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Derek Harrison

@DerekGHarrison

Making things

 Kingston, Ontario
derekharrison.ca
Joined August 2013
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Why do they call it Dad Rock and not Pop Pop?
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BREAKING: Ontario loses the 2022 provincial election
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This is a nightmare for the kids of this province. #OntarioElection
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Almost every word in this sentence is a genre.
bandcamp (@Bandcamp) profile picturebandcamp@Bandcamp1 Jun 2022
New & Notable: Rising UK singer-songwriter fills lush psych pop soundscapes with rich swathes of indie rock, soul, and synthwave. l8r.it/uysa
Mellow Moon, by Alfie Templeman

Mellow Moon, by Alfie Templeman

14 track album

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Esmy Jimenez@esmyjimenez26 Feb 2022
I’m probably gonna die on this boring hill but: we need media literacy to be taught in K-12 and beyond. It needs to be part of how you learn to read and write at this point, how you consume, research, and communicate information. The stakes are too high to wait – at Seattle, WA
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Congratulations to the next leader of the CPC, the guy on the bathroom sign.
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I know Twitter gets the bad rap for being toxic, but suggesting on Facebook that acts of racism should be avoided really pissed people off.
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Fuck the National Post.
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I was going to attach an NP headline to this tweet, but honestly any one will do. Take your pick.
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Mark Bourrie@MarkBourrie3 Jan 2022
Ontario is sure paying a high price for its prejudice against a lesbian premier.
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Ban crypto.
Digiconomist (@DigiEconomist) profile pictureDigiconomist@DigiEconomist1 Jan 2022
Some statistics to start the year: During 2021 Bitcoin consumed 134 TWh in total, which is comparable to the electrical energy consumed by a country like Argentina. Related CO2 emissions were ~64 Mt; enough to negate the entire global net savings from deploying EVs.
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Turns out capitalism doesn't work.
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And not getting who-knows-how-many other people sick in the process (inevitably not all of them with only "mild" symptoms).
Peter Phinney (@phinney35) profile picturePeter Phinney@phinney3527 Dec 2021
You know what’s better than getting mild symptoms from an Omicron infection? Not getting sick.
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And, also, not offering Covid another opportunity to mutate into yet another variant.
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Government spending.
Laura, just a regular pilot turned writer (@LauraSavino747) profile pictureLaura, just a regular pilot turned writer@LauraSavino74724 Dec 2021
Name something people have strong opinions on, but actually know little about.
🌼It's the first day of spring and Spring Falls is 50% off on Steam and itch.io!🌼 Solve water puzzles and bring wildflowers to life on a peaceful mountainside Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/1… Itch: sparsegamedev.itch.io/spring…
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Today in the continued adventures of writing a period novel: Historical moon phases. #moonphases #novelresearch #amwriting
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Today in the continued adventures of writing a period novel: the 1936 FA Cup. #EnglishFootball #novelresearch #amwriting
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I hold you all to the standard set by @AstroKatie
Katie Mack (@AstroKatie) profile pictureKatie Mack
@AstroKatie16 Feb 2021
Earlier today I wanted to tweet some cutting remark that involved planetary science but I wasn’t sure I had the facts right so I read some papers and DMed three experts and e-mailed one and now a fifth expert is running simulations on a NASA supercomputer to check the numbers.
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