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Nick Brooks
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“World Watches in Silence as Mourning Chimp Honours Jane Goodall With Sacred Urine-Drinking Ritual”
October 2, 2025 at 3:40 PM
St. John’s Wort in bloom!
July 17, 2025 at 12:39 PM
July 7, 2025 at 12:31 PM
@techconnectify.bsky.social Not Hyundai but a gas Kia in Canada (traded in a Cube Krōm, many regrets now). Still a crap CS experience too. Endless runaround and blaming with a recall issue last year. Only when I got Transport Canada involved did it get fixed. Many other issues still remain. #kia
June 19, 2025 at 1:38 PM
@jm-mcgrath.bsky.social Toronto ex-Pat here, commenting on Canadian Milk Chat. PEI grocery stores carry two local brands and one Nova Scotia brand. Only NS milk comes in bags, and even then it’s 3 L vs. the 4 L you get in ON. It’s a hot local debate about which milk is the “correct” milk.
June 10, 2025 at 1:51 PM
With all this branding of the new Apple UI as Glass, it sure looks like Apple Jello. #apple #macos #ios
June 9, 2025 at 6:37 PM
The closing on every This American Life rerun: "All the people you heard on today's episode, and everyone they loved and cared for, including their dog, died terribly in 2017". #thisamericanlife
May 31, 2025 at 11:44 AM
A mission to traverse the Atlantic Ocean by hot air balloon seems to have met an untimely end in Prince Edward Island #pei #torabhaig
May 29, 2025 at 6:56 PM
@techconnectify.bsky.social Hybrid (heat pump + elements) hot water heaters hit two birds with one stone. Place one in your basement, and it dehumidifies the space to some extent.
April 28, 2025 at 1:24 PM
A nuclear pool swim? Sign me up! #toronto #oshawa #nuclear
April 11, 2025 at 10:49 AM
What a bizarre and useless summary for the SGI IrisVision graphics card.
March 10, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Looking forward for the extra hour of daylight kick-starting spring blooms 🌞🌷 #daylightsaving #spring
March 7, 2025 at 6:38 PM
A gentle reminder this was Justin Trudeau a little over a decade ago
March 4, 2025 at 10:17 PM
I love these hyperlocal data mashups for our tiny province. It really gives perspective of how renewables can meet our power needs. ruk.ca/content/moni... #pei #utilities
Monitoring PEI Electricity | ruk.ca
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February 15, 2025 at 4:03 AM
There’s YouTube videos showing the how it’s done, but not the “leveling up” process.
December 13, 2024 at 12:56 PM
How did everyone learn fine soldering skills? I’m lucky if I can solder two wires together.
December 13, 2024 at 12:56 PM
Why did the wine bottles hold a funeral? To remember their dearly decanted.
December 7, 2024 at 10:35 PM
Long-gone (but misleading) barbershop sign at Union Station. #toronto
November 29, 2024 at 1:35 AM
Raise your hand if you knew that avalanches make a ghostly blue light vimeo.com/1033143984 #natureisamazing #snowscience
Mount Muztagh Ata With Blue Avalanche Light
This is a timelapse video taken by Ms. Lu Miao on Oct. 3, 2024. It shows a blue flash during an avalanche. The mountain is Muztagh Ata, which means "Iceberg…
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November 27, 2024 at 10:54 AM
I’ll start: have smart speakers loudly announce “THAT WAS A BIG ONE!” whenever the bathroom light switch is turned off after being on for a while. #homeassistant #hubitat #smarthings #homelab #smarthome
November 26, 2024 at 3:30 PM
What are some annoying prank automations that you can make for your smart home? #homeassistant #hubitat #smarthings #homelab #smarthome
November 26, 2024 at 3:28 PM