Kerry Mitchell 🍁

@KerryMitchell
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I work in marketing, sometimes writing, and sometimes graphic design. An enthusiast for comic books, advertising art, skiing/old skis, drawing and writing instruments, cookbooks, and woodworking tools. CFL/NFL football fan.
LocationSaskatoon, Saskatchewan
DescriptionA golden thread in the world's tapestry

Male Rufus hummingbird sampling flowers on Vancouver Island, British Columbia.

#photography #birds #wildlife #VancouverIslandWildlife #BritishColumbia

So I can absolutely see why makers who buy a Bambu Lab A1 (or equivalent) immediately go out and buy more of them β€” the urge is incredibly strong πŸ₯΅. When everything prints out flawlessly and is just so easy, with zero faff, it's hard not to want to print more and more. I love seeing the technology improve by leaps and bounds like this. Excited to pick up some new colors of PLA too and get some multicolor printing going. This is my life now (at least until WWDC)

My top three, excluding my country (Finland):

1. Sweden
2. Lithuania
3. Australia

Bottom three (from worst to least bad):

1. Cyprus
2. Bulgaria
3. United Kingdom

#ESC #ESC2026 #Eurovision

Overheard: β€œI feel more pressure to use AI as an adult than to do drugs as a teenager.”

#ai #llm #drugs

Next up, my country, Finland, represents!  

#Eurovision

#California bans Kars4Kids charity jingle for false advertising | CBC.ca

β€œCalifornia judge banned the airing of all Kars4Kids ads in the state over revelations the charity does not support local kids in need.

Instead most money goes to Jewish organization Oorah that provides youth matchmaking services and gap year trips to Israel.”

https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.7202165

California bans Kars4Kids charity jingle for false advertising

A California judge banned the airing of all Kars4Kids ads in the state over revelations the charity does not support local kids in need. Instead most money goes to Jewish organization Oorah that provides youth matchmaking services and gap year trips to Israel.

CBC

My first job was building out the first mega-datacenters. 2005-2007, I was a datacenter assistant monkey working from Google working somewhere in the Chicago suburbs, swapping out hard drives and ram and writing shell scripts, as myself and my friends unknowingly laid down the prototype for the kinds of datacenters we all see today.

And so it is with some significant expertise that I say:

Fuck datacenters. Datacenters are an anti-pattern.

"But the transformation of Wall Street demanded more than just capital. It was also a social process, one that required thousands of newly hired yuppies to do the daily work of financialization." https://lithub.com/who-to-blame-for-the-rise-of-the-yuppie-investment-banks-obviously/
Who to Blame For the Rise of the Yuppie? Investment Banks, Obviously

Phil Calian, editor-in-chief of the Brown Daily Herald, could have worked at nearly any newspaper in the nation after he graduated in 1985. He had never considered an investment banking jobβ€”that is…

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Selling Canada: New work by Christopher Rouleau 2026

imagine being the creative director of the catholic church