I'm going to talk about space debris and satellite pollution on a remote panel for the Canadian Senate tomorrow https://sencanada.ca/en/senators/simons-paula/interventions/689271/37 I have gotten to the point now with public speaking that I don't get nervous before talks anymore (I never […]

Well, that was awesome. Senators and MPs and their staffers, learning about space debris and satellite pollution from 3 Canadian professors. I hope it makes some difference in saving the night sky (and the atmosphere, and being able to continue using Low Earth Orbit...) Thank you @Paulatics for […]

Bob Jonkman will be talking about open source software used for the local radio station at 8 pm Eastern tonight. #Waterloo #freesoftware

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New water bottle. We're going to need a bigger bottle cage. (Actually it's the water tank for our upcoming vacation rental property in Ampefy. The bike is just there for scale.) #Africa #Madagascar #Ampefy #Malagasy #Bike #Cycling #Brompton #CarryShitOlympics #halfheartedfanatic

Hi FediPoliFolks! As there will be another municipal election in Ontario I've begun to gather candidate info for my local municipalities. Since I'm no longer on those commercial socialmedias, feel free to share in all the places where I'm not. And do let me know of corrections, omissions, or […]

Nick sez: "Iz my chair now!" #nickthecat #caturday #fedicats

#MarkCarney #cdnpoli #AviLewis #ClimateChange

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 […]

@ascentale A #bikenitepq for you: I have a birthday coming up in the next year, and I'd like to buy myself a cycling windbreaker or rain jacket. I'd like it to have reflective stripes and a tail flap. But some online cycling retailers are asking hundreds of dollars - Can BikeNiters recommend […]

Traditional #bikesatpollingstations

Downtown Guelph has everything: coffee, donuts, yarn, books, clothes, groceries, shoes, fresh flowers, and more. Don't let the construction scare you off! Come show some love to our incredible local businesses this weekend.

Bagels! I SAID "Pick me up a dozen BAGELS!!!!"

On today's CKMS #CommunityConnections has Larry Larson of the Grand River Jazz Society and Artistic Advisor for The Jazz Room. Listen to @radiowaterloo.ca at CKMS-FM 102.7, online at radiowaterloo.ca/listen/ or YouTube Live: youtu.be/BOgy5QnHYmw #WaterlooRegion #CommunityRadio #TheJazzRoom

Tonight at 8:00pm (EDT) at @kwlug I'm giving a presentation on #LibreTime, radio scheduling and automation software we use at @radiowaterloo.ca#libretime If all goes well, there will be a live simulcast on CKMS-FM 102.7 Radio Waterloo. Tune in! […]

Cycling from Toronto to Waterloo [143 km] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgQCR0UOKnA "I had it in my head that Waterloo was close to Toronto for some reason. It's not." #waterloo #uwaterloo #waterlooregion

@bobjonkman @scottsantens.com Oh, I wasn’t aware that got looked at in Kitchener (I’m on the other side of the undefended Union St border). But I can’t see it being something a city could do alone. You’d NEVER get past the “only those who “need” it barrier on a local scale and it would […]

Reading this should help. GL is essentially a "large enough" NIT. www.scottsantens.com/negative-inc...

@bobjonkman I feel like there are some nuances between "Universal Basic" and "Guaranteed Livable" that I don't really understand but probably should (when I have time to read more). My recollection might be wrong, but I thought "GLI" was, "if you don't make minimum wage we top it up" vs. "UBI" […]

@bobjonkman @scottsantens.com @narF I suppose there's nothing to stop a city or county from *adding* their own UBI. I did read one article about a native reservation in the states that used their Casino money not quite for a direct UBI, but every child born in the community got added to a trust […]

@bobjonkman @scottsantens.com @narF But maybe that's still a good reason to keep a low, but truly UNIFORM and Universal stipend across the country ... it'll go farther for people in Nunavut or rural PEI who cannot go elsewhere, but Toronto and Vancouver will have to suss out how to stay […]

@bobjonkman @scottsantens.com @narF I've always been fascinated by the fact that very different implementations in very different jurisdictions all just DO WORK. Which is why the regional Living Wage metric came to mind. Canada is not just US but smaller, and with so much of our social […]

@bobjonkman @scottsantens.com @narF Appreciate Scott's answers, which I did indeed read. It does make sense, as I went on to natter at @narF, that the point isn't that it fixes all the other structural wrongnesses so much as makes sure everyone gets their clean socks on and some Shreddies so […]

@scottsantens.com @narF Genuine question, since this is obviously your domain - is there actually any sensible way to look at a regionalized UBI that is in step with the regional “living wage” economics? I don’t mean UBI == living wage, I mean UBI to provide X% of the previous year’s or […]

One of the upsides of being a goat is that you can actually climb inside your breakfast

OK, because I've now gotten into 3 unintendedl #ubi dust-ups in a week, I kinda got my take on why *I* think it's do-able down to something a bit more concise. We cannot have it work if we argue that it should be needs-based, value-based, time-limited, it should be services instead, it should […]

Some yaks were definitely shaved, but now I'm only using corfu for completion (including as you type autocompletion) in my GNU Emacs setup. The result seems to work and now I have a unified experience between lsp-mode buffers (where I used to use company-mode) and non-lsp-mode buffers. No more […]

@cks the smoothest, shiniest, most aerodynamic yak of them all!!

Anyone got a high res version? This is Exhibit 1 from the Comey indictment. If the pic is from North Carolina coast, the 8 looks like mostly Dinocardium robusta, the giant Atlantic cockle. The 6 probably the same but stained by anoxic sediment. The 4+7 look like […] [Original post on scicomm.xyz]

@trouble ah, gotcha. Is there a difference between `while ! <cmd>` and `until <cmd>`?

@stib You are correct! "until" and "while !" are equivalent. I've used unix for years, and I either didn't know or completely forgot that "until" existed in bourne shell and family. Even old dogs can learn new tricks.

@bobjonkman Might be... It's only 3 years old! lol

Weirdly, unplugging it and letting it sit for a few minutes, plugging back in and we're up! Never experienced that before.

There needs to be laws in place that EOL devices should never need to be tossed out. 8 years is not that old of a computer.

@bobjonkman @tcfolkpunk.bsky.social That's pretty scary. And paranoid.

Well said. I'm still avoiding haggis though, in spite of how brilliant he was.

Giving new meaning to the term "DARC money". This is what we're up against, Canada. Also, you shouldn't call yourself a think tank if all your ideas are stupid... #CDNpoli defenseanalyses.org/work/our-can...

I wrote an April Fool's Day paper about spherical cows https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.29324, but let me introduce you to my spherical goat #babygoatcountdown is at 6 days!

I have a problem with the House of Commons floor crossers, as I think most people do. But I havent been able to come up with a more palatable alternative or at least a different scenario. The biggest problem, for me, is the act of poaching. The trickle of MPs. It gives the impression, falsely […]

Wtf do they do at the White house? In my head it goes like ... Trump: I'm the best, I want to make a big explosion. The biggest explosion. Let's use a nuke. Aide: (trying to distract)you are the the best sir. The very best. Why don't we make a big arch to show the world how you're the best […]

#Groningen is thoroughly beautiful in springtime! #oosterpark

This Wilmot water taking issue is a lot more serious than I thought! #waterlooregion #wilmottownship #watertaking #water

I AM HOME!! I am covered with dog hair and cat hair and goat hair and snow and everything is good. I am so grateful to everyone who made it possible for me to go on this trip (especially the farm sitter! He did an amazing job!) And I'm so happy to be home!

I just sold a long poem that I'm particularly proud of. It took me a couple years to research/write/revise. I think it's one of the best things I've ever written.

RE: https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/@cbckw_mirror/116337129861801190 These fuckin guys. Not a huge fan of Redman, but a Ford stooge with "strong chair" powers won't be better.

RE: https://cosocial.ca/@dyckron/116331614625071143 I saw the video footage. It is egregious. He mocked her for crying out for justice. Indigenous folks have been dying because of industrial poisoning. He says he'll last longer than her. Well, he might live longer because he doesn't live in a […]

Hey local-to-me ppl - anyone else seeing something busted about the City of Kitchener's web site? Is Kitchener on any of our fediverse TLs? I'm getting the home page loading "greyed out" and entirely inoperable for me, same result across multiple cache-clearings and reloads in 3 different browsers.

Friends, if you haven't already, it would be a big favour to me if you could enable tags.pub to boost your public tagged posts. Just follow @_followback . It will follow you back, and when you make a post with a hashtag in it, the server will boost your post from the appropriate hashtag. If […]