Meanwhile in Canada<p>Time zones are so confusing.<br>In Paris it's 12:00 pm<br>In Toronto it's 6:00 am<br>In Washington it's 1930's Germany.</p>
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James H@quanin@allovertheplace.ca
I am nerd or geek, depending on your perspective. I do IT things, I do WordPress things, I do accessibility things. But on social media, I do snark things.
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James H<p>Domain to watch: fediversechick.lol<br />It's currently hosting a GTS instance with a single solitary account on it (guess who's account). The thing was registered in March, but to my knowledge hasn't actually been throwing out the usual DM's. It may be an innocent site, but if your instance is proan to a lot of DM's from her you may want to consider a block to be safe. Mine doesn't get too much of her attention but some of the larger ones are definitely ones she's a fan of.<br /><a href="https://allovertheplace.ca/tags/MastoAdmin" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MastoAdmin</span></a></p>
James HMental health is important, m'kay?
James H<p>Welp, I know it's only Tuesday, but my last submitted job application was almost exactly a week ago. For me, this is unusual. Even in this job market I at least find something to throw my resume at, even if they ghost me. I'm assuming this is just the market recalibrating after... well... *gestures vaguely*, but let's just say if you're not already employed and you're trying to be, it's probably noticeable.</p>
Logan 5 and 999 others<p>I could never be a political correspondent because I could never stop myself from saying, “You’re a fucking idiot.”</p>
Meanwhile in Canada<p>It turns out that the conman who defrauded a children's cancer charity, had 6 bankruptcies and a fraudulent university is an economic disaster.<br>¯\_(ツ)_/¯</p>
James H<p>Alrighty. Watched my hockey team win convincingly, now to go watch my baseball team finish doing the same thing.</p>
James H<p>Are you an admin of an instance and curious to know just how much stuff your instance downloads that no one pays attention to? Let you perform a periodic status cleanup and admire the results. Mine tells me my database should be a lot larger than it is. <a href="https://allovertheplace.ca/tags/MastoAdmin" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MastoAdmin</span></a></p>
Meanwhile in Canada<p>Little known fact:</p><p>The USA uses potash on 95% of their crops</p><p>80% of the potash they use comes from Canada. </p><p>There is no viable substitute for potash.</p><p>The USA imports 6 million tons from Canada every year.</p><p>Trump is going to decimate the USA's farmers and agriculture sector with his idiotic trade war.</p>
James H<p>So that's what Friday looks like. ...Insert caffeine to continue.</p>
James H<p>Because you did this to <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://allovertheplace.ca/@Bruce" class="u-url mention">@<span>Bruce</span></a></span>, you had to know this was coming, <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://allovertheplace.ca/@mcourcel" class="u-url mention">@<span>mcourcel</span></a></span>. <a href="https://suno.com/song/0d11c50c-b1f6-45eb-aa6c-ac4d0f3218a3" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">suno.com/song/0d11c50c-b1f6-45</span><span class="invisible">eb-aa6c-ac4d0f3218a3</span></a></p>
James H<p>17 degrees in <a href="https://allovertheplace.ca/tags/Ottawa" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Ottawa</span></a> today. It snowed yesterday. There was freezing rain earlier this morning. If you woke up this morning and couldn't decide if you wanted to be the nice, approachable you, or the grumpy, mad, "get off my lawn" you, know that you're not alone. And if you're in <a href="https://allovertheplace.ca/tags/Ottawa" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Ottawa</span></a> and need a reminder, just look outside. Then look outside again on Saturday, when we're getting snow and 4.</p>
Dwight (DB) 🤔
🇨🇦<p>When he says that the US is treated unfairly, he's referring to the trade deficits between other countries and the US, and calls these tariffs.<br>For example he complains that the US buys more from Canada than Canada buys from the US, but misses key factors. Population (and wealth.)</p><p>US: 347 million <br>Canada: 40 million</p><p>Of course a country with almost 10 times the population would be expected to have more buying capacity.<br>It's surprising that the trade deficit isn't higher.</p><p>"Reciprocal tariffs"</p>
John Francis 🦫🇨🇦🍁💪⬆️<p>Reports from light sleepers and canines are that there was thunder last night in <a href="https://cosocial.ca/tags/ottawa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ottawa</span></a>, but I didn't hear any myself.</p>
James H<p>The death spiral of my former employer continues. Comparatively, I made out quite well when they tossed me last year. <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/02/wordpress-maker-automattic-lays-off-16-of-staff/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">techcrunch.com/2025/04/02/word</span><span class="invisible">press-maker-automattic-lays-off-16-of-staff/</span></a></p>
Staff Chief of Joints<p>What is it we're being liberated from exactly? Our wallets?</p>
James H<p>Here you go, <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://allovertheplace.ca/@mcourcel" class="u-url mention">@<span>mcourcel</span></a></span>. <a href="https://suno.com/song/a04850e6-8b93-4e3a-bc6b-55c7c85792d2" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">suno.com/song/a04850e6-8b93-4e</span><span class="invisible">3a-bc6b-55c7c85792d2</span></a></p>
James H<p>I might actually be able to have consistent time off to watch playoff hockey this year. Either because I'll still be unemployed when it starts, or because my workday will end no later than 6. Either way, can't really complain about that.</p>
Meanwhile in Canada<p>The US military base that JD Vance visited in Greenland uses fuel that can only be delivered with the help of Canadian ice breakers.</p><p>I noticed he didn't say thank you.</p>
James H<p>Look. <a href="https://allovertheplace.ca/tags/Ottawa" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Ottawa</span></a>, we need to talk. It'll be April in an hour. I should not still be seeing snow in the forecast. Like, I know it's Canada. I know it gets cold. I know snow is a thing. But... it's April. It's spring. Baseball season's on. We're hitting double digit temperatures this weekend. ...Knock it off, will ya?</p>
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