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Written by Johanna, CanCon variant on 2025-02-04 at 23:01

Dammit i have to take Ukulele Anthem off the request list now for my class to learn dont i. Gah.

Everything is awful. Are Somewhere Over The Rainbow &Hawai’i 78 still untainted, plz?

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Written by Johanna, CanCon variant on 2025-02-03 at 16:19

You know something else Ontario could do about this mess?

Get Google Classroom TF out of our public schools. We have home-grown in Ontario D2L, an outstanding education portal. Universities across the country use it. There is so much more integration potential and no foreign oligarchy scraping our schools for AI fodder. Using it would employ Ontario educators and innovators and contribute to our own economy.

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Written by Johanna, CanCon variant on 2025-02-03 at 02:03

@snarfed.org Hey, Ryan!

Is there a proper channel for any troubleshooting with brid.gy?

Wondering if i can connect PixelFed <==> Bsky. I've followed the bridge from PF, but it has not followed back and tells me I'm not following.

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Written by Johanna, CanCon variant on 2025-02-03 at 01:38

Ooh, yes, this is good to remember - Timmy's is no longer a Canadian company.

https://cosocial.ca/@maj/113936690784963255

For those who like your daily brew on the go, do your best to find a local roaster, bakery, lunch counter or indie cafe that serves what you like.

There are at least 3 I can walk to within 5 mins.

And we have some good roasters who buy the beans from non-US collectives, even on our cartel grocery chain shelves.

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Written by Johanna, CanCon variant on 2025-02-01 at 16:17

Blood lab on a Saturday morning, AND the leaderboard is malfunctioning, so nobody but the person beside the pile of paper knows the queue.

Good thing i brought two knitting projects.

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Written by Johanna, CanCon variant on 2025-01-23 at 04:06

OMG.

I'm working on a SQL course. Not a terribly academic one, just an "intermediate SQL for professional interest" sort of thing.

I've understood conceptually what triggers are for decades. But I've never been a coder, never written one.

I just worked through an exercise in creating an audit table & trigger to populate it, for a database. It's less than 30 lines of entirely readable code.

There are at least 10 "database developers" in my past I want to dig up out of their graves and punch.

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Written by Johanna, CanCon variant on 2025-01-17 at 06:44

I’m shuffling my few years now of Pixelfed presence over to the brand new pxlfd.ca.

I am a huge PF fan and will continue to support @dansup materially, but PF is taking off like a (not explodey) rocket and @pixelfed.social is going to become like mastodon.social, huge and crowded. I joined then moved off of Mastodon.social in 2017, though I continue to chip in to the Mastodon project. Same deal. I like a cozier local timeline, while being a total fan of the project.

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Written by Johanna, CanCon variant on 2025-01-06 at 17:29

IFTAS is a worthwhile effort. It is an independent, non-profit agency focused on Trust&Safety tools and initiatives for the distributed, federated social media realms (ActivityPub and AT Proto for now).

From: @iftas

https://mastodon.iftas.org/@iftas/113782480105091132

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Written by Johanna, CanCon variant on 2024-12-29 at 02:28

For January 2025, c'mon out to the Flying Squirrel Fine Yarns. I'm teaching socks for beginners, and we're adding a Knitting Help Desk lesson/tutoring/troubleshooting program, starting last Tuesday in January.

If the time(s) don't work for you, talk to Erin, Erin, or Steph at the shop, and we can work out some different ones.

https://flyingsquirrelfineyarns.com/collections/workshops

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:m5qtdhvdicrk6dk3o7xgc4rx/post/3lefxn77xwc2u

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Written by Johanna, CanCon variant on 2024-12-21 at 23:08

There are at least two more sock knitters in the world today - maybe 3 or 4!

If you would like to join them, and always have a solution to cold feet, come join us:

https://flyingsquirrelfineyarns.com/products/anatomy-of-the-sock-1-beginner-adventures-with-johanna-january-11-3-00

If you're still not sure, on December 28, I'll be on hand for a Knitters's Help Desk afternoon - will be ready with more mini-sock starters if you want to try one.

[#]knitting #yaaaAAAARN #fiberarts

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Written by Johanna, CanCon variant on 2024-12-10 at 01:38

https://edmonton.ctvnews.ca/largest-ai-data-centre-in-the-world-to-be-built-in-northwest-alberta-1.7138925

Wow, I really hope we are very quickly going to make environmental impact assessments mandatory for these sorts of proposals.

1. Where's the power generation coming from?

2. Where's the COOLING coming from, hence what's the water usage of this proposal?

It's already been noticed that massive data centres are damaging the hydrology of watersheds and threatening the fresh water supply of entire towns.

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Written by Johanna, CanCon variant on 2024-12-08 at 23:31

Happy Belated #Caturday from Leelo(o) Ten who is so starving and emaciated* she will practically snuggle up to a snacking Sudo in case there is a crumb left.

• Leelo(o) is not starving and emaciated she is a massive cute snuggly meeping liar.

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Written by Johanna, CanCon variant on 2024-12-07 at 22:32

Stalled at another accidentally red-lighted level crossing.

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Written by Johanna, CanCon variant on 2024-12-02 at 17:34

It's winter in Ontario again.

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Written by Johanna, CanCon variant on 2024-12-01 at 23:52

Waterloo Region, at least aiming at something positive for a change: https://www.therecord.com/news/waterloo-region/waterloo-council-aims-to-put-land-worth-20m-into-affordable-housing-project/article_d8b9517c-b937-5253-9dd9-c79034822bfb.html

Relates to the post I made yesterday - Union SD coop is aiming to be the majority supporter of the affordable rental portion of this development.

Now, can we please do something about the ridiculously bloated policing budget???!?!

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Written by Johanna, CanCon variant on 2024-11-30 at 02:49

https://www.unionsd.coop/

A friend reminded me of this initiative in my region recently. It’s a way for us socialists who have been lucky enough to secure our OWN housing to literally invest in sustainable coop housing to benefit the community.

Imagine what could happen if every real estate transaction were topped up with a $500 share to invest in affordable housing for one of our neighbours.

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Written by Johanna, CanCon variant on 2024-11-16 at 23:31

CoSocial hasn't been around that long, but dang, I missed that this past week was my Fediversary!

Joined mastodon.social, then quickly, wandering.shop, on Nov 14 then 15th, respectively, 2017.

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Written by Johanna, CanCon variant on 2024-11-16 at 05:05

It’s #caturday somewhere. I am cat furniture this evening.

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Written by Johanna, CanCon variant on 2024-11-08 at 21:36

Excellent #fediTip from one of our founding co-op members:

https://cosocial.ca/@timbray/113448540379062117

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Written by Johanna, CanCon variant on 2024-11-06 at 17:26

Well then. After all THAT last night, I’m back on the job market again too.

Anybody need a semi-feral GenX systems-thinker with a knack for poking at various tech and software until I make it work the way users actually need it to, as opposed to how code monkeys thought it should?

[#]getFediHired

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