Michael L Davenport
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Michael L Davenport
@valacosa.bsky.social
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Works in tech. Lives in theatres and makerspaces. AuDHD and queer-ish. (He / Him)
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...yeah.
a political compass type diagram, where the horizontal axis ranges from "interested in many" to "interested in one", And the vertical axis ranges from "doesn't limit other" to "limits other". The results show that there's a result far in the "doesn't limit other, interested in many" quadrant.
November 22, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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It's true. I'm at a street festival and The Tragically Hip (Membership) is playing over the PA *literally right now*
September 13, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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I'm out of town and couldn't get to Kitchener's Farmers Market, so instead I went to Moncton's Farmer's Market
A barn type structure with a red roof. In the foreground, tables and chairs. Someone is setting up a stage.
August 16, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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The sun setting low and red in the sky creating the perfect condition for rainbows A sign which reads Conestoga Mall with a rainbow hitting it close up of a rainbow in the sky. it's faded but it's there A bearded man smiling with a rainbow in the background
July 1, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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Excellent timeline synergy with @nickywoolf.bsky.social
The above skeet, juxtaposed with a skeet saying "Where can I put $1000 on the Bears to win this superbowl season"
May 8, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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Today I saw corporate grocery store messaging which is on the same wavelength as random graffiti.

This is the sentiment up here in Canada. Again, never seen so much of this in my life.
Sign in Sobeys' window (Highland and Belmont, Kitchener). The sign reads "So Canadian", clearly a play on Sobeys logo. Graffiti (at Bridge and Chesapeake, Waterloo) on a stone wall near a street. The graffiti reads "Canada Sticks Together".
April 4, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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Walking home on the Iron Horse Trail.
A light shining through trees since it's rainy. the tree branches are covered with raindrops which are illuminated. A person walking on a paved trail. the light from the street lights is reflecting off of the glossy pavement.
March 30, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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I needed to buy some storage bins today, and had two viable options, on the shelf right next to each other

Which to purchase, hmmmm

🤔🤔🍁
The side of a Sterilite Clearview 32Qt bin Closeup of the Sterilite bin label, which says "Made in USA" Label of a type A brand clear bin, 25L Closeup of the type A bin label, which says "made in Canada" (with domestic and imported materials)
March 29, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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Timeline synergy with @risettemd.bsky.social

(Though I might be inferring a bit; Amber posts not-infrequently about how happy she is about how her boobs are coming in)
BlueSky timeline. The post above ("New Pregnancy feature: for the first time in my life I am struggling to navigate the topology of titties in combination with seatbelts" combined with a selfie in a car saying "we'll get through this")
March 19, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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"locally owned, genuinely Canadian"

I've seen more signs like this the last two weeks than I've seen in my life.

We are not part of the USA.

We DO NOT WANT to be in the USA.

Anti-American sentiment here is at an all-time high. If America is smart, they will not insist on first-hand lessons.
A sign for Swanson's home hardware which reads "locally owned genuinely Canadian"
March 18, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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Kitchener.
two residential towers in the distance under construction photographed from the intersection of Queen and Joseph in Kitchener. there's the beginnings of a cloudy sunset in the background.
February 26, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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You just encouraged me to pop over to Full Circle Foods and treat myself
A bearded man, half out of frame, holding a glass bottle of milk in front of a green screen.
February 22, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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I finally lost whamageddon

Except instead of hearing "Last Christmas", it's seeing one of these in Downtown Kitchener
Cybertruck parked at the intersection of Ontario and Halls Lane. A business sign in the background reads "50 Ontario Street"
February 1, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Winter halo in Downtown Kitchener.
Winter halo in Victoria park downtown Kitchener. The sun is in the center and a rainbow arc is on either side. the foreground is a frozen lake.
January 20, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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This is your fault.

(Thank you!)
Screenshot of Steam, where the "Cart" button has 33 items in it.
December 31, 2024 at 10:25 PM
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It's amazing just how *sideways* the moon is right now.
Happy Solstice!
Half-moon (waning) against the night sky. The moon is lit from the lower left, because I'm at 43.45° N latitude and it's the solstice. Shot with a 500mm lens
December 22, 2024 at 6:10 AM
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Are you searching Bluesky for the word "Temple" and replying with the same copypasta, regardless of context?

Because it seems like people are having conversations like "Jesus was a rad dude who wouldn't stand for the bad things done in his name" and you're popping in with "hey that's antisemitism"
Morningstar: This Christmas, be more like Christ: ally with sex workers, the poor, and the disabled. Love them without expectations of anything in return Alexia Tripp: Chase money lenders out of temples with a whip. Werewolf Bar Kochba: There weren't any money lenders in the temple. You are misremembering that story.
December 19, 2024 at 8:22 PM
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Either this is an excellent marketing ploy from the Apple Fritter folks, or there's one question the information booth got more often than any other.

(At the Kitchener Christkindl market)
An "information" booth at a street market, with a sign out front saying "Apple Fritter Trucks This way ➡️"
December 7, 2024 at 5:52 PM
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Folks seem to like this, so here, have another.

Gaukel street is so photogenic ♥️
Another shot of Gaukel street, earlier in the evening, at dusk. Snow is falling and a Christmas tree is deep in the background. Lights are strung in the sky, and snowy footprints are on the ground.
December 2, 2024 at 3:28 AM
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It might be snowy, but at least it's pretty #Kitchener
The Christmas tree at 44 Gaukel. It is lit with lights and draped with a Fresh coat of snow.
December 2, 2024 at 1:41 AM
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I dunno. Their current tantrum and threats make a convincing case for "they do belong on a block list, actually".

Also, trans (and also autistic!) folk know that parents who go "My kid is X" all the time does not actually preclude them from being extremely shitty about X.
Smokefleet Command: "Wanna bet. I'll nuke your account en masse I have 8000 followers on my main and Numb uncomfortably learned the hard way. " They also use their trans kid as a shield and double down on their threat.
November 24, 2024 at 12:23 AM
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After waiting downtown for an hour for a #6 which never came, I took the train to Uptown and took a #5.

And, well, everything is still super wonky, but we're moving towards the correct corner of the city I guess.
A bus route, along with GPS location. Note the location is NOT anywhere along the bus route.
November 16, 2024 at 5:22 PM
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That magical time of year where it's both "pumpkin spice" season and "eggnog" season. 😋
A fridge showing a selection of dairy products, pumpkin spice and holiday eggnog drink are in the middle. A bearded man holding pumpkin spice and eggnog. separate drinks, to be clear. he is standing in front of a farmhouse coffee and deli sign in the background. this is in Cambridge.
November 8, 2024 at 3:51 PM
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For those despairing today, I managed to just snap a photo of a favourite piece of Canadian graffiti, riding the Kitchener-Toronto GO line.

Thinking of you specifically @louisathelast.bsky.social
Graffiti by the train tracks, which reads "Make existence count!" Thanks, graffiti artist, I needed this today.
November 6, 2024 at 3:19 PM
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I have an errand in Toronto today, so I'm sitting on the Kitchener-Toronto train.

Watching the fields and foliage scroll by, and I'm just ...numb.

This affects you more than me, your description of emotional state resonates.
A field, as photographed from a passing train. The field is barren and brown, because greenery dies in November. In the lower right corner, a partial reflection of the person who took this photo. Discernable is the top part of a T-shirt from Stratford's production of "La Cage aux Folles", which reads "I am what I am 🏳️‍🌈"
November 6, 2024 at 2:04 PM