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Norman Wilson (cat lady) 🔵

@oclsc.bsky.social

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Programmer, UNIX old fart, friend of cats, once and maybe future cyclist, non-motorist, rail passenger (>766000 miles), amateur^2 photographer, iconoclast, cynic, observer of odd things, revolve top insights (11). Cis he/they. Also @[email protected].

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Norman Wilson (cat lady) 🔵 @oclsc.bsky.social · 1h

don't put it in the newspaper that he's mad

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Tom the Dancing Bug, by Ruben Bolling @rubenbolling.bsky.social · 2h

Happy Halloween! My comic after January 6, '21
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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 4h

It's the holiday season so you need to eat a more balanced diet with fruit, fish, and protein.

That's why for lunch I'm having skittles, Swedish fish, and Reese's peanut butter cups

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 3h

I am certainly no seasoned strategist but I am a little skeptical of the political wisdom behind building a giant golden ballroom and sharing a dozen photos of a renovated marble bathroom at the very moment that millions of people are losing access to healthcare and food.

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Oliver Moore @oliver-moore.bsky.social · 3h

This is a bullshit hed since the PMO has not confirmed. All we have at this point is that *Trump says* that Carney apologised
www.thestar.com/politics/fed...

Mark Carney apologized to Donald Trump for Ontario’s anti-tariff ad during Asia trip

However, when he was asked whether he would resume trade talks with Canada, Trump replied emphatically, “No.”

www.thestar.com

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 3h

Essentially it is this, yes.

Jason Kander posts:
“Dems: We’ll vote for a budget if you let sick people go to the doctor.
Republicans: Let us take doctors away from sick people or we’re gonna take food away from poor families.”
He ends with the hashtag #shutdown2025.

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Norman Wilson (cat lady) 🔵 @oclsc.bsky.social · 2h

His brother was an hairy dog, while he was a smooth dog.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4h

> @governor.ca.gov

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Todd Rafferty @webrat.io · 8h

Pretty sure I have the scariest engineering costume of the day.

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Ray Radlein @radlein.bsky.social · 3h

very big guy, some say the biggest; look at that special chair they made for him... I'd have put the chair indoors so he wouldn't have to sit out in the rain, but maybe that's they way they did it back before indoors. Funny word, indoors. I made it popular; some are saying I invented it, indoors

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Tamara Keel, but spooky @tamslick.bsky.social · 4h

The Oval Office these days looks like Liberace set off a suicide vest in there.

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Norman Wilson (cat lady) 🔵 @oclsc.bsky.social · 3h

And while planning to stiff the builders.

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Stephen Schwartz @atomicanalyst.bsky.social · 6h

Here’s something really graphic for Halloween:

At top, a black and white chart labeled "Normal Distribution," showing a curved line that starts low at the left, curves up and peaks in the middle, and returns to the same low position on the right.

At bottom, a black and white chart labeled "Paranormal Distribution," showing the curved line transformed into a typical ghost (a floating white sheet draped over an upright body) with two dark dots for eyes.

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Norman Wilson (cat lady) 🔵 @oclsc.bsky.social · 4h

A long time ago, in a San Francisco far away.

Norman Wilson (cat lady) 🔵 @oclsc.bsky.social · 4h

As a matter of pure ethics, it would be surprising if the underlying cause of the trouble wasn't racism.

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Lisa Needham @snipy.bsky.social · 6h

holy shit what is wrong with you. this is straight up racism disguised as intellectual wankery and you should be ashamed to publish it.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 7h

In Opinion

Early in Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral campaign, “it was easy to assume that failure to learn his name reflected a failure to take him seriously,” John McWhorter writes. But “as a matter of pure linguistics, it would be surprising if people didn’t have trouble with the name Mamdani.”

Opinion | I Now Mispronounce You the Likely Next Mayor of New York City

A lot of people seem to trip over Zohran Mamdani’s name. The reason may not be as simple as it seems.

nyti.ms

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 7h

hey don't sleep on my buddy @rubenbolling.bsky.social 's KS. he's been doing a complete collection of his work in reverse chronological order, and these are the first two volumes. His early work was non-political and as such, a lot more timeless than mine was! www.kickstarter.com/projects/clo...

Tom The Dancing Bug - Pulitzer nom'ed strip by Ruben Bolling

This is where it all began! Collecting the award winning strips from 1990 to 1998 by Ruben Bolling.

www.kickstarter.com

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Tabatha Spooky🇨🇦 @tabathasouthey.bsky.social · 7h

“Why aren’t we as shitty as the Americans?” is one hell of a question to be asking right now.

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 7h

The Canadian Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Research is launching a US-style attack on EDI in Tri-Council funding.

As part of this attack, they are demanding disclosure of confidential demographic info + reviewer comments of all Canadian researchers who have applied b/w 2000-2025.

Maxime Blanchette-Joncas:
I'm tabling the following motion:
That the committee request the three funding councils, namely the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), as part of the study on the impact of federal funding allocation criteria on research excellence in Canada, to provide it with the disaggregated data of all submitted applications, whether funded or not, for all student and faculty funding programs from the master's level onwards for applications made between 2020 and 2025. That this data include (1) demographic data of applicants and collaborators, including applicants' responses to the equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) questionnaire, (2) the institutions and departments of applicants, including the institutions of collaboration, (3) the language of the application, (4) all data regarding the type of application and project content (application year, grant program, discipline, title, summary, amount requested by the applicant), as well as (5) the identity of the evaluation committee, comments, opinions, scores assigned to applications for each criterion, and (6) the outcome of the application and the amount awarded. That the three funding councils submit all this data to the committee within 15 days following the adoption of this motion, in an Excel spreadsheet format.

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Norman Wilson (cat lady) 🔵 @oclsc.bsky.social · 4h

Yeah, ours would sneak their way out of harnesses.

The one keen on hunting birds is getting older, which might be helping.

The others don't insist on long patrols and when they catch prey it's mice or (amazingly) rats. Those we wholly approve! Also insects but that's a non-issue.

Norman Wilson (cat lady) 🔵 @oclsc.bsky.social · 5h

Ours get only mostly-supervised outings. One (also black, as it happens) would occasionally roam out of vision and come back with a bird, but always an invasive species (starling, sparrow) and we've managed to discourage him.

He'd still love to have a bird presented on his plate, though.

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Oliver Moore @oliver-moore.bsky.social · 6h

Remembering that time ten years ago when John Tory dressed up as a conductor to "demonstrate ... confidence" his pet transit project, which still doesn't exist, would happen

“You can never start too early to teach these kids about the importance of SmartTrack”
globalnews.ca/news/2309211...

City Hall comes alive with Halloween spirit - Toronto | Globalnews.ca

The spooky spirit of Halloween has taken over City Hall.

globalnews.ca

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Norman Wilson (cat lady) 🔵 @oclsc.bsky.social · 6h

It was never more than a ghost.

Norman Wilson (cat lady) 🔵 @oclsc.bsky.social · 6h

* `rock bum'

Also, the Andrew formerly known as Prince.

Norman Wilson (cat lady) 🔵 @oclsc.bsky.social · 6h

Court rules judge may not judge himself.

Norman Wilson (cat lady) 🔵 @oclsc.bsky.social · 6h

For him, blue jays, he puts them on his plate.