Martin Kuplēns-Ewart
@mkuplens.com
Builder of software, maker, singer, and conductor.
A wee bit of an uphill battle for rail in Ontario… apple.news/A-AqlWbZPQiO...
Via Rail passengers arrive 12 hours late after night on train in eastern Ontario — CTV News
Via Rail passengers arrived in Ottawa more than 12 hours late on Thursday, after “serious mechanical issues” forced them to spend the night sitting on a train in Brockville, Ont.
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December 12, 2025 at 1:16 AM
A wee bit of an uphill battle for rail in Ontario… apple.news/A-AqlWbZPQiO...
Random thought of the day: what is it in the interaction between peanut butter and black tea w/ milk that makes the combination taste a little fishy?
November 21, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Random thought of the day: what is it in the interaction between peanut butter and black tea w/ milk that makes the combination taste a little fishy?
#hamilton pedestrian pet peeve: the light at Main/Albert. It’s on a beg button with appallingly long wait time, staying red for xing through multiple cycles of the automated light at Carrick. I don’t understand why the two couldn’t be linked.
November 12, 2025 at 1:51 PM
#hamilton pedestrian pet peeve: the light at Main/Albert. It’s on a beg button with appallingly long wait time, staying red for xing through multiple cycles of the automated light at Carrick. I don’t understand why the two couldn’t be linked.
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TV ad: scene- quiet city street, daytime. (voice-over)"Hi, I'm Keith Wilson, mayor of Portland, Oregon & this is what downtown looks like today." -22 seconds of street sounds, a bird chirps a few times, a distant car horn honks- "Pretty fucking boring, eh?"
September 28, 2025 at 11:12 PM
TV ad: scene- quiet city street, daytime. (voice-over)"Hi, I'm Keith Wilson, mayor of Portland, Oregon & this is what downtown looks like today." -22 seconds of street sounds, a bird chirps a few times, a distant car horn honks- "Pretty fucking boring, eh?"
Dear Audible, running ads in Canada that promote a book as being set “in Toronto’s cottage country” is probably not going to win you a strong readership here.
September 15, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Dear Audible, running ads in Canada that promote a book as being set “in Toronto’s cottage country” is probably not going to win you a strong readership here.
“[I]t's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment” -Charlie Kirk
Well, okay then.
Well, okay then.
September 10, 2025 at 9:33 PM
“[I]t's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment” -Charlie Kirk
Well, okay then.
Well, okay then.
There’s something deeply satisfying about finishing a project.
12” x 14”, hand sewn of a lovely soft rough-out leather with natural veg tan handles and a magnetic closure.
12” x 14”, hand sewn of a lovely soft rough-out leather with natural veg tan handles and a magnetic closure.
August 28, 2025 at 2:22 AM
There’s something deeply satisfying about finishing a project.
12” x 14”, hand sewn of a lovely soft rough-out leather with natural veg tan handles and a magnetic closure.
12” x 14”, hand sewn of a lovely soft rough-out leather with natural veg tan handles and a magnetic closure.
Holy moly that’s a lot of string players. 1000-strong orchestra in Latvia’s Youth Song & Dance Festival orchestral concert.
Pārpasaulīgs skaistums.
Pirmo reizi Jauniešu Dziesmu svētku vēsturē 1000 jauno mūziķu Simfoniskās mūzikas lielkoncertā “Daudzskanīgais debesjums”. Paldies dalībniekiem un virsdiriģentiem, šis bija ļoti, ļoti skaisti!
Pirmo reizi Jauniešu Dziesmu svētku vēsturē 1000 jauno mūziķu Simfoniskās mūzikas lielkoncertā “Daudzskanīgais debesjums”. Paldies dalībniekiem un virsdiriģentiem, šis bija ļoti, ļoti skaisti!
July 8, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Holy moly that’s a lot of string players. 1000-strong orchestra in Latvia’s Youth Song & Dance Festival orchestral concert.
Listening to www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/o... and wondering what screws Thiel has actually still clinging in place, because the rattle is getting rather worrying.
Opinion | Peter Thiel and the Antichrist
www.nytimes.com
June 26, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Listening to www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/o... and wondering what screws Thiel has actually still clinging in place, because the rattle is getting rather worrying.
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Thinking about commissioning something for my office wall - something that goes with and contains the "Dance like noone is watching, write every email as if it will be read out in court" quote.
June 25, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Thinking about commissioning something for my office wall - something that goes with and contains the "Dance like noone is watching, write every email as if it will be read out in court" quote.
@joeycoleman.ca FYI - passed by Ottawa St about half an hour ago and the street was closed with what looked like a working fire either at or just behind Memorial Elementary.
May 20, 2025 at 3:39 PM
@joeycoleman.ca FYI - passed by Ottawa St about half an hour ago and the street was closed with what looked like a working fire either at or just behind Memorial Elementary.
Getting Chad knocked out of parliament would be about the most right thing to happen, even if the seat goes blue.
More liveblog updates:
Hamilton East Stoney Creek: Ned Kuruc has worked hardest of any Hamilton area candidate. No surprise with nearly half of polls reporting, Kuruc is outperforming national trends.
We'll have to wait until the end to call that riding
thepublicrecord.ca/2025/04/joey...
Hamilton East Stoney Creek: Ned Kuruc has worked hardest of any Hamilton area candidate. No surprise with nearly half of polls reporting, Kuruc is outperforming national trends.
We'll have to wait until the end to call that riding
thepublicrecord.ca/2025/04/joey...
Joey's Liveblog: Federal Election Night in Hamilton
The collapse of the NDP vote changes everything - A decade ago the NDP held three of the five seats, tonight they can only hope to keep one.
thepublicrecord.ca
April 29, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Getting Chad knocked out of parliament would be about the most right thing to happen, even if the seat goes blue.
Roman kerning? Shame they couldn't get a decent artisan for the pope's tomb…
April 28, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Roman kerning? Shame they couldn't get a decent artisan for the pope's tomb…
@joeycoleman.ca bit of a mess on Maplewood at Gage as a derailed car carved up the road surface. Train stopped with crossing closed = #5 bus stuck, too.
April 24, 2025 at 4:58 PM
@joeycoleman.ca bit of a mess on Maplewood at Gage as a derailed car carved up the road surface. Train stopped with crossing closed = #5 bus stuck, too.
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Art.
April 22, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Art.
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Foreign Friends with Travel Plans to the U.S. for Conventions:
A bit back I said you should maybe reconsider those plans.
I would like to amend my prior statement.
Cancel them. Cancel them now. We cannot keep you safe from our own government. Take your holiday in Spain or something.
A bit back I said you should maybe reconsider those plans.
I would like to amend my prior statement.
Cancel them. Cancel them now. We cannot keep you safe from our own government. Take your holiday in Spain or something.
April 14, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Foreign Friends with Travel Plans to the U.S. for Conventions:
A bit back I said you should maybe reconsider those plans.
I would like to amend my prior statement.
Cancel them. Cancel them now. We cannot keep you safe from our own government. Take your holiday in Spain or something.
A bit back I said you should maybe reconsider those plans.
I would like to amend my prior statement.
Cancel them. Cancel them now. We cannot keep you safe from our own government. Take your holiday in Spain or something.
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Gonna be a wild time when other countries start reciprocating by revoking American visas and deporting Americans because of the policies of this administration.
April 6, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Gonna be a wild time when other countries start reciprocating by revoking American visas and deporting Americans because of the policies of this administration.
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It was the Dunning of tymes. It was the Kruger of tymes.
April 3, 2025 at 4:55 AM
It was the Dunning of tymes. It was the Kruger of tymes.
At what point will Canada (and other countries) consider pulling permission for US pre-clearance operations in our airports?
March 22, 2025 at 2:23 PM
At what point will Canada (and other countries) consider pulling permission for US pre-clearance operations in our airports?
Another distraction idea for Trump: convince him that a ‘cdn.’ subdomain means Canadian content is being imported.
March 15, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Another distraction idea for Trump: convince him that a ‘cdn.’ subdomain means Canadian content is being imported.
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The government is demanding that a school discipline students as it wants, change the authority structure at the school, and end a department it doesn’t like.
Remember that next time some person on the right tells you the GOP is the free speech party.
Remember that next time some person on the right tells you the GOP is the free speech party.
NEW letter to Columbia from Trump admin lists demands for “continued financial relationship” with the US government”:
—Suspend or expel students for Hamilton Hall protest
—“Time, place, and manner rules”
—Mask ban
—Address “anti-Zionist” discrimination
—Reform admissions
—MORE
—Suspend or expel students for Hamilton Hall protest
—“Time, place, and manner rules”
—Mask ban
—Address “anti-Zionist” discrimination
—Reform admissions
—MORE
March 14, 2025 at 1:38 AM
The government is demanding that a school discipline students as it wants, change the authority structure at the school, and end a department it doesn’t like.
Remember that next time some person on the right tells you the GOP is the free speech party.
Remember that next time some person on the right tells you the GOP is the free speech party.
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@joeycoleman.ca looks like rent eviction day at Gage Park. Bylaw, police, a bucket loader and several trailers in the park, at least one piled high.
March 11, 2025 at 4:17 PM
@joeycoleman.ca looks like rent eviction day at Gage Park. Bylaw, police, a bucket loader and several trailers in the park, at least one piled high.