Darcy Casselman
@flyingsquirrel.ca
I'm mostly over at @flyingsquirrel.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy. You can always find (reasonably) up-to-date socials on http://darcycasselman.com
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Home Assistant is open source home automation software. It can set up a doorbell camera that does not report to Amazon or Google. www.home-assistant.io
Home Assistant
Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first. Powered by a worldwide community of tinkerers and DIY enthusiasts. Perfect to run on a Raspberry Pi or a local server.
www.home-assistant.io
February 10, 2026 at 5:43 AM
Home Assistant is open source home automation software. It can set up a doorbell camera that does not report to Amazon or Google. www.home-assistant.io
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Thank you @mikeschreiner.bsky.social and the GPO for coming and hanging out with @wryimby.bsky.social to talk missing middle housing. The GPO has consistently been the leading progressive voice in Ontario for legalizing and building more affordable housing and we're thankful for their advocacy!
February 8, 2026 at 9:07 PM
Thank you @mikeschreiner.bsky.social and the GPO for coming and hanging out with @wryimby.bsky.social to talk missing middle housing. The GPO has consistently been the leading progressive voice in Ontario for legalizing and building more affordable housing and we're thankful for their advocacy!
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The basic questions repeat over and over in history.
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
#Pinks #ProudBlue
February 5, 2026 at 2:12 PM
The basic questions repeat over and over in history.
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Back in the Doctor Who New Adventures days, the guidelines said not to put the Daleks in your novel pitch, because Virgin didn't have the rights and so COULDN'T use them. Loads of hopeful writers stuck them in anyway. Coldly put, it meant less competition for everyone else!
I've been to so many cons where agents and publishers say their top tip is "read the submission guidelines", and I was always like, surely not, surely that's table stakes, like... and y'all, I'm here to say-read the submission guidelines! Wow. Number one reason for an instant no has been this.
February 5, 2026 at 5:21 AM
Back in the Doctor Who New Adventures days, the guidelines said not to put the Daleks in your novel pitch, because Virgin didn't have the rights and so COULDN'T use them. Loads of hopeful writers stuck them in anyway. Coldly put, it meant less competition for everyone else!
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The amazing @alliebeldan.bsky.social just joined us on bsky, go give her a follow!!
She’s been a great transit and streets advocate helping us write articles, organize events, and speak to media for @tritag.ca Tri-Cities Transport Action Group in Waterloo!
She’s been a great transit and streets advocate helping us write articles, organize events, and speak to media for @tritag.ca Tri-Cities Transport Action Group in Waterloo!
Many thanks to @citynewstoronto.bsky.social for having me on last week!
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Ion LRT in Kitchener-Waterloo can offer lessons for Toronto transit projects: advocates
CityNews visited Kitchener to see the Ion LRT line in action. Advocates say things like signal priority could help Toronto transit projects.
toronto.citynews.ca
February 5, 2026 at 1:00 AM
The amazing @alliebeldan.bsky.social just joined us on bsky, go give her a follow!!
She’s been a great transit and streets advocate helping us write articles, organize events, and speak to media for @tritag.ca Tri-Cities Transport Action Group in Waterloo!
She’s been a great transit and streets advocate helping us write articles, organize events, and speak to media for @tritag.ca Tri-Cities Transport Action Group in Waterloo!
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This is the kind of yellow snow we love to see 😂
A neighbour was nominated for a Lenny Award for turning snowbanks into art and spreading smiles. 🎨🌷Being a Lenny is about more than shoveling—it’s about kindness, creativity, & winter positivity 🫶
Know a Lenny? Nominate them: [email protected] 💌
A neighbour was nominated for a Lenny Award for turning snowbanks into art and spreading smiles. 🎨🌷Being a Lenny is about more than shoveling—it’s about kindness, creativity, & winter positivity 🫶
Know a Lenny? Nominate them: [email protected] 💌
February 3, 2026 at 9:41 PM
This is the kind of yellow snow we love to see 😂
A neighbour was nominated for a Lenny Award for turning snowbanks into art and spreading smiles. 🎨🌷Being a Lenny is about more than shoveling—it’s about kindness, creativity, & winter positivity 🫶
Know a Lenny? Nominate them: [email protected] 💌
A neighbour was nominated for a Lenny Award for turning snowbanks into art and spreading smiles. 🎨🌷Being a Lenny is about more than shoveling—it’s about kindness, creativity, & winter positivity 🫶
Know a Lenny? Nominate them: [email protected] 💌
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Uh, I think most of us who want to see housing built also actually want to protect our water supply, too. #FalseDichotomy buff.ly/fpzw1tb
February 4, 2026 at 12:45 PM
Uh, I think most of us who want to see housing built also actually want to protect our water supply, too. #FalseDichotomy buff.ly/fpzw1tb
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Lego. Reprint the 6000 Ideas Book. An exact facsimile, with the stickers. It will sell.
Yes! I really wanted to recreate the Cinema in the 1979 Legoland magazine. Gazed at the scenes in there for hours and hours.
February 3, 2026 at 8:12 AM
Lego. Reprint the 6000 Ideas Book. An exact facsimile, with the stickers. It will sell.
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Repair cafe is coming up again, Feb 19!! RSVP for free at Eventbrite.
I'm also hosting twooooo back to back mending workshops at Kwartzlab on Feb 22, you can sign up ($25) at worthmending.com/22
I'm also hosting twooooo back to back mending workshops at Kwartzlab on Feb 22, you can sign up ($25) at worthmending.com/22
February 3, 2026 at 3:31 PM
Repair cafe is coming up again, Feb 19!! RSVP for free at Eventbrite.
I'm also hosting twooooo back to back mending workshops at Kwartzlab on Feb 22, you can sign up ($25) at worthmending.com/22
I'm also hosting twooooo back to back mending workshops at Kwartzlab on Feb 22, you can sign up ($25) at worthmending.com/22
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Former BlackBerry employees bring back physical keyboard with new smartphone
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Former BlackBerry employees bring back physical keyboard with new smartphone
Former Blackberry employees are looking to the past to help innovate a new way to find connection and cut through the deluge of modern distractions.
www.ctvnews.ca
February 4, 2026 at 12:28 AM
Former BlackBerry employees bring back physical keyboard with new smartphone
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If you campaigned for the presidency on a promise to destroy these assholes, you would win a landslide the size of FDR in 1936, when he campaigned on a promise to destroy these assholes.
Yes, Peter decided that the continued existence of our democracies isn't compatible with his desired level of personal freedom.
An absolute enemy of humanity.
An absolute enemy of humanity.
February 3, 2026 at 12:17 AM
If you campaigned for the presidency on a promise to destroy these assholes, you would win a landslide the size of FDR in 1936, when he campaigned on a promise to destroy these assholes.
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Want to see what a dream coming true looks like? What to hear what it sounds like?
Also: Be cool, Wil. Stephen King typed out your name, and you absolutely can NOT make it weird. Be. Cool.
Also: Be cool, Wil. Stephen King typed out your name, and you absolutely can NOT make it weird. Be. Cool.
Listen to the story that shaped a generation. Decades after starring in Stand By Me, the film adaptation of THE BODY, Wil Wheaton lends his voice to an all new recording of the audiobook. Pre-order your copy and start listening March 24, 2026.
February 2, 2026 at 10:48 PM
Want to see what a dream coming true looks like? What to hear what it sounds like?
Also: Be cool, Wil. Stephen King typed out your name, and you absolutely can NOT make it weird. Be. Cool.
Also: Be cool, Wil. Stephen King typed out your name, and you absolutely can NOT make it weird. Be. Cool.
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I regret to inform you that “1979” by Smashing Pumpkins was released in 1996, which is now 30 years ago. Meaning a similar song released in 2026 would be called “2009”
February 2, 2026 at 10:49 PM
I regret to inform you that “1979” by Smashing Pumpkins was released in 1996, which is now 30 years ago. Meaning a similar song released in 2026 would be called “2009”
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Going live for CD-Rom Cunday with all all-time adventure classic from the greatest to ever do it, Roberta Williams. twitch.tv/anthonycarboni
February 2, 2026 at 2:09 AM
Going live for CD-Rom Cunday with all all-time adventure classic from the greatest to ever do it, Roberta Williams. twitch.tv/anthonycarboni
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In 2021 I directed the voice cast for an animated movie about cats. It's taken five years to animate, so it's with great joy and not a little surprise, that I see it's about to get a release!
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Scotty Trailer
YouTube video by Candide Attard
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February 1, 2026 at 7:52 PM
In 2021 I directed the voice cast for an animated movie about cats. It's taken five years to animate, so it's with great joy and not a little surprise, that I see it's about to get a release!
youtu.be/54hM5tsS_SA?...
youtu.be/54hM5tsS_SA?...
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"Two coyotes chase a ferry on a frozen Great Lake at sunrise" is some Sufjan Stevens lyric shit
Escorted over to Ward’s Island this morning #Toronto
February 1, 2026 at 7:55 PM
"Two coyotes chase a ferry on a frozen Great Lake at sunrise" is some Sufjan Stevens lyric shit
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Staff, yeah. (Or NPCs.) :/
This shit hits like a sledgehammer right now. It's not even remotely an exaggeration.
February 1, 2026 at 8:01 PM
Staff, yeah. (Or NPCs.) :/
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#OTD in 2001, Paul McGann and India Fisher recorded two Big Finish Doctor Who plays, Invaders from Mars and The Chimes of Midnight. #McGannuary
January 17, 2026 at 1:38 PM
#OTD in 2001, Paul McGann and India Fisher recorded two Big Finish Doctor Who plays, Invaders from Mars and The Chimes of Midnight. #McGannuary
Not a movie, but the 90s anime series Brain Powerd was garbage, except for the absolute peak Yoko Kanno soundtrack.
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3Ol...
February 1, 2026 at 4:21 AM
Not a movie, but the 90s anime series Brain Powerd was garbage, except for the absolute peak Yoko Kanno soundtrack.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3Ol...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3Ol...
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I am 1000% in support of donating to The Working Centre so that their St. John’s Kitchen location is fully operational AND the Region of Waterloo is more than capable of providing emergency discretionary funds for one year operation. They just need to choose the people’s bank not the police’s bank!
January 31, 2026 at 1:08 AM
I am 1000% in support of donating to The Working Centre so that their St. John’s Kitchen location is fully operational AND the Region of Waterloo is more than capable of providing emergency discretionary funds for one year operation. They just need to choose the people’s bank not the police’s bank!
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Starting to think it was a bad idea to give all the money in the world to like eight dudes.
At its headquarters in Geneva, signs warning of the situation have been put up everywhere. In an almost desperate attempt to save cash, the escalators are regularly turned off and the heating turned down.
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UN risks 'imminent financial collapse', secretary general warns
António Guterres says the international body could run out of money by July due to members' unpaid fees.
www.bbc.com
January 31, 2026 at 3:50 AM
Starting to think it was a bad idea to give all the money in the world to like eight dudes.
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EXCUSE ME???
Join me and Jenny Lewis—the esteemed casting director of Heated Rivalry and, yes, my sister—for a conversation about politics, entertainment, and what it will take to support Canadian-made film and television!
I'm excited for this one!
I'm excited for this one!
January 30, 2026 at 1:54 AM
EXCUSE ME???
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New: nearly half of CDC’s databases/surveillance systems have “gone dark," the US marinates in its 12th Covid surge amid worsening cognitive damage data, mRNA cancer vax shows 5-year protection, Phil Collins caught Covid in hospital & now needs live-in nurse, more:
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Covid: January 29, 2026 | Threat Model
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January 30, 2026 at 1:54 AM
New: nearly half of CDC’s databases/surveillance systems have “gone dark," the US marinates in its 12th Covid surge amid worsening cognitive damage data, mRNA cancer vax shows 5-year protection, Phil Collins caught Covid in hospital & now needs live-in nurse, more:
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Tonight I watched Prime Minister Mark Carney take the actual Heated Rivalry Canada fleece from Hudson Williams, slip it on and say: “This is true soft power.”
January 30, 2026 at 12:41 AM
Tonight I watched Prime Minister Mark Carney take the actual Heated Rivalry Canada fleece from Hudson Williams, slip it on and say: “This is true soft power.”
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I keep seeing accounts like this and wow, were these people hanging out on an entirely different part of the early internet than I was.
(The fact Jerry Pournelle was on Arpanet has to set a fairly low maximum possible average civility level for the early internet)
(The fact Jerry Pournelle was on Arpanet has to set a fairly low maximum possible average civility level for the early internet)
I remember the birth of the Internet. Black screens, green type, and mostly message boards of professors, college students, and first-wave nerds. Mostly civil and intelligent. Then we get a visual interface, animation, video, and social media. Pretty cool, mostly, but over time it got worse.
January 29, 2026 at 6:56 PM
I keep seeing accounts like this and wow, were these people hanging out on an entirely different part of the early internet than I was.
(The fact Jerry Pournelle was on Arpanet has to set a fairly low maximum possible average civility level for the early internet)
(The fact Jerry Pournelle was on Arpanet has to set a fairly low maximum possible average civility level for the early internet)