Fiona McKean
@FionaMcK
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50% Geek, 50% Nerd. Co-Founder (w @tobi) and Chair of @thistledownfnd Owner The Opinicon
Joined April 2009
Why are we doing this? Because this pandemic demands all of us, right now, to do what we can. Together we can have a species-level impact 💪.
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IPO day, 5 years ago. My youngest pooped through his fancy clothes and I didn’t have a spare set. He ended up wearing 2 napkins tied together and a pair of Shopify-green adult socks up to his thighs. Also, remember haircuts?
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The prolonged pandemic has depleted local organizations. To help address the gap @tobi and I are donating $750k to @UnitedWayEO, @OttawaFoodBank and @OttCommFdn to support Ottawa’s COVID-19 response. We’re not out of the woods yet but there’s hope on the horizon. Let’s do this 💪.
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Fact: @tobi and I first met playing video games.Fact: We still play video games together.Fiction: We have a Fortnight team with @VancityReynolds . Happy to pitch in 25K to help others participate in the joy of gaming 🕹️. @AbleGamers @stevenspohn.
⬇️⬇️⬇️ @AbleGamers.
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Dear kids, it’s been a heck of a year/decade/millennia. We hope you feel better soon so you can get back to the important job of playing and being your awesome selves.
It’s been hard being a kid over the past 20 months, especially those living with pain, uncertainty or undergoing treatment. @ThistledownFnd recognizes this and has made an unprecedented $26M gift to 13 of Canada’s children’s hospitals. #NationalChildDay.
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Thank you @crypto_coven for giving me the nudge I needed to get on the NFT train. Lovely community, beautiful art, and inspired code.
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This daughter is incredibly proud of her father ❤️.
We’re proud to announce the new Waverley House Secure Care & Recovery Building at CAMH in recognition of support totaling $203M from Bruce McKean and Waverley House Foundation. It is the largest cumulative gift to #mentalhealth in Canadian history. MORE:.
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Feeling humbled and grateful (and a bit sheepish 🐑!) to receive this prestigious award from the city I call home. Thank you for this great honour, and hearty congrats to my fellow indictees.
I'm pleased to announce the inductees into the Order of Ottawa for 2020 - a group of tremendously accomplished residents whose leadership, creativity and hard work serve as an inspiration for us all. For more information, please visit:.
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Sunday thoughts: We need a TransCanada Fiber Highway. We rolled out asphalt to connect the country in the 50s, now it’s time to roll out fiber to connect the country today. #essentialservice #ConnectCanada.
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Pandemic.Killer hornets.Snow in May. At least our shirts are boring af. Get yours at and help our frontline workers 💪🇨🇦. #ConquerCOVID19 @conquercovid19 @wick_22 @VancityReynolds
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💉 💪.
We need to vaccinate as many people as possible, as fast as possible, and everywhere. @GAVI through COVAX will get it done in ~100 countries. @FionaMcK and I are donating $5m to push things forward. Thank you @gatesfoundation for generously matching it.
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(note: pic taken when regular haircuts were normal).
Words cannot describe just how grateful the team at Conquer COVID-19 is for the incredible generosity of @FionaMcK and @tobi. The couple have committed to donating $1 million to Conquer COVID-19 through their Thistledown Foundation. Thank you for helping us #conquerCOVID19!! <3
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Yo @VancityReynolds , nice video and all but where’s your #CanadianTuxedo ?? .Photo credit: our 9 year old.
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🙈 I wrote a thing.
ECHO has chosen a second story from the coven 🐉. "the crossroad" by fionapendragon.eth. a SEER recounts her winding path to true sight. read this tale from the TREE of ECHOES:.
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@tobi @factoriogame Can confirm contract was broken by 7:43am. First of many "dad sighs" heard.
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Dear Internet, we wub you.
For #GivingTuesday we want to say thank you to some of the amazing Internet infrastructure that @FionaMcK and I have come to rely on. We are donating $1m to @internetarchive @Wikipedia @khanacademy and @OurWorldInData.
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. and for working their darn ❤️s out to ship for merchants. From my particular POV watching the team from the outside-inside, it’s been hard, exhausting, thrilling, relentless, deeply satisfying, and just the beginning. Thank you for striving and thriving.
World's most innovative companies in 2021 according to @FastCompany . 1. @moderna_tx .2. @BioNTech_Group / @pfizer.3. @Shopify - "For giving small shops a lifeline". Thank you 🙇♂️.
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@ThistledownFnd is proud to work with @conquercovid19, Shielding Heroes, #FastGrants and others to accelerate covid19 solutions.
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What’s the weather in Ottawa this Saturday? Sunny and 18C, with a high chance of viral ass-kicking (the virus being the kickee not the kicker, to be clear). @conquercovid19 @wick_22 @BlacksWeather
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Great initiative, we're in for 1000 🦃 dinners. If you want to help Mohamad's efforts too, you can donate at
My holiday season #TurkeyDrive is underway. Only $20 so a family can enjoy a delicious turkey dinner. This holiday season more than ever, let's help families in need
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It's time for the Trans-Canada Fibre Highway.
Covid demonstrates that high-speed internet access for *everyone* is the core, essential infrastructure project of our time. Bridges, harbours, power, interstate highways. all connected us in the pre-covid world. We need to build now for a new re-connected economy.
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This is goosebumps good ❤️💪.
Hello, is this thing on? 🎤.
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Favourite music group: Daft Punk.Favourite album: Random Access Memories.Favourite single: Da Funk. Thank you for everything, Thomas and Guy-Manuel. My kids always ask your “robot music” when we’re driving, and it makes my techno-loving heart swell 🤖 🎶.
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@fadifessa @tobi @guyraz We’d sit in the same room - me surrounded by books and study notes, him in front of the computer. It was an intense time, and we both dove into our passions and helped each other out.
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Thank you, Paul ❤️. We’ll miss you. @youthactionnow was a source of hope and strength to him at the end of his life, consider donating to support his hopes and dreams for the next generation.
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So much love in one thread.
Two things I thought I’d never do on social media: share a very personal story and type out that my baby boy has cancer. So firstly, fuck you cancer. And secondly, let's take this shitty reality and give my boy a legacy of helping other children through his story this xmas: (1/7).
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Big fans in our house, looking forward to reading this with the kids.
My book What's Our Problem? is now available. The book introduces a new framework for thinking about our chaotic political environment. With 303 drawings, it's a toolbox for understanding our societies, our group dynamics, and our own minds. Get it here:
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10k coming your way @AbleGamers #SoEveryoneCanGame #CommittedNerd #GamingSinceBeforeBrrzzTBEEguuuur (for anyone under 30, that's a modem sound).
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❤️❤️❤️.
Bruce McKean is among the most inspiring, kind and caring humans that I've ever met. He was a rock for us in the early days of Shopify and supported us when no one else did. Multiple times, he took money from his government job savings and wrote me cheques so I could meet.
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I keep thinking about this incredible podcast 🤯 Thank you @tferriss and @balajis for the mental workout.
NEW podcast episode is up! . "The Episode of Everything: Balaji (@balajis) on Bitcoin and Ethereum, Media Self-Defense, Drone Warfare, Crypto Oracles, India as Dark Horse, The Pseudonymous Economy, Beautiful Trouble, Ramanujan, Life Extension, and More" .
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This guy in my backyard is making me very happy. Operation train the sq/unk is underway!
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Happy birthday @Wikipedia 🎉 Thank you for 20 years of knowledge, and cheers to many more to come.
IT IS OUR 20TH BIRTHDAY! 🎂. Wikipedia started as an ambitious idea. Over 20 years, people like you have made it possible. If you are a Wikipedia reader, contributor, donor, or fan — today is for you. Join the celebration: #Wikipedia20
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❤️❤️.
Fancy a bit of old school Canadiana -and a resort with cabins to make you feel like you just walked into Dirty Dancing? Then you’ll LOVE @The_Opinicon Now respectfully updated to meet the needs of forward thinking guests with an eye on the past-it’s swoon worthy. @cottagelife
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I have so much respect and love for @BritForsyth. Brilliant human!.
As a new mom, I’m stressed (#momlife). Knowing this amazing human is leading the charge on the future of work puts me at ease. If you want to know what a life long learner and a leader who leads from a place of care and vulnerabilty looks like, here’s your new Friday follow.
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A loooong renovation journey, rewarded by a first pint in the new pub.
The Pub is open! Grand opening this Friday, and then ready to welcome you daily from 11am to 11pm! ❤️🎉🍻
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I am ridiculously excited about this.
SpaceX Starlink has started rolling out parts of Canada. This is the "beta than nothing" phase. Here are some pictures from the installation which was a breeze. Thank you for your vision @SpaceXStarlink.
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TFW @ThisIsSethsBlog loves @The_Opinicon and really "gets" what we're trying to do. Memories > Maximization. #pinchme #goteamgo
Irresistible is rarely easy or rational
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What a shot 📸.
Click for full: Falcon 9 launches Starlink 21 this morning, the third launch from Cape Canaveral in ten days. A shot I've been wanting to get for years. The river is rarely so glassy!
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Um. That's a big deal. (Zoom in on the face to the right of Jon Stewart's head).
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Dear Canadians, this one is important! Please download and initiate
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💪💪💪.
☀️SUMMER JOBS AT THE OPINICON ☀️ . Resumes and questions can be directed to jobs@opinicon.com. For those in the area, we’ll be hosting a job fair at The Opinicon on Sunday February 16th from 2-4pm. See you there!
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Anyone else pause at the first line and have their mind explode?. “Global economic activity from businesses on Shopify = $183BILLION”. 🤯.
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Exactly. Grab the App, Canada!.
I'm going to go on a rant because I keep seeing the same misconceptions reported about Canada's COVID Alert app.
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Could cancer-fighting viruses be repurposed as a vaccine for COVID-19? . Thank you Fast Grants and @ThistledownFnd for supporting this important research led by Dr. Carolina Ilkow and Dr. John Bell! Learn more:
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This is awesome, go team @planetary_tech!.
XPRIZE Carbon Removal is the foremost catalyst today for reducing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Thank you to @XPRIZE and @MuskFoundation for sponsoring this important initiative.
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Hey Ottawa 🙌 if you or your business have extra PPE that you’d like to donate to the covid frontlines, check out the details in this poster. Help us conquer covid 💪#conquercovid19.@conquercovid19.
We are excited to announce our first PPE drive in @ottawacity, which will be taking place this Saturday (April 25) from 9AM-5PM at 1050 Morrison Dr. Thank you St. John’s Ambulance for hosting this drive. Please bring any PPE you can to help our frontline workers #ConquerCOVID19
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😍.
🍦Ice Cream Shop reopens Friday May 17th! We’ll be handing out samples of some of the many new items we’ll be offering in the shop this summer. Hours will be 10am to 9:30pm seven days a week! 🍦. #bringonsummer #icecream #vintage #opiniconadventures
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"“Drug dev, vaccine dev, very clinical work, some basic virology, understanding the immune responses and whether people become resistant . because we’re funding such a variety of approaches, the chances that at least one of them is going to meaningfully help is really good.”.
Being part of the team has been remarkable, we can't wait to see what discoveries are made.#ScienceIsAwesome #ConquerCovid19 @patrick.@SKonermann .
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@ID_AA_Carmack Brb, @tobi’s birthday is soon and I have to reproduce this tweet on a t-shirt using bubble paint and a sharpie.
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@Shopify @takoagency @bold_commerce @JohnsCrazySocks @NDSS @xpedition_media @SpecOlympicsNY @eBridgeConnects @AbleSense @ShipperHQ @klaviyo @gomalomo @Yotpo @GetJobber @WaveHQ @kvlly @mkobach @ShopifySupport @ShopifyPlus @BretHart @tobi @tobi is busy right now, but here are the ones I got him for Christmas
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Wouldn’t have been possible without the incredible teamwork and perseverance of the #ConquerCOVID19 team 💪.
Thank you to @FionaMcK @tobi for your incredible support of @conquercovid19 through the @ThistledownFnd. Our first procured shipment of PPE was made possible through your generosity. 🙌 #ConquerCOVID19.
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Is this the bold call to action we need to push @conquercovid19 over the $2.5M mark? Yes, yes it is. #defeatcurdlesspoutine #boringisthenewsexy.
I know what you're thinking. FINALLY somebody sexy in one of those t-shirts. Deep breaths. this tweet has so much more. @ClubcoffeeLP and @SoMediaNorth are donating $10K to @conquercovid19.Awesome, right? ✌️❤️🇨🇦
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Oh the places you’ll go.
The path of a maturing thinker. In order to get to Grown-Up Mountain and start real learning, you have to brave the cold winds of Insecure Canyon. If you're not willing to say "I don't know" for a while, you might spend your whole life on Child’s Hill.
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“Our demonstration also shows that the device we produced is compatible with the optical fibre infrastructure that is already in place.” Yet another reason to get moving on the Trans Canada Fibre Highway.
Someone figured out how to make the internet 1 million times faster. By law they must automatically get the Nobel Prize.
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It was so beautiful today.
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