Time to counter some misinformation.... This year's flu vaccine is probably low-efficacy. This means it probably won't prevent you from GETTING SICK. But it probably WILL prevent you from having to go to the hospital and from DYING. The data strongly suggest this.

Whoo! 🧶 Sock School x 2 🧦 is a go, starting tomorrow (4-6 pm) or this coming Sunday (10 am -12 noon). #kwawesome #knitters, c'mon and join classes at @flyingsquirrelyarn.bsky.social , learn a new New Year's thing, and never have cold feet again! flyingsquirrelfineyarns.com/products/soc...

Happy New Year! Hope you all had a good holiday. It’s shaping up to be a great year on the open social web! We’ve been busy working on new features, internal improvements, bug fixes, and exploring new networks over the last couple months. Here are the noticeable […] [Original post on snarfed.org]

Sometimes my moon sign seems to be the more relevant one.

Gemini: It’s a new year full of human interactions to avoid.

Lessee .... mossy, frazzled sentient fog of doom today, maybe.

Indoor rainforest solarium that is also the spa bathroom.

Anybody in Waterloo Region have chilly feet? 🧶 I'm on the calendar at @flyingsquirrelyarn.bsky.social LYS for TWO Sock School sessions this month! Tuesdays 4-6 pm OR Sundays 10-12 starting next Tuesday. This is a "first sock" program, so novice-friendly. flyingsquirrelfineyarns.com/products/soc...

apparently i can't quote-post my other accounts, will fix that later, but if you had friends or colleagues using med-mastodon.com, please go see if you can find them on another fediverse host or help them FIND a new fediverse host. It seems the #medmastodon instance disappeared very abruptly […]

Oh, I missed that this had been announced only recently! I guess I usually figure I'm the last to know the cool things? If you have had misgivings about the AT-AP Fediverse bridging, please note that it is actively innovating and adding features, for both usability and safety. Blocking works!

If anyone here uses, or knows someone who uses, the fediverse host med-mastodon.com as an alternate social account, it seems that instance abruptly went dark earlier this week. I know a few accounts here who also use mastodon separately, and might be affected. cc: @drjengunter.bsky.social , for ex.

just so it's clear: this is the exact core function of genAI Fascist government and climate deniers love it because it can produce the aesthetics of knowledge without any actual tendency towards truth. It is automated denialism. Shame on every climate scientist promoting its use (there are lots)

Oh, interesting. Hey there any mutals ... or those I'm nagging to join the fedi bridge ... just got a response from it that it won't request the connection if you don't have a profile pic loaded! I'd missed that. Plz put up a default *something* in your pic or bridgers can't find ya!

New Year's Resolution is a reminder to keep gathering my friends and worthwhile followed accounts outside of US-owned, VC-built spaces. You'll see me more @johannab.ca. If you get a 2nd follow from me, that's why! Please follow @ap.brid.gy here, so followers can find you from other places!

"They took the credit for your second symphony Rewritten by machine on new technology" I know this is the most obvious contribution to the news that MTv is ending what video-playing they still did, but it feels rather apt for the current moment, so enjoy: youtu.be/W8r-tXRLazs?...

For those who may not yet have seen the news, the world has lost an amazing woman: In Memoriam: Barbara G. Walker (1930-2025) www.blackbunnyfibers.com/in-memoriam-... #knitsky #blueskyknits #knittersofbluesky #knitting

Never a better time to exit the Meta compounds. Bsky carries the same risk of this as some have experienced, but here you are less likely to completely lose data. Even so, please don’t leave what is precious lying around ANY social web site.

Starting 2026 right. With more warm feet. Spent the first few minutes of the year mastering my new favourite ever cast on, and starting my next #SKA #sockdown challenge - the January MOCK (Mystery Sock). 🧶

You don't need to change for anyone in the new year. Don't hide your fangs behind a thin smile. Don't hide your wings under a tattered cardigan. Show everyone your claws and dark determination. Make the world change for you.

Our Solar System is orbiting the center of our Galaxy at about 220 km/s so in 2025 we collectively traveled something like 7 billion kilometers across the Milky Way. Once in a while, when you have a moment, it’s worthwhile to take a look around, see where you are, and appreciate how far you’ve come.

2+ 4 nowadays

It’s weird when big accounts are like “I can’t leave X, this is where people see my stuff”. My brother in Post, you are creating the content! You can take it with you and a lot of your audience will follow.

*wakes up* *checks what’s new in the zeitgeist* Global is still warming, fash be fashing, autocorrupt thinks I mean “fasting”… Oh look, antibiotic resistant typhoid, rise of measles correlated with more distrust of vaccines *goes back to hibernating until, er, 2043*

Current mood:

Ok so Meetup and Eventbrite are both owned by the same PE firm now. As I have been saying for many years now … both of those platforms are no go any more.

The "word" of the year is AI slop, I'm so happy, the mainstream backlash is happening for real

“It's not my duty as Mayor to make sure you have a parking spot. For me it's the same as if you bought a cow, or a refrigerator, and then asked me where you're going to put them.” — Mayor of Pontevedra, Spain (re-elected 6 times)

My Myst book from the 25th Anniversary crowdfunder. That's be such a cool and utterly confusing way to instantly trigger the byelection for my deserving successor, and let me escape before any political gaffes or long-forgotten past scandals ruing my career. But Parable of the Sower is great.

Grad students from any discipline or campus: apply now for the Winter 2026 seminar about the critical interdisciplinary thinking on the links between race, racism, place, and health schoolofcities.utoronto.ca/learning-sof...

On December 6th, 1989, 14 women were murdered at Polytechnique Montréal. The number of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women continues to grow. Doug Ford has yet to declare intimate partner violence an epidemic in Ontario. If you need help in KW: wcswr.org

December 6, 1989: An armed man killed 14 women and injured 13 other people at École Polytechnique. Fuelled by misogyny, he claimed he was "fighting feminism". We must never forget the horror of that day. I'm honoured to be joined by community leaders to name the victims. #CallItFemicide

Barely past midnight, so timely a post as I was reading an article on the generative-AI based online abuse of women & girls. Days after learning of a young Minnesota welder murdered at her workplace by a male coworker who "didn't like the way she looked at him". 36 years ago, and Today. I'm tired

On this day, and everyday. #December6th

The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow

RE: https://mastodon.social/@eff/115669916829304659 Oh, shit - hey, #edmonton, this EFF article is talking about YOU. Time to start discussing The Charter with your city councillors/police services reps. I'd be very proud to have Canada very loudly FAIL this type of tech.

In the Fediverse track at SFSCon, Mayel de Borniol and Ivan Minutillo spoke about: Bonfire: Public Interest Social Networks fediforum.org/2025-1... #fediforum #sfscon #fediverse #socialweb #bonfire

An initiative I've been watching, and hope to start using, is Bonfire Networks. Bonfire takes a bit of study to wrap your head around. Not a single platform, it's a toolkit for communities building their own digital spaces. Please consider supporting! www.indiegogo.com/en/projects/...

This holiday season is a great time to show the publisher of the Franklin books: @kidscanpress.bsky.social - that we support their work and treasure Canadian content. 🐢💚🇨🇦 #cdnpoli #BuyCanadian

I'll be the south side patio doors which seem to be lying on the ground thus probably open to one of the circles of hell?

From the days of chocolate horseradish brownies and chocolate chicken chicken cake to now, there has never been a good time to try an AI generated recipe.

🧶Yarn Chicken ! Booyah!!!!

All my other plans went to hell and I nearly died of something ridiculous - but I could still help sort out computer and database problems and I had friends/colleagues with connections in a company that needed that.

mossy chemistry in a haunted bed?

Good.

I'm excitedly keeping an eye on Bonfire's crowdfunder, https://www.indiegogo.com/en/projects/bonfire/community It got off to a roaring start, and has plenty of time to hit the first goal, but I would love to see us get them there and farther along their roadmap if we can. I spent almost 30 […]

Hey friends/followers/follows: I've been rearranging the wires here on my personal node in the web. @johannab.ca will now be what posts the mosts, this fragment of my online presence is the bsky-only backup. If you get requests from @ap.brid.gy, please allow! That's just me from the other side.

Media is reporting that #COP30 delegates are appropriately questioning Canada’s commitments to #ClimateAction. To be clear, we can’t do nation-building, we can’t grow and diversify the Canadian economy and global relationships, and we can’t make Canada strong, if we don’t lead on #ClimateChange.

I was introduced to AI Clocks earlier today. Realized something while watching the page refresh. A very common element of testing for dementia (literally a decaying cognitive state) is to ask the patient to draw a clock with a certain time represented. As dementia progresses, the ubiquitous […]

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