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Magniloquence and autism guaranteed. Trivia- and pun-tastic. (they/she, her/them)
Illustration of little mice surrounding a soup pot making soup! The text reads “do not disturb.. I’m busy making soup”
It’s soup season!
#art
TB is the world's DEADLIEST infectious disease, claiming 1.25M+ LIVES every year despite being preventable AND curable 🤯 #cdnpoli
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“That’s the whole point — if you got tickets, you aren’t paying attention,” Councillor DeFrancesca told council. “It’s the summer … we got kids running around … and this is the most dangerous time for our pedestrians.”
Exactly.
Even though the speed cameras were effective at slowing drivers down.
"The data shows that the number of infractions decreased in the same area over time, going from 4,482 in the first week to 1,994 in the third week."
Wow. CBC just covered the Steam / itchio situation. DONT STOP CALLING MASTERCARD, VISA, PAYPAL, STRIPE
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I mean, arresting the elected political opposition seems like the sort of regime consolidation move that either really, really works or really, really doesn't, and either way it's bound to be pretty educational.
10.05.2025 19:21 — 👍 244 🔁 75 💬 6 📌 1The cost of Grok: "I can't breathe at home, it smells like gas outside. How come I can't breathe at home and y'all get to breathe at home?"
10.05.2025 16:25 — 👍 14007 🔁 7241 💬 116 📌 205I've heard Hacksmith is working on a lot of iterations of plasma swords, mostly wired ones, though they made a cordless laser pike last year.
10.05.2025 20:35 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0With all sincerity, Elections Canada is a national treasure.
- Voting typically takes less than 15 minutes
- We make it easy for citizens to vote, without cumbersome registration hurdles
- We have every reason to trust that ballots will be counted fairly, and results reported swiftly
Like a bridge over troubled water, I will lay me down ...
Or am I a fool who sits alone talking to the moon?
the Project for Awesome 2025 Tiltify is live!
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"Habitat proposes to put the new homes on a 25-acre parcel beside the RIM Park recreation complex. This includes 698 homes to be owned and 312 homes to be rented. Costs and rents would remain affordable or attainable forever, by legal covenant." Yes, please!
30.01.2025 12:45 — 👍 38 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 1
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Guaranteed that by now the G20 has branched off a separate group chat without him in it
27.01.2025 03:29 — 👍 17948 🔁 1757 💬 341 📌 85Kitchener has just announced a new Long-Term Parking Strategy "to support a more vibrant and walkable downtown." This is a 20-year plan around parking operations, policy, planning, and financial sustainability.
Survey is open now until January 31! Make your opinions heard! www.engagewr.ca/parking
OK EVERYBODY am doing a new show!
Ask Hank Anything is an interview show where folks ask me their most burning questions, I do my best to answer them, while learning a bit about each other in the process.
New episodes premiere the last Wednesday of every month youtube.com/complexly
It’s #TimeFor5 - it’s time for #Danaher to release that audit! It’s been over a year since they promised to release one ⏰ #Tuberculosis
04.01.2025 16:45 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0My classmates were incredulous, but he said, "She wrote the same essay I wrote in fourth-year university!"
So that's the story of how I learned I could write a high-quality essay by procrastinating and skipping class.
It took university and a dying mother to teach me not to do that.
This teacher had a habit of handing back the two or three highest graded essays at the end of each pile. (The rest of the essays would be in a random order.) He was also a notoriously tough marker.
The next class, the last two essays were 90% and 98.5%.
Guess which one was mine?
2. My teacher ended the lecture with saying, "I wrote an essay about this in university titled 'The Snowball Effect'."
Reader, that was the title of my essay I had handed him just before the lecture.
Two things:
1. I showed up to class with all my essay notes. (I didn't write it wholecloth, I wrote an outline with salient points first.) Partway into the lecture, I stopped taking notes because I had just written all these points last night. I had even printed them out, to reference as I wrote.
When I quit that job in my last year of high school, I kept the bad habit of cutting sleep if I needed more time to work on something. One time, I procrastinated and wrote an essay from 10 pm to 9 am, skipped morning classes to have a nap, then showed up to afternoon classes and handed in the essay.
03.12.2024 12:17 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I procrastinated in my early teens, but then I replaced the procrastination with working 25 hrs a week, which left not that much time to do homework (3 hrs/week) and write essays (weekend evenings) + all my extracurriculars. This was a bad life lesson, because I learned to function on less sleep.
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