If you’d have told me even 4 months that there was a slight chance to beat PP, I’d have been ecstatic. I hope that his career (and the political feasibility of faschy candidates like him) implodes after tonight.

Ball bearings

Maybe a bit out of scope for “gardening”, but get to know how to sustain the life in both your garden as well as your community with as many sustainable inputs as possible.

Make your own compost and save your own seeds.

Network with people in your area.

Learn about the CSA farms in your area and see if you can contribute your little garden space to their effort in a collective manner in exchange for a complimentary CSA share (aka you use your entire plot to grow a large amount of some random veggie or herb to contribute to their program in exchange for a full season of their subscription).

Contribute excess veggies to the food bank.

Also, I hate to be “that guy”, but being a Canadian/American who pays attention to news headlines in both countries, I’ve gotta say that a shockingly substantial amount of your neighbors have no idea how fucked their world is going to be for the foreseeable future. Shit’s hitting the fan in a way that may be even bigger than 2008, and I feel like so many of us never actually recovered from that…

All that to say, “gardening” is really, really important now

They are going to destroy things we deeply love and hold to be sacred, as casual as we may normally feel about defining things as “sacred”

I mean, not yet. Give it a few months.

You are very wise, wise_pancake

How about we remove tariffs from Chinese EVs in addition to this?

Local breweries and unions are two of my favourite things in the world, so maybe we should listen to these concerns.

He’s not taking on Trump. He’s undercutting and backstabbing PP so that he can take over leadership of the CPC at some point in the medium-term.

For all of his many shortcomings (which, yes, there are a lot of them and many of them are pretty awful), I’m proud of how he’s handled this. I hope that he enjoys a peaceful and happy retirement with his family.

We need to support this company as much as possible. If I recall, they also had amazingly worker-friendly policies during the height of COVID. They are a Canadian gem that really needs to be protected with our support. Go treat yourself to some ice cream this weekend!

Unrigged is legit

I made an online purchase today and specifically did not use the Shop Pay option. Fuck Shopify. Fucking traitors.

Man get the fuck out of here

It was relatively fast and painless. I had someone drive me home, wore athletic protection for a few days, laid off of any sort of rigorous exercise, and its been a really straightforward recovery experience after that. No ragrets.

Greedy management cunts who can rest pretty safely knowing that the Liberal government will 100% have their back and pass return to work legislation.

In order for home prices to actually become affordable, we’d have to have the kind of decline where economists were literally using phrases like “blood in the streets”.

Its true, but we do also have a proven base of both users and experienced admins that has proven to be resilient and self-sustaining even in the world where the winds of capitalism or VC money aren’t throttling growth.

Its always a risk putting your faith into a single person, but Dan is the same guy who built Pixelfed. He’s a Fediverse OG, literally the exact opposite of a grifter. Trusting him is a risk for sure, but I can’t think of many other developers I’d trust more than him (at least in terms of his intentions and determination… I’m not a skilled dev so I can’t speak to whether he actually does good work, but Pixelfed seems incredibly legit given the limited resources he’s worked with)

Threads is implementing it in phased rollouts and I think they saw the writing on the wall with X that Bluesky was the next “big thing” and wanted to jump on a competitor protocol that had already been developed and already had an active base of both users and developers.l, whereas Bluesky is building everything in house from the ground up with the AT protocol.

WordPress has a plugin that is developed by Automattic (as close to core WP as you can without actually being core WP) which essentially turns every WordPress site into an ActivityPub feed. Its really cool and an incredibly powerful tool for publishers.

Flipboard is also implementing ActivityPub as we speak, and it seems like they are quite bought in on the concept. Their CEO hosts a podcast about the Fediverse.

Ghost is a publishing platform similar to Substack that is also working to implement ActivityPub and is doing a lot of the heavy work in terms of trying to figure out what longer-form publishing could look like within the fediverse, as opposed to being a network of different Twitter clones.