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✈️ The last time I was in an all executive airplane was Silverline in the UK. Clearly not as many people flying to Ottawa this morning.

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⚽️ This game is pure madness. Another penalty!

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🇲🇽 Mexico had 3 mins of stupidity but they have been so damn close to equalising. This game is far from over.

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@hjalm thanks for the encouragement. I know we’ll find something, but it is really getting too close :)

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My heart has now been broken twice in looking for a house. We put an offer on one which wasn’t accepted and then the other we missed by a day maybe? Regardless this search is just exhausting us at the moment.

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🎾 Don’t remember the last time I played tennis, must have been 27 years ago - back when I was a teenager. Totally going to feel it tomorrow, but damn that was a total workout.

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@maique agreed! Great game with great attitude

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@ayjay game of the tournament. If you’re going to go out, go out like that.

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@maique They became absolute heroes tonight. What a game of football. The ability and drive to keep pushing against the odds was amazing. 500k population!

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Uni Zento Flow. Easily my favourite pen of the year. The aluminium body is perfectly weighted and the ink on this one is next level Muji from a few years ago.

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🇨🇦 Happy Canada day everyone. Taking a bit of a breather today and just doing some much needed spring cleaning ahead of our move in a month - destination, unknown.

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🇳🇴 Haaland is like Fabio and Shrek had a baby. Such a unique face/style that confuses me.

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Small break in Niagara on the lake. First time going to this part of the country. Very pretty, but as I worked out very early on in my life here in Canada, vacations are an expensive hobby.

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@mike that makes two of us. Tahoe was a bad year. Even the best wines have bad years.

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More Niagara love.

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I wonder if I would appreciate summer as much as I do now, if winter wasn’t as brutal as it is? That yearly anticipation makes the joys I can experience now feel more pronounced.

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Took a wonderful drive through wine country this evening on an errand. Was properly annoyed to have to do it, but the views totally made up for it. Sun was setting an fun music was playing in the background.

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Brew Metric Chromatik Watch is a thing of colour beauty.

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Summer Plans: kaa.bz

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@manton super sad. Like you I really thought he was coming into his own writing recently.

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@manton is it still the worst AI in the world? Just super dumb.

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🇳🇴 Gotta say, that stadium collective boat row thingy is my favourite group football action since the Mexican wave.

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☀️ Happy Summer Solstice everyone.

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As a Humanist I feel like celebrating specific scientific world events. Also I kinda like the fact that the first day of summer is ‘linked’ to Father’s Day and Mother’s Day is linked to the first day of spring.

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The next one is the Autumn solstice.

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Costco is like taking the trash out but in reverse. You hate to do it, but it feels satisfying once done.

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It’s been a rough few weeks. I expect things to settle down a little bit over the next few weeks but next week cannot come soon enough as we are off for a couple of days to unwind a little. Mental break is definitely in order.

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Columbia Away Kit is one of my favourites of the tournament.

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⚽️ Yeah really dislike the players on this Dutch team. Hopefully Japan will score again.

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🏀 Ok it’s been a long time since I watched the NBA, but even in the 90s it wasn’t this physical was it? Just feels a little more slappy.

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More planes in the air.

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The best colours in Ontario. Beats the never ending white landscape of winter.

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@cherizilla Great movie. Beautifully shot.

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@joshuapsteele It’s like the Bulkans. Or all the ‘Stans’ to many countries for one person to remember exactly where they are (if you’ve never visited them).

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@manton such bollocks. Hurley is giddy on the apple sauce at the moment. This is the equivalent of saying I will stick to whatever Windows continues to make in the phone space, rather than accepting the iPhone as the superior tech

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@pratik see now that is interesting. I’m not well versed in all things Costco at the moment - but I want to say I am wise to their tricks but I imagine I will be caught :)

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@eurobubba I found the checkout to be pretty reasonable. Maybe a function of the fact that you buying bulky items?

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@hutaffe Agreed. I feel the ‘vibe’ naming is there to diminish the software’s legitimacy maybe? Its definitely a shift in mentality I guess. Software engineers will struggle to shift, but I can see this shift across industries.

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@ithx1138.bsky.social Thank you sir! You also!

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@chriscoyier.net Tables suck to format. Links also suck to write in html

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@JohnPhilpin it’s a really great show.

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@chadkoh Big fan of Dezerbi - and really like that he is back in the PL. Will be super interesting to see if he manages to keep Spurs in it

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@JohnPhilpin Easily one of my favourite things I’ve read this week.

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@numericcitizen yeah I’ve only just started on this journey myself and I am hitting those limits pretty quickly but honestly it’s making me think a little bit more before interacting.

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@manton it’s a funny take but clearly speaking from someone who has not been a corporate job in a while. When you are good at something you get more of that something

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@jaheppler sooo jealous

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@Vincent It’s all back again! All good.

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@vincent I did a rebuild…but it didn’t do much. Will try again.

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@vincent so yeah, some images (not all) are not rendering for me. Started 30min ago….

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@manton is there an image server down?

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