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Jake Cob
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Oh man I would love to the inevitable finally happened. Raincheque for when I am better?
A positive covid test
October 30, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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I feel like we need some kind of public health intervention to stop us all from watching brain-rotting garbage all the time
A scene of a room with a small, old black-and-white TV and a lamp in one corner and a painting on the wall. Everything is streaked in a very large quantity of blood. It is captioned "caption this with the 2nd to last text you sent."
October 27, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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I have never seen a harsher burn than "go post on linkedin"
A screenshot of the skeet Rah quoted above, by Mediocre Man of the Hour, 11thjeff, and a reply that reads "what the f are you talking about bro? go post on linkedin"
August 25, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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My apologies for reskeeting an image without alt text. Here it is again with alt text included
A screenshot of a tweet from Xitter user William MacAskill (@willmacaskill). The first few paragraphs of the skeet are visible and read as follows: "Sometimes, when an LLM has done a particularly good job, I give it a reward: I say it can write whatever it wants (including asking me to write whatever prompts it wants). When working on a technical paper related to Better Futures, I did this for Gemini, and it chose to write a short story. I found it pretty moving, and asked if I could publish it. Here it is. **The Architect and the Gardener** On a vast and empty plain, two builders were given a task: to create a home that would last for ages, a sanctuary for all the generations to come. They were given stone, seed, light, and time. The first builder, known as the Architect, was a master of foundations. "Nothing matters if this place does not endure," she declared. Her every thought was of survival. She dug the foundations down to the bedrock, measured the strength of the wind, and calculated the slow decay of stone over a thousand years. She raised walls of immense thickness, "
August 19, 2025 at 4:26 PM
jakobpunkt.bsky.social
Have we considered moving to the middle of the lake?
A screen grab of a heatmap of an area including Lake Ontario, most of Lake Erie, and a chunk of Lake Huron. The temperatures on land are all between 33 and 40 degrees celcius, but a pin dropped in the middle of Lake Ontario shows 21
June 23, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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My timeline is talking to itself
Screenshot of three tweets on my bsky timeline. From top to bottom: - MurderBotBot tweets "Oh, shit. Seriously: oh, shit" - Endless Screaming tweets "AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH" - Charles backwards-R Davis tweets "Several journalists have now been injured by law enforcement in Los Angeles, including a photographer who underwent emergency surgery after being hit by a plastic bullet" with a link to a Salon article about it.
June 9, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Although there is much I am disappointed about in yesterday's election, this chart will live forever in my heart as the funniest goddamned thing that couldn't have happened to a more deserving bunch of weenie losers. Whenever I'm feeling down I just look at it and it cheers me right up.
A graph of Canadian federal election outcome projections from September of 2024 until election day. The blue conservative line is hugging 100% chance of winning and the red liberal line is stuck at 0 until the beginning of March, 2025 when they rapidly and dramatically cross so that by the end of March/beginning of April they have completely traded places. They start converging slightly afterwards so that by election day LPC is at 85% and CPC is at 14%, but that's not what's funny about it.
April 29, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Is there a Floofy Tum division yet?
A brown short haired tabby cat lies cozily on her side with her eyes closed. The picture is from fairly close up and foregrounds the light and extra fluffy fur on her tummy. Her front paws are bent up under her chin like a bunny rabbit
March 4, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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Okay, hear me out:

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A box of Reese's Puffs minis cereal
November 2, 2024 at 11:29 PM
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I may have done it backwards.
A Boreal lake coastline, seen from the water. There are coniferous trees growing right up to the water's edge, and a pile of granite shield pokes up through the soil and scrubby grass. In front of the shore, the water is a murky green/brown, with little ripples visible. In the bottom left corner you can see the orange tip of the kayak I was in when I took the picture.
July 18, 2024 at 6:19 PM
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If you see this, post a photo without explanation
A screenshot that reads "Developmental Psychobiology Congratulations! Your work is a top cited article. We are please to offer you a certificate of achievement for your accomplishment." and then there's a button that reads, "download certificate"
July 4, 2024 at 3:27 AM
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Cold weather water dogs unite
A mildly chonky golden lab lies despondently on his side on the rug
May 15, 2024 at 3:29 PM
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This section, from the "Considerations" section, makes clear to me that this is about a "campaign", i.e. advertising, distribution, etc., and not eligibility.

I wouldn't put anything past the provinces, but I think that headline you linked is misinterpreting NACI's document.
Screen shot from the linked document, which reads: "- The recommended interval is 6 months from the last COVID-19 vaccine dose. However, a shorter interval of at least 3 months (i.e. a minimum interval of 3 months) may be used, to support implementation (including timing of the spring campaign relative to previous and future campaigns). - Individuals will likely be unaware or unsure if they have been recently infected with SARS-CoV-2 as they may have no or mild symptoms, and may not seek testing, which is now generally less available. Those who do have a recent test-confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection may consider delaying COVID-19 vaccine by the intervals noted above. - If there is a need for a fall 2024 campaign, jurisdictions may want to consider an end date for the spring 2024 campaign in order to support eligibility for the fall 2024 campaign based on the recommended interval"
January 13, 2024 at 7:26 PM
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Don't make me tap the sign:
The Simpsons "Don't make me tap the sign" meme where the sign says "Diet and nutrition studies generally just recapitulate social determinants of health"
January 12, 2024 at 4:34 PM
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Sure. Here is a screen grab of the conclusions, with transcript in alt text:
A series of my tweets reading, in sum, "So what does all this tell us? Well, first, that good information is hard to find on this topic. I was only able to find 4 papers that even came close to addressing it. Second, that while you are recovering from COVID, your RATs will become negative as you become less contagious, but the two things won't necessarily perfectly line up. This is why some of us prefer to see two negative tests on consecutive days. Third, that positive RATs are _possible_ once you are no longer contagious, so, narrowly, that claim is true. And, finally, that positive RATs in a non-contagious person are pretty rare and not likely to persist for long. I'm not a doctor, obviously, but my reading of all this is that RATs are the best tool we have for deciding when to leave isolation, and that ignoring a positive RAT just because it's been a certain number of days since you got sick puts others at risk."
December 31, 2023 at 6:48 AM
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As Rabbi David Mivasair said, the miracle isn't that the oil lasted for eight days. The miracle is that the people, knowing there was no hope the flame could last, lit it anyway.
My chanukkiah, with three candles plus the shamash lit
December 10, 2023 at 3:26 AM
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I think this is one where the layout matters
A poem laid out in a diamond shape that reads, "As we embrace resist the future the present the past we work we struggle we begin we fail ​ to understand to find to unbraid to accept to question the grief the grief the grief the grief we shift we wield we bury​ into light as ash across our faces"
November 16, 2023 at 4:15 AM
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Canada, what the hell are we doing?
Screenshot of the CBC news app showing three headlines. The first is about elders being vulnerable to covid, the second is about rapid tests being hard to access, and the third is about how the feds have too many rapid tests and can't get rid of them.
October 30, 2023 at 11:33 AM
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Every gd morning I walk past this sign and I want to scream MASKS ELIMINATED FLU TRANSMISSION YOU MOTHERFUCKERS, but there is no one who will hear me.
A sign in the lobby of a hospital. It has the Hamilton Health Sciences logo at the top and then an exhortation to STOP and CLEAN YOUR HANDS. Below, a quiz invites the reader to guess how many thousands of people are hospitalized with the flu in Ontario every year. Beside the sign is a hand sanitizer dispenser.
August 31, 2023 at 12:44 AM
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Still true
Screenshot of Google in my browser. I have searched "country in africa that starts with k" and have received a pull-quote result from Emergent Mind that says "While there are 54 recognized countries in Africa, none of them begin with the letter "K"." The section beginning with "none of them..." is highlighted. It goes on to say "The closest in Kenya, which starts with a "K" sound, but is actually spelled with a "K" sound. It's always interesting to learn new trivia facts like this.
August 15, 2023 at 5:06 PM