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If you wonder who is going to vote fore One Nation I would be betting Federation Council at Corowa would be a start.
Federation Council to remove Indigenous flags despite overwhelming community support
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-17/fed

Federation Council to remove Indigenous flags from chamber
Despite strong opposition, the council on the NSW-Victoria border will remove Indigenous flags from its chamber after it was revealed there were no protocols to display them.

The condition of the economy of the Russian Federation is now more complicated than in recent years
Due to a strong ruble, high interest rates, shortage of labor resources and budget restrictions,
Reserves in the economy are largely exhausted,
said the Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation Maxim Reshetnikov,
speaking on Friday at the All-Russian Forum of Entrepreneurship Support Infrastructure "My Business" in Vsevolozhsk.

Решетников заявил, что резервы в экономике РФ во многом исчерпаны
Ситуация в экономике РФ сейчас более сложная, чем в последние годы, на фоне крепкого рубля, высоких процентных ставок, дефицита трудовых ресурсов и бюджетных

With the recent integration of CERT-VDE’s CSAF advisories, it becomes even clearer why diverse vulnerability data sources are essential.
CSAF delivers direct vendor remediation information, and when correlated with the CVE Program , it highlights how important federation and data correlation are for remediation efforts and vulnerability management as a whole. (See example below)
🔗

Ahh too bad! https://www.nolto.social shut down.
But this shows the potential!
> Within a few weeks, almost a thousand people signed up. Companies created pages. Articles were posted. Events were shared. I never marketed it. It spread through blogs and word of mouth.
There IS a market!

Nolto - Professional Social Network
A professional social network that runs on the ActivityPub federation protocol, focusing on privacy, accessibility, and a healthy user culture.

The first release of the EuroHPC Federation Platform (EFP) is now live 🎉
This marks an important step towards simplifying and unifying access to Europe’s supercomputing ecosystem for researchers, businesses and public sector organisations.
Leveraging the trusted identity frameworks developed by GÉANT and the European #Research &

@… Sorry, didn’t see https://xoxo.zone/@datn/116413751815612046.
Federation is a double edged sword :)

Series B, Episode 05 - Pressure Point
BLAKE: For the past year now, I've been collecting all the information I could find. With Orac's help, I now know more about Control than anyone outside the senior echelon of the Federation. I think I can destroy it. [Avon claps slowly.] I'm not going to minimize the danger. It's a high-risk operation. That is why I'm not going to ask any of you to come with me.
GAN: You think you could do it without us?

@… it’s important to know the difference between the federation type 6 and type 7 shuttlecraft https://memory-beta.fandom.com/wiki/Fe

fediverse: Fediverse network (2018)
An early snapshot of the federation network among web publishers using the ActivityPub protocol. Nodes are instances, and a directed edge exists if an instance follows another instance.
This network has 4860 nodes and 484164 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Information
https://ne…

I'm way to deep in the research rabbit hole, went all the way to OG proceedings from 1888 because the sources in Wikipedia were questionable (random Time articles).
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f7/Proceedings_of_the_American_Federation_of_Labor_1888_(IA_sim_american-federation-of-labor-proceedings_1888).pdf

Series B, Episode 10 - Voice from the Past
AVON: Vila, listen, this is some kind of a Federation trap.
[Rest Room Door [Exterior]. Vila is working on the damaged opening mechanism]
AVON: [V.O.] Get us out of here.
VILA: I'm trying to.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/210/288

Dear @… from what I am gathering from your comments elsewhere is that it is possible to block only the Bluesky part of the ATProto network from being bridged with @… and leave BlackSky and other independent AT instances? Could you go into detail on on a procedure for that? This could be a powerful pro-federation response in addition to making a statement on ICE and Bluesky.
#ice #bluesky #fediblock #fediverse #mastodon

I don't get the #matrix hate on Fedi. Apparently federation is only desirable as long as the government doesn't use it?

am a bit disappointed to see #ipv6 seems de facto optional, 2nd class citizen for #ActivityPub #federation. I mean federating with

The Face on the Building: America’s Palazzo Braschi Moment
In 1934, the Fascist Party Federation draped the facade of Rome's Palazzo Braschi with an enormous sculpted face of Benito Mussolini, surrounded by the word "SI" repeated in cascading rows. The building sat between Piazza Navona and the Corso Vittorio Emanuele II, in the heart of a city that had been shaping political identity through architecture for two thousand years. That face functioned as an instruction.

The Face on the Building: America’s Palazzo Braschi Moment | David Boles, Blogs
In 1934, the Fascist Party Federation draped the facade of Rome’s Palazzo Braschi with an enormous sculpted face of Benito Mussolini, surrounded by the word “SI” repeated in casca…

About two years ago @… predicted that the transportation fallout will leas to a collapse of the Russian federation. This is rolling out quite slowly, but inevitably.
This one is about airlines
https://sopuli.xyz/post/4…

Russian Civil Aviation Faces Major Crisis as Nearly Half Aircraft Suspended for Defects - Sopuli

Huh, cool. A #Fediverse professional network: https://nolto.social/ 🤞🏻 that it makes progress. The current sway of a shit platform like LinkedIn sorta makes me puke in my mouth regularly.

I love this premise:
"It has been 62 years since the last Federation contact with the planet."
It sounds real, gloomy, and plausible in the grander scale of the Star Trek universe compared to the usual warping about the Alpha Quadrant.
It's from TNG's 1x14 (Angel One) Memory Alpha:
https://

Angel One (episode)
While Riker leads an away team to a female-dominated planet, a mysterious virus spreads among the Enterprise crew. The USS Enterprise-D has discovered the wreckage of the Odin, a freighter that disappeared seven years earlier. It was disabled by a collision with an asteroid, and there are no life signs on board, but three escape pods have been discovered missing. The Enterprise travels to Angel I, the nearest class M planet, to search for the freighter's survivors. Angel I is a...

RE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/116206239189454041
It’s a critical time for farmers to have access to nitrogen fertilizer.
According to a March 9 analysis by the American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF), in total,
about 50% of nitrogen applied to corn,
28%…

High Risk Area declared by ITF and JNG. Seafarers have to be informed and can refuse sailing to Strait of Hormuz
Hochrisikogebiet; Seeleute müssen informiert werden und können sich weigern in Region zu fahren - Tarifpartner zu Straße von Hormus.
ITF ist der internationale Verband der Gewerkschaften für Transportarbeiter und JNG vertritt die Seite der Arbeitgeber

Joint ITF–JNG statement: Designation of High Risk Area in the Strait of Hormuz | ITF Global
The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) and the Joint Negotiating Group (JNG), as social partners of the International Bargaining Forum (IBF), have today designated the Strait of Horm

The China Computer Federation calls for a boycott of AI conference NeurIPS after organizers barred submissions from US-sanctioned companies like Huawei (Vincent Chow/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/3348006/

AI rift widens as China urges boycott of top US conference over sanctions ban
Move to comply with US sanctions sparks backlash, with China’s top computing body threatening to blacklist the AI conference.

While listening to discussions about federated systems and protocols at #fosdem (like the one I’m currently using): I realized something.
It recently resonated with me through some past and ongoing projects: when people are afraid of federation, they call it “balkanization” or “fragmentation.”
Sorry for the wording @…

The Baltic region is preparing for a NEW WAVE OF AGGRESSION from the Russian Federation #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/29/the-baltic-region-is-preparing.html

OK, I am giving the #Nolto thing a try. Let's see how this progresses. #LinkedIn

Nolto - Professional Social Network
A professional social network that runs on the ActivityPub federation protocol, focusing on privacy, accessibility, and a healthy user culture.

whats the best labor group logo Macau Federation of Trade Unions got a cleeeaannn one

fediverse: Fediverse network (2018)
An early snapshot of the federation network among web publishers using the ActivityPub protocol. Nodes are instances, and a directed edge exists if an instance follows another instance.
This network has 4860 nodes and 484164 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Information
https://ne…

1. XMPP bekommt Trusted Federation, sodass Gruppenräume nicht mehr nur auf einem Server liegen.
2. #XMPP bekommt Spaces
> Matrix is quite sucessfull and we want to copy from #Matrix

To give myself a break tonight, I'm focused on the state of the Federation instead. #StarTrek

I couldn't go to #VCF #Montreal last weekend because I was away. Did any of you go? How was it? (Despite it being way down in St-Jean, not in Montreal…)
Haven't heard anything at all. Worth going if they do it again next year?

I propose this as a new, additional Mastodon logo

A US federal judge dismisses X's antitrust lawsuit that accused the World Federation of Advertisers and a group of major companies of illegally boycotting X (Mike Scarcella/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/judge-dismis

Series B, Episode 12 - The Keeper
SERVALAN: Yes? What are you talking about, Travis? [he sits down]
TRAVIS: I must alert the nearest Federation flotilla to attack the Liberator. I can't do it from here on this thing. I'll have to use your ship.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/212/148…

German soccer federation official wants World Cup boycott considered because of Trump (Ciaršn Fahey/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/germany-boycott-world-cup-trump-6c27c98a5ebb312f5c9cc62316bc7dd6
http://www.memeorandum.com/260123/p127#a260123p127

@Medileth@federation.network Hey 👋

From ⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨#AnnafromUkraine⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩ @AnnafromUkraine@youtube.com
🧵 👇
4 YEARS FULL-SCALE WAR: RUSSIAN FEDERATION COLLAPSE TRIGGERED Vlog 1328: War in Ukraine
After 4 years of the #fullscalewar and 12 years of russia`s

Hello #Greenland,
Why don't you do your own Mastodon server, that is controlled by you? That would mean that your communication would not be vulnerable to the whims of the tech bros.
@…

Kalle Wirsch 🏳️‍🌈 (@KalleWirsch)
Heute nochmal in Dagbladet Information, ein Interview mit Tim Whyte auf der Grönland Demo in København: Tim Whyte berichtet jedoch, dass es schwieriger als üblich gewesen sei, die Botschaft über die Demonstrationen in den sozialen Medien zu verbreiten. So wurden beispielsweise Anzeigen für die Demonstrationen von Mellemfolkeligt Samvirke auf Facebook blockiert. „Normalerweise nutzen wir Facebook, wenn wir solche Veranstaltungen organisieren, um die Leute zu erreichen. Aber all diese An…

Series D, Episode 03 - Traitor
AVON: But not in this case. Helotrix is one of the oldest colonies and the first to gain independence from the empire.
TARRANT: Until the Federation grabbed it back. Come on Dayna.
DAYNA: Right. [They exit]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/403/100 B7B4…

A US federal judge dismisses X's antitrust lawsuit that accused the World Federation of Advertisers and a group of major companies of illegally boycotting X (Mike Scarcella/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/judge-dismis

50,000 soldiers LOST per month – the optimal level for the Russian Federation, – Zelenskyy #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/28/soldiers-lost-per-month-the.html

I'm the president of Minneapolis Regional Labor Federation,
and my city is under occupation by the federal government.
Our community has pulled together, doing everything we can to protect our neighbors from being kidnapped and detained by ICE and border patrol.
One of our members was detained by ICE in the parking lot of their workplace and taken to a facility in Texas.
After two weeks in detention under astonishing conditions,
being pressured to sign &quo…

Home Page - The Labor Force
The Labor Force unites all workers to strengthen the labor movement through groundbreaking organizing and strategic partnerships.

Series D, Episode 03 - Traitor
AVON: But not in this case. Helotrix is one of the oldest colonies and the first to gain independence from the empire.
TARRANT: Until the Federation grabbed it back. Come on Dayna.
DAYNA: Right. [They exit]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/403/100 B7B4…

#Nolto seems still to struggle with #federation

fediverse: Fediverse network (2018)
An early snapshot of the federation network among web publishers using the ActivityPub protocol. Nodes are instances, and a directed edge exists if an instance follows another instance.
This network has 4860 nodes and 484164 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Information
https://ne…

#Blakes7 Series D, Episode 04 - Stardrive
SOOLIN: That's just it, none of us are sure.
VILA: But they're maintaining a standard Federation patrol pattern.
[Main drive chamber]
AVON: We can't leave what we're doing.
[Scorpio flight deck]

@Medileth@federation.network Willkommen im #Fediverse. 👋

fediverse: Fediverse network (2018)
An early snapshot of the federation network among web publishers using the ActivityPub protocol. Nodes are instances, and a directed edge exists if an instance follows another instance.
This network has 4860 nodes and 484164 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Information
https://ne…

Be some happy wine producers down the King Valley today
The agreement also secured the right for Australian producers to continue to use the term "Prosecco" in the Australian market to describe a sparkling wine"

Farmers rubbish 'worst ever' EU free trade agreement
The National Farmers' Federation says the deal will leave farmers without meaningful access to the EU market.

Inside the 2026 National Retail Federation conference in New York City, where integrating AI into retail businesses was the overarching theme on the expo floor (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/17/business/tech-firms-ai-retailers.html
<…

Tech Firms Are Persuading Retailers to Put A.I. Everywhere
Stores of all kinds are using artificial intelligence to sell everything from luxury handbags to hay for horses.

@karlailona@mastodon.social Ooh, same! vBulletin was my jam! The federation aspect really does make it feel like “a bunch of little forums”, but more convenient.
Also did some HTML and CSS in the past, before falling out of it, but then rediscovering the joys of programming as an adult!
If you ever need someone to learn Dutch with, let me know! (Finnish always seemed like such a daunting language to me… 😅)

In the interests of starting a more productive dialogue than yesterday's main character was interested in, let's make a #brainstorm thread about design changes to ActivityPub and/or client UI that could actually help address drive-by (often racist) harassment on the fediverse.
Feel free to discuss pros/cons but don't feel an idea needs to be perfect to suggest it. Also since this is a brainstorm don't worry about complexity/implementation cost. If you have a great-but-hard-to-implement idea someone else may think of a way to simplify it.
Note that the underlying problem *is* a social one, do there won't be a technological fix! But tech changes can make social remedies easier/harder.
I've got some to start:
1. Have a "protected mode" that users can voluntarily turn on. Some servers might turn it on by default. In protected mode, users whose accounts are less than D days old and/or who have fewer than F followers can't reply to or DM you. F and D could have different values for same-sever vs. different-server accounts, and could be customized by each user. Obviously a dedicated harasser can get around this, but it ups the activation energy for block evasion and pile-ons a bit. Would be interesting to review moderation records to estimate how helpful this might or might not be. Could also have a setting to require "follows-from-my-server" although that might be too limiting on private servers. Restriction would be turned off for people you mention within that thread and could be set to unlimit anyone you've ever mentioned. Would this lock new users out of engagement entirely? If everyone had it on via a default, you'd have you post your own stuff until someone followed you (assuming F=1). One could add "R non-moderated replies" and/or "F favorites" options to soften things; those experiencing more harassment could set higher limits. When muting/blocking/reporting someone who replied to your post, protected mode could be suggested with settings that would have filtered the post you're reporting.
2. Enable some form of public moderation info to be displayed when both moderator and local server opt-in. Obviously each server would be able to ignore federated public tags. I'm imagining "banned from X server for R reason (optional link to evidence)" appearing on someone's profile & an icon on their PFP in each post viewed by someone on server Y *if* the mods of server X decide it's appropriate *and* server Y opts in to displaying such tags from server X specifically. Alliances of servers with similar moderation preferences could then have moderation action on one server result in clear warning propagation to others without the other mods needing to decide whether to also take action immediately. In some cases different moderation preferences would mean you wouldn't take action yourself but would keep the notice up for your users to consider. Obviously the "Scarlet Letter" vibe ain't great, but in some cases it's deserved, and when there's disagreement between servers about that, mods on server Y could either disable a specific tag or disable federation of mod tags from that server in general. Even better shared moderation tools are of course possible.
3. Different people/groups have different norms around boosting. Currently we only have a locked/public binary. Without any big protocol changes, adding a "prefers boosts/doesn't" setting which would warn in the UI before a viewer chooses to boost if the preference is "doesn't" could help. This could be set per-post, but could also have defaults and could have different values for same-server or not, or for particular servers. For example, I could say "default to prefer boosts from users on my server but not from users on other servers" or "default to prefer boosting on all servers except mastodon.social." Last option might be harder to implement I guess.
#ActivityPub #Meta #Harassment

Series A, Episode 09 - Project Avalon
BLAKE: No, we must find out if Avalon's one of them. No, we must know for certain. This homing beacon's still transmitting. Once Federation security found that they wouldn't have any trouble getting onto this place. [Chevner collapses and drops the rifle.]
JENNA: Blake! [They move over to him.]
https…

fediverse: Fediverse network (2018)
An early snapshot of the federation network among web publishers using the ActivityPub protocol. Nodes are instances, and a directed edge exists if an instance follows another instance.
This network has 4860 nodes and 484164 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Information
https://ne…

Series B, Episode 10 - Voice from the Past
GLYND: The evidence, my friends. [Holds tapes] Surveillance report on Supreme Commander Servalan's attempt to cheat the Federation of one hundred million credits in return for the supercomputer Orac. Confidential report on your trial, Blake, and the subsequent elimination of your defence lawyer when he discovered that the evidence against you had been falsified. Need I continue? [Closes case of tapes] Enough, as I have said, to convict th…

Good Morning #Canada
#HappyBirthday to the Honourable Cairine Reay Mackay Wilson who the first woman to be appointed to the Senate in Canada. Her appointment in 1930 marked the end of an era during which women in Canada were denied civil rights. Born in Montréal on February 4, 1885, into a wealthy Scottish-Canadian family, Cairine Reay Mackay married Norman F. Wilson, the Liberal Member of Parliament for Russell, Ontario, in 1909. In 1919, the Wilson family moved to Ottawa, where Mrs. Wilson soon became heavily involved in politics. Her privileged background did not stop her from publicly denouncing appeasement of Hitler, defying her own government to bring in #WWII Jewish refugees, or a lifetime commitment to child poverty and refugees. And she had time to fight for women's rights to be in government by founding the National Federation of Liberal Women of Canada in 1928 and the Twentieth Century Liberal Association in 1930.
#CanadaIsAwesome #CanadianHeroes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairine_Wilson

fediverse: Fediverse network (2018)
An early snapshot of the federation network among web publishers using the ActivityPub protocol. Nodes are instances, and a directed edge exists if an instance follows another instance.
This network has 4860 nodes and 484164 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Information
https://ne…

Series A, Episode 11 - Bounty
JENNA: Listen, Blake, we've got a problem. There's an unidentified ship moving in on our position.
BLAKE: [V.O.] Federation?
JENNA: Zen says not, but Gan can't make a voice contact. Seems to be closing in all the time.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/111/41

fediverse: Fediverse network (2018)
An early snapshot of the federation network among web publishers using the ActivityPub protocol. Nodes are instances, and a directed edge exists if an instance follows another instance.
This network has 4860 nodes and 484164 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Information
https://ne…

#Blakes7 Series D, Episode 09 - Sand
SOOLIN: Not one word. [Vila sits on a step with a pile of sand around his feet.]
CHASGO: [At the controls of the Federation ship] None of this makes sense any more. [The sand moves around his feet.]
https://

fediverse: Fediverse network (2018)
An early snapshot of the federation network among web publishers using the ActivityPub protocol. Nodes are instances, and a directed edge exists if an instance follows another instance.
This network has 4860 nodes and 484164 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Information
https://ne…

Series D, Episode 13 - Blake
DEVA: Time really is getting short, you know. The representative from the Federation High Council could come at any moment. We can't afford mistakes.
BLAKE: I wasn't intending to make any. [exits]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/413/264 B7B2

#Blakes7 Series D, Episode 13 - Blake
TARRANT: Oh, give the man credit for knowing his trade, dirty though it is.
BLAKE: He also has several associates with Federation prices, and one of them is particularly valuable.
https://bl…

#Blakes7 Series D, Episode 05 - Animals
JUSTIN: I can't help you either, the animals smashed my transmitter system when they broke out. All I've got left is my intercom. Anyway, tell me about yourself.
DAYNA: Well, I'm one of a small group fighting the Federation. We've got a base, we're gathering equipment and we're looking for allies. We're also tryin…

#Blakes7 Series C, Episode 13 - Terminal
AVON: I saw him. I spoke to him and he-
SERVALAN: You saw nothing. Heard nothing. It was an illusion, a drug- induced and electronic dream. We spent months preparing it. We recreated Blake inside our computers, voice, images, memories, a million fragmented facts. When I was ready, I started sending you the messages, seeding the idea in your…

Series A, Episode 04 - Time Squad
BLAKE: [To Jenna] Put Zen on constant scan. I want to know immediately if those Federation ships come into this system.
JENNA: Of course. [goes to teleport controls]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/104/263 B7B3

Series A, Episode 04 - Time Squad
AVON: Oh, but you do. And that's the problem.
BLAKE: Up until now we've only been a minor irritation to the Federation. I think it's about time we hurt them.
JENNA: I don't like the sound of that.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/104/20

Series D, Episode 05 - Animals
DAYNA: Right, out.
SLAVE: I'm sorry to bother you, sir.
TARRANT: Yes, what is it?
SLAVE: I had detected federation pursuit ships.
TARRANT: Dayna, respond please. Dayna, can you hear me?. Slave, check for malfunction.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/405/8

Series D, Episode 13 - Blake
ARLEN: I won it in a lottery. What do you care?
BLAKE: I don't, so long as it wasn't issued to you.
ARLEN: It's Federation.
BLAKE: That's what I mean.
ARLEN: Do I look like one of theirs?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/413/40…

#Blakes7 Series B, Episode 03 - Weapon
COSER: What do you suppose happened?
RASHEL: People must have left.
COSER: I can see that, but why did they leave? This isn't a Federation colony planet, so who were they anyway?
RASHEL: Perhaps they were free.

Series B, Episode 11 - Gambit
BLAKE: You never knew the location of Star One?
DOCHOLLI: I was a surgeon, Blake. I thought if I kept out of Federation politics -
TRAVIS: Docholli! My arm. You've got to fix it.
DOCHOLLI: What happened?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/211/481

Series A, Episode 10 - Breakdown
KAYN: Oh, yes, sorry. One thing I will say for the Federation, when they decide to do a thing, they do it. [Blake and Kayn exit.]
VILA: I didn't like the sound of that much.
AVON: One of the many faces of neutrality.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/110/395…

Series D, Episode 07 - Assassin
AVON: Vila!
VILA: Then, ladies and gentlemen, for your edification and delight, the voice you all know and love...
AVON: Vila! [Vila switches on recorder]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/407/4 B7B3

Series B, Episode 11 - Gambit
JARRIERE: [Shakes his head]
SERVALAN: The secret of Star One's location is of no use to a criminal like Krantor. However, that knowledge can bring about his death. Not only that. With any luck the Federation will be finally convinced, as I have argued for years, that we can no longer tolerate this pestilential rathole so close to our own territories. Freedom City will be finally burnt out.

Series C, Episode 11 - Moloch
GROSE: A great many ways, Madam President. More ways than you've begun to realize. But that isn't why I summoned you to Sardos. [Grose nods at Lector and hands him a card. Lector moves to the machine, and inserts the card.]
SERVALAN: Would you say that again?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/…

#Blakes7 Series B, Episode 12 - The Keeper
AVON: Zen, any sign of Federation pursuit ships on the main detectors?
ZEN: Negative.
AVON: Any activity whatever?
ZEN: There is no activity on the main detectors.
AVON: What about the extra-range detector?

Good Morning #Canada
This past weekend we were in Toronto celebrating our granddaughter's 10th birthday (they grow up so fast...) and while consuming homemade cake we were discussing the recently completed #Olympics. The controversy in the #Curling competition came up and my son-in-law mentioned it was like another Broomgate.
I had forgotten about Broomgate which is understandable because I've watched about 8 minutes of curling in my 6 decades on the planet. Broomgate was a technological leap in the sport of curling that came to the attention of non-curlers, 99.9% of the world's population, during the 2015–16 season. New brush head technologies from a new company caused an uproar as sweepers gained far more control over a sliding chunk of granite. Traditionalists cried foul, or whatever they yell after tossing their stones. It resulted in a World Curling Federation summit to regulate and standardize brushes in the sport.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Broomgate
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broomgate