Norman Wilson (⚠️extremely tired) 🔵

Norman Wilson (⚠️extremely tired) 🔵

@oclsc.bsky.social

Programmer, UNIX old fart, friend of cats, once and maybe future cyclist, non-motorist, rail passenger (>766000 miles), amateur^2 photographer, iconoclast, cynic, observer of odd things, revolve top insights (11). Cis he/they. Also @oclsc@mstdn.ca.

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Norman Wilson (⚠️extremely tired) 🔵 reposted

Elon Musk has spent more money on American elections in the last two years than George Soros has in his entire life.

Norman Wilson (⚠️extremely tired) 🔵 reposted

Sorry brother Arabs invented like 75% of math and culture and the rest comes from China

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

Norman Wilson (⚠️extremely tired) 🔵 reposted

When I say I love Cheesecake Factory, I mean this cat who was found malnourished and wandering through a Bay Area mall parking lot. Cheesecake Factory has since been rescued and nursed back to health. He's now healthy, vaxxed, & sweet, but still needs a loving home www.petfinder.com/cat/cheeseca...

Norman Wilson (⚠️extremely tired) 🔵 reposted

Someone should ask him who invented the numerals he uses to count tapeworms in his sewage milk.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

Norman Wilson (⚠️extremely tired) 🔵 reposted

Trump: "We'll never be a manufacturing c**t, company -- uh -- country again"

Norman Wilson (⚠️extremely tired) 🔵 reposted

32% of eligible US voters chose Trump in 2024, yet it was presented in the American media as an amazing landslide. Lula's reelection was significantly bigger, but it will be presented as eking out a win.

Norman Wilson (⚠️extremely tired) 🔵 reposted

My @thestar.com column: Today we get to decide our most direct kind of government. Your vote will decide things like street sweeping frequency, the wait for dead raccoon pick-up, and whether a washroom door is locked when you need it So don’t miss your chance — vote www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

thestar.comMatt Elliott: Your vote today will affect Toronto streets, parks — and yes, even washrooms. So don’t let it go down the drainDon't throw away your shot to participate in the democratic process for choosing the level of government with the most impact on your day-to-day life, writes Matt Elliott.

Norman Wilson (⚠️extremely tired) 🔵 reposted

all voters included in the survey have been validated, by which we mean that in the introduction of the survey, we told them that their feelings were important

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Recently I have got tired of this, so now I am more aggressive: if one of my irregular peeks at my logs spots your IP address doing this, I'll look it up in ARIN, take a quick look at who owns it, and if (as almost always) it's some random overseas ISP I'll just block the whole CIDR block. Sorry.

The 220 greeting message is split into two lines (with a proper continuation marker), with a sleep between them: 220-(my hostname) smtp ... (sleep 10s or so) 220 (my hostname) ready If the caller sends even a single character before the second half was sent, I drop the connection and log the event.

Norman Wilson (⚠️extremely tired) 🔵 reposted

Times have been tough in this Ohio town ever since the woke mob closed the old Cheesecake Factory. So when Vivek Ramaswamy promised to legalize child rape, they finally had something to cheer about again. But then Obama said something elitist.

Norman Wilson (⚠️extremely tired) 🔵 reposted

Just to be clear... Prop 40 is a ONE-TIME retroactive tax. It applies ONLY to billionaires and would tax just 5% of their wealth — which grew 30% in 2025. California's billionaires would still be worth $2T+ AFTER the tax. The revenue will fund healthcare for millions of Californians. Vote YES.

Norman Wilson (⚠️extremely tired) 🔵 reposted

Every morning I cross a road where drivers run the red. So I wait until I’m sure cars are stopped before I cross. The pause prompts drivers - waiting to turn right - to honk at me. There’s no way for pedestrians to behave that will make car-brained Ottawa drivers happy. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

cbc.caWhy have so many people died this year on Ottawa's roads? | CBC NewsWith more than a month left in 2026, there have been 32 traffic-related fatalities in Ottawa this year — the highest figure in more than a decade. Police are partly pinning the blame on a rise in stun...

Norman Wilson (⚠️extremely tired) 🔵 reposted

I just want to name that people overcame this. Even against a stacked deck, the good fight is worth it. Win or lose, it's worth it. And sometimes the good guys win.

Laura Bassett@lebassett.bsky.social

Bolsonaro-friendly mayors appear to be sabotaging public transport on Election Day. Buses aren’t running in Lula-friendly areas, flights and ferries mysteriously canceled. Traffic lights have gone out and people’s power cut in Salvador, indigenous people’s travel restricted

Norman Wilson (⚠️extremely tired) 🔵 reposted

I'm sorry but banning non-English speakers because machine translation is unclean is more fascist than anything in the AI space except maybe Palantir's XAI enterprise account

hikikomorphism@hikikomorphism.bsky.social

hooooo boy we don't like this no we don't > If you don't speak English, you need to find a different community. We cannot distinguish between AI-written and AI-translated. Since you don't speak English, you can't even verify yourself if it translated correctly. www.reddit.com/r/opensource...

Norman Wilson (⚠️extremely tired) 🔵 reposted

Unsung thing about Toronto elections is how many city employees take time from their usual jobs to train then spend 12+ hours tomorrow running the election sites across the city. They get paid, but it's a real marathon. Can't leave the polling site all day. The civil service, a thing to cherish.

Norman Wilson (⚠️extremely tired) 🔵 reposted

Kansas Dem Sen. nominee Adam Hamilton on trans rights: “I don’t think we should take a small group of people and bully them, pick on them, and hurt them. I understand one thing really clearly when it comes to transgender people, and that is Jesus told me I was to love my neighbor as I love myself”

Norman Wilson (⚠️extremely tired) 🔵 reposted

Replying to @rozlovesfood.bsky.social

Removing trans kids from sports doesn't help anyone. It doesn't save anyone. All it does is create harm to the trans kids and the girls this bill is supposedly protecting. You want to protect girls? Put rapists in jail.

Norman Wilson (⚠️extremely tired) 🔵 reposted

What’s wrong with DHH is that he’s a racist but tech bros also HATE the way GDPR sets even the tiniest limits on how much data they can scrape And my dude, look up French power stations

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Norman Wilson (⚠️extremely tired) 🔵 reposted

Today I wrote about Abdul El Sayed's encounter with a Christian fascist named "Tommy," and the fine art of digging up the shameful things fascists bury under their accusations, exposing them for what they are, and then burying their lies in the hole left behind. www.the-reframe.com/taking-our-c...

the-reframe.comTaking Our Country BackSpeaking the truth to a lie. Surfacing the buried implication. Growing the "us" in the U.S.

Norman Wilson (⚠️extremely tired) 🔵 reposted

Blanche on CBS says his suit against Alaska is "asking the court to step in where the Alaska Supreme Court didn't, which is to look at federal law and if necessary to allow a process for Alaska to decide who should be certified as the winner." (So, the voters won't get to decide. Got it.)

Norman Wilson (⚠️extremely tired) 🔵 reposted

And once again this rhetoric from the President of the United States isn’t being reported on. Alarming to watch how over his now term and a half “It’s just Trump being Trump” so it’s not news has become “It’s just Trump being David Duke” so it’s not news.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "Somalia -- 98% of the people here now from Somalia don't work. They don't have to work because they steal so much. They all have a Mercedes Benz. Low IQ and they live better than you do."

Norman Wilson (⚠️extremely tired) 🔵 reposted

Alternative: You don’t re-inflate the Hindenburg in a day

FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social

JD Vance on the economy: "You don't turn the Titanic around overnight"

Norman Wilson (⚠️extremely tired) 🔵 reposted

five weeks ago lorne doerkson was vacationing in africa while the conservative party was immolating and david eby was diving head first into a snap election call over the wishes of municipalities life comes at you fast