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  #ThreeGoodThings #3GoodThings 1. Rain and Wind - tough gale speeds now, pressure 100 kPa and falling. 2. P.D. James _Talking About Detective Fiction_ (TINSTAACM) 3. Large beeswax candles. Just in case.

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  #ThreeGoodThings #3GoodThings 1. Wind and Rain - full gale is expected to roll over tomorrow afternoon/overnight. 2. Soup, homemade from simple ingredients, slowly simmered on the stove top. 3. A blanket to stay warm and snug while knitting this evening.

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  y'know, as long as I am feeling whingy, why is it #CBC can claim to be offering 'free' content, when you cannot get it without giving up privacy in exchange? That is not free, that is blackmail. Especially when #Canadian s have increasingly limited access to #CanCon, particularly #news / #journalism. If they want to restrict it to primarily #Canada, that is fine, just use IP filtering. Yes, some people will be able to sneak around and get their CanCon. Oh how terrible.

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  This seems like an @mayintoronto@beige.party article: Aaron Horvath - Why Is Everyone In Tech So Sad? https://www.noemamag.com/why-is-everyone-in-tech-so-sad/

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  @auscandoc@universeodon.com Yes. I have a laundry list of reactions I would like to see, including some knee-jerk ones because I get pissed. But the better choices are to use the work the USA has done to find Canada's pain points, and remove them from the USA's target list by finding them markets other than the USA. And reasonable, measured actions to balance extraction and processing inside Canada. A trio of them are silica→pure silicon, copper, and lithium.

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  #TIL: The province of #BC offers rebates on home storage #batteries. #BCHydro: Batteries for power storage —https://www.bchydro.com/powersmart/residential/tips-technologies/battery-storage.html #BCPoli #Canada #BatteryStorage

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  #ActivityPub platform feature want: similar to "no boosts" from accounts followed, do not see their replies to people on domains you have blocked. Presumably, if you have decided an entire domain's worth of accounts should never appear in your feed or receive your own emanations, you have reasons. Which are probably offended seeing an account you *do* follow having exactly the kind of conversation you are avoiding experiencing directly.

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  CBC: Red tornado warning issued for Clearwater County, Alta. - https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/red-tornado-warning-issued-for-clearwater-county-alta-9.7275621 "Dangerous thunderstorm" Take cover immediately. #AB #Alberta #ClearwaterCounty #Canda #weather #Alert

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  Today I discovered Mathpolate, which has a graphpaper generator for **asymetric graph paper** — https://mathpolate.com/graph/asymmetric If you #knit, this can be very helpful! You can print graph paper which matches your gauge. Si vous #tricot ez, c'est très utile! Vous pouvez imprimer du papier graphique qui correspond à votre jauge. #knitting #pattern #design #tricoter #motif

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  The Tyee: #BC #Nurses Escalate #Strike by Picketing Major Hospitals - https://thetyee.ca/News/2026/07/09/BC-Nurses-Escalate-Strike/ #BCNU will #picket #hospitals on #VancouverIsland as well as hospitals in #Vancouver and #Surrey. The union has also filed an unfair labour practice application with the BC Labour Relations Board over reports of coercion by employers. “Nurses should not have to fear retaliation for standing up for safer workplaces and for better care." Adrienne Gear, #union p...

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  CBC: Court strikes down confidentiality clause for air travel complaints process - https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/air-travel-complaints-court-ruling-9.7264661 An effectively meaninglessly short article: 1 sentence: "Judge says regulations barring travellers from disclosing result of complaints violate Charter rights." Hopefully a technical glitch over at CBC… #news #airtravel #AirCanada #Canada #CdnPoli #Journalism

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  TheRegister: Moody Bible Institute breach leaves 2.3M accounts needing salvation, says cyber expert - https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/07/06/moody-bible-institute-breach-leaves-23m-accounts-needing-salvation-says-cyber-expert/5266827 I know this may come across as unfeeling, but there's a word which springs to mind hearing about this incident… #Karma.

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  If there were any doubt the world is in a hybrid war and global arms race, Fiona E. Murray & Robert Murray's commentary, published in @thejapantimes@mastodon.social today, should put them to rest. Opening with the example of #Canada's transition in WWII from a non-militarized state to "a military-industrial powerhouse," she then proposes a framework for #NATO nations to undergo a similar transition only faster, deeper, more nimble. It is terrifying. This is where we are....

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  #BCPoli: Ever thought it would be nice if #BC had a simple way for people in multi-unit housing to add #solar, like the plug-in solar in the EU? Well, the North American electrical standard for that was approved in Dec. 2025. And there is a petition in #Canada to ask provinces to add it to their regulations. Here is the one for #BritishColumbia: https://www.pluginsolarpower.ca/take-action?campaign=british-columbia You could save a bit on your #hydro bill, while keeping the grid (and hydro cr...

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  RE: https://urbanists.social/@cargot_robbie/116851475405049500 It is soundling like #bitumen #pipeline to Roberts Bank 2. This likely means the pipeline will be in the Fraser River, the largest and most important #salmon river south of Alaska and north of the Columbia River. I so hope I am wrong… h/t @cargot_robbie@urbanists.social https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/livestory/energy-proposal-ab-bc-west-coast-july-2-live-updates-9.7251535 #BCPoli #CdnPoli #ABPoli

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  CBC: Proposed class-action #lawsuit filed over alleged #Alberta #voter #privacy breach - https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/voter-data-class-action-alberta-9.7254561 > The lawsuit names Alberta's justice and solicitor general, chief electoral officer, Centurion Project Ltd., the Republican Party of Alberta, David Parker and unidentified defendants. > The lead plaintiff is a retired lawyer who worked in class-action lawsuits. #AB #ABPoli #PrivacyBreach #CdnPoli

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  CBC: ‘You’re going to be naked’: Thorough tick checks the new norm as parasitic pests spread - https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/mount-allison-professor-tick-checks-9.7248664 > "Find a mirror, find a friend," Lloyd said, adding that parents living in a high-tick area should be checking their young kids nightly. > Includes link to this brilliant-but-boring #NB information page - https://www2.gnb.ca/content/gnb/en/departments/ocmoh/cdc/content/vectorborne_andzoonotic/t...

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  @bazurk@social.lol @dmacphee@mas.to Same boat. Different long-splices.

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  @mayintoronto One of the #worker groups with disproportionate #pandemic unexplained mortality is #retail #workers. And continues today. * #COVID related risk is uncompensated: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11166-024-09446-2 * Across 'critical occupations' during lockdown, post, higher mortality. But there are disparities, particularly in food processing, retail: https://www.sph.umn.edu/news/excess-mortality-during-pandemic-was-higher-among-workers-in-critical-occupations...

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  Goose and Gander I complained when M Carney used Google to talk to #Canadians. #Canada and its politicians must assert their #DigitalSovereignty, and that means making their content available in safe, surveillance-free venues FIRST, and only feed the #USA's #GAFAM / #AI / #SurveillanceEconomy SECOND. Walk the talk. And that includes you, @avilewis@mstdn.ca. Your #mastodon staffers know exactly what I am talking about: #Peertube, #Loops, #Pixelfed, and the rest of the #federated platforms....

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@ErikJonker/116477466966376169 NU.nl: German successfully fights border controls: local judge calls them unjust - https://www.nu.nl/binnenland/6393942/duitser-vecht-met-succes-grenscontroles-aan-lokale-rechter-noemt-ze-onterecht.html (in het Nederlands|in Dutch) A #German citizen successfully brought suit that Germany's #BorderControls between #DE and #Luxembourg are contrary to #EU #law; the court found they are unjustified. #LU #migrant #migration #Europe...

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  Sources - discussion to follow: * PMO: Prime Minister Carney announces the Canada Strong Fund – Canada’s first sovereign wealth fund - https://www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/news-releases/2026/04/27/prime-minister-carney-announces-canada-strong-fund-canadas-first * CBC: Carney announces creation of Canada's first national sovereign wealth fund - https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/sovereign-wealth-fund-carney-major-projects-9.7178238 * AP News: Prime Minister Mark Carney unveils $18 billion Canadian...

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  New horrible, awful, no-good, very bad acronym using 'ai': **AIoT** Thank you not, SparkLAN. Pass me the hydrochloric acid eyewash so I can try to unsee that. @mayintoronto

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  @hewer_of_code I cannot judge as to provincial autonomy in law. As to action, however… The wild assumption that provinces actually own the land under their feet is disproven by their charters, the Canadian Constitution, and history. Even discounting the Proclamation of 1763, everything is and was Crown Land, and that authority now resides in Ottawa according to the Parliament of the United Kingdom. But Ottawa, for various reasons, has rarely acted. Hopefully it will join the vertebrates.

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  RE: https://mstdn.ca/@thetyee/116403518202568299 While everyone is riled up about M Eby's attempt to pause #BCDRIPA, on behalf of #FirstNations, this quote gets to the heart of the matter: “He blinked because he didn’t have the support of his caucus,” [said Trevor Halford, interim leader of the Conservative Party of BC.] This is a party leader dictating to his #Caucus, and against the #BCNDP platform and ideology. All kinds of bad, politically But no one in #journalism is reporting o...

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  New (to me) #sailing #jargon - gabier: (french nautical) Topman; #sailor(s) stationed to work the upper yards and sails of a sailing ship. The 'station' was often a small platform attached to the mast at the trestle trees - where the heel of the topmast is fixed. #Wiktionaire #français: https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/gabier #English #Wiktionary: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gabier

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  TheConversation: The world’s 280 million electric bikes and mopeds are cutting demand for oil far more than electric cars - https://theconversation.com/the-worlds-280-million-electric-bikes-and-mopeds-are-cutting-demand-for-oil-far-more-than-electric-cars-213870 #Australia #BikeTooter #bike #ClimateAdaptation #ClimateChange #urbanist #AusPol #NZPol

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  CBC: Poilievre says government should cancel Toronto-Quebec City high-speed rail project - https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/poilievre-against-high-speed-rail-alto-9.7148975 'Unpleasant politician cannot get headlines for positive things; decides to get them by attacking public transit for average #Canadians.' #train #Alto #HSR #Canada #Ottawa #ON #ONPoli #Montréal #QC #QCPoli #PolitiqueQC #Trumpkin #CdnPoli

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  Anyone know about the #Vancouver music group JD Rich Trio? Always listening for new local / #BC bands, and overheard mention in a waiting room.

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  RE: https://minnesotasocial.net/@carsten/116303859190554567 This is perhaps the most quintessential #Minnesotan action in response to #ICE, 🍊 🤡. Quietly being prepared, nicely letting everyone know. #MN #Minnesota #MinnesotaNice