Kyle Memoir

Current events, politics, images, lit, music, movies, cycling, art, aviation (lapsed PPL), travel, science/tech, cats, dogs, nature. At my best under a hat & behind a lens. Greyhound rescue home. BLM. Slava Ukraini! Friend of LGBTQ+. Lived corporate IT/ Comms/ Projects/ Strategic Procurement 30+ years—loved/hated it. I follow back stochastically—a bio and at least a few resonant posts help tip the scale.

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2024-10-24 02:32:18

More local colour - today’s cycle out on Southwest Ontario’s high plains in the stiff wind leading an approaching cold front.
#cycling #gravelbike #Stratford #PerthCounty #Ontario #Canada #photography #alttext
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2024-10-24 02:21:47

More local colour - this evening’s dog walk.
#Stratford #PerthCounty #Ontario #Canada #photography #alttext
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2024-10-19 00:49:04

Time for some fall Stratford pics.
#Stratford #PerthCounty #Ontario #Canada #photography #alttext
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2024-10-13 14:52:41

#SilentSunday
Photo mine from G2G rail trail #canada
Amazing how they were able to shrink those huge steam locomotives to fit through tiny openings like the one off in the distance at the end of the trail, no?
#steam #railway #photography #cycling #notsosilent
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2024-09-29 12:20:04

Israel calls upon United Nations to formally declare Palestinians, Lebanese, all other Arabic people, ‘animals’ and ‘vermin’.
‘They must all be destroyed,’ Israeli leaders insist, ‘to secure and protect the holy sanctity of Judaism, the world’s only legitimate religion, and the only one that ought to be permitted the unfettered right to commit genocide and the exercise of total racial superiority.’
US officials plan to support the resolution.
https://www.trtworld.com/middle-east/israel-seeks-to-dismantle-unrwa-erase-palestinian-refugee-status-18213181
#israel #genocide

2024-09-24 19:28:29

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@npub1lzz…jhl3
Spot on, all of it.
“Say what you want about all these endless political polls, but one thing they tell us over and over again with astonishing consistency is that the majority of the white men in this country are a unified voting bloc, and are going to do whatever they possibly can to jam the wheels of progress.”

2024-09-24 02:11:47

Today was an exceptional cycling day.
This is what I live for.
#cycling #gravelbike #Stratford #PerthCounty #Ontario #Canada #photography #alttext
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2024-09-18 13:43:53

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@npub1hjn…vfr7
Link fixed:
https://www.livescience.com/space/space-exploration/nasa-s-voyager-1-probe-swaps-thrusters-in-tricky-fix-as-it-flies-through-interstellar-space

2024-09-09 09:43:16

"The industry says providing deeply affordable housing is not its job."
Seeing to the needs of human beings is never a corporation's job.
The corporation's role is to fuck you in the ass as hard and long as it can, same as #dougford
https://www.cbc.ca/news/financialized-landlord-higher-rents-canada-1.7307015
#housing #canada #cndpoli #onpoli

2024-09-02 21:03:56

Some great #Karsh photos here:
https://www.cbc.ca/newsinteractives/features/portrait-of-an-island
#photography #canada

2024-08-28 17:22:29

Busted a rib and now I’m on the couch - ‘on-the-couch’ being a boxing term for a guy who’s done nothing to prepare himself for a bout, as in:
“You’ve got no worries with that guy, he’s been on the couch months now.”
Cats on the couch, too…
#photography #cats #lazybastards
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2024-08-27 02:37:01

Think about this:
The United States and Israel—two of the world’s most powerful nuclear-armed nations, both with top-shelf militaries—have been unable to defeat Hamas in… how long has it been?
Spoiler:
Hamas? Please! The plan is the erasure of anything Palestinian because Israel’s [redacted] population needs the holy land to which it is entitled and if that means expelling a few million of indigenous brown people, so be it.
Bomb the fuckers to smithereens.
#usa #israel #genocide

2024-08-17 02:22:39

Stratford today.
#Stratford #Ontario #photography
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2024-08-09 12:18:14

Shopwindow, Queen St., St. Marys, Ontario.
#photography #perthcounty #canada
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2024-08-02 18:28:44

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@npub1mmf…eknq
Do the people who’ve liked you online like you in real life?
Recovering statistician here.

2024-08-01 22:43:34

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@npub1mmf…eknq
I avoid it.

2024-08-01 22:41:38

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@npub1mmf…eknq
My god is this the level of conversation these days?

2024-08-01 20:55:43

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@npub1mmf…eknq
Men are to women what cars and commercial vehicles are to bicycles.
It’s always your fault.

2024-07-31 11:50:59

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@npub1jrl…krkx
Basically a giant incel movement.

2024-07-29 22:06:51

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@npub1lzz…jhl3
They love, love, love workable, malleable material.

2024-07-28 22:20:14

Israel, having slaughtered 40,000 in Gaza—most of the dead, shredded and torn-apart being women and children—has said Hezbollah has ‘crossed a line’ with its reported shelling of a playground.
Genocide rule no. 1: let no one get between you and the conduct of your pogrom.
Genocide rule no. 2: shamelessness is never shameful when the job at hand is murder.
#gaza #israel #genocide

2024-07-28 16:01:05

Day-old #Caturday pic of #ginger & #greyhound #photography
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2024-07-27 21:06:11

I wrote this to someone today and it kind of encapsulates my take on life:
The trees have been a comfort to me as well. They remind us the world is what it is, and to expect it to change to conform to our wishes and dreams, however valid they may be, is a conceit of our own. Buddhism tells us to look within, to look at who is doing the looking, and to see that both the cause of our suffering and the pain it brings are externalities to that inner point of…
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#mindfulness #buddhism #life

2024-07-26 00:01:23

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@npub1mmf…eknq
Not mentioned on #cbc natch.

2024-07-25 22:04:29

It sounds like Big Oil terrorists have wiped Jasper, Canada off the map.
God help us.
(All Trudeau’s fault according to the oil people by the way, Smith included.)
#climatechange #cdnpoli #Canada #Jasper #wildfire #environment #trudeau #daniellesmith #Poilievre #bigoil #economy #petrochemical

2024-07-25 15:06:43

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@npub1mmf…eknq
I wonder how many corporate lobbyists have approached Obama for help with this and what’s been in it for him?
The silence really has been something…

2024-07-25 15:02:50

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@npub1fzq…spuu
There’d doubtless be more if we weren’t funding and supplying a genocide in Gaza.

2024-07-25 14:48:11

A woke leftist protest fire has just destroyed Jasper, Canada.
No one has been arrested (we never arrest oil execs or consumerist promoters—poisoned lands, oceans, wildlife, homes, businesses, jobs lost notwithstanding).
#jasper #canada #wildlife #climatechange #justice #nature #nationalpark

2024-07-23 21:12:38

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@npub1mmf…eknq
I gave that up when a twitter nut doxxed me and offered a fight at my place of work, whose address he published to the world. No thanks. I can easily be found by those who know how should the need arise.

2024-07-22 22:30:43

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@npub1mmf…eknq
Whatever he does he should do like a statesman not a cop otherwise he kills Kamala

2024-07-21 18:04:34

OMG.
Get it right, Dems.
Our leader has spoken.
He has taken the first courageous, high-risk step.
But he has taken the correct one.
God bless him, and God bless America.
#politics #uspol

2024-07-20 00:11:27

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@npub186j…8z6r
Why does watpo count my time as free? I never understand that. I would love to read this item.

2024-07-19 20:36:11

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@npub1mmf…eknq
Not unlike the GOP that way.
It’s hard to envision all this ending happily.

2024-07-19 19:51:31

As a sociology student and non-neurotypical who’s always needed to observe closely to get by in the world (seems some days nothing social has come naturally, it’s been nothing but mistakes, frustration and work), I’ve been keenly observing the angry-population/autocratic-leader/changing-times dynamic ever since reading War and Peace.
Here’s what I see:
Tolstoy was correct. Venal people drive venal leaders to brutal objectives. Those leaders then make their own admirable contribution.
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2024-07-18 11:44:54

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@npub1lf4…kcjr
God hates childless Christians, too, apparently, along with every other marginalized community.
These people deserve every calorie of heat Mother Nature is about to unleash upon them.

2024-07-18 03:06:51

Scientists use feline brain scan to finally reveal what your cat sees when it looks at you…
#cats #catsofmastodon #medicine
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2024-07-18 00:02:49

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@npub1mmf…eknq
They can’t even get Joe’s face in the ad? JFC & God help us.

2024-07-17 13:27:53

A carbon copy of Canada's own Poilievre:
“Vance is much more effective at connecting Trump’s cultural and social and racist populism to what looks like pocketbook populism, except it’s a fake...”
https://www.democracynow.org/2024/7/16/trump_vance
#cdnpoli #poilievre

2024-07-17 13:16:16

Apropos of nothing, but worth throwing out there, perhaps, is how so many seem to confuse the current incarnation of Russia and its motives today with the Soviet ideals and aims of history.
Russia today is what I would consider 'extreme capitalism', 'extreme freedom', etc., where power is the ONLY decider. Elections farces, the courts corrupt, opponents liquidated...
We're bad, for sure, our system is broken, but... is that really what we want for us?
#russia #usa #capitalism #socialism

2024-07-16 21:50:44

Weird fact of the day:
The salt in low-salt potato chips (crisps if you prefer) is more noticeable than with regular chips.
#salt #cuisine #food #chips #crisps

2024-07-13 00:51:46

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@npub1k4q…3lsq
Wow. For real?

2024-07-12 13:58:15

This being Stratford Ontario, we have…
It was fresh, generously portioned, and delicious.
Available at the boathouse, west end of the lake.
#stratford #canada #food #cuisine
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2024-07-10 23:00:39

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@npub1mmf…eknq
Another leadership failure.

2024-07-08 23:49:48

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@npub1vlh…ykgk
Kid question: how does each ant know what to do?

2024-07-06 01:49:40

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@npub1mmf…eknq
He has lost the plot.

2024-07-03 20:53:56

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@npub1tps…9rmt
Then what?

2024-06-25 20:22:55

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@npub1mmf…eknq
published/punished

2024-06-16 23:54:13

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@npub1js0…76y2
It’ll be time to outlaw suits against the automakers soon…

2024-05-27 22:42:03

Saturation #antisemitism coverage on CBC radio today and the BARE MINIMUM on Israel’s nightmarish assault on Rafah.
You see, we're Canadian and it might make us ‘uncomfortable’ if our national broadcaster put more than a 1/36 value on Palestinian lives as compared with the lives of their Israeli overlords.
Plus we fear our own world might collapse if we show weakness. On with the ‘defence’ Bibi, you’re our boy!
Were just a cowardly people.
#gaza #rafah #canada #shame

2024-05-26 13:32:04

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@npub1pu6…u9fd
Farage: slime mould animated.

2024-05-24 10:43:44

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@npub1mmf…eknq
He needs to be caught in the lie.

2024-05-19 13:31:07

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@npub1lzz…jhl3
Well said:
‘All systems of totalitarianism, including corporate totalitarianism, deform education into vocational training where students are taught what to think, not how to think.’

2024-05-13 02:35:33

Stratford has its own little Flatiron (ish) building not far west of the railway station.
#Stratford #PerthCounty #Ontario #Canada #photography #architecture #alttext
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2024-05-11 16:25:23

#Caturday
Look where the black cat’s tail is…
#photography
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2024-05-10 01:31:43

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@npub1ryk…dfrp
Where?

2024-05-08 02:31:54

CBC news suggested tonight the United States has held back weapons shipments to Israel. Presented as ‘sources say.’
Is the US ‘leaking’ a fake weapons holdback to dampen campus protesting now it has one eye finally on the looming election precipice?
#gaza
@npub1mmf…eknq

2024-05-07 14:47:04

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@npub1lzz…jhl3
Agree completely with Nichols's recommendation re the Applebaum item.
It's an excellent sum-up of what's been in play over the last number of years.

2024-05-06 22:33:43

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@npub1mmf…eknq
Informative and helpful work here. Thank you.

2024-05-06 22:29:45

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@npub1mmf…eknq
This makes it a significant NATO issue as well.

2023-12-11 17:49:38

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@npub17ha…t8va
I’m kinda slow, and I’ll be damned if I can understand all this.
So state appellate courts still have final say, as I read it.
How come a conservative majority court declined to hear, but these two justices were anxious to have at it?

2023-12-05 23:31:56

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…and emphasizing far too much emphasis has been placed on Palestinian suffering over Israeli suffering.
No mention of the death toll in Gaza.
No mention of Israel’s attack on MSF humanitarian workers.
No mention of the 70 year Palestinian backstory.
It’s as if the failing #CBC has been ordered to use only Israeli-supplied talking points and to fill with the absolute minimum of obligatory woe-to-Palestinians content.
A disgrace to our once ‘peacekeeping’ nation.
#gaza #israel #genocide

2023-12-05 23:26:04

In case anyone thinks Canada as a nation gives a crap about the mass slaughter of Palestinians by a fellow supposedly ‘advanced’ first world state, forget it.
We don’t.
CBC ‘World News’ lead stories at 6 pm: a retiring soccer star and the price of baby formula.
The story on #Gaza that followed breathlessly repeated an Israeli military mouthpiece and was followed by a longer story revisiting alleged sexual crimes in the initial Hamas atrocity…
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#gaza #israel #genocide #canada #cdnpoli

2023-09-12 20:53:34

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@npub1srj…cc40
Not sure. The native app from the app store, I think. I'm low effort, low patience with this stuff these days. The kind of user I used not to like supporting so much when I did desktop services work :-)

2023-09-12 13:52:07

Why can I see alt text on any platform except my iphone?
#mastodon #alttext #iphone #fail

2023-09-07 16:41:55

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@npub12ez…uyf6
When will Sarah Kendzior get the message? More than any other, imho, owing to her strident criticism of Trump, et. al., she epitomizes the hypocrisy of left-leaning ‘opinion leaders’ who stick to the platform.