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Michael Porter
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Retired Chem/Physics/Earth Sciences teacher. I'm interested in everything.

I think society performs at its best when we take care of others, especially the […]

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Classic Costco 😄
A Costco flyer advertising the business centre (AKA Costco for *real* Costco diehards). On offer: 1 FREE BUCKET OF MAYONNAISE with your first online order (on orders of $250 or more before tax)
September 11, 2026 at 5:00 PM
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45 years on, and Apple is still disappointing me with their watches.

Where is the future we were promised?! 😄

#apple #byte
The cover of the April 1981 Issue of BYTE magazine. The illustration shows a close-up of a wristwatch that has a tiny TV-like screen (similar to the shape and contours of an old CRT TV), with an extremely tiny extended keyboard below. The owner’s left hand is inserting a tiny floppy disk (the 5 1/4” kind, but this one is about 1 cm) into the side of the watch. The caption beneath reads “Future computers?”
September 10, 2026 at 8:08 PM
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Just went to check if my name was on the voters list for my area. Pictured below is part of the search form. If you were to glance quickly at this, which field would you enter your street number into? This isn't a quiz, it's supposed to be B. But does it look like it?
#badui
Two text entry fields, stacked vertically, with the label “Street number (required)” between them. The label is closer to the field above it (labelled “A”) than the one below (labelled “B”).
September 8, 2026 at 6:20 PM
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#canpol #USpol #google
The word “Craven,” rendered with the same colours as the Google logo.
August 30, 2026 at 11:14 PM
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@marcoarment I have a CarPlay interface request for the Overcast app.

*Many* is the time that I want to restart a podcast when I load it up in the car. I often start a podcast at home, get involved with something else, then wish to restart when I'm in the car […]

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The CarPlay screen for the Overcast app. The app has buttons for play/pause, skip back or forward x seconds, a progress bar, a button for other options, and a skip to end/next button. I’ve added a “Skip to beginning” button with the text “Want (please!)” next to it. There is a podcast playing (The Ezra Klein Show) and the podcast is about 25 minutes along. With the current settings, this would take 150 pushes of the “back 10 seconds” button to return to the beginning.
August 27, 2026 at 7:25 PM
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Hmmm, looks like the New Scientist YouTube channel is playing the clickbait game. I understand that this is all part of the game to maximize views, but I find it kind of annoying, especially when you see so much of it.

"Wrong! Wrong! Wrong!” How about we think […]

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A sampling of New Scientist YouTube videos: We've Been Wrong About Neanderthals We've Been Wrong About Black Holes We've Been Wrong About The Dinosaur Extinction The Autism Spectrum May Be Completely Wrong We Were Wrong About Our Human Evolution We Were Wrong About Matter
August 27, 2026 at 7:08 PM
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If you want to catch the Perseids and it's cloudy where you are, check out the web cam at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJ7ZQtP5GXI - amazing skies! I’ve just been watching for a little bit and have already spotted a dozen or so meteors (and many more […]

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A view from the Batchawana Bay web cam, showing the Big Dipper surrounded by a very rich starfield. Above the bowl of the Dipper, a streak from a meteor can be seen.
August 13, 2026 at 5:15 AM
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Well, I'm in my 60s now and just discovered another #misheardlyric or is it a #mondegreen?

I was watching a Professor of Rock video today, and the subject of “Bette Davis Eyes” as sung by Kim Carnes came up. I always thought the lyric was “...she knows just […]

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Snippet of lyrics from Bette Davis Eyes: She's ferocious and she knows just What it takes to make a pro blush The word “pro” is highlighted and there is an “exploding head” emoji beneath it.
August 13, 2026 at 4:28 AM
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Wooooo it’s happening
https://mas.to/@carnage4life/117029969601148815

#aibubble
August 3, 2026 at 6:35 AM