We've had a heavy snowfall in Quebec over the last couple of days, and many trees that still have their leaves have a lot of snow on them. They're breaking and falling under the weight. One seems to have taken out the powerlines near our house in Melbourne, Quebec. We've got a nice fire and […]

Ohhhh, so that's why I keep seeing Gordon Lightfoot. (The SS Edmund Fitzgerald wrecked 50 years ago today.)

Nobody is going to save us. We have to take over the party and save ourselves.

Wikipedia is celebrating its 25th anniversary in January, and our amazing creative teams in the Wikimedia Foundation put together this video that I love. Fun fact! There are something like 500 attributions for images, sounds, and text in the video 🤯 […] [Original post on wikimedia.social]

I'm going to be in Halifax for a conference on Friday Nov 14 and Saturday Nov 15. What is the Fediverse scene like there? Should we have an #activityinthepub?

Market economies work when there are: - Antitrust enforcement - Environmental and occupational health regulations - Unions - Public health and unemployment insurance - Consumer protections - Public research funding - Public infrastructure funding - A robust democracy

Happy Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to those who celebrate

Wanted to send my congratulations to the @bonfire team for Bonfire Social 1.0! The Bonfire folks are currently #crowdfunding to help build out more features. If you'd like to help #bonfire become more successful, please support them via #indiegogo here […]

[#cdnPoli support the "No Loopholes" Bill to end arms exports to Israel] "More than a month into the so-called ceasefire, Israel’s assault on Gaza hasn’t stopped. Yet, Canada continues to allow weapons to reach Israel, through the United States — weapons that fuel this ongoing devastation. MP […]

Proprietarianism morally equates private ownership of a small Hawaiian island to the ownership of the shirt on your back. I humbly disagree they are anything like one another.

@todb "The Tomb" was good! Thanks for the fun listen. https://podsothoth.buzzsprout.com/1078223/episodes/18155283-71-the-tomb

Imagine looking at the results of the elections this week and deciding that what the Democratic base is craving is anti-Palestinian centrism. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/opinion/josh-shapiro-democratic-party.html

Wheels up! Thanks for a nice day, Vancouver.

#feedgaza #ceasefirenow

Don't try to be a Great Wall of China. Just be a Wall of China, and let history make its own judgments.

This is a story that started more than 25 years ago, when I was an student of computer sciences. In 1987, when software was distributed through USENET newsgroups in split text files, Edward Barlow posted something special to comp.sources.games: "conquest – […] [Original post on mastodon.sdf.org]

Hello fediverse, I'm in Kobe for W3C #tpac ! Happy to meet anyone who's here for the event (or not for the event too, I guess)

At Salmon n' Bannock for the first time. It's been a goal for a while, and I'm so glad I made it this trip.

Reading about https://en.greatfire.org/ for Computer Networks class (censorship module). Really interesting!

The oldest backrooms level is a very long house. The longhouse was the first very large building designed by humans. Some of them were massive. So I propose a backrooms level that's just a long house that extends into infinity, maybe with partition doors at intervals. Dead fire-pits, dry […]

I got 22,000 steps yesterday in Seattle. Partly from walking around UW for #SeaGL2025, partly from walking through Ravenna Park with @bnewbold.net#seagl2025!

We struggle to survive every day. We cook over fires, wash our hands, and live in tents that offer no protection from the cold. All we have left is hope to keep going in this endless suffering. Help us survive this winter; we only need $500 to buy a tent […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Great conversation between Jesse Brown of Canadaland and @pluralistic about Canada’s moment in the #enshittocene and what we might do about it. #cdnpoli #elbowsup https://www.canadaland.com/podcast/1256-how-to-unshttify-canada-with-cory-doctorow/

Its 10pm where I am and the #Defaidodon posts are still rolling in, thank you everyone for making this #defaidodonday a success. Keep 'em coming!

dogfood : food :: dogwood : wood

I had 3 people come up and say they signed up for Fediverse accounts today. I haven't ever directly asked people to join during a talk; I guess it helps to have that direct invitation. #seagl2025

@PizzaRia hi! Welcome to the Fediverse!

Watch #seagl2025 for updates about... Uh... SeaGL 2025!

The @bonfire framework, a kind of federated social app construction kit, is running a crowd fund campaign https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/bonfire/community I’ve supported it and will look at running an install for some community, maybe @dwebvancouver

In a few hours, I'll be giving the keynote intro at SeaGL, "Free the Social Web". If you're not in Seattle, you can attend remotely: https://seagl.org/attend#attend-remotely

While cleaning a storage room, our staff found this tape containing #unix v4 from Bell Labs, circa 1973 Apparently no other complete copies are known to exist: https://gunkies.org/wiki/UNIX_Fourth_Edition We have arranged to deliver it to the Computer History Museum #retrocomputing

Thank you to Andrew Cuomo for draining millions of dollars from New York billionaires into his hopeless campaign. Doing his best to help with wealth redistribution! 🙏🏼

So, I am flying from Montreal to Seattle for #seagl2025. I leave on Nov 6 and return on Nov 8. I fly from Montreal to Vancouver to Seattle, and then back. All good.

I taught the tariff

It's my fediversary! Three years ago today I said goodbye to several hundred thousand followers at the nazi bar and joined this community. No regrets! Thanks for making me want to stick around :)

"I have said it before and I will continue to say it: calling for electoral reform in Montreal is the only viable way to ensure better democratic representation. ...I call on the people of Montreal who support this idea...to write to your elected officials and put pressure on them. Make some […]

@bnewbold.net your comparison slide misrepresents ActivityPub somewhat in two ways. 1. We do distribute data, not just metadata, including binary data. It can be pushed, or it can be pulled. 2. It's not just a message-passing system; it's a distributed data store. Every object on the network […]

Are Democrats going to harass people who say they're glad that Dick Cheney is dead, the same way Republicans did about Charlie Kirk?

Somebody remember to scrape the Cuomo off the floor please and dispose of it wherever that kind of hazardous slime goes

What organization is tracking pro-Palestinian incumbents and primary challengers in the USA? How can I get involved?

I set off the fire alarm this morning making bacon. I had to call the alarm company to get them to turn it off. Five minutes later, a fire truck was out front. I came out waving my arms. "Désolé, sorry," I said. "Bacon." The firefighters got back in their truck and left. The bacon was good, though.

I'm feeling FOMO for SFSCON this week and TPAC next week. One thing about being part of the Fediverse movement is that I have a lot of confidence in friends and colleagues who will be on the ground doing good work. Thanks for everything you do, ActivityPub allies.

Hey, everyone ! Join Democrats Abroad for US election commentary today! You can find us LIVE on Tik Tok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZNHcmWUN2KcN1-uKth1/ #uspolitics #vote #democrats

I'm in the #webbotauth meeting at #ietf124. #thanksihateit

First Kissinger, now this.

#activityinthepub pub emergency! 🚨🚨🚨 The Vieux Dublin pub is closed! We are diverting to the nearby 3 Brasseurs. #ietf124 #activitypub #montreal https://maps.app.goo.gl/rWmZNnFj74jnDBy3A

"This is the IAB slide full of headshots]. Most of them are lovely." An exciting treasure hunt to find the non-lovely ones! #ietf124 [#montreal

Congratulations! You have survived the no-transit day. Now, go out and vote! Vote info: https://www.electionsquebec.qc.ca/en/vote/when-and-where-to-vote/ Strike info: https://www.stm.info/en/info/service-updates/info-strike - - - Félicitations! Vous avez survécu à la journée sans transports en […]

Friends in #montreal: it's Election Day. There is a transit strike, and there are limited bus and train hours today. Plan accordingly! https://stm.info/en/strike

Reading the FIRE paper and thinking about ways to use statistical signals to identify bad ActivityPub servers (vs ActivityPub servers with bad actors): https://sites.cs.ucsb.edu/~chris/research/doc/acsac09_fire.pdf