🇨🇦 Mike S
@gnuwf.bsky.social
Physics grad. 30 years in high tech, including remote sensing, astronomy, atmospheric physics, numerical HPC, digital finance and digital security.
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Not the BEST photo but here is Tanuki’s 120x50x50 tank next to Odin’s 100x50x50 tank. This is my first Bucastate cage and I was dubious buying it off of Temu but it was WAAAYY cheaper, easy to build and turned out great!
November 23, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Not the BEST photo but here is Tanuki’s 120x50x50 tank next to Odin’s 100x50x50 tank. This is my first Bucastate cage and I was dubious buying it off of Temu but it was WAAAYY cheaper, easy to build and turned out great!
It's still a terrible false implication, where the US poverty rate is in the sampling noise. (Which is not saying the same as it doesn't exist). 1% is still over 3.5 million people.
November 23, 2025 at 3:04 PM
It's still a terrible false implication, where the US poverty rate is in the sampling noise. (Which is not saying the same as it doesn't exist). 1% is still over 3.5 million people.
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Postbox bollards outside the Post Office. Absolutely delightful.
#WorldBollardAssociation 📮
#WorldBollardAssociation 📮
November 22, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Postbox bollards outside the Post Office. Absolutely delightful.
#WorldBollardAssociation 📮
#WorldBollardAssociation 📮
As big as Ozzy was, I still think Tony Iommi was more influential on the sound of metal.
November 23, 2025 at 2:59 PM
As big as Ozzy was, I still think Tony Iommi was more influential on the sound of metal.
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Fact check: No, U.S. oil tankers do not pass through the Hecate Strait. Elizabeth May shows exactly why the tanker ban exists, and why protecting it matters.
November 21, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Fact check: No, U.S. oil tankers do not pass through the Hecate Strait. Elizabeth May shows exactly why the tanker ban exists, and why protecting it matters.
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“Canadians are doing better, because GDP is doing better” feels like a slap in the face to someone who didn’t pay their heat bill this month so that they could buy groceries.
November 22, 2025 at 1:06 PM
“Canadians are doing better, because GDP is doing better” feels like a slap in the face to someone who didn’t pay their heat bill this month so that they could buy groceries.
Tell me again how people are doing great because interest rates are low, GDP and the stock market is high. Very few of those benefits reach the common person, yet liberals like Chretien, Trudeau and Biden (its yet to be seen in Carney) declare people are doing great.
November 22, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Tell me again how people are doing great because interest rates are low, GDP and the stock market is high. Very few of those benefits reach the common person, yet liberals like Chretien, Trudeau and Biden (its yet to be seen in Carney) declare people are doing great.
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THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent horses and ponies I have met on walks.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
November 21, 2025 at 10:32 AM
THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent horses and ponies I have met on walks.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
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GrapheneOS building technology to protect privacy and security is completely legal. Our work is strongly protected by Canadian, European and American laws. A minuscule portion of our userbase are criminals and the claims being made by the French government about that are lies.
November 21, 2025 at 9:57 PM
GrapheneOS building technology to protect privacy and security is completely legal. Our work is strongly protected by Canadian, European and American laws. A minuscule portion of our userbase are criminals and the claims being made by the French government about that are lies.
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Once again, Scandinavia showing that it's the light world equivalent of 🤡 #CDNpoli 🤡
“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas & city center in 2021.”
Helsinki just went a full year without a single traffic death
The capital city is Finnish’ed with car-related fatalities.
www.politico.eu
November 18, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Once again, Scandinavia showing that it's the light world equivalent of 🤡 #CDNpoli 🤡
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This is the kind of political theatre Canadians are having to deal with. 😡
November 18, 2025 at 3:44 AM
This is the kind of political theatre Canadians are having to deal with. 😡
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Chart-Like Composite #Photographs by Dan Marker-Moore Show the Progression of the 2019 #Solar #Eclipse #photography #art #solareclipse
Link for more info and photos: www.thisiscolossal.com/2019/08/dan-...
Link for more info and photos: www.thisiscolossal.com/2019/08/dan-...
November 17, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Chart-Like Composite #Photographs by Dan Marker-Moore Show the Progression of the 2019 #Solar #Eclipse #photography #art #solareclipse
Link for more info and photos: www.thisiscolossal.com/2019/08/dan-...
Link for more info and photos: www.thisiscolossal.com/2019/08/dan-...
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National Loblaws. It's basically a crown corp already w public subsidy.
November 18, 2025 at 3:08 PM
National Loblaws. It's basically a crown corp already w public subsidy.
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If you’re making up gift packages for unhoused people this holiday season, include wool socks. Wool dries faster than cotton, and can still provide warmth even when they’re damp.
Need for dry wool socks for people sleeping rough in Halifax is unrelenting: ‘We get to go home. They don’t’
Retired RCMP officer and a friend started a sock fundraiser eight years ago, and the need continues to grow
www.saltwire.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:18 PM
If you’re making up gift packages for unhoused people this holiday season, include wool socks. Wool dries faster than cotton, and can still provide warmth even when they’re damp.
Most or all of these are run from India based scammers. I'm unsure of the goal of these. Russia style confusion, or 419 style scams.
YouTube runs awful AI Slop ads. Look at Prime Minister @mark-carney.bsky.social 's hand! I've flagged these ads a number of times and YouTube refuses to do anything about them.
November 18, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Most or all of these are run from India based scammers. I'm unsure of the goal of these. Russia style confusion, or 419 style scams.
YouTube runs awful AI Slop ads. Look at Prime Minister @mark-carney.bsky.social 's hand! I've flagged these ads a number of times and YouTube refuses to do anything about them.
November 18, 2025 at 3:10 PM
YouTube runs awful AI Slop ads. Look at Prime Minister @mark-carney.bsky.social 's hand! I've flagged these ads a number of times and YouTube refuses to do anything about them.
"Climate-friendly mobility, like here in Rotterdam, harmonizes with nature and the environment. Car traffic destroys it! #TransportationRevolution 🚋🚲💚
@modacitylife.com"
We need an LRT that drives along a lawn too!
I bet the grass damps the rail noise.
@modacitylife.com"
We need an LRT that drives along a lawn too!
I bet the grass damps the rail noise.
Klimafreundliche Mobilität wie hier in Rotterdam harmoniert mit Natur und Umwelt. Autoverkehr zerstört sie! #Verkehrswende 🚋🚲💚
@modacitylife.com
@modacitylife.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:07 AM
"Climate-friendly mobility, like here in Rotterdam, harmonizes with nature and the environment. Car traffic destroys it! #TransportationRevolution 🚋🚲💚
@modacitylife.com"
We need an LRT that drives along a lawn too!
I bet the grass damps the rail noise.
@modacitylife.com"
We need an LRT that drives along a lawn too!
I bet the grass damps the rail noise.
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I want to print out this piece and frame it.
“We need greater structural limits on the extractive power of essential businesses – to allow others to thrive. What is needed can best be termed an architecture of equality.”
“We need greater structural limits on the extractive power of essential businesses – to allow others to thrive. What is needed can best be termed an architecture of equality.”
“Legislation should prevent discrimination and self-preferencing, and put a price on data extraction-and in some cases cap excessive fees.” The legendary thinker + doer Tim Wu www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
Opinion: Can we go back to the optimism of the 1990s, before the extraction economy took over?
Our economic system benefits only those at the very top – but it’s not too late for change
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:29 PM
I want to print out this piece and frame it.
“We need greater structural limits on the extractive power of essential businesses – to allow others to thrive. What is needed can best be termed an architecture of equality.”
“We need greater structural limits on the extractive power of essential businesses – to allow others to thrive. What is needed can best be termed an architecture of equality.”
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Every city should be building some of these to create safe streets where cars are allowed, but are slow speed guests.
NYC knows how to build self-enforcing streets that slow vehicles and micromobility down (to benefit pedestrians.)
November 8, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Every city should be building some of these to create safe streets where cars are allowed, but are slow speed guests.
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When Bashir told Garak about the boy who cried wolf.
August 30, 2024 at 7:10 PM
When Bashir told Garak about the boy who cried wolf.
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November 7, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Next up, wind swaths! 🌬💨
This was created solely using report clustering (no other gridded data). Plenty of events across the entire US, but can see the most intense storms from the Great Plains into the Midwest! 🟦
This was created solely using report clustering (no other gridded data). Plenty of events across the entire US, but can see the most intense storms from the Great Plains into the Midwest! 🟦
November 5, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Next up, wind swaths! 🌬💨
This was created solely using report clustering (no other gridded data). Plenty of events across the entire US, but can see the most intense storms from the Great Plains into the Midwest! 🟦
This was created solely using report clustering (no other gridded data). Plenty of events across the entire US, but can see the most intense storms from the Great Plains into the Midwest! 🟦
FYI, no need to use a URL shortener that may go dark on Bluesky. Paste the URL, wait for the card to load, then delete the URL entirely, with no character penalty. #nlwx #nltraffic
A ferocious, historic fall storm has battered Newfoundland with 170+ km/h wind gusts, heavy rainfall and snowfall, along with monster waves exceeding nine metres, with conditions expected to remain hazardous into Wednesday. #NLwx
https://ow.ly/N6me50XmTC0
https://ow.ly/N6me50XmTC0
Coastal flooding, power outages over Newfoundland as 'weather bomb' hits hard - The Weather Network
A ferocious, historic fall storm has battered Newfoundland with 170+ km/h wind gusts, heavy rainfall and snowfall, along with monster waves exceeding nine metres, with conditions expected to remain hazardous into Wednesday
ow.ly
November 5, 2025 at 3:23 AM
FYI, no need to use a URL shortener that may go dark on Bluesky. Paste the URL, wait for the card to load, then delete the URL entirely, with no character penalty. #nlwx #nltraffic
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Private weather stations on the southern Avalon at Cape St. Mary's and Powles Head Lighthouse are measuring gusts well over Hurricane-force this evening!
NOV 4, 2025 | 6:04 PM
#nlwx
NOV 4, 2025 | 6:04 PM
#nlwx
November 4, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Private weather stations on the southern Avalon at Cape St. Mary's and Powles Head Lighthouse are measuring gusts well over Hurricane-force this evening!
NOV 4, 2025 | 6:04 PM
#nlwx
NOV 4, 2025 | 6:04 PM
#nlwx
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I am so tiered of explaining to people about privacy and cookies, so here is an allegory for you.
As in sex, the same goes for privacy, consent must be active, clear, knowing, ongoing, voluntary and is always REQUIRED!
As in sex, the same goes for privacy, consent must be active, clear, knowing, ongoing, voluntary and is always REQUIRED!
November 3, 2025 at 4:01 PM
I am so tiered of explaining to people about privacy and cookies, so here is an allegory for you.
As in sex, the same goes for privacy, consent must be active, clear, knowing, ongoing, voluntary and is always REQUIRED!
As in sex, the same goes for privacy, consent must be active, clear, knowing, ongoing, voluntary and is always REQUIRED!