Michael Székely Flynn
@flynnoeh.bsky.social
Daddy, IBMer, Executive IT Architect in IBM iX designing exciting new solutions for the Enterprise. Views are my own and not IBM’s.
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Worth noting that there 15 other NIST time servers across two other locations (7 in Fort Collins, CO and 8 in Maryland) that are working perfectly fine and that even the affected servers remain accurate to within 0.0000046 seconds
source: tf.nist.gov/tf-cgi/serve...
source: tf.nist.gov/tf-cgi/serve...
NIST Internet Time Service
tf.nist.gov
December 21, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Worth noting that there 15 other NIST time servers across two other locations (7 in Fort Collins, CO and 8 in Maryland) that are working perfectly fine and that even the affected servers remain accurate to within 0.0000046 seconds
source: tf.nist.gov/tf-cgi/serve...
source: tf.nist.gov/tf-cgi/serve...
Yikes!
The atomic ensemble time scale at the NIST Boulder campus has failed.
December 21, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Yikes!
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The four horsemen of internet service outages are DNS, BGP, the Greater American Cable Seeking Backhoe, and a fucked up config file getting propagated through the network, and the result is in: the fourth horseman is what got Cloudflare this time blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-...
Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025
Cloudflare suffered a service outage on November 18, 2025. The outage was triggered by a bug in generation logic for a Bot Management feature file causing many Cloudflare services to be affected.
blog.cloudflare.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:57 PM
The four horsemen of internet service outages are DNS, BGP, the Greater American Cable Seeking Backhoe, and a fucked up config file getting propagated through the network, and the result is in: the fourth horseman is what got Cloudflare this time blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-...
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Thanks for signalling, loud and clear, @maritstilesndp.bsky.social, that you do not care about the safety of school children and other vulnerable pedestrians.
Have not heard you speak a damn word about speed cameras since the first day Ford said he'd be banning them.
Have not heard you speak a damn word about speed cameras since the first day Ford said he'd be banning them.
October 30, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Thanks for signalling, loud and clear, @maritstilesndp.bsky.social, that you do not care about the safety of school children and other vulnerable pedestrians.
Have not heard you speak a damn word about speed cameras since the first day Ford said he'd be banning them.
Have not heard you speak a damn word about speed cameras since the first day Ford said he'd be banning them.
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Doug Ford said he heard drivers were getting tickets for going just a few km/hr over the speed limit. Turns out, Toronto only tickets drivers going at least 11 km/hr above the limit. Same goes for other cities in the GTA www.thestar.com/news/gta/wha... #TOpoli #onpoli
What’s the threshold to get a ticket from Toronto’s speed camera program? Here’s what the Star has found
For the first time, the Star can report the threshold for a ticket when driving over the posted speed limit — at least in Toronto and other large municipalities nearby.
www.thestar.com
October 4, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Doug Ford said he heard drivers were getting tickets for going just a few km/hr over the speed limit. Turns out, Toronto only tickets drivers going at least 11 km/hr above the limit. Same goes for other cities in the GTA www.thestar.com/news/gta/wha... #TOpoli #onpoli
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I get a lot of stuff wrong but my early call on all of this was that it's simply wrong to engage in this as an argument over congestion policy. I said on the podcast that it is, instead, an argument over who has the right to public space — and the Premier has decided the allocation.
I don't want to shock anyone, but I don't think that removing the bike lanes is going to improve congestion. The provincial government is putting people at risk for a few parking spots in midtown Toronto.
October 3, 2025 at 12:43 PM
I get a lot of stuff wrong but my early call on all of this was that it's simply wrong to engage in this as an argument over congestion policy. I said on the podcast that it is, instead, an argument over who has the right to public space — and the Premier has decided the allocation.
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Updated data from the city’s bike counter on Bloor West near Palmerston shows year-to-date bike ridership is up about 16% in 2025 versus 2024, despite some rough February weather. Record set on June 11 with nearly 7,500 bikes counted rolling by. datawrapper.dwcdn.net/XnXZq/1/
August 13, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Updated data from the city’s bike counter on Bloor West near Palmerston shows year-to-date bike ridership is up about 16% in 2025 versus 2024, despite some rough February weather. Record set on June 11 with nearly 7,500 bikes counted rolling by. datawrapper.dwcdn.net/XnXZq/1/
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“As Ontario Premier Doug Ford pushes ahead with his controversial plan to remove protected bike lanes on some of Toronto’s busiest streets, a new poll suggests the move is deeply unpopular with the public… 7 in 10 local residents support bike-lane construction.” Via @momentummag.bsky.social
Poll shows strong public support for protected bike lanes threatened by Ontario government
According to a recent poll, 7 in 10 Torontonians support the continued construction of protected bike lanes across the city.
momentummag.com
July 17, 2025 at 6:08 PM
“As Ontario Premier Doug Ford pushes ahead with his controversial plan to remove protected bike lanes on some of Toronto’s busiest streets, a new poll suggests the move is deeply unpopular with the public… 7 in 10 local residents support bike-lane construction.” Via @momentummag.bsky.social
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Hoo boy: "..if ministers really do have only 9 weeks or 63 calendar days, that means finding between $1.15B and $2.75B in savings each day, again depending on the definition of program spending. That’s not just unlikely, that’s fucked in the head."
A journalist friend asked me to record something together talking about whether the feds can really cut red tape within 60 days (stay tuned). So to get ready, I wrote a blog.
open.substack.com/pub/robsonj/...
open.substack.com/pub/robsonj/...
July 7, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Hoo boy: "..if ministers really do have only 9 weeks or 63 calendar days, that means finding between $1.15B and $2.75B in savings each day, again depending on the definition of program spending. That’s not just unlikely, that’s fucked in the head."
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These photos from my Grade 1/2 classroom last June are a reminder that Toronto schools don’t have air conditioning and these are the learning conditions many (most?) students will be in this week.
#FixOurSchools
#FixOurSchools
June 22, 2025 at 9:10 PM
These photos from my Grade 1/2 classroom last June are a reminder that Toronto schools don’t have air conditioning and these are the learning conditions many (most?) students will be in this week.
#FixOurSchools
#FixOurSchools
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Cool study from @bikewaysto.bsky.social detailing a traffic count on Bloor Street taken on June 11 with a camera at 412 Bloor West. During the peak of the afternoon rush, bikes outnumbered cars.
I repeat: bikes outnumbered cars.
drive.google.com/file/d/1ctd4...
I repeat: bikes outnumbered cars.
drive.google.com/file/d/1ctd4...
June 19, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Cool study from @bikewaysto.bsky.social detailing a traffic count on Bloor Street taken on June 11 with a camera at 412 Bloor West. During the peak of the afternoon rush, bikes outnumbered cars.
I repeat: bikes outnumbered cars.
drive.google.com/file/d/1ctd4...
I repeat: bikes outnumbered cars.
drive.google.com/file/d/1ctd4...
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TIL there was a Scottish National Antarctic Expedition and it produced this image
May 15, 2025 at 5:26 PM
TIL there was a Scottish National Antarctic Expedition and it produced this image
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Said it before, I will say it again. Whatever the Premier says, this is not transportation policy. It's an dogmatic position on who has the right to use public space and how. www.thestar.com/politics/pro...
Doug Ford’s budget will target more Toronto bikes lanes
Sources say Thursday's provincial budget legislation will include the removal of the bike lanes on Queen's Park Crescent, around the legislative precinct, and on Avenue Road south of Davenport Road.
www.thestar.com
May 14, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Said it before, I will say it again. Whatever the Premier says, this is not transportation policy. It's an dogmatic position on who has the right to use public space and how. www.thestar.com/politics/pro...
Thanks, @dancarlin.bsky.social, for calling out the BS on the whole Canada 51st State thing right off the top. It’s nice to see that some people down there recognize that it needs to stop.
Thanks. Everyone seems mad at me again (as usual...from both sides).
We did a "soft release" on this CS show (first in 3 years)so that those who never unsubscribed from the feed and REALLY wanted this got first crack at it. They got that. So here's the link:
dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3...
We did a "soft release" on this CS show (first in 3 years)so that those who never unsubscribed from the feed and REALLY wanted this got first crack at it. They got that. So here's the link:
dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3...
March 25, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Thanks, @dancarlin.bsky.social, for calling out the BS on the whole Canada 51st State thing right off the top. It’s nice to see that some people down there recognize that it needs to stop.
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This family will be telling this story for decades.
"So Sam was playing hide-and-seek, but ended up hiding so well it took an RCMP chopper to find him."
"So Sam was playing hide-and-seek, but ended up hiding so well it took an RCMP chopper to find him."
Boy, 5, playing game of hide-and-seek is found by RCMP helicopter in B.C. (Mission)
Boy, 5, playing game of hide-and-seek is found by RCMP helicopter in B.C. - BC News
Mounties in Mission, B.C., say a police helicopter crew spotted a five-year-old boy after he went missing during a game of hide-and-seek.
www.castanetkamloops.net
March 21, 2025 at 10:52 PM
This family will be telling this story for decades.
"So Sam was playing hide-and-seek, but ended up hiding so well it took an RCMP chopper to find him."
"So Sam was playing hide-and-seek, but ended up hiding so well it took an RCMP chopper to find him."
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From the front page of the Toronto Star: Andy Takagi with more on internal Ford government reports that contradict almost everything Ford & his transportation minister have told the public to justify the removal of Toronto bike lanes www.thestar.com/news/gta/for...
Ford government’s own research warned that removing Toronto bike lanes may not ease congestion, may make roads less safe
The documents, which include confidential briefings and a government-commissioned engineering report, show that the government was warned that its plan to remove bike lanes on Toronto’s main thoroughf...
www.thestar.com
March 13, 2025 at 12:46 PM
From the front page of the Toronto Star: Andy Takagi with more on internal Ford government reports that contradict almost everything Ford & his transportation minister have told the public to justify the removal of Toronto bike lanes www.thestar.com/news/gta/for...
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Ontario aware bike lane removals may not reduce congestion, could make people less safe: internal documents
Engineering report done for the province says collisions for all road users could increase by 54%
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Engineering report done for the province says collisions for all road users could increase by 54%
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Ontario aware bike lane removals may not reduce congestion, could make people less safe: internal documents | CBC News
Ontario’s premier and transportation minister have said for months that removing bike lanes is a necessary measure to reduce traffic in the GTA. But hundreds of pages of internal ministry documents, r...
www.cbc.ca
March 12, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Ontario aware bike lane removals may not reduce congestion, could make people less safe: internal documents
Engineering report done for the province says collisions for all road users could increase by 54%
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Engineering report done for the province says collisions for all road users could increase by 54%
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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the war at home
Toronto LCBO staff having a blast with Gretzky wine descriptions
March 11, 2025 at 1:42 PM
the war at home
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Excited to share a personal project I've been working on. I've heard the best thing you can do for your country in tough times is use the skills you have.
So I hope you'll subscribe, share and listen to Elbows Up, a podcast about how, exactly, Canada can be strong and free. Forever.
lnk.to/AhF2DG
So I hope you'll subscribe, share and listen to Elbows Up, a podcast about how, exactly, Canada can be strong and free. Forever.
lnk.to/AhF2DG
Elbows Up
Go to Elbows Up.
lnk.to
March 7, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Excited to share a personal project I've been working on. I've heard the best thing you can do for your country in tough times is use the skills you have.
So I hope you'll subscribe, share and listen to Elbows Up, a podcast about how, exactly, Canada can be strong and free. Forever.
lnk.to/AhF2DG
So I hope you'll subscribe, share and listen to Elbows Up, a podcast about how, exactly, Canada can be strong and free. Forever.
lnk.to/AhF2DG
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The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.
February 15, 2025 at 5:49 PM
The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.
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Maybe we are one premier short for a common front against the Trump tariffs. But in terms of economists, it's a pretty broad coalition when you have Jim Stanford and @acoyne.bsky.social on the same page.
Good stuff.
Good stuff.
January 18, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Maybe we are one premier short for a common front against the Trump tariffs. But in terms of economists, it's a pretty broad coalition when you have Jim Stanford and @acoyne.bsky.social on the same page.
Good stuff.
Good stuff.
Lots of murder and extensive property damage … just completed Mass Effect Legendary Edition play-through.
January 17, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Lots of murder and extensive property damage … just completed Mass Effect Legendary Edition play-through.
Calling all trekkies!
Show me one picture from Star Trek that perfectly embodies your aura.
Show me one picture from Star Trek that perfectly embodies your aura.
January 16, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Calling all trekkies!
Show me one picture from Star Trek that perfectly embodies your aura.
Show me one picture from Star Trek that perfectly embodies your aura.
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as LA is burning, a swath of the country is recovering from an ice storm, Alabama is preparing for up to 6” of snow and I’m praying for the TX power grid, a reminder:
we don’t need climate action just for future generations, we need it now.
the climate crisis is here, all around us
we don’t need climate action just for future generations, we need it now.
the climate crisis is here, all around us
January 9, 2025 at 1:00 AM
as LA is burning, a swath of the country is recovering from an ice storm, Alabama is preparing for up to 6” of snow and I’m praying for the TX power grid, a reminder:
we don’t need climate action just for future generations, we need it now.
the climate crisis is here, all around us
we don’t need climate action just for future generations, we need it now.
the climate crisis is here, all around us