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Written by Dave 🇨🇦 on 2025-02-03 at 20:45

Tariffs were a red herring. This is about nothing less than annexation.

https://toronto.citynews.ca/2025/02/03/canada-us-tariffs-trudeau-trump/

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Written by Dave 🇨🇦 on 2025-02-03 at 01:10

I’m not normally one for nationalism, but if being attacked by a hostile foreign power isn’t a time for solidarity I don’t know what is. So :caflag: it is for now.

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Written by Dave 🇨🇦 on 2025-02-02 at 20:52

That was quick.

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Written by Dave 🇨🇦 on 2025-02-02 at 03:53

The defining speech of Trudeau's career may be the one he just made tonight, post-resignation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnvyrKvo-2w

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Written by Dave 🇨🇦 on 2025-02-02 at 02:41

In case my last post’s metaphor was too subtle, this is how we’re feeling up here. https://mstdn.ca/@Paulatics/113931613574697444

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Written by Dave 🇨🇦 on 2025-02-02 at 00:52

We have a neighbour who we’ve been friendly with since moving in, regularly exchanging pleasantries and looking out for each other’s interests.

One day last year, they started making nonsensical demands and behaving irrationally hostile toward us. We’ve been avoiding contact since, and after breaking the trust so thoroughly I don’t see any path to reconciliation.

This story has been repeating in my head all day for some reason.

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Written by Dave 🇨🇦 on 2025-01-30 at 04:16

A lot of pet photos going around tonight, who am I to stop that trend? This is Hobbes, he’s a 5 month old Egyptian Mau who we brought home on Sunday.

He’s still a little shy, but the cuddliest boy with a deadly purr.

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Written by Dave 🇨🇦 on 2025-01-28 at 20:05

Anyway… I’ll get started later but I have a stub of a PixelFed account now that is followable, if anyone is so inclined. https://pixelfed.social/daveshea

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Written by Dave 🇨🇦 on 2025-01-28 at 19:58

Gross, Apple.

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Written by Dave 🇨🇦 on 2025-01-25 at 02:02

Couldn’t have asked for clearer skies for this weekend’s planetary alignment in this hemisphere. Mars, Jupiter, and the ultra bright Venus/Saturn alignment dot are unmistakable at the moment.

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Written by Dave 🇨🇦 on 2025-01-24 at 21:17

I can make an educated guess.

Sorry America, my travel dollars are getting diverted for a few years. https://flipboard.com/@cbcnews/world-mu65cd2uz/-/a-Rx8cfNusSQC5zigHu-xrjw%3Aa%3A107108217-%2F0

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Written by Dave 🇨🇦 on 2025-01-20 at 01:21

Given that the import market is about to get seriously unpredictable, picking up a few bottles of bourbon today at current local prices felt like an investment.

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Written by Dave 🇨🇦 on 2025-01-16 at 20:33

If you ever want to do numbers on Mastodon, first of all why, and maybe this is the wrong network for you.

But if you do, cute animal photos are definitely the way to go. https://cosocial.ca/@daveshea/113834376241177589

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Written by Dave 🇨🇦 on 2025-01-15 at 20:58

This pigeon-sized Merlin falcon came to say hi on the 12th floor.

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Written by Dave 🇨🇦 on 2025-01-12 at 19:38

North American society has just kind of decided that playing your own personal media aloud in public spaces at whatever volume you like is totally fine.

And I suspect that’s not much different in many other jurisdictions.

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Written by Dave 🇨🇦 on 2025-01-08 at 21:42

I mean, the list of reasons beyond a morally bankrupt parent company is lengthy on its own:

• spyware
• data plan killer
• dark pattern UX like crazy
• the algorithm
• algorithm-bait content everywhere
• etc.

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Written by Dave 🇨🇦 on 2025-01-08 at 21:33

Been dragging my feet on deleting my last Meta account (Instagram) due to it keeping me in touch with people I can’t interact with in other online spaces where I’ve also deleted my accounts.

This week’s news is bad, but no surprise from the company who brought you genocide in the name of juicing engagement stats.

So while it’s not like I needed another reason, this at least provoked me into taking the first step: deleting the app from my phone to drastically limit the time I spend there.

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Written by Dave 🇨🇦 on 2025-01-08 at 17:10

I believe “absorb a nation that would upset the electoral balance enough to ensure you never hold power again” qualifies as an extreme lack of ability to think ahead to consequences.

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Written by Dave 🇨🇦 on 2025-01-01 at 22:30

Trying to decide which is more wild: being halfway through the decade that started with Covid, or a quarter of the way through the century that started with the Y2K panic.

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Written by Dave 🇨🇦 on 2024-12-30 at 23:13

I’ve long maintained cephalopods will take over as the next intelligence on the planet after we’ve destroyed ourselves.

This is the first time I’ve heard it speculated that that may have already happened. https://mastodon.social/@kottke/113743594895707647

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