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Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca)'s status on Friday, 23-Feb-2024 02:08:47 EST

  1. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 23-Feb-2024 01:00:25 EST clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

    People on here and on other networks often use CDN to refer to Canada, which I have found confusing. People use it for e.g. hashtags like #'cdnpol or #'cdnmedia .

    I finally looked it up and according to a random commenter on a page[0] on The Guardian's website and according to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internat… (marked "citation needed") it's for the Canadian DominioN.

    In the Olympics, Canada is CAN.
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_…

    The ISO alpha-3 code is also CAN.
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166…

    So it seems it's really just the car sticker thing that got this peculiar abbreviation. And now social media.

    [0] theguardian.com/notesandquerie…

    In conversation about a year ago from libranet.de permalink Repeated by bobjonkman
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