Average middle-aged guy from various places in Ontario.
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Last Notes npub1vtz6sg94y9wzrfwacuy98n4qq6nsz24xdrjaakftuyslq2y3k5sqvrzqq3 Mick 🇨🇦 Turns out that letting Microsoft acquire Bethesda, iD, Obsidian, Activision, Double Fine, Arkane, Ninja Theory, Mojang, Compulsion and other game studios wasn’t actually good for games, the people who make them or the people who play them. npub1vtz6sg94y9wzrfwacuy98n4qq6nsz24xdrjaakftuyslq2y3k5sqvrzqq3 Mick 🇨🇦 best geekjoke I’ve encountered in a while. A+ npub1vtz6sg94y9wzrfwacuy98n4qq6nsz24xdrjaakftuyslq2y3k5sqvrzqq3 Mick 🇨🇦 As long as we’re age-gating social media, I really think we need to do something to protect the boomers from whatever the fuck Facebook has become. npub1vtz6sg94y9wzrfwacuy98n4qq6nsz24xdrjaakftuyslq2y3k5sqvrzqq3 Mick 🇨🇦 super not good! npub1vtz6sg94y9wzrfwacuy98n4qq6nsz24xdrjaakftuyslq2y3k5sqvrzqq3 Mick 🇨🇦 “This week, The Times has been reporting on the push by some Canadians to have their province breakaway and become its own country. npub1vtz6sg94y9wzrfwacuy98n4qq6nsz24xdrjaakftuyslq2y3k5sqvrzqq3 Mick 🇨🇦 Her name is Juno, she has been in my care for about 10 hours now, and I would die to keep her safe and happy. npub1vtz6sg94y9wzrfwacuy98n4qq6nsz24xdrjaakftuyslq2y3k5sqvrzqq3 Mick 🇨🇦 managed to catch the last fledgling leaving the gazebo shelf nest this morning. npub1vtz6sg94y9wzrfwacuy98n4qq6nsz24xdrjaakftuyslq2y3k5sqvrzqq3 Mick 🇨🇦 what lists am I on Ken? WHAT LISTS? npub1vtz6sg94y9wzrfwacuy98n4qq6nsz24xdrjaakftuyslq2y3k5sqvrzqq3 Mick 🇨🇦 great post, Tim. Glad to be here with you! npub1vtz6sg94y9wzrfwacuy98n4qq6nsz24xdrjaakftuyslq2y3k5sqvrzqq3 Mick 🇨🇦 You ever think to yourself “but I am just one person, what can I do to make a difference?” npub1vtz6sg94y9wzrfwacuy98n4qq6nsz24xdrjaakftuyslq2y3k5sqvrzqq3 Mick 🇨🇦 it’s a configuration setting, and I don’t know if it has ever been otherwise? npub1vtz6sg94y9wzrfwacuy98n4qq6nsz24xdrjaakftuyslq2y3k5sqvrzqq3 Mick 🇨🇦 Has Canada tried just giving #Trump a shiny gold trophy of some sort? npub1vtz6sg94y9wzrfwacuy98n4qq6nsz24xdrjaakftuyslq2y3k5sqvrzqq3 Mick 🇨🇦 What percentage of your book purchases are aspirational? npub1vtz6sg94y9wzrfwacuy98n4qq6nsz24xdrjaakftuyslq2y3k5sqvrzqq3 Mick 🇨🇦 “The Big, Beautiful Bill assigns each American a billionaire who will live the American dream for you. You can check in on your billionaire at intervals and see how he is using your money. Maybe he’s building a 19th pool. Maybe he’s buying himself some formerly public land! Maybe he’s taking a Supreme Court justice on a dream vacation!” npub1vtz6sg94y9wzrfwacuy98n4qq6nsz24xdrjaakftuyslq2y3k5sqvrzqq3 Mick 🇨🇦 such a sweaty thing npub1vtz6sg94y9wzrfwacuy98n4qq6nsz24xdrjaakftuyslq2y3k5sqvrzqq3 Mick 🇨🇦 #BlueOrigin will put six people willing to cough up $150k USD for the experience into a capsule on top of a highly explosive rocket and launch it into low earth orbit. npub1vtz6sg94y9wzrfwacuy98n4qq6nsz24xdrjaakftuyslq2y3k5sqvrzqq3 Mick 🇨🇦 Weird sunset tonight npub1vtz6sg94y9wzrfwacuy98n4qq6nsz24xdrjaakftuyslq2y3k5sqvrzqq3 Mick 🇨🇦 “All these Shelleys and Dakotas are a liability. Imagine you’re in a heavy firefight, and your commander tells you to lay down cover fire for Casey. Your brain takes an extra moment to realize Casey is a man even though that’s a lady’s name, and in that [s]plit second of hesitation, your entire squad is overrun by the enemy.” npub1vtz6sg94y9wzrfwacuy98n4qq6nsz24xdrjaakftuyslq2y3k5sqvrzqq3 Mick 🇨🇦 ‘Before the 2024 U.S. election, 12 percent of Republicans viewed Canadians as “unfriendly” or “an enemy.” Now that number is 27 percent.’ npub1vtz6sg94y9wzrfwacuy98n4qq6nsz24xdrjaakftuyslq2y3k5sqvrzqq3 Mick 🇨🇦 this seems unlikely, but one can dream. npub1vtz6sg94y9wzrfwacuy98n4qq6nsz24xdrjaakftuyslq2y3k5sqvrzqq3 Mick 🇨🇦 We're still looking for a Canadian hosting provider that offers a managed PostgreSQL service, if anyone knows of one. npub1vtz6sg94y9wzrfwacuy98n4qq6nsz24xdrjaakftuyslq2y3k5sqvrzqq3 Mick 🇨🇦 Just added 10240 MiB to our DB, $20/mo. to our server bill ... npub1vtz6sg94y9wzrfwacuy98n4qq6nsz24xdrjaakftuyslq2y3k5sqvrzqq3 Mick 🇨🇦 CBC news calling PC majority at 9 minutes after the polls close. #onpol npub1vtz6sg94y9wzrfwacuy98n4qq6nsz24xdrjaakftuyslq2y3k5sqvrzqq3 Mick 🇨🇦 waiting patiently npub1vtz6sg94y9wzrfwacuy98n4qq6nsz24xdrjaakftuyslq2y3k5sqvrzqq3 Mick 🇨🇦 I don’t think too much about being Canadian. npub1vtz6sg94y9wzrfwacuy98n4qq6nsz24xdrjaakftuyslq2y3k5sqvrzqq3 Mick 🇨🇦 @npub1dad…y568 your website certificate is expired npub1vtz6sg94y9wzrfwacuy98n4qq6nsz24xdrjaakftuyslq2y3k5sqvrzqq3 Mick 🇨🇦 I'm old enough to remember when the "Gulf of America" was called "Freedom Fries." npub1vtz6sg94y9wzrfwacuy98n4qq6nsz24xdrjaakftuyslq2y3k5sqvrzqq3 Mick 🇨🇦 while this is more of a question for our Trust-and-Safety team, I can say that we keep an up-to-date blocklist and our T&S people are really on the ball. Tagging @npub19ua…53cv @npub1764…nuj0 @npub12r3…fdd5 npub1vtz6sg94y9wzrfwacuy98n4qq6nsz24xdrjaakftuyslq2y3k5sqvrzqq3 Mick 🇨🇦 This is reassuring! npub1vtz6sg94y9wzrfwacuy98n4qq6nsz24xdrjaakftuyslq2y3k5sqvrzqq3 Mick 🇨🇦 No. Unplanned. Downtime. npub1vtz6sg94y9wzrfwacuy98n4qq6nsz24xdrjaakftuyslq2y3k5sqvrzqq3 Mick 🇨🇦 Sprinkles #DogsOfMastodon npub1vtz6sg94y9wzrfwacuy98n4qq6nsz24xdrjaakftuyslq2y3k5sqvrzqq3 Mick 🇨🇦 🤔💭 npub1vtz6sg94y9wzrfwacuy98n4qq6nsz24xdrjaakftuyslq2y3k5sqvrzqq3 Mick 🇨🇦 First Past the Post has gotta go. npub1vtz6sg94y9wzrfwacuy98n4qq6nsz24xdrjaakftuyslq2y3k5sqvrzqq3 Mick 🇨🇦 This crew seem to genuinely believe in their vision and clearly gave a lot of themselves to see it realized. My heart goes out to them. npub1vtz6sg94y9wzrfwacuy98n4qq6nsz24xdrjaakftuyslq2y3k5sqvrzqq3 Mick 🇨🇦 Goodnight #Fediverse. You are a wonderful thing and I’m glad to know you. npub1vtz6sg94y9wzrfwacuy98n4qq6nsz24xdrjaakftuyslq2y3k5sqvrzqq3 Mick 🇨🇦 Hey #MastoAdmin, can you take/boost this quick poll? npub1vtz6sg94y9wzrfwacuy98n4qq6nsz24xdrjaakftuyslq2y3k5sqvrzqq3 Mick 🇨🇦 is this a Morkie? Looks like a sibling to our Twiggy: npub1vtz6sg94y9wzrfwacuy98n4qq6nsz24xdrjaakftuyslq2y3k5sqvrzqq3 Mick 🇨🇦 Fediverse: what is this plant? npub1vtz6sg94y9wzrfwacuy98n4qq6nsz24xdrjaakftuyslq2y3k5sqvrzqq3 Mick 🇨🇦 nice shot! npub1vtz6sg94y9wzrfwacuy98n4qq6nsz24xdrjaakftuyslq2y3k5sqvrzqq3 Mick 🇨🇦 For the first time the #CoSocialCa Mastodon server has started to struggle just a little bit to keep up with the flow of the Fediverse. npub1vtz6sg94y9wzrfwacuy98n4qq6nsz24xdrjaakftuyslq2y3k5sqvrzqq3 Mick 🇨🇦 By way of #introduction , I’m Mick, and I am old enough to remember when the Internet was made up of small communities built and supported by their members - before the phrases “attention economy” and “surveillance advertising” were a thing.
