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2026-06-05 00:23:25 GMT

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@nprofile…rdmk @nprofile…jnnp Oh good so no flamethrowers then.

2026-06-02 20:26:15 GMT

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@nprofile…rdmk it would just be nice if there were some kind of asset mix that you could invest in to protect yourself instead of lucking out on timing

2026-06-02 20:10:36 GMT

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@nprofile…rdmk I know that's what's coming but what I haven't figured out yet is if there's any way to save myself from the contagion when things go boom.

2026-04-30 13:11:37 GMT

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@nprofile…3jwj I am not convinced we want nurses or doctors. The purpose of a system is what it does.

2026-04-25 13:14:17 GMT

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@nprofile…pfuj [citation needed]

2026-04-21 17:47:52 GMT

Pakistan: "We're preparing for another round a peace talks"
US: "We'll send Vance"
Iran: "We're not going. Every time we try to negotiate you bomb us and anyways you keep violating the ceasefire"
Media: "Uncertainty over whether Iran will attend. Who can say?"
Iran: "Us. We can say. We're not going."
USA: "The talks are gonna happen we're sending Vance again."
Iran: "Have fun we're not going."
Media: "Will Iran go? It's very uncertain as the ceasefire deadline approaches."
Iran: "We said no. We're not going."
USA: "Vance is on the tarmac he's getting ready to go."
Iran: "We're still not going. You guys keep violating the ceasefire."
USA: "Iran has already accepted all our demands. They're going to go."
Iran: "No we didn't and no we're not."
Media: "Will Iran go? Suspense as ceasefire end draws near."
USA: "If you guys don't go we're gonna bomb you. The ceasefire ends tomorrow."
Iran: "We're not going and it actually ends tonight."
USA: "Vance is still on the tarmac he's ready to go!"
Iran: "No."
Media: "WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN??"
USA: "Iran isn't giving into our demands so Vance is gonna delay his trip. The ceasefire ends Wednesday at midnight Washington time."
Iran: "Tuesday. It was set to end Tuesday. Also it was GMT."

2026-03-30 01:05:58 GMT

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@nprofile…gfcd I don't know how you could tell the difference between Mulcair and a Liberal. I lived in his riding and I couldn't and still can't.. so if he's your baseline for a "left" NDP you should be over the moon about Lewis.

2026-03-09 15:14:37 GMT

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@nprofile…3jwj If I think the cost of oil rising is the only good thing to happen lately can I still join it?

2026-02-26 15:28:50 GMT

Considering going back to writing all my webpages in HTML 4.01

2026-02-09 12:32:40 GMT

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@nprofile…3jwj fun fact: I gave him a couple weeks, but when he didn't even mention American media ownership once in that time (or since) is how I knew Carney was a Trumpist who's all talk on the campaign trail and all MAGA in his actions before most other people.

2026-02-02 13:20:53 GMT

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@nprofile…rdmk They are both bad things to be avoided but in the web browser space they can not both be avoided.
From my point of view, on a fundamental level, closed source is a misguided attempt of capitalists to keep a competitive advantage for their product. The downsides are that you can't build on Steam or change things you don't like and security researchers can't easily audit the code directly. Those are all bad things.
On the other hand, generative AI is fundamentally an attempt to destroy labour and entrench fascism. In doing so, it also uses enough power to reverse any marginal gains we've had over the last decades and ensure climate change is going to be much, much worse. Our children and generations after will suffer the consequences. Those are worse things.
I think reasonable people can agree that they're both bad but disagree on why or how bad they are, so I'm not really trying to convince you and have no problem with you thinking closed source is worse, but that's why I think gen AI is worse.

2026-02-02 12:37:47 GMT

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@nprofile…rdmk I think we disagree on "closed source is worse than unwanted AI" and, well, that's a pretty fundamental disagreement at the root of preferring Firefox or Vivaldi.

2026-01-20 00:44:57 GMT

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@nprofile…pfuj @nprofile…wec7 I'll give you the fire thing but when's the last time you saw a good cave drawing?

2026-01-19 17:30:44 GMT

The only world politician who's left X is Donald Trump. And guess what? The media still breathlessly reports on every single one of his social media posts as if he had never left.
No one needs to be on X. They stay there because they want to hang out with Nazis.

2026-01-13 20:33:35 GMT

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"It is not my fault my AMA answers were written by an LLM.. I asked a staffer to write them for me and they used an LLM."

2026-01-13 20:31:24 GMT

😕
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/rob-ashton-artificial-intelligence-ndp-ama-9.7043887

2025-12-24 15:35:11 GMT

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@nprofile…s67t good luck.

2025-12-12 02:42:06 GMT

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@nprofile…s67t if you think it's bad now just wait and see what happens when the Alto average speed train opens as a PPP.

2025-12-01 01:54:02 GMT

I have this idea for a video game where you play a badly drawn stick figure and.. that's it. That's all I got. It might need to be fleshed out a little more.

2025-11-04 13:46:23 GMT

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@nprofile…t2a9 Here (Quebec) they're $200 for people who are young and want to stay healthy (times the number of people in their family), free for boomers.
Except in either case when you try and book it ClicSante tells you "lol psyche we're out" after getting to the end of the reservation.

2025-10-07 13:53:33 GMT

I managed to fuck up this server yesterday while trying to upgrade the OS and not checking if there was enough free space first because I'm dumb. I think I've mostly recovered enough to login, but I lost my followers and need to refollow manually.
If I used to follow you and you didn't just get a new follow request from me, please reply or send me a message.

2025-07-11 15:10:35 GMT

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@nprofile…240e @nprofile…etl4 née has an accent and the way the sentence is written means it was originally named "competetive implementation"

2025-07-02 17:42:31 GMT

(Supreme Court rules that the President can order people to be assassinated)
The US isn't a fascist state yet but it's on our way and we need to be careful. VOTE HARDER!
(Starts deporting citizens to El Salvador without due process.)
The US isn't a fascist state yet but it's on our way and we need to be careful. VOTE HARDER!
(Builds concentration camps)
The US isn't a fascist state yet but it's on our way and we need to be careful. VOTE HARDER!
(President starts threatening to denaturalize elected officials who oppose him and deport them for winning elections)
The US isn't a fascist state yet but it's on our way and we need to be careful. VOTE HARDER!

2025-04-28 16:24:50 GMT

Unless I'm logging in there's no such thing as a "necessary cookie".

2025-04-25 14:11:38 GMT

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@nprofile…wuyc @nprofile…xuck Blanchet is popular and I'm pretty sure if they lose a large number of seats, his base will realize it's because of fear of Trump and not a reflection on him. I doubt he'll be going anywhere.

2025-04-25 12:50:11 GMT

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@nprofile…wuyc I'd like to see Poilievre preside over the biggest collapse of the conservative party in Canadian history but I know that's not really possible so I'm willing to settle for second biggest.

2025-04-21 09:40:23 GMT

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@nprofile…5n8f People have been saying reality is so ridiculous it would get rejected as a daytime soap script for a couple years now so of course the Pope died on Easter weekend after meeting with the VP.

2025-04-16 16:04:50 GMT

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@nprofile…zwgs I don't know if anyone's researched that question yet. You could be a pioneer if you investigate it!

2025-04-05 14:12:29 GMT

Canada's weak ass travel advisory update for the US even after all this time: "Be careful! They can search your laptop and phone!"
Dave's US travel advice: DO NOT FUCKING GO! HOLY FUCKING FUCK WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU??
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/canada-us-border-phone-search-1.7502829

2025-04-01 12:32:55 GMT

Trying to find a Canadian online store to buy a usb uart cable from.
Pine store is Hong Kong based and it costs $2 but $30 shipping. Amazon is American and doesn't seem to do free shipping anymore to try and force you into getting prime. Costs $30 anyways. Canakit doesn't seem to have anything. Adafruit is American.

2025-03-27 20:20:18 GMT

I think Singh was listening to Rick Astley while giving this interview.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/singh-admits-ndp-face-massive-challenges-1.7493607

2025-03-21 16:14:43 GMT

Wtf is a "Sovereign AI Factory"?
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/telus-nvidia-team-build-canadas-144900261.html

2025-02-23 19:33:27 GMT

The system cannot.
https://doomscroller.ams1.vultrobjects.com/firefish/webpublic-18246794-17df-41b2-bd6c-f2df88050ccc.webp

2025-02-21 12:28:22 GMT

For the second time in history, Canada has beat Russia in a tight high political stakes hockey game series.

2025-02-19 16:29:38 GMT

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@nprofile…dc6s 3 whole months for terrorism that shut down the country for weeks? I don't know how this country's justice system expects to be taken seriously.

2025-02-15 22:05:46 GMT

IT'S ALIVE!!!!
#plan9 #9front
https://doomscroller.ams1.vultrobjects.com/firefish/a4d33fda-6246-4920-a4e1-ed939d460503.webp

2025-02-13 22:07:04 GMT

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@nprofile…m3qg Or they could just, like, put it in an envelope and drop it in a mailbox instead of using a courier for a $1 part.

2025-02-12 22:36:27 GMT

Bill Blair is not qualified for his job. Fire him and replace him with someone who takes Trump seriously before it's too late.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/blair-trump-51st-state-1.7457251

2025-02-12 15:18:30 GMT

If the US declares Greenland "Red, White, and Blueland" Google Maps will change it. And somehow expect to be taken seriously.

2025-02-10 15:53:23 GMT

People who haven't been paying attention to the decades long decline of higher education: "We should pick up the top American scientists who are going to be fleeing after Musk's burning down American research!"
Canadian universities: "Yeah we're fucking fucked and making massive cutbacks."
https://www.montrealgazette.com/news/article744037.html

2025-02-07 17:14:46 GMT

Hot mic picks up Trudeau telling business leaders that Trump wanting to annex Canada is "a real thing"
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-trump-economy-summit-1.7452748

2024-12-06 18:11:24 GMT

I wonder if it's dawned on the NYPD yet that even if they put all their resources into it and catch the guy, no jury will convict him.

2024-12-05 15:33:45 GMT

1. Police are offering a $10k reward for info about the UnitedHealthcare CEO assassin.
2. Police have not yet determined the motive.
If anyone out there needs easy money..

2024-12-04 20:28:09 GMT

The fossil fuel/media complex lets no tragedy go unexploited.
https://doomscroller.ams1.vultrobjects.com/firefish/284a8a08-0e45-41d6-b79e-466370ce93b9.webp

2024-12-04 17:06:34 GMT

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@nprofile…wnuz what? I didn't know that. Nooooo.
Okay I'm not sure if I listened to any of their albums since the first one and didn't think they were making music, but still..

2024-12-04 16:22:11 GMT

I just got an SMS from "The Postal Service" saying my package has not been delivered "due to unclear delivery address" and it's been sent back unless I click a link.
Gee, I wonder if that's legit or a scammer.
(Canada Post is still on strike.)

2024-11-27 15:44:49 GMT

Are there any good Linux phones in 2024? Android has gotten bad enough that I'm seriously considering just switching. My Pinephone was too slow to be useable when I got it, and the Pinephone Pro is dated now without Pine seeming to have another new phone in the pipeline.
I'm afraid of trying to put postmarketOS on my Pixel 7 because if it goes wrong I'd be kind of screwed without a fallback. I can't afford a Fairphone. Any other options?

2024-10-07 18:56:34 GMT

Sure, Florida was wiped off the map, but the important thing is for a brief moment in history we had some chat bots that could make some really plausible sounding sentences.

2024-08-19 18:02:39 GMT

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@npub1mmf…eknq You invented a conspiracy theory that's been around since 2014?

2024-07-22 10:56:57 GMT

I think the CBC has been spending too much time hanging out with the New York Times
https://doomscroller.ams1.vultrobjects.com/firefish/webpublic-4af0ae91-2765-4294-b5a3-7f2340a2f59c.png

2024-07-16 00:06:54 GMT

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@npub1r47…wytr yes, because any successful mechanism will need to be actually useful to advertisers. You don't want the web browser on your computer that you're running to be useful to advertisers?

2024-07-15 23:49:05 GMT

"This second point gets to a deeper problem with the way that privacy discourse has unfolded, which is the focus on choice and consent." -- the Mozilla CTO
https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/1e43w7v/a_word_about_private_attribution_in_firefox/

2024-06-18 00:32:44 GMT

When education is outlawed only outlaws have education.
https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/montreal-police-consulting-rcmp-in-probe-of-mcgill-encampments-ad-for-revolutionary-lessons

2024-06-11 17:08:12 GMT

I haven't been using any mail clients that auto-load images for a while and now I'm starting to get spam saying they've detected I haven't been reading their emails and threatening to take me off their spam-list.

2024-06-11 13:30:15 GMT

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@npub1c9n…5q09 cat notes that you're awake and can't get back to sleep: mission accomplished.

2024-05-28 21:49:47 GMT

Congratulations Ottawa on being the first city in Canada to get a modern fare system.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/oc-transpo-now-accepting-debit-tap-on-buses-lrt-1.7217083

2024-05-20 12:31:58 GMT

I'm going to start using the verb "Googled it" to mean "to take a widely used and well liked product and turn it into something horrific beyond HP Lovecraft's wildest imagination while coasting on inertia and the nostalgic memories of my users"

2024-05-16 20:56:01 GMT

RIP Google Search, 1998-2024
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/google-search-adds-web-filter-as-it-pivots-to-ai-focused-search-results

2024-05-06 21:04:26 GMT

McGill "security" seizes N95s masks being delivered to protesters.
McGill is very committed to being on the wrong side of history.“I came to bring these masks to my students,” said the man, who teaches in the dentistry faculty. “I told them, ‘I’m a doctor at McGill and I care about the well-being of my students.’https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/goods-entering-mcgill-protest-encampment-seized

2024-05-01 23:24:24 GMT

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@npub1mmf…eknq whatever the issue I don't think "vote for me or my opponent will do what I'm doing" is an effective election strategy but it's America so who knows

2024-05-01 23:18:31 GMT

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@npub1mmf…eknq from over here his re-election pitch seems to be more focused on protecting the abortion rights that were taken away and while he was in power and he didn't protect the first time around.

2024-05-01 14:14:48 GMT

Protesters have now installed wooden pallets over the muddy lawn and erected several sun shelters, extending the protest’s presence on campus.Protestors do more safety-related maintenance on campus than university administration who claims encampment is a safety concern.
https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/pro-palestinian-encampment-at-mcgill-enters-5th-day-as-court-decision-looms

2024-05-01 01:58:17 GMT

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@npub1mmf…eknq what the fuck? That's from the party led by GND?

2024-04-30 21:05:45 GMT

Noice.
Wait, all Conservative MPs left in protest? Holy shit IMAGINE HOW MUCH DID COULD HAVE GOTTEN DONE WITHOUT ANY CONSERVATIVES IN THE HOUSE.
https://montrealgazette.com/news/politics/house-speaker-kicks-pierre-poilievre-out-of-commons-over-unparliamentary-comments

2024-04-23 19:35:37 GMT

Pretty sure if I worked in retail and either Plante or Roberge came in I would greet them with a friendly "bonjour-go-fuck-yourself"
https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/quebec-merchants-should-speak-french-to-customers-valerie-plante-says

2024-04-11 01:23:43 GMT

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@npub1mmf…eknq why Ontario and not Canada?

2024-04-02 22:13:00 GMT

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@npub1mmf…eknq the second least likely to agree is the GPC 🤦

2024-03-27 00:34:34 GMT

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@npub1gmx…atcq so I see that's where you stand on the fuck/fucks/fuck's/fucks' sake debate.

2024-03-27 00:26:31 GMT

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@npub1gmx…atcq wait if Zuck is literally 21st century Hitler then what is Musk? Mega-Hitler?

2024-03-26 23:16:12 GMT

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@npub1mmf…eknq Just ask yourself "If we didn't have the worst minister in the history of Canada* in charge of foreign affairs what would we do?" and that's the opposite of what we'll do.
* Other than perhaps Guilbeault

2024-03-19 20:57:12 GMT

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@npub1mmf…eknq more than the 12 we're currently at?

2024-03-17 00:33:41 GMT

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@npub1gmx…atcq when climate change starts throwing out EF5 tornados regularly I wonder if they'll blame them on lockdowns or masks.

2024-03-17 00:21:55 GMT

"I don't understand why people are so $X since COVID"
COVID you dumb bastards. COVID is the thing that's changed since COVID.

2024-03-10 00:29:12 GMT

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@npub1mmf…eknq I'd love to but this is the fediverse so half the replies don't show up based on the whims of admins and where the replies were federated.

2024-03-01 19:24:39 GMT

The Center For Disease Promotion
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/us-cdc-drops-five-day-184128668.html

2024-03-01 03:00:42 GMT

Now that the unholy trio of Lyin' Brian, Thatcher and Reagan are all finally gone if you don't have anything nice to say please say it over here. I'm there for it.

2024-02-29 18:22:18 GMT

Turkey that terrorized Quebec town taken down by slingshot-wielding resident
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/agressive-wild-turkey-slain-1.7129460?cmp=rss

2024-02-27 22:42:02 GMT

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@npub1xl5…wsca why would the Saudis pull the plug on Twitter? I'm pretty sure they're getting exactly what they paid for.

2024-02-23 17:54:47 GMT

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@npub1c9n…5q09 Things you can build on Bluesky’s open APIs:
- LLM-powered recommendation engine
- AI bot detection to label spam
- Social graph community detection algorithm
- Deep learning for post image classificationAre they trying to convince me to delete my account?

2024-02-19 16:32:29 GMT

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@npub1asr…u4w5 100 years from now the world will look at LLMs the same way we look at snake oil salesmen today.
So, basically the same way sane people look at LLMs now.

2024-02-18 23:43:13 GMT

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@npub1mmf…eknq no, both of the internet and video games are inherently social. There's no reason activism needs to happen in the places that socialization happened in the past in the future if it's not where people are.

2024-02-18 23:32:22 GMT

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@npub1mmf…eknq 1. Why do you want to get people off the internet? 2. Perhaps video games are a bigger opportunity than you think too.

2024-02-17 00:41:20 GMT

Headline: School closures didn’t prevent community spread of COVID-19: study
First sentence if you bother to click through: McMaster University researchers have found that when masking and vaccinations were used, schools were not a major source of COVID-19 transmission.
https://globalnews.ca/news/10300870/school-closures-ontario-not-prevent-covid-study/

2024-02-15 21:28:32 GMT

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@npub1aar…88uu I can't think of a single person less qualified for the role than Bonnie Henry.
Okay, John Conly. Other than John Conly I can't think of a single person less qualified for the role than Bonnie Henry.

2024-02-13 23:46:03 GMT

Mozilla neglecting its core product for years and losing marketshare while the suits that run it flail around wildly feels really true to its Netscape heritage.

2024-02-08 09:43:11 GMT

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@npub1mmf…eknq I wish Nicaragua the best of luck.

2024-02-04 12:08:59 GMT

I am thinking of trying to migrate from Firefish to misskey and then reset my password. It's possible I'll screw things up and this is the last you'll hear from me. I'll spend the next 5-10 years slowly going insane and debugging while you just keep logging in to your Mastodon account, meet the love of your life, have kids together, and go on with your life.
If that happens, congratulations.

2024-02-03 17:34:22 GMT

You must refer to the Premiere of Alberta by her birth name of Marlaina Smith. I am sorry but I don't make the rules, it's the law.

2024-01-29 23:27:55 GMT

Now that Google is going to start training it's AI on your SMS messages without consent I'm thinking of going back to my old phone. Such a great phone.
https://doomscroller.ams1.vultrobjects.com/firefish/webpublic-7d86256a-7746-468a-b532-11bba9f2f95d.webp

2024-01-27 01:30:45 GMT

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@npub1gmx…atcq Should I get an account there?

2024-01-20 00:23:47 GMT

I swear to god I am this close to trying to code using ed on my phone someone stop me
https://doomscroller.ams1.vultrobjects.com/firefish/webpublic-d742b53e-8713-41c4-99d2-0986e7919e49.webp

2023-12-30 10:38:16 GMT

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@npub1scr…teus been a while since I flew from YYZ but from what I recall YUL is about equivalently bad.

2023-12-22 01:16:41 GMT

Not to brag or anything but I'm pretty sure I did this.
https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/analysis-quebecs-covid-19-resurgence-is-the-biggest-in-canada

2023-12-11 02:57:32 GMT

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@npub1nsl…fm3z @npub1mmf…eknq Yes

2023-11-28 13:04:34 GMT

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@npub1lf3…8pta désolé. Je ne peux pas vous aider.

2023-11-26 21:49:00 GMT

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@npub1vju…8ulw what exactly is a "mild hospitalization"?

2023-09-12 01:11:28 GMT

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@npub1r5j…ky3p @npub1xsy…cevg @npub1aar…88uu @npub1783…g3xe ffs it's already Sept 12 and they "scheduled a briefing" after telling people to not get the existing ones because new ones are coming. No rush or anything.

2023-09-02 20:21:17 GMT

While discussing people who've caught #COVID multiple times someone told me "maybe it's better to catch it and get it over with" and I don't know how to say "???" irl.

2023-09-02 11:16:34 GMT

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@npub1r47…wytr I'm not familiar with git deborig but git is pretty extensible in that anything in your path named git-something can be invoked as git something so it's entirely possible it's just something Debian provides on the system.

2023-08-28 01:10:44 GMT

Is this.. satire?
https://www.today.com/health/mind-body/silent-walking-rcna101793