carefully reworked a half-round of stitches.... in the wrong direction.

Second try worked. 😵‍💫

I had to drop every-other-stich down two rows and pick them back up in the correct colours from the floats behind.

I am the living proof of what the Yarn Harlot said about […]
Original post on cosocial.ca
cosocial.ca
November 28, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Rules:

• Grab the nearest book.
• Turn to page 42.
• Find the 2nd sentence.
• Post the sentence in a post with the hashtags and write the rules as a comment.
• Don’t look for your favourite, coolest or wittiest book. Go for the closest.
November 19, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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Rules:

• Grab the nearest book.
• Turn to page 42.
• Find the 2nd sentence.
• Post the sentence in a post with the hashtags and write the rules as a comment.
• Don’t look for your favourite, coolest or wittiest book. Go for the closest.
November 19, 2025 at 2:38 AM