Not That Rick Scott 🇨🇦
@shadowspar.bsky.social
Travel nerd, language nerd, software nerd, systems nerd. Trying to make the world a better place.
Available for hire! Looking for a remote devops, backend dev, or software testing role.
Available for hire! Looking for a remote devops, backend dev, or software testing role.
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[my French boyfriend, watching American news]: I don’t understand??? Things are so bad??? And they set nothing on fire??? How do they expect to fix???
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today, for the first time in months, I encountered a test case with time zone math that *wasn't* messed up 😅
truly, the gods have smiled upon me on this day 🥹
truly, the gods have smiled upon me on this day 🥹
December 1, 2025 at 3:49 AM
today, for the first time in months, I encountered a test case with time zone math that *wasn't* messed up 😅
truly, the gods have smiled upon me on this day 🥹
truly, the gods have smiled upon me on this day 🥹
the great Northern Ontario tradition: first real snowfall of the year? time to get in the car and go for a rip 😅
November 30, 2025 at 11:41 AM
the great Northern Ontario tradition: first real snowfall of the year? time to get in the car and go for a rip 😅
seriously, though: one of the ways the internet has reshaped the world is that it used to be uncommon to have friends overseas, let alone ones you talked to every day.
The longer form is "the people who live in my phone", which I use to my dad, who cannot conceptualize the fact I regularly talk to hundreds of people around the world like they live next door, heh.
November 30, 2025 at 10:43 AM
seriously, though: one of the ways the internet has reshaped the world is that it used to be uncommon to have friends overseas, let alone ones you talked to every day.
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Liberté, égalité, pâtisserie !
France’s far-right leader hit by egg, days after flour attack
French far-right leader hit on the head with an egg
Jordan Bardella, leader of France’s far-right National Rally party, was hit on the head with an egg Saturday, just days after another incident in which a protester threw flour at him.
www.ctvnews.ca
November 30, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Liberté, égalité, pâtisserie !
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
* Moose
* Moose
* Moose
* Moose
* Moose
* Moose
* Moose
* Moose
* Moose
* Moose
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
Atlantic puffin
Appalachian cottontail
Great blue heron
Northern flying squirrel, if attics count as "in the wild"
Moose disguised as an elk (yes it was, @wlindley.bsky.social )
Atlantic puffin
Appalachian cottontail
Great blue heron
Northern flying squirrel, if attics count as "in the wild"
Moose disguised as an elk (yes it was, @wlindley.bsky.social )
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
Humpback whale
Coyote
Bald Eagle
Bison
Parrot
Humpback whale
Coyote
Bald Eagle
Bison
Parrot
November 29, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
* Moose
* Moose
* Moose
* Moose
* Moose
* Moose
* Moose
* Moose
* Moose
* Moose
betting I'm not the only one who'll find this explainer very helpful.
From the Insight Monitor archives, here's a look at why you should care about money laundering. It's making you poorer and less safe, but there's a simple solution. Find out more here (paywall removed):
newsletter.insightthreatintel.com/p/the-real-h...
newsletter.insightthreatintel.com/p/the-real-h...
They’re Washing Billions. You’re Paying the Price.
Money laundering makes us less safe and poorer. There's a simple solution.
newsletter.insightthreatintel.com
November 29, 2025 at 11:52 AM
betting I'm not the only one who'll find this explainer very helpful.
btw, a side of good news to go with this good news: some of these clean energy deployments, especially solar, are going into places that previously had no grid electricity, unreliable electricity, or unaffordable electricity. 🔌🌞
bsky.app/profile/adap...
bsky.app/profile/adap...
Clean power growth is now covering all new global demand. Solar and wind generated 635 TWh in the first nine months of this year, exceeding the 603 TWh rise in global electricity demand, and holding fossil generation flat for the year. buff.ly/zRmwAmg
#ShareGoodNewsToo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
Q3 Global Power Report: No fossil fuel growth expected in 2025 | Ember
Solar and wind power grew fast enough to keep up with rising electricity demand in the first three quarters of 2025, as fossil fuel growth should be stagnated. Ember forecasts no growth for fossil…
buff.ly
November 29, 2025 at 12:52 AM
btw, a side of good news to go with this good news: some of these clean energy deployments, especially solar, are going into places that previously had no grid electricity, unreliable electricity, or unaffordable electricity. 🔌🌞
bsky.app/profile/adap...
bsky.app/profile/adap...
thing that's making me feel old today: Japan's colour-coded payphone tier ranking system, which was once an important thing to know 😅
iirc:
* pink phones only took ¥10 coins, up to 6 at a time
* blue & yellow took both ¥10 and ¥100 coins
* green took coins & cards
ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%97%...
iirc:
* pink phones only took ¥10 coins, up to 6 at a time
* blue & yellow took both ¥10 and ¥100 coins
* green took coins & cards
ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%97%...
日本の公衆電話 - Wikipedia
ja.wikipedia.org
November 28, 2025 at 9:20 PM
thing that's making me feel old today: Japan's colour-coded payphone tier ranking system, which was once an important thing to know 😅
iirc:
* pink phones only took ¥10 coins, up to 6 at a time
* blue & yellow took both ¥10 and ¥100 coins
* green took coins & cards
ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%97%...
iirc:
* pink phones only took ¥10 coins, up to 6 at a time
* blue & yellow took both ¥10 and ¥100 coins
* green took coins & cards
ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%97%...
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Clean power growth is now covering all new global demand. Solar and wind generated 635 TWh in the first nine months of this year, exceeding the 603 TWh rise in global electricity demand, and holding fossil generation flat for the year. buff.ly/zRmwAmg
#ShareGoodNewsToo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
Q3 Global Power Report: No fossil fuel growth expected in 2025 | Ember
Solar and wind power grew fast enough to keep up with rising electricity demand in the first three quarters of 2025, as fossil fuel growth should be stagnated. Ember forecasts no growth for fossil…
buff.ly
November 27, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Clean power growth is now covering all new global demand. Solar and wind generated 635 TWh in the first nine months of this year, exceeding the 603 TWh rise in global electricity demand, and holding fossil generation flat for the year. buff.ly/zRmwAmg
#ShareGoodNewsToo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
assez difficile de remporter une élection fédérale sans voix francophones
November 28, 2025 at 9:40 AM
assez difficile de remporter une élection fédérale sans voix francophones
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Gender Affirming Car, many such cases
November 27, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Gender Affirming Car, many such cases
"The program will see Greg Taylor, 73, continue to drink as normal for the foreseeable future, before reducing consumption in 2049 when he turns 101. He has assured friends it will not affect his drinking plans in the short or medium term."
theshovel.com.au/2021/10/26/m...
theshovel.com.au/2021/10/26/m...
Man Announces He Will Quit Drinking by 2050 — The Shovel
He has assured friends it will not affect his drinking plans in the short or medium term.
theshovel.com.au
November 27, 2025 at 11:55 PM
"The program will see Greg Taylor, 73, continue to drink as normal for the foreseeable future, before reducing consumption in 2049 when he turns 101. He has assured friends it will not affect his drinking plans in the short or medium term."
theshovel.com.au/2021/10/26/m...
theshovel.com.au/2021/10/26/m...
I've worked in places where we had 5+ flavours of English in play, and I'm still always amused when the need for the English-to-English translator comes up. 😅
Turns out that when you describe how "the punters" feel about the economy, Americans think you're talking about blokes who kick footballs, rather than "the people." (Hilarity ensued.)
November 27, 2025 at 3:39 PM
I've worked in places where we had 5+ flavours of English in play, and I'm still always amused when the need for the English-to-English translator comes up. 😅
j'espère que vous n'avez pas besoin de vous deplacer.
I hope y'all don't need to go anywhere.
I hope y'all don't need to go anywhere.
November 27, 2025 at 3:05 AM
j'espère que vous n'avez pas besoin de vous deplacer.
I hope y'all don't need to go anywhere.
I hope y'all don't need to go anywhere.
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It's always fun to explain to people that my undergrad university (and hometown) has signs warning people not to approach moose or bears.
This exceptional #UNBC student is waiting right outside my office at the moment.
So I might as well use this opportunity to advertise our Wildlife and Fisheries B.Sc.
🔗 www.unbc.ca/programs-and...
So I might as well use this opportunity to advertise our Wildlife and Fisheries B.Sc.
🔗 www.unbc.ca/programs-and...
November 27, 2025 at 12:44 AM
It's always fun to explain to people that my undergrad university (and hometown) has signs warning people not to approach moose or bears.
whomst among us
Brigadier General Charles Harker, leading a brigade of Illinoisans and Ohioans in Sheridan’s division tried to copy his commanding officer’s stunt but mounted a gun that had just been fired. The red-hot barrel scorched his ass so badly he couldn’t sit a horse for weeks (18
November 26, 2025 at 2:42 AM
whomst among us
parabéns Brasil 💚
🚨 JAIR BOLSONARO ESTÁ OFICIALMENTE CONDENADO A 27 ANOS E 3 MESES DE PRISÃO 🚨
🎉 TRÂNSITO EM JULGADO É PUBLICADO PELO STF ⚖️
🎉 TRÂNSITO EM JULGADO É PUBLICADO PELO STF ⚖️
November 25, 2025 at 10:05 PM
parabéns Brasil 💚
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There are a great many circumstances in which you can be a catty bitch for fun and profit, but in an interview with an FBI agent ain't one of them.
November 25, 2025 at 8:12 PM
There are a great many circumstances in which you can be a catty bitch for fun and profit, but in an interview with an FBI agent ain't one of them.
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Me: Not sure I can keep going times are tough for real
*eats lunch*
Me: Being alive is its own reward, drawing breath such a beautiful privilege
*eats lunch*
Me: Being alive is its own reward, drawing breath such a beautiful privilege
November 19, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Me: Not sure I can keep going times are tough for real
*eats lunch*
Me: Being alive is its own reward, drawing breath such a beautiful privilege
*eats lunch*
Me: Being alive is its own reward, drawing breath such a beautiful privilege
random discourse just reminded me of this, the most vindictive condemnation of an automobile that I've ever read
November 25, 2025 at 5:09 AM
random discourse just reminded me of this, the most vindictive condemnation of an automobile that I've ever read
well there's some good news I wasn't expecting 😅
Samsung & EDP pitching a 200MW, 1600MWh Battery Energy Storage System here in #TheSoo
www.gatewaybess.ca
Samsung & EDP pitching a 200MW, 1600MWh Battery Energy Storage System here in #TheSoo
www.gatewaybess.ca
Gateway BESS
www.gatewaybess.ca
November 25, 2025 at 1:32 AM
well there's some good news I wasn't expecting 😅
Samsung & EDP pitching a 200MW, 1600MWh Battery Energy Storage System here in #TheSoo
www.gatewaybess.ca
Samsung & EDP pitching a 200MW, 1600MWh Battery Energy Storage System here in #TheSoo
www.gatewaybess.ca
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Judge Currie rejects AG Bondi's attempt to bless the indictments after the fact:
"It would mean the Govt could send any private citizen off the street — attorney or not — into the grand jury room to secure an indictment so long as the AG gives her approval after the fact. That cannot be the law."
"It would mean the Govt could send any private citizen off the street — attorney or not — into the grand jury room to secure an indictment so long as the AG gives her approval after the fact. That cannot be the law."
November 24, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Judge Currie rejects AG Bondi's attempt to bless the indictments after the fact:
"It would mean the Govt could send any private citizen off the street — attorney or not — into the grand jury room to secure an indictment so long as the AG gives her approval after the fact. That cannot be the law."
"It would mean the Govt could send any private citizen off the street — attorney or not — into the grand jury room to secure an indictment so long as the AG gives her approval after the fact. That cannot be the law."
another banger of a decision here, btw, for those of us who enjoy such things 🤘
NEW: Judge Currie finds that Lindsay Halligan was UNLAWFULLY APPOINTED and dismisses the James Comey and Letitia James indictments without prejudice. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
November 24, 2025 at 9:58 PM
another banger of a decision here, btw, for those of us who enjoy such things 🤘