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Just saw a bus ad for a jazz radio station that said "don't pay for sax" and have half a mind to call in and say sax work is work

All the suggestions were good but hear me out: instead of that, I go to a botanical garden in the neighborhood William Gibson supposedly lives in on the off chance of a sighting

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Since January, @kissane and I have been researching governance on Mastodon and Hometown servers of about 80-2000 people. That research is now available!!!

Blog post: https://write.as/fediversalist-papers/releasing-our-findings

Paper: https://fediverse-governance.github.io/

Special thanks to the participants we interviewed, you all were so great.

@platypus chilly Australia! Vancouver even has a Gastown it's basically Fury Road with healthcare

So hard to keep up with American politics while abroad, in Canada

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Using the fact I'm currently in Canada as an excuse to not follow DNC stuff like I'm 12 time zones away and not just in Vancouver

@aredridel @vruba honestly pretty impressed with Vancouver public transit so far

@vruba agh I was out by UBC today and debated going, guess it's back to the 99 bus tomorrow for me

If I have no plans tomorrow in Vancouver and it's maybe going to rain what should I go do

I suppose being a multi-university town helps but I really can't get over how many regular and used bookstores there seem to be in Vancouver, is this a weird after effect of healthcare

This was a joke but I was walking to a pho place for dinner and there was a dog just lying outside on the street asking people for belly rubs

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buy new shoes while i'm in vancouver because my current shoes have holes in the bottom or convince myself this means I'm experiencing the city with the authenticity of a local who might say "no worries" to wet feet

buttondown.com/perfectsentence this week in sentences: untowardly nude, corn leaves, use in sport, sole person in serif, very few things, dirty underwear, a macaron, euphemisms, static, a thousand gilded hydrants, traffics in attention

Good news 

This Airbnb has a German shepherd named SHERMAN who lives upstairs and he is a big sweetie

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Horsin' Around

This is a hometown instance run by Sam and Ingrid, for some friends.