This is an important, eloquent piece by @aphyr - worth a boost I’d say: https://aphyr.com/posts/397-i-want-you-to-understand-chicago

heeyyyyy everybody. I shouted this out earlier, but if it rolled right past, here's a link directly to @bonfire 's short video from their Crowdfunding campaign. https://youtu.be/pwZZKSXbWX4 I chipped in a bit I could spare this morning, and as it's now near bedtime in my Americas time zone, I […]

Hey there @bonfire , have we gone and set the campground on fire based on today's news? No huge problem, but I'm finding it's just spinning away trying to load anything, even my profile or local timeline. Hope that's just because it's so damned popular all of a sudden!

I came back to this talk today - and I've got to admit, I think it's a banger. Lots to say about how mission-driven technology can be successful. https://werd.io/why-the-open-social-web-matters-now/

Bonfire Networks is ready with Bonfire Social 1.0. I'm keen to find a way to participate in this, and was glad to find they've taken the same approach as Pixelfed, to crowdfund an initial injection of support for the development. 37 days to go and they're already past halfway to the goal! […]

Related to my last post on COP30 ... it's hard for many in our daily lives to have any sense that we can make real change in a global system. But change is being made. Slow or small, it's still change. This post wandering past my eyeballs is an example. My term project for Climate Change and […]

Now fully signed on as a virtual observer to COP30 in Belém, Brazil. The UN Secretary General's speech is worth reading. Things are bad, we've missed many marks in 30 years of trying. But there is still hope that we can find solutions. "The challenge is immense. But the choices are clear. No […]

Just found out that my Futures and Systems prof, who wrangled a discoordinated group of strangers into cohesive team of foresight-driven planners during my Residency week last year, has got her new book to market this month Everything about the Future Cities program is intersectional, and […]

This could be life-restoring for a segment of the ME/CFS population. It's still research-based and of course will take forever to comercialize, but researchers have developed a test that reliably detects epigenetic markers associated with ME/CFS […]

Cat sitting on keyboard somehow managed to enable a screen zoom which blew up ONLY my Mastodon web interface. Took me way too long to find that setting and return to normal and I still don't know what keypress the cat hit to do that.

This Anaconda Navigator/nope it's just conda/shit, brew cannot even deal with it mess I'm in might drive me to actually try to restore something from time machine... ugh.

And now we are running brew update! DAMMIT JIM I'M APPLICATION SUPPORT NOT A SYSADMIN.

The gov't of Canada "jobs board" that spams all the EI recipients is ridiculous. "Cloud Architect", in-person workplace with a commute, $19/hr? FFS. Don't waste my electrons on that.

This is one of those evenings where I pull up and review the "How to shoot your own foot in every programming language ... " list because the laughs keep you from crying ... (Or throwing Macbook through a window because FFS why the hell can't python just python and my environment manager just […]

WOW. I don't know if there were more tickets than applicants, or if I got lucky and won a draw again ... but I get to attend part of COP 30 (the UN Conference on Climate Change) as a virtual delegate in a couple of weeks. #climatechange #futurecities still a bit unsure how this weird […]

Large cat would like me to share with you all that this Time Change nonsense has resulted in an unacceptable malfunction in her Food Robot, it is delivering her meals late (and she suspects it's skimping on the kibble too).

FFS I did not need to add "troubleshoot anaconda navigator on your Mac" to my day. I just want to run the damn scripts for the exercise, why did that update a) refuse to run and b) bork the install I DID have going.

@moderation Question for mods & admins out there - does anyone host their own <whatever> as a sandbox/playground, and what's your architecture for doing this? I want few and invitation-only collaborators to multiple AP-social web applications that we can experiment with as mods/admins as we […]

The inside of my OG Tilley Hat. Every hat sold at that show was signed and Tilley wrote in the purchaser's name and phone number so it could be returned if lost. This was in the days before pockets and flotation aids in the crown. whatever marker he used held up […] [Original post on cosocial.ca]

At least we all get a bit more sleep? Clocks go back, North Americans.

Wait, the Jays hit more balls and got more ppl across the finish line? This First Past The Post system is total pants. https://cosocial.ca/@shayman/115478235376572516

Wow. My sympathies to the Jays and all their fans but holy cow, I don't think you can fault any of them for how they played? Game 7 bottom of the 11th is a hell of a series ender.

Knitters are now deciding on the next rules for Calvinball.

ELEVEN!!!?!?! Are we paying these guys by the hour?

Somebody has stress-eaten all the Hallowe'en Coffee Crisps now who did that mom is the only one in the house who likes Coffee Cri.. .. oh.

I am online with a whole bunch of other knitters and we're now adding Bottom Of The Tenth accidental, er, "design elements" to whatever we're working on. #jays #worldseries #okbluejaysletsplayball

y'all I cannot just double up the blood pressure meds, it don't work that way.

Also, thank you NOT to whomever pointed out how few of these players were even BORN the last time the Jays won the World Series. Git offa mah lawn and that ball is now mine. *harrumph* #genx

Use your hashtags people I'm not sure who is freaking out about which sport! Win or lose, at least I won't end up with salsa in my hair like I did the LAST time Jays won the WS.

A prudent reminder from a #genx friend: "If this is your *third* Blue Jays World Series, please remember to stretch before celebrating."

I am enjoying the sportsez much much more by following them secondhand via social feeds. Except I'm now confused ... there's a bench-clearing hockeybrawl thing happening at the Jays game? what? AND some of y'all are saying there was a hand-egg game too? 😆 Please remember to eat your dinners […]

Uh-oh, between having made SOME progress on SOME real stuff today, and now following the Jays game one-level-removed, it seems the #adhd brain is in full-on #fuckitfriday mode again. There's a reason for my pinned post! https://cosocial.ca/@johannab/114758467635491643

Ah, Bayesian statistics. Last time we met was what, 20 years ago? Why the hell can I remember stats from 20 years ago and cannot get Python syntax right having used it in at least one course per semester for the last 22 months?

Some org amongst the numerous Canadian charities I support has either violated my usual "do not share my info" selection or assumed consent in not offering it in the first place. I usually catch those and then don't donate, but conceivably I missed one. For the last many months I have been […]

Apple Music has just brought to my attention that last year, Duran Duran released "Dance Macbre" a Hallowe'en album. Now 2025 me has to figure out how to explain "Duran Duran but Goth" to 1987 me. WTF. Although, I'm up for being a reviewer of whatever Simon Le Bon and Trent Reznor collaborate […]

Y'all aren't going to keep me up until 3 am waiting to see how many innings were played AGAIN tonight, are you? I really should've got more knitting done given all this.

In light of the PSF's recent loss of an NSF grant and attendant funding shortfall, I will be matching donations up to $5000. Send me your receipts. Very happy if you've already donated for similar reasons but the point is to motivate *new* donations so be sure the timestamp is after this toot 😉.

This morning’s #worldcitiesweek event is a talk on tornado and hail research from Aaron Jaffe of the Canadian Severe Storms Laboratory. So far, TIL the idea that you should open all the windows of your house as a storm approaches is a myth; just get your ass to a low-level interior room - […]

Well this was great, getting caught snort-laughing at the back of a lecture hall while the prof is setting up for a seminar on tornadoes. From: @vagina_museum https://masto.ai/@vagina_museum/115451395642541388

The timeline whiplash I get when my free software and tabletop gaming and urban hippie nerd follows turn out to also be stealth Toronto sportsball fans is rather disorienting.

Good heavens can we win this ball game already climate change is happening I gotta get back to existential dread about the doomsday glacier timeline.

16th inning they all have to play the field wearing clown shoes

I spent part of my afternoon building cities again today! Chuffed to dicover that UW's Turkstra Chair in Urban Engineering is also a certified professional LEGO teacher. This is World Cities Week here and the office of the Chair and the Future Cities Institute […] [Original post on cosocial.ca]

To my fediverse mod/admin friends… this is extracurricular reading, but I find Andy’s lawyerly dialogues on how a Canadian ISP handles legal or administrative disclosure situations to be something to think on in the space of freelance social network administration. No doubt many of us […]

I am incredibly delighted and impressed to see the domain access subscription feature in #gotosocial - allowing admins to subscribe to a domain list for allowing or denying domains, and - more importantly - processing retractions when those lists remove an entry 💯 If you are building federated […]

Second time since starting grad school that the project agenda starts at LEGO!!!!

@moderation Pardon the intrusion, but hello - I'm conducting a small test as to how an attempt to join an activitypub.space works and looks from within my usual space, which is a mastodon home accessed via the Advanced view, web client. So far I have discovered that reading the discussion […]

A month or so back i finally got around to hanging my own shingle back out at a lay-by off the information highway. Tossing some longer-form thoughts out of my Obsidian notes heap and onto a teeny bland blog again […]

I am Developing Concerns about my timelines being rather quiet is there not an important sportsball celebration I should be hearing about by now? 😬

I already "boosted" the post where I found this but I'm gonna share it myself too for some reach. C'mon out Uptown #waterloo for a dinner-hour dance party and support our #2slgbtqia+ Spectrum Waterloo friends & fam! https://ourspectrum.com/