Just set up a Pixelfed account to share photos on, as an alternative to Instagram. It's part of the Fediverse so even if you don't have a Pixelfed account, you should be able to follow from your Mastodon account: https://pixelfed.dk/CraigSloss
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Looking for some advice from folks who have used Pixelfed as an alternative to Instagram -- how is the experience? Any recommendations for servers that have a similar philosophy to Spore / Project Mushroom?
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Among Ontario cities, Waterloo is second only to Toronto in the percentage of trips taken as a pedestrian, owing to its relatively high density and mixture of commercial and residential uses that produce walkable neighbourhoods. #WaterlooRegion
https://www.therecord.com/news/waterloo-region/waterloo-walks-into-the-future-as-driving-eases-cycling-rises-and-transit-stalls/article_562774a3-883e-5252-a694-e56c5eb6b531.html
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One of the initiatives that I'm proud to be contributing some time to in 2025 is One Million Neighbours, a series of roundtables, coordinated by @samnabi, among representatives of community organizations in #WaterlooRegion. These discussions identify common priorities and a vision for the future of the Region. My role is as a researcher, preparing background information to help the discussions. Here's an update on what we accomplished at the roundtables in 2024: https://onemillionneighbours.ca/2025/01/02/2024-recap-priorities-from-our-first-4-roundtables/
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Today I'll be listening to "Songs of Substance" by Sockpuppet on @mirlo -- the first track, "Behind a Mask", hooked me and drew me in to listen to the rest of the album! #music #musodon
https://mirlo.space/sockpuppet/release/songs-of-substance
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Working on my personal budget for 2025, I wanted to give a shout-out to one of the projects that I've committed to support with a monthly financial contribution. @mirlo is a worker-owned collective that provides a platform for musicians to publish their work and receive the vast majority of the revenue that it generates. It's an important initiative that provides fair compensation to independent artists, in contrast to traditional corporate streaming platforms. https://mirlo.space/team/posts/157/
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Today I'm checking out "Empty Victories" by Curious Quail on @mirlo, another artist that I learned about from the Mirlo compilation album: https://mirlo.space/curiousquail/release/empty-victories
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Tonight I'm checking out the album "Pastel" by Sivaan Grey -- I loved "I Think I Like It When It's Dark Out" from the @mirlo compilation album, and wanted to hear more! https://mirlo.space/sivaangrey/release/pastel
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Canada has its own aspirational tech oligarchs. Small businesses are in a position to hit them where it hurts by transitioning away from Shopify to other payment platforms: https://breachmedia.ca/canada-far-right-tech-billionaires-pierre-poilievre/
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Amnesty International has highlighted 9 cases as part of its annual Write for Rights campaign. You can quickly sign petitions for all of them on this page. #W4RCanada #WriteForRights2024 https://takeaction.amnesty.ca/page/160839/petition/1?_ga=2.178005413.1847189570.1734015445-1148698050.1734015445&_gac=1.255679098.1734015445.Cj0KCQiAsOq6BhDuARIsAGQ4-zg_4-EqzCpa8oQ4R2QrBj17Jme-COzo5Q31yDUYuCDL7jXxN5ydImQaAmR7EALw_wcB
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It looks like a few sentences got trimmed. Here's the original, with a few additional links to support fact-checking: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MeXE2_7Z5VQCiHLK7ejdz2fDQxxw17gXK9EqvjUk1IU/edit?usp=sharing
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My letter to the editor of The Record was published this morning. #WaterlooRegion https://www.therecord.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/dec-11-police-are-doing-the-job-that-social-and-health-workers-should-be-handling/article_b55c54c4-e2ee-5cf1-ab05-8d946b067bbf.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=copy-link&utm_campaign=user-share
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In 2023, the police spent over 33K hours responding to domestic dispute calls. The next highest category, “proactive initiative / project”, isn’t even close, at 22K hours. Next are two types of calls related to mental health “compassionate to locate” — essentially a wellness check — at 18K hours, and calls that the police refer to as “mentally ill” at 15K. Time spent responding to these calls has steadily increased since 2020. (2/6)
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In the #WaterlooRegion budget, the police are requesting a $24M tax increase based on claims that they do not have the capacity to meet their workload demands. Publicly-available occurrence data shows that the biggest drivers of police workload can be prevented by greater investments in the non-police portions of the budget. (An “occurrence” is a call for service, and numbers represent the total time spent responding to the call.) (1/6)
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Waterloo Regional Council is considering cuts to transit -- many of these routes connect the suburbs to the core, and are in areas where transit options are already extremely limited. Big thanks to the local students who set up this petition to oppose the cuts! #WaterlooRegion https://chng.it/4vL6nvCgcc
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Big thanks to the folks at @mirlo for sending me this nice piece of swag! Check out the site at https://mirlo.space/ -- it's a collectively-owned platform that allows independent artists to sell their music, and for fans to directly support them!
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Thinking of Mariame Kaba's words today: "Let this radicalize you rather than lead you to despair."
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Another question for #RegionofWaterloo Council: if "[the destruction of the corn crop] appears to conflict with the goals in the Province's Grow Ontario: a provincial agri-food strategy," as stated in the motion, wouldn't the elimination of all future farming on this land also be in conflict with the Province's Grow Ontario strategy?
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One of my questions for #RegionofWaterloo Council: if "[the destruction of the corn crop] appears to be in direct contradiction to the Region of Waterloo's Strategic Plan 2023-2027 Growing with Care vision," as stated in this motion, wouldn't the elimination of all future crops on this land also be in contradiction with the Growing with Care vision?
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On Tuesday, August 13, the Sustainability, Infrastructure, and Development Committee of the #RegionofWaterloo Council approved a motion calling for a report on its role in destroying a corn crop on one of the farms in the Wilmot land assembly. The motion was not published in the agenda, and is only available on a video stream of the meeting. I've placed the text of this motion in the following document for ease of reference by advocates on this issue: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nKiB_6pZi25Jk0Jb1hV-FZ0hZujElcTlBcKt2QWrI4c/pub
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