PAIGE! 🍁

Get ready for 1000km of NIMBYs going to town on this. They’ll warp it, they’ll delay it, they’ll kill it.
Whose fault? It really is the government, by avoiding their responsibility to lead on this they have meandered into every rake that a mega project could have.
I wish they’d just put this thing out of its misery, give Alto the infrastructure assets of VIA and a long term budget to build a realistic and modest set of projects.

Don’t think I’ve ever seen a difference
where #canada and #usa were polar opposites before.

P1/ I’ve been working really hard on my French this year after discovering how helpful AIs are for talking through language concepts.
I’ve had a big realization how wrong I was about one language learning thing: Gender.
People told me, it’s not a big deal if you swap Le/La or say “A le restaurant” and so I just decided to ignore it and let it come naturally in the way that a kid picks it up. To just be patient.

I have a blue collar friend who listens to podcasts all day. It’s wall to wall culture war content and he’s easily the least happy person I know.
The thing is I have another friend, same situation but he listens to CBC and NPR shows, still a decent amount of focus on the culture war but he’s a really popular happy guy, involved in the community etc.
Given regulations aren’t getting passed anytime soon, the media you choose to consume does come down to personal responsibly.

The Labour government in the UK could pass electoral reform RIGHT NOW. Think about that. The threat of yet another incompetent unrepresentative government could be over.
#ukpol

I got quoted in this piece.
I think @pluralistic@mamot.fr is correct and wish Canada would realize that the "good behaviour" light switch isn't wired to the bulb.
In the end though, this country is so fucking frustratingly conflict adverse from the individual all the way up to the government.
As far as political viability goes, funding something like #NLnet for Canadian orgs and teaming up on the Eurostack over the next few years is my focus. Huge kilometerage 😉 for the money.

https://betakit.com/can-canada-find-digital-sovereignty-in-the-fediverse/

It was nice to finally have a shindig on the slopes of Mont-fedi today.
Credit for #FediMTL @info@social.fedimtl.ca has to go to @meadmin@qlub.social and @Kath@qlub.social at #qlub who ever-cheerfully took on the challenge of piloting our endeavour into a smooth landing and @evan@cosocial.ca for curating the lineup and being the atomic clock the fediverse can rely on.

RE: @reece@masto.canadiancivil.com

"While #Canada cannot win any war with the United States, we could stop funnelling money in that direction for things like Windows licenses, and digital services. Perhaps instead of trying to tax Meta and X, the government could just ... stop using their services? If people want their government updates on social media, they can follow the government on Mastodon, or just bookmark a government #Mastodon page, the y’d probably happily do it if you explained why."
#canpoli