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Trying to find out how many people see a post without hashtags. Thank you!

(edit: Why, you ask? Long thread coming up … 1/7)

Yesterday, I gave the keynote address at the 2026 Digital Government Leaders Summit in Ottawa, Canada - an invitation only for CIOs, CTOs and senior technical personnel at Canadian federal ministries.

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/29/post-american-canada/#ottawa

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Was sent this.

Hoodoo Gurus wouldn’t piss on Pauline if she was on fire.

TiL there is a hole in a wall next to a cashpoint in Ilkestone, which is rated number ONE of things to do in Ilkestone on TripAdvisor. And the reviews are amazing.

https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Attraction_Review-g3450960-d15617858-Reviews-NatWest_Hole-Ilkeston_Derbyshire_England.html

So cool. If you zoom in on the upper right, you see a little crescent. That's the Martian moon Phobos.

Zoom in again and you'll see a star next to Phobos. That's Earth! That's home.

Seen from Mars by NASA's Curiosity rover.

https://science.nasa.gov/photojournal/curiosity-views-earth-setting-phobos-rising/ #science #space #astronomy