Nothing but the cutest kind of trouble. 🥰 #dogsofmastodon
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Mick 🇨🇦
@mick@cosocial.ca
mastodon 4.6.4Average middle-aged guy from various places in Ontario.
Into #running, #books, #videogames, the #fediverse.
At least a little bit #buddhist. Trying to lead an examined life.
I believe that we have the right to safe digital spaces where we can build communities free from corrosive capitalist influence.
Working to build a sustainable, non-corporate social web as Technical Operations Working Group lead with #CoSocialCa
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Joined March 21, 2023
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@gedeonm@mastodon.social as first episodes go this one was pretty great, too. The chemistry of the crew took a couple seasons to really come together, but this one set the stage for the greatness to come.
Boosted by @trending@homestead.social
As long as we’re age-gating social media, I really think we need to do something to protect the boomers from whatever the fuck Facebook has become.
This switch was in this position when we arrived and I am afraid to touch it.
Said goodbye to this very good girl this evening.
I am so glad that she was part of our family these past nine years, and I will miss her so much.
Give your furry family a hug for me.
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@cstross@wandering.shop collapse of and discrediting of capitalism as an organizing principle in society? 🤞
Been a while since I was last this stumped by a networking issue.
When it’s not DNS it’s MTU? Maybe?
Ping works. Normal-sized packets work fine, but most connections hang during SSL handshake.
Behavior seems classic of an MTU issue, but then also not.
Dreading trying to explain that my PPPoE session appears broken to the Bell customer support people.
Boosted by @virtuous_sloth@cosocial.ca
“¡Estoy hablando español! ¿Pero no hablo español? No entiendo nada. ¡No puedo parar! Inglés, inglés, inglés, ¡quiero hablar inglés! ¡Es culpa tuya, conejito malo!” 🤣
#superbowl https://theonion.com/terrified-conservatives-lose-ability-to-speak-english-after-exposure-to-bad-bunny-performance-dios-mio-cry-millions-of-panicking-republicans/
Fucking snowing wtf
"But between February and March, the world didn’t just tighten its fossil fuel use; it spent money on new green stuff. China’s solar, battery and E.V. exports grew 39 percent. The country’s solar exports alone more than doubled during that time. In South Korea, March saw new E.V. registrations double compared with the same time last year. In New Zealand, new registrations nearly doubled over two weeks."
Some space for hope, yet.
Cool event in #montreal this morning. https://evenement.facil.services/events/2df80f2d-a263-40d4-b6f8-9005c97acba8
The Onion on point, as ever. https://theonion.com/markets-surge-after-trump-claims-he-had-sex-with-an-angel/
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@Xeniax@mastodon.ml the LA Music Festival posts are spreading (mostly) misinformation about the size and quantity of these protests.
Videos frequently include BLM protests, ai fabrications, etc.
Users that believe they are sidestepping algorithmic suppression of massive, violent demonstrations are engaging with a conspiracy theory.
It might be an attempt at algorithmic resistance, but it is more revealing of our fractured information landscape.
Still cyberpunk af, but in the bad, cautionary way.
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@futurebird@sauropods.win managed to catch the last fledgling leaving the gazebo shelf nest this morning.
There is a perfectly good Robin nest up there, but she sat on a loose pile of sticks next to it for a month instead.
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@futurebird@sauropods.win meanwhile the Robins will build a nest out of *poured concrete* in the space of a couple hours if they’re allowed to.
"Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside,
you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.
You must wake up with sorrow.
You must speak to it till your voice
catches the thread of all sorrows
and you see the size of the cloth."
From Kindness by Naomi Shihab Nye
Online life is so weird right now.
Push notification from the NYT and my stress response spikes.
What fresh outrage has occurred? What critical news is breaking?
What did that demented orange goblin get up to in the past hour?
Is WWIII underway?!
Oh, the *79 year old* guitarist from the band *Traffic* has passed. Very sad.
Carry on.
“Today I can finally say the sweetest nine or 10 words in the English language: Global Tetrahedron has completed its plan to control InfoWars.”
#TheOnion is victorious in their takeover bid for #InfoWars and I can’t wait to see what they get up to with it. 😄
https://theonion.info/?mc_cid=f6c8613285&mc_eid=2194386898
Apple went a long distance before developers started to understand that they could be “Sherlocked” at any moment.
For Bluesky, this does seem early, but that $100mil ain’t going to return itself.
I recall there were similar anti-Trudeau stickers on Canadian pumps not too long ago.. And look where Trudeau is now.
Who is Trump’s Katy Perry and how quickly can we ship them?
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@virtuous_sloth@cosocial.ca I updated it. 😁
I even built us a custom version.
It'd be pretty straightforward to set up something to update this regularly I think.
Consider it barely supported until you hear otherwise, but I think this is easily accomplished and of some use.
@emptywheel.bsky.social as reported where? Outside Bluesky I mean?
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@virtuous_sloth@cosocial.ca I tend to agree - first thing is to stop lending legitimacy to the platform by stopping to use it for any sort of official government communication.
X is a particularly weird case, however, since it is actually a propaganda channel for a hostile power that will continue to use it to undermine our sovereignty.
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@Ruth_Mottram@fediscience.org holding out at least a shred of hope that this whole grotesque episode ushers in our renewable future.
I so want #Trump ‘s legacy to include responsibility for kickstarting the transition. The universe owes us this one.
@pluralistic@mamot.fr you fly a bunch and you have a clear sense of the causes of the climate crisis.
Do you have a preferred carbon offset approach for your personal/professional travel or nah?
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@adb@infosec.exchange you know anyone with a clue who works for Bell? Front-line support is useless, I can’t even get the issue escalated to someone who might have an idea about what I’m experiencing.
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@Gargron@mastodon.social congrats on another trip around the sun! Glad you’re here with us. 🎂🎉