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šŸæ Finished watching: Hoppers. This was excellent. Especially powerful for our family with the split of animal lovers and engineering/robotics.

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Unreleased Footage of Senator Graham on his delusional assessment of Trump and Bibi. Good riddance to bad garbage.

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Absolutely love this post by Massy Books in Vancouver.

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ā€¦weā€™re especially not a space for genocide apologists, or people who think there are ā€œtwo sidesā€ on the topic of Palestine and Israel. If you think you deserve a ā€œhomelandā€ that has been built off stolen land and murdered Palestinians, this is not a store for you.

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It was not right back then, and it certainly is not right now.

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It doesnā€™t happen very often but woke up at 4am and could not get back to sleep. Not anxious or worried about anything in particular. Not excited or filled with excitement about anything in particular either.

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Just awake.

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Summer is in full swing. As is the case with us, weā€™ve left our planning for a break to...

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šŸ“š Finished reading: Pulp by Ed Brubaker and Sean Philips. Short graphic novel. Finished in one sitting.

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@velocykel

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  1. Circus Books on the Danforth
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  2. Great Escape Books on Kingston Road
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  3. Doug Miller books on Bloor
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@mroutley you know, 99% of the time no, but when it is needed, itā€™s really great to have. We have one that has an indicator of air quality and when the forest fires were raging is was bright red when we first turned it on. So it canā€™t hurt.

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šŸ“š Finished reading: Gone by Jock. The influence of this book was clear and I loved it. Sure I felt the world building could have been a little better, but honestly it didnā€™t matter. The art alone is worth the price of entry, but if you like action sci-fi, then this is a great addition to the genre.

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Toronto doesnā€™t need a thriving bookstore scene, it has one of the best public library systems anywhere in the world. What it does have is a great second hand book scene. You just have to go in, not specifically looking for something but rather in a browsing mindset. And all of a sudden you leave with a gem.

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šŸ“š Finished reading: Frank Millerā€™s Sin City Volume 1: The Hard Goodbye (Fourth Edition) by Frank Miller. The first book Iā€™ve read in months. This has been on my wishlist for decades. Iā€™ve read different Sin City books as they came out but never read the entire series. Wonderfully stylish, Frank Miller doing...

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šŸ‡ŖšŸ‡ø Cā€™mon Spain!

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šŸŽ¾ And like that, Iā€™m back to playing tennis. But damn am I unfit at the moment. I am done within 30min. Clearly need to work on my fitness.

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Editorio is a free native macOS markdown and code editor. My favourite feature is the speed at which this thing opens. Lightning fast.

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@mroutley I hear that. We ordered another air purifier. Itā€™s certainly not going to go to waste - likely to be used next year as well.

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Itā€™s actually worse than yesterdayā€¦

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šŸ˜· Walking around with a mask on has just reminded me of the Covid days. The last half decade has shown a small glimpse of how we as humans have impacted the world we live in, on a daily basis. The impact is also not limited to rich and poor countries and people, it impacts everyone, everywhere.

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@mroutley so so rough out there

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Awesome.

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Richard Reeves once quoted the headmaster of a private UK boys' school who said his mission was to cultivate men who would be:

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ā€¦acceptable at a dance and invaluable in a shipwreck.

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I love this. Something to create a print to put up in our house.

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Multi Pen Tray by Ugmonk. This thing is mega elegant, but as with all things by Ugmonk, stupid expensive for what they are.

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āœˆļø The last time I was in an all executive airplane was Silverline in the UK. Clearly not as many people flying to Ottawa this morning.

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āš½ļø This game is pure madness. Another penalty!

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šŸ‡²šŸ‡½ Mexico had 3 mins of stupidity but they have been so damn close to equalising. This game is far from over.

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@hjalm thanks for the encouragement. I know weā€™ll find something, but it is really getting too close :)

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My heart has now been broken twice in looking for a house. We put an offer on one which wasnā€™t accepted and then the other we missed by a day maybe? Regardless this search is just exhausting us at the moment.

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šŸŽ¾ Donā€™t remember the last time I played tennis, must have been 27 years ago - back when I was a teenager. Totally going to feel it tomorrow, but damn that was a total workout.

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@maique agreed! Great game with great attitude

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@ayjay game of the tournament. If youā€™re going to go out, go out like that.

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@maique They became absolute heroes tonight. What a game of football. The ability and drive to keep pushing against the odds was amazing. 500k population!

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Uni Zento Flow. Easily my favourite pen of the year. The aluminium body is perfectly weighted and the ink on this one is next level Muji from a few years ago.

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šŸ‡ØšŸ‡¦ Happy Canada day everyone. Taking a bit of a breather today and just doing some much needed spring cleaning ahead of our move in a month - destination, unknown.

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šŸ‡³šŸ‡“ Haaland is like Fabio and Shrek had a baby. Such a unique face/style that confuses me.

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Small break in Niagara on the lake. First time going to this part of the country. Very pretty, but as I worked out very early on in my life here in Canada, vacations are an expensive hobby.

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@mike that makes two of us. Tahoe was a bad year. Even the best wines have bad years.

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@manton super sad. Like you I really thought he was coming into his own writing recently.

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@manton is it still the worst AI in the world? Just super dumb.

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@cherizilla Great movie. Beautifully shot.

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@joshuapsteele Itā€™s like the Bulkans. Or all the ā€˜Stansā€™ to many countries for one person to remember exactly where they are (if youā€™ve never visited them).

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@manton such bollocks. Hurley is giddy on the apple sauce at the moment. This is the equivalent of saying I will stick to whatever Windows continues to make in the phone space, rather than accepting the iPhone as the superior tech

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@pratik see now that is interesting. Iā€™m not well versed in all things Costco at the moment - but I want to say I am wise to their tricks but I imagine I will be caught :)

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@eurobubba I found the checkout to be pretty reasonable. Maybe a function of the fact that you buying bulky items?

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@hutaffe Agreed. I feel the ā€˜vibeā€™ naming is there to diminish the softwareā€™s legitimacy maybe? Its definitely a shift in mentality I guess. Software engineers will struggle to shift, but I can see this shift across industries.

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@ithx1138.bsky.social Thank you sir! You also!

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@chriscoyier.net Tables suck to format. Links also suck to write in html

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@JohnPhilpin itā€™s a really great show.

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@chadkoh Big fan of Dezerbi - and really like that he is back in the PL. Will be super interesting to see if he manages to keep Spurs in it

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@JohnPhilpin Easily one of my favourite things Iā€™ve read this week.

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@numericcitizen yeah Iā€™ve only just started on this journey myself and I am hitting those limits pretty quickly but honestly itā€™s making me think a little bit more before interacting.

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@manton itā€™s a funny take but clearly speaking from someone who has not been a corporate job in a while. When you are good at something you get more of that something

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@jaheppler sooo jealous

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