PWA 🇨🇦
@pwamenear.bsky.social
Canadian, Toronto-based, operator turned entrepreneur. Skeets my own. Disclaimer : I talk about more than business.
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Imagine rebuilding HR from scratch with no legacy baggage. What would you keep? What would you burn? #futureofHR #entrepreneurs
We get into that on this week’s conversation with Jennifer : buff.ly/0cNwuKO
We get into that on this week’s conversation with Jennifer : buff.ly/0cNwuKO
December 14, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Imagine rebuilding HR from scratch with no legacy baggage. What would you keep? What would you burn? #futureofHR #entrepreneurs
We get into that on this week’s conversation with Jennifer : buff.ly/0cNwuKO
We get into that on this week’s conversation with Jennifer : buff.ly/0cNwuKO
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November was a meaningful month at Buffer! 💙
We celebrated our 15th birthday and are closing 2025 as our strongest year in the past seven. After a long stretch of rebuilding, that combination matters.
🧵 A few highlights from the month! ⬇️
We celebrated our 15th birthday and are closing 2025 as our strongest year in the past seven. After a long stretch of rebuilding, that combination matters.
🧵 A few highlights from the month! ⬇️
December 14, 2025 at 5:07 AM
November was a meaningful month at Buffer! 💙
We celebrated our 15th birthday and are closing 2025 as our strongest year in the past seven. After a long stretch of rebuilding, that combination matters.
🧵 A few highlights from the month! ⬇️
We celebrated our 15th birthday and are closing 2025 as our strongest year in the past seven. After a long stretch of rebuilding, that combination matters.
🧵 A few highlights from the month! ⬇️
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🚨 Alberta’s Two-Tier Healthcare plan is a threat to all Canadians from coast to coast to coast. While the rich get a fast lane to care, your costs and wait times are set to increase dramatically.
Tell Ottawa to act now and stop it. Sign the petition and send a letter: NoTwoTier.ca/CanadaHealthAct
Tell Ottawa to act now and stop it. Sign the petition and send a letter: NoTwoTier.ca/CanadaHealthAct
URGENT: Stop Two Tier Care. Prime Minister Mark Carney Must Act Now.
We have to defend and promote Universal Public Healthcare before it's too late.
NoTwoTier.ca
December 13, 2025 at 4:16 PM
🚨 Alberta’s Two-Tier Healthcare plan is a threat to all Canadians from coast to coast to coast. While the rich get a fast lane to care, your costs and wait times are set to increase dramatically.
Tell Ottawa to act now and stop it. Sign the petition and send a letter: NoTwoTier.ca/CanadaHealthAct
Tell Ottawa to act now and stop it. Sign the petition and send a letter: NoTwoTier.ca/CanadaHealthAct
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AI-generated “synthetic respondents” can now pass the vast majority of fraud, attention, logic, and CAPTCHA checks used in opt-in online survey-based polling.
They can do this cheaply and at scale.
Often without being detected.
(1/3)
They can do this cheaply and at scale.
Often without being detected.
(1/3)
AI, Bogus Respondents, and the Integrity of Online Polling www.ekospolitics.com/index.php/20...
AI, Bogus Respondents, and the Integrity of Online Polling
[Ottawa – December 1, 2025] As AI tools become cheaper and harder to detect, non-probability, opt-in polls are becoming more vulnerable to synthetic respondents. This deck looks at what’s hap…
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December 13, 2025 at 10:09 PM
AI-generated “synthetic respondents” can now pass the vast majority of fraud, attention, logic, and CAPTCHA checks used in opt-in online survey-based polling.
They can do this cheaply and at scale.
Often without being detected.
(1/3)
They can do this cheaply and at scale.
Often without being detected.
(1/3)
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Your first 5 hires are prototypes for your next 50. Sloppy job posts and vague expectations now become culture problems later. We used a real posting to show how. #earlystage #hiring
Full breakdown on The Journey : buff.ly/0cNwuKO
Full breakdown on The Journey : buff.ly/0cNwuKO
December 13, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Your first 5 hires are prototypes for your next 50. Sloppy job posts and vague expectations now become culture problems later. We used a real posting to show how. #earlystage #hiring
Full breakdown on The Journey : buff.ly/0cNwuKO
Full breakdown on The Journey : buff.ly/0cNwuKO
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Sir Sandford Fleming is a Great Canadian Builder
Every time you check the time, you can thank Fleming for creating Standard Time. Before, every town kept its own local time. As the chief engineer of the Canadian Pacific Railway, it was impossible to keep systems on time. So he invented time zones.
Every time you check the time, you can thank Fleming for creating Standard Time. Before, every town kept its own local time. As the chief engineer of the Canadian Pacific Railway, it was impossible to keep systems on time. So he invented time zones.
December 10, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Sir Sandford Fleming is a Great Canadian Builder
Every time you check the time, you can thank Fleming for creating Standard Time. Before, every town kept its own local time. As the chief engineer of the Canadian Pacific Railway, it was impossible to keep systems on time. So he invented time zones.
Every time you check the time, you can thank Fleming for creating Standard Time. Before, every town kept its own local time. As the chief engineer of the Canadian Pacific Railway, it was impossible to keep systems on time. So he invented time zones.
Hey Bluesky friends, I'm working on a project this month to deconstruct hiring practices and write about solutions. If you come across an audaciously bad job posting (or a really good one), can you send me the link? Thanks =) #jobsearch #hiring #hr
December 10, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Hey Bluesky friends, I'm working on a project this month to deconstruct hiring practices and write about solutions. If you come across an audaciously bad job posting (or a really good one), can you send me the link? Thanks =) #jobsearch #hiring #hr
When you see this, post your Christmas season energy level.
December 10, 2025 at 2:53 PM
When you see this, post your Christmas season energy level.
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Woke and saw a News notification on my phone, and thought, “FINALLY, some fun news, instead of more hate and dread to start my day.”
And then I saw everyone’s favorite Bluesky Dino expert wrote it 🥰 @restingdinoface.bsky.social
And then I saw everyone’s favorite Bluesky Dino expert wrote it 🥰 @restingdinoface.bsky.social
December 9, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Woke and saw a News notification on my phone, and thought, “FINALLY, some fun news, instead of more hate and dread to start my day.”
And then I saw everyone’s favorite Bluesky Dino expert wrote it 🥰 @restingdinoface.bsky.social
And then I saw everyone’s favorite Bluesky Dino expert wrote it 🥰 @restingdinoface.bsky.social
Foster a cat, they said.
(Ok, we did)
It'll be great, they said.
(She IS very sweet and is adapting marvelously)
She's not fixed, but she's ten. And it's December. She won't go into heat, they said.
(Cat performs operetta toward a plant at the top of her lungs until 3am).
Oy. 🥱
(Ok, we did)
It'll be great, they said.
(She IS very sweet and is adapting marvelously)
She's not fixed, but she's ten. And it's December. She won't go into heat, they said.
(Cat performs operetta toward a plant at the top of her lungs until 3am).
Oy. 🥱
December 8, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Foster a cat, they said.
(Ok, we did)
It'll be great, they said.
(She IS very sweet and is adapting marvelously)
She's not fixed, but she's ten. And it's December. She won't go into heat, they said.
(Cat performs operetta toward a plant at the top of her lungs until 3am).
Oy. 🥱
(Ok, we did)
It'll be great, they said.
(She IS very sweet and is adapting marvelously)
She's not fixed, but she's ten. And it's December. She won't go into heat, they said.
(Cat performs operetta toward a plant at the top of her lungs until 3am).
Oy. 🥱
Really under-the-radar, but fantastic feature, is when a PC game you're playing with a wireless controller autopauses when the batteries die. #gamedev
December 7, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Really under-the-radar, but fantastic feature, is when a PC game you're playing with a wireless controller autopauses when the batteries die. #gamedev
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ascii stuff for the first time in a while
December 6, 2025 at 3:32 AM
ascii stuff for the first time in a while
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German startup installs industrial heat pump producing 139 C steam www.pv-magazine.com/2025/12/04/g...
German startup installs industrial heat pump producing 139 C steam
German start-up SPH has installed its ThermBooster heat pump at Philip Morris International’s Italian factory, producing high-temperature steam at 139 C. The system boosts energy efficiency, cuts gas ...
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December 4, 2025 at 9:19 PM
German startup installs industrial heat pump producing 139 C steam www.pv-magazine.com/2025/12/04/g...
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Ontario developer, Cortellucci, is planning to drain Swan Lake for the purpose of transforming the property into a fill site. This plan poses an immediate risk to the region’s drinking water. Sign the petition:
www.change.org/p/save-swan-... Petition · SAVE SWAN LAKE - Canada · Change.org
#ONPoli
www.change.org/p/save-swan-... Petition · SAVE SWAN LAKE - Canada · Change.org
#ONPoli
Sign the Petition
SAVE SWAN LAKE
www.change.org
December 1, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Ontario developer, Cortellucci, is planning to drain Swan Lake for the purpose of transforming the property into a fill site. This plan poses an immediate risk to the region’s drinking water. Sign the petition:
www.change.org/p/save-swan-... Petition · SAVE SWAN LAKE - Canada · Change.org
#ONPoli
www.change.org/p/save-swan-... Petition · SAVE SWAN LAKE - Canada · Change.org
#ONPoli
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Our pretend facts are just as good as the real thing. If not better.
Time magazine quotes Canadian satirical website The Beaverton
A recent Time magazine article used a quote from Canadian satire site, the Beaverton, as a fact in reference to U.S. relationships with other countries.
www.ctvnews.ca
December 1, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Our pretend facts are just as good as the real thing. If not better.
Watching movies made before smartphones were a thing is a trip. It's crazy how much the always-connected era changed plots and writing.
November 30, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Watching movies made before smartphones were a thing is a trip. It's crazy how much the always-connected era changed plots and writing.
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Remember - if you're financially in a position to do so, skip the #BlackFriday deals online from big companies and shop instead from small and local businesses.
The big guns don't need your money, but for small traders it can be what keeps them going into 2026, so support your community instead.
The big guns don't need your money, but for small traders it can be what keeps them going into 2026, so support your community instead.
November 28, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Remember - if you're financially in a position to do so, skip the #BlackFriday deals online from big companies and shop instead from small and local businesses.
The big guns don't need your money, but for small traders it can be what keeps them going into 2026, so support your community instead.
The big guns don't need your money, but for small traders it can be what keeps them going into 2026, so support your community instead.
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🎉 Announcing surveydown v1.0.0!
surveydown is an #opensource #rstats package for building surveys with #Quarto & #Shiny. This release improves the survey design experience, including:
- Simplified YAML settings
- Auto page navigation
- Previous buttons!
More at surveydown.org/blog/2025-11...
surveydown is an #opensource #rstats package for building surveys with #Quarto & #Shiny. This release improves the survey design experience, including:
- Simplified YAML settings
- Auto page navigation
- Previous buttons!
More at surveydown.org/blog/2025-11...
Announcing surveydown v1.0.0! – surveydown.org
We are thrilled to announce the v1.0.0 release of surveydown, a stable release with improvements to YAML settings, page navigation, question creation, and a smoother overall developer experience.
surveydown.org
November 25, 2025 at 9:53 PM
🎉 Announcing surveydown v1.0.0!
surveydown is an #opensource #rstats package for building surveys with #Quarto & #Shiny. This release improves the survey design experience, including:
- Simplified YAML settings
- Auto page navigation
- Previous buttons!
More at surveydown.org/blog/2025-11...
surveydown is an #opensource #rstats package for building surveys with #Quarto & #Shiny. This release improves the survey design experience, including:
- Simplified YAML settings
- Auto page navigation
- Previous buttons!
More at surveydown.org/blog/2025-11...
Playing AC Shadows for the first time, in November, with the Christmas tree up and lights on is a vibe.
November 24, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Playing AC Shadows for the first time, in November, with the Christmas tree up and lights on is a vibe.
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AI can flood your feed, but it can’t replace a handshake. Ben Lappalainen explains why in-person connection is the new competitive edge.
Watch or listen to the episode here : buff.ly/FXBwH9h
#Networking #HumanConnection #TheJourney
Watch or listen to the episode here : buff.ly/FXBwH9h
#Networking #HumanConnection #TheJourney
November 23, 2025 at 3:18 PM
AI can flood your feed, but it can’t replace a handshake. Ben Lappalainen explains why in-person connection is the new competitive edge.
Watch or listen to the episode here : buff.ly/FXBwH9h
#Networking #HumanConnection #TheJourney
Watch or listen to the episode here : buff.ly/FXBwH9h
#Networking #HumanConnection #TheJourney
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Quebec hoping to tear down provincial trade walls for alcohol by May
The CAQ government is moving to allow Quebecers to purchase alcohol from other provinces and have it delivered to their doors by the middle of next year.
www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/art...
The CAQ government is moving to allow Quebecers to purchase alcohol from other provinces and have it delivered to their doors by the middle of next year.
www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/art...
Quebec hoping to tear down provincial trade walls for alcohol by May
The CAQ government is moving to allow Quebecers to purchase alcohol from other provinces and have it delivered to their doors by the middle of next year.
www.ctvnews.ca
November 22, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Quebec hoping to tear down provincial trade walls for alcohol by May
The CAQ government is moving to allow Quebecers to purchase alcohol from other provinces and have it delivered to their doors by the middle of next year.
www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/art...
The CAQ government is moving to allow Quebecers to purchase alcohol from other provinces and have it delivered to their doors by the middle of next year.
www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/art...
Public Service Announcement
This isn't how domain transfers work. When you initiate a request for transfer, you'll be notified by your registrar, not the receiving party. Always have Domain Locking enabled.
This is a phishing email. #buldinpublic #webmasters #websites
This isn't how domain transfers work. When you initiate a request for transfer, you'll be notified by your registrar, not the receiving party. Always have Domain Locking enabled.
This is a phishing email. #buldinpublic #webmasters #websites
November 22, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Public Service Announcement
This isn't how domain transfers work. When you initiate a request for transfer, you'll be notified by your registrar, not the receiving party. Always have Domain Locking enabled.
This is a phishing email. #buldinpublic #webmasters #websites
This isn't how domain transfers work. When you initiate a request for transfer, you'll be notified by your registrar, not the receiving party. Always have Domain Locking enabled.
This is a phishing email. #buldinpublic #webmasters #websites
Hunh.
November 22, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Hunh.