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Steven B Smith 🇨🇦

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Steven from Lightning Rod Games. I’m mostly trying to add games industry mutuals right now.

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Steven B Smith 🇨🇦 @sbsmith.bsky.social · Jan 28

Hahahaha! I have solved the left/right evenness problem. Equally crispy crust along the length. The last thing to do is to figure out how to do this faster so I don’t lose as much heat when I open the door of my cheap oven. The bread at the back is turning out way nicer than the bread at the front.

Two crusty baguettes baked to a golden brown, cooling on a wire rack atop a wooden table. The baguette at the back is an even brown colour while the baguette at the front is darker on its back side.

Steven B Smith 🇨🇦 @sbsmith.bsky.social · 1d

This made me laugh out loud. I’m hoping they were coming from a place of naïveté and not hubris.

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Steven B Smith 🇨🇦 @sbsmith.bsky.social · 1d

Probably also good to remind people that “off the record” should be agreed to by both parties before information is disclosed. Don’t send a journalist information labelled “off the record” that they didn’t agree to receive off the record.

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Steven B Smith 🇨🇦 @sbsmith.bsky.social · 1d

I was surprised that I hadn’t heard and then I saw the article was dated today 😆

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Steven B Smith 🇨🇦 @sbsmith.bsky.social · 2d

I had not heard of that one but the trailer is great. Taking of Deborah Logan took me a while to see because of the dementia angle, but I did enjoy it quite a bit.

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Steven B Smith 🇨🇦 @sbsmith.bsky.social · 2d

That’s so gross. Law needs to catch up with this and the penalties need to be high enough for these huge corporations to pay attention.

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Andrew Henninger @databyss.com · 3d

I feel like "Meta is generating on-demand CSAM for users" should have consequences or something...

Reuters @reuters.com · Aug 29

Exclusive: Meta has appropriated the names and likenesses of celebrities — including Taylor Swift, Scarlett Johansson, Anne Hathaway and Selena Gomez — to create dozens of flirty social-media chatbots without their permission, Reuters has found reut.rs/3JWb00R

Exclusive: Meta created flirty chatbots of Taylor Swift, other celebrities without permission

Meta has appropriated the names and likenesses of celebrities – including Taylor Swift, Scarlett Johansson, Anne Hathaway and Selena Gomez – to create dozens of flirty social-media chatbots without their permission, Reuters has found.

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Steven B Smith 🇨🇦 @sbsmith.bsky.social · 4d

You’re doing a public service

Steven B Smith 🇨🇦 @sbsmith.bsky.social · 4d

I think there is a segment of the population that can’t recognize loser shit, and just sees this all as strength. They don’t respect the quiet person who takes action, they just think “if this guy wasn’t awesome, he wouldn’t be bragging so much”

Steven B Smith 🇨🇦 @sbsmith.bsky.social · 4d

I used to live right next to Columbia Skytrain and my biggest complaint just became that it didn’t run late enough. Night busses in Vancouver suuuuucked whereas commuting on or near the train was amazing. Rarely needed a car for anything.

Steven B Smith 🇨🇦 @sbsmith.bsky.social · 4d

It is absolutely insane that most of the US doesn’t have same-day voter registration. If you can show up to a polling place, learn that your name was purged from the voting registry, and not be able to fix that in time to vote, you don’t live in a real democracy.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 5d

On October 3rd, I’m asking you to register to vote.

zohranfornyc.com/register

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Steven B Smith 🇨🇦 @sbsmith.bsky.social · 4d

There’s gotta be a Paul Simon, You Can Call Me Al joke in here somewhere.

Steven B Smith 🇨🇦 @sbsmith.bsky.social · 5d

Is it “I know you need to keep talking until the door closes so I’m going to wish you a good day and close it now”?

Steven B Smith 🇨🇦 @sbsmith.bsky.social · 5d

It begins!

M.H. Williams @mhwilliams.bsky.social · 6d

Got too busy to make a new graphic, but... it's #31DaysofHorror once again!

We have a new list of films and the Random Number God will lead us through the month.

Exorcist III (1990)
Pontypool (2008)
I Saw the TV Glow (2024)
The Divine Fury (2019)
You'll Never Find Me (2023)
The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster (2023)
The Boogeyman (2023)
The Breach (2022)
The Tag-Along (2015)
Mr. Crocket (2024)
Howl (2015)
The Beach House (2020)
Mind Leech (2023)
All Fun And Games (2023)
Malum (2023)
The Demon Disorder (2024)
Consecration (2023)
Ghost Lab (2021)
Baghead (2023)
Bunker (2023)
Dark Nature (2023)
The Offering (2023)
Deadware (2021)
Run Rabbit Run (2023)
There's Something Wrong With The Children (2023)
Nails (2017)
Hell Hole (2024)
The Deliverance (2024)
Followers (2022)
Bagman (2024)
Tarot (2024)
The Lair (2023)
Amityville: The Awakening (2017)
Witches in the Woods (2019)

6:45 (2021)
Separation (2021)
Gods of the Deep (2023)
Don't Look Away (2023)
The Black Demon (2023)
Fear (2023)
A Cold Grave (2024)
The Last Exit (2024)
How to Kill Monsters (2024)
Deleted (2023)
Dead Mail (2025)
Until Dawn (2025)
Scarecrow (2024)
Bring Her Back (2025)
The Black Phone (2022)
The Privilege (2022)
Smile 2 (2024)
Creep (2015)
Clown in a Cornfield (2025)
Wolf Man (2025)
The Ghost Station (2023)
Companion (2025)
The Watchers (2024)
Ash (2025)
Presence (2025)
Heart Eyes (2025)
Nosferatu (2024)
Descendant (2025)
The Shrouds (2025)
The Damned (2025)
Things Will Be Different (2024)
Taiwan Killer Hospital (2024)
Tastes of Horror (2024)
Night of the Reaper (2025)
Marshmellow (2025)

Steven B Smith 🇨🇦 @sbsmith.bsky.social · 5d

Ooof, I delayed buying it because I am still working with tech support to get the trial running on my computer. Only time will tell if I missed the boat or dodged a bullet.

mcc @dryad.technology · 5d

Oh, this actually does worry me petapixel.com/2025/10/02/a...

Affinity Stops Selling its Photo Editing Software in Preparation for 'Big Changes'

Affinity Photo has announced that it is making "big changes" on October 30 and has stopped selling its software altogether.

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Steven B Smith 🇨🇦 @sbsmith.bsky.social · 5d

My grandparents lived in Saudi Arabia and the stories stuck with me. My grandmother was doing chores outside listening to the radio. She stepped inside to get a drink and heard a tap on the door. A gardener handed her the radio and said “if this disappeared they, would blame me and take my hands”

Steven B Smith 🇨🇦 @sbsmith.bsky.social · 8d

I am so curious what other effects it will have on employees. I assume unvested shares will be converted to cash and paid out on the same schedule, but the employee stock purchase plan as well as stock awards were a valuable part of the compensation package for the average dev.

Steven B Smith 🇨🇦 @sbsmith.bsky.social · 10d

Dude needs to change his bio to remove the words “leader” and “deliver results”.

Steven B Smith 🇨🇦 @sbsmith.bsky.social · 10d

The US needs to send us a new ambassador. This one is malfunctioning. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

U.S. ambassador says Washington has to 'take a look' at airport pre-clearance, citing drop in Canadian tourism | CBC News

U.S. Ambassador to Canada Pete Hoekstra said Washington may need to reassess airport pre-clearance as part of an at-times tense exchange during a forum with Canadian business leaders in Banff, Alta., ...

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Steven B Smith 🇨🇦 @sbsmith.bsky.social · 13d

I think we have the right leadership in place to get us there.

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Steven B Smith 🇨🇦 @sbsmith.bsky.social · 13d

While Montreal has some of the most aggressive drivers in Canada, Vancouver might have the dumbest. At least that is my anecdotal experience living in both cities.

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Steven B Smith 🇨🇦 @sbsmith.bsky.social · 14d

I only recently learned that fewer than half of all states have same-day voter registration. That is ridiculous. My name has mysteriously disappeared from my polling place so many times but it has never mattered because I just register again.

Steven B Smith 🇨🇦 @sbsmith.bsky.social · 15d

It’s funny (not actually), that attitude is present from fans to the external investor level, with more nuance coming in the closer you get to dev. But also, some people who should know better still act like that, I think, as a performance to investors in order to encourage big risky investments.

Steven B Smith 🇨🇦 @sbsmith.bsky.social · 15d

That is a very griddy looking grid

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Steven B Smith 🇨🇦 @sbsmith.bsky.social · 15d

Also you don’t need a I listen on Spotify. It’s available pretty much everywhere.

Steven B Smith 🇨🇦 @sbsmith.bsky.social · 15d

There’ll be a lot of talk about Tylenol and autism soon. This is well worth a listen. It’s not as simple as just dismissing RFK as a crank, it’s about drilling down and understanding why his cited studies could be misleading. All packaged in an enjoyable format. Better than doomscrolling 👍

Science Vs @sciencevs.bsky.social · 20d

New Ep alert 🚨 RFK Jr.’s big report on autism is scheduled to come out this month, and we’re hearing that it might point the finger at Tylenol as a possible cause. The science on this is full of plot twists and nerd fights - we dive in. open.spotify.com/episode/0afn...

Does Tylenol Cause Autism?

open.spotify.com

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