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Marta Kule
@martakule.bsky.social
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I live in Toronto, work in tech, embroider and play video games. My favourite activity is sitting under a blanket with my husband and cat. I post my stitches here: https://www.instagram.com/marta.kule/
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heebiebeebies.bsky.social
I cannot recommend you enough to install the Wikipedia app on your devices and use it like you would any search engine. Nowadays they even have tabs so you can open many articles at once.

And, if you can, please donate to the foundation. It has survived the internet enshittification that way.
emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · Oct 17
wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors
“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”
www.404media.co
October 17, 2025 at 2:41 PM
martakule.bsky.social
Public health strategies that rely on individual willpower are politically appealing because they shift responsibility away from industry and onto individuals. thewalrus.ca/sure-ultra-p...
Sure, Ultra-Processed Foods Are Bad. But How Does That Help Anyone? | The Walrus
Nutrition panic distracts from the policies that make healthy eating a privilege
thewalrus.ca
October 12, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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zenithmartlet.bsky.social
Hey Firefox users.
Screenshot from a Tumblr post by ralfmaximus: Mozilla, in its finite wisdom, embedded LLM bots into recent versions of Firefox for the vitally-important purpose of… naming tab groups. Now, some users are noticing CPU and power usage spikes caused by a background process called Inference. Ugh. Reminder again for Firefox users to visit your about:config page, search for the browser.ml.chat.enabled key, and set that to false: If yours says true then double-click it until it reads false. Doing that turns off the AI chatbot features in Firefox, but also the stupid new LLM tab-naming feature that's rolling out
August 29, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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toronto.ca
Drivers, please take extra care when driving around vulnerable road users such as cyclists & pedestrians. Remember: there’s a life on every bike. So, let’s all do our best to make sure everyone gets home safely ❤️

For tips on how to safely share the road: toronto.ca/WatchforBikes
A person riding their bike in a bike lane in Toronto.
August 15, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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joolia.bsky.social
Because I am angry I will share this again. One of the reasons that Israel is able to target individuals so precisely is that it collects every phone call in Gaza and stores the recordings in Microsoft Azure, then uses AI to analyze and pick targets.
‘A million calls an hour’: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians
Revealed: The Israeli military undertook an ambitious project to store a giant trove of Palestinians’ phone calls on Microsoft’s servers in Europe
www.theguardian.com
August 10, 2025 at 11:22 PM
martakule.bsky.social
Good day for the people
July 30, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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0lsi.bsky.social
Utah has become the first and only U.S. state to legalize plug-in (balcony-style) solar panels under its new HB 340, allowing residents to install up to 1,200 W of solar capacity, usually four panels, by plugging them directly into a wall outlet, a setup still illegal in the other 49 states.
Man takes advantage of new Utah bill to install solar panels illegal in the 49 other US states – Supercar Blondie
This man took advantage of a Utah bill to install solar panels illegal in 49 other US states, in a move that furthers the growth of solar power
share.google
July 12, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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astrokatie.com
🔗 Quick reminder that unlike most platforms, Bluesky doesn’t algorithmically penalize posts with links! So if you are posting some striking image or screenshot from elsewhere you don’t need to bury the link in a reply; just include it in your post so everyone will have the context right away.
May 18, 2025 at 1:12 PM
martakule.bsky.social
I just solved @thewalrus's WordroW, Can you beat my score?

Wed, May 14, 2025
🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢
⚫️🟢⚫️⚫️⚫️

thewalrus.ca/games/wordro...

(It was blind luck.)
WordroW | The Walrus
Enjoy a Wordle-inspired challenge with WordroW, where you can flex your word skills by using words shorter or longer than five letters, and even multiple words to crack the puzzle.
thewalrus.ca
May 14, 2025 at 4:10 AM
martakule.bsky.social
@humberriver.bsky.social Hi, found your account while looking for info on the mass of dead/dying fish near the Humber Bay Arch Bridge. Most dead, some swimming upside down on the surface. Very unfortunate. Any info what caused this?
Photo of greyish, muddy, river water with many small white fish floating on the surface.
May 11, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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thewalrus.ca
New crossword is up! Head over to The Walrus Games: thewalrus.ca/games/
May 10, 2025 at 4:01 PM
martakule.bsky.social
Bicycle parking at work is filling up!
If only the government could keep their hands off our bike lanes...
Photo of a bicycle cage in an underground parking garage. Some bicycles are hanging on the wall, some are locked to a horizontal railing. About 8 bicycles in the picture.
March 26, 2025 at 3:26 PM
martakule.bsky.social
I walked to this protest because bike lanes protect pedestrians. And drivers are pedestrians too! You can't drive into a restaurant and park your car at a table. You have to get out of your car, walk a block, cross the street. Streets with bike lanes give you better odds of making it to dinner.
Photo of a group of protesters, turned away from the camera, with bicycles, in front of Ontario's Queen's Park, lit up by morning sunlight. One protesters holds up a sign saying "Ex-dealer still putting personal gain over public safety."
March 18, 2025 at 3:06 PM
martakule.bsky.social
Voting open until 8 pm today and 9 am to 9 pm on Thursday.

Had to call to get the advance voting location, as the website showed me only the Feb 27 location.
Yellow sign saying VOTE, Elections Ontario in black letters. Snowy ground and trees in the background.
February 22, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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rosemarymosco.com
While I work on this year's valentine, here's last year's.
A four-panel comic. In panel 1, a wood frog stands on a pink background. The text says: "Feeling unlucky in love? Did you know that male Wood Frogs have difficulty perceiving members of their species? Here are some things they’ve been documented trying to mate with." "Spotted Salamander." The wood frog looks at a large yellow-spotted salamander, with a heart over the frog's head. "Cattail." The frog looks amorously at a large cattail flower or "sausage." "Green frog." The wood frog looks at a large confused-looking green frog. "Dead fish." The wood frog stares at a large dead fish. "Live fish." The wood frog looks amorously at a large trout. "Pine cone." The wood frog looks at a large pine cone. The final text says: "Sorry, there's no moral here. I just thought you'd enjoy this fact about frogs."
February 4, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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notoneseat.bsky.social
Tell Doug. We want him to know it was us.

We are back to #UniteTheVote and #VoteFordOut. But we can’t do this alone. Sign the Unity Pledge at act.notoneseat.ca/UnityPledge

Then share this widely, because we need everyone

#ONpoli #TOPoli #NotOneSeat
December 2, 2024 at 4:54 PM
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pedalmonkey.bsky.social
Crossed the city from Dawes to High Park. I really hope we get to keep these lanes.
It is the backbone of East-west connectivity.
#biketo
December 4, 2024 at 1:44 AM
martakule.bsky.social
A night ride to the end of the Bloor West bike lane. Enjoying it while it lasts...
Night view of an intersection on Bloor Street West in Etobicoke, Ontario, taken from a bike lane, overlooking bicycle handlebars. A sidewalk on the right, incoming cars and a plaza on the left. Lit up highrise buildings on the horizon. A cigarette box thrown out near the bike. My shadow visible on the sidewalk, in the shape of puffy shoulders and a hood stretched over the helmet.
December 4, 2024 at 1:36 AM
martakule.bsky.social
I was having trouble making my feed feel like old twitter, so I went to see who Mark Hamill is following, and now this place is starting to look like somewhere I want to stay and scroll for a while.
December 2, 2024 at 3:47 AM
martakule.bsky.social
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #2,862,244!
September 20, 2024 at 1:45 AM