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Looks like the Canadian Conservatives should be suing Trump for election interference!

Stealing this from X

#CanadaSky #ElbowsUp 🇨🇦

‘Let’s just put things on pause': Alberta premier under fire for Breitbart interview Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is under fire for an interview she did Mar. 8 with Breitbart in the U.S. over controversial remarks that appear to suggest she asked the Trump administration to lay off ...

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....

DisinfoAlert: Russian State Media Targets New Canadian Liberal Party Leader Mark Carney - DisinfoWatch Sputnik, a Russian state media outlet, has published an article targeting Mark Carney, the newly elected leader of the Liberal Party of Canada and incoming Prime Minister. The article frames...

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-...

So many choices out there! Just lay out the skein and make sure it's dyed "across-the-skein".

My next task is to find a skein that's not dyed "across-the-skein" but "in the round," so to speak, and see if it works when moebius'd. It's brain-bending, for sure.

Model wearing a knitted moebius loop wrap.

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!

P.E.I. man captures on-ice battle between Canada goose and bald eagle | CBC News A P.E.I. photographer who recently captured a standoff between a Canada goose and a bald eagle on the ice of the West River is still marvelling at his luck.

This is from 2021 but worth sharing today!

‘A Dangerous Virus’: Bird Flu Enters a New Phase A pandemic is not inevitable, scientists say. But the outbreak has passed worrisome milestones in recent weeks, including cattle that may have been reinfected.

I trust pasteurization. I don't trust every food manufacturer.

NYT: “There’s no way that you can police production and sterilization in a way that’s going to make sure 100 percent of the time that food supply is going to be safe.” (director of National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)

For my fellow nerds: The North Remembers.

Cobra chickens on patrol.

It's almost guaranteed that US milk and dairy products contain avian flu fragments. Over 70% of California dairy farms have it now, and several US states won't test for it. Avian flu is deactivated by pasteurization but do you trust every company to actually pasteurize safely?

The North remembers.

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.

The North Remembers.

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.

Microsoft at 50: An AI Giant. A Kinder Culture. And Still Hellbent on Domination When Satya Nadella took over as CEO, the company was lumbering and uncool. He cleaned up a toxic culture, crafted the deal of the decade, and put Microsoft back on top.

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.

It Used to Be One of the Main Ways Men Talked to Each Other. Then Everyone Went Silent. I met some of my closest friends through multiplayer games. Then a strange happening turned everyone (literally) speechless.

"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...

The Best Tools to Fight the Trolls on Bluesky Bluesky has excellent tools to block harassment online. You can block a large number of accounts in one go, remove your quote from other people's posts, and hide all kinds of triggering posts in one o...

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...

Kaylee — so happy that I get to keep working with you on this awesome and important Long COVID art project!

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.