NorthHopper 🇨🇦
@northhopper.bsky.social
Canadian, motorsports/hockey/baseball fan, sim racer (nr2003 & Assetto Corsa), and technology enthusiast (new and old). Any photo I post will have alt text
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NorthHopper 🇨🇦
@northhopper.bsky.social
· Nov 13
I guess I should do a little post about my interests.
- Motosports (NASCAR, IMSA, Trans Am, dirt + regional stuff at CTMP)
- Sim Racing
- Music
- Hockey (Habs)
- Baseball (Jays)
- Gaming and retro tech (PCs, all consoles, Palm PDAs, old computers, audio equipment, you name it)
- 3D printing
- Motosports (NASCAR, IMSA, Trans Am, dirt + regional stuff at CTMP)
- Sim Racing
- Music
- Hockey (Habs)
- Baseball (Jays)
- Gaming and retro tech (PCs, all consoles, Palm PDAs, old computers, audio equipment, you name it)
- 3D printing
Finally got an Xbox 360 after so many years and logged back into my old MS account. So many memories. My profile picture is Mountain Dew. Also, my HD-DVD drive works 😎 the format may be dead and literally rotting in some cases but I'll watch them until they die for good
November 30, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Finally got an Xbox 360 after so many years and logged back into my old MS account. So many memories. My profile picture is Mountain Dew. Also, my HD-DVD drive works 😎 the format may be dead and literally rotting in some cases but I'll watch them until they die for good
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Sorry for my absence but I've been busy moving into a new place.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Happy Thanksgiving!
November 27, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Sorry for my absence but I've been busy moving into a new place.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Happy Thanksgiving!
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you could say i deserve it but if i hadn't noticed someone else would have.
![Paula Barker MP @paulabarkermp.bsky.social • 2h
It was an honour to attend the RNIB's 'Out of Sight: vision rehabilitation' drop-in.
I heard about the difference that timely access to local authority support - known as vision rehabilitation, can make, and learnt more about this vital but often overlooked part of social care.
[attached are three photos of paula at the drop-in. in one she is holding a sign that reads: i'll stand up for bland and partially sighted people']
sloane lysbeth @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social • 25m
the lack of alt-text on this is hilarious.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bcgtpezwhu5ynanpiezkmfim/bafkreigeypem6h7mjbnin25lkuwa3smeck2wmuimvukgyec3di6qymh5de@jpeg)
November 26, 2025 at 12:55 PM
you could say i deserve it but if i hadn't noticed someone else would have.
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FIRST TO FIFTY 🐐
With her goal today, Marie-Philip Poulin becomes the first PWHL player to reach 50 regular season points! | Avec son but aujourd’hui, Marie-Philip devient la première joueuse de la LPHF à atteindre 50 points en saison régulière!
With her goal today, Marie-Philip Poulin becomes the first PWHL player to reach 50 regular season points! | Avec son but aujourd’hui, Marie-Philip devient la première joueuse de la LPHF à atteindre 50 points en saison régulière!
November 26, 2025 at 2:13 AM
FIRST TO FIFTY 🐐
With her goal today, Marie-Philip Poulin becomes the first PWHL player to reach 50 regular season points! | Avec son but aujourd’hui, Marie-Philip devient la première joueuse de la LPHF à atteindre 50 points en saison régulière!
With her goal today, Marie-Philip Poulin becomes the first PWHL player to reach 50 regular season points! | Avec son but aujourd’hui, Marie-Philip devient la première joueuse de la LPHF à atteindre 50 points en saison régulière!
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[original post on Twitter by @eevblog]
IMPORTANT message for everyone using Gmail.
︀︀You have been automatically OPTED IN to allow Gmail to access all your private messages & attachments to train AI models.
︀︀You have to manually turn off Smart Features in the Setting menu in TWO locations.
︀︀Reskeet.
IMPORTANT message for everyone using Gmail.
︀︀You have been automatically OPTED IN to allow Gmail to access all your private messages & attachments to train AI models.
︀︀You have to manually turn off Smart Features in the Setting menu in TWO locations.
︀︀Reskeet.
November 20, 2025 at 6:04 PM
[original post on Twitter by @eevblog]
IMPORTANT message for everyone using Gmail.
︀︀You have been automatically OPTED IN to allow Gmail to access all your private messages & attachments to train AI models.
︀︀You have to manually turn off Smart Features in the Setting menu in TWO locations.
︀︀Reskeet.
IMPORTANT message for everyone using Gmail.
︀︀You have been automatically OPTED IN to allow Gmail to access all your private messages & attachments to train AI models.
︀︀You have to manually turn off Smart Features in the Setting menu in TWO locations.
︀︀Reskeet.
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Trying to buy Wicked: For Good tickets on their website (wicked.com) but can’t find them, anyone else having this problem?
wicked.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Trying to buy Wicked: For Good tickets on their website (wicked.com) but can’t find them, anyone else having this problem?
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why is windscribe vpn being transphobic on the company twitter account in lundukes replies what is going on
November 19, 2025 at 8:57 PM
why is windscribe vpn being transphobic on the company twitter account in lundukes replies what is going on
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so wait you're telling me someone is making money on internet censorship
Yoti revenue surges amid boost from Online Safety Act rules
The Online Safety Act, which was passed in October 2023, introduced age verification requirements for access to adult content.
www.cityam.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:40 PM
so wait you're telling me someone is making money on internet censorship
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I don’t want to seem out of touch but I don’t actually understand the economy anymore.
November 18, 2025 at 3:23 AM
I don’t want to seem out of touch but I don’t actually understand the economy anymore.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene has been disliked by the left for years and years and had never had to fear for her life. She's been disliked by the right for 1 day and now has to hire security.
November 18, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Marjorie Taylor Greene has been disliked by the left for years and years and had never had to fear for her life. She's been disliked by the right for 1 day and now has to hire security.
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Heavily armed fascists kidnapping American citizens, now in Charlotte
Brian Krassenstein
A Charlotte man was stopped twice by ICE. The first group checked his ID and let him go. Minutes later, another set of agents rolled up, smashed his window, dragged him out, and assaulted him
He was a U.S. citizen…
A Charlotte man was stopped twice by ICE. The first group checked his ID and let him go. Minutes later, another set of agents rolled up, smashed his window, dragged him out, and assaulted him
He was a U.S. citizen…
November 16, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Heavily armed fascists kidnapping American citizens, now in Charlotte
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It literally never was. I suggested to some other NCMEC Board members when I was there that we should push back on the wrongful use of “groomer” to describe non-pedophiles. The answer, from Rich Kolodziej, NCMEC Board member: “we aren’t here to protect Democrats”.
November 15, 2025 at 6:38 AM
It literally never was. I suggested to some other NCMEC Board members when I was there that we should push back on the wrongful use of “groomer” to describe non-pedophiles. The answer, from Rich Kolodziej, NCMEC Board member: “we aren’t here to protect Democrats”.
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When Big Oil companies claim to be partners in climate solutions, remember: they are lying.
As the climate crisis intensifies, Chevron is once again "increasing investments in oil and gas exploration," Reuters reports.
www.reuters.com/markets/comm...
As the climate crisis intensifies, Chevron is once again "increasing investments in oil and gas exploration," Reuters reports.
www.reuters.com/markets/comm...
November 13, 2025 at 1:42 PM
When Big Oil companies claim to be partners in climate solutions, remember: they are lying.
As the climate crisis intensifies, Chevron is once again "increasing investments in oil and gas exploration," Reuters reports.
www.reuters.com/markets/comm...
As the climate crisis intensifies, Chevron is once again "increasing investments in oil and gas exploration," Reuters reports.
www.reuters.com/markets/comm...
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I like how full text search of every book and human thought ever was a SOLVED PROBLEM in 2001, and now dicks at search engines and my own phone – a piece of silicon faster to respond than God was ever imagined in scripture – prevent it from working, _as a retroactive infantilizing design choice_.
November 14, 2025 at 12:42 AM
I like how full text search of every book and human thought ever was a SOLVED PROBLEM in 2001, and now dicks at search engines and my own phone – a piece of silicon faster to respond than God was ever imagined in scripture – prevent it from working, _as a retroactive infantilizing design choice_.
Mug moment
Vine is being rebooted under the name diVine, with funding from Twitter’s former CEO Jack Dorsey.
The app plans to feature more than 10,000 previously archived Vines and does not allow AI-generated content.
(divine.video)
The app plans to feature more than 10,000 previously archived Vines and does not allow AI-generated content.
(divine.video)
November 13, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Mug moment
Fuck I fucking hate Google. Why do tech companies think they have the right to install software on my phone without my permission while I'm sleeping? Had my phone rooted since the day I got it two years ago, I wake up today and it's updated and un-rooted. Fuck off.
November 13, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Fuck I fucking hate Google. Why do tech companies think they have the right to install software on my phone without my permission while I'm sleeping? Had my phone rooted since the day I got it two years ago, I wake up today and it's updated and un-rooted. Fuck off.
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valve dropped the gabecube fr
November 12, 2025 at 8:10 PM
valve dropped the gabecube fr
RIP
MAS 3.8 - R.I.P. KMS38
Beginning with build 26100.7019, Microsoft fully deprecated clip-based KMS license migration functionality. As a result, KMS38 has stopped working.
Full changelog massgrave.dev/changelog
Beginning with build 26100.7019, Microsoft fully deprecated clip-based KMS license migration functionality. As a result, KMS38 has stopped working.
Full changelog massgrave.dev/changelog
November 12, 2025 at 7:48 AM
RIP
Despite all the bullshit I'm happy to see this finally arrived. Literally the rarest stuff in my gaming collection now
November 11, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Despite all the bullshit I'm happy to see this finally arrived. Literally the rarest stuff in my gaming collection now
>Order shit from Japanese proxy bidding service
>Canada Post strike fucks everything up
>Have to go through UPS which costs $80 after discount
>UPS ships it through 3 US States two of which were entirely unnecessary
>$27 of fees in tariffs
Nice. Fuck Trump. And fuck my own politicians too.
>Canada Post strike fucks everything up
>Have to go through UPS which costs $80 after discount
>UPS ships it through 3 US States two of which were entirely unnecessary
>$27 of fees in tariffs
Nice. Fuck Trump. And fuck my own politicians too.
November 10, 2025 at 6:46 AM
>Order shit from Japanese proxy bidding service
>Canada Post strike fucks everything up
>Have to go through UPS which costs $80 after discount
>UPS ships it through 3 US States two of which were entirely unnecessary
>$27 of fees in tariffs
Nice. Fuck Trump. And fuck my own politicians too.
>Canada Post strike fucks everything up
>Have to go through UPS which costs $80 after discount
>UPS ships it through 3 US States two of which were entirely unnecessary
>$27 of fees in tariffs
Nice. Fuck Trump. And fuck my own politicians too.
I ordered some stuff through a Japan proxy bidding service and it's finally on its way in the mail. A Famicom Network System (two actually), a sealed Famicom Network System cartridge, a 64DD Modem Cartridge and 64DD Capture Cassette. Happy to get it soon
November 8, 2025 at 10:18 AM
I ordered some stuff through a Japan proxy bidding service and it's finally on its way in the mail. A Famicom Network System (two actually), a sealed Famicom Network System cartridge, a 64DD Modem Cartridge and 64DD Capture Cassette. Happy to get it soon
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The whole of the internet is now run on the things that would have not made it past your email junk filter 20 years ago.
Meta earns $3.5 billion every six months from showing Faceboon and Instagram users 15 billion “higher legal risk” scam ad impressions a day, internal documents state.
That haul vastly exceeds how much the company expects regulators
To fine it for running scam ads.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
That haul vastly exceeds how much the company expects regulators
To fine it for running scam ads.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:10 PM
The whole of the internet is now run on the things that would have not made it past your email junk filter 20 years ago.
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BTW, I would really like @consumerreports.org to watch this video and perhaps start breathing down the necks of those big companies for forcing everyone into using pre-dosed products.
That's the opposite of pro-consumer, imo.
youtu.be/DAX2_mPr9W8
That's the opposite of pro-consumer, imo.
youtu.be/DAX2_mPr9W8
I was right about dishwasher pods, and now I can prove it
YouTube video by Technology Connections
youtu.be
November 4, 2025 at 8:13 PM
BTW, I would really like @consumerreports.org to watch this video and perhaps start breathing down the necks of those big companies for forcing everyone into using pre-dosed products.
That's the opposite of pro-consumer, imo.
youtu.be/DAX2_mPr9W8
That's the opposite of pro-consumer, imo.
youtu.be/DAX2_mPr9W8