Computer Gripe
@computer.gripe
bookish and crafty computer person
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So interesting point that I couldn’t help check into: for those curious / worried, I suspect the QEII’s new robot, the Intuitive da Vinci Xi, while having extremely positive mechanical benefits, is not an AI tool.
A relief if you’ve read the Reuters Article today.
A relief if you’ve read the Reuters Article today.
February 10, 2026 at 1:53 AM
So interesting point that I couldn’t help check into: for those curious / worried, I suspect the QEII’s new robot, the Intuitive da Vinci Xi, while having extremely positive mechanical benefits, is not an AI tool.
A relief if you’ve read the Reuters Article today.
A relief if you’ve read the Reuters Article today.
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Encouraging to see some members of the US Olympic team wearing masks to protect their health ahead of competition.
February 6, 2026 at 7:49 PM
Encouraging to see some members of the US Olympic team wearing masks to protect their health ahead of competition.
Thank you for making it!
January 30, 2026 at 8:56 PM
Thank you for making it!
Printed out some COVID mitigation zines today!
Zines are "What's up with COVID and what we can do about it 2026 edition" by @newlevant.bsky.social: newlevant.com/COVIDzine
& "Clean air in your school and everywhere" by @porkpie.ca : www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/aoq13...
Zines are "What's up with COVID and what we can do about it 2026 edition" by @newlevant.bsky.social: newlevant.com/COVIDzine
& "Clean air in your school and everywhere" by @porkpie.ca : www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/aoq13...
January 30, 2026 at 4:32 PM
Printed out some COVID mitigation zines today!
Zines are "What's up with COVID and what we can do about it 2026 edition" by @newlevant.bsky.social: newlevant.com/COVIDzine
& "Clean air in your school and everywhere" by @porkpie.ca : www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/aoq13...
Zines are "What's up with COVID and what we can do about it 2026 edition" by @newlevant.bsky.social: newlevant.com/COVIDzine
& "Clean air in your school and everywhere" by @porkpie.ca : www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/aoq13...
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Your zine inspired me to make a similar one a while back for an ongoing action to improve indoor air quality in schools. Download link here: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/aoq13...
January 18, 2026 at 3:07 AM
Your zine inspired me to make a similar one a while back for an ongoing action to improve indoor air quality in schools. Download link here: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/aoq13...
Posting this again because I'm printing it today and it's a really good zine and you should check it out/compensate Hazel if you can afford to do so.
What's Up With COVID and What We Can Do About It: 2026 Edition
I've thoroughly updated this public health propaganda zine! With new information about:
Adjusting mask fit
CO2 monitoring
Improving ventilation for infection control
Read at newlevant.com/COVIDzine or in the thread below 👇
I've thoroughly updated this public health propaganda zine! With new information about:
Adjusting mask fit
CO2 monitoring
Improving ventilation for infection control
Read at newlevant.com/COVIDzine or in the thread below 👇
![[COVID zine front cover]
[bold, handwritten] What’s Up With COVID and What We Can Do About It: 2026 Edition
[Drawing of a person (me) with a shoulder-length shag haircut, wearing head-strap respirator mask a sweatshirt, carrying a Corsi-Rosenthal box (a DIY air purifier made with a box fan and furnace filters)]
[word balloon] clean the air, basically! By Hazel Newlevant
[COVID zine back cover]
[handwritten text, circled by a chain which is breaking on the bottom]
“Every chain of transmission that is broken is VALUABLE. Every person that doesn’t GET SICK, that doesn’t lose that WEEK OF WORK, that doesn’t become DISABLED or DIE, from the minorest of inconveniences, to the GREATEST of losses: every single one of those things is VALUABLE.” -Becca on DEATH PANEL podcast 2/16/23.
Print and distribute this zine yourself! Download a PDF here. [arrow pointing to the citations QR code]
[drawing of this zine, getting stapled with a long-arm stapler]
[Creative Commons license logo] CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Citations:
[QR code] newlevant.com/COVIDzine
[bold, handwritten] ALWAYS FREE](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:twccexjsbh6y2tyhysjrhc2v/bafkreicg6f3tsxzbhi6hesaqppsfaaidnee33exrrwoalyxyaihaxxdk3a@jpeg)
January 30, 2026 at 4:02 PM
Posting this again because I'm printing it today and it's a really good zine and you should check it out/compensate Hazel if you can afford to do so.
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I'm sure my students would LOVE your positive and constructive feedback. They would love to know that they're not screaming into the void, that people read their stuff and think it's cool, too! So I'm going to start posting my Medium blog, created specifically for this course, here.
My first post:
My first post:
Welcome to the BIOL 2321 Cell Biology Class Blog!
This space is dedicated to showing off my students! This semester there are two writing assignments as part of the Cell Biology class…
medium.com
January 21, 2026 at 3:10 PM
I'm sure my students would LOVE your positive and constructive feedback. They would love to know that they're not screaming into the void, that people read their stuff and think it's cool, too! So I'm going to start posting my Medium blog, created specifically for this course, here.
My first post:
My first post:
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What's Up With COVID and What We Can Do About It: 2026 Edition
I've thoroughly updated this public health propaganda zine! With new information about:
Adjusting mask fit
CO2 monitoring
Improving ventilation for infection control
Read at newlevant.com/COVIDzine or in the thread below 👇
I've thoroughly updated this public health propaganda zine! With new information about:
Adjusting mask fit
CO2 monitoring
Improving ventilation for infection control
Read at newlevant.com/COVIDzine or in the thread below 👇
January 16, 2026 at 3:17 PM
What's Up With COVID and What We Can Do About It: 2026 Edition
I've thoroughly updated this public health propaganda zine! With new information about:
Adjusting mask fit
CO2 monitoring
Improving ventilation for infection control
Read at newlevant.com/COVIDzine or in the thread below 👇
I've thoroughly updated this public health propaganda zine! With new information about:
Adjusting mask fit
CO2 monitoring
Improving ventilation for infection control
Read at newlevant.com/COVIDzine or in the thread below 👇
🇨🇦 Canadians, in case you missed it: there's a petition collecting signatures to ask that the federal government intervene to protect access to healthcare for trans people in provinces who have restricted it (eg Alberta's egregious use of the notwithstanding clause): www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
Petition e-7027 - Petitions
www.ourcommons.ca
January 4, 2026 at 3:11 PM
🇨🇦 Canadians, in case you missed it: there's a petition collecting signatures to ask that the federal government intervene to protect access to healthcare for trans people in provinces who have restricted it (eg Alberta's egregious use of the notwithstanding clause): www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
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Me, waking up this morning, to 2026:
January 1, 2026 at 2:11 PM
Me, waking up this morning, to 2026:
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Also, if you'd like to assist with the archive's goal of preserving Nova Scotia video game and interactive digital arts history I have a Gofundme page. All funds go towards acquiring games and artifacts, as well as items to preserve them with.
gofund.me/11c2641e5
#NovaScotia #HRM #Halifax
gofund.me/11c2641e5
#NovaScotia #HRM #Halifax
Donate to Support the Halifax Game Collective Archive, organized by Adam Hartling
Hello,
Since 2018, I have maintained a citizen-led archive project to… Adam Hartling needs your support for Support the Halifax Game Collective Archive
gofund.me
January 1, 2026 at 3:06 PM
Also, if you'd like to assist with the archive's goal of preserving Nova Scotia video game and interactive digital arts history I have a Gofundme page. All funds go towards acquiring games and artifacts, as well as items to preserve them with.
gofund.me/11c2641e5
#NovaScotia #HRM #Halifax
gofund.me/11c2641e5
#NovaScotia #HRM #Halifax
Adam's work curating and archiving the Nova Scotian game dev scene, past and present, is admirable.
Check out all these new games!
Check out all these new games!
Happy New Year's Eve! It was another busy year in Nova Scotia video game development! Please check out the latest archive project blog post that has a timeline of all the games and events that happened in local game dev in 2025.
hgcarchive.wixsite.com/hgc-archive/...
#novascotia #gamedev
hgcarchive.wixsite.com/hgc-archive/...
#novascotia #gamedev
2025 in Nova Scotian Game Development
2025 was another busy year in the Nova Scotia video game development scene! With the new year approaching, we would like to share the 2025 timeline document with everyone. As an ongoing part of the ar...
hgcarchive.wixsite.com
January 1, 2026 at 3:07 PM
Adam's work curating and archiving the Nova Scotian game dev scene, past and present, is admirable.
Check out all these new games!
Check out all these new games!
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This is incredible: CCC #39C3 (hacker conference in Germany) is doing CO2 room monitoring this year just like @kawaiicon.bsky.social so attendees can assess risk!
- Dashboard link: datagnome.de/sensors/#__t...
- Image/alt via @itgrrl.com
- Previously @wired.com - www.wired.com/story/this-h...
- Dashboard link: datagnome.de/sensors/#__t...
- Image/alt via @itgrrl.com
- Previously @wired.com - www.wired.com/story/this-h...
December 28, 2025 at 11:40 PM
This is incredible: CCC #39C3 (hacker conference in Germany) is doing CO2 room monitoring this year just like @kawaiicon.bsky.social so attendees can assess risk!
- Dashboard link: datagnome.de/sensors/#__t...
- Image/alt via @itgrrl.com
- Previously @wired.com - www.wired.com/story/this-h...
- Dashboard link: datagnome.de/sensors/#__t...
- Image/alt via @itgrrl.com
- Previously @wired.com - www.wired.com/story/this-h...
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I love winter solstice. Not because it is the beginning of winter or the darkest day of the year but because from this day on, the light slowly starts to come back.
December 21, 2025 at 1:02 PM
I love winter solstice. Not because it is the beginning of winter or the darkest day of the year but because from this day on, the light slowly starts to come back.
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We've done it! Ubisoft Halifax has voted yes to unionize with @cwacanada1.bsky.social
December 18, 2025 at 6:34 PM
We've done it! Ubisoft Halifax has voted yes to unionize with @cwacanada1.bsky.social
Nvm Gnome Web/Epiphany just won’t install via flatpak for some reason 😔
December 18, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Nvm Gnome Web/Epiphany just won’t install via flatpak for some reason 😔
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One of the most difficult things you will navigate if you develop a serious illness/disability (before you're retirement home aged) is every corner of society is telling you to "just go away". Everyone--government and even many folks you counted as friends--wants you to be someone else's problem.
Folks need to examine philosophically why it is that—in the span of just a couple of years—the leaders of the American Democratic, Canadian Liberal & British Labour Parties have all gone all in on assisred suicide (while making healthcsre harder to attain) www.cityandstateny.com/policy/2025/...
December 18, 2025 at 6:43 PM
One of the most difficult things you will navigate if you develop a serious illness/disability (before you're retirement home aged) is every corner of society is telling you to "just go away". Everyone--government and even many folks you counted as friends--wants you to be someone else's problem.
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COVID shot reduces risk of severe illness, premature birth in pregnancy, study says
The Canadian Press
December 15, 2025
By Nicole Ireland
stillcoviding.ca/en/news/covi...
#COVID #CdnPoli #vaccines #CovidIsNotOver
The Canadian Press
December 15, 2025
By Nicole Ireland
stillcoviding.ca/en/news/covi...
#COVID #CdnPoli #vaccines #CovidIsNotOver
COVID shot reduces risk of severe illness, premature birth in pregnancy, study says
stillcoviding.ca
December 18, 2025 at 1:13 AM
COVID shot reduces risk of severe illness, premature birth in pregnancy, study says
The Canadian Press
December 15, 2025
By Nicole Ireland
stillcoviding.ca/en/news/covi...
#COVID #CdnPoli #vaccines #CovidIsNotOver
The Canadian Press
December 15, 2025
By Nicole Ireland
stillcoviding.ca/en/news/covi...
#COVID #CdnPoli #vaccines #CovidIsNotOver
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This will result in more effective infection control!
If you're looking for respirator masks, you can reach out to PoPNS or Mask Bloc HFX, or pick-up at:
▫️Venus Envy
▫️Cape & Cowl Comics
▫️HFX Community Fridge
▫️Dartmouth Community Fridge
▫️Cole Harbour Community Fridge
If you're looking for respirator masks, you can reach out to PoPNS or Mask Bloc HFX, or pick-up at:
▫️Venus Envy
▫️Cape & Cowl Comics
▫️HFX Community Fridge
▫️Dartmouth Community Fridge
▫️Cole Harbour Community Fridge
Effective December 18, Nova Scotia Health is requiring everyone to wear a mask in their facilities. 👏👏👏
Please protect yourselves and others during this season of illness by wearing a mask, staying home when sick, getting vaccinated, and increasing ventilation & filtration.
Please protect yourselves and others during this season of illness by wearing a mask, staying home when sick, getting vaccinated, and increasing ventilation & filtration.
December 17, 2025 at 4:30 PM
This will result in more effective infection control!
If you're looking for respirator masks, you can reach out to PoPNS or Mask Bloc HFX, or pick-up at:
▫️Venus Envy
▫️Cape & Cowl Comics
▫️HFX Community Fridge
▫️Dartmouth Community Fridge
▫️Cole Harbour Community Fridge
If you're looking for respirator masks, you can reach out to PoPNS or Mask Bloc HFX, or pick-up at:
▫️Venus Envy
▫️Cape & Cowl Comics
▫️HFX Community Fridge
▫️Dartmouth Community Fridge
▫️Cole Harbour Community Fridge
I'm thinking of trying Vivaldi vivaldi.com across platforms and maybe Gnome Web welcome.gnome.org/app/Epiphany/ on my Linux machine.
December 17, 2025 at 7:06 PM
I'm thinking of trying Vivaldi vivaldi.com across platforms and maybe Gnome Web welcome.gnome.org/app/Epiphany/ on my Linux machine.
Also I really need a new default web browser because apparently Mozilla has also decided to double down on being not cool™️
December 16, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Also I really need a new default web browser because apparently Mozilla has also decided to double down on being not cool™️
Bummed to hear Larian is not cool™️
December 16, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Bummed to hear Larian is not cool™️
My zoomer spouse informed me that scene is making a comeback just as my wide leg maternity jeans arrived.
December 16, 2025 at 9:07 PM
My zoomer spouse informed me that scene is making a comeback just as my wide leg maternity jeans arrived.
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I will say that I find it very shady and mildly undemocratic that the Liberals are trying to obtain a majority they weren’t elected on through floor crossings
That and minority governments are better for democracy due to the compromise they necessitate
OH WELL
That and minority governments are better for democracy due to the compromise they necessitate
OH WELL
BREAKING: Conservative MP Michael Ma is crossing the floor to sit as a Liberal.
Liberals are now just one seat short of a majority.
Liberals are now just one seat short of a majority.
December 11, 2025 at 11:42 PM
I will say that I find it very shady and mildly undemocratic that the Liberals are trying to obtain a majority they weren’t elected on through floor crossings
That and minority governments are better for democracy due to the compromise they necessitate
OH WELL
That and minority governments are better for democracy due to the compromise they necessitate
OH WELL