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@gloomen.bsky.social

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Industrial designer of useful things for healthcare. Medical & scientific illustrator. Recovering medical school anatomist and gross anatomy/pathology guy. Once held a piece of Einstein's brain. Friend to other peoples cats and dogs (it's not weird).

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GO round @gloomen.bsky.social · Jan 20

Just a reminder that there are plug-ins and extensions that, over the next few days (or years), you can use with your browser to replace certain words with words that you prefer. I use Word Replacer Max. Here is an example of it at work. #Orangefacedshitgibbon

By using Word Replacer Max (Firefox extension) to replace a certain loathsome word, I have made the internet a much nicer read - for me at least.

GO round @gloomen.bsky.social · 2d

Innings-wise, this is game 5.

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Posting this again, a couple of hours after a bunch of Canadians replied, pointing out that Doug Ford is not some super savvy political operator, is not going to make it read better. Doug Ford is no hero and definitely no genius; not in our story, not in yours.

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and corrupt politician I have ever seen in Canada. Sound familiar? They use the same shit-heal playbook. Despite commissioning a good ad, DoFo is no hero in either story.

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active investigation by the RCMP for corruption. He sat the provincial government for a record low of 28 days last year before buggering off to his cottage. Despite claiming to be a hardworking "folksy" everyman, he's possibly the most ignorant, greedy, lazy, anti-democratic and, frankly, greasy

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Toronto's roads, gutting public education (Canada's is all public), gutting Ontario healthcare and selling it off to cronies with a vested interest in privatizing those services, selling off protected green space ringing Toronto to developer cronies (and giving them a heads-up) etc. He's under

GO round @gloomen.bsky.social · 3d

little to no transparecy, closes down (and will likely sell) a world renowned science center citing false structural deficits, proposes dumb-as-post ideas like an 80km tunnel beneath the 401 (the busiest hwy in N.America on some days) while gutting public transit efforts that would get people off

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of Toronto, though, so changes legislation so he has more power over the largest city in Canada. Toronto loathes and rejects Doug, so Doug does more undemocratic crap as revenge, like legislating the removal of municipal seats, popular bike lanes, sells public parkland to private groups with

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Canadians don't vote for a party so much as we vote out a party, so, like his brother, he splits the provincial vote and rides the wave of dislike for a tired Liberal government and comes to power in Ontario with something like 18% of eligible Ontario votes - a record low. Still wants to be mayor

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falls upwards into municipal politics while supporting and running cover for his crack-smoking brother after Rob split the vote and improbably became mayor of Toronto. Runs for mayor himself, loses badly. Runs for leader of the provincial Conservative party and wins in suspect contest.

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I'm not at all fond of either politician mentioned here, but this paints DoFo in much too positive a light. So here's who he is: born into a wealthy family, he started out as a suburban high-school drug dealer, drops out of community college, then gets a job with his Dad's label business. Trips and

GO round @gloomen.bsky.social · 4d

Oh god. We used to try to implant this song into each other before long, monotonous swim practices at university. Pure evil. Can't tell you how many thousands upon thousands of meters I've swum up and down a pool with just the chorus in my head on repeat, matched perfectly to my cadence.

GO round @gloomen.bsky.social · 9d

We were sort of appalled by how violent it was. They were really proud, but they also admitted that they just ripped off Crazy Taxi. I wouldn't have known, too busy animating proteins and DNA at the time.

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In grad school, I got sent to Sheridan for computer animation (long story) and I remember the Rockstar guys doing a demo of GTA one Friday morning. They were working out of some place just off of Trafalgar in Oakville.

GO round @gloomen.bsky.social · 10d

Huh: they found a ladder but no paper towels...

kermit the frog says how about my boomerang fish while holding a fish

ALT: kermit the frog says how about my boomerang fish while holding a fish

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Autocorrected from malfeasant. I'm pretty sure "you malfeasant bastard" was the intention there, no?

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That time of year when people decorate their lawns like what they think an anatomy lab looks like.

Used to be weird/funny to see people try to recreate my workplace.

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I have a feeling that the American people may just do it themselves this time, for better or worse. Hopefully for better.

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I remember getting a digital antenna, like, 12 years ago and being able to watch hockey night in Canada (I know, not baseball) in glorious, uncompressed high-def - I could actually see and follow the puck - for free, and feeling like I'd really stuck it to The Man.

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Wow, skipped a few lectures in history.

GO round @gloomen.bsky.social · 14d

Make him take the train.

GO round @gloomen.bsky.social · 14d

Because Pearson?

GO round @gloomen.bsky.social · 15d

Low ranking Transformers, secretly living among us.

GO round @gloomen.bsky.social · 21d

Oh wow, borrowing this to demonstrate to my 3rd year Biomedical Illustration class that they will still have jobs for a while. As will I!

GO round @gloomen.bsky.social · 23d

The total expense from the government far exceeded an arts grant that he (can't remember the author) likely would not have got anyway, plus 3 squares / day, roof, boredom enough to focus, and an endless supply of characters and stories. Probably not recommended, but there's some logic there.

GO round @gloomen.bsky.social · 23d

It's probably wrong to, but I wish flash dumps upon all of the these goons.