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Hey #Toronto, you've heard about "Treaty 13”, but what even is it?

The fascinating history of so many bad faith negotiations. I started here.
https://talkingtreaties.ca/treaties-for-torontonians/toronto-purchase/1787

#Tkaronto

Working on a Friday night to make up for calling off sick on Tuesday. Trying to remember that I'm lucky to have a job that lets me take a sick day and also not lose pay 😑

Combining short-trip data with #levelOfTrafficStress to identify areas that could shift the most trips onto bikes by investing in #protectedBikeLanes and other infrastructure #BikeTooter #trafficEngineering #bollards #climateAction #stuffInTheStreet #JFDI […]

As a reminder, the notion that people should be able to maintain "a clean, well-organized household" came from the 19th century Western "upper classes" where the wife was expected to stay home and do this full time - and this was used as a status symbol and status marker to distinguish the […]

This was a great interview. @votetanille shouted out Mastodon which was a treat ✨

@tonymcquailgreenprogressive is working to coordinate financial support to try to avoid split donation priorities keeping both of them from eligibility. The NDP hasn't done a good job of explaining the daunting […]

A group of more than 30 nations sent a letter to the COP30 presidency late on Thursday saying they could not accept a deal that failed to include a commitment to develop a roadmap to transition away from fossil fuels.

The letter from those supporting a roadmap—who include Colombia, France, Germany, Kenya, the Marshall Islands, Mexico, the Netherlands, South Korea, Spain, and Britain—said the draft deal, in its current form, "does not meet the minimum conditions required for a credible COP outcome." "We cannot support an outcome that does not include a roadmap for implementing a just, orderly, and equitable transition away from fossil fuels," the letter said. Canada did not sign the letter, Environment and Climate Change Canada confirmed to CBC News Friday.

"commitment to develop"
→ promise to make
"a roadmap"
→ a plan
"to transition away from fossil fuels"
→ to use less gas over time

COP can't get nations to promise to make a plan to use less gas over time

"does not meet the minimum conditions required for a […]

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It feels impossible that someone like Rebecca is working retail, she's qualified for so much more.

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https://youtu.be/Ay4n30oyLOY?si=3KdkcU2oB9lJZN9A

300,000 qualified, professional black women have lost their jobs in the USA this year. Many of them were federal workers and they can't afford to wait for that mess to be cleaned up.

The Global State of Women Fund is helping them pay bills, stay […]

The AI take that I want to see more of is this:

The Owners see in LLM technology the opportunity to make the Working Class redundant, and they have pursued it with delusional abandon. Just as the USA once pursued the nuclear bomb.

They want to have that power in hand /before/ we, societally […]

So I read this thread by @NanoRaptor

https://www.mastoreader.io/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbitbang.social%2F%40NanoRaptor%2F115585270611949977

And then I went down the rabbit hole and discovered Ray Cats and the pop song that was intended as their 10,000 year user manual […]

@mayintoronto Moving out after a break up with an ex and not even considering moving out the city, despite not being employed at the time
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(alt text: cute shruggie)

It me 🦝🍼🧑🏻‍🍼
https://aus.social/@coolandnormal/115585606269468345

Prompt: When was the first time you felt like Toronto was home?

Many firsts, each with a different definition of Toronto.

- First best friend in elementary school.
- First time I came back as an adult to experience the city. Never really ever went down town until then.
- Every time I moved […]

62 of the Indigenous artifacts held by the Vatican 🇻🇦 will return to Turtle Island in December

https://toronto.citynews.ca/2025/11/20/indigenous-artifacts-vatican-return-to-canada/
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62 des artefacts autochtones actuellement au Vatican 🇻🇦 feront leur retour à l’île de la Tortue en décembre […]

Looking down onto a hardwood floor with a woven willow 5 pointed star

First willow weaving of the season! I need to do a lot more of this.

Qualcomm-owned Arduino quietly pushed a sweeping rewrite of its Terms of Service and Privacy Policy, and the changes mark a clear break from the open-hardware ethos that built the platform. The new documents introduce an irrevocable, perpetual license over anything users upload, broad surveillance-style monitoring of AI features, a clause preventing users from identifying potential patent infringement, years-long retention of usernames even after account deletion, and the integration of all user data (including minors) into Qualcomm’s global data ecosystem. Military weird things and more. Several sections effectively reshape Arduino from an open community platform into a tightly controlled corporate service with deep data extraction built in. The most striking addition: users are now explicitly forbidden from reverse-engineering or even attempting to understand how the platform works unless Arduino gives permission. That’s a profound shift for a brand long embraced by educators, makers, researchers, and open-source advocates.

"Qualcomm-owned #Arduino quietly pushed a sweeping rewrite of its Terms of Service and Privacy Policy, and the changes mark a clear break from the open-hardware ethos that built the platform."

(source: Adafruit […]

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I have been asked why I started @hashtaggames #hashTagGames 3 years ago.

During the great Twitter migration in the fall of 2022, there was a lot of confusion, people were building normalcy with their new accounts, #Mastodon servers were crashing due to the onslaught of new users and mitigating […]

This article (https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/carney-smith-oil-pipeline-9.6985035) is disturbing for all the predictable reasons, but I am going to focus my particular point of annoyance on the 2nd to last sentence in the very last paragraph.

""Haida nation will never stand for it," [Elizabeth […]

Donations pre-taxes this year amount to:
- €13.3k net (direct)
- €4265 net (ko-fi)

I've also been able to request payment from my NLNet grant for FediMod FIRES, which everyone, including Mastodon, have been asking for this year.

The goal of FediMod FIRES is to empower moderation teams to share […]

Looking for an elder 2SLGBTQI+ person to join my volunteer non-profit board at https://ODLAN.ca. Must be based in Canada, since we serve Canadian non-profits in our community.

We're doing some really neat work and are growing our reach and impact every year. Help our 2SLGBTQI+ communities exist […]

One of the problems with the fediverse(s) is that there are in fact cash costs to compute share, and we can't wave it away with VC and ad revenue. There's no economy of scale and complete self-hosting costs hundreds/month even if your admin&mod team is volunteers.

Which is why I'm really keen […]

Serious post, please boost...

On #InternationalMensDay here's your periodic reminder, fellow AMAB prostate carrying people who are over 50:

Go see your doctor. Don't put it off. Ask for a DRE or a PSA test. Yes, DRE means a finger up your bum, get over it.

They probably won't find anything […]

@JessTheUnstill Oh no. I bike to work in the winter, this is gonna be a thing isn't it? 🥶✨

4 frame comic. A guy with a shirt with Rando written on it tells the author : so tired of hearing the left talk about fascism. it feels so disrespectful to compARE WHAT'S HAPPEning in the u.s. to the millions of victims of Nazi Germany. She replies : you seem to think that the death camps happened overnight, but it was a multi- decades long crescendo, filled with people telling the regime critics to stop overreacting. by its nature, the only moment you can call out fascist rhetoric is before fascism is fully up and running. I'd rather speak up early and be wrong than not saying anything and my silence be complicit. considering how in its first year, this u.s. admin has already caused 625k+ public man- made deaths* by terminating USAID progams and disappeared thousands of migrants, I'd say their contempt for human life should give anyone legitimate reasons to be worried. Source : *impactcounter.com, by Boston u. researcher Brooke nichols

Legitimate reasons

Closeup of the front end of a grey Siberian cat (Knold) lying on a grey blanket. A human hand is scratching his neck. He seems to enjoy the attention a lot as he is lying with his eyes closed - I'm pretty sure that his right front paw in the bottom of the photo is kneading the backrest of the couch (outside the frame). His long white whiskers are very distinctive, pointing away from his face.

Closeup of the head of a grey Siberian cat (Knold) taken right in front of him (the photo is rotated 90 degrees to the left). A human hand is scratching his right cheek while his left is resting on a grey plush tablet stand. His fluffy chest fur is sticking out between his chin and the tablet stand. His long white whiskers are very prominent, spanning the entire width of the photo.

Closeup of the front end of a grey Siberian cat (Knold) lying on a couch on a grey blanket (hiding a set of human legs). He is very fluffy, especially his chest fur that is being squeezed up to look like a big grey beard. His long white whiskers are very prominent.

Closeup of the front end of a grey Siberian cat (Knold) sleeping on a couch on a grey blanket (hiding a set of human legs). His long white whiskers are very prominent.

It has been a nappy-cuddly kind of day today

#WhiskersWednesday #CatsOfMastodon #CatsOfFediverse #Cats #SiberianCats #Knold

Oooh, neat -- #Bonfire has gotten to the 1.0 stage, and is now fundraising to take the project to the next level: https://www.indiegogo.com/en/projects/bonfire/community

tl;dr -- Bonfire is a very serious-looking project to build a really good #Fediverse social network. The roadmap has all the […]

One thing I really enjoy here is what I think of as the fedi-follow-dance.

I see post I love. Boost the post. Go to the person's profile, find other posts I love, favorite those posts.

Follow the person.

Then I see in my feed:

:blobpeek:

⭐ Person favorited:
⭐ Person favorited:
⭐ Person […]

The UCP enjoyed their first taste of authoritarianism when they stripped rights from teachers.

Today, they introduced three more bills that use the Notwithstanding Clause to continue to rob Albertans of their human rights.

They also just laid out their plan to create a two-tiered […]

Being spaghettified by a black hole would fix me

A bold red graphic with black speech bubble text explaining how first past the post deepens Western alienation. It notes that hundreds of thousands of Liberal voters in the West elect almost no MPs, which fuels an us versus them narrative. A headline from the Toronto Sun about Prime Minister Carney being booed at the 2025 Grey Cup is included as an example of regional tension. The graphic argues that proportional representation would give both prairie Liberals and urban Conservatives fair representation and reduce division across the country.

Western alienation is not inevitable.

It is what you get when millions of votes in the West elect almost no one and voters are told their communities do not count unless they back the winning side.

Proportional representation would take the heat out of the divide.