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Michael Druker
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Cities, justice, bad jokes. Dad. Immigrant 🇨🇦⬅️🇺🇸⬅️Ru. Staff eng on break, advocate at @tritag.ca, bsky tinkerer at @feeds.mdruker.app. he/him. Support 🇺🇦

📍 Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario

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I would like people to be able to disagree on tactics or takes with less viciousness on here
Freedom of Speech painting meme
January 13, 2026 at 3:07 AM
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Pssst, local government social media managers...
DA SHARE Z0NE JUST WALK OUT... you can leave!!! work social thing movies home class dentist clothes shoppi too fancy weed store cops if your quIck friend ships IF IT SUCKS... HIT DA BRICKS!! real winners quit
January 12, 2026 at 6:24 PM
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City of Toronto gets the same engagement here with 1% of the follower count they have on X
Post by City of Toronto @toronto.ca on Bluesky 2 days ago, with 1 reply, 10 reposts, and 20 likes: Good morning, Toronto! Crews are out today fixing potholes. 🕳️🕳️🕳️ If you spot a pothole that needs fixing, report it here and crews will get to it. 👇 toronto.ca/Potholes [photo of pothole on city street] Same post on X, with 2 replies, 3 reposts, 19 likes, and 2.7K views
January 12, 2026 at 6:20 PM
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The signage for Route 1 is up, it’s pretty neat
Wayfinding signs at Henry Sturm multi use path entrance, with directions and times to destinations, some indicating it’s along Route 1
January 12, 2026 at 3:45 PM
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DTK
Juxtaposed view of buildings at King & Victoria in downtown Kitchener: dark red brick factory lofts (Kaufman), brick and glass tower, and glass and steel skyscraper behind it
January 11, 2026 at 7:19 PM
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The official GO account is saying contradictory things, it’s a damn mess over there
GO Transit replying on X: Hi, we sincerely apologize for the confusion. On the Kitchener Line, we have two direct trips going eastbound that is from Kitchener GO to Union Station at 7:49 a.m. and 3:49 p.m. Also, for the return trip westbound, Union Station to Kitchener we have two direct trips at 4:48 p.m. and 10:48 p.m. Let us know if you need help with anything else. ^OJ
January 11, 2026 at 4:31 AM
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Those sure are some snowflakes
January 10, 2026 at 10:22 PM
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It’s grate that you can just do things
January 7, 2026 at 4:10 PM
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Facebook algorithm finally gave me something good
Post by Elmira Maple Syrup Festival - Official Site Looking for a few people to help out by wearing a mascot costume at the Curling Championships here in Elmira from Jan 4th - 11th. No experience necessary - just a willingness to have fun and entertain the crowds being Flapjack or Amber! All shifts are 3 hours in length. Message for more details [Photo of a smiling maple syrup glass jar mascot and a mascot that's a big pancake with maple syrup pouring over it and a tongue sticking out to lick it. They're both waving. The image is a photo of the image being shown on a computer screen.]
January 7, 2026 at 2:48 AM
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Giving it a shot
My email to a letters@ address: Why are Canadian officials still on X? Dear Editor, What will it take for our governments and elected officials to leave the social media platform X (formerly Twitter)? Almost all of them stayed as its new owner Elon Musk reinstated the accounts of white nationalists. They’ve kept posting there as its algorithms were recalibrated to promote conflict and downrank posts with links. They stopped getting much engagement, but remained even as the site's owner promoted American threats to Canadian sovereignty. Now, X is making it easy for people to use its AI bot to create and share non-consensual sexualized deep-fakes, including of children. What will it take for them to leave? It is embarrassing and enraging that our elected officials and governments are continuing to give that vile platform a veneer of legitimacy with their presence. Michael Druker
January 7, 2026 at 1:28 AM
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Televangelist with head bowed and eyes closed in prayer “Jesus, I see what you’ve done for other people, and I want that for me”
January 3, 2026 at 4:23 AM
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Well there’s our problem
Granicus social media tools page with list of platforms: Meta LinkedIn Twitter YouTube UGC TikTok
January 3, 2026 at 1:25 AM
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Trying to do my part x.com/m_druker/sta...
My posts on X: Happy New Year to Canadian elected officials, journalists, and advocates still on here! This place is now not just a place where you get low engagement and which is hostile to Canadian sovereignty, it now also encourages sexual harassment and worse. Please leave X. I’m happy to give pointers on how to make Bluesky useful in replies here or DMs. The water is fine even if it might seem cold at first
January 2, 2026 at 3:28 PM
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I didn’t make it up
Thread on X: @evilvillain1231: They saw this tweet and started rolling out the grok child porn. To humiliate me specifically Quoted tweet by them: There is a subset of people on Bluesky who seem to wholeheartedly believe you are a for-real bad person/accomplice to fascism is you haven't fully left twitter. Which, if I may be perfectly honest, just seems like a bunch of Americans who have never once engaged in any meaningful @ameiwi: okay? and bluesky is still worse lmfao @AnukwuChidubem: In what way ?? @ameiwi: everyone on that site is a dumbass nimby leftist
January 2, 2026 at 2:34 PM
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Ontario version
Edited version of the quoted image with Doug Ford instead of the farmer. Or: the "the myth of consensual sex" meme where it's a couple saying they consent but then jesus is off to the side saying he does't, but it's been changed so it says "the myth of consensual urban transit planning" And the couple is labeled "city dwellers" the man is saying "we should make it easier to not drive here" The woman is saying "like building bike lanes or adding bus routs." And Jesus has been replaced with Doug Ford smiling and pointing, labeled "someone who lives 1000 miles away and has no involvement whatsoever." and is saying "Stop trying to take my car away I will kill you" text at the bottom still says "isn't there somebody you forgot to ask?"
January 1, 2026 at 11:41 PM
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The world if businesses didn’t offer to skip the tax if getting payment in cash without a banking trail
Meme image of a gleaming futuristic city with flying cars
December 29, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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Nice bit of evergreen discourse here from r/waterloo www.reddit.com/r/waterloo/s...
Trees_of_Eternity Why is the region growing? Can it actually stop growing? Can any city actually stop growing and simply maintain existing standards of living for citizens? andonis91 Probably but you're not going to like what the tax increases look like. kw_hipster This. I think most people are completely unaware of the tax ramifications of a greying population.
December 29, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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Why would you 3D print a save icon, lmao
Hand holding up a 3.5 inch diskette
December 27, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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American automakers be like
Boardroom suggestion meme boss: chat are we cooked helpful man: no helpful woman: no chill man: yeah lmao [chill man thrown out of window by angry boss]
December 24, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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It certainly seems useful how GRT has added these
December 24, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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Doesn’t sound like a great guy tbh
Sarvarov, who oversees combat training and readiness for Russia’s armed forces in the war in Ukraine, has extensive experience in the Kremlin’s post-Soviet wars. He took part in both Chechen wars and later played a role in organising Russia’s 2015–16 military intervention in Syria.
December 22, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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Geordi with stopping motion: single stair building Geordi pointing approvingly: radial building
December 22, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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Discretionary approvals for all developments is an excellent mechanism if you are trying to make housing more scarce
Coun. Adam Cooper said he would not support a system that allows developments to move forward automatically without residents having a chance to speak.
December 19, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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My block list is a graveyard
ClearSky Blocking table with a list of 8 identifiers blocked within the last week, none resolve to a handle anymore as the account is gone
December 17, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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Engagement with 12K followers on X vs 5K followers here. Show this kind of thing to your friends who insist that they couldn't possibly consider leaving X
Post on X from The Biking Lawyer (Dave Shellnutt) with a blue check. It has 6 reposts/quotes, 20 likes, 2 replies, 353 views: After last nights protest ride with close to 100 cyclists and a herculean effort from local advocates, organizers, and sympathetic councillors, the City of Guelph has reversed course on plans to close bike lanes this winter! CTV piece here: [link and preview image] Same post on Bluesky from The Biking Lawyer LLP. It has 16 reposts/quotes, 54 likes, and 3 replies.
December 16, 2025 at 9:17 PM