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  RE: https://mastodon.sboots.ca/@sboots/117446091056210663 “We realized that the problems we were running into weren’t technology problems, they were organizational and policy problems: HR and classification, procurement, leadership selection, decision-making processes, project management and approval gates, organizational culture.” 👆🏾 All stuff I used to work on at the Ontario Digital Service before they shut us down. Would love to be able to work on that stuff again, somewhere.

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  Whole family got our flu shots today so I’m feeling pretty good about that.

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  Soon, our apple bags will be empty. https://www.inthemargins.ca/apple-picking-seasons

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  This is fantastic: a mash-up of Ray Parker Jr.’s “Ghostbusters” with a dozen other '80s songs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Iyu1jKjSZ0

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  If you live in Canada and want to help with public health data collection, sign up to be a flu watcher: https://public.cnphi-rcrsp.ca/fluWatcher/register It takes about 30 seconds every week and you’re contributing to better public health data in the country.

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@AnnaAnthro/117485733382137262 Just posted about this yesterday but it’s worth repeating: sign up to help public health data collection in Canada!

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  Give Amanda Seyfried an Oscar.

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  My six-year-old daughter is trying to get me to explain the plot of You Can See Everything to her, and frankly, I can’t even describe it to myself after watching it.

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  Voted!

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  Got a ton of pawpaws from an acquaintance’s pawpaw tree — ready to indulge for the next few days.

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  A quick look at the movies, television shows, music, and books that have captured my attention over the past two months: https://www.inthemargins.ca/media-diet-1026

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  Archaeologists found parts of Homer's Iliad inside a 1,600-year-old Egyptian mummy: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/07/260713084918.htm

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  This orange haze enveloping the city feels oppressive and ominous. The air outside is heavy and fumy, hard to breathe. Feels like the end times.

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  The AQI has been over 500 all day today (sitting at 586 right now) so I’m taking my decision to not spend any time outside in the pool today (something I do almost every day in the summer) as a smart decision.

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  Every photo I have of my birthday celebrations when I was younger is of me holding a piece of fried chicken. I look ecstatic in each one. https://www.inthemargins.ca/sixth-birthday-celebration

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  Spending some time exploring Castle Map, an interactive map of the world's castles, fortresses and palaces: https://thecastlemap.com/

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  Exactly one year since my angioplasty, and I feel great. Amazed by how far I’ve come.

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  Sometimes you need to buy a bunch of clams, mussels, chicken, chorizo, shrimp, and crab and then make a paella for dinner. Just needs to be done sometimes.

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  🥭 It’s Indian mango season! 🥭 Managed to get myself some cases of alphonso, kesar, and badami mangoes. Very excited. (Next challenge: consuming multiple cases of mangoes that will all be ripe in a few days.)

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  It has been ten years since Prince passed away. I wrote a little something on his passing ten years ago (https://www.inthemargins.ca/prince-thoughts), and on the first anniversary of his death, I wrote about Prince, and my cat Cleo: https://www.inthemargins.ca/cleo-prince

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  Spent an hour this morning catching up with a friend I hadn’t seen in years, and it was invigorating and refreshing and just a wonderful way to start the day.

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  Magnolia in the front yard is blooming. Makes me happy.

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  There are around 50 unique potato varieties grown for chips in the U.S. right now. Efforts to improve those varieties are constant. The National Chip Program evaluates around 225 new potato varieties each year and selects 100 for further trials: https://apnews.com/article/potato-chips-michigan-varieties-breeding-114043b882cf51d056254ddae29944c2

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  Postcard-writing.

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  Alan Jacobs: “Eventually there will be no faculty at all in American universities, just deans, IT guys, and AI instruction in Canvas. This is called The Pursuit of Excellence.” https://blog.ayjay.org/predictable/