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peterj is just zis guy, you know?

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Oh no! Anyway...

(The rest of the headline is the words "other services", which, hoo boy, CBC/AP.)
Cloudflare outage takes down ChatGPT, X,
November 18, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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My local CBC outlet has started posting on X again after a 14-month absence. What's the urgent breaking story that warranted their return to the Nazi site? (With a link to YouTube, no less, instead of the CBC website.) #ldnont
X post from @CBCLondon reading "Meet Ruby, a rescue pup in London who has learned to 'talk' and 'text' using an interactive board." and linking to a YouTube video.
November 14, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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October 20, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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Hey #cbc #ldnont: Rachel Hannah has a name too.
CBC London headline: "Port Elgin runner wins women's title at Toronto marathon as Ben Flanagan victorious in men's race"
October 20, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Insta-block, as the kids say.
Stats panel from a Bluesky user who recently followed me, showing they've followed over 380,000 other accounts (and are followed by about 75,000).
October 18, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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Emm Gryner is prepping to release two (yes, two) albums… Kickstarter backers just got access to one of the demo tracks from "Lioness Sky", the solo indie pop album, and there's a track from "Used to Bleed", the heavy metal album, up too […]

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A monochrome image of Emm Gryner, a young Filipina-Irish Canadian woman, playing bass guitar. She's got an appropriately rocking facial expression and pose.
September 16, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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> an annual awards ceremony that fumbles that most basic of all tasks – pronouncing the finalists’ names – fails at its most basic purpose.
https://grigorylukin.com/2025/08/21/when-people-giggle-at-your-name-or-the-2025-hugo-awards-incident/

See also […]

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Bluesky post from Elizabeth Bear: "Make sure presenters are rehearsed in the pronunciation of names and works. This is a lifetime event for the nominees who deserve respect and celebration."
August 26, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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> Writer J. Michael Straczynski has been warning his readers for 30 years about authoritarianism, from Babylon 5 to Spider-Man.

post text from: https://bsky.app/profile/comicbookclub.bsky.social/post/3lxa2lxzff32w
linking to […]

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Closeup of tears coming from Doctor Doom's eye, from _The Amazing Spider-Man_ issue #36, used to illustrate the linked article.
August 26, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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One for all good Americans, appropriately via _Foundation_ season 3 episode 7, "Foundation's End".
A large room inside a spaceship, decorated in earth tones with a decanter of alcohol on a table in the foreground. Two humanoid characters are visible in an alcove lit in blue-green at the right of the middle background. The captioned dialogue reads "Fuck ice."
August 22, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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Just reminded that "The History of #futurefolk" is officially available, for free, in its entirety, on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2oKGSmr9oo

#hondo
A guitar player and a banjo player standing side by side on a stage. Both are dressed in "space-y" red and black uniforms and are wearing red buckets on their heads (with holes cut out for their faces).
August 20, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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From personal experience this weekend, I now know that it's possible to drive over 500km on a single charge in a Chevrolet Bolt EV.
Google Maps' calculation of a 210km route from my location in London, Ontario to a house in Owen Sound. It claims to be the fastest route with the usual traffic, and saves 3% energy over two slightly shorter routes that would take more time. My car's app showing a current charge of 15% this morning, with an estimate of 81km of range.
August 19, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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Relative timestamps are dumb. This is a particularly dumb example, but there's literally no way to improve it while keeping it a relative timestamp.
"13 years ago at 3:16 pm"
August 12, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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Me: searches "Google classroom report spam"

support.google.com search result:

> Welcome to the Google Classroom Help Community.

> Unfortunately, just as we can't control people who abuse email accounts by sending spam, we can't control those who […]

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Ned Flanders' hippie parents explaining that "We've tried nothing, and we're all out of ideas."
August 8, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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According to this package, there's 1g of sugar in every .6g of pectin. Where was it made, Gallifrey?
"Nutrition Facts" from a package of Certo pectin claiming that each 1/6 tsp (0.6 g) contains 4 calories, 0g of fat, 1g of carbohydrates (of which 1g is sugar), and 0g of protein.
August 5, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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Feels like this should be illegal. Thoughts? #ldnont
July 26, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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I've got a half-memory of a saxophone-heavy quintet visiting my rural high school's music class, parading in playing their instruments, wearing colourful Middle Eastern-influenced robes and headwear. In retrospect they *must* have been the Shuffle […]

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Screenshot from the Retrontario YouTube channel's "Spadina Bus" video showing four men dressed in stereotypical beatnik outfits, variously wearing crazy sunglasses, long goatees, and berets. The second man is wearing a T-shirt reading "Save the stubby" [a uniquely Canadian beer bottle shape]. The tallest man, on the right, is holding two loaves of bread.
July 8, 2025 at 6:10 AM
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Go home, Breezy Weather, you're drunk.
Current temperature and three-day forecast showing highs in the 20°C range and a low tonight of -273°C.
June 18, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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Smile (2022, dir. Parker Finn)
A screenshot of former prime minister Stephen Harper giving a dead-eyed smile to the camera, from the Canadian Conservative Party's current ad campaign.
April 23, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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> Samsung Electronics and Google Cloud are jointly entering the consumer robotics market with [a] robot equipped with a video projector
< […]

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April 9, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Anyone else want to know the story behind "deliberately"?

https://www.space.com/space-exploration/space-miso-is-nuttier-than-earth-miso-but-its-still-miso

> This marks the first time scientists deliberately fermented food in space, opening up new […]

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Three jars filled with a light-brown paste. The two on the right are labelled "SPACE MISO 001" and "SPACE MISO 002".
April 3, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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Tapping the sign.

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Americans are, of course, the most thoroughly and passively indoctrinated people on earth. They know next to nothing as a rule about their own history, or the histories of other nations, or the histories of the various social movements that have risen and fallen in the past, and they certainly know little or nothing of the complexities and contradictions comprised within words like "socialism" and "capitalism." Chiefly, what they have been trained not to know or even suspect is that, in many ways, they enjoy far fewer freedoms, and suffer under a more intrusive centralized state, than do the citizens of countries with more vigorous social-democratic institutions. This is at once the most comic and most tragic aspect of the excitable alarm that talk of social democracy or democratic socialism can elicit on these shores. An enormous number of Americans have been persuaded to believe that they are freer in the abstract than, say, Germans or Danes precisely because they possess far fewer freedoms in the concrete. They are far more vulnerable to medical and financial crisis, far more likely to receive inadequate health coverage, far more prone to irreparable insolvency, far more unprotected against predatory creditors, far more subject to income inequality, and so forth, while effectively paying more in tax (when one figures in federal, state, local, and sales taxes, and then compounds those by all the expenditures that in this country, as almost nowhere else [cont'd]
March 31, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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The idea that Calvin grows up to be Frazz (the cycling musician/school janitor) was quaint. Calvin grew up to become an AI company C-E-bro.
Calvin: "If I had a computer, I'm sure I'd get better grades on my book reports." Dad: "You'd still have to read the book and tell the computer what you want to say, you know." Calvin (reading the book): "Man, what's all the fuss about computers?!"
February 27, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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"Over the Hedge" by cartoonist T Lewis and Michael Fry, 2025-02-15.
First panel: Hammy, a squirrel, and Verne, a turtle, observe a yellow arc in a starry sky. Hammy asks "What was that?" Verne replies "One of Elon's Starlink satellites." Second panel: hundreds of crisscrossing yellow arcs flood the image, with only a tiny bit of black sky visible. Third panel: Hammy asks "What was *that*??" Verne, walking away, replies "*All* of Elon's satellites."
February 15, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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No reason...
Calvin and Hobbes. Calvin, to a prostrate snowman: "As I have created you, so can I destroy you! Therefore, in recognition of my supreme power, you must worship me! Yes, bow before mighty Calvin and tremble, for I am the eternal, all knowing...". And Suzie, previously unseen, knocks him head over heels with a well-aimed snowball.
February 6, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Puzzling: I found this page of what appear to be (colour-copied) handwritten lyrics in a folder full of random stuff. I've identified some of them as coming from David Byrne's "Everybody's Coming to My House", but not all of them are from that song […]

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Colour copy of handwritten lyrics, including phrases like "When I'm up in the mountains / When I'm down at the beach / I'm a back-seat driver, and I like to watch / And I don't wanna go to bed", "I wish I was a cam'ra", "Big Ben Rocks", and "Travelling is standing still".
January 25, 2025 at 11:42 PM