Michael Loken

Professional tall guy. Amateur wine lover, cyclist and karateka | All views are my own.

[United Way North East Ontario @UWCNEO]

Congratulations to our very own Katherine Cockburn who is a finalist for the @CharityVillage Best Individual Fundraising Professional Award! Katherine made the top 9 out of over 200+ nominations which represents some of the best across the nonprofit sector.
Congrats Katherine!

[Trung Phan @TrungTPhan]

For anyone threatening to leave Twitter, good luck trying to find this fire content on any other platform

[Michael Loken @MikeLoken]

@RealAndreDumais @GreaterSudbury The deadlines are set under the election act @RealAndreDumais - it is literally against the law to remove his name.

[Natalia Barbour @natalia_barbour]

Driving changes your location, cycling changes your mood.

[Michael Loken @MikeLoken]

Online voting is now open in Sudbury's municipal election.

I've voted - you need to vote too!

Your local government is the one that serves most of your day to day needs, and your vote is so important!

@GreaterSudbury

https://t.co/QY8edSBTIg

[Brent Lievers (@wblievers.bsky.social) @WBLievers]

The 2023 @macleans rankings of Canadian universities came out last week. Here is your annual reminder that, at least in my discipline, a lot of what's being measured in these rankings is just size.

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https://t.co/BSpOe6GiN4

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[David Grossman @davidgross_man]

Really wish any anti-vaxxer brought half their energy to opioids. Literally everything you think happened with the vaccine happened with opioids

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Ada Lovelace worked with Charles Babbage to create a description of his unbuilt invention, the Analytical Engine. Her 1843 Notes contain a ground-breaking description of "computing". Here, she warns Babbage not mess with her math

[source: https://t.co/geYC3gHMlS]
#AdaLovelaceDay

[graham starr @GrahamStarr]

William Shatner on his Blue Origin flight to space: "It was among the strongest feelings of grief I have ever encountered." https://t.co/CI1WDV17oe

[Nick Hune-Brown @nickhunebrown]

Canadian thanksgiving is a tier one holiday. No gifting stress, no pressure to have fun like NYE, excellent food, feels "alt" vs the bloated American version, no religious stuff or pilgrims just a vague "harvest" theme, stuffing, 10/10

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

65 years ago #Today the first artificial Earth satellite was launched #Sputnik1

[source, read more: https://t.co/LwouEUFmhC]

[Greater Sudbury @GreaterSudbury]

Healing happens together
Join us at Bell Park tomorrow, September 30, for an event hosted by the Indigenous Community Collective for National Day of Truth and Reconciliation/ Orange Shirt Day as we journey towards Truth and Reconciliation as a community.
https://t.co/DdVK7GASFl

[Greater Sudbury @GreaterSudbury]

On September 30, the City of Greater Sudbury will be observing National Day for Truth and Reconciliation to honour residential school survivors, their families and communities.
read more at: https://t.co/lxnGGq2nLz

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

On top of the 8 million human lives, 600 million trees, 200,000 hectares of land, 22 billion tons of water and 84 million tons of CO₂ that the tobacco industry costs every year, cigarette filters contain microplastics

[read more: https://t.co/8p5CDZUWZA]

[Michael Loken @MikeLoken]

Machine learning listens to the @TheSlowRidePod once...

https://t.co/AM17rzSBTn

[NASA Webb Telescope @NASAWebb]

Hey Neptune. Did you ring? 👋

Webb’s latest image is the clearest look at Neptune's rings in 30+ years, and our first time seeing them in infrared light. Take in Webb's ghostly, ethereal views of the planet and its dust bands, rings and moons: https://t.co/Jd09henF1F #IAC2022

[Myles @PusherOfPedals]

Every time someone states that @Backstedt_Zoe is world champion. I’m going to state that she is the only rider IN THE HISTORY OF THE SPORT to be a world champion in 4 disciplines AT THE SAME TIME.
This is an unbelievable stat that we must celebrate #Wollongong2022

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Sodium Citrate is the secret ingredient to make any cheese into smooth, creamy nacho cheese sauce. Coincidentally, Sodium Citrate's chemical formula is Na₃C₆H₅O₇ [rad more: https://t.co/rrV4VqpcoF] #FoodScience