Camerondotca

Middle-aged husband, dad, punk. Ed-tech guy. Tired. Grumpy. Moar coffee? Once a temporary Kiwi, now miss it horribly. Des liens et contenu parfois en français. (please excuse mistakes, it's a WIP) Montréalais. Union? Forever.
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2025-04-26 21:17:05

Bottom left corner: not our cat. Top right circle: the birds not our cat wants to kill.
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2025-04-14 19:11:52

Poilievre wants to be the first Prime Minister to use the Notwithstanding Clause. I’m lucky, I can vote Rhino and my riding will not go CPC, but fuck me we can’t have this asshole as our PM.

2025-04-12 14:58:10

Voter cards came for all three of us. Correct name for our kid. Elections Canada is one of the very best federal bureaucracies. Bless them.

2025-03-31 18:10:07

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@nprofile…zh6l LIke Montreal says no more USian suppliers. It's probably a drop in the bucket on a large scale, but I bet it fucks up some particular company badly.

2025-03-31 18:01:37

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@nprofile…zh6l Canadian governments, at all three levels, are reviewing, backing out of and barring contracts with USian firms. It's going to get messy.

2025-03-21 13:57:08

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@nprofile…gw4z @nprofile…qz4x whuffie = mana (in the te reo maori/Aotearoa meaning)

2025-03-19 22:37:42

Hear me out PAAAS (perfect avocado as a service).
In not unrelated news had to open two to get one useful one.

2025-03-19 19:02:28

Elon Musk whining about not hurting anyone and why do people hate him is a) utterly on brand for a whingy South African b) factually untrue (Doge is hurting people) c) FUCKING WILD Elon is the kind of rich where he could, if I really pissed him off, scrape my bloodline from the earth. Like, every single one of my relations, living and dead, all reference to me, just gone. He's nearly at William Gibson klept level powerful and he whines like a kid who's been left off the pick up team.

2025-03-13 16:44:23

EVERYONE, REPEAT AFTER ME: Discomfort does not equal danger. Yes, there are a lot of unhoused people in the Metro. Yes there are some who are using. I understand that this is uncomfortable. They are not inherently dangerous. The plan by the mayor to rope off public areas and drive them out into the streets is not helping them, it's not even policing. It's herding. Like they are livestock. It's fascist, security theatre. It's fucking shameful.

2025-03-04 18:38:21

I really really don't like Trudeau. He's a neo-liberal, centerist doofus. But no-fucks Trudeau is hella fun to watch go the fuck off.

2025-02-12 01:48:57

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@nprofile…775a eh?

2025-02-11 22:09:44

This case continues to infuriate me in ways I can barely articulate. https://medium.com/@emrical/what-the-mainstream-media-wont-tell-you-about-the-mohawk-mothers-fight-34874279e716. McGill, shit then. Shit now.

2025-01-20 21:19:15

Do I know someone here who knows about Quebec's Law 25?

2024-12-10 23:19:11

Fuck. I’m out. #whamageddon

2024-12-10 14:28:37

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@nprofile…sczv My god, this makes me want to visit Lebanon.

2024-11-19 18:47:27

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@nprofile…r5mx all these "pure" "master race" dudes look so... inbred and fucked up.

2024-10-31 19:14:58

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@npub1zg9…nh26 ok. Phew.

2024-10-31 19:11:09

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@npub1zg9…nh26 This sounds horrible and awful and also very very (oh god I'm a bad person) entertaining to watch at a distance.

2024-10-22 13:49:01

I just read a thing about how bizzare it is that the person using the 70K vehicle to go get coffee is considered salt of the earth and the person who walks or ride a $200-$500 bike is considered the elitist.

2024-10-22 13:20:49

I keep looking at the world and I keep being reminded that consequences are only for certain people. If I do the normal person version of a candidate for POTUS talking to the billionaire head of a Super PAC I go to jail. If I murder my neighbours I go to jail. If I just decide "nah" to paying taxes? Jail. All these consequences for me and you and none for other folks.

2024-10-09 13:56:30

you have to sort of have to admire the horror of late stage capitalism: create the conditions for environmental collapse, profit from the people needing to escape the environmental collapse, profit from the clean up AND convince people that doing anything any other way is communism.

2024-10-07 19:43:57

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@npub17nc…9dam yeah, sorry. My geography is a bit turned around. Used to work with Helen Gilmore and Maurice Ward. I think Maurice is retired, but I've heard Helen carries on.

2024-10-07 19:36:13

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@npub17nc…9dam it occurs to me that over a decade has passed and that building might be gone.

2024-10-07 19:34:32

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@npub17nc…9dam hmm.. hang on. I will find a map. So it's either Orchard or the one labled Young Farmers. It's the one with the long porch with offices off it.

2024-10-07 19:29:11

@npub17nc…9dam HELLO! I used to work in the wee wooden building behind the commerce department.

2024-10-01 14:29:01

Right, so in other news: one of the OTHER things about LiveNation (and it's local partners: Montreal has a set up where the promotion companies owned by the Montreal Canadian's organization acts as a Live Nation proxy) is that shows that should be in cool, local clubs, wind up in.. erm.. Laval in a hockey rink. I would have loved to go and see PJ Harvey but yeah, nah.

2024-09-19 17:01:58

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@npub1lzz…jhl3 ah..gottcha (young woman... and yeah, if we can sort out some nonsense she's going to do amazing. )

2024-09-19 16:45:17

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@npub1lzz…jhl3 to be fair our kid is 21, and HIGHLY political. But we had the same sort of reaction with Gerry Brownlee when we lived in Christchurch.

2024-09-19 15:04:41

Thinking about @npub1hyk…3p33 's Attack Surface a lot in the last few days.

2024-09-18 15:19:27

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@npub1qw5…037m this morning it was older dude throwing down and a kid on a scooter on their way to work and younger kids and their dad watching both.

2024-09-18 12:51:02

“Planchodrome” is my new favourite word.

2024-08-29 13:40:22

Anyway, this thing where the STM busses just go poof is fascinating. Like The route my wife was waiting on starts less than a KM away. It was due at 8:35 or so, would have gotten her to appointment with 10 minutes to spare. Two showed up at 9:05. As the uber I ordered her pulled up. She was still late and we're out $28. The bus I take to go home when I don't feel like walking? The 4:30 and the 5:05 one often just cease to exist. Then a bus comes at 4:45. Is this the 4:30 one late? The 5:05....

2024-07-12 11:50:42

I love that McGill is claiming that one of the reasons the encampment had to go was a rat infestation. 1) dude, we all have friends who lived in McGill residence. Come on now 2) By that measure every single main street downtown should be bulldozed.

2024-07-08 14:31:12

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@npub1qw5…037m well clearly. But we all get to live with what you lot do.

2024-07-08 14:18:22

There is a theory that people don't want Biden because people don't want Harris because she's black. Look, I accept that there are a lot of folks like that, and that I'm Canadian, but I don't want her because she a neo-liberal cop.

2024-05-30 15:06:25

A whole lot of rich/powerful people seem to have forgotten that strikes and protest marches and encampments and graffitti and postering are the deal we made to avoid the other way. The deal was people struck and protested and the rich/powerful were meant to listen. All of this was to avoid the other way where the people burned down buildings and strung up a lot of rich/powerful people from lamp posts. It feels, some days, that we're coming round to a reminder inflection point. I'm not saying..

2024-05-24 13:34:42

Look, I’m not a hate speech expert, but when Sophie Durocher says « we have not vaccinated our children against the pandemic of English » one is left with a « because English/English speakers are a virus we must eradicate » vibe.

2024-05-18 19:05:02

Greetings. Hello. Hi. I am a hanging out with my wife before I go back to the punk rock shows. I am quite tired and that was only night one.

2024-05-03 13:22:28

"why don't they protest for other things" is whataboutism. It's concern trolling. Stop it. These kids are going to feel the full brunt of the climate emergencies and wars, they are going to have no jobs as we know them, they are inheriting a dying planet run by oligarchs who pretend we have freedom. And yet they choose humanity and hope. Fuck you, fuck me, fuck all the people who are wagging their fingers and saying "not like that" to them.

2024-04-30 17:16:11

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@npub1hyk…3p33 (viz: PJ Harvey and The Pixies at Place Bell)

2024-04-30 14:16:49

... my skill set lies in other places that. I am not deluded into believing, for instance, that my ability to create training or to figure out learning objectives is a skill that transfers to working out playing with the electrical box in my house. And yet.. a guy who never finished engineering school, who doesn't seem to have ever written a line of code thinks he can run a car manufacture and a rocket company on the same rules as software.

2024-04-24 19:55:02

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@npub1qw5…037m sorry apple watches. I LEFT OUT MANY WORDS.

2024-04-24 19:47:35

@npub1qw5…037m I remember you having strong views on all of this: between the Series 9 and the LE which would you suggest.

2024-04-24 13:49:56

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@npub1qw5…037m one of biggest culture shocks in NZ was that a) there were pop sized bubbly wine b) they were expected to be drunk with straws. c) some seemed to be sold with straws.

2024-04-19 17:09:45

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... governments are pulling an inverse thing. By claiming EVERYTHING is violence or terrorism, they make it more and more possible that someone will think "if I'm going to be treated like a bomber, mb I should just blow shit up"? Then they can say "see, we told you they were violent". Honestly I don't know what the answer is, and I dunno, is violence against state really wrong?

2024-04-09 13:25:58

This is the most unhinged thing I've read in ages https://medium.com/long-sweet-valuable/stop-listening-to-music-life-changing-99c72ad88106 (barring the defence of a genocide or a bankrupt rapist who wants to be president)

2024-02-02 22:43:40

So apparently the kkkonvoy people are so dumb that they don’t understand that the ruling in the emergencies act was only on that. They think it means that there was a ruling that the whole fuckery in Ottawa was legal. My god but they are horribly, irredeemably stupid. #politics #cdnpoli

2024-01-28 20:44:45

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@npub1mmf…eknq So he's an equal opportunity shithead. So so good. Yay. Etc.
I honestly had very little in the way of expectations for this government but they are really impressing with their ability to lower the bar.

2024-01-25 19:27:37

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@npub1zg9…nh26 I loved Pak N Save. Do they still have that thing where you can choose music as you go into the store?

2024-01-25 19:00:39

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@npub1zg9…nh26 hoo boy. I never went to that one. I was always at the Pac N Save around the corner.

2024-01-25 18:58:02

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@npub1zg9…nh26 ? ?!! ?

2024-01-01 20:18:46

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@npub1zg9…nh26 we have that here.. we have three valves. Us. Them. The main.

2023-11-22 00:05:46

Picketed. Felt crap about it. Came home. Made dinner. Called vet. Got a last minute appointment. Based on tests it turned out to be Kitty’s last trip. She was the most amazing, ridiculous, loving, brainless, adorable cat ever. I’ve been crying for about an hour now. She somehow knew it was Sunday and would spend the day in bed. She would headbutt you when she wanted attention (which was always) I’m going to miss her so much.
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2023-11-16 20:37:19

Look, I'm not a specialist, but the amount of concrete required to put an elevator shaft in, one that can withstand daily use and bombings, one that clearly has rebar, and has all the accoutrement of a an elevator shaft IS NOT A THING YOU CAN DO IN SECRET. Like that needs a pump, you can't build that much concrete without a concrete truck and pump. FFS I'll buy there are lots of tunnels, but that's a formed, large pour elevator shaft. Fuck you.

2023-10-26 22:57:30

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@npub1lnm…624t @npub1wdw…y5te They are a shit industry that is VERY VERY VERY good at data and yeah, the number would be terrifyingly high.

2023-08-19 11:36:01

This is a great bit of writing . https://tinangata.com/2023/08/18/what-david-seymour-teaches-us/?fbclid=PAAaYUNz9qBeZluHEbKbjFTmB6nETnAMyswyl0Ry9OEtQULJKfibmCEr2AdC4_aem_Adds2nkI4lp15xstLdq2f4W0XwYuKd5HXZrX_YHGXHVoMYwHJHOXaytIpqf5YP92kdA

2023-08-17 14:38:28

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(side bar: for all the "why do we need the CBC?" assholes, for this. This right here is the lite/lowpower mirrored version of the CBC https://www.cbc.ca/lite/story/1.6938756)

2023-08-17 14:36:56

Someone I knwo is part of the evacuation from Yellowknife. She posted a picture from the highway out. Seeing the CL-415 coming out of the haze must be both a total relief and horror. Also one of her neighbours just turned on a sprinkler on her house... So many people are going to lose so very much.

2023-07-20 01:49:45

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@npub1ke3…xcva thanks

2023-07-19 14:11:30

Once again, I have managed to orbit the sun.

2023-07-13 23:07:49

We have some water damage.
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2023-07-11 14:26:57

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@npub1qw5…037m well shit. And may I ask how? Also Chris can't take opiates, makes her sick. She's like you, just takes OTC stuff.

2023-06-13 21:10:35

If you don’t undo the basting on your jacket or suit please know I’m judging you and finding you wanting.

2023-06-05 14:43:08

So yeah, the sky is orange. I guess the smoke is here.

2023-05-25 13:32:32

This article is.. it's fucking astounding. It's everything I wished I could do when I went to journalism school. The Cambodian people were screwed over so badly and Kissinger should be in jail. https://theintercept.com/2023/05/23/henry-kissinger-cambodia-bombing-survivors/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=The%20Intercept%20Newsletter