RE: https://cosocial.ca/@johannab/114758467635491643 I have somehow inverted #fuckitfriday tonight, the Order Muppet won the day, and I just finished an assignment that isn't due until Monday night! (Chaos Muppet is still not beaten senseless, two winter semester extensions are outstanding...) […]

Just in case anyone is thinking they are the most disorganized and distracted person around - no… no, you are not. That would be me, the diabetic insulin pump user who somehow despite diligently complying with my cannula and sensor change schedules, has somehow forgotten to actually remove the […]

RE: https://masto.ai/@Nonilex/116612907554964438 #mastoadmin #mastomods community should be on the alert for hijacked accounts. We have observed some signals of dormant accounts suddenly being used in the past two or three weeks.

App store(s) should include with their ratings “number of people who immediately deleted this app when the “free” or “trial” version proved capable of absolutely nothing except collecting your info THEN prompting you to subscribe”.

I keep getting followed by community managers at large tech companies (Reddit, OpenAI -- to name a few). Reach out if Acorn would be a good fit for your community and are open to moving to an open ecosystem (the Atmosphere). 📧 [email protected]

Wishing we had a Fediverse Poshmark, considering whether all that really needs to be is a hashtag? Are ppl out here doing buy/sell/trade/destash and I just don’t follow? Ennyhoo. It’s rapidly flipping from early spring to OMGNONOTSUMMERHEATALREADY, that seems to be when I toss half the closet […]

evidently the kids are starting to say "that's AI" as slang for "that's bullshit" and I could not be happier

Yet another stab of painful irony of finding I've missed updates from a very local writer I once followed, and even had a paid subscription to. Recent article finally made its way to me, forwarded and reforwarded through classmates saying "hey, you're into this, have you ever heard of ...". The […]

I feel like I'm having a very Canadian experience of this holiday weekend. 8 deg. C 2 days ago. 31 degrees today. I go outside, and there's a busking trio entertaining the lineup at the nearby Scoop Shoppe. I wonder if we can start a #hashtaggames featuring a #canadianfedisingalong I don't […]

Hey there @OpenMediaOrg ... I've been jumping on all your bandwagons of late and got convinced to be a donor. However, you're a Canadian org promoting Canadian engagement - and when I complete a survey or donation, I'm prompted to "share" the message, which I […] [Original post on cosocial.ca]

The last of my Singapore souvenir treats. I forgot to ask any of my classmates in the second cohort to find more for me. 😫 Aside from some of the ridiculous names and labelling, which definitely prompted my class to clean out more than one corner variety store […] [Original post on cosocial.ca]

Carpenter Bees be bee-in' about the bee-things all over my patio. I don't know if their own reflections or they can really see through the glass, but there's a few weeks of the year where my "corner office", as in corner of the living room, has a constant background noise of tiny bonk, bonk […]

RE: https://mstdn.social/@lowqualityfacts/116585340868347720 i am attacked.

Do I connect to anyone in the #urbanplanning or #urbanism realms who can convince Jennifer Keesmat to stop posting on the ded birb space, and follow BridgyFed? @BrentToderian ? @urbantruth.bsky.social#urbanplanning#urbanism She's one of the few luminaries I've followed for years who seems to have remained on that […]

Have a little #caturday #blep Also, hey there - if you are using Gander.social and can see this post from @johannab.ca, fire off a reply or something? I am rearranging electrons again and trying something. Very much liking that I can build my own pretty […] [Original post on cosocial.ca]

Fairy godmothers needed! For 18 months, I've been trying (and failing) to secure funding for a women's health-related study in my lab. It's too important not to do, so I'm turning to crowdfunding instead. Here's me chatting on RNZ's Checkpoint about it all www.rnz.co.nz/life/wellbei...

Having followed @newsmast ‘s evolution for a couple of years now, and just this week having got caught up to speed with how much @qlub is accomplishing with that model in Quebec, holy heck - everything I want to try to bring into the world is already here by the […] [Original post on cosocial.ca]

RE: https://techhub.social/@fedicon/116579655289300908 🚨 Call for Speakers — FediCon 2026🚨 The Fediverse is meeting in real life again! FediCon is a conference about the Fediverse and the Social Web — and we want your ideas. Want to present at FediCon 2026? We are looking for: • Talks • […]

Can’t stop looping this trying to resolve the actual shape of that space vs the painting. Not sure if this share will work - it’s a Divine clip. https://divine.video/video/259f1500c09acfafbdd1c78cc277482460f68824a11db836b85b62642732d466

RE: https://follow.ethanmarcotte.com/@beep/116574876011931316 Boosting because yes, really good article. It is short, to the point ... practically a checklist on "how to AI without the FAFO" for the C-suite inhabitants. TL;DR: if you cannot fully describe and comprehend all the functions in […]

RE: https://kolektiva.social/@Hex/116574851788219801 ooh, I so relate to this framing ... somecorp downsized a GenX techie just heading into prime perimenopausal rageform, instead of keeping me busy enough until I could retire properly to my beachside knitting retreat with a few cats. Now I […]

Bill C-22 is a Canadian government bill around "lawful access" to data, which is a bit of a privacy disaster that has @signal.org saying they would pull out of Canada if implemented as is. I started an open @semble.so collection if you want to add your own links

RE: https://mastodon.social/@OpenMediaOrg/116517516303137157 CANADIANs ... If you have not come across this effort yet, or have not reviewed and signed on ... please take a moment and do so. Bill C22 is as bad if not worse than it's predecessor attempt C-2, and the earlier implemented C-18 […]

I am starting a new list!!!! Suggestions, please: the online AP (or ATproto, I can bridge) coordinates of people/orgs/nodes who are working on advocacy, research, lobbying, governance framing, or just interconnecting individual instances. A network of sovereign network nodes is emerging, but […]

RE: https://mastodon.online/@raresites/116569391479043472 Waterloo Region, this sounds like an amazing workshop if you're at all interested in #climatechange or #youth engagement in our region.

I am in hold hell with Rogers. I cancelled my last Rogers service last summer. Which was 6 months after I cancelled the actual Rogers service I was forced into by my phone number being held hostage when my employer downsized me; because I had a minimal-cost, PAYG data-only service on an old […]

RE: https://cosocial.ca/@dyckron/116563207846142474 Oh no! ... ANYway ... This entire ridiculous timeline is defined by FAFO except we're all collateral damage and I resent having to deal with the FO when I never had any of the FA fun.

FediForum Connect curates sites, apps, and more that mission-aligned organizations might want to use to join the open social web. Johannes Ernst demo'd it recently at #FediForum. https://spectra.video/w/3Nwk9AHhGakixfS7RYkQVg /cc @j12t

gonna do a followMonday #followFriday shout-out, because a little bit of background research ... background *reminders* for me really ... led me to @kitchener__ontario#followfriday, one of many Canadian city-bots broadcasting local weather to the Fediverse via ca.fedimeteo.com. Found through […]

Monday. This is not a good way to get started … 😣

well that little side quest into my knitting to-do list was fun. Also reminded me I need to re-download my purchased/gifted pattern heap, as I lost my local copy of all those documents in my cloud-to-cloud mishap while trying to clean up an old mac after Time Machine had been silently failing […]

Caution: Knitting 🧶 blabber! I am not sure what I did to call this forth from the void, but a long-queued, favourited pattern in my Ravelry queue appeared to be lost a year or so ago - the page indicated the pattern source had disappeared. I quietly went about some used-bookstore shopping and […]

Mucking about with some rudimentary neural network stuff in a Jupyter notebook ... Still not gonna be any sort of coder, but as someone continually encountering "AI" demanding my attention whether I want it or not ... we need to stop hiding the cost of compute from the users' view. Every […]

📅LAST CALL to sign up for this month’s meeting! 🌟 FEATURED SPEAKER: @juliamadill.bsky.social  📅 When: May 12 at 7:00 PM ET (Speaker at 7:30 PM) ✅ Members: Check your email for meeting details  #KWKnittersGuild #MayMonthlyMeeting #MonthlySpeaker #AllWelcome #KnittingCommunity #KitchenerWaterloo

RE: https://universeodon.com/@Edmonds_Scanner/116551228829995314 Yes please. My kinda Mothers Day offering. 😁

When I’m looking at/for photos online, as much as I love our Canadian phenomenon that is Pixelfed, I prefer to be browsing photos-only, gallery-style feeds. @vernissage is both a photographer’s paradise for a photo social server, and a beautiful app (very much like the Glass commercial app) […]

Well. Turns out I depend on A LOT of cloud-hosted stuff for schoolwork. Anyone else in KW/southwestern ont having problems with cable internet?

ADHD went hard into procrasticleaning today ... mind you, the kitchen damn well needed it. Chester III is still exploding ... The sourdough loaf I baked *yesterday* is gone (and the bag it was in destroyed, because the round cat had a go at swiping it off the […] [Original post on cosocial.ca]

Tupperware somehow emailing me from the 1970s. Truth be told, I make good use of a lot of tupperware that I've inherited or collected over the last 30 years of MY lifespan ... But even if I needed more kitchen prep/storage stuff right now, the stuff that we […] [Original post on cosocial.ca]

RE: https://backend.newsmast.org/@michael/116528628330680489 Newsmast is doing great stuff and everyone who cares about the open social way shouid follow the.... @newsmast

TIL about bubbles.town and it's now goin' on my start-up page. And into my flog-the-fediverse community toolbox for talkin up independent&federated ecosystem development. thanks to @blainsmith and @bubbles !

Those of you who enjoy the artistry of photos, and if you're like me, would rather NOT see memes, text, video loops, random screen shots and headlines/bylines in the feed - check out @vernissage I have just added some bridged ATproto photography feeds and they look lovely. The same dev, by the […]

hrm, if I mail sourdough starter, can it cross borders or is it likely to be flagged as a biohazard of some sort? I have some dehydrated/flaked stuff, but no idea if that will revive yet.

RE: https://social.coop/@cwebber/116533971761510944 Excellent, thoughtful thread about how even many of us getting by quite well are doing so within a system that is doing its best to see that we don't. We are not as well as we *could be* and .. that's not our fault, but it's something we still […]

Hey fediverse, meet Chester III: The Reawakening. Apparently my trick to sourdough success is to give up and neglect the starter in the back of the fridge for almost 2 years - it's growing better than either of its previous incarnations ever did now that I woke […] [Original post on cosocial.ca]

Heeeyyyy fedi-fam. G'night for now. Been a whiplash day, ups and downs and I think it's past time to snoooze.

Hey ... testing a thing here. @[email protected] is a fediverse account "on" an Atlas map from Emissary. Im trying to get a sense of how federated/integrated/interactive things are or are not right now. Can you "follow" this? I can boost but not quote yet. This is a "copy link to […]

Over 2,000 accounts now being tracked on the Russian Botnet infecting the fediverse. 35% of them would be silenced or suspended by the IFTAS AUD list. More info: https://about.iftas.org/library/suspected-portal-kombat-accounts/

Hello I are the Walmart Greeter of Fediverse tonight. 🤣 I won't spot-check your receipts on the way out though, promise.

Gadzooks, findout.media's arrival just flipped the lightbulb on for me about something ... We now have FOSS devs building bespoke web apps for specific, single Fediverse instances (yes, I know, I've had that information for a while). For instances that need stability, to raise funds, or just […]