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Colin Childs🍁

@phoul.bsky.social

Anonymity & Privacy advocate // Free Software developer // Sysadmin & Network ops // Knitting // Chess // Mahjong Chronic Illness / ND aka "Opprimereu" https://links.insecure-complexity.ca/ Winnipeg, MB πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦

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Franky gets it.

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Franky my goat

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good luck flying, americans

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This is what Danielle Smith is conspiring with.

30.01.2026 00:10 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Time to Denounce Separatism YouTube video by Naheed Nenshi

Today’s news that separatists have been conspiring with U.S. officials to undermine Canada is deeply disturbing.

Smith emboldened separatists by cozying up to Trump, weakening our country at a fragile moment when we need to stand firmly against this.

WATCH LIVE: youtube.com/live/4wPrLwa...

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ICE are running around in the streets using facial recognition on random people and telling anyone filming them they're a domestic terrorist and Democrats solution is to equip every ICE agent with their very own body-worn surveillance camera

29.01.2026 22:21 β€” πŸ‘ 3777    πŸ” 1064    πŸ’¬ 46    πŸ“Œ 37

body cameras will expand ICE surveillance

expanding ICE surveillance will increase ICE's power and ability to do harm

we don't need more money for more surveillance

defund. abolish. invest in communities.

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I'm picturing basically a dunce cap bucket, or a rip-off of the dune bucket.

29.01.2026 23:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The movie theater should have popcorn buckets of shame.

29.01.2026 23:36 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
a crudely drawn comic strip consisting of four amateurish marker drawings of dogs wearing sunglasses and smoking cigarettes
their names are
blood man
hell dog
piss: the dog
and tony knives, who is riding a skateboard and additionally has a sub-label titling him as being "rudest dog"

a crudely drawn comic strip consisting of four amateurish marker drawings of dogs wearing sunglasses and smoking cigarettes their names are blood man hell dog piss: the dog and tony knives, who is riding a skateboard and additionally has a sub-label titling him as being "rudest dog"

bad week 2026 day 19 - 4 very rude dogs

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Grim news for particle physics, astronomy & nuclear physics research in UK. 30% cut overall with projects asked to consider options ranging to a 60% cut. These areas are a huge success for the UK internationally and a great inspiration to the next generation of scientists and engineers.

29.01.2026 08:48 β€” πŸ‘ 36    πŸ” 29    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Imagine having more money than god but being mad at Peppa Pig?

29.01.2026 19:27 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

It is nice to see that Reddit is full of users having the same experience, at least it's not just me who isn't a fan.

29.01.2026 19:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"I'm coming to Boston and I'm bringing hell with me."
--Homan in February

"Do I expect violence to escalate? Absolutely."
-- Tom Homan in March

"I actually thought about getting up and throwing that man a beating right there in the middle of the room"
-- Homan in July, referring to a D congressman

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I wish companies would stop taking their UIs and wrecking them, usually in the same way.

Not everything needs to be rounded, and apparently having proper spacing or matching elements is a thing of the past.

29.01.2026 19:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Tbh I've barely used @obsidian.md since the new UI rolled out. Everything is substantially worse to interact with, and none of the UI elements properly fit or match.

Hopefully the ability to configure things means I can put it back, whenever they release configuration.

29.01.2026 19:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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And they say protesters are paid…

29.01.2026 18:27 β€” πŸ‘ 490    πŸ” 121    πŸ’¬ 27    πŸ“Œ 20

It looks like scrolling left should be possible, but it's not. This has been the case since the new UI rollout.

29.01.2026 19:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Obsidian on android with 2 embedded bases, both cut off on the left.

Obsidian on android with 2 embedded bases, both cut off on the left.

I really hope @obsidian.md fixes embedded bases on Android soon. Having them render like this is almost not functional.

29.01.2026 18:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

whoever came up with β€œcreate the problem, sell the solution” probably didn’t expect someone would figure out how to sell the problem too

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MITT to Close Amid Decline in Student Enrolment Manitoba Institute of Trades and Technology (MITT) will begin winding down after a sharp decline in international student enrolment.

MITT to Close Amid Decline in Student Enrolment www.chrisd.ca/2026/01/28/m...

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Kansas Advancing Anti-Trans Bill Allowing Bounty Hunters To Patrol Private Business Bathrooms The bill, which is racing through the Kansas legislature, stands a significant chance of passing the Senate.

1. The most extreme anti-trans bill ever proposed is currently rocketing through the Kansas legislature.

It would empower bounty hunters to search for trans people in bathrooms, even in private businesses, and sue them for large sums of money.

The House is voting on it today.

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It's gonna be really awkward when in a few days the deployed keys everyone has are expired and they have to re-establish trust oob for every Debian system.

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Additionally, they have coupled a *major* transcoder rewrite to this rekeying operation, which makes absolutely no sense.

This whole situation is bad, and could get worse for a bit.

28.01.2026 20:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

This expiration has been known for a long time, and they had people telling them to get on this over a year ago on the forums and got downplayed every time.

This scramble to rekey is pretty definitively the fault of Plex staff, and package maintainers offering advice isn't the problem here.

28.01.2026 20:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

It's a little funny seeing Plex staff get mad at people offering advice because "our sha1 key will expire on the 1st, what were we supposed to do?!"

Well, rolling out this major update 3 days before expiration was probably not it, but I imagine they don't wanna hear that.

28.01.2026 20:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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