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Chris Ogilvie
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Big nerd interested in retrocomputing, history, and literature. Known elsewhere on the internet as Arclight_Dynamo. He/Him.

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Welp. I guess it's winter now.
A great deal of falling snow illuminated by two parking lot lights.
November 10, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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Ottawa - 2025-11-08

4/4
A view looking up at a very geometric concrete building in front of a cloudy blue sky. A very geometric concrete building in front of a cloudy blue sky. The top of the building is brightly lit in yellow sunlight. There is writing on the building which reads "Canada." A sign that reads "Do not feed the wildlife. Ne pas nourrir les animaux sauvages." There is an illustration of a hand throwing crumbs to small animals with a red circle and line superimposed on it. In the bottom left, there is a sticker affixed to the sign which reads "Do not feed hallucinogens to the geese." A bell tower made of green steel tubes in front of a cloudy blue and grey sky.
November 9, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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Ottawa - 2025-11-08

3/4
A sign hanging from a chain stretched across the top of a flight of stairs. It has a large yellow warning symbol on it, and reads "Fermé pour l'hiver. Closed for winter." A view up a dark flight of stairs toward a cloudy blue sky. A concrete building with a large, colourful mural on it. There are cars and trees in the foreground. A view looking up at the top of a building in front of a cloudy blue sky. There is writing on the building which reads "uOttawa."
November 9, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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Ottawa - 2025-11-08

2/4
A seagull standing on a short concrete wall in front of calm water. A wooden park bench. A motorcycle parked outside of the entrance to a red brick residential building. Two while coffee cups on a concrete surface, surrounded by fallen leaves and twigs.
November 9, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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Ottawa - 2025-11-08

1/4
A bronze fountain in front of bright yellow trees. The fountain depicts children holding up a large bowl. A stone church in front of a cloudy blue sky. There is a red sign in front reading "Brunch - Lunch - Dinner - Cocktails - Bakery." A handwritten label stuck to a faded and illegible road sign. It is written in Sharpie. It reads "Do you know why Santa is in RED? He is Satan." A stone archway in front of a cloudy blue sky. There is a face carved into the lintel.
November 9, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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What the hell, Firefox? This is the second time I've caught you quietly ensloppifying in the background.
A Firefox right-click context menu. It includes "Ask an AI Chatbot," which opens a submenu. The submenu incldues "Summarize Page [New]," "Choose an AI Chatbot," and "Remove AI Chatbot."
October 31, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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Might be a little obscure to non-Canadians.
A photo of a Big Turk bar, which is Turkish delight covered in chocolate.
October 30, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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Please enjoy learning that Ottawa’s OHL team is called the 67s (pronounced the sixty-sevens).

I now invite you to consider how obnoxious it must be to be part of the crowd in the arena these days, given the current meme environment.
A hockey player wearing a jersey that has a team logo consisting of a 6 and a 7 on it.
October 29, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Who robbed the Louvre? Wrong answers only.
Melina Kanakaredes playing Victoria Metcalf from 1990s Canadian television series Due South.
October 21, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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Uh-oh. That might explain the issues I'm having...

downdetector.ca/status/youtu...
A graph of outages reports from Downdetector showing a spike for YouTube on October 15th.
October 15, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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Firefox, what the hell is this crap?
A cropped screenshot of the search bar in my Firefox web browser. Perplexity, which is some kind of AI crapfest, has been added to the search options without my knowledge or consent.
October 14, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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I kind of love that *this* XKCD was the one to have formatting issues that broke my browser window.
A screenshot of the XKCD website showing the comic "Window Screen." The comic image is incorrectly sized, and breaks out of the browser window. The topic of the comic is how well the character managed to fit a screen into a window.
October 7, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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Today's youth will never understand the frustration of having to install your PC's operating system off of fifteen LaserDiscs.
A photo from the launch of Windows 95. A man in an electronics store is holding an enormous Windows 95 retail box. It is at least a metre tall.
August 26, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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I think some people are just wired to notice changes like that more than others.

Totally unrelated to that, uh, wanna see some great street art that I noticed appeared next to my office recently?
Grafitti of an anthropomorphic rat smoking a cigarette and holding a cocktail glass. Line art on a traffic signal control box. The lyrics “Non rien de rien” are written over its head and it is signed “Pété.”
August 22, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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My favourite Doctor and companion
A promotional image for the Canadian television series Due South. Paul Gross as Benton Fraser is on the left; David Marciano as Ray Vecchio is on the right.
August 12, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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A screenshot from The Simpsons of Marge cutting out a newspaper article with the headline "Ketchup Truck Hits Hamburger Stand" and the sub-headline "Six Dead."
August 2, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Quote this with a great TV father.
Due South's Bob Fraser, played by the immortal Gordon Pinsent.
June 15, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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There is a reason for this graph.
A bar graph titled "Year-Over-Year Decline of Canadian Tourists in The U.S." sourced using data from Statistics Canada. The graph shows significant declines since February for car travel and air travel by Canadians to the United States.
June 12, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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Muskoka Springs is my birch beer of choice. Love to try yours, though - kind of hard to find a birch beer.
A glass bottle of Muskoka Springs Silver Birch Beer.
June 9, 2025 at 3:53 AM
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You know what your wonderful glass and light studies remind me of? The paintings of Mary Pratt.
Jelly Shelf by Mary Pratt. An extremely realistic painting of glass jars of jelly, with light shining through them.
May 19, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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Take the fictional characters quiz and post the first four you know.

openpsychometrics.org/tests/charac...
Cameron Frye from Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Bernard Lowe from Westworld. Egon Spengler from Ghostbusters. Calvin's Dad fromCalvin and Hobbes.
May 19, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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A few years ago I picked up a CD of 90s clip art from Value Village. Going through it, this was definitely the best of the bunch. I give you "SPACE05.BMP"

That moon has seen some shit.
A low resolution cartoon rendering of a moon. It has a small, gormless face.
May 18, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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Like, come on.

There was talk the league was going to charge him for the cost of the ball, but they managed to get it down.
A football resting on top of a scoreboard.
May 15, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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If you see this, post your getaway vehicle
A mint green 1972 Buick Riviera from Canadian TV series Due South. The car is on fire.
May 3, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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I will have you know this is my timeline right now.
A screenshot showing two Bluesky posts. The bottom post is the post this is in reply to - video of a baseball player being hit in the crotch with a ball. The top post is a photoshopped image of an animated Spider-Man and a photo of Taylor Swift looking down, as if they were looking at the bottom post. The text on this image is "do you see this shit Taylor Swift"
May 3, 2025 at 2:50 AM