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David Keegan @drdavidkeegan.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 This is inexplicable news to share. If in Alberta and you want flu and covid shots for NEXT year (2026-2027), you have only until December 15 of THIS year to order them.

This is not incompetence. It’s a deliberate choice to prevent as many people ..

bookvaccine.alberta.ca/vaccine/s/pr...

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Aaron Hoyland @aaronhoyland.bsky.social · 1d

AB’s finance minister has said the province set aside $2.6 billion to cover the costs of a new 4yr teacher contract, and that the ATA’s latest offer would cost $2B over that, which works out to $1.15B/yr.

Wanna guess how much the recent income tax cut is costing the province? $1.2B/yr. Priorities.

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Aaron Hoyland @aaronhoyland.bsky.social · 2d

Gah! Holly Nichol, not Nichols. Whoops.

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Aaron Hoyland @aaronhoyland.bsky.social · 2d

Holly Nichols in Edmonton Ward C is a great choice. And as we've recently learned, her only opponent has posted in support of flat Earth theories and shared conspiracy theories about vaccines being produced from human organs, so it's really a no-brainer.

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Aaron Hoyland @aaronhoyland.bsky.social · 5d

I too have this problem. I deserve a medal, frankly.

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Aaron Hoyland @aaronhoyland.bsky.social · 10d

Thanks for digging into the data here. Did Mr. Hunter provide any sort of alternative hypothesis for the shortfall? Sure, correlation ≠ causation, but there appears to be a pretty clear cause and effect here in the absence of any other explanation.

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Aaron Hoyland @aaronhoyland.bsky.social · 11d

Obligatory.

Screenshot of a tweet from @GirlFromBlupo

Text says:
Dear Amazon, I bought a toilet seat because I needed one.
Necessity, not desire. I do not collect them. I am not a toilet seat addict. No matter how temptingly you email me, l'm not going to think, oh go on then, just one more toilet seat, I'll treat myself.

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Aaron Hoyland @aaronhoyland.bsky.social · 11d

I work from home full-time. My wife is a teacher, which means she’s also home this week. It’s weird.

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Aaron Hoyland @aaronhoyland.bsky.social · 12d

These errors, man.

Aaron Hoyland @aaronhoyland.bsky.social · 12d

April 2023 interview. www.mlb.com/amp/news/vla...

Vladimir Guerrero Jr. says he will never play for Yankees

www.mlb.com

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Aaron Hoyland @aaronhoyland.bsky.social · 12d

“Would you ever play for the Yankees?”
Guerrero: “No, not even dead”.

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Aaron Hoyland @aaronhoyland.bsky.social · 12d

I went with the polish sausage and yeah, it was exceptional.

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Aaron Hoyland @aaronhoyland.bsky.social · 12d

I feel like you're going to roast me so hard for this but I had the first Costco hot dog of my life on Sunday. It was good? And $1.50? Like, I genuinely didn't understand what was happening. All four of us ate for cheaper than Wendy's and it broke my brain.

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Aaron Hoyland @aaronhoyland.bsky.social · 12d

Do you hate how clean your house is and wish you could find random half-eaten perogies strewn about? If so, I highly recommend having children.

Photo of a half-eaten perogy sitting on a kitchen counter beside a small pink stamp and a tangled white cord.

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Aaron Hoyland @aaronhoyland.bsky.social · 16d

I tried it briefly. It's a hellhole.

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Aaron Hoyland @aaronhoyland.bsky.social · 16d

Wasn't planning on listening today, but now...

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Aaron Hoyland @aaronhoyland.bsky.social · 17d

Oh, you.

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Aaron Hoyland @aaronhoyland.bsky.social · 17d

Sometimes I'll present my players with a problem and after they solve it they'll ask whether that's what I wanted them to do and they always seem surprised when I admit to them that I had no idea what the solution was. More fun that way.

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Aaron Hoyland @aaronhoyland.bsky.social · 17d

[checks when I joined]

Oh no. I'm so sorry.

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Aaron Hoyland @aaronhoyland.bsky.social · 18d

Lolololol. Spectacular

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Aaron Hoyland @aaronhoyland.bsky.social · 18d

Today is our kids’ first official day in preschool room at daycare. It also happened to be pyjama day, so we got to watch them march into their new room in adorable PJs.

I just checked the calendar. Today isn’t pyjama day.

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Aaron Hoyland @aaronhoyland.bsky.social · 18d

lolsob

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Aaron Hoyland @aaronhoyland.bsky.social · 19d

Putting on my crafter hat for a minute: does it have to be foam? I feel like painted cardboard could give you a pretty similar effect for cheap.

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Aaron Hoyland @aaronhoyland.bsky.social · 19d

DEVASTATING

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Aaron Hoyland @aaronhoyland.bsky.social · 19d

Walking into the gym and this guy leaving says “Oh wow, you look like Andrew Tate from far away”, so I think I’m going to need to reevaluate a whole bunch of my life choices.

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