Nick T 🐇

🌸 A quick reminder 🌸

Bluesky is algorithm neutral

This means:
Reposts, comments, interaction...that makes posts get visibility

Reposts 🔂 show your love for someones content

Don´t just leave a like. Don’t just dm- Repost. Or quote. Then add a comment. It’s not that hard.

Text: Police are also proposing a dedicated traffic services unit of six officers dedicated solely to traffic enforcement across the region, as, Crowell said, the region averages 15 traffic fatalities a year. The dedicated unit would be $1.24 million of the budget.

For those who say that police should be the ones responsible for catching speeders on our roads, not speed cameras: In addition to that being far less efficient and effective, it comes with a very big price tag. www.therecord.com/news/waterlo...

Promotional image for the ten bells game

OK! Still *technically* this week; we're going to try again to get into the Halloween-time spirit with THE TEN BELLS!

(Streaming now!)

https://twitch.tv/nt3rp

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SO CUTE! Perfect MaoMao 😆

If you’re in a creative field and you don’t lift up the work of your peers, you can’t expect people to care about your stuff

"“We had flashing lights before we had automated speed enforcement. And through the introduction of automated speed enforcement, we’ve seen a much more significant safety improvement,” said a transportation staffer." Indeed.

4 frame comic. in the first frame, there's a giant banner of Trump on a building. text reads : authoritarianism in the 21st century tends to appear through what is called a process of "democratic backsliding" (also called "autocratization") rather than through a traditional coup. this allows the new regime to claim some kind of legitimacy. 2nd frame shows a silhouette of trump. text reads : democratic backsliding is when an elected executive uses power to subvert democratic institutions by attacking fair & free elections, suppressing freedom of speech, press & asso- ciation, or weakening the rule of law in the 3rd frame, we see a nazi parade in the 30s. text reads : according to political scientists mettler & lieberman, there are four key characteristics that provide the conditions for democratic back- sliding: political polarization, racism and nativism, economic inequality, and excessive executive power. in the last frame, we see the white house. text reads : in a report published in sept. 2025, the intl. institute for demo- cracy and electoral assistance found that 54% of the world's countries experienced democratic backsliding in the past year. that includes the united states.

"Democratic backsliding" is the process through which modern authoritarianism happens.

Forgot this is happening is like... 3 hours

Would be amazing if we could do something about all these tech monopolies as consumers

I have started dating a man who is very nice but does not share my politics. Any advice? "You just have to get the fuck out of there. What are you thinking? He must be incredibly attractive-looking. I mean, what is it? Is he tall? Does he remind you of your father? There's only two kinds of politics these days, and you can't breathe the same air as the other kind."

Well I was not expecting BILL NIGHY to be spitting facts today!
observer.co.uk/culture/inte...

With legislation to ban speed cameras in Ontario looming, grassroots opposition grows and local governments explore options Municipalities look for options as grassroots opposition forms to a ban on Ontario's automated speed cameras.

On Parkside Dr. in Toronto: "It was previously known that the highest speeder was driving 154 km/h, but of the top ten caught, the lowest was 119 km/h, and 46 other drivers had been clocked driving over 100 km/h on that road. Parkside Drive has a 40 km/h speed limit." www.thestar.com/news/gta/wit...

It doesn't matter how despicable a person is, mocking their innate physical appearance is always wrong.

Not because it's cruel to them, but because it perpetuates the harmful idea that innate physical appearance has anything to do with one's character / beliefs / actions.

Man with sunset in portrait

Azune (version 2)

So I liked the sketch so much I had to render it twice! (Luis also talked to me so once that happened, I had to.)

Azune played by @luiscarazo.bsky.social for @criticalrole.bsky.social campaign 4

#criticalrole #criticalrolefanart #kiirokeishi

Citizen. With passport. Not illegal immigrant. Not criminal. Just a US citizen they decided didn't look right. Who voted for that?

TURN OFF FACE ID & TOUCH ID

Turn off your Face ID and Touch ID if you are taking your phones to the protests. Keep it in airplane mode and use encrypted apps where possible. Protect yourself.

#3E #NoKings #50501Movement #indivisible #wearetheflood

Clearsky exists publicly, getting around a ban is not hard. Always assume whatever you say and do with any device is being monitored.
The point of blocking these accounts is to protect yourself from seeing them and make it impossible for them to DIRECTLY interact with you

レイアース、2026年にやっと帰って来るみたい😊

would be very fun to make all of trumps regimes bluesky accounts the most blocked accounts on bluesky

Demo day! Needed some distractions, so let's check out what NextFest has to offer! twitch.tv/manpans

NEW! We’ve got Cozy Halloween designed by Pixel Eyebat and Nightfall Ride designed by @eduely.bsky.social both #dailytees available for 24 hours only at www.theyetee.com

Old watercolor doodle from 2021, feat. Terra Branford from Final Fantasy VI. She is depicted with her prototype design; short blonde hair with a purple dress & shoulder pads, and brown ankle boots. She is leaning forward and kneeling with her hands to her heart as she looks slightly up. Behind her is a bust of herself with a floral decorative elements.

Prototype Terra Branford 🎇 #art #finalfantasy #ffvi

I suspect the MAGA government decided to launch all these Bluesky accounts tonight to try to bait people in advance of No Kings.

These people have incurable 4chan brain and this is how they operate.

Block them. Do not engage. Do not give them what they want.

We're back again this year for @extralife4kids.bsky.social's annual charity gaming weekend!

I'll be streaming for 24 hours over the course of game weekend (Nov. 8-9) to raise money for @sickkidsto.bsky.social & @sickkidsvs.bsky.social

Join in live on twitch.tv/danvideoninja! For the kids!

There’s a free application, shutup10++, that lets you disable all the shitty windows stuff with a series of checkboxes.
It even tracks if windows rolls anything back between updates and lets you reverse the changes with a click.
I can personally recommend shutup10++ if you need to stick with windows

One of the reasons companies do "return to office" is for what they call "soft layoffs."

They goal is to get enough employees to quit so they don't have to wind up in the news doing layoffs.

If not enough people quit? Well then...

Here is a Reddit threat that explains how to disable Copilot in Windows, which I've just followed:

www.reddit.com/r/WindowsHel...

The top camera for ticketing speeders is on a Waterloo street where a pedestrian died The camera mounted outside MacGregor Public School issues tickets at twice the average rate, data shows.

"Cameras prioritize top-end speeders, data shows. You are nine times more likely to receive a ticket for driving more than 16 km/h over the limit." www.therecord.com/news/waterlo...

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Since I had a few people ask: if you'd like to send MDi & I a wedding gift, we're currently trying to save up for a fancy new mattress to replace our extremely mid one--so you can always donate via my ko-fi to help! (And PLEASE don't feel obligated! I know times are tough for everyone right now.)

Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors “With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”

wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...