Kate Gregory
@gregcons.bsky.social
I advise, develop, mentor, write, and speak. C++ mostly. One of the Carbon leads. Limited availability; you can ask. Want me to speak? http://gregcons.com/SpeakerKit.aspx She/her.
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People think it’s funny but one of the best tests of a person and systems is how it treats three types of people :
- servants
- poets
- children
How someone feels about those people and their accountability to and FROM them is a huge statement about their beliefs
- servants
- poets
- children
How someone feels about those people and their accountability to and FROM them is a huge statement about their beliefs
November 13, 2025 at 12:23 PM
People think it’s funny but one of the best tests of a person and systems is how it treats three types of people :
- servants
- poets
- children
How someone feels about those people and their accountability to and FROM them is a huge statement about their beliefs
- servants
- poets
- children
How someone feels about those people and their accountability to and FROM them is a huge statement about their beliefs
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Fun fact: archaeologists often think of time vertically, as in the past is ‘down’ and the future is ‘up’. 🤣🤣🤣
💫 Fun fact: Mandarin speakers often think of time vertically, as in the past is ‘up’ and the future is ‘down’, while English speakers think of it horizontally (the past is ‘behind’, and the future ‘ahead’).
#linguistics #funfact #language #mandarin
#linguistics #funfact #language #mandarin
November 13, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Fun fact: archaeologists often think of time vertically, as in the past is ‘down’ and the future is ‘up’. 🤣🤣🤣
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Super interesting quotes in that article:
"Because fewer than 10 percent of those graduates pursue high-demand specialties like embedded systems, firmware, power electronics, or AI-hardware integration. That’s why employers often say we have “too many engineers, but not enough talent.” ...
"Because fewer than 10 percent of those graduates pursue high-demand specialties like embedded systems, firmware, power electronics, or AI-hardware integration. That’s why employers often say we have “too many engineers, but not enough talent.” ...
November 12, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Super interesting quotes in that article:
"Because fewer than 10 percent of those graduates pursue high-demand specialties like embedded systems, firmware, power electronics, or AI-hardware integration. That’s why employers often say we have “too many engineers, but not enough talent.” ...
"Because fewer than 10 percent of those graduates pursue high-demand specialties like embedded systems, firmware, power electronics, or AI-hardware integration. That’s why employers often say we have “too many engineers, but not enough talent.” ...
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Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.
November 12, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.
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I will admit to being completely unprepared for "hot pope" memes
What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck?
It's the Pope in 1982.
It's the Pope in 1982.
November 13, 2025 at 5:45 AM
I will admit to being completely unprepared for "hot pope" memes
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Saw someone post that they didn’t want to take any aurora photos because it was cliché, everyone’s doing it
The sky’s full of mystical dancing lights, from particles miles above us, excited by a burp from our local star. You’re allowed to be excited about cool shit, and this is especially cool shit
The sky’s full of mystical dancing lights, from particles miles above us, excited by a burp from our local star. You’re allowed to be excited about cool shit, and this is especially cool shit
November 13, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Saw someone post that they didn’t want to take any aurora photos because it was cliché, everyone’s doing it
The sky’s full of mystical dancing lights, from particles miles above us, excited by a burp from our local star. You’re allowed to be excited about cool shit, and this is especially cool shit
The sky’s full of mystical dancing lights, from particles miles above us, excited by a burp from our local star. You’re allowed to be excited about cool shit, and this is especially cool shit
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Today is #RLSDay which marks the birthday of the Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson who would have been 175 today.
It's also a good day to remember that it is NOT actually his birthday because in 1891 he gave it away to a young girl because she didn't like her birthday. 🧵
It's also a good day to remember that it is NOT actually his birthday because in 1891 he gave it away to a young girl because she didn't like her birthday. 🧵
November 13, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Today is #RLSDay which marks the birthday of the Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson who would have been 175 today.
It's also a good day to remember that it is NOT actually his birthday because in 1891 he gave it away to a young girl because she didn't like her birthday. 🧵
It's also a good day to remember that it is NOT actually his birthday because in 1891 he gave it away to a young girl because she didn't like her birthday. 🧵
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I got this useful bon mot from a middle school teacher recently.
In response to, “I DONT UNDERSTAND,” he calmly said, “okay what steps have you taken to understand?”
And that’s when I realized that a lot of folks have no steps.
In response to, “I DONT UNDERSTAND,” he calmly said, “okay what steps have you taken to understand?”
And that’s when I realized that a lot of folks have no steps.
November 10, 2025 at 6:05 PM
I got this useful bon mot from a middle school teacher recently.
In response to, “I DONT UNDERSTAND,” he calmly said, “okay what steps have you taken to understand?”
And that’s when I realized that a lot of folks have no steps.
In response to, “I DONT UNDERSTAND,” he calmly said, “okay what steps have you taken to understand?”
And that’s when I realized that a lot of folks have no steps.
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"One of the most eloquent and empathetic voices for young Inuit." Up Here magazine selected North of North star Anna Lambe as its Northerner of the Year.
Anna Lambe named Up Here’s Northerner of the Year
"One of the most eloquent and empathetic voices for young Inuit." Up Here magazine selected North of North star Anna Lambe as its Northerner of the Year.
cabinradio.ca
November 12, 2025 at 12:50 PM
"One of the most eloquent and empathetic voices for young Inuit." Up Here magazine selected North of North star Anna Lambe as its Northerner of the Year.
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A good example of someone using "economically inactive" to mean "available for work but choosing not to" and forgetting it covers students, early retirees, carers, severely disabled people, parents with very young children etc...
What on earth is this nonsense from a Blue Labour MP?
What, you want a policy targeting zero illness, no full time caring responsibilities, no skills mismatches or career breaks and you think we should heavily crack down on migration until we get there?
Just not serious policy/politics.
What, you want a policy targeting zero illness, no full time caring responsibilities, no skills mismatches or career breaks and you think we should heavily crack down on migration until we get there?
Just not serious policy/politics.
November 12, 2025 at 2:47 PM
A good example of someone using "economically inactive" to mean "available for work but choosing not to" and forgetting it covers students, early retirees, carers, severely disabled people, parents with very young children etc...
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Periodic reminder: Ukraine has the gayest, transest, most women in combat army in Europe. Russia doesn't have women in combat.
🇺🇦👩🏼👩🏻 "Yes we're women. Yes we brush our hair, wear makeup, and have clean hands. But why do you care? We're here in combat on the front lines in Pokrovsk. Where are you?"
🇺🇦👩🏼👩🏻 "Yes we're women. Yes we brush our hair, wear makeup, and have clean hands. But why do you care? We're here in combat on the front lines in Pokrovsk. Where are you?"
November 12, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Periodic reminder: Ukraine has the gayest, transest, most women in combat army in Europe. Russia doesn't have women in combat.
🇺🇦👩🏼👩🏻 "Yes we're women. Yes we brush our hair, wear makeup, and have clean hands. But why do you care? We're here in combat on the front lines in Pokrovsk. Where are you?"
🇺🇦👩🏼👩🏻 "Yes we're women. Yes we brush our hair, wear makeup, and have clean hands. But why do you care? We're here in combat on the front lines in Pokrovsk. Where are you?"
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For anyone who is like “the creature is also named Frankenstein”; Mary Shelley went to see a play version of Frankenstein and was tickled that they listed the creature as “———“ in the dramatis personae:
“this nameless mode of naming the unnameable is rather good”
www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/3...
“this nameless mode of naming the unnameable is rather good”
www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/3...
November 12, 2025 at 9:56 AM
For anyone who is like “the creature is also named Frankenstein”; Mary Shelley went to see a play version of Frankenstein and was tickled that they listed the creature as “———“ in the dramatis personae:
“this nameless mode of naming the unnameable is rather good”
www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/3...
“this nameless mode of naming the unnameable is rather good”
www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/3...
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Left: Donald Trump’s Jan 6th quote, as presented in the dossier that brought down two BBC bosses
Right: What Donald Trump actually said.
Full story in @thenewworldmag.bsky.social: www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-e...
Right: What Donald Trump actually said.
Full story in @thenewworldmag.bsky.social: www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-e...
November 12, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Left: Donald Trump’s Jan 6th quote, as presented in the dossier that brought down two BBC bosses
Right: What Donald Trump actually said.
Full story in @thenewworldmag.bsky.social: www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-e...
Right: What Donald Trump actually said.
Full story in @thenewworldmag.bsky.social: www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-e...
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It's so bizarre that the breaking news today is yet more proof that Trump did exactly what everyone already knows he did
November 12, 2025 at 2:36 PM
It's so bizarre that the breaking news today is yet more proof that Trump did exactly what everyone already knows he did
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NEW: Ontario Premier Doug Ford wants to tunnel an expressway under the 401.
Digging below a small cross section for the Scarborough Subway Extension, however, caused lane closures and the machine needed 8 months for repairs. #OnPoli
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Digging below a small cross section for the Scarborough Subway Extension, however, caused lane closures and the machine needed 8 months for repairs. #OnPoli
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Metrolinx struggled to tunnel under Hwy. 401, forcing lane closure and repairs | Globalnews.ca
Since early 2023, a tunnel boring machine has been slowly making its way south from Sheppard Avenue and McCowan Road, digging out a route for the Scarborough Subway Extension.
globalnews.ca
November 12, 2025 at 2:14 PM
NEW: Ontario Premier Doug Ford wants to tunnel an expressway under the 401.
Digging below a small cross section for the Scarborough Subway Extension, however, caused lane closures and the machine needed 8 months for repairs. #OnPoli
globalnews.ca/news/1152183...
Digging below a small cross section for the Scarborough Subway Extension, however, caused lane closures and the machine needed 8 months for repairs. #OnPoli
globalnews.ca/news/1152183...
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Of 1,607 Canadians surveyed in October, 70% said they would be uncomfortable travelling to the U.S. this winter.
Top 3 reasons to avoid the country were
*a resolve to stand up for Canada *America’s current political climate *concerns about heightened border security
www.cbc.ca/news/busines...
Top 3 reasons to avoid the country were
*a resolve to stand up for Canada *America’s current political climate *concerns about heightened border security
www.cbc.ca/news/busines...
U.S. tourism faces $5.7B US loss as Canadians continue to stay home | CBC News
Many Canadians continue to boycott travel to the United States, and the U.S. economy is paying the price. A U.S. Travel Association report forecasts a 3.2 per cent decline in international tourism spe...
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November 12, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Of 1,607 Canadians surveyed in October, 70% said they would be uncomfortable travelling to the U.S. this winter.
Top 3 reasons to avoid the country were
*a resolve to stand up for Canada *America’s current political climate *concerns about heightened border security
www.cbc.ca/news/busines...
Top 3 reasons to avoid the country were
*a resolve to stand up for Canada *America’s current political climate *concerns about heightened border security
www.cbc.ca/news/busines...
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Kawartha Home Hardware to open pop-up store in downtown #Lakefield before Christmas. General manager Frank Geerlinks confirms location as former Cheesy Fromage location on Queen St, while reaffirming commitment to build a new Lakefield store. kawarthanow.com/2025/11/10/k...
Kawartha Home Hardware to open pop-up store in downtown Lakefield before Christmas | kawarthaNOW
By Paul Rellinger. General manager Frank Geerlinks confirms location as former Cheesy Fromage location on Queen Street, while reaffirming commitment to build a new Lakefield store.
kawarthanow.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Kawartha Home Hardware to open pop-up store in downtown #Lakefield before Christmas. General manager Frank Geerlinks confirms location as former Cheesy Fromage location on Queen St, while reaffirming commitment to build a new Lakefield store. kawarthanow.com/2025/11/10/k...
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For his new 'Dedicate a Canoe' social project, artist Daniel Marlatt at Miskwaa Art Studio & Outdoor Gallery in #TrentLakes will engrave a hand-carved mini canoe with your chosen message and you can set it free in the Miskwaa Ziibi river. kawarthanow.com/2025/11/09/y...
You can ‘Dedicate a Canoe’ and send it down the river in new social project at Miskwaa Art Studio & Outdoor Gallery in Trent Lakes | kawarthaNOW
By Megan Gallant. Free of charge, artist Daniel Marlatt will engrave a hand-carved mini canoe with your chosen message and you can set it free in the Miskwaa Ziibi river.
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November 10, 2025 at 1:47 AM
For his new 'Dedicate a Canoe' social project, artist Daniel Marlatt at Miskwaa Art Studio & Outdoor Gallery in #TrentLakes will engrave a hand-carved mini canoe with your chosen message and you can set it free in the Miskwaa Ziibi river. kawarthanow.com/2025/11/09/y...
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As I rapidly approach my 60th Birthday I am increasingly enraged by being called a 'kid' by folks that are younger than me because I support policies which threaten their unquestioned lives of privilege. Thomson is only 2 years younger than me, but she has had a much narrower life.
![Screenshot of the Wikipedia entry for Alice Thomson. Text reads:
Education and career
Thomson was educated at Bute House Preparatory School for Girls in West London, the School of St Helen and St Katharine in Abingdon, Oxfordshire and Marlborough College, Wiltshire. She graduated from Bristol University with a BA in history and received an MA in newspaper journalism from City University London. Thomson became a trainee on The Times in 1990 before becoming a foreign correspondent, feature writer and political reporter for the newspaper. In 1997 she moved to The Daily Telegraph as a columnist and leader writer and also wrote the restaurant reviews and political interviews before re-joining The Times in 2008. [2] She has written for Vogue and The Spectator and appeared on Question Time and Newsnight.
In 2014, jointly with colleagues from The Times, she was Political Journalist of the Year in the Press Gazette awards. [3] She was previously a Trustee of the think tank Policy Exchange, [4] on the Policy Committee of the CPRE, and a governor of Bute House preparatory school. [5] Thomson presents the podcast interview series What I Wish I'd Known with fellow Times columnist Rachel Sylvester which has now run for eight series [6] on Times Radio, which began in July 2020.[7] In December 2022, Thomson was chosen as the Interviewer of the Year at the Press Gazette British Journalism Awards. [8]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ekxy7poagajkdk5sl3ywa7zv/bafkreidig2jqaaeibugxgkgcewet4qf7jqe6xqgblonqbtbpbqsjuddpbm@jpeg)
November 12, 2025 at 8:47 AM
As I rapidly approach my 60th Birthday I am increasingly enraged by being called a 'kid' by folks that are younger than me because I support policies which threaten their unquestioned lives of privilege. Thomson is only 2 years younger than me, but she has had a much narrower life.
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So beautiful, needs to be shared with alt text
November 12, 2025 at 9:40 AM
So beautiful, needs to be shared with alt text
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I really need to get to bed, but I just poked my head out the back door again. This is the view from my deck. All of this is looking south. When the geomagnetic storms are like this, the oval overshoots me and stretches into the US, which is why so many are seeing it tonight. #aurora
November 12, 2025 at 5:16 AM
I really need to get to bed, but I just poked my head out the back door again. This is the view from my deck. All of this is looking south. When the geomagnetic storms are like this, the oval overshoots me and stretches into the US, which is why so many are seeing it tonight. #aurora
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So the full title is COLOR TASTE TEXTURE: Recipes for Picky Eaters, Those with Food Aversion, and Anyone Who’s Ever Cringed at Food. I know that “picky eaters” is a loaded term, the sole purpose of it in the title is so it can be found by the most people. It’s used sparingly within the book itself.
I’m an Autistic classically trained chef and I wrote a food aversion acceptance cookbook and guide titled COLOR TASTE TEXTURE, that’s all about finding out what works for specific sensory needs and how to customize food for them. It’s useful for all ages, no cooking experience necessary.
Color Taste Texture by Matthew Broberg-Moffitt: 9780593538593 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
An accessible family cookbook that offers solutions rather than tricks to empower the food-averse, autistic, and picky eater, with 46 recipes. This much-needed cookbook combines tips and techniques.....
www.penguinrandomhouse.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:47 PM
So the full title is COLOR TASTE TEXTURE: Recipes for Picky Eaters, Those with Food Aversion, and Anyone Who’s Ever Cringed at Food. I know that “picky eaters” is a loaded term, the sole purpose of it in the title is so it can be found by the most people. It’s used sparingly within the book itself.
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I really hope I never attract the attention of Joyce Carol Oates, Kendrick Lamar, or menswear guy.
November 11, 2025 at 6:39 PM
I really hope I never attract the attention of Joyce Carol Oates, Kendrick Lamar, or menswear guy.
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#Lakefield Curling Club fundraiser brings in over $15,000 for people affected by Kawartha Home Hardware fire. November 1 bonspiel aimed to raise $5,000 through participation, player pledges, and a silent auction.
kawarthanow.com/2025/11/11/l...
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Lakefield Curling Club fundraiser brings in over $15,000 for people affected by Kawartha Home Hardware fire | kawarthaNOW
By kawarthaNOW. November 1 bonspiel aimed to raise $5,000 through participation, player pledges, and a silent auction.
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November 11, 2025 at 7:32 PM
#Lakefield Curling Club fundraiser brings in over $15,000 for people affected by Kawartha Home Hardware fire. November 1 bonspiel aimed to raise $5,000 through participation, player pledges, and a silent auction.
kawarthanow.com/2025/11/11/l...
kawarthanow.com/2025/11/11/l...
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wrenching this out of context as an evergreen skeet
everyone who serves a despot thinks they will be the exception to daddy’s capricious ways
November 11, 2025 at 8:07 PM
wrenching this out of context as an evergreen skeet