@brian_gettler@mas.to2026-01-18 17:45:26
With minimal support from the city (it's supplying water), some neighbours have built a small skating rink in the park. It's at once modest and fantastic.
@brian_gettler@mas.to2026-01-18 17:45:26
@rachel@norfolk.social2026-01-17 14:00:13
Quite tempted to occupy a section of Tony Blair’s property and build a house on it. You know, so he can really understand the task he has so gleefully taken on.
Obviously, I wouldn’t really do this. I’d be stuck with dreadful neighbours.
@knurd42@social.linux.pizza2026-02-17 08:29:42
""From my home office, running Bluehood in passive mode (just listening, never connecting), I could detect:
* When delivery vehicles arrived, and whether it was the same driver each time
* The daily patterns of my neighbours based on their phones and wearables
* Which devices consistently appeared together (someone’s phone and smartwatch, for instance)
* The exact times certain people were home, at work, or elsewhere
None of this required any …
@cheryanne@aus.social2025-12-13 08:24:32
Bin Night With Tak And Matty
The weekly Neighbours podcast where your favourite Ramsay Street husbands wheel the bins out, talk trash and bicker like an old married couple...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/bin-night-wit…
@primonatura@mstdn.social2026-02-09 16:00:45
"Feeling chirpy: how listening to birdsong can boost your wellbeing"
#Birds #Nature #Environment
@markhburton@mstdn.social2025-12-09 17:00:45
A customs union is a sensible, pragmatic measure, not because of "going for growth", which is a) unattainable anyway and b) ecocidal, but to make life easier for small businesses who send goods to our neighbours.
Davey claims ‘historic victory’ for Lib Dems after tokenistic vote in favour of customs union with EU – UK politics live | Politics | The Guardian
@davej@dice.camp2026-01-08 09:32:03
Were I to be marooned, I'd choose one of these islands so I could overhear my neighbours' #DesertIslandMusic. 😁
My five albums, I think:
1. Alabama Shakes—Sound & Color: https://yout…
@Dragofix@veganism.social2026-02-06 22:34:09
Feeling chirpy: how listening to birdsong can boost your wellbeing https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/04/feeling-chirpy-how-listening-to-birdsong-can-boost-your-wellbeing
@paulbusch@mstdn.ca2026-01-05 13:11:27
Good Morning #Canada
B.C. is full of hipsters, Alberta is oil obsessed, Ontario has a superiority complex, PEI prays to potatoes, and all Newfies drink Screech at breakfast. Every Province and Territory is known for their unique habits, culture, and views of the world. And we all hold expectations and misconceptions of our neighbours across internal borders. Hey, it's a long winter and we need some gossip to get us to the end of it.
The attached video provides a detailed rundown of stereotypes for each Province and Territory, and some of the content is accurate, like Toronto being the centre of the universe. It's a bit long but you can select a chapter to check out your Province, or one that you dislike. My favourite is Albertans pouring oil on their cereal.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Stereotypes
https://youtu.be/tFEar1K_Y6w
@pdmckone@mstdn.ca2025-12-05 13:45:31
Content warning
In the modern world, there are two civilizations:
One speaks many languages and sees people as neighbours, as family, as friends, and as strangers they've yet to meet.
The other sees people as things, things to profit from, to manipulate, to abuse and, ultimately, to discard when they no longer suit their purposes.
In which civilization do you live?
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-27 08:03:37
"democratic values, in the reality that the United States has walked away from them … what should the allies do?"
https://www.readtheline.ca/p/matt-gurney-we-will-never-fucking
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe2025-12-31 00:23:09
https://tinytinyhomes.ca/
＂… When shelters are full, people are left outside in the cold. Tiny Tiny Homes designs and builds portable emergency shelters that offer warmth, safety, and dignity to our unhoused neighbours. With community support, we’re creating safer alternatives to tent encampments.
… Tiny…
@pre@boing.world2025-11-23 20:40:43
Content warning: re: bitcoin conference report
The conference is over now. I likely wouldn't have come for just a bitcoin thing, but I am very interested in redecentralizing the web, so it's attachment to the nostr day pulled me in.
Everyone I met was friendly and interesting and seems much more interested in making a better money system than in making money for themselves.
Our government and bank money systems are dysfunctional in all kinds of ways which are often less visible than they should be too people using them, especially to those in Europe and America who benefit from the way those systems exploit the global south.
I'm not convinced that fixing that would end wars and fix broken government as some seem to think, but I am sure our money is the source of many problems.
There are many bright, well meaning, and intelligent people building to improve bitcoin in fascinating ways with the hope of having a parallel system to transition to. With lots of work still to be done.
Can it work?
I'm sure I don't know, and I'm sure even if it's a better system it'll come with it's own unfairness and cruelty. Money will continue to be a source of suck and worry.
I'm told that the bigger conferences are often full of shitcoin scammers and suit wearing banksters who are in fact all in it too get rich and rip people off, but I found none of that here.
Here there is a real community of people trying to make the world a better place and improve the lives of their neighbours and governance of their countries.
And in the end building community is the most radical and effective way to change the world regardless of the problems of it's money system.
I had a great time. Thanks to those organising it.
#bitfest #bitcoin
@cwilcke@bildung.social2025-11-23 10:18:10
@pdmckone@mstdn.ca2025-11-28 21:31:32
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
@beeb@hachyderm.io2025-12-04 07:25:52
Content warning: Advent of Code 2025 Day 4
Didn't feel like thinking too much for today's problem of #AdventOfCode, so my solution is quite naive and runs in a few tens of milliseconds for part 2 (thanks, #RustLang!).
I went for a HashSet for the grid just because it made looking up neighbours simpler at the edges, probably also not the most performant solution, but gets better as the grid becomes sparser.
#AoC #AoC2025 #AdventOfCode2025 #rust
@kingconsult@berlin.social2026-01-13 18:17:21
Check out the map for Digital Independence Day! 🚀
👉 #Dresden #Chemnitz #Berlin #Dortmund #FFM #München #Karlsruhe …
It's time to switch from #X #WhatsApp #Google #Amazon etc. to digitally independent services!
👋 Dear neighbours, join in! @… @… @… @… @… @… @… @… @… @…
#DIDit #IDIDIT #DigitalIndependenceDay #DutGemacht #SaveSocial #DIDaySupportCommunity #DigitalSovereignty #Grok
@paulbusch@mstdn.ca2026-01-25 14:52:09
Good Morning #Canada
Tod Maffin, former #CBC Broadcaster, is now referred to as an expert on Canadian culture and Identity, and a viral content creator. If you have followed Tod over the past few years you have seen a progression from explaining Canadians to our southern neighbours to becoming politely militant in the face of an increasingly hostile U.S. government. His latest contribution deserves the Order of Canada and a superhero cape. He launched a social media campaign to attract American #Healthcare workers to his community and from there the Healthcare Infusion Organization was born. There are now 20 chapters across Canada focused on recruiting and supporting doctors, nurses, and healthcare professionals in local communities facing staff shortages. He has done more to improve Canadian Healthcare than any level of government in this country.
Follow him at @…
#CanadaIsAwesome #CanadianHeroes
https://youtube.com/shorts/K6HOJyoHrpo