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Aidan OBrien
@aidan.prettymath.ca
Music, Ecology, Geography (and dogs) on Treaty 3 Territory (Guelph) 📍

💼: prettymath.ca
🎧: prettymath.bandcamp.com
👾: github.com/aidanwobrien
Show in Toronto at Houndstooth tonight with Bats of Paradise and August, Yours Truly. Music @ 8pm, PWYC! Come through!

Doing something a little more ambient than usual
November 5, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Time is a slipped disc in memory
November 3, 2025 at 2:16 AM
I never thought it would happen, but I actually sold 10 CDs of my debut album! I got a show on Wednesday in Toronto, so I gotta make more this weekend! 💿

If you want one, hmu!
October 31, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Does anyone actually use RSS feeds? Thinking of self hosting a blog but really don’t wanna do an email list or anything like that
October 31, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Been thinking (too much) about non-material forms of dispossession
October 26, 2025 at 3:01 PM
A horrible bill of retrograde policies. Let’s ask ourselves what we want rental units to be for… housing people? or exploiting them?

www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti...
Ontario bill would look at ‘alternative options’ for ending residential leases, scrap Toronto green roof bylaw. Here are the highlights
The Ford government has tabled an omnibus bill that would make changes to a whole suite of laws and regulations, from green roofs to tenant evictions and driver’s licences.
www.ctvnews.ca
October 24, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Sending this to the next person who heartedly cries about open-source security.

thehackernews.com/2025/10/chin...
Chinese Hackers Exploit ArcGIS Server as Backdoor for Over a Year
Chinese hackers used a modified ArcGIS server to maintain hidden access for over a year.
thehackernews.com
October 20, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Denji or Gojo for Halloween hmmmmmmm
October 13, 2025 at 11:37 PM
I’ve added to this plug-in so you can now query by a species scientific name and a date (year) range.

#GBIF #QGIS

github.com/aidanwobrien...
GitHub - aidanwobrien/QGIS-GBIF-Polygon-Services: Using the GBIF API, this plugins allows the user to query all the species occurrence records within a specified polygon layer
Using the GBIF API, this plugins allows the user to query all the species occurrence records within a specified polygon layer - aidanwobrien/QGIS-GBIF-Polygon-Services
github.com
October 13, 2025 at 11:31 PM
I listened to these records today (note Salt Circle is signed by Eliza 🤓😇)
October 13, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Is it just me or is listening to baseball on the radio better than watching it on TV?
October 13, 2025 at 10:44 PM
I accidentally took my Dads ‘Pete and the Pirates’ CD last time I saw him…

In other words, I pirated Pete and the Pirates from my Pa Peter.

tidal.com/browse/track...
Pete & The Pirates - Can't Fish
Listen to Can't Fish on TIDAL
tidal.com
October 13, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Is anyone still using Apache for new app builds? Or should I have gone with nginx or something…
October 13, 2025 at 6:15 PM
The Tree Museum today 🤩🌲🌳
October 13, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Darkness at Bayside 🖤
October 12, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Midnight Moon at Bayside 🖤
October 12, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Messing around with the exposure on my phone camera last night, I thought these turned out kinda cool
October 12, 2025 at 12:10 PM
You’re welcome.

tidal.com/browse/album...
Eliza Mclamb - Salt Circle
Listen to Salt Circle on TIDAL
tidal.com
October 11, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Finally done The Overstory (Richard Powers) and it left me feeling desperate for some non-fic, so it’s time to dive into this guaranteedly thought-provoking Žižek
October 11, 2025 at 11:32 PM