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Slow Horses screen grab, gotta love it.
#XML #SlowHorses

birbs and squirrels TV is the best TV
#Atlas #Catsodon #CatsOfMastodon

The #EuroSkyLive name badges have a QR code that opens in Flashes.app and links you to a starter pack of attendees.
This is great! Going to steal this idea for #ATmosphereConf

My youngest daughter was up early to attend some pagan ritual on the waterfront, to celebrate the #WinterSolstice. Then they went for brunch.
#Photography #Skyline

#GoodThings today
1. Found shear bolts for my snowthrower!
2. Practiced Christmas carols on my tuba this morning.
3. Have time to put my feet up and read my #fediverse feed.

Chibi Godzilla Raids Again
// S3E12: Welcome to the Concept Cafe
#twinprobs #shobijin
https://youtube.com/watch?v=0zys27V-Yss&si=OzpMy_1lPp1Ke_Zv

RE: https://cosocial.ca/@shayman/115934222502727981
Hahahaha

A Saskatchewan premier using a nautical reference always makes me giggle.
It's too bad that's the only funny thing about Scott Moe and his government's long and destructive grip on power in that province.
#SaskPoli #CanPoli #CdnPoli
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/scott-moe-sask-2025-choppy-waters-year-end-9.7019581

Money capital follows vectors.
[contains quote post or other embedded content] https://bsky.app/profile/bmann.ca/post/3m5xx5mgdgs2s

roadnet: U.S. roads (CA, PA, TX)
Road networks from three US states (CA, PA, TX), in which edges are stretches of road and vertices are intersections of roads.
This network has 1971281 nodes and 5533214 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Roads, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/roadnet

It took a year, but Quamina now has a full regular-expression capability, so I released 2.0.0. #Golang

Quamina v2.0.0

Recursion, see: https://mastodon.peterjanes.ca/@me/115590594226287657

from my link log —
The best – but not good – way to limit string length.
https://adam-p.ca/blog/2025/04/string-length/
saved 2025-10-22 https://

Good Morning #Canada
Good news... we've hit the low point of dark winter days and things will be much brighter going forward. I am referring to the Winter Solstice, which officially begins around 10am in these parts. This will be the longest night and shortest day of the winter and daylight will begin increasing tomorrow. So put away the snow shovels and slather on the tanning butter.
#CanadaIsAwesome #CelestialDays
https://www.insidehalton.com/news/ontario-canada-winter-solstice-2025/article_5adc2a0c-9ac6-50fd-9ef4-ca851ee6d6ce.html

oh ffs
a whole bunch of convoyers are currently driving by. 👎
no idea what this is about.
#convoy #altright #dumb

Great post by @wesleyfinck.org on interop w/out sharing Lexicons notes.wesleyfinck.org/3maq3h26ook2h
1) Lexicon mapping: @kipclip.com using community bookmarks lexicon, mapping to a Semble card.
2) Activities: other record types displayed, a bsky post with a link and a @monomarks.at bookmark. https://bsky.app/…

Boris (@bmann.ca)
Great post by @wesleyfinck.org on interop w/out sharing Lexicons notes.wesleyfinck.org/3maq3h26ook2h 1) Lexicon mapping: @kipclip.com using community bookmarks lexicon, mapping to a Semble card. 2) Activities: other record types displayed, a bsky post with a link and a @monomarks.at bookmark.

Canadian PM Mark Carney at Davos, on the rupture of the old world order:
https://www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/speeches/2026/01/20/principled-and-pragmatic-canadas-path-prime-minister-carney-addresses
He goes righ…

“Principled and pragmatic: Canada’s path” Prime Minister Carney addresses the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting
Thank you, Larry.It’s a pleasure – and a duty – to be with you at this turning point for Canada and for the world.Today, I’ll talk about the rupture in the world order, the end of a nice story, and the beginning of a brutal reality where geopolitics among the great powers is not subject to any constraints.

I only noticed after getting home from Stereolab that the song Laetitia introduced as "Capitalism is a Wound" is called, on the album, "Melodie is a Wound." Did the label censor it?! She introduced it that way in Vancouver too apparently https://exclaim.ca/music/a…

Stereolab Mixed "Joie de Vivre" with "Vive la Révolution" in Vancouver │ Exclaim!
Vogue Theatre, October 17

New verb! “Enslopenize” https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/ready-or-not-here-they-come-notes-from-the-ai-force-feed/sharetoken/59aaed33-5309-4a28-8bfc-7f0ed29543f2

Ready or Not, Here They Come — Notes From the AI Force-Feed ….
I just got a new iPhone. I didn’t need a newer version....

Ok, wife and I have been watching Knife Edge on Apple TV. Now I wanna eat at Michelin starred restaurants.
I’m going to Amsterdam in March (#laracon #laraconEU) anyone eaten at any of these? Recommendations?

After a decade of updates, Chris Barker has posted his final Sgt Pepper's
#sgtpepper2025
https://b3ta.com/board/11423804

Looking for a book on the rules of baseball in Mi'kmawi'simk (the language of the Mi'kmaq)? This one was written by a Capuchin missionary born and raised in France. In the words of one scholar, baseball was, at least in the 20th century, "the great Mi'kmaw passtime."
[Pacifique de Valigny], Altjematimgeoel (1912)
https://w…

I cannot stop watching this. It brings me joy especially at a time when I need it.
https://youtu.be/lP9V7_fevgQ?si=dxS2UZCUXXdns6_6

Google Photos is torturing me with daily reminders that we were in Punta Cana 1 year ago today. Bastards....
#WinterIsHere

“Canada did not sign the letter, Environment and Climate Change Canada confirmed to CBC News Friday.”
Canada is a problem.
A huge problem.
Our Prime Minister is in the Middle East instead of COP. That's all you need to know.
We're all so screwed right now... the world... all of us.
Our leaders in ‘developed' countries cannot extricate their minds from the Fossil Fuel industry and it's going to kill us all, or at least a very large proportion of us.
#COP30 #CanPoli
https://www.cbc.ca/news/climate/cop30-showdown-9.6987443

Canada carrying out war games in preparation for US military invasion for first time in a century, report says | #TheIndependent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/canada-trump-us-military-invasion-b2904279.html

Good Morning #Canada
The list of abandoned towns in PEI is apparently so short that no one has produced any really scary histories. It makes sense being a small island that there isn't enough distance to truly "abandon" a settlement. Maybe a house here or there, perhaps a short street. But that means you are more likely to be living next door to a haunted location. So today, we have a list of ghostly tales from around the island that may, or may not, be myth. Remember, don't go into the old shed with all the sharp farm tools....
#CanadaIsAwesome #CanadianGhostTowns
https://pointseastcoastaldrive.com/scary-stories-of-points-east-coastal-drive/

note to anyone listening:
If you're a Carney supporter but can't handle legitimate criticism of his policies or his actions (or inactions) then please consider what it means to be in a democracy.
The Liberal Party of Canada is not the only choice in Canada now, and never has been.
That's OK!
#canpoli #cdnpoli #canada

It's like no one doing music programming for radio and stores this year has even heard of #Whamageddon. 😐

Ian @… is a technical leader who is looking for a new role. He’s built a number of “full stack” things from scratch and has a recent security designation.
Please share if you know of companies that could benefit from his skill set.

Foggy evening, late. #Photography

RE: https://matthewbogart.com/@matt/115934945581983734
So so many white guys, I’ll pass

Happy Solstice to you!¹
#solstice

Dear America,
It is time to get into the streets and demand this insane man leave. Impeachment will not work, nor the 25th amendment.
Stop thinking you have to go to Civil War (or any further toward that end) in order to force your president to resign.
Stop thinking the midterms will save you.
You and your friends need to do it by popular, peaceful, overwhelming demonstration.
You. Now. Force him to Resign.
#TheAmericanFascist

I just spent 2 hours vacuuming our basement. I thought we had downsized...
#Cleaning #Complaining

📍 Kita no Donburi
Restaurant · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
★★★★☆
Back in Vancouver and doing a last office day. Taking it slow.
Haven’t had sushi in like a month. My favourite take out place is closed so getting a big sushi combo.
#BeaconBits <…

Boris (@bmann.ca)
📍 Kita no Donburi Restaurant · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada ★★★★☆ Back in Vancouver and doing a last office day. Taking it slow. Haven’t had sushi in like a month. My favourite take out place is closed so getting a big sushi combo. #BeaconBits

Here’s my 35th “Long Links” outing, curation of long-form offerings, which assume that nobody has time to read all this stuff but one or two of the pieces might brighten your day. This one is mostly political but some of the politics are from France and China. Plus a way-cool analytical history of blogging and a section labeled “wonderful things”.

#3GoodThingsToday
1. My wife and I got to see her beautiful sister one last time today before she died.
2. I didn’t have to shovel snow from my roadway because there was a blizzard all day.
3. I got to squeeze in a practice on my tuba today.

Fury as Amazon Ring Cameras Are Hooked Up to ICE System
https://futurism.com/future-society/amazon-ring-cameras-ice

Well done Comrade.
#russiaUkraineWar
https://newsie.social/@servelan/115595334117253762

The People’s Consultation on AI is a collaborative civil society initiative meant to:
1. Help [share] insights, experiences, and comments to inform a “national strategy” on AI that is truly in the public interest;
2. [Be] a more accurate representation of the range of views and concerns about AI that are present across Canada; and
3. Provide […] a wider range of affected communities, with a genuine opportunity to have a voice in AI issues and policy.

Wow.
Worst case scenario. 🇺🇦
#IStandWithUkraine https://mastodon.online/@SocraticEthics/115590415645328857

@… what does it mean when I see “post pending” in a quote?

Pirate archivist group scrapes Spotify's 300TB library, posts free torrents for downloading 86,000,000 tracks — investigation underway as music and metadata hit torrent sites | Tom's Hardware
https://www.tomshardware.com/service-providers/streaming/pirate-archivist-group-scrapes-spotifys-300tb-library-posts-free-torrents-for-downloading-investigation-underway-as-music-and-metadata-hit-torrent-sites

Kicking off EuroSky Live #EuroSkyLive

Apparently no mammals, large or small, were sacrificed.

AI World Clocks: https://clocks.brianmoore.com (h/t @…)

AI World Clocks
The current time as rendered by 9 different AI models. By Brian Moore.

There seems oddly one subgoal that never occurs in agentic talk: "What are the likely consequences of this intended action?"

Hot take of the day: "rigid dirigible" is more fun to say than "zeppelin".

What a charming story.
Even Its Author Is Shocked by How Fans Have Embraced “Heated Rivalry,” the Gay Hockey Romance Series
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/books/heated-rivalry-rachel-reid-hockey-romance.html

Even Its Author Is Shocked by How Fans Have Embraced “Heated Rivalry,” the Gay Hockey Romance Series
Thanks to a steamy television adaptation, Rachel Reid’s romance novels about closeted hockey players have become mainstream best-sellers.

Shingles vaccine may slow biological aging in older adults:
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/misc-emerging-topics/shingles-vaccine-may-slow-biological-aging-older-adults

“What happened was, a faucet started dripping. And then I managed to route around the malignant machineries of late-stage capitalism. These days, that’s almost always a story worth telling.” https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/12/18/Humanist-Plumbing

Humanist Plumbing

📍 Timbertrain Coffee Roasters - Depot
Cafe · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
★★★★★
Enjoying a cappuccino and a Hoettok (korean sweet pancake).
This is my local and also Ryan’s office.
w/ @depatchedmode.bsky.social
#BeaconBits

Boris (@bmann.ca)
📍 Timbertrain Coffee Roasters - Depot Cafe · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada ★★★★★ Enjoying a cappuccino and a Hoettok (korean sweet pancake). This is my local and also Ryan’s office. w/ @depatchedmode.bsky.social #BeaconBits

Gotta love a "minor" release that completely rewrites configuration syntax and doesn't provide backward compatibility or migration tooling.

#FunFact about Whitehorse - Germans love the town. Germans are the 2nd largest group of tourists, after the U.S., to visit the Yukon capital. There are German speaking tours and excursions and, during peak travel periods, direct tour flights from Frankfurt to Whitehorse.
#Tourism #Whitehorse
https://www.rubyrange.com/yukons-charisma-the-german-connection/

Crazy that the same people answer these 2 questions like this.
https://mstdn.ca/@CanadianPolling/115742985914702440
https://

Need a smile? #walklikeanegyptian

I’m a strong believer in SDD
Sticker Driven Development
And this has a lot of potential.
[contains quote post or other embedded content] https://bsky.app/profile/bmann.ca/post/3m5u3zinvys2d

Deep in the primeval forest of, um, Burnaby, BC.
#Photography

the nose is kept warm by all the toebeans
#atlas #catsodon #catsofmastodon

John Candy: I Like Me is a beautiful documentary.
What a wonderful human being.
p.s. bring tissues
#JohnCandy #ILikeMe #GoodCanadianKid

Casper.... still waiting for his #Christmas stocking....
#CatsOfMastadon #Caturday

Bell with another round of layoffs. The r/bell thread seems to think 10% across the country. It’s can't actually remember a time when Bell announced they were 'hiring'.
How is this company one of the 'big’ telecoms and yet continues to offload people?
#Bell
https://flipboard.com/@dailyhive/daily-hive-vancouver-ar91atkoz/-/a-IvwInjurQyG1YqTyz8NjVg:a:3765800918-/0

Hey, Denmark is a monarchy. Get His Maj Frederik, who’s a good-looking dude, to offer the orange one a Royal Duchy that comes with a cool golden crown or something like that if he’ll shut up about Greenland. Orange guy loves royalty.
https://www.kongehuset.dk/en/the-royal-family/…

Good Morning #Canada
The month of December will typical put a dent in your paycheck, or January if you're using your credit cards, so it's tough to save any money. Canadians rank 21st worldwide with regards to how much of our salary we put into a savings account. According to World Population Review, we put away approximately 7% of our paycheck for a #RainyDay, far behind South Korea at 35%. I'm retired and therefore not a saver at this point, but even during my most successful earnings period I can't imagine I would have been able to put away a third of my salary.
I suspect the savings percentage is driven by a small group of high wage earners as individual Canadian debt has increased. According to Equifax, total consumer debt in Canada reached $2.56 trillion at the end of 2024, a 4.6 per cent increase over 2023.
#CanadaIsAwesome
https://www.equifax.ca/business/blog/all-news/-/story/stable-versus-struggling-canada-s-financial-divide-widens/

Whether 'tis nobler to laugh or cry: greeted this morning by a post by a lawyer for lawyers to 'explain' how to "bend ChatGPT to your will"
two sentences in, that's softened to just a perhaps on maybe bending the probabilities 🤣
I thought lawyers were supposed to be smart 🤔

HTTP has a new method: QUERY. Tl;dr: GET with a body.
https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-httpbis-safe-method-w-body-14.html
(Doesn’t have an RFC number yet but has been approved, will get one in a few weeks.)

Blockchain GenAI Yegge, the world is going insane: https://newsletterhunt.com/emails/217139

Ukraine strikes empty shadow-fleet oil tanker *in the Mediterranean* with an aerial drone.
Would love to know the flight path of that drone!
#Ukraine #RussiaUkraineWar #Oil
https://kyivindependent.com/ukrainian-drone-strike-hits-russias-shadow-fleet-tanker-in-mediterranean-sea-for-the-first-time-source-says/

Harley had a tough day barking at the eavestrough installers who kept circling the house.
#DogsOfMastadon #StrangerDanger

RE: https://cosocial.ca/@timbray/115917100220206490
And having said that, I just got two perfectly-decent Quamina PRs that were minor optimizations suggested by Claude.
Guy who sent them said he’d to tossed out a couple other really idiotic ones, and th…

RE: https://mastodon.social/@onlmaps/115929142263388962
looooming.

Avi Lewis, a candidate for leadership of the Federal NDP, is hosting an Ask Me Anything event on Reddit. I would have tagged his #Mastodon account but he doesn't have one. Might be a good opportunity to join his AMA and ask him if he supports Digital Sovereignty and, at the very least, why doesn't he have a presence on an open source social media platform that is not controlled by the U.S. tech industry.
Please boost for reach, thanks.
#DigitalSovereignty #MastoCanadaGOV
https://www.reddit.com/r/onguardforthee/comments/1qh9no6/im_avi_lewis_running_for_leader_of_the_ndp_ask_me/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

Green light.
#photography

No backyard chickens 😢
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/comox-valley-avian-influenza-confirmed-9.7021813?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

you know what 300GB means right? those aren't emails. It's not just pictures.
There are videos.
#sextrafficking #epstein
https://mstdn.social/@DemocracyMattersALot/115749477951907653

I'm old enough to remember the unraveling of the Watergate cover-up, and the Epstein story has a very familiar stench. #USpol

From https://talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo/trump-gives-himself-an-enormous-out-on-the-epstein-files
I hope we're not clutching at straws and we should bear in mind that a rat is most dangerous when cornered. But still…

An Auspicious start to today's Dash
240,000km!
#EV #Kona #Hyundai #dasherlife

This is some deeply weird and troubling shit. #GenAI
Agent Psychosis: Are We Going Insane? | Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings
https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/1/18/agent-psychosis/

Agent Psychosis: Are We Going Insane?
What’s going on with the AI builder community right now?

The most beautiful democratic act happening right now in Canada is in Alberta, yes Alberta, where constituents are using the new - easier to reach - petitioning and recall rules enacted by the current UCP government to launch recall campaigns on UCP Members of the Legislature.
This is the 3rd one to be approved to move on to the signature-gathering stage!
*chefskiss*
#ABPoli #CanPoli #CdnPoli #Democracy
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/nolan-dyck-recall-petition-9.6988293?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Nobody should be allowed to get out of fifth grade without demonstrating their mastery of reply-all.

@… on dev.phanpy, I can't set "anyone can quote" it just switches back to "only you can quote". This a TBD?