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Last few pix from our Maritimes vacation, wrapped in a bunch of tourist tips: #Photography…

Maritime Wrap-up

good grief those are large animals 😬
It always make me laugh (nervously) that they are as happy plucking berries from a bush as they are killing a black bear. 🐻
#banff #grizzly #bear
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/the-boss-bow-valley-grizzly-bear-split-lip-9.6979193

Taking myself out for a chill evening dinner at Pinecrest Diner. https://pinecrestdiner.com/
Ordered a Modelo upgraded to a Michelada. I’m just an uncultured Canadian so this is not what I was expecting. It’s awesome!

News flash: There’s lots of really good new music out there! Here’s some of it: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/10/15/Current-Music
Featuring: Kwashibu Area Band (Ghana), New Eves (UK), The Good Ones (Rwanda), Alfa Mist (UK), Sona Jobarteh (UK/Gambia)…

Good Morning #Canada
Listening to Christmas tunes and watching the snow fall.
Notable Canadian snowstorms:
- 1913 Great Lakes Storm. The most destructive natural disaster on the Great Lakes, causing 250 deaths & destroying 19 ships.
- 1941 March Blizzard: Brought 100 km/h winds and temps of -45°C to Saskatchewan and Manitoba, leading to the deaths of 72 people.
- 1944: 47 cm of snow hit Toronto in a single day. Unfortunately, the Canadian Army was overseas.
- 1971 Montreal: 45 cm of snow on March 4th & wind gusts of 110 km/h. 200 Ski-Doo owners provided emergency transport.
- 1977: This blizzard struck Southern Ontario January 28 to February 1. Toronto DID NOT call the Army.
- 1999 Toronto Snowstorm: A series of snowfalls paralyze the city, total snowfall for January reached 118 cm. Yes, the mayor called the Army.
- 2007 February 2007: Storm hits Central and Eastern Canada, with Ottawa setting a single-day snowfall record of 35.7 cm.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Snowmageddon
https://www.readersdigest.ca/travel/canada/worst-snowstorm-in-canada/

For whom does one write?
#amiribaraka #poetry #afrosonics
https://www.tumblr.com/teledyn/797594498114977792/afrosonics-but-many-of-us-feel-that-since-we?source=share

What is a classic
Traditions are sometimes kept
Without good reason.
#dailyhaikuprompt - classic
#haiku
#poem

Only 3 #laravel devs listed in #yvr?
Gotta be more of us than that.
https://phpc.social/@denniskoch/115554

one of the coolest things about the #bcndp convention has been the use if this little ballot book for voting for elected positions within the party.
They announce the number and colour of the page, you rip out the paper and use it to make your selection.
Then the committee folks go around with ballot boxes like offerings at church 😆
Democracy is cool wherever it happens and in all its iterations.
#bcndp #democracy

Species and area seen please?

Flowers!
#Photography #bloomscrolling

Without reading the article I can only think this is for the new #RobertRodriquez / #DannyTrejo movie:
`Dogchete`
"Its not about what do you did son, its about who you did it to. Machete was a man of focus, commitment, sheer will. I once saw him kill three vampires in a bar with a stapler.…

Haligonia.ca (@haligonia@mstdn.ca)
Attached: 1 image Police say machete and dog used in Prospect party altercation https://haligonia.ca/police-say-machete-and-dog-used-in-prospect-party-altercation-313449/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #halifax #novascotia #canada

Emm Gryner is prepping to release two (yes, two) albums… Kickstarter backers just got access to one of the demo tracks from "Lioness Sky", the solo indie pop album, and there's a track from "Used to Bleed", the heavy metal album, up too.
https://www.

Good Morning #Canada
I have one final chapter for The Dirt on Canadian Farming, and it's more of an opinion piece.
As I conducted research on each province for information on their agriculture, there were numerous news stories about how farmers and farm organizations were fighting against loss of farmland. Urban growth, new housing development, and sprawling industrial parks are gobbling up prime farmland. The attached article is just one example. The statistics released by each province have common trends:the average age of farmers increasing, individual farm operators in decline, larger farms are increasing, renting of farmland is growing, and overall arable land is in decline. With the sparsely populated prairies holding the majority of fertile farmland, Canada likely won't lose our global impact because of development for houses or industry. But elsewhere, our food chain will be pushed further away from where we live. Or disappear.
#CanadaIsAwesome #SaveOurFarmland
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/waterloo-region-new-update-wilmot-land-plans-1.7534644

I just enabled the AP compatibility of the #DWebYVR Ghost site, which can be followed at @…
You can also subscribe by email on the website https://

DWeb Vancouver
Decentralized web and community collaboration in Vancouver|

You know what they say:
There may be snow on the roof
But it hides the rust.
#dailyhaikuprompt - rust
#haiku
#poem

A triumph of film art, creating on the screen a vast, awe-inspiring picture of the universe as it would appear to a voyager through space, this film was among the sources used by Stanley Kubrick in his 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Universe - #NFB
https://www.nfb.ca/film/universe/

Food for thought…
Consider the personal growth potential !!

“my letter wasn’t about that malicious contrarian’s record of racist utterances.
The writers of the original article resigned in protest in September and today there was a mass walkout of journalists at the Pentagon, protesting new “rules” imposed by the Trump Administration….
Press Freedom is not negotiable.
Canadians need to seriously consider whether it is time for Canadian ownership to be a requirement for the canadian press.”
#charliekirk #pressfreedom #cdnpoli
https://chrisalemany.ca/2025/10/16/press-freedom-is-not-negotiable-a-rewrite-under-protest/

Calico flowers.
#caturday #photography

I had totally missed that,
The famous right wing extremist that was COO at Shopify, Kaz Nejatian, left Shopify on Friday
https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/shopify-coo-kaz-nejatian-departing-212351207.html

@… explains why Mastodon feels like it has a much brighter future than legacy social media really well here:
https://cosocial.ca/@timbray/115560976942889…

With #Livewire and #Statamic, look how quickly you can build out your site. https://mastodon.social/@statamic/1152

Jährlich genehmigte #Windenergieleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 15.10.2025.
Genehmigt bedeutet noch nicht gebaut oder in Betrieb. Nicht alle Anlagen benötigen eine Genehmigung.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: Was passi…

I joined the BC Green party because there's no other option around here if you care about the earth. My first ever political convention!
@…
#bcgreen #GreenParty

Well.... this might put a damper on my leaf raking activities today....
#WinterIsComing #Snowmageddon

It's a life of ease
When every task is complete
Which never happens.
#dailyhaikuprompt - ease
#haiku
#poem

Louisiana Took Months To Sound Alarm Amid Whooping Cough Outbreak:
https://undark.org/2025/11/11/louisiana-whooping-cough-slow/

Wardley: Not a Fan of ChatGPT https://blog.bmannconsulting.com/3m3dmlo7t7k2t

Wardley: Not a Fan of ChatGPT - 3lxsr74rnk22h
Large language models are coherence engines not truth engines, we don't teach the critical thinking needed to properly evaluate the outputs.

first ballot vote! (required at all non leadership conventions)
"should a leadership election be called"
I sense a positively negative response ;)
#bcndp #bcpoli

#OntarioPlace - News - Open Call for Ontario Artists - #Lumière: The Art of Light 2026
https://ontarioplace.com/en/2025/09/03/open-call-for-ontario-artists-lumiere-the-art-of-light-2026/

Hey, just a reminder that Thursday 18th there’s the “IPTC Photo Metadata Conference 2025”, a free Zoom event open to all. I’m a speaker (focusing on #C2PA). It looks like it should be interesting for anyone interested in the tangle of issues about media provenance, #genAI, publishing workflow, social media, and…

Photo Metadata Conference 2025 - IPTC
IPTC is the global standards body of the news media. We provide the technical foundation for the news ecosystem.

Browsing in the glade
Deer gather in the sunlight
Turning tail on fall.
#dailyhaikuprompt - deer
#haiku
#poem

It's always time for coffee, but it's almost time for #ChristmasMusic ....
#CoffeeFirst #RandomTune
https://youtu.be/Fv4mIQ4k8k0?si=i24zvvsSpZSsnKIV

Sacrificial Soda
#México #SinkHole #Soda
https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/cj9zex1r3kjo

Love this, the tech community I’m in, #statamic, is a Personal Business with a fabulous community. https://mastodon.social/@Daojoan/115553315179343269

Several good health related articles here today:
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-vaccines/viewpoint-we-owe-parents-real-data-we-mess-kids-vaccination-schedule

But can these neighbours afford the high prices small shops must pay for small-batch wholesale and rent? Will banks finance small enterprise or treat them like restaurants?
I'm all for a walkable ward, but mine is already conspicuously littered with boarded up small shops and gentrified boutiques.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/toronto-council-votes-oppose-ford-government-bill-60-9.6976288

#Mariners got the #BlueJays right where they want ’em.
#mlb

Orchids root in trees
To take their place in the sun
Beauty hits the heights.
#dailyhaikuprompt - orchids
#haiku
#poem

Updates to #mastodon complete on my #selfhost.
I think the biggest load on my #footiMac is nginx and my streaming demands. I need to offload that stuff somewhere else.

Good Morning #Canada
On this day in 1948, the longest serving political leader in the British Commonwealth retired. William Lyon Mackenzie King served 21 years and 154 days as Prime Minister of Canada, in non-consecutive terms, from 1921–1926, 1926–1930, and 1935–1948. He led Canada through the Great Depression, introduced Old Age Pensions, nationalized the Bank of Canada, passed the 1938 National Housing Act to improve housing affordability, established the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Trans-Canada Air Lines, and the National Film Board, and implemented Unemployment Insurance. His government was also responsible for Japanese Internment Camps, and he believed strongly in the occult.
This video from TVO is an excellent overview of King's career. It's probably a two coffee viewing this morning if you have the time, but IMO worth the investment.
#CanadaIsAwesome #CanadianHeroes
https://www.tvo.org/video/mackenzie-king-at-150

And great timing! Reading group post is up and got posted to the @… account
https://dwebyvr.org/dwebyvr-reading-group-first-meeting/

I don't think you need to be a fan of baseball, or even sports in general, to fully understand this scene. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i94ldGNNSQ0

Ontario is investing $400 million to help small, rural and Northern communities as part of the government’s more than $200 billion capital plan investing in key public infrastructure. That's 0.2%
Had they instead paid all their 99.8% bills with a MasterCard, the 0.5% cash-back would have given a full billion dollars to rural communities for free!
https://news.ontario.ca/en/release/1006474/ontario-investing-in-local-infrastructure-to-support-small-rural-and-northern-communities

KFF poll: 1 in 6 parents will delay or skip some childhood vaccines: Dangerous!
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-vaccines/kff-poll-1-6-parents-will-delay-or-skip-some-childhood-vaccines

I voted for what you might call the "anti-establishment" voice for president. He wore a kaffiyeh and talked of environment and how the BCNDP could meet this incredibly challenging moment.
Glad I was able to support him. he came second by a large margin but I am grateful that support is there.
#bcndp #bcndp #democracy

#Eurovision over #Gaza

Update from youngest daughter. Her cat Cassie looks pissed because she can't fit that back foot into her basket on the cat tree.
#CatsOfMastadon

They could solve world hunger, but instead do this
https://mastodon.social/@amalia22/115552322301509094

I would just like to express solidarity with trans folks on #bluesky and others who are being suspended on that corporate platform for "wishing ill will" on J.K. Rowling.
Rowling is an objectively terrible human being that has repeatedly expressed discriminatory and disgusting opinions towards trans people.
She has earned every ounce of ill will that she gets.
saw this from @…

Hmmm... the official #pixelfed app takes alt text, but doesn't send it? The web app does alt text just fine. 🤔

Whole lotta Canadians swallowed their boycott-the-USA principles and may currently be found in Seattle.
#mlb

One of my favourites
#ChristmasMusic #RandomTune
https://youtu.be/HGVNzgUxE-g?si=lK9zOtipR3-yQg0-

Put on a Happy Fez
#HatASongOrPoem
#HashTagGames
https://youtu.be/DmvFK739E_w

fyi: 82% of the #bcndp delegates (740 valid votes cast)
voted against having a leadership convention!
iow: Premier Eby's leadership is solid and safe.
#bcpoli

I wish mastodon had a “throttle” feature. https://merveilles.town/@lrhodes/115379960146577252

I wouldn’t even notice https://kolektiva.social/@The_Counterforce/115208927090254727

My last #CountryMusic suggestion is from Corb Lund, and he captures the emotion of someone losing their farmland to development.
https://youtu.be/1sDz0eSm4Wg?si=HReaykWxkEvN7dzP

Mastodon *does* have an algorithmic feed if you want one. It’s identified by different names in different clients but “Trending” is usually part of the name. I think it works well, hit the “Trending posts” and “Trending links” (called “News” in the Masto web client) once a day or so to get a feel for what’s happening in the world.
As with many other things, PhanPy is really good at presenting this stuff..

Hands down the best lyrics to this tune ever put to record:

The Internet Archive and UMG (the music biz organization that was suing over IA making the 78s available to the world) have settled their litigation.
Terms not disclosed: https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/up…

I think it's time for a nap by the fireplace.
#Snowstorm

Search is Dead.
Really, this should not have taken two hours across oodles of prompts using four different search engines, but every one of those prompts was deconstructed into syllables to match anything even remotely thesaurused, regardless of details provided, regardless quote marks, minus or plus signs. "Malcolm Strauss"? oh, you mean RICHARD! No, fuck you bot, and Diana Allen is neither Rita Hayworth or Woody Allen and 1923 is not 1945 and a 2006 is unlikely to be SILENT, and this shouldn't take two hours before, finally, only Google would find this mention with the key phrase "presumed lost".
Silent Era : Progressive Silent Film List
https://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/S/Salome1923.html

Hadn’t heard about this previously, but the people who are organizing the version local to me are definitely good folk whose judgment I trust: https://drawtheline.world
(Not just Canada - the web site pulls in your local version.)

I also did this just to see if blue sky might suspend a bridged account. Since that is how my posts appear on that platform. I don't actually have a blue sky account
@…

Destroying Perfect - by Grant Snider - Incidental Comics
https://incidentalcomics.substack.com/p/destroying-perfect
> Perfection is an illusion

Israel says “Gaza is burning”:
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-says-gaza-is-burning-it-launches-ground-assault-2025-09-16/

Bright white winter moon
Gives the lustre of midday
To objects below.
#dailyhaikuprompt - winter moon
#haiku
#poem

Islet near the LaHave Islands in Nova Scotia.
#Photography #SilentSunday

Totally unsurprising in that industry. Also do recall Sam Altman recently proudly proclaiming OpenAI as a ready and waiting police informer, and Google deciding its primary role is national security.
MIT now reports it need not be you confessing your crimes against the regime to AI, it could be your therapist.
https://www.tumblr.com/teledyn/794863366355206144/totally-unsurprising-in-that-industry-also-do?source=share

Imma be rich! Thanks Elon!

An apple a day
Keeps the doctor awaiting
Proof of insurance.
#dailyhaikuprompt - apple
#haiku
#poem

Passwords are a scourge foisted on elderly tech-users. :(
I just got back from a house call with a fellow who can’t remember his passwords for his email. None of his backups work. His little book of passwords, useless.
There is no support to call for help.
His only option is to create a new email and leave the other behind.
Over and over I have seen this trouble. Not always to this extent, but always the same frustration.
Passwords are elder abuse.
#techsupport #life #security

If the success or failure of this planet, and of human beings, depended on how I am and what I do, how would I be? What would I do?
https://www.tumblr.com/teledyn/794856297853026304/if-the-success-or-failure-of-this-planet-and-of?source=share

Good Morning #Canada
Our #CanadianCapitals feature today is the oldest European settlement in North America as well as the most eastern city on the continent. Despite a history that goes back to he 1490s, St. John's Newfoundland was incorporated as a city in 1921 and became a provincial capital in 1949 upon joining Canada. The natural harbour served explorers and fishermen for centuries, and the settlement survived pirates, attacks by the French, and several devastating fires. If the Portuguese had more influence, it would have been named Rio de San Johem, which is a missed opportunity.
#CanadaIsAwesome
https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/st-johns

You know the secret
When spelling "Chrysanthemums"
Is that "Mums" the word.
#dailyhaikuprompt - chrysanthemums
#haiku
#poem

currently updating to 4.5.1….
#mastodon #mastoadmin #selfhost

Youngest daughter update. Good morning Toronto.
#Sunrise #Skyline

LinkedIn notifications.
(I’d rather my air carrier not be using AI but here we are.)

Oldest daughter update. It's a bread baking day, and the starter mix got a little excited overnight.
#Baking #Homemade

A proud achievement of my half-century IT career happened in 1996 consulting to the #UNDP toward the first published edition of the Humanity Development Library.
It seemed easy enough: "It can be fairly estimated that 1/3, or about 20 million pages of UN, and as much University and NGO material are very useful. Those 20 million pages useful UN publications probably contain about 50% of solutions for major World problems. This information must be released in digital format for non-profit redistribution in all countries."
also portable and accessible to all platforms, everywhere.
Happily, not only did the project live on, but thanks to @… our once-intractable problem of global delivery is now globally solved!
So, whether or not this is timely, I don't know, but should you need to suddenly rebuild some semblance of civilization from scratch…
Humanity Development Library 2.0 CD-ROM 1998 : #HumanityLibrariesProject : #InternetArchive
https://archive.org/details/humanity-development-library-2.0

Casper greeting the newest member of our family. He was a little tentative at first but accepted it once he realized there would be no additional competition for treats.
#CatsOfMastadon #Halloween

On Sunday, October 5, 2025, my wife and I are participating in the Canadian Cancer Society's Run for the Cure. This national fundraiser brings together communities across the country who will run or walk in support of all Canadians impacted by breast cancer. We are walking in honour of my mother, my two sisters, and both our daughters - all of whom have been touched by this terrible disease.
Our family isn't special as 1 in 8 women will face a breast cancer diagnosis in their lifetime, It is the most commonly diagnosed cancer among Canadian women, and all of us likely know someone who has battled it in the past, or is fighting it today. I encourage all Canadians to donate in honour of someone they know or simply to help their communities fight breast cancer. This cause is particularly important to us, especially this year, as we support our daughters, and I hope all Canadians get involved.
#CanadianCancerSociety #RunForTheCure
https://support.cancer.ca/site/TR/RunfortheCure/RFTC_NW_even_?px=15178695&pg=personal&fr_id=30455

Hard work.
#Photography

Reading about Baldur von Schirach. Sounds familiar.
“In February 1928 he became a university group leader of the National Socialist German Students' League.”
“He worked to broaden the Nazi Party's appeal to the bourgeoisie. Schirach was supported by Hitler in internal elections, who also wanted the Nazi Party to have a broad social base.”
“Schirach was skilled at bureaucratic power struggles. He founded the School Children's Leagues (Schülerbünde) to create competition to the Hitler Youth. He made an ally of Joseph Goebbels.”
“Schirach was named national youth leader of the party in 1931.”
“With Heinrich Hoffmann, Schirach produced several propaganda books of Hoffmann's photographs, including "Hitler As No One Knows Him", "Youth Around Hitler", and "Hitler in His Mountains". Schirach wrote the captions. The books sold hundreds of thousands of copies, earning Schirach and Hoffmann substantial royalties.”
“On 16 June 1932, he was made Reichsführer of the Party's Hitler Youth organization, and resigned from the Student League. Under Schirach, the Hitler Youth stewarded NSDAP events, and 21 members died in 1932. Schirach described these deaths as "blood sacrifice" for propaganda purposes. One example was Herbert Norkus, a fifteen-year-old boy who was stabbed to death by Communists. In a 31 May 1932 speech, Schirach recounted Norkus's death and called for a "National Socialist dictatorship". Schirach gave a memorial speech on the third anniversary of Norkus's death in January 1935.”
#hitleryouth #fascism #theAmericanFascist

Bonus content - the story of Canola.
#Inventors
https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/canola

Going shopping for #Halloween decorations to keep up with neighbours. After 16 years with no trick-or-treaters, we are looking forward to receiving costumed kiddies.
#RandomTune #MyPlaylist
https://youtu.be/S6stRuGQ12U?si=OewcQIY1_UbjSQdt

Thought I'd be clever. Saw the same TP-C110 camera I've used for years on sale, and, like, should be easy to add to #zoneminder …
… four hours later 😔
401 Unauthorized is likely misleading, but that's all I can get.

Good Morning #Canada
There is a lot of news coverage about a USA president that lusts after a Nobel Prize like he attacks a family sized bucket of KFC. So let's celebrate that OTD in 1957, the first Canadian won the peace prize - Lester B. Pearson. Before he became our 14th Prime Minister, he spent the majority of his career as a diplomat. He was one of the founders of the United Nations and almost ended up as its first Secretary General. He was instrumental in ending the Suez Canal crisis by suggesting and helping to implement the first U.N. Peacekeeping Force.
#CanadaIsAwesome #CanadianHeroes
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1957/pearson/facts/

the Question I have will be this:
Will Venezuela try to quickly procure #RussiaUkraineWar inspired military drone materiel (ie. cheap, numerous) beforehand to use in defense... and is the American war machine, particularly the Navy, ready for that?
Don't be too surprised if at the start of things Venezuela pulls off some surprisingly destructive actions not unlike Argentina vs UK in the Falklands with French exocets.
#war #theAmericanFascist

Some background on Joe Anidjar and the connection to London that seems overlooked in the main media.
#ChristiePitsPark - TorontoToday.ca
https://www.torontotoday.ca/local/community-events/locals-organize-counter-protest-oppose-racist-rally-christie-pits-park-11174553

Good NYT piece (gift link). Tl;dr: Financial whiz kids want to get their hands on mainstream retirement & insurance money so it can be plowed into unregulated private-debt markets and crypto. What could go wrong? https://www.

The Rules of Investing Are Being Loosened. Could It Lead to the Next 1929?
A group of financiers is trying to convince the public to invest heavily in private equity and crypto — a risky gambit with some real 1920s vibes.

cool ❤️ https://hci.social/@tod/115550075741222942

Wake Up! Time to make some bacon.
#MyPlaylist #RandomTune
https://youtu.be/oNj_JpWJqEg?si=Ml_zWA4xgWA58cZD

Cafe life.
(At Vancouver’s Purebread, which is a fine bakery.)
#Photography

Listening to CBC Radio Barrie this morning and they were interviewing the manager responsible for housing starts for the Town of Innisfil. The discussion was about missed targets for housing starts and what can be done to get back on track. You could tell that he was frustrated, but the reason for less homes being built was almost solely put on the downturn in the housing market. No one is buying, so private industry isn't building.
All levels of government are throwing money at the problem, with most of it incentivizing for-profit companies to put shovels in the ground. At some point, the Federal, Provincial, and Municipal governments have to realize that public housing, government leasehold development, co-operative housing, or subsidized family apartments must be considered to solve the housing shortage. Private industry will never have the same objectives of getting families into homes - without a calculation of significant profits first.
#CanPoli #AffordableHousing

Yellow maples, not many leaves left.
#Photography #Autumn

Hanging blinds this afternoon. One down and two more to go. The learning curve was a bit steep on the first one, but that means the rest will go quickly. Might have time to squeeze in a nap.
#DIY #Privacy #HoneyDoList

Today's #CountryMusic addition to the series is from William Prince. An absolute under-appreciated artist from Manitoba.
https://youtu.be/6TOuqLT6RyQ?si=Xl62muxT9EnkrO07