Ok, here's why it's "Free"

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"We may analyze your activity, content, media uploads and related data in your account to provide and customize the Service, and to train our algorithms, models and AI products ..."

You can turn it off in settings, supposedly. 😒

Give your MPs and Ford's office a call, eh about Bill 60's threat to municipal control over their streets and transportation infrastructure, eh?

A friend called Ford's office this morning and the staffer answering didn't have any idea what provision they were referring to - that means not nearly enough people know about this proposal and are making it known that this is unacceptable.

If you care about fewer people dying on Ontario roads, the environment and transit, or even just getting where you want to go efficiently, you should care about this bill.

Hey Ontario! You've heard of the disastrous Ford bill to destroy tenant rights, but did you know that Omnibus Bill 60 would entirely wipe out the ability of cities to right-size their roads by reducing lanes _at all_, not even just for bike lanes?

#onpoli #OttBike #ontario #ottawa

Hello! A coworker shared this with me when I was complaining about looking up an operator online and I love it.

It'd be useful to make the % literals (or maybe other types of literal delimiters, too) searchable - at first I thought you didn't have them, when I searched eg %w on the main page.

my favorite color, Dark Gary

Yes, it's #CarryShitOlympics! :D

We made a big mistake when we decided that governments should and could communicate with the public during disasters largely via corporate-owned algorithmic social media websites.

We have to return to requiring governments to use truly *public* platforms designed for this use case that all can see.

so wild there are these threads of radiant beauty just coursing through all things, and not only do we get to witness this glow, we get to pluck the strings ourselves and travel to the future or past through art and creation. all you have to do is reach out and strum to connect with the infinite

I was actually just thinking about this; an article about outages quoted @hydroottawa.bsky.social on X, which I can't see. The X account has an older post saying more of their content will be here instead; the website still links there and not Bluesky at all that I could see from the footer.

I don’t know anything about Slipknot but I’m really hoping someone will just take over adminning of the existing urbanists.social; it was nice and moving all my stuff (again) sounds annoying! But haven’t heard if there have been developments on that

Frederick Douglas gave his “What to the slave is the Fourth of July” speech at an event put on by the Rochester Women’s Anti-Slavery Sewing Society. Much love to everybody, past and present, keeping tiny community spaces alive while wondering “is there any use in this?”

'Ten messages for a man who thinks children should stay off the roads and stick to the park'.

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A near-guilty pleasure of mine is little riddles in Ruby. Terse code is a break for me from thinking about how the world is a mess.

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3 cheers for fossil fuels 🫠

now available:

From the Palestinian writer Shahd Alnaami, a collection of nonfiction and poetry about her experiences of the most recent years of the genocide in Gaza. Her writing immortalizes what has been lost with precision & grace.

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Her: Why didn't you do the dishes?
Me: Dishes are a distraction. We need to focus on the real issue, the vacuuming that I am also not doing.

For the last month I have had this perpetual conflict about whether to Post Things because I don't want trans people following me to panic but I really, really want cis people following me to know how much we legitimately have to panic about

To be clear: Protest organizers intentionally selected military veterans as safety volunteers, one spotted an armed protester (which is legal in Utah) and shot him, and ended up shooting/killing another protester + now the volunteer veteran is free, while the armed protester is booked for murder.

I do not want AI in Slack. I do not want AI in Google. I do not want AI on Facebook. I do not want AI in documents or spreadsheets. I do not want AI in Adobe Acrobat. I do not want AI in Zoom. I do not want AI on news sites. I do not want AI in the patient portal for my doctor's office. I do not wan

Time to close so many tabs: blog post complete, plus talk today at work.

I wrote it to solve my own problem of regularly opening some legacy Rails app and needing to figure out what the heck is going on with the JS & CSS assets.

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#rails #RubyOnRails

I need everyone on Normal People internet to know that American Girl Doll Instagram is doing doll protests today. There are tiny t-shirts and signs. AND THEN I realized it's a joint protest with the Barbie ppl, where there are EVEN TINIER SIGNS.