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  1. jgieseking

    Take the LBQT*S Dating & Hookup App Survey!

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    | LBQT*S+ Dating, Syndicated
    April 28, 2023

    Want to share about your experiences with dating and/or hookup apps as a lesbian, bisexual, queer, trans*, or sapphic person?

    TAKE THE SURVEY BY CLICKING HERE!

    If you are over 18 years of age, you can take this online survey to share more about how these apps have or haven’t worked for you and how you want them to work.

    The survey will take 20-35 minutes depending on how much you share.

    This research is overseen by Dr. Jack Jen Gieseking and approved by the Mount Holyoke College IRB.…

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  5. Downes

    Trillium

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    | 2023365, forest, merbleue, ottawa, Syndicated, trillium
    April 23, 2023
    April 23, 2023. Evn if they're not quite blooming yet, it's nice to see trilliums all through the forest floor. We went for an 8.7 km walk along the Mer Bleue trail. It was supposed to rain all day, but it didn't, though trail was pretty muddy in plac...
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  7. Downes

    Train

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    | 2023365, Syndicated
    April 23, 2023
    April 22, 2023. This is a train with two engines and two cars in Finch, Ontario. I thought it was going to rain all day, but instead the rain held off until evening and the result was a beautiful day for cycling (if you don't count the 50 kph wind gus...
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  8. Downes

    Picket

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    | 2023365, Syndicated
    April 23, 2023
    April 21, 2023. This is the PSAC picket line on Montreal Road outside Mona Fortier's office. I was out on the line again today - lunch hour only, because it is illegal for me to picket with them any other time (I'm in a different union). I'm *very* sy...
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  9. Downes

    Goldfinch

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    | 2023365, Syndicated
    April 22, 2023
    April 20, 2023. A better shot of the goldfinch in our back yard enjoying the feeder. A quiet day, working from home, and recovering from the cold I got working in the office. https://flic.kr/p/2ovbjmW
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  10. Downes

    Squirrel

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    | 2023365, Squirrel, Syndicated
    April 20, 2023
    April 19, 2023. This is a squirrel spotted just off Montreal Road as I was headed for lunch at Bobby's table (some delish smoked meat). The restaurant just happens to be across the road from where striking public service workers were picketing a gover...
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  11. Downes

    Green Grass

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    | 2023365, Syndicated
    April 20, 2023
    April 18, 2023. And just like that, there was green grass. I'd swear it was brown yesterday. I'm always amazed at how suddenly the grass returns. I went to the office to work today, a but tricky since none of my office computers is working properly. O...
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  14. Downes

    Goldfinch

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    | 2023365, Syndicated
    April 17, 2023
    April 17, 2023. The bottom half of a goldfinch is visible below the rain shield over the feeder. This was a quiet day - also cool and rainy, so I wasn't tempted to go outdoors - a nice break after last week's frenzy. Still it included a long meeting i...
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  15. Downes

    Joey Vinegar

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    | 2023365, joeyvinegar, ottawa, Syndicated
    April 17, 2023
    April 16, 2023. This is Joey Vinegar and guests performing at the Ottawa Farmers market. We drove into the city to check out the Tamal fesitval (and eat some delicious tamales from various countries) and on the way checked the market; both events were...
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  17. Downes

    La Bonita

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    | 2023365, Syndicated
    April 16, 2023
    April 14, 2023. This is a scene from La Bonita restaurant on Ogilvie Road where Andrea and I had lunch. Today everything came at once and everything went long - Andrea's appointment, three meetings, a trailer hitch installation, trip to the bike shop,...
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  18. Downes

    Blowout

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    | 2023365, Syndicated
    April 16, 2023
    April 13, 2023. I was only 1.7 km into my ride when the front tire of my bike blew off the rim. I wasn't really prepared, since I was just planning a short ride, so I also took a 1.7 km walk. It shouldn't have blown out; I only had 55 pounds in it (it...
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  19. Downes

    Birdwatching

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    | 2023365, Syndicated
    April 16, 2023
    April 12, 2023. This is Julia (left) and Emma on the cat shelf in the kitchen right behind my chair watching the birds at the feeders. This is the first of three medical appointments in three days for Andrea, hopefully nothing major, but they're doing...
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  22. jgieseking

    How Dating Apps Researchers Tend to Study Women’s Experiences

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    | Syndicated
    April 12, 2023

    There are now thousands of studies on how people use, experience, and are even changed by their use of dating and hookup apps (hereafter: dating apps). I read hundreds of these articles, reports, and white papers that focus on or mention lesbian, bisexual, queer, trans*, and sapphic (LBQT*S) experiences in order to design my imminently launching LBQT*S Dating and Hookup App research survey. In this research, I unsurprisingly found the following:

    1. studies of “LGBTQ” people’s use of dating apps or studies about the experiences people from the LGBTQQIA2+ community tend to focus on gay men, almost exclusively assuming these men to be cisgender
    2. studies of women almost exclusively assume their research participants are cisgender, and often assume they are or focus just on heterosexual women
    3. dating app studies in general focus on the experiences of cisgender people, usually assuming that research paricipants identify as cisgender

    In fact, a recent …

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  24. Downes

    Bike Ride

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    | 2023365, bikepacking, Syndicated
    April 10, 2023
    April 10, 2023. This is my bike[packing bike, out on it's first real run, a 45km loop on gravel roads south of town. Here's my recording on RideWithGPS.. ridewithgps.com/trips/117593465 I like the way it pits in the locations of the pictures. But it's...
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  25. @incbesh

    Case Study: LUBUS Agency’s Clients Save 50-90% by Migrating to WordPress.com

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    | Case Study, Syndicated
    April 10, 2023
    Executive Summary LUBUS, a development agency specializing in WordPress and Laravel, faced challenges with variable hosting costs and maintenance for their clients. They needed a solution that offered fixed costs, high performance, secure web hosting, and reliable service and support. LUBUS decided to test WordPress.com and, after witnessing positive results, …
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  26. Downes

    Curling

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    | 2023365, curling, Syndicated
    April 9, 2023
    April 8, 2023. Scene from the qualifying rounds at the world men's curling championships. We won free tickets from CAA and it was better than I thought it would be. We were seated in a 'loge', which is basically a private box with nice chairs, a table...
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  27. Downes

    Bunnies

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    | 2023365, bunny, chocolate, Syndicated
    April 8, 2023
    April 7, 2023. Yes, I had a chocolate Easter bunny for lunch. No, not one of these - a kilogram of chocolate is too much even for me. I made too with a 200 gram bunny. It was a stay-at-home and try to recover day today. I watched a couple of ball game...
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  28. Downes

    The Storm

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    | 2023365, Syndicated
    April 7, 2023
    April 6, 2023. This is a red-winged blackbird departing the feeding area mid-afternoon near the end of the ice storm. Today was mostly the aftermath, with half an inch of ice covering everything and the power being out all day. Andrea and I spent the ...
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  29. Downes

    Ice Storm

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    | 2023365, ice, Syndicated
    April 7, 2023
    April 5, 2023. This is a view of the ice building up in the back before my window was covered with a layer of ice. We had thunder, lightning and freezing rain, the first instance of thunder-ice since 1985. It got worse and worse and then around 9 the ...
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  30. Downes

    CSEC

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    | 2023365, Syndicated
    April 7, 2023
    April 4, 2023. CSECV building as seen on my walk to the office for my first day back in the office after the pandemic. I dropped my car off to have the tires changed (and to argue with them about the trailer hook they never delivered, and then about t...
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