Samwise Gosling
@samwise-goose.bsky.social
Canadian, techie, trans 🏳️⚧️ and LGBTQ+ 🏳️🌈 ally.
Who's stupid idea was this? Harry Potter is an old franchise, not Canadian, and the author is a trans-hater. Whomever came up with this idea should be fired! www.news.timhortons.ca/en/articles/...
Tim Hortons® invites guests to celebrate Back to Hogwarts with Harry Potter™ inspired menu items, merch, limited-edition packaging and more - launching August 12
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Thank goodness those crappy World Cup Timbits are done with. @timhortonsofficial.bsky.social
airbnb I’m staying at unintentionally created the toughest punk album cover of 2027
Ancient Greeks proved Earth was round using sticks and shadows. Eratosthenes calculated its circumference to within 2% accuracy over 2,000 years ago. No satellites needed.
Having an in person international or national event in America? Are you weighing factors like lodging and transport? Cool stuff to do? Here's a map to consider if any of your attendees may possibly, even remotely be LGBTQIA. And you care about them.
#Prose #Photography #Trees Guardian of the Trees “In all my works I take the part of trees as against all their enemies. Lothlórien is beautiful because there the trees were loved.” -JRR Tolkien 📸 John Trent
Developers and UI/UX designers that split username and password prompts into separate steps should be forced to log in every 5 minutes. #rant
The thing about social media age restrictions is that it treats today’s internet as an inevitability we all just have to deal with. The internet (and the WORLD) wasn’t like this until like four dudes were allowed to own & monetize as much tech real estate as they wanted. Fix THAT problem.
Antarctica: the continent where time seems to stand still
The Moskstraumen off Norway's Lofoten Islands reaches 28 km/h and inspired Poe and Verne. Natural maelstroms are real, and they were deadly for wooden ships.
#WackyWednesdayArt Love this from Graffiti Alley in Toronto! #EastCoastKin #ECK #WestCoastKin #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBlueSky #photography #iphone #wanderings
Alan Turing, born on this day in 1912. Helped save this country only to be persecuted by it.
i hate that everything is a subscription now. it's like we don't own anything anymore.
⚠️ Meta gave 6 executives options worth up to $921M each, then cut 8,000 jobs after a record $56.3B quarter This comes after $8.03 billion from a one-time tax benefit tied to the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which promised to "create jobs" Stop using Big Tech's products. Support smaller businesses.
Meta cut 8,000 jobs after its best quarter ever — 6 executives got stock options worth up to $921M each
Despite a solid Q1, many Meta employees have found themselves jobless.
moneywise.com
For no particular reason, thinking back to that time the Prime Minister of Canada visited @perimeterinstitute.ca and got really excited about quantum computing
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau schools reporter on quantum computing during press conference
YouTube video by CBC News
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Credit monitoring will eventually become corporate-paid, rather than individual paid. Because after each data breach, the only resolution for consumers is 1 or 2 years of free credit monitoring. And with the frequency of data breaches, everyone's just going to be getting continuous monitoring.
The effect is not immediate, but gradual, making it especially difficult to detect.
AI is erasing our skills without us realizing it, according to early studies - Sinaptica
Using artificial intelligence to write, solve problems, or search for information improves immediate performance, but the first serious scientific data is begin
sinapti.ca
My lengthy post on the substance behind Canada's new privacy bill C-36. Step forward: some long overdue privacy rights and enforcement powers. Two steps back: lost independence, super-regulator confusion, and implementation delays until 2030 or later. www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/06/bill...
One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: Bill C-36 Modernizes Canada's Privacy Law, Then Delays It to 2030 - Michael Geist
Canada’s private sector privacy law is more than 25 years old and there is broad consensus that a modernization is long overdue. Bill C-36, tabled on Monday, is the government’s third attempt at updat...
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