Sharon Dibblee

Mother, retired teacher, life-long learner

[Chris Glover @chrisglover]

Why is everybody so broke?

The pillaging of our public assets.

Come back next Monday to watch the next video in this series.

#ONpoli #CDNpoli

[Abdulkadir | Cybersecurity @cyber_razz]

DO NOT touch that keyboard. This is one of the most dangerous attacks circulating right now.

This is called a ClickFix attack. It is not a CAPTCHA. It is not a verification step. It is a social engineering attack designed to make you execute malicious code on your own machine while believing you are proving you are human.

Here is exactly what happens if you follow those steps.

The fake page has already silently copied a malicious PowerShell command to your clipboard without you knowing. It happened the moment the page loaded. You did not click anything. You did not consent to anything. The clipboard was written to in the background by JavaScript running on the page.

When you press Win + R you open the Windows Run dialog. When you press Ctrl + V you paste that malicious command directly into it. When you press Run you execute it with your own permissions on your own machine. No exploit needed. No vulnerability needed. You did it yourself. Willingly. While thinking you were completing a CAPTCHA.

The payload varies. Researchers have documented ClickFix delivering infostealers, remote access trojans, and credential harvesters. The malware executes instantly and silently. By the time the Run dialog closes the damage is done.

The reason this attack works so well is threefold. The fake CAPTCHA looks visually identical to a real one. The instructions sound technical and therefore trustworthy. And critically, you are the one executing the command so endpoint security tools see a legitimate user action rather than an automated attack.

Real CAPTCHAs never ask you to open Run dialogs. Real CAPTCHAs never ask you to paste anything. Real CAPTCHAs never give you keyboard shortcuts.

If a webpage ever asks you to press Win + R for any reason, close the tab immediately.

[John Michael McGrath @jm_mcgrath]

Everyone knows local nomination shenanigans are exclusive to the Liberal party. Impossible to imagine, say, Doug Ford trying to sign up complete strangers in (for example) a Tim Hortons to support a friendly PC candidate in a local nomination. https://t.co/DwGJAsT1wm

[Captain Dick @CaptainDick12]

2 studies done by Air Canada and a consulting firm have proven expansion of Billy Bishop Airport is a terrible idea. It would increase traffic by 400% in downtown Toronto, destroy the harbour front inside and outside the island, increase pollution and devalue condos further.

[Reid Southen @Rahll]

Do not under any circumstance submit your biometrics to tech companies for the sake of pseudoscience and astrology, you're smarter than that.

[Sharon Dibblee @dibbshar]

@David_Moscrop Love my kobo! Easy access to library books. The battery lasts a long time - infrequent plug ins. Lighting is way easier on the eyes. Mine is lighter and smaller than an iPad (black and white). Holds lots of books. Font size and lighting level can be adjusted for easy reading.

[John Michael McGrath @jm_mcgrath]

New from me at TVO, on the whole jet thing: https://t.co/8wgtWnsZWJ

[🧬Maxpein🧬 @maximumpain333]

Hello. I'm the skunk. Yes, I sprayed your dog. I know.
Let me explain what happened.

Your dog ran at me in the dark. I turned around. I
lifted my tail. I gave him TWO warning stamps with my
front feet. He kept coming. So I sprayed.

I can spray accurately up to 15 feet. I have 5-6 shots
before I need 10 days to reload. I don't WANT to spray.
It's my only defense. I can't fight. I can't run fast.
I can't climb. Spray is all I have.

Your dog ignored two warnings and a raised tail. I used
my last resort. I'd argue that's on him.

But let's talk about what I was doing in your yard
BEFORE the incident.

I was digging small holes in your lawn. Those holes?
That's me pulling grubs out of the soil. Japanese beetle
larvae. June bug larvae. The grubs that are destroying
your lawn from underneath.

I eat 400+ grubs per season. Plus beetle larvae.
Crickets. Grasshoppers. Mice. Voles. And yellowjacket
nests.

YELLOWJACKET NESTS. I dig them up and eat every single
one. Larvae, pupae, adults. The entire colony. I'm
immune to their stings. My thick fur and skin protect
me. I am the #1 natural predator of ground-nesting
yellowjackets.

You spent $150 to have a yellowjacket nest removed last
August. I would have done it for free. In one night.

"But the smell."
Tomato juice doesn't work. Use this: 1 quart hydrogen
peroxide (3%), 1/4 cup baking soda, 1 teaspoon dish
soap. Apply to dry fur. Let sit 5 minutes. Rinse.
Gone.

What to do:
Don't let your dog outside unleashed at night during
skunk season (Feb-April = mating season — they're
extra active right now).
If you see a skunk — back away slowly. They give
multiple warnings. If the tail goes up and front feet
stamp, you have 3 seconds.
Don't block their path. Don't corner them. Let them
leave.
Appreciate the grub control. Those small lawn holes?
That's free pest removal.

I'm sorry about the dog.
But he had 2 warnings and a raised tail.

And your lawn has never looked better because of me.

✨🙌🏾💫

© Gardening Tips & Tricks

[John Michael McGrath @jm_mcgrath]

New from me: Bill 100 and its associated changes will deny millions of people a basic democratic right and create two separate and unequal classes of Ontarians. I'm not a fan.
https://t.co/OP2egHbLJX

[Sharon Dibblee @dibbshar]

@TheresaLubowitz Especially for out of town school groups.

[Sharon Dibblee @dibbshar]

@TeamGushue @CurlingCanada @MontanasBBQ @GIP_social @KubotaCanadaLtd @MapleLeafFoods @Orange_Store @Eastlink @connect_hearing @HardlineCurling @AshamCurling @thecurlinggroup Have a great Briar! Enjoy it to the fullest! Cheering loudly for your team.

[Kyle Ross @KyleFromQuinte]

In the middle of a 13-week vacation, Doug Ford complains that low and minimum wage workers get 1 day off.

[Olena Rohoza @OlenaRohoza]

🇮🇹 The speech that all of Italy heard. And that the world must hear.
In a country that will host the Olympic Games, Italian Senator and Vice President of the Human Rights Commission Filippo Sensi took the floor and said what should have been said out loud long ago.
He called it a disgrace that the International Olympic Committee disqualified Ukrainian skeleton athlete Vladyslav Heraskevych.
Not for doping.
Not for violating fair play.
But for… memory.
For a helmet bearing the faces of Ukrainian athletes — his friends, colleagues, champions — killed by Russia.
The IOC stated that the helmet “did not comply with regulations.”
And then Sensi asked a question that brought silence to the chamber:
Does aggressive war comply with regulations?
Is there a separate technical protocol for it?
The correct angle of a missile strike?
The permissible size of a crater?
An athlete prepares for the Olympics for years.
A Ukrainian athlete trains between air raid sirens, in shelters, under news of the dead.
He overcomes fear, exhaustion, and loss.
And he steps to the start line not only for a medal — but for the right to exist.
And he is suspended… for remembering.
Because memory is the most dangerous substance. It is hard to add to a prohibited list. But apparently, someone would very much like to.
The senator named names. Just a few among more than 650 Ukrainian athletes killed by Russia:
▪️ Yevhenii Malyshev, 19, biathlete — killed in Kharkiv.
▪️ Mariia Lebid, 15 — missile strike in Dnipro.
▪️ Dmytro Sharpar, 25, figure skater — killed in Bakhmut.
▪️ Volodymyr Androsiuk, 22, track and field athlete — also Bakhmut.
▪️ Daria Kurdel, 20 — missile strike in Kharkiv.
▪️ Alina Perehutova, 14 — standing in line for water with her mother in Mariupol.
▪️ Maksym Halinichev, 22, boxer — killed defending Luhansk region.
▪️ Viktoriia Ivashko, 9, judoka — missile strike in Kyiv.
▪️ Kateryna Diachenko, 11, gymnast — airstrike on Mariupol.
▪️ Karina Bakur, 17, world kickboxing champion — shielded her father with her body.
These were the faces Heraskevych wanted to carry with him to the start line.
So that they would “compete” alongside him.
So that their dream would not die with them.
And for that, he was punished.
Because it turns out that the faces of murdered athletes violate regulations.
But their absence on the track does not.
In his speech, Sensi said the most important thing:
The Olympic Committee did not lose an athlete.
It lost its most valuable medal — its conscience.
Sport without memory is just a show.
Sport without humanity is just decoration.
Sport that fears truth is not about peace.
The Olympic movement was born from the ideals of honor, dignity, and unity.
Yet today Ukrainian athletes must prove not only their strength — but their right to remember their fallen.
And if memory becomes a violation of regulations — then the problem is not the helmet.
The world must hear this.
Because silence is also a position.
And indifference is also a choice.
Memory cannot be disqualified.
And conscience cannot be added to a prohibited list.
🇺🇦 We remember every one of them.
And we will not allow their names to be erased.

[Sharon Dibblee @dibbshar]

@ChiefCopenace @FourWinns298 Well done Jeff!

[The Paikin Podcast @ThePaikinPod]

Our Plans for 2026

Happy New Year?

If you say so, I guess.

Now that the first quarter of the 21st century is over, it seems a reasonable time to take stock of how we’re doing as a country in Canada, as a group of democracies in the West, and as a world in general. And on all three counts, it feels increasingly difficult to say our world is headed in the right direction.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. popularized an expression: “The arc of the moral universe will bend toward justice.” Maybe so in the long run, but can there be any doubt that is NOT the case as we embark on the next quarter of the 21st century?

Let’s start at home. Our best friend launched a tariff war against us, causing existential threats to some of our most important domestic industries such as auto and steel manufacturing. Even worse, the Oval Office occupant mused about annexing us as his 51st state. We have at least three more years of this misery to look forward to. Or who knows? Maybe this is our new normal for the foreseeable future, regardless of who’s president?

When the Berlin Wall came down in 1989 and then the end of the Soviet Union ensued two years later, it seemed an unprecedentedly wonderful time for the world’s democracies. Four-and-a-half decades of post-World War II attempts to deal with Soviet totalitarianism and aggression seemed to have paid off. The world would become increasingly democratic, less bellicose, and better off economically.

That sure doesn’t seem to be happening anymore. The current president has opted to go in a different direction. His national security strategy is plucked straight out of the pages of George Orwell’s 1984, in which the world’s three major powers — the US, China, and Russia — cast away decades-long alliances and essentially divvy up the world’s spheres of influence among themselves. This was NOT the peace dividend we were hoping for at the end of the Cold War.

Even worse, the world’s self-proclaimed greatest democracy doesn’t seem all that interested in either exporting democracy or getting along with its democratic allies, and instead has become increasingly authoritarian, while snuggling up to other authoritarian leaders around the world. How disappointing.

And what about the rest of the world? Russia’s immoral war against Ukraine is about to mark its fourth anniversary. A little over two years ago, we saw the worst mass murder of Jews since the Holocaust, and then Israel promptly became a pariah state, as the world watched what many have described as a genocidal response against Hamas and the Palestinians. And through it all, the world’s longest-lasting hate, antisemitism, returned with a vengeance, causing many Jews to ask the question that is never far from their minds: is it time to pack up and leave?

If the Middle East gets a disproportionate amount of attention, then surely Sudan’s civil war suffers from a massive lack of international interest. Almost nine million people have been internally displaced, 3.5 million more have fled the country as refugees, and famine is rampant. Much of the world yawns.

And on top of a mountain of appalling statements he’s already made during the five years he’s been president, Donald Trump said the worst thing I’ve ever heard any politician ever say, when he essentially told Rob and Michele Reiner that they were stabbed to death by their own son because of…their hatred for him. Even MAGA Republicans were disgusted.

Having said all this, we Canadians, despite all our problems, do live in what’s demonstrably one of the most successful countries in the history of the world. ...

https://t.co/83mjoMz7nF

#cdnpoli

[Michael @mikethenavyguy]

I want to hear you articulate how you think Carney has increased the costs at the movies since elected in April. Name the policies or legislation. Please, be specific.

[Iris Gorfinkel, M.D. @DrGorfinkel]

3 NON-NEGOTIABLE PATHS
to ⬇️ RISKY 🇨🇦 ER WAITS

1/ ⬇️ ER VISITS
by improving
-Primary care access
-Urgent care options

2/ ⬆️ ER TURN-AROUND
by increasing
-Acute care beds
-Long-term/ Rehab care

3/ STOP DIVERTING Healthcare workers to private clinics

[Barney Panofsky's Best Intentions @mynamesnotgordy]

Lede correction:

Doug Ford's friends sue Ontario taxpayers for promises Doug made his friends to enrich Doug's friends but then had to break because Doug Ford and his friends got caught.

[Alex Mason @CoinXndr]

Let’s be honest, without sarcasm or hyperbole: if Ontario wants better test scores, we can’t afford Conservative governments.

Every party clashes with education sometimes, but only Conservative policy consistently underfunds, undermines, & chips away at public education itself.

[👁👁 Tom Dibblee 🇨🇦 @DibbleeTom]

Celebrating the @TeamHoman win at the 2025 Canadian Curling Trials in Halifax. Represent at the 2026 Olympics!
(A Light Lager) @lb_brewing
#Quality #Consistancy #Excellence

Wondering when the @TeamBradJacobs beer is coming out?