It's finally not 100% cloudy and I found the comet! I got it with binoculars really easily, then spent like 20 minutes trying to get it with my telescope (because I'm really bad at that!) But I got it! It's really neat looking! And I actually thought it looked more interesting through […]

Thousands showed up outside Premier Smith’s “State of Alberta” speech to remind her and everyone else present that the state of Alberta includes that 1 in 55 workers in this province is a teacher on strike, and 1 in 6 people in this province is a child out of school […] [Original post on mstdn.ca]

I’ve taken over the listing of Canadian mastodon servers at https://MastodonServer.ca from @mike thanks for your work on this Mike! Don’t expect much change, though I might update the domain name at some point to be more “Fedi” inclusive? I also enabled it on ActivityPub. You should be able to […]

Happy Thanksgiving Weekend #canada!! A year ago I was in Australia and it was so strange to miss #thanksgiving. This year, I’m heading to a cabin in the woods with my best friend cousin and my dog. #unplug Enjoy the roses from #adelaide from 2024. #bloomscrolling

Compare #curling with #baseball. In baseball the managers and coaches hold their hands over their faces when they talk to each other. In curling you stand 2 meters away from your opposition openly talking strategy. That’s the difference I noticed today. #bluejays

Listening to a speaker at a library conference pronounce libary over and over. LIBRARY - don’t forget the first R #library

... and FediForum Day 2 is starting just about now. First: software demos! Including some very cool ones that you likely have not seen before -- because they haven't been shown anywhere else before! You can still join us: https://fediforum.org

Just listening to @CaulfieldTim at Stronger Together conference of library workers in #edmonton. What’s wrong with this picture?

Apparently theres a new wave of people joining mastodon, and with them a new wave of self-appointed cops "welcoming" them with long lists of mostly fictitious "rules" they need to follow. This is a social media platform, with many of different ways to use it. It's fine. Mostly, just try to be […]

Advanced voting is October 7-11 from 12-8pm Find information about where to vote and what you need here ⬇️ www.edmonton.ca/city_governm...

Kudos to the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (#HHMI) for strengthening its 2022 #openaccess policy to require the immediate sharing of new research through #preprints under #ccby licenses. https://hhmicdn.blob.core.windows.net/policies/Immediate-Access-to-Research.pdf This kind of policy is […]

"In recent months, several publishers have announced that they are licensing their scholarly content for use as training data for LLMs. (...) To understand the dynamics around this fast-developing market, Ithaka S+R has launched a tracker of these licensing deals. In it, we catalog (when the […]

Does anyone know of a Fediverse calendar or events program? I’m imagining a complex organization like a university where you could post and tag events. While looking, I did find this https://mastodon.academy/ which is very cool. But sadly, not a calendar. #calendar

Reasonably sure Mastodon peeps like libraries and might like a peek at this wowzer I stepped into today. #dascdmx

@avi.lewis I was very disappointed that you decided to post your announcement on FB. Really? You can’t blame corporations at the same time that you give your voice to the tech oligarchs. Be the change you want to be. #ndp #avilewis

CANCER JUNE 22 – JULY 23 Because you are so passionate about your beliefs you will clash with someone who feels equally as strongly as you but from the opposite position. On this occasion there is clearly no room for compromise, so may the best Cancer win! This checks out! Everyone, STOP USING […]

5 zip for #canada #rugby

#Curling This is so stupid I don’t even have words. #Alberta we need to support these young people and revolt. WARNING: For your own mental health don’t read the comments on this article. #abpoli Net losses: Volleyball family speaks out against new […] [Original post on indieweb.social]

Goodbye Sun! See you next Spring. I live at 53.54 degrees N and work on the North-West side of the building. I won't get direct sunlight again until Spring.

I can't help but wonder if the manufacturer of Tylenol failed to make an appropriately worthy campaign contribution.

@andrewknack.bsky.social Maybe you were door knocking (or should I say, #knacking) in Riverdale today? Do you have details on how you will “cut permit waits”? #edmontonmayor

Any San Francisco kid under the age of 5 can get a free book mailed to them every month under a new partnership announced Friday by city officials and Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library. The first book that all children will receive in the mail, addressed to them, is The Little Engine That […]

@mike My village is small and they basically said we're not going to make everyone sign up for something new. They politely said I was the oddball by not having a Facebook. I think a selling point would be if municipals could have a dedicated app just for their federated accounts that their […]

When I was writing my latest book, Move Slowly and Build Bridges, I talked about the stakes: corporate social media is accruing incredible power and is increasingly tied to state power. We need noncommercial, non- centralized media. Honestly, I thought I overstated it when I wrote the book […]

#downbytheriver #yeg kind of fun going to the first year of a festival, around the corner from my neighborhood on the beautiful North Saskatchewan River.

If I hear Tara McCarthy advertise #Threads on #CBC #Edmonton one more time I’m going to loose my shit. @chris#threads#cbc#edmonton it time to dust off the petition?

We got an alert from IT today that there has been an incoming phishing campaign using fake meeting invites. I know what I read. It definitely said "Delete all meeting invites forever."

#bloomscrolling Who cares in the Bombers lost?

Anyone else awake in the middle of the night listening to BBC World Service radio? Quite a long piece on the #alberta book censorship story. Interview with #nenshi and a shoutout to #librarians. I can’t seem to find a link to it.

Fortunately, they were able to find St. Elsewhere so the canonization could be completed. #reasontvcharactersweresainted #hashtaggames https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083483/

Oh Max! Got to be Agent 99 for being the brains of the duo, but having Agent 86 take all the credit. #GetSmart #reasontvcharactersweresainted #HashtagGames

What about a story about not being able to find an apartment when you’re Indigenous? #racism @globeandmail#racism The racial profiling of Indigenous shoppers is unacceptable (The Globe and Mail (Alberta Edition)), Sep 05, 2025 https://globe2go.pressreader.com/article/281792815157178

https://www.spiegel.de/kultur/literatur/margaret-atwood-schriftstellerin-veroeffentlicht-ironische-kurzgeschichte-gegen-buecherbann-in-alberta-a-82aa93dc-0f6e-444a-bdcd-1a498174296e Entfernung Hunderter #Bücher aus #bibliotheken und Klassenzimmern in #edmonton, dem zweitgrößten Schulbezirk in […]

Columnist Philip Bump left the Washington Post last month after accepting a buyout. For his Pbump blog, he writes about power — who has it and is using it responsibly and how to preserve your own — and why he is not a fan of Twitter/X or Substack. "There’s value to debate and conversation, of […]

Bounce, the tool that lets you migrate your social graph between protocols, is now live in Beta! Today, we're launching one direction: ATProto to ActivityPub. We're so excited to get this in people's hands and to see what it means for the future of taking control of our social graphs from […]

The benefits of having an amazing public library system cannot be overstated. Almost any books, textbooks, media, vinyl records, they have it here. They have free printing services. Protect and resource libraries.

“AI Tools for Academic Libraries aims to navigate the evolving and exciting terrain of AI tools. Each bimonthly installment will offer a clear, practical look at a specific category of tools, such as research assistants, time management optimizers, and transcription services. <snip> This series […]

Today is Ukrainian Independence Day. Слава Україні! 🇺🇦

One of the things I love about my ereader is the built in dictionary. I’m reading Dyed in the Wool by Ngaio Marsh. The word that I just looked up #taradiddle. It’s a dandy. “A lie, typically one considered harmless or trivial; a fib.” With so many great […] [Original post on indieweb.social]

Summary of today

This is what I think about this #antiaging #capitalism crap https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr5r1qyrl78o

The water is surprisingly chilly but on 35°C day, it is absolutely perfect. SUCCESS #poolpond #backyardproject #pondlife #portalberni #hot #summer

If you’re looking to sign the Forever Canadian petition, here’s an ever update calendar list of locations: https://www.forevercanadianpetitionevents.com/ #ableg #abpoli #forevercanadian #fucktheseparatists

What happened to the #elks? Up 17 to zip against the Red Blacks! #edmonton

"Social media goes mainstream for political messaging — warts and all" I'm going to see if George Lee, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, McLeod Gazette is also going to cover the fediverse and/or ATProto […]

Today we welcomed new faculty to my university. I created a Human Bingo icebreaker. It did force 49 people to come to me and initial their card. Who knows? Maybe a few people will be Mastodon curious. #mastodonmigration

“The fact that we’re talking like Donald Trump could mean that we’re starting to think like him as well.” That might be the most depressing article of the week, maybe ever. Believe me. #kiddingnotkidding […]

Beyond books, libraries offer varied, and perhaps unexpected, free offerings (The Globe and Mail (Alberta Edition)), Aug 16, 2025 And, next year when they write this article the headline will be “Public Libraries help find an alternative to <insert either […] [Original post on indieweb.social]

Mafia meetings used to be much more discreet