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Steven B Smith 🇨🇦

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Steven from Lightning Rod Games. I’m mostly trying to add games industry mutuals right now.

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Steven B Smith 🇨🇦 @sbsmith.bsky.social · Jan 28

Hahahaha! I have solved the left/right evenness problem. Equally crispy crust along the length. The last thing to do is to figure out how to do this faster so I don’t lose as much heat when I open the door of my cheap oven. The bread at the back is turning out way nicer than the bread at the front.

Two crusty baguettes baked to a golden brown, cooling on a wire rack atop a wooden table. The baguette at the back is an even brown colour while the baguette at the front is darker on its back side.

Steven B Smith 🇨🇦 @sbsmith.bsky.social · 46m

I love the: I took on this challenge “not because it was easy, but because I thought it would be easy”

Such a true and relatable statement.

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Michael Dashow @mdashow.bsky.social · Aug 19

Warning to anyone who has their art on Spreadshirt.com: They now have a feature where anyone can remix your art and it's impossible to opt out unless you just leave the site altogether.

Spreadshirt to artists: We’re taking your designs for AI pivot-to-ai.com/2025/08/19/s...

Spreadshirt to artists: We’re taking your designs for AI

Spreadshirt is an online print-on-demand store. You can sell T-shirts and mugs and so on. My wife Arkady Rose is an artist as well as a musician, and had a pile of designs on Spreadshirt and Redbub…

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Steven B Smith 🇨🇦 @sbsmith.bsky.social · 3d

As wild as it sounds, it seems this might have happened because she is looking for his support.

Steven B Smith 🇨🇦 @sbsmith.bsky.social · 3d

Fondant potatoes aren’t difficult, present well, are delicious, and not many people seem to make them. Maybe a bit busier than you’d want because it involves standing over a frying pan though (as opposed to a larger prep and bake dish)

Steven B Smith 🇨🇦 @sbsmith.bsky.social · 5d

I had the same thought about BioShock but naive me thought I was being too cynical until reading about AC.

Steven B Smith 🇨🇦 @sbsmith.bsky.social · 5d

It would have been interesting for the articles of secession to be featured and a whole bunch of Americans would be shocked to learn that their civil war was explicitly about slavery and not states rights.

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Steven B Smith 🇨🇦 @sbsmith.bsky.social · 5d

It’s illegal to teach elements of black history and the history of racism in 18 US states. There are no federal laws against it, yet, but it feels like it has been a big push for the current administration.

Steven B Smith 🇨🇦 @sbsmith.bsky.social · 7d

This made me laugh out loud. I’m hoping they were coming from a place of naïveté and not hubris.

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Steven B Smith 🇨🇦 @sbsmith.bsky.social · 7d

Probably also good to remind people that “off the record” should be agreed to by both parties before information is disclosed. Don’t send a journalist information labelled “off the record” that they didn’t agree to receive off the record.

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Steven B Smith 🇨🇦 @sbsmith.bsky.social · 7d

I was surprised that I hadn’t heard and then I saw the article was dated today 😆

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Steven B Smith 🇨🇦 @sbsmith.bsky.social · 8d

I had not heard of that one but the trailer is great. Taking of Deborah Logan took me a while to see because of the dementia angle, but I did enjoy it quite a bit.

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Steven B Smith 🇨🇦 @sbsmith.bsky.social · 8d

That’s so gross. Law needs to catch up with this and the penalties need to be high enough for these huge corporations to pay attention.

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Andrew Henninger @databyss.com · 9d

I feel like "Meta is generating on-demand CSAM for users" should have consequences or something...

Reuters @reuters.com · Aug 29

Exclusive: Meta has appropriated the names and likenesses of celebrities — including Taylor Swift, Scarlett Johansson, Anne Hathaway and Selena Gomez — to create dozens of flirty social-media chatbots without their permission, Reuters has found reut.rs/3JWb00R

Exclusive: Meta created flirty chatbots of Taylor Swift, other celebrities without permission

Meta has appropriated the names and likenesses of celebrities – including Taylor Swift, Scarlett Johansson, Anne Hathaway and Selena Gomez – to create dozens of flirty social-media chatbots without their permission, Reuters has found.

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Steven B Smith 🇨🇦 @sbsmith.bsky.social · 10d

You’re doing a public service

Steven B Smith 🇨🇦 @sbsmith.bsky.social · 10d

I think there is a segment of the population that can’t recognize loser shit, and just sees this all as strength. They don’t respect the quiet person who takes action, they just think “if this guy wasn’t awesome, he wouldn’t be bragging so much”

Steven B Smith 🇨🇦 @sbsmith.bsky.social · 10d

I used to live right next to Columbia Skytrain and my biggest complaint just became that it didn’t run late enough. Night busses in Vancouver suuuuucked whereas commuting on or near the train was amazing. Rarely needed a car for anything.

Steven B Smith 🇨🇦 @sbsmith.bsky.social · 10d

It is absolutely insane that most of the US doesn’t have same-day voter registration. If you can show up to a polling place, learn that your name was purged from the voting registry, and not be able to fix that in time to vote, you don’t live in a real democracy.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 11d

On October 3rd, I’m asking you to register to vote.

zohranfornyc.com/register

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Steven B Smith 🇨🇦 @sbsmith.bsky.social · 10d

There’s gotta be a Paul Simon, You Can Call Me Al joke in here somewhere.

Steven B Smith 🇨🇦 @sbsmith.bsky.social · 11d

Is it “I know you need to keep talking until the door closes so I’m going to wish you a good day and close it now”?

Steven B Smith 🇨🇦 @sbsmith.bsky.social · 11d

It begins!

M.H. Williams @mhwilliams.bsky.social · 12d

Got too busy to make a new graphic, but... it's #31DaysofHorror once again!

We have a new list of films and the Random Number God will lead us through the month.

Exorcist III (1990)
Pontypool (2008)
I Saw the TV Glow (2024)
The Divine Fury (2019)
You'll Never Find Me (2023)
The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster (2023)
The Boogeyman (2023)
The Breach (2022)
The Tag-Along (2015)
Mr. Crocket (2024)
Howl (2015)
The Beach House (2020)
Mind Leech (2023)
All Fun And Games (2023)
Malum (2023)
The Demon Disorder (2024)
Consecration (2023)
Ghost Lab (2021)
Baghead (2023)
Bunker (2023)
Dark Nature (2023)
The Offering (2023)
Deadware (2021)
Run Rabbit Run (2023)
There's Something Wrong With The Children (2023)
Nails (2017)
Hell Hole (2024)
The Deliverance (2024)
Followers (2022)
Bagman (2024)
Tarot (2024)
The Lair (2023)
Amityville: The Awakening (2017)
Witches in the Woods (2019)

6:45 (2021)
Separation (2021)
Gods of the Deep (2023)
Don't Look Away (2023)
The Black Demon (2023)
Fear (2023)
A Cold Grave (2024)
The Last Exit (2024)
How to Kill Monsters (2024)
Deleted (2023)
Dead Mail (2025)
Until Dawn (2025)
Scarecrow (2024)
Bring Her Back (2025)
The Black Phone (2022)
The Privilege (2022)
Smile 2 (2024)
Creep (2015)
Clown in a Cornfield (2025)
Wolf Man (2025)
The Ghost Station (2023)
Companion (2025)
The Watchers (2024)
Ash (2025)
Presence (2025)
Heart Eyes (2025)
Nosferatu (2024)
Descendant (2025)
The Shrouds (2025)
The Damned (2025)
Things Will Be Different (2024)
Taiwan Killer Hospital (2024)
Tastes of Horror (2024)
Night of the Reaper (2025)
Marshmellow (2025)

Steven B Smith 🇨🇦 @sbsmith.bsky.social · 11d

Ooof, I delayed buying it because I am still working with tech support to get the trial running on my computer. Only time will tell if I missed the boat or dodged a bullet.

mcc @dryad.technology · 11d

Oh, this actually does worry me petapixel.com/2025/10/02/a...

Affinity Stops Selling its Photo Editing Software in Preparation for 'Big Changes'

Affinity Photo has announced that it is making "big changes" on October 30 and has stopped selling its software altogether.

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Steven B Smith 🇨🇦 @sbsmith.bsky.social · 11d

My grandparents lived in Saudi Arabia and the stories stuck with me. My grandmother was doing chores outside listening to the radio. She stepped inside to get a drink and heard a tap on the door. A gardener handed her the radio and said “if this disappeared they, would blame me and take my hands”

Steven B Smith 🇨🇦 @sbsmith.bsky.social · 14d

I am so curious what other effects it will have on employees. I assume unvested shares will be converted to cash and paid out on the same schedule, but the employee stock purchase plan as well as stock awards were a valuable part of the compensation package for the average dev.

Steven B Smith 🇨🇦 @sbsmith.bsky.social · 16d

Dude needs to change his bio to remove the words “leader” and “deliver results”.

Steven B Smith 🇨🇦 @sbsmith.bsky.social · 16d

The US needs to send us a new ambassador. This one is malfunctioning. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

U.S. ambassador says Washington has to 'take a look' at airport pre-clearance, citing drop in Canadian tourism | CBC News

U.S. Ambassador to Canada Pete Hoekstra said Washington may need to reassess airport pre-clearance as part of an at-times tense exchange during a forum with Canadian business leaders in Banff, Alta., ...