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Posted: I've had this poster hanging on my wall for well over a decade. It's not radical, it's common decency.Bluesky network
Posted: I've just watched a presentation by one of the most incredible, thoughtful researchers I've ever had the pleasure of meeting. I hope I can …Bluesky network
Posted: At Roundabout, we're very excited about this proposal for permissioned atproto data. Roundabout has been built on atproto, but has been o…Bluesky network
Posted: My thought for the day: Don't confuse products with protocols, and vice-versa.Bluesky network
Posted: This is a good explainer. The one change I'd make is that the fiefdom thing is something that very explicitly came from Mastodon, as it was…Bluesky network
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This article calls out something interesting about the C-22 debacle. C-22 makes clear that no encryption back-doors should be in place, and it seems like the liberal ministers and law enforcement "just" want to be able to make secret metadata and data retention orders.

Posted: Leader of a national party, hanging out in cattle class. Love to see it.Bluesky network
Posted: It was the best of governments / it was the worst of governments.Bluesky network
Posted: This is such a farce. "They put slot machines in the libraries! That's probably bad!" / *Government does nothing for 20 years, enshittific…Bluesky network
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"We are so committed to fairness that we have lost sight of the unfairness of doing nothing." I feel like this quote, from this article about an indigenous project to address the problem of housing unaffordability in Vancouver, is true of so many things right now: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/15/o...

Opinion | One City Might Have Just Cracked the Housing Crisis
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Posted: I just tried a thing that I've honestly been waiting for since ~2006. @sgo.to is a genius, and his persistence is a godsend. I'm told it'l…Bluesky network
Posted: Same, but in 🇨🇦 cc @avilewis.ca - we really need to get our geese in a flank, or we'll just mint Telus as the new Meh-ta.Bluesky network
Posted: Really disappointed that Canada is joining the crowd in banning social media for under-16s. The *best-case* scenario is that it entrenches…Bluesky network
Posted: A social media ban for under-16s would probably fix this.Bluesky network
Posted: I need to write more about this, but one of the core benefits of atproto is that it (dramatically) lowers the cost of coordination, both in…Bluesky network
Posted: So much this. Listen to Rachel "wise web lady" Coldicutt.Bluesky network
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This Halifax Public Library vending machine at the Halifax airport is so cool! @hfxgov.bsky.social ❤️📚

Posted: An observation while I'm at #pubconf26: it's a little thing, but we use hashtags because Twitter never added support for properly tagging t…Bluesky network
Posted: Fuck cancer.Bluesky network
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@kandake.africa @robin.berjon.com I can't reply on the other thread, but kich.io looks great! I didn't get a publishing interface done, but I was playing around with some related bits on pannacotta.org a few months back – need to get kich recipes in there, too, now! 😁

Panna Cotta
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