Michael Coyle
@oplopanax.ca
🇨🇦 Search and Rescue volunteer, ⛰️🧗🏻♂️⛷️🚵🏻♂️🪢mountain rescuer, SAR manager, software developer (C#, C++), technology and risk expert, transplant recipient.
Sḵwx̱wú7mesh territory
Sḵwx̱wú7mesh territory
Reposted by Michael Coyle
"The number of downloads...surged by 529% after Mr. Mamdani’s news conference"
"there had been 3,000 people on a waiting list to access a limited number of e-book copies"
"2,000 people applied for a library card over the weekend, roughly twice as many as had applied by this time last year"
A win!
"there had been 3,000 people on a waiting list to access a limited number of e-book copies"
"2,000 people applied for a library card over the weekend, roughly twice as many as had applied by this time last year"
A win!
gifting this article because it made me laugh, which is hard to do in this context. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/n...
After Mamdani Nods to ‘Heated Rivalry,’ Library E-Book Downloads Surge
www.nytimes.com
January 27, 2026 at 2:28 AM
"The number of downloads...surged by 529% after Mr. Mamdani’s news conference"
"there had been 3,000 people on a waiting list to access a limited number of e-book copies"
"2,000 people applied for a library card over the weekend, roughly twice as many as had applied by this time last year"
A win!
"there had been 3,000 people on a waiting list to access a limited number of e-book copies"
"2,000 people applied for a library card over the weekend, roughly twice as many as had applied by this time last year"
A win!
Reposted by Michael Coyle
We got to go through that whole Nobel Prize shit again when Melania doesn’t get nominated for an Oscar.
January 27, 2026 at 2:30 AM
We got to go through that whole Nobel Prize shit again when Melania doesn’t get nominated for an Oscar.
Reposted by Michael Coyle
(Dude suddenly stops pushing his broom across the floor of the Death Star)
Does this look like a big laser to anyone else
Does this look like a big laser to anyone else
Palantir employees are pressing company leadership over its work for ICE in internal company Slacks obtained by @wired.com
"In my opinion ICE are the bad guys. I am not proud that the company I enjoy so much working for is part of this."
Scoop from @makenakelly.bsky.social
"In my opinion ICE are the bad guys. I am not proud that the company I enjoy so much working for is part of this."
Scoop from @makenakelly.bsky.social
Palantir Defends Work With ICE to Staff Following Killing of Alex Pretti
“In my opinion ICE are the bad guys. I am not proud that the company I enjoy so much working for is part of this,” one worker wrote on Slack.
www.wired.com
January 27, 2026 at 2:51 AM
(Dude suddenly stops pushing his broom across the floor of the Death Star)
Does this look like a big laser to anyone else
Does this look like a big laser to anyone else
Reposted by Michael Coyle
Man who works in sewer wonders why there's all this shit down here.
Palantir employees are pressing company leadership over its work for ICE in internal company Slacks obtained by @wired.com
"In my opinion ICE are the bad guys. I am not proud that the company I enjoy so much working for is part of this."
Scoop from @makenakelly.bsky.social
"In my opinion ICE are the bad guys. I am not proud that the company I enjoy so much working for is part of this."
Scoop from @makenakelly.bsky.social
Palantir Defends Work With ICE to Staff Following Killing of Alex Pretti
“In my opinion ICE are the bad guys. I am not proud that the company I enjoy so much working for is part of this,” one worker wrote on Slack.
www.wired.com
January 27, 2026 at 3:59 AM
Man who works in sewer wonders why there's all this shit down here.
Reposted by Michael Coyle
A Canadian-made armoured vehicle was spotted on Minneapolis streets the day ICE murdered Alex Pretti.
The company that sold ICE that monster as part of a $10 million deal? Roshel.
What’s more:
Canada’s government brought Roshel’s CEO on a trade mission SIX DAYS AFTER Renee Good was murdered.
The company that sold ICE that monster as part of a $10 million deal? Roshel.
What’s more:
Canada’s government brought Roshel’s CEO on a trade mission SIX DAYS AFTER Renee Good was murdered.
January 27, 2026 at 12:08 AM
A Canadian-made armoured vehicle was spotted on Minneapolis streets the day ICE murdered Alex Pretti.
The company that sold ICE that monster as part of a $10 million deal? Roshel.
What’s more:
Canada’s government brought Roshel’s CEO on a trade mission SIX DAYS AFTER Renee Good was murdered.
The company that sold ICE that monster as part of a $10 million deal? Roshel.
What’s more:
Canada’s government brought Roshel’s CEO on a trade mission SIX DAYS AFTER Renee Good was murdered.
Reposted by Michael Coyle
Game of Thrones: Lower Decks
January 27, 2026 at 2:01 AM
Game of Thrones: Lower Decks
Reposted by Michael Coyle
"2026 is going to be my year," I whisper, clicking refresh on fifteen different social media apps to make sure I'm not going to be drafted into the Canada-US-Greenland Critical Minerals War tomorrow
January 27, 2026 at 2:08 AM
"2026 is going to be my year," I whisper, clicking refresh on fifteen different social media apps to make sure I'm not going to be drafted into the Canada-US-Greenland Critical Minerals War tomorrow
Reposted by Michael Coyle
Happy news 🧬
Researchers discovered a nasal macrocyclic peptide that acts like molecular glue, locking the SARS-CoV2 spike protein shut & preventing the virus from entering cells
In mice, it worked before & after infection. Data shows it blocks multiple variants
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Researchers discovered a nasal macrocyclic peptide that acts like molecular glue, locking the SARS-CoV2 spike protein shut & preventing the virus from entering cells
In mice, it worked before & after infection. Data shows it blocks multiple variants
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Intranasal administration of broad-spectrum macrocyclic peptide inhibitor protects against SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variants - Nature Communications
Newly emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants underscore the need for broad-spectrum antiviral solutions. This study shows a macrocyclic peptide inhibitor that locks the SARS-CoV-2 spike trimer into a “closed” c...
www.nature.com
January 27, 2026 at 3:36 AM
Happy news 🧬
Researchers discovered a nasal macrocyclic peptide that acts like molecular glue, locking the SARS-CoV2 spike protein shut & preventing the virus from entering cells
In mice, it worked before & after infection. Data shows it blocks multiple variants
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Researchers discovered a nasal macrocyclic peptide that acts like molecular glue, locking the SARS-CoV2 spike protein shut & preventing the virus from entering cells
In mice, it worked before & after infection. Data shows it blocks multiple variants
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by Michael Coyle
Well, I guess the cat is out of the bag. 10/20/26.
January 26, 2026 at 6:53 PM
Well, I guess the cat is out of the bag. 10/20/26.
Reposted by Michael Coyle
A grocery model that puts affordability and access ahead of margins could nourish something we’re starved for: a little more stability, and a little more imagination.
A New Kind of Corner Store | Perspectives Journal
A grocery model that puts affordability and access ahead of margins could nourish something we’re starved for: a little more stability, and a little more imagination.
perspectivesjournal.ca
January 26, 2026 at 7:43 PM
A grocery model that puts affordability and access ahead of margins could nourish something we’re starved for: a little more stability, and a little more imagination.
Reposted by Michael Coyle
Canada sending naval patrol vessel to Greenland: Anand
www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...
www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...
Canada sending naval patrol vessel to Greenland for opening of new consulate: Anand
Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand says a Royal Canadian Navy patrol vessel will be on the scene when the federal government opens a new consulate in Greenland next week.
www.ctvnews.ca
January 27, 2026 at 3:40 AM
Canada sending naval patrol vessel to Greenland: Anand
www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...
www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...
Reposted by Michael Coyle
Health officials are warning that drug poisonings are on the rise across B.C., with a new single-day record for most drug poisonings attended by paramedics being set last week.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
New single-day record for paramedic calls to drug poisonings in B.C., stats show | CBC News
The B.C. Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC) has issued a province-wide drug alert, noting new substances in the unregulated drug supply are putting people at risk province-wide.
www.cbc.ca
January 27, 2026 at 3:48 AM
Health officials are warning that drug poisonings are on the rise across B.C., with a new single-day record for most drug poisonings attended by paramedics being set last week.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Reposted by Michael Coyle
It is truly disappointing seeing how many people are responding to the current moment by appealing to some fictional version of the Democratic Party that clearly doesn’t exist. Have some self-respect.
January 27, 2026 at 2:08 AM
It is truly disappointing seeing how many people are responding to the current moment by appealing to some fictional version of the Democratic Party that clearly doesn’t exist. Have some self-respect.
Reposted by Michael Coyle
"7 Times Conservatives Praised Gun-Toting Protesters"
They're attacking Alex Pretti for having a gun. But here, from Zeteo, are some (in)famous moments when Trump and the right treated armed protesters like heroes.
They're attacking Alex Pretti for having a gun. But here, from Zeteo, are some (in)famous moments when Trump and the right treated armed protesters like heroes.
7 Times Conservatives Praised Gun-Toting Protesters
They're attacking Alex Pretti for having a gun. But here are some famous moments when Trump and the right treated armed protesters like heroes.
zeteo.com
January 27, 2026 at 1:09 AM
"7 Times Conservatives Praised Gun-Toting Protesters"
They're attacking Alex Pretti for having a gun. But here, from Zeteo, are some (in)famous moments when Trump and the right treated armed protesters like heroes.
They're attacking Alex Pretti for having a gun. But here, from Zeteo, are some (in)famous moments when Trump and the right treated armed protesters like heroes.
Reposted by Michael Coyle
Here's how to identify some crowd control munitions, canisters of which federal agents have left on the ground after deploying them against people in Minnesota. bit.ly/3YWp1jE
Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune
Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune
January 26, 2026 at 8:09 PM
Here's how to identify some crowd control munitions, canisters of which federal agents have left on the ground after deploying them against people in Minnesota. bit.ly/3YWp1jE
Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune
Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune
Reposted by Michael Coyle
Reminder for the weekday crowd: Tell Jim Pattison Group (Save-On Foods, etc.) not to collaborate with ICE in Virginia. Does Jim P really want his legacy to be "facilitated imprisonment of toddlers and their families"? #CdnPoli #BCPoli www.vpm.org/news/2026-01... See thread for info.
January 26, 2026 at 9:33 PM
Reminder for the weekday crowd: Tell Jim Pattison Group (Save-On Foods, etc.) not to collaborate with ICE in Virginia. Does Jim P really want his legacy to be "facilitated imprisonment of toddlers and their families"? #CdnPoli #BCPoli www.vpm.org/news/2026-01... See thread for info.
Reposted by Michael Coyle
As Eli notes in the follow-up posts, last year Trump fired all the Biden appointees from the board of the US Holocaust Museum and replaced them with a bunch of Trump toadies. It's really gross that the org is throwing a fit like this. It's so obviously political.
January 26, 2026 at 10:16 PM
As Eli notes in the follow-up posts, last year Trump fired all the Biden appointees from the board of the US Holocaust Museum and replaced them with a bunch of Trump toadies. It's really gross that the org is throwing a fit like this. It's so obviously political.
Reposted by Michael Coyle
One of my directors wandered by last week and wondered if, rather than using XML for certain structured data files (like we have for the past 18 years?) we could use JSON instead. For vibes, I guess.
Then one of my devs pointed me at this: marcosmagueta.com/blog/the-los...
Then one of my devs pointed me at this: marcosmagueta.com/blog/the-los...
The lost art of XML — mmagueta
marcosmagueta.com
January 26, 2026 at 4:38 PM
One of my directors wandered by last week and wondered if, rather than using XML for certain structured data files (like we have for the past 18 years?) we could use JSON instead. For vibes, I guess.
Then one of my devs pointed me at this: marcosmagueta.com/blog/the-los...
Then one of my devs pointed me at this: marcosmagueta.com/blog/the-los...
Reposted by Michael Coyle
im sorry but we just spent the last decade being told the biggest issues were pronouns in emails and a trans kid playing jv lacrosse
if you said these things and got paid for it then you need to go away. literally if “woke mind virus” is something youve ever said unironically you need to go away
if you said these things and got paid for it then you need to go away. literally if “woke mind virus” is something youve ever said unironically you need to go away
January 26, 2026 at 2:17 PM
im sorry but we just spent the last decade being told the biggest issues were pronouns in emails and a trans kid playing jv lacrosse
if you said these things and got paid for it then you need to go away. literally if “woke mind virus” is something youve ever said unironically you need to go away
if you said these things and got paid for it then you need to go away. literally if “woke mind virus” is something youve ever said unironically you need to go away
Reposted by Michael Coyle
We are proud to introduce Whiskey Everyday with Joseph Goebbels
NEWS: Bari Weiss will hold an all-hands meeting to discuss the future of CBS News tomorrow, per note that just went out to employees.
January 26, 2026 at 4:20 PM
We are proud to introduce Whiskey Everyday with Joseph Goebbels
If those rights depend on who is president then you don't have a system that protects your rights and freedoms. you have the whims of a tyrant.
It doesn't matter what the Constitution says. If the government can execute you on the street or in your own home on a whim, you have no rights. None.
January 26, 2026 at 5:21 PM
If those rights depend on who is president then you don't have a system that protects your rights and freedoms. you have the whims of a tyrant.
Reposted by Michael Coyle
Starting next week, CBS News will begin its twelve-part series on the crimes committed by Palestinian children.
NEWS: Bari Weiss will hold an all-hands meeting to discuss the future of CBS News tomorrow, per note that just went out to employees.
January 26, 2026 at 5:11 PM
Starting next week, CBS News will begin its twelve-part series on the crimes committed by Palestinian children.
[man on the internet does a weird laugh]
January 26, 2026 at 5:04 PM
[man on the internet does a weird laugh]
Reposted by Michael Coyle
Me: "North Americans need to stop thinking of bikes as being the same as cars." (As in we need to put aside John Forester).
Carbrain: "IF YOU RIDE YOUR BIKE ANY DIFFERENTLY THAN YOU DRIVE A CAR YOU ARE AN ASSHOLE"
Me: "Thanks for proving my point."
Bike: 40lb
Car: 2500lb
"They're the same!"
Carbrain: "IF YOU RIDE YOUR BIKE ANY DIFFERENTLY THAN YOU DRIVE A CAR YOU ARE AN ASSHOLE"
Me: "Thanks for proving my point."
Bike: 40lb
Car: 2500lb
"They're the same!"
January 26, 2026 at 4:44 PM
Me: "North Americans need to stop thinking of bikes as being the same as cars." (As in we need to put aside John Forester).
Carbrain: "IF YOU RIDE YOUR BIKE ANY DIFFERENTLY THAN YOU DRIVE A CAR YOU ARE AN ASSHOLE"
Me: "Thanks for proving my point."
Bike: 40lb
Car: 2500lb
"They're the same!"
Carbrain: "IF YOU RIDE YOUR BIKE ANY DIFFERENTLY THAN YOU DRIVE A CAR YOU ARE AN ASSHOLE"
Me: "Thanks for proving my point."
Bike: 40lb
Car: 2500lb
"They're the same!"
Reposted by Michael Coyle
The Carney government announced another round of austerity layoffs today. Austerity is grossly ineffective public policy, unless your goal is to service the rich. Of course, it's going to be hard to prove it, since the first round of layoffs targeted the agency that tracks policy outcomes...
January 26, 2026 at 4:46 PM
The Carney government announced another round of austerity layoffs today. Austerity is grossly ineffective public policy, unless your goal is to service the rich. Of course, it's going to be hard to prove it, since the first round of layoffs targeted the agency that tracks policy outcomes...