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news/social/tech

Ain’t no party like a beige.party party

Posted on 30/08/2024 by Reay

When I first joined Mastodon in 2019, it was via a server — an instance, as it’s called — named mastodon.social. In part, joining that particu...

language/news/tech

The trickiness of effective email addresses

Posted on 14/08/2024 by Reay

I have a weird name. For those outside my family and group of friends who haven’t known me forever, the first one is pronounced “Ray” and the ...

news/work

What I learned from my first union strike

Posted on 31/07/2024 by Reay

Our union settled with the company 15 days after we went on strike. I’ve finished my first full week of being back at work and making money again, which I...

news/social

Thoughts on working my first picket line

Posted on 06/07/2024 by Reay

For those out of town or who otherwise wouldn’t be in the know or affected by it, employees at the LCBO — the Liquor Control Board of Ontario, the o...

news/social

Three strikes against privatizing the LCBO

Posted on 30/06/2024 by Reay

I’ve worked for the LCBO for just over two years. This upcoming strike deadline is the first I’ve ever looked at being personally involved in, as LC...

dogs/news

It’s (now) a dog’s life

Posted on 30/05/2024 by Reay

I’ve been remiss in updating my website the last several weeks. It’s largely because this happened on April 20th… After years of discussing ge...

news/social/tech

Need even more reason to leave all Meta platforms for good? Here you go.

Posted on 11/04/2024 by Reay

Hey, you know how Facebook (now called Meta) makes a fourtune from selling oceans of highly detailed, extremely personal data about each of its users to adverti...

news/work in progress/writing

First draft of new novel: Done. ish.

Posted on 22/03/2024 by Reay

I struggled with making myself work on this book idea more than any other idea in recent memory. I had the core idea for a while, and started filling it out as ...

news/tech

… aaaaand we’re back!

Posted on 14/03/2024 by Reay

It’s been… let’s call it an interesting few weeks. Back in mid-February, we were visiting friends in Florida. The day after we arrived, I woke...

food/health/news/science

#lifestylechangefail

Posted on 30/01/2024 by Reay

I recently mentioned I was going to try to get into some intermittent fasting. Yeah… well… no. Or at least, what I have managed to do hasn’t g...

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