rumon carter

Trying / testing out the (re)new(ed) Digg … who else is in there?

AI maniac CEOs beta.digg.com/funny/jLtlKEq

bcmj.org/council-heal...

"Eco-distress—distress from changes to the environment—is a normal reaction to threatened and actual loss of individuals, communities, and ecosystems. Clinicians should validate patients’ concerns..."

@drmelissalem.bsky.social @cape-bc.bsky.social
1/2

Bonus when said friends arrive bearing beautiful and resonant gifts. 🙏

“The national flower of Ukraine has grown into a symbol of sovereignty and courage—the sunflower. I see it as a lovely symbol of victory over tyranny.” ~ @victorygardenoftomorrow 🌻

Friends who stop by to pick flower and food friends to take to and nourish friends returning home from hospital is the kind of community we want to be part of. ❤️

(Cf. Timely relevance of “I know a guy who grows food and flowers” exchange w/ @ceej.online & @spencerkeys.bsky.social minutes ago. 🤓)

However it’s worded, one thing I know for sure is that my wife - who manages a farm, drives the hell out of a skid steer and fixes a mean fence - is a far more valuable participant in the I Know a Guy gift and exchange economy than I. 🤓

This is a Guy Thing I remain fully behind … while also extending a nod of acknowledgement and gratitude to the even deeper Gal Economy … and to the fact those Guy Things are equally well fulfilled also by Gals … gah, let’s just help each other out. 😉❤️👌

One of the things you learned at 18F and USDS is that government isn’t like a business: it has to serve everybody and not just specific market segments that are the most convenient.

Interested … but a few thousand kilometres out of the way to join. 😉

Yard work companion.

The Land
Takao Tanabe
1980

Has Marketing Ruined Bikes? Has marketing ruined bikes? It's a question editor Nic Morales pondered after receiving "The Rough-Stuff Fellowship Archive" photo books...

A truly wonderful read - content and style both - for any cyclist, past, present or future, from Nic Morales on @bikepackingcom.bsky.social: bikepacking.com/plog/has-mar.... Image via the Rough-Stuff Fellowship Archive.

“These days, with the global markets in disarray and the future of the places we ride in peril, we should probably spend less time thinking about the specifics of optimizing our rides or whether we have the perfect bike to ride a specific trail, and just go see what we can do with what we have.”

There are places with which we can build relationships upon only a single visit. People with whom the ties that bind still thrive despite the better - though less good for the absences - part of a lifetime apart.

📍Za Ropa Ranch, Pemberton Meadows, Líl̓wat Nation territory

Young people in Canada face the toughest job market in decades.

We’re collecting stories on the struggle to find decent work to help push for a Youth Climate Corps, creating green jobs with fair pay, benefits, and training.

📢 Learn more & share your story:
www.goodgreenjobsforall.ca/unemployment

Your organization should run its own Mastodon server Run your own Mastodon server to control your social media presence

I’m on holidays so won’t take more time away to explain my boosterism of @governmentofbc.bsky.social & related shifts by public orgs, but if you’re interested, smarter folx than I, like @martinfowler.com (see eg: martinfowler.com/articles/you...), @blaine.bsky.social & @danhon.com are here to help.

What Phil said (acknowledging my bias and investment in all this).

So, yes, especially if you’re working in the #bcpoli and #futuregov spaces, please bolster this initiative of my wonderful @governmentofbc.bsky.social colleagues. It’s high time we stop supporting the alternatives, and build better.

Good job, team.

Resonant read from Justine Hunter in @theglobeandmail.com (where you can actually read it for free! 🙏): www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic....

One of the biggest newsletter platforms now syndicates to Bluesky and Mastodon Ghost 6.0 adds social web-focused features.

this is the future www.theverge.com/news/718286/...

Messengers of Biodiversity REPORTING GRANT DEADLINE REMINDER: AUGUST 31

Reminder! There's money on the table for reporting on biodiversity in BC — get your applications in before the end of August. www.messengersofbiodiversity.org

A Tsunami Watch has been issued for BC for zones A, B, C and D. Risk level is currently being evaluated, please remain alert.

If you are on the shoreline and see the tide suddenly receding, evacuate immediately.

Learn more: www.emergencyinfobc.gov.bc.ca/event/tsunam...

… I feel disappointed, unsettled and reflective about the state of thinking, creativity and discourse, along multiple contours.

So here are some photos taken this morning of flowers my wife and I have cultivated and cared for.

I read such a brilliant piece of writing this morning. Felt resonantly connected with the author.

Then I learned the author is a proven plagiarizer, with other (unproven) assertions they heavily rely on AI.

Poked around & found others passing off the article’s content as their own.

And now…

Loved this so much, Ann.

“Today kindness is a value many punks uphold, alongside pragmatic skill-building, mutual aid, self-criticism, a strong work ethic and the courage it takes to imagine a life that may never bring huge material rewards but will support the health and dignity of everyone.”

Via their newsletter this morning I just noticed FoG is on here. Followed, recommended.

Heard from a colleague spending a few months in the Netherlands.

"Went on a 35-mile bike ride today, entirely on bike paths, through all kinds of landscapes. Turns out I love biking, I'm just scared of biking with cars."

😢

A woman, face obscured by one of the flowers, reaches through a row of pink-hued dahlias to cut a few samples for sale. Warm morning light illuminates the scene.

There are few things better than being nearby withnessing people you love in the places, pursuits and experiences that fill them up.

Jennie, this morning, prepping a few flowers in our backyard urban farm to share with the community before heading off to work at the actual farm.