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2025-08-28 14:14:48 UTC

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They were offering a laughable $500 to setup our home office. The ergo chair alone is more than that. Add the sit-stand desk and dual monitors similar to our office setups, and you're at $3000 easy.

2025-08-28 14:04:19 UTC

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The employer finances our home setups? LOLOLOL
Not where I work.

2025-08-27 15:51:37 UTC

Ah yes, "waste diversion". AKA, have the kids bring all the trash and recycling back home for the parents to deal with. 🙄
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/no-blue-bin-recycling-at-2-ottawa-school-boards-this-september-1.5539749

2025-08-26 20:19:08 UTC

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Bean bags?
Nah. Only greige cubes.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/096/911/795/246/288/original/1c0d2f2a24fef553.jpg

2025-08-26 19:23:05 UTC

Ugh. So how long before the feds cave into this?
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/city-of-ottawa-employees-returning-to-the-office-5-days-a-week-starting-jan-1-1.7618202?cmp=rss

2025-08-20 17:39:11 UTC

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Might take a few official languages complaints before they wake up.

2025-08-20 17:28:52 UTC

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Gross.
I tried to answer the survey we got, but there's zero opportunity to give feedback if you haven't used it.
I guess refusing to use the tool on ethical grounds isn't something management wants to hear.

2025-08-14 13:42:45 UTC

MS Teams is essentially a chat program. Why the heck does it consume 1GB or RAM?

2025-08-14 13:34:37 UTC

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well, with the VPN down, our biggest client, us, isn't as busy as usual 🤷‍♀️

2025-08-14 13:32:33 UTC

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I just hope the app we support doesn't go down, there's only a handful of us who can access the servers right now. 😬

2025-08-14 13:24:19 UTC

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Works in the office... but most of the team is remote, so not much is getting done right now.

2025-08-09 23:48:08 UTC

The forecasted daily highs for the next 3 days: 35C, 35C, and 34C. 🥵

2025-07-21 22:26:37 UTC

Me, updating a password that's about to expire.
Computer system: "Your new password does not meet the complexity requirements of this server."
Any hints given on what those new requirements might be? Nope.

2025-07-10 21:05:01 UTC

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Something my dad taught me was to dip buttered toast in maple syrup. That's how I'll eat leftover buns. My wife thinks that is gross.

2025-07-10 20:52:12 UTC

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When you're out of cinnamon spread and map-o-spread, but you still want that sweet sugar with your bread lol

2025-07-10 20:45:12 UTC

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I had quite a sweet tooth as a kid, so I've made myself sugar sandwiches out of desperation if we were out of other sweet toppings. LOL

2025-07-10 18:33:58 UTC

First day of vacation, and I just feel completely depleted.

2025-07-09 14:40:20 UTC

Paraphrasing upper management:
"We will be implementing 15% in cuts over the next 3 years. If this stresses you out, you contact the Employee Assistance Program."
Like the stealth cuts over the past 2 years didn't make it obvious we're going full-on with austerity.

2025-07-05 18:44:26 UTC

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I checked my route options to the CTC on a Saturday. 2 hours and 15 minutes. Ouch.

2025-07-05 18:32:31 UTC

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I live further east than you, and it took me almost 2 hours to get to Tanger Outlets by transit.

2025-06-25 21:19:24 UTC

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Our garden might appreciate it. I don't do much watering.

2025-06-19 21:25:45 UTC

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Gross

2025-06-04 20:20:29 UTC

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Same. I only follow about a half dozen Bluesky accounts.

2025-05-30 13:14:33 UTC

I'm so fucking tired of every single tech company trying to shove some "AI" feature in my face.
Just fucking give up. I have zero interest in it.

2025-05-21 14:54:02 UTC

Either I'm just unlucky, or all the toilets at LRT stations are closed.
That does not make transit more convenient.

2025-05-13 15:56:04 UTC

Minister of tech buzzwords.

2025-05-13 15:43:31 UTC

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You're right, I missed that. Lightbound would be my new minister.
So Solomon overseeing "AI and Digital Innovation" might mean he's overseeing SSC then.
PSPC and SSC usually have the same minister so that would be a change.

2025-05-13 15:37:51 UTC

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Fuck... looking at the full list of ministers... he might be my new minister now.

2025-05-13 15:31:53 UTC

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I eyerolled so hard when I saw who it is too.

2025-04-29 01:41:44 UTC

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I was chuckle when they show results of a single poll. It's totally meaningless.

2025-04-11 17:06:35 UTC

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"Donate Now" button located on the left side.

2025-04-11 17:04:02 UTC

GCWCC link integrated in our MS Teams. Gross.

2025-04-09 16:51:03 UTC

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Mine also says +2C, and yesterday's snow is melting away. (I didn't bother shoveling any of it!)

2025-04-07 20:16:43 UTC

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How is this not state sanctioned blackmail?

2025-04-03 15:23:32 UTC

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Almost half my TFSA was a fund with US assets. I dumped it a month ago after losing half my gains in a couple weeks. I'd probably be in the hole now if I'd kept it, but for ethical reasons, I just couldn't keep my money tied to the US.

2025-03-20 14:37:25 UTC

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I can foresee the CPC learning nothing from this, and picking as their next leader an even more fascist alt-right loser.

2025-03-20 13:48:13 UTC

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Yeah, he's most certainly done as party leader after this election.

2025-03-20 13:22:40 UTC

Worst kept secret in Ottawa: an election call is imminent.

2025-03-11 13:14:00 UTC

Fever, headache, dizzy... woke up at 5 drenched in sweat.
All signs point to having caught the bug another family member has.

2025-03-10 14:07:26 UTC

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God those ThinkPads suck.

2025-03-10 13:54:17 UTC

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Damn.
My department is cheap so we get laptops with small screens.

2025-03-10 13:41:18 UTC

IT: Give staff newer more powerful laptops every couple years.
Also, IT: add more and more layers of background processes making the new laptops as slow as the older ones.

2025-03-05 20:02:40 UTC

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Called it. I knew he'd backtrack again and be forced to exempt something (even if temporary).

2025-03-04 22:46:03 UTC

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He also threatened to increase to tarrifs as a response to our response.
It just governing via constant chaos down there.

2025-03-03 20:50:35 UTC

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My mutual funds have taken a slow beating the past month. Still in the green, for now.
Trying to decide what to do with my US equity funds. Maybe sell?

2025-03-03 15:31:29 UTC

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Sage Power = "pouvoir du sage"

2025-03-03 15:25:46 UTC

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Ah, sent to just my branch.

2025-03-03 15:17:30 UTC

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I purged it before I noticed the French translations.

2025-03-03 14:28:54 UTC

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It gets worse. WTF are "Sage Powers"?
Yes, it's capitalized.

2025-03-03 13:51:59 UTC

Catching up on my messages at work.
WTF is positive intelligence?
Other than it's surely some pop-psychology pseudoscience nonsense.

2025-02-28 21:43:06 UTC

Two vacation days in a row with the afternoons spent doing tech support. 🙄

2025-02-28 00:34:21 UTC

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I actually don't know who they voted for.

2025-02-28 00:27:13 UTC

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Same.
One positive today, my oldest voted in their first election!

2025-02-27 21:53:07 UTC

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Not that I agree with it, but I'm guessing their reasoning is that they don't want to piss Trump off even more.

2025-02-27 16:06:41 UTC

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Voted.
It's been a while since I've felt that anxious before doing so.

2025-02-27 15:49:23 UTC

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One of the safest Liberal seats in the country so normally I'm not worried about my vote helping the cons in any way. But elections now feel more important so I'm taking more time than usual deliberating it in my head.

2025-02-27 15:47:14 UTC

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Yup.

2025-02-27 15:40:54 UTC

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I wasn't offended, procrastination could easily be my middle name. LOL
Doesn't help I'm still not 100% sure who I'm voting for. I've got 10 minutes to figure it out!

2025-02-27 15:32:17 UTC

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I've voted in advance when it was more convenient to. My polling station is a 10 minute walk, so I'm going this morning.

2025-02-26 19:41:19 UTC

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Our C suite can't shut up about it.

2025-02-25 16:28:07 UTC

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Why are so many organizations making this more difficult than it needs to be?
Don't want to leave Twitter just yet, OK fine.
But it's not an unreasonable ask to have them crosspost the same messages on Threads, Bluesky, Mastodon, etc...

2025-02-17 14:47:11 UTC

No surprise that the neighbor who mows the lawn every 5 days with a gas mower, and waters the sidewalk when watering their lawn, is also the neighbor who blows the snow into the street and sidewalks. Asshole.

2025-02-17 04:00:08 UTC

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I spoke too soon. The plow passed.

2025-02-17 03:31:58 UTC

I fully expect I'll have to clear the snowplow hump first thing in the morning before going to work.

2025-02-13 16:07:25 UTC

I got my $200 bribe from Ford.
Think I'll donate it to a charity or two.

2025-02-13 02:21:46 UTC

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Their campaign sent me a text message today asking for my support.
They know exist! LOL

2025-02-12 16:16:41 UTC

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I stopped buying Barilla when they did some shrinkflation a couple years ago. Their standard box shrank to 410g when most other brands are 450g-500g. Mostly buy Italian brands nowadays.

2025-02-11 15:59:40 UTC

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Sometimes I don't see some of the boosts or favourites on some of my own posts. It'll say 3 favorites, I click to see who, and only 2 users are listed. 🤷‍♂️

2025-02-09 17:52:41 UTC

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We have a federal candidate???
They sure are winning at comms over there. /s
I'm not receiving emails from my own riding, but Ottawa-Centre sure knows I exist! lol

2025-02-09 17:43:45 UTC

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That should have been done within a day of the candidate being selected.
Starting to look obvious they're not really trying in our riding. They've got a paper candidate and that's it so far.

2025-02-07 14:33:41 UTC

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I'm amazed how it's often not obvious to tell which window is actually in focus.

2025-02-05 15:14:02 UTC

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It amazes me how this still an issue with many computer systems.

2025-01-30 18:42:07 UTC

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Wait, doesn't your program area work on a cost recovery basis?

2025-01-29 18:37:55 UTC

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Going by the emails I've been getting, I strongly suspect they're putting all their efforts into Ottawa-Centre, and they'll ignore our riding again.

2025-01-29 18:11:18 UTC

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100%

2025-01-28 19:01:14 UTC

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Even has to throw in just a little misogyny too by referring to the male candidate by their last name, and the female candidate by their first name. 🙄

2025-01-28 13:49:00 UTC

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testing again

2025-01-28 13:45:27 UTC

@queenzentar.bsky.social
testing, testing, 1, 2, 3

2025-01-24 16:25:45 UTC

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I've seen an uptick in ableist insults lately. Also not liking how autism/autistic has become a replacement for the r-word in recent months.

2025-01-24 13:28:07 UTC

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I suspect the NDP has, again, written off Ottawa-Vanier, and they're not gonna run a serious campaign here. (Federally and provincially.)

2025-01-23 20:13:42 UTC

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They really thought that once they openly went full nazi we'd still want them around in our hobby spaces?
LOL, welcome to the find out phase ya bootlickers.

2025-01-21 20:45:42 UTC

I know I'm in a privileged position to have investments, but I kinda expect them to tank this year.

2025-01-16 15:55:59 UTC

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I googled "Infinite mindset" and the results are just some leadership pop-psychology nonsense.
It breaks my brain trying to parse it...

2025-01-16 15:52:13 UTC

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"Un état d'esprit infini"

2025-01-16 15:50:22 UTC

Work email: "no fluffy words"
A few statements later: "Infinite mindset"
WTF? Who writes this bullshit?

2025-01-16 15:42:32 UTC

I've stopped posting to IG & FB, but I still check my notifications once in a while. OMG the feeds are inundated with ads for generative AI tools to make my creative endeavors "easier".
Ya, no, I'm not interested in creating low effort slop. I actually take pride in making my own music.

2025-01-06 22:00:28 UTC

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Almost everyone on this Line 4 train is railfanning (like me!)

2025-01-06 21:35:54 UTC

Taking a little diversion onto Line 2 on the way home. The ride on the new trains is so smooth!

2024-12-22 21:29:12 UTC

Gotta do a grocery run tomorrow. Being as it's the last full shopping day before Christmas, the plan is to go in the morning right after breakfast to hopefully avoid the worst of the crowds.

2024-12-22 18:10:54 UTC

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He's barely progressive as it is.
A huge chunk of Liberals are clearly in some alternate reality.

2024-12-16 20:07:38 UTC

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My prediction is that he's leaving after losing the 2025 election. I don't see him resigning before.

2024-12-16 16:34:23 UTC

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Ottawa Center is not a safe Liberal seat. NDP has held that seat many times. Carney's political career could be quite short if he runs there.

2024-12-16 15:10:48 UTC

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One positive is that the Conservatives have next to zero chance in hell to ever win here.

2024-12-13 21:07:01 UTC

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I haven't heard or seen that expression in a while. It is funny though LOL

2024-12-13 14:13:26 UTC

The not yet caffeinated brain really wasn't working this morning as it took me 8 CAPTCHAs to log onto one website.

2024-12-11 14:53:33 UTC

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I've been lucky that, as far as I recall, every position I've had would give me the choice between time or money. I've heard that some places aren't that flexible on that.

2024-12-11 14:29:39 UTC

Yay! I'm not working this weekend! The extra money was nice, but working that every two weekends was getting to me.

2024-12-10 14:47:32 UTC

WTF is digital ambition?
Oh I see... it's just the nonsensical name we gave to our strategic plan. 🙄

2024-11-30 16:24:55 UTC

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I started in my mid twenties 20 years today. The golden handcuffs are on pretty tight at this point. lol

2024-11-30 16:17:37 UTC

All this talk of pensions in my feed is reminding me that today I am exactly 10 years away from full retirement.
Obviously I can stay longer for even more pension... but I don't know if I'd want to.
Being functional for work sucks so much mental and emotional energy out of me.