Darcy Casselman
@flyingsquirrel.ca
I'm mostly over at @flyingsquirrel.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy. You can always find (reasonably) up-to-date socials on http://darcycasselman.com
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I can’t find great US data, but in Canada it ranges from 68% of people in BC using winter tires to 100% in Quebec (where they’re mandatory).
November 26, 2025 at 2:56 AM
I can’t find great US data, but in Canada it ranges from 68% of people in BC using winter tires to 100% in Quebec (where they’re mandatory).
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This was a fun read! I love a good Canadianism and as someone who called something a "gong show" as recently as yesterday I had no idea it was uniquely Canadian
How a campy 1970s game show became part of Canada's national lexicon: defector.com/how-a-campy-...
How A Campy 1970s Game Show Became Part Of Canada's National Lexicon | Defector
On tiny Hornby Island northwest of Vancouver, after the Women’s World Cup in the summer of 2015, our bed-and-breakfast host was telling us about the town. The pizza place in the park is terrific, he…
defector.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:26 PM
This was a fun read! I love a good Canadianism and as someone who called something a "gong show" as recently as yesterday I had no idea it was uniquely Canadian
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New blog, new bullets!
https://flyingsquirrel.ca/posts/2025/2025-11-23-new-blog-new-bullets/
Finally got my new @11ty to a point where I'm ready to publish. Still pretty rough around the edges, but it does the basic blog things. And doesn't expose me to all the horrors of running Wordpress on […]
https://flyingsquirrel.ca/posts/2025/2025-11-23-new-blog-new-bullets/
Finally got my new @11ty to a point where I'm ready to publish. Still pretty rough around the edges, but it does the basic blog things. And doesn't expose me to all the horrors of running Wordpress on […]
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November 24, 2025 at 6:56 AM
New blog, new bullets!
https://flyingsquirrel.ca/posts/2025/2025-11-23-new-blog-new-bullets/
Finally got my new @11ty to a point where I'm ready to publish. Still pretty rough around the edges, but it does the basic blog things. And doesn't expose me to all the horrors of running Wordpress on […]
https://flyingsquirrel.ca/posts/2025/2025-11-23-new-blog-new-bullets/
Finally got my new @11ty to a point where I'm ready to publish. Still pretty rough around the edges, but it does the basic blog things. And doesn't expose me to all the horrors of running Wordpress on […]
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In this month’s DWM, I sit down with Carole Ann Ford for an epic 27-page chat. But here’s a bit of history: she was also Doctor Who’s first-ever interviewee! On 1 Sept 1963, the News of the World announced the show’s launch via a chat with Carole – complete w/DW’s first spoilers!
November 23, 2025 at 10:19 PM
In this month’s DWM, I sit down with Carole Ann Ford for an epic 27-page chat. But here’s a bit of history: she was also Doctor Who’s first-ever interviewee! On 1 Sept 1963, the News of the World announced the show’s launch via a chat with Carole – complete w/DW’s first spoilers!
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Instead of being parked all weekend, this train should be going back and forth between Kitchener and Toronto… and today it is!
November 23, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Instead of being parked all weekend, this train should be going back and forth between Kitchener and Toronto… and today it is!
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Lil Jon and the Kool-Aid Man released the Christmas song "All I Really Want for Christmas" in 2018. The song and its accompanying music video were released in December 2018 ❤️🎄
#Christmas #funny #cute #thedoonies 😁
#Christmas #funny #cute #thedoonies 😁
November 16, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Lil Jon and the Kool-Aid Man released the Christmas song "All I Really Want for Christmas" in 2018. The song and its accompanying music video were released in December 2018 ❤️🎄
#Christmas #funny #cute #thedoonies 😁
#Christmas #funny #cute #thedoonies 😁
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Immediate complaints about conference room traffic.
November 15, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Immediate complaints about conference room traffic.
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The difference in time between now and I can has cheezburger
Is the same between I can has Cheezburger and the Berlin Wall falling
Is the same between I can has Cheezburger and the Berlin Wall falling
November 10, 2025 at 5:46 PM
The difference in time between now and I can has cheezburger
Is the same between I can has Cheezburger and the Berlin Wall falling
Is the same between I can has Cheezburger and the Berlin Wall falling
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Brutalism can be warm and cozy, welcoming, soft, beautiful... Haters dni
The whole thing is exquisite ribbed (for your pleasure) concrete. Yet it’s soft and quiet, a moon safari in the sky. Hotel Bonaventure. Built above the rail lines even. Canada: once great.
November 10, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Brutalism can be warm and cozy, welcoming, soft, beautiful... Haters dni
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Flying Squirrel Loves It Every Time
November 5, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Flying Squirrel Loves It Every Time
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Well, that's exciting – p. 172
"The government will explore modernising CBC/Radio-Canada’s mandate to strengthen independence, and is working with CBC/Radio Canada to explore participation in Eurovision."
"The government will explore modernising CBC/Radio-Canada’s mandate to strengthen independence, and is working with CBC/Radio Canada to explore participation in Eurovision."
K, but EuroVision is in that chapter, too 👀
November 4, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Well, that's exciting – p. 172
"The government will explore modernising CBC/Radio-Canada’s mandate to strengthen independence, and is working with CBC/Radio Canada to explore participation in Eurovision."
"The government will explore modernising CBC/Radio-Canada’s mandate to strengthen independence, and is working with CBC/Radio Canada to explore participation in Eurovision."
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And… Regional Committee supports a full ION light rail extension to Cambridge 15 to 1! Onwards to Cambridge!
(To be fully ratified at Regional Council on November 19.)
(To be fully ratified at Regional Council on November 19.)
November 4, 2025 at 5:48 PM
And… Regional Committee supports a full ION light rail extension to Cambridge 15 to 1! Onwards to Cambridge!
(To be fully ratified at Regional Council on November 19.)
(To be fully ratified at Regional Council on November 19.)
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I finally saw some of the Uptown Waterloo rats.
October 30, 2025 at 3:53 AM
I finally saw some of the Uptown Waterloo rats.
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Took this photo ten years ago (from the Margaret Ave bridge at the ceremony to re-open it to traffic).
#photography #Kitchener #railwaytrack #sunset #goldensunset
#photography #Kitchener #railwaytrack #sunset #goldensunset
October 29, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Took this photo ten years ago (from the Margaret Ave bridge at the ceremony to re-open it to traffic).
#photography #Kitchener #railwaytrack #sunset #goldensunset
#photography #Kitchener #railwaytrack #sunset #goldensunset
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“Tell your children who the cowards were.”
October 27, 2025 at 10:19 PM
“Tell your children who the cowards were.”
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OMG FINALLY. Limited to start and no timeline for full 2-way all-day service, but FINALLY something. Really hoping the limited service will have a good schedule. I'll use it so much!
Metrolinx extending weekend GO Trains to Kitchener
Metrolinx extending weekend GO Trains to Kitchener
GO Transit users in Waterloo Region are finally getting something they’ve wanted for a long time: weekend GO Train trips at the Kitchener station.
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October 16, 2025 at 2:52 PM
OMG FINALLY. Limited to start and no timeline for full 2-way all-day service, but FINALLY something. Really hoping the limited service will have a good schedule. I'll use it so much!
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I enjoyed revisiting the writing of #DoctorWho The Ancestor Cell Edith Steve Cole in this podcast.
🌸NEW EPISODE!🌸
At last! @cybermatt.bsky.social and I discuss #DoctorWho - The Ancestor Cell, to finish season 8 of Pieces of Eighth!
Authors @stevecolewriter.bsky.social and @anghelides.bsky.social share their memories.
creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...
At last! @cybermatt.bsky.social and I discuss #DoctorWho - The Ancestor Cell, to finish season 8 of Pieces of Eighth!
Authors @stevecolewriter.bsky.social and @anghelides.bsky.social share their memories.
creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...
Doctor Who - Pieces of Eighth • A podcast on Spotify for Creators
Rebecca Chapman and Kenny Smith travel through time, space, comics, audios, books, records and more, as they chat about everything and anything to do with Paul McGann's eighth incarnation of Doctor Wh...
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October 15, 2025 at 3:45 PM
I enjoyed revisiting the writing of #DoctorWho The Ancestor Cell Edith Steve Cole in this podcast.
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The neighbourhood turkeys blessed us this Thanksgiving.
October 13, 2025 at 10:18 PM
The neighbourhood turkeys blessed us this Thanksgiving.
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Lo-fi beats aren't really my thing, but this is fabulous.
Plato's Stepchildren (LOFI Trekwave Remix) from Auralnauts
https://auralnauts.bandcamp.com/track/platos-stepchildren-lofi-trekwave-remix
Plato's Stepchildren (LOFI Trekwave Remix) from Auralnauts
https://auralnauts.bandcamp.com/track/platos-stepchildren-lofi-trekwave-remix
October 10, 2025 at 5:26 AM
Lo-fi beats aren't really my thing, but this is fabulous.
Plato's Stepchildren (LOFI Trekwave Remix) from Auralnauts
https://auralnauts.bandcamp.com/track/platos-stepchildren-lofi-trekwave-remix
Plato's Stepchildren (LOFI Trekwave Remix) from Auralnauts
https://auralnauts.bandcamp.com/track/platos-stepchildren-lofi-trekwave-remix
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another point for "they just want you to pirate everything" www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hzz_...
Some DVD re-releases got cheapened out in a weird way
YouTube video by Technology Connextras
www.youtube.com
October 9, 2025 at 5:52 PM
another point for "they just want you to pirate everything" www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hzz_...
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The Waterloo Region ring-style apple fritters are elite. Regular apple fritters are just donuts.
Pro-tip: the fritters at the Kitchener Market are really good too
Pro-tip 2: if you get a chance to have fresh ones with maple syrup, take it
Pro-tip: the fritters at the Kitchener Market are really good too
Pro-tip 2: if you get a chance to have fresh ones with maple syrup, take it
Last week's column was about apples & the apple fritter divide we've got here. So, are you team ring or team doughnut ?
You can listen to it here.
#Food #FoodSky #WaterlooRegion #Apples #AppleFritters
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You can listen to it here.
#Food #FoodSky #WaterlooRegion #Apples #AppleFritters
www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
October 7, 2025 at 11:30 PM
The Waterloo Region ring-style apple fritters are elite. Regular apple fritters are just donuts.
Pro-tip: the fritters at the Kitchener Market are really good too
Pro-tip 2: if you get a chance to have fresh ones with maple syrup, take it
Pro-tip: the fritters at the Kitchener Market are really good too
Pro-tip 2: if you get a chance to have fresh ones with maple syrup, take it
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Chimpanzee lady making me cry at my desk on a Sunday morning was not on my to-do list, but here we are.
Thank you, Doctor Goodall. ❤️
Thank you, Doctor Goodall. ❤️
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
October 5, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Chimpanzee lady making me cry at my desk on a Sunday morning was not on my to-do list, but here we are.
Thank you, Doctor Goodall. ❤️
Thank you, Doctor Goodall. ❤️
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The Region's final scheduled pop-up session on Stage 2 ION is this afternoon from 12 to 4pm at Cambridge Centre station:
Stage 2 ION
The Region of Waterloo is proposing to extend the ION LRT system
www.engagewr.ca
October 4, 2025 at 3:48 PM
The Region's final scheduled pop-up session on Stage 2 ION is this afternoon from 12 to 4pm at Cambridge Centre station: