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Vancouver city council calls on feds to address headlight brightness | CBC News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/vancouver-vehicle-headlight-brightness-safety-concerns-9.7061810

Vancouver city council calls on feds to address headlight brightness | CBC News
Advocates say car headlights are not only too bright, but also too high up on larger vehicles, sometimes aiming at eye level. They say the lights blind other drivers, cyclists and pedestrians.

Jasper @raedisch.net is joining us at #ATmosphereConf in Vancouver as his first trip to Canada.
Suggested movies or shows referencing Canada and/or Vancouver?
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Boris (@bmann.ca)
Jasper @raedisch.net is joining us at #ATmosphereConf in Vancouver as his first trip to Canada. Suggested movies or shows referencing Canada and/or Vancouver? [contains quote post or other embedded content]

For a more comprehensive view of the candidates, the CBC did an article today here:
#NDP #CanPoli #CdnPoli
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/ndp-leadership-race-membership-deadline-9.7063896

Good Morning #Canada
It's National Throw Out Your Leftovers Day, the fake holiday brought to you by greedy grocery conglomerates. I live on lunches that are 90% leftovers from our dinners so I know throwing out perfectly good food is a waste. But you need to be safe so here's some information about how to store food so that it doesn't kill you later that week. Most of it is common sense - like not storing leftovers on your stove top for 5 days before you decide to eat it. I won't do that again...
#CanadaIsAwesome #SmellTest
https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/leftovers-food-safety-faq-1.7412668

Cold frozen marshland
Withered reeds and solid fens
No songbirds today.
#dailyhaikuprompt - withered reeds
#haiku
#poem

Is there some setting in #Nextcloud that would cease posting these tagging messages? As evident in the image below, while occasionally useful, most often, by a large margin, the tags are hilariously inaccurate (a tuning note A is 'rap') but as I have thousands of photos and audio files, the constant stream of these renders notifications useless,

Just ordered a small VPS to give #selfhosting

YunoHost: garden your own piece of the Internet!
YunoHost is a system that installs itself on a server and allows you to install and maintain - with very little technical knowledge - digital services (apps) that you control.

Gambier Island in Átl'ka7tsem/Howe Sound.
#Photography

eleven dance songs I made
by imaginary prisons https://blog.bmann.ca/3m6pzjjct722k

eleven dance songs I made by imaginary prisons - Boris Blog
Another Other People's Music find via Ether Diver

so close to that moment…. #tgif #fiif

ICE's funding runs out in 36 hours.
The Senate must not give ICE new funding.
Enough is enough.
Add your name:
https://im-ca.org/l/qMAMuQ
Robert Reich, IMCA

Good Morning #Canada
Apparently the earth moved last night but I didn't feel a thing. An earthquake, a magnitude 3.7 to 4.1 depending on different reports, was reported in my neighbourhood near Orilla Ontario last night. The epicenter was across Lake Simcoe, approximately 35km away from my home and 5km deep. Maybe the lake reduced the impact and we do have a pretty good mattress.
There are 4,000 ish earthquakes measured in Canada annually but most are minor. Perhaps 40 might be large enough or not remote, and people will feel the ground shaking. That's about 1 every 8 days. Most of our earthquakes occur along the West Coast, the High Arctic, and lower frequency along the eastern seaboard. Earthquakes are monitored by the National Seismograph Network with approximately 100 seismographs distributed across Canada.
I know you're wondering about the 10 largest earthquakes ever felt in Canada. I got you covered...
#CanadaIsAwesome #Seismology
https://www.earthquakescanada.nrcan.gc.ca/pprs-pprp/pubs/GF-GI/GEOFACT_largest-earthquakes_e.pdf

Saskatchewan winter study.
#photography

Details on the California #wealthTax proposal:
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2025-024
It's a one-time 5% wealth tax but can be spread over 5 ye…

These neeps and tatties:
Turnip mashed with potato
Will outlast winter.
#dailyhaikuprompt - turnip
#haiku
#poem

Friday was an adventure in tech futility. Started with a gifted laptop, Dell Latitude, and the simple task of wiping its poor excuse for an OS and installing something sensible.
#Ubuntu wasn't it. OMG Ubuntu, what HAVE you done?! Tried first #UbuntuStudio then stock Ubuntu, 24.04, 25.04, 25.11, all the installers simply hung, no log, no journalctl, CPU chugging but nada detectable action, even hours later, just "Preparing…"
Net advice is old, of course, but points to the snap bootstrap service, fix has no effect but Kee-riced look at the mount table?! Snaps crackle and pop all over! Wtf, why? 🤯
And it is tedious. These 'DVD' iso files are 7GB, so, after 6 hours frustration, I thought, let's try something smaller to cut the turnaround time. #Debian13 simple bare-bones net-install seemed a good candidate …
And it was. Seemless install. 😊

When I visit Germany, there are a few products that I usually bring back. Tempo tissues and a selection of Pom-Bär this time. https://bsky.app/profile/bmann.ca/post/3m655gm5sd22q

C'a pris trop de temps: Stephen Guilbeault quitte le cabinet Canadien
https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/politique/2025-11-27/entente-entre-ottawa-et-l-alberta/steven-guilbeault-quitte-le-cabinet.php…

omg. lmao
#JDVance #ChesterfieldNotACouch #canada
https://www.thebeaverton.com/2025/11/jd-vance-slams-canada-after-being-rejected-by-sexy-chesterfield/

Good Morning #Canada
Last week I registered with Ontario's Healthcare Connect program to help us get a family doctor in the Barrie area. Our previous family doctor retired in November and we were still covered by the clinic but it's in Brampton, more than 90 minutes away. So I'm now relying on Dougie to keep his promise to find a family doctor for all Ontarians by June 2026. I mean he's done so well with housing, environmental goals, Eglinton Crosstown....
Did you know that 83% of Canadians now report they have regular access to a family doctor which means an approximate 500K improvement in the past two years. That still leaves about 6M of us without a family physician. Family physician shortages are the highest in the territories (>55%), Quebec (21.5%) and British Columbia (17.7%), and the provinces of Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and British Columbia have the fewest family physicians per 100 000 persons in the population.
#CanadaIsAwesome #HealthCare
https://www.cihi.ca/en/taking-the-pulse-measuring-shared-priorities-for-canadian-health-care-2025/primary-health-care-2025/most-canadians-have-a-regular-health-care-provider

Hey @… here's a screenie of a page linked from masto in Phanpy. How do I get it to open in a real browser so I can come back to it later? This is totally fatal to the way I work.

Done, canceled https://pnw.zone/@felix/115624265752458196

It was amazing working with A. Woodward on "Goosetopher2", now called Goodstuff.
Do I want new geese mascot every year? I mean...
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It's too cold for snow
And yet somehow freezing rain
Is on the menu.
#dailyhaikuprompt - cold
#haiku
#poem

Looks like the Peacemaker In Chief is gonna go blow up some Venezuela for Thanksgiving. 🇻🇪
😢
#war #TheAmericanFascist #venezuela
https://climatejustice.social/@PeterRu/115633789030686012

Daring Fireball: The Names They Call Themselves
#USpol

The Names They Call Themselves
*Fascist* and *Nazi* weren’t slurs that were applied to the Italians and Germans by their political or military opponents. That’s what they called themselves. The job won’t be done, this era of madness will not end, until we make *the names Trump’s regime calls themselves* universally acknowledged slurs.

Our youngest daughter put up her Christmas tree yesterday and Cassie is inspecting her work.
#Christmas #Caturday

A wonderfully thorough and reasonably modern System Configuration Guide to creating a #LinuxSound machine
https://wiki.linuxaudio.org/wiki/system_configuration

It's bean soup, he said
I can see that, she replied,
But what is it now?
#dailyhaikuprompt - bean soup
#haiku
#poem

I’d be hard pressed to come up with many tv series that have been so consistently great as Stranger Things.
My list would include some of the best shows ever, like Mad Men, Sopranos, The Wire.
Bring on the finale!
#StrangerThings

Digging out. Apparently we've been gifted 45cm by #MotherNature.... so far. Snow is forecasted to continue at a slower pace until Saturday morning.
Our electrician was scheduled to complete a few jobs today but we canceled because of the weather. He sent us a photo of his house in Alliston - just green grass and sunshine just 30 minutes west of us.
#Snowmageddon

Pipeline projects such as the one being promoted by Carney and Smith typically end having to skirt the Hecate Strait (see https://paddlingmag.com/stories/columns/still/hecate-strait/) after hitting saltwater at Kitimat (see

Crossing Canada's Most Dangerous Waterway By SUP
What it takes to cross Hecate Strait and live to tell the tale.

How does that chestnut
Roasting on an open fire
Make the season bright?
#dailyhaikuprompt - chestnut
#haiku
#poem

Not at all suspicious.
#jakepaul
https://flipboard.com/@aljazeera/europe-news-usk80vk6z/-/a-CtsFGytGTOG_BpW-sh5IaQ:a:3199698-/0

Amazon Employees for Climate Justice strike again! https://www.wired.com/story/amazon-employees-open-letter-artificial-intelligence-layoffs/?emci=8691…

Amazon Workers Issue Warning About Company’s ‘All-Costs-Justified’ Approach to AI Development
Amazon Employees for Climate Justice says that over 1,000 workers have signed a petition raising “serious concerns” about the company’s “aggressive rollout” of artificial intelligence tools.

Harley had a tough day yesterday spending hours outside helping us shovel snow. She's resting up before we go out again to tackle snow that fell overnight. It's a tough life.
#Snowmageddon #DogsOfMastadon

Springsteen responds…
https://www.tumblr.com/cheeseandentrails/807008674579185664?source=share

I have taken a break from DF to learn… Rimworld.
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Boris (@bmann.ca)
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Blacksky is interesting: https://blackskyweb.xyz
Also, they have transparent finances, which I care about really a lot: https://opencollective.com/blacksky

Build Community Online with Decentralized Tools | Blacksky
Decentralized tools to build community online. The intercommunal net where communities govern, pool funds and stay safe on their own terms.

I handles many of important extensions, I’m liking it so far. But no safari extensions unfortunately, so missing my favourite blocker.
It is wicked fast though. https://social.vivaldi.net/@ianbetteridge/115634295732705020

Coming to the end of a pretty successful Block Friday here in southern Ontario; that's where we take turns walking around the block with our snowblowers clearing our neighbours' sidewalks and driveways.
#ONstorm #ONkindness #BlockFriday

Daughter survived numerous snow squalls and arrived safely in Innisfil, and got a big welcome from Harley.
#DogsOfMastadon

It is probably just me, or just my relative newcoming to Fediverse having not yet found my true centre, but I'd spend more time here if there were more totally-off-the-rails posts like this one:
https://www.tumblr.com/teledyn/804124363834146816/vbartilucci-lemonsharks-girlactionfigure?source=share

Um... why would they have a Star of David on their chest Pierre?
"Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says antisemitism is on the rise in Canada and around the world, and is spreading through educational institutions.
He says Canadians must stand up to ensure Jewish people can live “safely, peacefully and openly with the Star of David on their chest.””
#Holocaust #Nazi #HolocaustRemembranceDay
https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/article/carney-says-holocaust-remembrance-day-a-time-to-remember-canadian-complicity/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Lots of great lines in this post by @bf.wtf
“A world generates a story. And world-building is what the computer is for. Not in the fantasy sense, but in the practical one. Running your business is world-building. Raising a family is world-building.”
https://shimmeringvoid.leaflet.pub/3m7

I would 100% use this as my daily driver.
https://vmst.io/@jalefkowit/115795110652613156

Tale of Moonlight (1968)
Soviet Animated Short Film (9m)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTU3j_GDAHE

Wake Up! Eartha Kitt getting me ready for something.... I think it's Christmas...
#ChristmasMusic #Caturday
https://youtu.be/Mk_GmhD053E?si=S8c9dFQx-NDqnY_R

“[open social] must be funded like infrastructure, not consumer apps. In fact, given the scale of hybrid threats, it should be funded from defense budgets, not innovation leftovers.
The strategic layer of democracy is the information layer. And right now, it is outsourced.” @seabass.bsky.social
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RE: https://mas.to/@HourlySneps/115625794347658496
Very followable.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@WeeBeers/115968141517535036
Could we please make an exception on the USA boycott for Project 9 Lights Out?
Pretty please? 🙏 🥺 😋 🌑

I always wondered how conducting worked: https://overcast.fm/ ABDzohAmiqQ

Contrary to all common sense weather related recommendations, my wife and I are driving to Toronto this afternoon. If you don't hear from me again please think kindly of this account.
#Snowmageddon #WeatherBomb

RE: https://mastodon.online/@davidaugust/115634589128655814
Citation needed. Oh, here it is: https://

I figure even if it is someday possible for the transhumanists to upload themselves into a machine, it will be a nightmare attempting to later transplant themselves into the new improved updated wow machine that will someday replace it!
Folks who balk about Mastodon not letting you migrate your entire presence elsewhere likely have never tried to extricate their personal workflow from a 15 year old laptop! 😅
That is, of course, AFTER previously spending an hour or so to weed out the about:config AI functions and add no-AI search engines to the fresh Firefox install 😞
Yes, I have contemplated installing Emacs and nothing else. Would seem the only sensible thing to do, but 'sensible' was never listed on my report card.

Only the worst neighbours have one of these anyway…. lol
https://flipboard.com/@ctvnews/health-1vojgo4az/-/a-Kwwh5axmQS21ybPk_ysBKw:a:2823982346-/0

I highly recommend Redwall Feasts Bot.
What I wouldn’t give for “mixed berry cordial brewed by the hedgehogs”
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I decided that I can regrip my golf clubs without "professional" help from Golf Town. Instead of $130 my total cost is $60 for a kit from Amazon. Did my driver today just to see how tough it will be. Learned some stuff and the rest of my set should go smoothly.
#DIY #Golf

Has anybody reading this worked on Google’s RE2 C regex library? I have an amusement for you if so.

Niiiiiiiiice
https://mastodon.social/@lashman/115803815128207539

Weird
https://mastodon.social/@mfeilner/115799425428384890

Guilbeault quits Carney’s cabinet over energy deal with Alberta | CBC News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/guilbeault-quitting-cabinet-9.6995299

Guilbeault quits Carney’s cabinet over energy deal with Alberta | CBC News
Liberal MP Steven Guilbeault has quit cabinet over the federal government signing Thursday’s memorandum of understanding with Alberta.

Feathery hoarfrost
Needles out from cold branches
Waving to the sun.
#dailyhaikuprompt - hoarfrost
#haiku
#poem

between oil pipelines and laws controlling "religious acts”... Canada is really hitting it out of the park on progressivism on the BBC today.
#CanPoli #CdnPoli #BBC

It's early, and perhaps the results are not significant with only 4 participants out of a potential 8.2B on the planet, but it appears not a lot of #NewYearsResolution2026 are being considered.

The yellowing ad
Left too long in the window
A future long past.
#dailyhaikuprompt - yellowing
#haiku
#poem

A nice obituary from December 31, 2024 about my Great Uncle Herman Neufeld (my mom's Uncle).
I never really knew him as I grew up 4000km away... but he had a positive impact on people, especially Jamaican workers, in Niagara-on-the-Lake.
"Herman, who died Dec. 31, became very involved in the Niagara Workers Welcome services and other outreach programs. He considered the farmworkers his friends and neighbours, and treated them as such."
#Friendship #welcome #mennonite
https://www.notllocal.com/local-news/remembering-herman-neufeld-10060084

Arrived in Toronto safely. We're staying at my youngest daughter's apartment for 3 or 4 days and planning on attending a show and maybe visit a few museums.
Our daughter took our car back to our place in Innisfil and she will be having friends over for a New Year's extended party. I hope her commute is as uneventful as ours was.
#HouseSwap

Once upon a time when work was using its own email servers, I had to periodically archive my email accounts. I would create a new gmail account and just throw it up on there so the emails were still searchable in my mail client if the account was included…
Now I have a bunch of gmail accounts that have tens of thousands of emails form twenty years ago.
This is dumb... especially with storage the way it is these days.
So now I'm logging into those accounts, downloading the emails and any other Google data, and deleting the accounts from Google.
Fun Times, this long-time-digital-life life.
#Google #Data #KeepItOnYourDevice

I'm thinking about resolving to lose 10-ish pounds in 2026. A modest goal that is even more achievable in kilos - only 4.5 kilos. I'll commit to reporting monthly on my goal and open myself up to public debate. I'll do my first weigh-in on January 2nd. Now excuse me while I have a slice of leftover apple pie for an after breakfast snack.
#NewYearsResolution2026

Though snoring gently
The bear is aware enough
To ignore skiers.
#dailyhaikuprompt - bear
#haiku
#poem

I don’t regret my vote, based on my options during the election, but I am extremely disappointed in his policies. Likely killed my future Liberal votes.
Sure would love a strong NDP.
#CanPoli
https://mstdn.ca/@A…

Alison Creekside (@AlisonCreekside@mstdn.ca)
Attached: 1 image 13 Ways Carney has weakened Canada's climate policy #climate

In which I write about the pretty-awesome experience of attending the MLS quarter-final game with my son and 53,095 other good friends, and how getting interested in fútbol has had the side-effect that I’ve lost most of my interest in football (as in NFL). https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/20<…

Great to see @evelyn.northsky.team presenting @transrights.northsky.social
Very inspiring! https://bsky.app/profile/bmann.ca/post/3m5ymfjikp22k

It's February, Chicago, 1916, second-string kids from New Orleans, like The Stones at the Marquee, get there to fill a spot, it's fricken freezing, promoter gets overcoats from Sally Ann, all oversized. March lands a gig at Schiller's Cafe. Nick says to ramp it up, invents a new dance fitting the bustle. Gig is white band, lower East Side, what's chances that drunk in the back is Irish? Jazz it up boys, he shouts! Wtf? sez Nick, but he liked the sound of it…
By spring, every teen in Chicago was wearing an oversized overcoat. Louis told Papa Joe in '22 he couldn't play that stuff. Papa Joe said get your ass on that stage and blow.
#GodspeedBrewery may have a Schiller's Moment Wed Jan 28th 6-9 😊

Hey Americans! Happy Thanksgiving.
Get rid of the fascist next, ktxbye?🥰
#USA #Thanksgiving #TheAmericanFascist

Update: we got lots of snow, and it's still coming down.

📍 Timbertrain Coffee Roasters - Depot
Cafe · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Boxing Week on sale coffee, and a little peaceful time with me and a cappuccino.
#BeaconBits https://bsky.app/profile/bmann.ca/po…

Boris (@bmann.ca)
📍 Timbertrain Coffee Roasters - Depot Cafe · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Boxing Week on sale coffee, and a little peaceful time with me and a cappuccino. #BeaconBits

I imagine the reason he felt he could welcome people from faraway places so easily was because he was one of those people... and faced persecution because of it in his childhood. A reminder that people are good. #Friendship #welcome #mennonite

Moving to a beach community was a great idea...
#OnStorm #Snowmageddon #BelleEwart

Was making a cuppa for my wife who is working through a little Christmas-gift box of fancy tea and it’s pretty well all gone, as I was gathering the last cupsworth I snickered because there was a tune going through my head 🎵“Twigs and seeds, twigs and seeds…” 🎵
#IYKYK

Goings on in China!? The USA seems not the only one where power is being consolidated.
"The CMC, usually made up of around seven people, has now been whittled down to just two members - Xi and Gen Zhang Shengmin. That only Xi and one CMC general remain is unprecedented, according to Lyle Morris from the Asia Society Policy Institute.”
#China #USA #CPC
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8d0l0g8yz5o

Lobsters, Inc.
#MakeAMovieAboutCrustaceans
#HashtagGames

#genAI

Casper's window hammock is tilting downward on the left. Potential disaster has been averted by propping up the left side with a high backed rocker. As soon as his nap is over I'll reattach it more securely.
#CatsOfMastadon #Caturday

Rice Pudding and Cherry Sauce 🍒 starter incoming!
Which bowl has the almond?!
#danish #christmas #dinner

OH: “My mind was hashtag blown.”

I am surprised Steam doesn’t exist on iPad..
But maybe I am ignorant about how Steam works?
#steam

RE: https://cosocial.ca/@mpjgregoire/115617463612803295
MG is our own Tory exemplar — a Royalist even — keeping his head above Mastodon’s progressive river somewhere near the right bank.
Hey MG, your tribe needs a hashtag,

So far, this latest ##Snowmageddon is nothing to call the military about. We've had periods of flurries, but nothing is sticking around. Watching the weather maps all day shows areas north and south of us are getting higher amounts but nothing serious. I'm calling it early, this one is a bust.
#Karma

RE: #RussiaUkraineWar

Gregor Macdonald's “Cold Eye Earth” is an excellent big-picture newsletter on energy trends and why it’s so freaking difficult to reduce global emissions. There are grounds for optimism, but still… https://www.coldeye.earth?r=wabr

Cold Eye Earth | Gregor Macdonald | Substack
tracking the progress of energy transition. Click to read Cold Eye Earth, by Gregor Macdonald, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

Hey, FTC is appealing the Meta (Facebook/Insta/WhatsApp) antitrust case: https://apnews.com/article/ftc-meta-appeal-antitrust-752463c7783ba14b00b686fe0c933f88
(Disclosure: I’m an expert witness for FTC in this litigation.)

FTC says it will appeal Meta antitrust decision
The Federal Trade Commission said Tuesday it will appeal the November ruling in favor of Meta in its antitrust case against the social media giant. The FTC said it continues to allege that, for more than a decade, Meta has illegally maintained a monopoly in social networking through anticompetitive conduct. The FTC says Meta bought the significant competitive threats it identified in Instagram and WhatsApp. Meta prevailed over the existential challenge to its business that could have forced the…