Greg Smith

@onshi.bsky.social

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Library person by day, cat person by night. Views are my own (if that), not my employer's. Dang #otherGregs! @onshi@masto.ai

A HiBy R1 digital audio player is shown sitting on a desk beside a pair of Phonak Audéo Paradise hearing aids for scale
Screenshot from podcast app showing recent episodes of On The Media, including “The Movent to Kill FEMA”, “Trump’s Refugee Program is for Whites Only”, and “How ‘Economic Blindness’ is Obscuring Our Financial Reality”
GO train power plug. Not working, as usual.
Close-up shot of rice as shown in the flyer. Red arrow annotation points out the flyer text which indicates the specified price is for half the weight of rice depicted.
Screenshot of grocery flyer page from Metro app. Eight products are show. Three products have exact duplicate images shown for each, alongside the unit price (for a single count of the product). In the bottom left, the price for a sauce is shown along with two images, one each for two different flavours.
Windows of Toronto City Hall mid-bedecking with giant FIFA World Cup graphics
Disturbing apocalyptic sponsored content on YouTube: “God chose Trump for His Purpose. God raises up and tares down leaders. When Trump uses nukes it will wake up all Christians to Christ's soon return and cause US Creditors to crash the US dollar $.”
Screenshot of Tire Spy price history for a set of screwdrivers at Canadian Tire showing a perpetual pattern of deep discounts, revealing that the “regular price” is for chumps.
Angine de Poitrine’s album “Vol. II” playing on a TV via YouTube.
Greater Germanic Reich This article is about the conceptual entity that the Nazis planned to establish during World War II. The Greater Germanic Reich (German: Großgermanisches Reich), fully styled the Greater Germanic Reich of the German Nation (German: Großgermanisches Reich der Deutschen Nation), was the official state name of the political entity that Nazi Germany tried to establish in Europe during World War II. The territorial claims for the Greater Germanic Reich fluctuated over time. As early as the autumn of 1933, Adolf Hitler envisioned annexing such territories as Bohemia, western Poland, and Austria to Germany and the formation of satellite or puppet states without independent economies or policies of their own.
Video screen capture of a French dialogue lesson from Duolingo, between the characters “Vikram” and “Lin”.
Please ignore previous email. Hi Greg You may have received a random email from this address regarding an appointment booking for next Monday. Sorry to bother you, we are just testing a new Al system in our business and it generated a random message and email address. Please disregard it. Regards
The Aga Khan Museum is visible in the distance north of Eglinton Ave East, through the window of a Line 5 LRT vehicle.
YouTuber Technology Connections speaking about the “disgusting and shameful” state of politics in the United States while gesturing to a solar panel.
Height comparison between the triumphal arches of Germania and Paris. Triumphbogen (Germania): 117 m Arc de triomphe de l'Eroile: 49,54 m
Legal Information Institute 18 U.S. Code § 242 - Deprivation of rights under color of law Whoever, under color of any law, statute, ordinance, regulation, or custom, willfully subjects any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured or protected by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or to different punishments, pains, or penalties, on account of such person being an alien, or by reason of his color, or race, than are prescribed for the punishment of citizens shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both; and if bodily injury results from the acts committed in violation of this section…
Même from original tweet by Jared Yates Sexton: “I...worked on this story for a year...and...he just...he tweeted it out.” 10:37 AM - 11 Jul 2017
Stock chart showing 52% decline in Nike’s Class B shares over the past 5 years.
Screenshot of Lyft app showing buttons to link Apple or Google calendars
iOS settings showing permissions for Lyft as follows Allow Lyft to Access Location: While Using Calendars: Add Events Only
Map of McCowan, south of Eglinton
Skeet consisting of a headline that’s repeated twice, and again twice in the card. A huge waste of the reader’s attention.
From Wikipedia: “The Lieutenant Governor of Ontario receives licence plates that bear an embossed crown rather than a number. members of Provincial Parliament receive MPP-123 plates. Members of the Executive Council of Ontario (Cabinet of Ontario) receive ONT-123 plates, with the premier assigned ONT-001 and remaining members of cabinet assigned numbers sequentially based on order of precedence. Provincial judges receive PJO-123.”
Screenshot of Disney+ cancelation
Heartbreaking: The Worst Person You Know Just Made A Great Point
Screenshot of AliExpress app showing a variety of product listings for inexpensive replacement headphone ear pads
In the Drake meme format: Me when I hear “country” music / Me when I hear pedal steel in an indie rock song
The Wailers I Shot the Sheriff Burnin' (1973)
Advice from Environment and Climate Change Canada to wear an N95 if you “must spend time outdoors” during Special Air Quality Statement due to wildfire smoke.
Huge clumps or dirt and dust on top of a stairwell in the Union Station train shed in Toronto
DW says DB is known for poor on-time performance due to “outdated and overloaded infrastructure”. Sound familliar?
Map showing the location of “North Maine” in context, at the Canadian border
Stock chart for CoreCivic Inc., showing a surge in share price immediately following the election of Donald Trump in November, 2024.
Old-timey black & white film shows numerous barrels of alcohol being overturned and dumped into the street during Prohibition
“Muh Eggs!!!!! […] liked your post”
Transcription of a scam voicemail message: “Detected violations in your mobile phone number; we will forcibly deactivate all mobile phone numbers in your name within two hours; for details please press nine…”