@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca2025-12-29 15:41:43
Only the worst neighbours have one of these anyway…. lol
https://flipboard.com/@ctvnews/health-1vojgo4az/-/a-Kwwh5axmQS21ybPk_ysBKw:a:2823982346-/0
@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…
@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
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca2026-01-27 18:14:17
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
@pre@boing.world2025-11-23 20:40:43
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
@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.
@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.
@teledyn@mstdn.ca2025-11-15 22:29:24
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