
Christopher Mercer
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Christopher Mercer
@mercerch
Senior Swim Coach, Geek guy, Swimmer, Writer/Blogger, and former techie. I work in the sciences and live in the arts.


Okay, I need #nlwx experts to explain this one. Last night at ~2:40, I saw what can only be described as spotlight pillars of light beaming up into the sky from every major light. But only when I couldn’t directly see the light (last 2 photos are same light). My lens was clean.


One of my pet peeves at the grocery store: seeing people shop in their pajamas. Call me old-fashioned…



A solo founder with AI in 2026 will outperform a 50-person corp from 2020. Not metaphorically. Literally. AI agents for research. For writing. For code. For customer service. For strategy. For ops. One person. Full stack. No payroll. We’re entering the era of the one-person unicorn. The people who understand this early won’t just build businesses. They’ll build empires while everyone else is still hiring.



Conservative MP searches for ‘antifa’ in federal government, Canadian Armed Forces - National | Globalnews.ca globalnews.ca/news/11688507/…






Finding out James Van Der Beek died of cancer made me extremely sad…and finding out that he has a go-fund me for his family made me even sadder. Finding out that the GFM is there b/c he spent all his money on “alternative treatments” for the cancer instead of chemo was whiplash








BREAKING: PM Carney to announce more GST credits today, in a grocery store. Great. But instead of sending more cash (which risks inflating food prices even more), why not cut the GST on food altogether? A GST cut would lower prices at the checkout, immediately, for all Canadians — not just some, not later, not via bureaucracy.













