Overcaffeinated bike riding psytrance stomping polyamory doing scruffy looking nerf herder; father and husband and son and whatnot.
Public Key
npub1q8qwtdykgl95rxnaa5xgm06hn7zwrysjn5ygy9m7ugenj8dqu7rqcp8cqh Profile Code
nprofile1qqsqrs89kjty0j6pnf776rydhatelp8pjgff6zyzzalwyveerksw0pspz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduqs6amnwvaz7tmwdaejumr0dsgxmjew
Show more details
Published at
2026-07-28T09:21:45Z Event JSON
{
"id": "e8582e159e69ad0032e0f06ee4e8b7d7f7cb63c588ca5cd0d2a034084c881978" ,
"pubkey": "01c0e5b49647cb419a7ded0c8dbf579f84e192129d0882177ee233391da0e786" ,
"created_at": 1785230505 ,
"kind": 0 ,
"tags": [
[
"proxy",
"https://mastodon.sdf.org/users/dragonfrog",
"activitypub"
],
[
"L",
"pink.momostr"
],
[
"l",
"pink.momostr.activitypub:https://mastodon.sdf.org/users/dragonfrog",
"pink.momostr"
],
[
"-"
]
],
"content": "{\"name\":\"dragonfrog\",\"about\":\"Overcaffeinated bike riding psytrance stomping polyamory doing scruffy looking nerf herder; father and husband and son and whatnot.\\n\\nPronouns: He/Him\\nLocation: Amiskwaciwâskahikan / Edmonton, Treaty 6, Alberta, Canada\\nprofile pictures: avatar: a grey cat sleeping in the sleeve of a fuzzy rainbow coloured robe. Background: tablet weaving of twined dragons in blue, black, and green\\n\",\"website\":\"https://mastodon.sdf.org/@dragonfrog\",\"picture\":\"https://mastodon.sdf.org/system/accounts/avatars/109/281/386/687/696/284/original/b269753e5b970931.jpg\",\"banner\":\"https://mastodon.sdf.org/system/accounts/headers/109/281/386/687/696/284/original/b1176b674ae3698c.jpg\",\"nip05\":\"[email protected] \"}" ,
"sig": "599d2e8682690c8edb8aa5d1551c8ed010d08b8be4dc57394fd5ece582687b773de66c4519068071e8b850e56fd3a50b4c5ec0af9a4a9bb6814bb8fd642bd206"
}
Last Notes npub1q8qwtdykgl95rxnaa5xgm06hn7zwrysjn5ygy9m7ugenj8dqu7rqcp8cqh dragonfrog In my email to my MP, I looked up his longstanding email address on haveibeenpwned.com, listed all the times the companies entrusted with his data had failed to keep it confidential, and all his data that had been breached - then argued how much worse those breaches would have been if C-22 had been in effect and the companies had been required to retain even more data. npub1q8qwtdykgl95rxnaa5xgm06hn7zwrysjn5ygy9m7ugenj8dqu7rqcp8cqh dragonfrog Bitlocker bypass by way of Transactional NTFS shenanigans, but I think that may have dropped yesterday. npub1q8qwtdykgl95rxnaa5xgm06hn7zwrysjn5ygy9m7ugenj8dqu7rqcp8cqh dragonfrog AI *as a thing that makes sense to push huge tax incentives and bypassing environmental laws for* is going to go away. There are already *today* more AI data centres than a stabilized market will support - most of the ones existing *today* will shortly be stranded assets that need demolition and land remediation at taxpayer expense because the shell companies that own them have gone bankrupt and vanished into thin air. npub1q8qwtdykgl95rxnaa5xgm06hn7zwrysjn5ygy9m7ugenj8dqu7rqcp8cqh dragonfrog yeah, a bubble bursting doesn't (necessarily) mean the product ceases to exist. npub1q8qwtdykgl95rxnaa5xgm06hn7zwrysjn5ygy9m7ugenj8dqu7rqcp8cqh dragonfrog smart appliances didn't result in huge new appliance factories being built that could supply 50x the world's actual need for new appliances. If they had, those factories would inevitably have been abandoned a few years later - just as 98% of "AI" data centres will be abandoned when the post-bubble market settles down to providing the AI demand that exists. npub1q8qwtdykgl95rxnaa5xgm06hn7zwrysjn5ygy9m7ugenj8dqu7rqcp8cqh dragonfrog I'm gonna guess - because that's what they wrote on the census form. They're as Muslim as the census "Christians" who go to church at Christmas and Easter if even that often, and who own a Bible but could blow a layer of dust off it, so seldom do they pick it up. npub1q8qwtdykgl95rxnaa5xgm06hn7zwrysjn5ygy9m7ugenj8dqu7rqcp8cqh dragonfrog percentage who answer "I would leave" in a survey is not the same as percentage who would leave. Moving is complicated and expensive. You need to find work, housing, a school for your kids. npub1q8qwtdykgl95rxnaa5xgm06hn7zwrysjn5ygy9m7ugenj8dqu7rqcp8cqh dragonfrog Kind of seems like the perfect example of Wilhoit's definition of conservatism - regardless of what party the Sheriff in question supported. npub1q8qwtdykgl95rxnaa5xgm06hn7zwrysjn5ygy9m7ugenj8dqu7rqcp8cqh dragonfrog One reason it won't happen, at least not easily, is that while the tariffs were put in place under US pressure, their current effect is to protect the Ontario auto industry, which mostly manufactures big bloated un-innovative gasoline SUVs that can't compete on value for money with Chinese EVs. npub1q8qwtdykgl95rxnaa5xgm06hn7zwrysjn5ygy9m7ugenj8dqu7rqcp8cqh dragonfrog I hate that. Truly hate how cats in distress are used as a joke. npub1q8qwtdykgl95rxnaa5xgm06hn7zwrysjn5ygy9m7ugenj8dqu7rqcp8cqh dragonfrog I feel like at the very least banning the use of "liberal", "conservative", and "communist" in party names is like banning the words "pizza" "donair" and "sandwich" in restaurant names. npub1q8qwtdykgl95rxnaa5xgm06hn7zwrysjn5ygy9m7ugenj8dqu7rqcp8cqh dragonfrog An oldy but a goody - HAL 9000 as performed by Amazon Alexa circa 2018. npub1q8qwtdykgl95rxnaa5xgm06hn7zwrysjn5ygy9m7ugenj8dqu7rqcp8cqh dragonfrog problem is all the conservatives have to do is keep getting crazier so that two year old conservative agenda planks seems tame and sensible by comparison to whatever they're spouting now, and the liberals will just enact the conservatives' agenda for them on a two year delay. npub1q8qwtdykgl95rxnaa5xgm06hn7zwrysjn5ygy9m7ugenj8dqu7rqcp8cqh dragonfrog I read it that way at first, now I'm guessing "I drink milk because I like to... You catch my drift?" npub1q8qwtdykgl95rxnaa5xgm06hn7zwrysjn5ygy9m7ugenj8dqu7rqcp8cqh dragonfrog I agree. But I'm not going to deny the existence of an opinion or dismiss everyone who holds it as irrational just because I don't hold it. npub1q8qwtdykgl95rxnaa5xgm06hn7zwrysjn5ygy9m7ugenj8dqu7rqcp8cqh dragonfrog I'm 100% confident that Clymer is not just wrong but very wrong when she writes "there isn’t a rational adult in this country who thinks you’re a hero." npub1q8qwtdykgl95rxnaa5xgm06hn7zwrysjn5ygy9m7ugenj8dqu7rqcp8cqh dragonfrog NDP voters who voted CPC, or who voted LPC? npub1q8qwtdykgl95rxnaa5xgm06hn7zwrysjn5ygy9m7ugenj8dqu7rqcp8cqh dragonfrog Or maybe, just maybe, it's you who don't understand what advantages Jess sees for being able to control aspects of one's posts. npub1q8qwtdykgl95rxnaa5xgm06hn7zwrysjn5ygy9m7ugenj8dqu7rqcp8cqh dragonfrog Sentence bit from a random article stuck out for me npub1q8qwtdykgl95rxnaa5xgm06hn7zwrysjn5ygy9m7ugenj8dqu7rqcp8cqh dragonfrog "So why, exactly, do we provide use of the roads free to people who have the money to have their own vehicle, but NOT to the people who *don't* have that money" npub1q8qwtdykgl95rxnaa5xgm06hn7zwrysjn5ygy9m7ugenj8dqu7rqcp8cqh dragonfrog pretty remarkable for a survey that didn't even offer an option to say your were opposed - you had to write it in yourself in the comments. npub1q8qwtdykgl95rxnaa5xgm06hn7zwrysjn5ygy9m7ugenj8dqu7rqcp8cqh dragonfrog The social newt works where you got the most replies being established, I'd be curious to know if you saw any notable differences between what people on different platforms thought. Were LinkedIn users notably interested in processes of consultation, Bluesky users particularly into public transit, etc? npub1q8qwtdykgl95rxnaa5xgm06hn7zwrysjn5ygy9m7ugenj8dqu7rqcp8cqh dragonfrog Years ago I had a two day gig as an extra in a TV show(it was pretty interesting seeing some of the process of making TV). A fellow extra had worked at BioWare and gotten so burned out he'd quit and deliberately taken a job without any promotion prospects, so he could spend a few years just going home at the end of his shift with a clear mind. npub1q8qwtdykgl95rxnaa5xgm06hn7zwrysjn5ygy9m7ugenj8dqu7rqcp8cqh dragonfrog Wikipedia informs me that the CPC(ML) are "anti-revisionist" communists, i.e. opposed to the modest reforms and liberalizations introduced by Nikita Kruschev in the 1950s. Unlike, I guess, those dirty heterodox CPC-ists who are spitting on Stalin's memory by diverging from the path he set forth, or something. npub1q8qwtdykgl95rxnaa5xgm06hn7zwrysjn5ygy9m7ugenj8dqu7rqcp8cqh dragonfrog Imagine the rivalry there must be between the Communist Party of Canada and the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist–Leninist) - they're fighting over about 0.06% of the vote, and they still they haven't merged. What drama keeps them separate, both running candidates in the same ridings? npub1q8qwtdykgl95rxnaa5xgm06hn7zwrysjn5ygy9m7ugenj8dqu7rqcp8cqh dragonfrog interesting / depressing that gender is as good or better predictor than region - men overall show 19% support, as high as Albertans overall, and women 7%, as low as Atlantic Canadians overall. npub1q8qwtdykgl95rxnaa5xgm06hn7zwrysjn5ygy9m7ugenj8dqu7rqcp8cqh dragonfrog Alberta unsurprisingly had the highest percentage of traitors, but not by nearly the margin you might think npub1q8qwtdykgl95rxnaa5xgm06hn7zwrysjn5ygy9m7ugenj8dqu7rqcp8cqh dragonfrog It may be the case that even people who've murdered people in the past, still make more death threats that they don't follow through on, than threats they do. Still you'd be an awfully weird person to receive a death threat from a known murderer and shrug it off because "there isn't strong evidence he's going to actually try to kill me". npub1q8qwtdykgl95rxnaa5xgm06hn7zwrysjn5ygy9m7ugenj8dqu7rqcp8cqh dragonfrog Can anyone help identifying a novel? npub1q8qwtdykgl95rxnaa5xgm06hn7zwrysjn5ygy9m7ugenj8dqu7rqcp8cqh dragonfrog Anyway his office had two doors for some reason, and one year a bunch of students came in overnight and framed in a small room inside his office behind the door he usually used. They filled it with cleaning supplies and packages of toilet paper and whatnot, so when he came to work the next day and opened his office door he found a janitor's closet instead of the expected office. This happened years before I was a student but he was still telling this story in class. npub1q8qwtdykgl95rxnaa5xgm06hn7zwrysjn5ygy9m7ugenj8dqu7rqcp8cqh dragonfrog At my university there was a particularly eccentric prof - for a taste of his style, on the first day of his first year classes he brought in a $100 bill and offered it to anyone who could give him a beer without leaving the room to fetch it. He taught computer science, but had not personally used a computer in years, after he lost a finger in a farming accident and just never relearned to type with one less finger. He didn't even read his email. npub1q8qwtdykgl95rxnaa5xgm06hn7zwrysjn5ygy9m7ugenj8dqu7rqcp8cqh dragonfrog Sharing because this is a good article, but not sharing via simple boost because I wish to focus on something that would have been entirely off topic in that thread npub1q8qwtdykgl95rxnaa5xgm06hn7zwrysjn5ygy9m7ugenj8dqu7rqcp8cqh dragonfrog It's kind of hard to escape having public sector workers in one's social circle, when something like 15% of all jobs in the province are in the public sector. npub1q8qwtdykgl95rxnaa5xgm06hn7zwrysjn5ygy9m7ugenj8dqu7rqcp8cqh dragonfrog I don't think the general population really does dislike public servants. npub1q8qwtdykgl95rxnaa5xgm06hn7zwrysjn5ygy9m7ugenj8dqu7rqcp8cqh dragonfrog That wouldn't be useful to me. I'll either write a text file with the text editor on my phone so I can delete lines as I finish the thing, or I'll write with a pen on paper so I can cross out lines as I finish them. npub1q8qwtdykgl95rxnaa5xgm06hn7zwrysjn5ygy9m7ugenj8dqu7rqcp8cqh dragonfrog this assumes nonviolence is inherently a leftist principle. I am not convinced that is the case. There are very conservative very pacifist religions, and conversely the Spanish civil war was a war because there were two sides both willing to fight it. npub1q8qwtdykgl95rxnaa5xgm06hn7zwrysjn5ygy9m7ugenj8dqu7rqcp8cqh dragonfrog in Tusky you can tap the ... under a post, copy the link, paste it into your own post to make a quote post. When reading a quote post like that, Tusky will show a preview of the post and clicking on it will keep you in your own instance so you can reply to the original. npub1q8qwtdykgl95rxnaa5xgm06hn7zwrysjn5ygy9m7ugenj8dqu7rqcp8cqh dragonfrog I'm imagining something like "dragonfrog did a really good job explaining this in (link to thread" npub1q8qwtdykgl95rxnaa5xgm06hn7zwrysjn5ygy9m7ugenj8dqu7rqcp8cqh dragonfrog oh wow that's a whole extra layer of bad! I didn't realise the software did that. npub1q8qwtdykgl95rxnaa5xgm06hn7zwrysjn5ygy9m7ugenj8dqu7rqcp8cqh dragonfrog ... And it can be visually very non-obvious that someone has replied with privacy settings such that others aren't seeing the abusive post. So then you get the experience that someone has posted abuse at you, and nobody is pushing back, and it's not clear why. Unfortunately I don't have a solution to that flaw but it seems like it ought to be solvable.
