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Michael Fraiman
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Journalist, marketer, podcast-maker. Head of , communications for
Niagara Falls, Ontariomfraiman.comJoined March 2011

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I just realized the Canadian smoke you’re experiencing in New York is completely different from the Canadian smoke here in Toronto. Ours is blown east from the 54 active fires in NW Ontario and Manitoba. Yours is blown south from the 150 fires in Quebec
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This is incredibly weak "defacing". It's circles. It's just a bunch of circles.
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New Niagara-on-the-Lake Pride crosswalk defaced twice in one week niagarathisweek.com/news/new-niaga
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Let's not let Jimmy Butler's ridiculous volleyball game-saver distract us from the fact that Gabe Vincent got them there with that egregiously confident 3 with 8 seconds left.
As someone with a baby about the same age of De'Aaron Fox's infant, let me just say, that mom is incredibly brave. (Will this child sleep at all for the next two hours??Adorable headphones though.)
I'm confused about this Twitter pay-to-play model. How do you determine the 500 biggest paying advertisers? If you're the 500th biggest spender, what happens if the 501st spends more and suddenly bumps you—do you lose verification? Will anyone even notice or care?
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Absolutely hilarious that went from a flat 10% fee years ago, to changing to some bizarre tiered structure that stole extra money from newbies, to returning to their "newly simplified" fees of... the same thing it was a decade ago. Good job, team!
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So that was... A pretty boring Oscars, right? No upsets. No drama. No wild speeches or political rants. All winners deserving and predictable. Run-of-the-mill shit. Kinda dissapointing.
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On the electoral boundary changes here in Niagara: 1. Baldinelli is silly for arguing that historical facts should override demographics when creating a *riding* 2. Good lord, the hyphens in his suggested name. Just call it "Niagara Falls on the Lake" and be done with it.
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This thread describes a very roundabout way of simply writing a letter to someone who owes you money and demanding it.
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Imagine a multi-billion dollar client who refused to pay you for good work rendered. Most people would turn to lawyers I turned to ChatGPT Here's the story of how I recovered $109,500 without spending a dime on legal fees:
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Why does every fervent pro-Monarch look like this
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Canada should show more enthusiasm for King Charles’s coronation theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl
I think this is fair. But we need a metric to measure these incidents/apologies, a la, "On a scale of Meyers to Kyrie, how genuine is the apology". ?
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ESPN Sources: Free agent F/C Meyers Leonard -- out of the NBA since March 2021 after uttering an antisemitic slur on a video game livestream and rehabbing post-surgical nerve damage on his right leg -- is signing a 10-day contract with the Milwaukee Bucks.
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My wife and I used to travel the latter way, when we were backpacking, and wanted to see everything we could. Now we have kids and that concept seems absurd.
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Travel question: you are on vacation visiting a major world city for four nights. Are you more likely to spend all four nights in the same hotel? Or stay two nights each in two different hotels in two different neighborhoods, to see more of the city?
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Nintendo finally adding GameBoy and GameBoy Advance titles to NSO is compelling and overdue. Especially given how many titles seem to be proto versions of popular titles (original Kirby, old Zelda, Metroid II, etc.) Good for them.
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It takes an astoundingly small amount of self-awareness to correctly diagnose the situation and not realize that he is the problem.
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“I work extremely hard at what I do. No one ever talks about my work ethic…everyone talks about what I’m doing off the floor.” - Kyrie Irving
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The speed with which the Nets traded Kyrie implies, to me, that they could have traded KD equally quickly if they wanted to—and didn't want to. Probably not changing their minds now so much as building around the contract superstar.
Moved into my new WFH office this week. Spent months renovating it. It doubles as a guest room. Only problem is now my wife and 1-month-old daughter like to nap here. So it smells like poo or farts atm. Hard to say whose fault. Other than that a very pleasant work environment.
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Elon's changes and attitude seem to presume that Twitter is irreplaceable. Like we're stuck here. He's wrong. MySpace, AOL, MSN Messenger and Google Plus were equally replaceable. If enough better options exist, Twitter will be gone by 2030.
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Oh god are you really telling me I'm going to have to spend another 100 hours in this universe?
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Meet the Princess of the Underworld in HADES II, the next game from our studio! Details about Early Access coming in 2023. 🌘Wishlist on Steam: supergiant.games/hades2steam 🌓Wishlist on Epic: supergiant.games/hades2egs 🌔More info: supergiant.games/hades2 #TheGameAwards #HadesGame
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When you find yourself in a hole, keep digging, and then buy the hole for $44bn and dig some more.
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To be clear, my historical party affiliation has been Independent, with an actual voting history of entirely Democrat until this year
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I thought Kyrie Irving was donating $500k to anti-hate orgs and NOT specifically the ? Regardless it's amazing to watch Kyrie's attempted apology blow up spectacularly
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We were optimistic but after watching the debacle of a press conference, it’s clear that Kyrie feels no accountability for his actions. @ADL cannot in good conscience accept his donation.
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