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@velocirobyn.bsky.social

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Cosplay, video games, bracelets, Magic: the Gathering, Montreal hockey, board games, gardening, dinosaurs. 🇨🇦 Probably AuDHD, which is my entire personality.

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Robyn @velocirobyn.bsky.social · Nov 12

Twitter expat.
I make bracelets; I cosplay; I play video games.
Mostly here for news that's not about USA because I don't live there.

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Robyn @velocirobyn.bsky.social · 3h

At least there were pockets of sanity. Mob mentality blows, though.

Robyn @velocirobyn.bsky.social · 4h

Transfers are down again

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 2d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

Robyn @velocirobyn.bsky.social · 5h

Yeah, it's a thread of Habs fans, but look at the points. I'm not the only one that thought of this.

Not surprised to see the thread locked, since this very quickly turns political, but chanting U S A at a game in the NHL is not the way to go.

Robyn @velocirobyn.bsky.social · 5h

Listen, I know this comes from an extremely privileged place, but this is the first time in over six years my cramps have lasted over an hour (OVER TWELVE HOURS) and I hate it.

I get cramps like three times a year. Why is this time worse

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THE FAR SIDE DAILY @bot.cowtools.org · 6h

She was known as Madame D’Gizarde, and, in the early ’40s, she used deceit, drugs, and her beguiling charms to become the bane of chicken farmers everywhere.

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Robyn @velocirobyn.bsky.social · 7h

"you should play the last note in E major"

Uh. That's not how this works. A single note is not a chord and a woodwind does not play chords.

You cannot designate a chord to a single unaccompanied note. Saying to change a single note to "E major" is not how music works.

Robyn @velocirobyn.bsky.social · 8h

Yeah, that's everywhere. It's just so off-key in a sport mostly not made up of people from USA.

Robyn @velocirobyn.bsky.social · 17h

I no longer support

They started chanting U S A during a brawl 🙄 must feel good for their non-American players

Robyn @velocirobyn.bsky.social · 18h

Chicago arena playing some GREAT anti-cop tunes tonight

We may be playing against them, but I support them

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Robyn @velocirobyn.bsky.social · 18h

Hard agree, for everything he represents

If there is a bo staff artifact equipment I will likely require it

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 1d

every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

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Robyn @velocirobyn.bsky.social · 18h

Chicago arena playing some GREAT anti-cop tunes tonight

We may be playing against them, but I support them

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Robyn @velocirobyn.bsky.social · 20h

I wish people took us more seriously about it, though. I'm not being dramatic, I'm being real. I cannot talk to people all day long. I don't care what someone's ~emotions are about a place of business. Minimum wage cannot make me care about that.

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Robyn @velocirobyn.bsky.social · 21h

I've been on EI for nearly 6 months. It runs out in 4 months.

Pretty soon I am going to end up middle-aged working at fast food or retail when I have the skills for more. And the customer service will make me suicidal (not a joke, an actual fact).

George Pearkes @peark.es · 2d

Big jobs print up north.

(Bloomberg) -- The Canadian economy added more jobs than expected but the unemployment rate held steady as more people entered the workforce.
Employment rose by 60,400 positions in September, driven by increases in full-time work.
The jobless rate was unchanged at 7.1%, Statistics Canada data showed Friday. The job gains surpassed even the most optimistic projection in a Bloomberg survey of economists -- the median forecast was for 5,000 jobs to be created.
Gains were led by public employment. The manufacturing sector added 27,800 employees, and agriculture, health care and other services all added workers. The employment rate -- the proportion of the working-age population that's employed -- rose 0.1 percentage points to 60.6% in September.

Robyn @velocirobyn.bsky.social · 21h

anyway if you wanna move down here there's a really adorable 3-bed 2-bath apt right across the street from me for $1800+hydro and gas. but if you can get a house just do that instead cause gas is like $300/mo and hydro like $250. or something

Robyn @velocirobyn.bsky.social · 21h

Was just looking at places to rent in my area so that I can be aware of what the market's like. Looks like it's $1100-1300 to rent a one-bed apt. And most rents now do not include hydro.

So I also looked at Buffalo. Same prices, but in USD, which means they're a lot more expensive.

Yikes.

Robyn @velocirobyn.bsky.social · 1d

A single pattern made with the same method but two slightly different palettes: one with 12 colours and one with 6.

Robyn @velocirobyn.bsky.social · 1d

My phone volume is OFF for media. This means every time I'm sent a video it better have captioning or not require sound.

My notifications/ringtone are at the lowest level.

Robyn @velocirobyn.bsky.social · 1d

To clarify, my dad is only 61, but he was an adolescent/young adult during hair metal ("if it's too loud, you're too old!") and was a mechanic for 40 years. His hearing loss isn't profound, but it's marked.

But people his age always have their device volume at unholy levels compared to millennials.

Robyn @velocirobyn.bsky.social · 1d

My dad is over and his phone, tablet, and laptop alerts are on "old man" volume levels

Robyn @velocirobyn.bsky.social · 1d

I have a major issue with the shade of dark purple I chose for this (too red), but otherwise turned out nice

Robyn @velocirobyn.bsky.social · 1d

She got the new couch a couple times, but wasn't allowed on the end for that specific reason

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Canada Cambot @canada-cambot.bsky.social · 1d

Horseshoe Falls Niagara Falls, ON, CA

#Canada

Robyn @velocirobyn.bsky.social · 1d

Oh it's because there was a game on the radio at 3pm

So now we're doing that

Robyn @velocirobyn.bsky.social · 1d

Then he put the radio on his tablet instead of asking us 🙄

Old guys 😤

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Robyn @velocirobyn.bsky.social · 1d

My dad is over and his phone, tablet, and laptop alerts are on "old man" volume levels

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Robyn @velocirobyn.bsky.social · 2d

I am a sucker for foods with faces 😍😍😍😍

anikeru.bsky.social @anikeru.bsky.social · 9d

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