Stealing this from X #CanadaSky #ElbowsUp 🇨🇦

Pretty sure we have a word for people who want to sell out our country. Danielle Smith: "I would say, on balance, the perspective that Pierre [Poilievre] would bring would be very much in sync with, I think…the new direction in America” ... Source: www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti...

As we head into an Canadian election call tomorrow, here's a reminder that disinformation coming into Canada is going to be turned way up in order to influence our votes. One big lie is connecting Mark Carney with Epstein through faked photos. Here are the facts. factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

Russia criticizes Mark Carney for openly supporting Ukraine and specifically calls out his use of the phrase “Slava Ukraini” (Glory to Ukraine), implying it is extremist or inappropriate. Only once have I noted Pierre Poilievre saying Slava Ukraïni, in early 2024. disinfowatch.org/mark-carney-...

Super tickled to launch a new knitting pattern, including a new super-simple moebius loop cast-on that I "unvented." It's free at knitty.com/ISSUEss25/PA... Thank you so much to Amy @knitty.com for publishing it, and thank you @kateatherley.bsky.social for your genius-level editing skills!

This is from 2021 but worth sharing today!

For my fellow nerds: The North Remembers.

Cobra chickens on patrol.

CBC's wall-to-wall coverage of this crisis is another great example of why we should value Canada's public broadcaster

we need an investigation into X through Elections Canada.

Being a person with deadly, incurable cancer who is nonetheless still alive for an indefinite timeframe gives me an interesting metaphor that helps me deal with things like large-scale corruption in government or commerce. Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.

This is the second job posting.

Wanna work with me? We're going to be filling two jobs in the new year.

Do you feel a need to break your personal filter bubble? Here's a great feed that shows you gift links to great articles, often longform. (Search for "gift links" to find more.) Bonus tip: Go to Settings > Content and media > Manage saved feeds to pin and unpin your feeds to your bsky home page

A new app to give you notifications for lists that you're added to. Looks useful.

If you, like me, are wondering why Microsoft is now in every corner of your life — Teams, GPT, AI, Minecraft, Github, and now, a co-pilot (with a great story as to why that name) for everything we do as knowledge workers and creators.

"Freeman believes that the silence that has struck video games runs parallel to the toxicity and distrust seeping into all corners of digital culture. ... So why do I hold out hope that things could be different? To keep the faith that the internet can, indeed, be a kind and loving place?"

I like having interesting stories poke into my filter bubble, so here's a fun find: Trending Links, which can be pinned to your home page. bsky.app/profile/why.... Source: dame.blog/skeet-tools/ — which is a really great list of tools.

Useful feed setting, if you're getting a lot of reposts in your feeds. This lets you see only the posts, and no reposts. bsky.app/profile/skyf...

I took a couple of great tips from this article. The one link I'm saving is bluesky's moderation menu, which I hadn't found yet: bsky.app/profile/mode...

I'm not on facebook much, but I have been reading about their algorithm shenanigans so I checked what's on my personal fb feed. Of my first 20 posts * 2 from friend 1 * 2 from friend 2 * 1 from friend 3 * 2 "friends liked this company" ads * 11 "join this group" and sponsored ads

I'm doing secret Christmas knitting I can't show pics of current projects. In the meantime, I'll post the most useful starter packs or fun or silly Bluesky tips as I find them. Here's one: thriendly.com/bluesky-form... — lets you format type in your posts.It has overtones of <𝒷𝓁𝒾𝓃𝓀>, of course!

Huge win from @franzanth.bsky.social creating a Content Scraper Blocklist: bsky.app/profile/cont... It's a blocklist for the kinds of engagement bait accounts that repost stolen content, often with misleading captions.

We're so pleased to bring back Ursula's "Navigating the Ocean of Story" posts from 2015-2016. In this series, originally hosted at Book View Café, she took questions about fiction writing and gave thoughtful answers about structure, genre, character, publishing, and so much more.