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Chris Mackay 🇨🇦🐈🐈
@tantramar@zeroes.ca
mastodon 4.7.3+glitch+0sMore greebly dressing than man.
Been using em-dashes — unironically and without AI — for decades; you can tell mine are legit because AI follows the American practice of not putting spaces around them.
Mostly a #RipleyAndJonesy fan account headquartered in Tantramar (which, from 1903–2023, was officially known as Sackville), New Brunswick.
Nothing I post has been AI-generated.
No bio/posts/avatar/followers? That’s a block.
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Joined January 21, 2026
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Jonesy’s keeping a watchful eye from the bedroom window on the town’s work crew. #30YearDitchFix #CatsOfMastodon #RipleyAndJonesy #JustJonesy
Watching, waiting for breakfast. #CatsOfMastodon #RipleyAndJonesy
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The dirt-compacting equipment is noisy and literally shakes the house. The tenants are deeply unimpressed. #CatsOfMastodon #RipleyAndJonesy #30YearDitchFix
Wild how the US trade team sees French-language product labelling as a trade barrier. Basic respect for others really doesn’t land at all with this crowd, does it? (Also: why would anyone ever buy a product whose labeling they couldn’t read? How would they even know it does what they need?)
I would give anything to be this relaxed. She’s been out like this for half an hour, now. #CatsOfMastodon #RipleyAndJonesy #JustRipley
Sharing another sunbeam. #CatsOfMastodon #RipleyAndJonesy
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@CStamp@mastodon.social Their abject failure is largely responsible for where we are today.
Going to take many, many years of not selling us all down the river to regain any semblance of trust.
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@mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io Expecting people to be willing (or able) to separate the concept of “Arabia” from the concept of “Islam” feels like a tall order, sadly. 🤦♂️
This looks like an action shot — Ripley on a tear, mid-zoomie — but she was just sitting like this. 🤪 #CatsOfMastodon #RipleyAndJonesy #JustRipley
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@akareilly@hachyderm.io Recently saw someone state that “if it won’t damage a car it won’t protect a cyclist.” Works for pedestrians, too.
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@austinkocher@mastodon.social Um, why does Thomson Reuters have said data in the first place?
Jonesy, winding down this #Caturday evening with an aggressive-looking nap stance. #CatsOfMastodon #RipleyAndJonesy #JustJonesy
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@anildash@me.dm Evernote and FiLMiC Pro were flailing. They haven’t (yet) ruined Vimeo. Harvest has seen massive, post-acquisition price spikes. What does this history suggest about Airtable’s future?
RE: @realTuckFrumper@mastodon.social
Is it ‘withholding timely, vital information from your readers until your next book drops’? Like, oh, say, Bob Woodward? 🤦♂️
Those “What to know before crossing the new Gordie Howe Bridge from Canada to the USA” articles could be shortened to “Don’t.” #HelpfulEditingAdvice
Table for two. #CatsOfMastodon #RipleyAndJonesy
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@erik@mastodon.infrageeks.social @MostlyHarmless@thecanadian.social Or at the very least listen to them at 2×. 🤪
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@veronica@explains.social @ahimsa_pdx@disabled.social “Why do you keep breathing in and out? Don’t you know machines can do that for you, too?” 🙄
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@jzb@hachyderm.io It’s wild to me how much I love raisins as a food but not at all as an ingredient. 🤨
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@mhoye@cosocial.ca This rings true but, happily, I never did. (I’d heard of them, but didn’t know their stuff. I did, however, like Gomeshi’s show on Radio One. We can’t all be virtuous — and all-knowing — all the time.) 🤦♂️
RIP Airtable; so glad I never used it. “Daring Fireball: Bending Spoons to Buy Airtable for $1.3 Billion” https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/08/04/bending-spoons-to-buy-airtable
Meanwhile, being anti-AI continues to get you labelled a Luddite. 🙄 @pxlnv@mastodon.social https://pxlnv.com/linklog/us-state-department-africa-map/
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@CatherineBabault@mastodon.social I’ve also blocked @kottke@mastodon.social, just so I won’t see any more of their slop-ridden filth.
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@TheBreach@mastodon.social And an Overcast link for the truly discerning. 😜 https://overcast.fm/+AA4UOdle0BU
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@BrianJopek@mastodon.world Imagine saluting a foreign general from a totalitarian dictatorship. And then having conservatives shrug. BUT OBAMA WORE A TAN SUIT
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@jerzone@techhub.social @lfisk@infosec.exchange “Woodworking’s most dangerous tool?” — this is a serious warning; Hamilton was badly injured using one of these things. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1hf2UILN80 @catsalad@infosec.exchange
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@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social Where by “younger”, I presume they mean people in their 70s? 🤨