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Mark Sweeney 🇨🇦
@marksweeney.bsky.social
Comic Book Flatter, Developer, Deaf Advocate. He/Him. #Deaf
“give police the power to immediately issue those prohibitions when someone drives in a way that shows “willful disregard for the safety of others,” “

Hopefully this will also include people using a hand-held cellphone while driving.
November 26, 2025 at 11:50 PM
So I got one of these lights from Ikea, so I can finally see my Mac mini and all the cables plugged into the back of it, under my desk.

Just press the light to turn it on and off. Can plug into USB port or adapter.

www.ikea.com/ca/en/p/stri...
STRIMSÄV LED spotlight, white
STRIMSÄV LED spotlight, white STRIMSÄV spotlight is perfect for illuminating cabinets and bookcases. Easy to mount with the gel pad. Cable clips, driver and cover for drill holes are included – and yo...
www.ikea.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Glad the one that is only hallucinating 48% of the time is gaining traction in healthcare, legal and financial services, where a single error costs millions
Found this absolute graph crime, where the dot that is lowest apparently has 48 % fail rate!?
#graphcrime #dataviz #ai
November 26, 2025 at 2:29 PM
If the Bluetooth connection on your Mac keeps breaking up, has static, or drops audio frequently, you may need to reset your Bluetooth, which for Monterey and newer requires this Terminal command:

sudo pkill bluetoothd

This fixed the crappy audio I was getting from my Mac through my hearing aids.
Use "Reset the Bluetooth module" to Fix C… - Apple Community
discussions.apple.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:10 AM
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Today’s xkcd made me cry.

In a good way.

xkcd.com/3172/
November 24, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…
November 22, 2025 at 1:03 AM
If I ever need AI to insult someone, just shoot me as my time on this plane is done.
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Also, please share @tychebooks.bsky.social book posts because she is one of the few Canadian small presses left AND she pays everyone on time and in full. And people are stealing my book she published.

Some books:

bsky.app/profile/tych...

or

bsky.app/profile/tych...
Barb is getting the hang of her new magical ability, but she's discovering that when magic is involved, nothing is easy. Not work, not neighbours, & definitely not family.

Pick up a copy of No Love Lost --> www.kobo.com/ca/en/e...

www.amazon.com/dp/B0...
November 24, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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Don't worry about me, but maybe share Skyla's direct buy store b/c that's where she makes the absolute most money - and she has vet bills. I cannot imagine seeing an author post "I have two cats nearing the end" and go oh, I should steal from her.

payhip.com/skyladawncam...
Skyla Dawn Cameron
Writer of horror, thrillers, mysteries, and urban fantasy. Fifth-generation crazy cat lady. Lover of coarse language. Proud supporter of Unlikable Female Characters™. My characters kill people so I do...
payhip.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Me, coming back from the library with 4 DVDs.

My Wife: "What did you get?"
Me: "Two Christmas movies, a rom-com, and historical fiction."

My wife, flipping through the DVDs.... "Ass-hoooooole"

The DVDs in question:

Better Watch Out
It's a Wonderful Knife

Bride of Frankenstein

28 Years Later
November 23, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Going to have to add 'The Mean One' to my Christmas Horror watch list...
The Mean One - Official Trailer: Grinch Horror Parody (2022) David Howard Thornton, Krystle Martin
YouTube video by IGN Movie Trailers
www.youtube.com
November 23, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Tech sites all love using an iPad as a second display for your computer. What I really want to do is to use a iPad as a second touch display for my iPad Air 13".
November 23, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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November 23, 2025 at 4:36 AM
🎵 And so I cry sometimes when I'm lying in bed
Just to get it all out what's in my head
And I, I am feeling a little peculiar
And so I wake in the morning and I step outside
And I take a deep breath and I get real high
And I scream from the top of my lungs
"What's going on?" 🎵
November 23, 2025 at 3:32 PM
I love the OCR capabilities of Shottr to make it easier to block dipshits in screen captures on BlueSky:
Sometimes grabbing text off a screen shot or image on on Bluesky with MacOS doesn't work. This is where Shottr comes in handy with Text Recognition:

shottr.cc
November 22, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Over on Whatever today I confirm that, indeed, all those emails authors and other writers are getting promising access to readers and book clubs and such are 100% scams, share all the scam emails I got just this morning, and note why they are all awful and bad:

whatever.scalzi.com/2025/11/22/y...
Yes, All Those Author Services and Book Club Emails Are Fake, and No, Don’t Send Them Any Money
If you’re an author, or honestly if you just happen to be standing near an author these days, then you have probably seen a flood of emails in the past couple of months promising you that who…
whatever.scalzi.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:05 PM
I can't remember if this audiobook is from Apple or Audible, but it's fucking asinine that I have to back up my entire iPhone (60GB) just to copy one 377mb file to Apple Books.
November 22, 2025 at 4:59 PM
I hope Dallas Brodie gets recalled so hard she gets whiplash. Her abject racism and willful ignorance on indigenous history has no place in the BC Legislature.
November 22, 2025 at 4:03 PM
I've never had empanadas before, let alone made one. After watching a few YouTube videos I tried winging it to make some tonight.

300g of ground beef, one potato, two mall onions, peppers and corn made 19 empanadas - enough to feed 5-6 people.
Cheated w/the dough and used store-bought puff pastry.
November 22, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Like all "Trump Plans," the Ukraine Deal to end the war is a steaming pile of shit.

Russia started the war and gets everything they want, Ukraine gets nothing.

I really hope the Canadian government continues to back Ukraine and equip them with money and weapons they need to defend themselves.
November 21, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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I dropped them when they gave Rogan a zillion dollars. If that didn’t move you, this should.
Spotify is helping ICE recruit more agents to infringe our rights and terrorize our communities. Stop paying for or using the app until Spotify stops running ads for ICE: indivisible.org/cancel-spotify?source=bluesky
November 21, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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Just about 30,000 people have signed the TransAction Alberta petition against Bill 9 and Premier Smith's use of the Notwithstanding Clause to erase the rights of more Albertans this week.

Will you be signature 30,000? transactionalberta.ca

#ableg #abpoli #canpoli
November 21, 2025 at 3:15 AM
To turn off Google's Gemini "Smart Features" which scans your emails for AI training, click the Settings Icon, then the See All Settings button that pops up. Scroll down until you see "Turn on smart features in Gmail, Chat and Meet" and turn that AI shit off.
November 21, 2025 at 2:33 PM
This is a great read!
I do not know why my "sleepwalkers mysteriously walk across a violent, divided America during an unfolding pandemic being investigated by a rogue government-built AI" novel WANDERERS is a buck-ninety-nine for your electromagnetic book reader of choice, but it is, so go enjoy an on-sale apocalypse?
November 20, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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I was on a pro vs anti ai panel the other day and this is what I was trying to say but I’m not as smart

The point of playing a game of chess is not to achieve the quickest possible route to victory for one side in a chess game, it is to have and perform those thoughts and actions yourself and grow.
November 20, 2025 at 5:46 PM