chris

chris, 10 days ago to random

🤦 https://noc.social/@todayilearned/112560915340124785

chris, 10 days ago to fediverse

I just hit send on the Open Letter to the Speaker, Clerks of the House and Senate and the Chair of the House Procedures and House Affairs Committee. (and cc'ed to other relevant Ministers, MPs and Senator)

67 signatures included! Anyone can still add one on the web version.

Thanks 🙏 for helping to push this. There may be a third (and final!) push, but it will be Canada only.
THANK YOU!

The #Fediverse will come to ParliamentI

#Mastodon #CanPoli #CdnPoli #e4769

https://chrisalemany.ca/2024/05/31/open-letter-to-parliament-of-canada-adopt-open-services-for-social-communications/

chris, 11 days ago to fediverse

Last chance. If you want to have your signature on the real life letter that goes to Canada's House of Commons Speaker and others, you must tell me before 9AM PDT (about 40 minutes).

You do not have to be Canadian to sign.

Signatures received after 9AM will be on the web version.

I've made some updates to the letter including more supporting links and sources.

#Fediverse #CanPoli #CdnPoli #OpenLetter #Advocacy #OpenSocialWeb #Mastodon #Pixelfed #ActivityPub

https://chrisalemany.ca/2024/05/31/open-letter-to-parliament-of-canada-adopt-open-services-for-social-communications/

chris, 11 days ago to MountainBiking

Hey BC folks! If you have a bike, get out and ride this week! It's GoByBike Week! You don't even have to take it to work, you can Go By Bike anywhere! The Park, the Store, just around the block.

Get out there and have fun. And when you come back, register your ride on the website and you'll be entered to win some great prizes!

#GoByBike #GoByBikeWeek #BCPoli #ActiveTransportation #Bike #Cycling #Commute #ModeShift

https://gobybikebc.ca

chris, 11 days ago to random

@pfefferle Hi Matthias would you be interested in signing this open letter this morning?

chris, 11 days ago to fediverse

If you want your name (you don't need to be Canadian!) on the letter that goes to officials in Canada's Parliament advocating for using #OpenSocialWeb services you need to let me know before 9AM PDT tomorrow (Monday Jun 3).

Letter is here:
https://chrisalemany.ca/2024/05/31/open-letter-to-parliament-of-canada-adopt-open-services-for-social-communications/

I'll continue adding signatures to the web version after that deadline.

This will be the only time for non-Canadians to make their voice heard! #Fediverse

I may have another Canadian-only opportunity for action at a later date.

chris, 14 days ago to fediverse

Dear all Canadians and also all Fediverse Citizens!

Please boost and sign (name and place please) this open letter that will be sent to the Parliament of Canada. This is a followup to #e4769 petition which is now awaiting a formal response from Government. This Open letter will be sent on Monday June 3rd to the Speaker of the House of Commons and other critical officers and Ministers to encourage a positive response to the petition.

#Fediverse #Mastodon #OpenSocialWeb
https://chrisalemany.ca/2024/05/31/open-letter-to-parliament-of-canada-adopt-open-services-for-social-communications/

chris, 14 days ago to random

In celebration of Trump being convicted, why not read about when his father was arrested during a Memorial Day march alongside the KKK when the march descended into chaos and fistfights.
#Trump #trumpConvicted #KKK
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0096144219858599

chris, 14 days ago to random

Again, I must express my support, admiration and solidarity with the student protesters. For 28 days they have been calm, peaceful, steadfast and made their voices heard. VIU has chosen to vilify, threaten and accuse them of making others feel unsafe while VIU hires outside security contractors to surveil (including video) and make the Students feel unsafe and unwelcome in their own campus. Administration has still not had a dialogue.
The Students most recent statement.
#VIU
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C7lE0vDN7oO/?igsh=MWkxejQzbGpjcnBqMQ%3D%3D

chris, 15 days ago to random

New lock screen.
#TrumpConvicted #TrumpCrime

chris, 15 days ago to fediverse

Today something happened for the #Fediverse!

Petition #e4769 was presented in Canada's House of Commons on behalf of over 1000 #opensocialweb supporters! The government must now respond!

It was a group effort including @Dragon @chad @Dunstable @bougiewonderland @LALegault @mike @stephanie @danamcfarland @bluefacedbeast and 1003 more!

In 🇨🇦? Write the Speaker and your MP! Send them this post! Outside 🇨🇦 ? Use this example!

We can make it happen!! 😊 👊
#TheMediumIstheMessage
#canpoli #mastodon

A video of the House of Commons routine proceedings presenting petitions. It starts with a view of the speakers chair and green seats in front of him with two large doors behind. Then it switches to View of MP Gordon John as he presents the petition.

chris, 16 days ago to fediverse

This sounds like a reason to call for our MPs and other government officials to remove themselves from toxic corporate social media spaces and create government-run, spaces, federated into the open social web so that Canadians can interact with their elected officials and those elected officials can be protected from harassment!

#CdnPoli #CanPoli #OpenSocialWeb #Fediverse #Mastodon #TwitterMigration #harrassment
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/threats-harassment-mps-spike-1.7217040 #e4769

chris, 17 days ago to Sports

Hey Canadian Sports Mastodon'ers. Convince me to keep my Sportsnet+ subscription now that my hockey team is out of the playoffs and the Bluejays are generally not great.

Currently leaning towards: Dump it until at least the fall.

(We don't have any other TV subscriptions)
#Sports #Canada #Media #Affordability

convince me season 4 GIF by Black Sails

chris, 17 days ago to random

Here's the before and after of the lying BCLNG sign. The new rhetoric is significantly less sure of its lies... but don't be fooled, if you go to their website, they still have the original lie "BCLNG WILL Reduce Global emissions” prominently displayed. So they're still liars, and I'll still call them so!

Was it all because of the brief (5hr) protest action?
Probably not... but it's a good thought :)

Protests work!

#liars #ClimateAction #CliamteChange #BCPoli #BCLNG #LNG #CanPoli #CdnPoli

A picture taken Monday May 27 shows the same sign but now with the message “LNG IS AN OPPORTUNITY THAT B.C. CAN’T AFFORD TO MISS.” with the same website and logo.

chris, 18 days ago to renewableenergy

I am baffled that people actually still believe buying an EV will not have an immediate positive impact on their family's monthly budget. And yes, I know the initial cost is out of many people's range, but I also know for a great many, it is in their range. So lets talk operating cost:

Case in point: Our EV is at the doctor getting rear end surgery (due to no fault of ours or its, insurance covered, yay).

We received a courtesy car we nicknamed "The Beast". It's a Dodge Journey. I figure one trip to work and back (160km) would probably cost $50. I was forced to use it today so I took the time-hit and drove it to the Transit park-and-ride 35km away
instead.

It means leaving 15min early and getting home 45min later. But that's another topic...

What taking the bus does do immediately is saves me more than half the cost of fuel for The Beast.

A full 160km roundtrip in the EV is about $5 worth of electricity. $50 vs $5.

Fossil fuels? In this economy?

P.S. Oh ya, and you want to talk "range anxiety"? Not only is The Beast only good for around 200km on $50 of gas... that's almost half a tank! Which is not farm from the EV on "range". Sorry, I'll take the EV "anxiety" any day of the week!

@josie_osborne #climateAction #renewableEnergy

chris, 18 days ago to random

Ya. I have a comment!
Forget flying and build a high speed passenger rail and bus network in this country so we can actually move around economically and efficiently without being at the whim of these dumb airlines!
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/competition-bureau-airline-study-1.7216100?cmp=rss

There is a movement growing!

https://www.workersdeservebetter.ca/transit

chris, 18 days ago to RussiaUkraineWar

Canada included! I say... call Putin's bluff. Do this.
“Several member countries, including Estonia, the UK, Poland, Canada, Lithuania, and France, are advocating for increased support for Kyiv, potentially extending into Ukrainian territory.”

More:
"Some NATO countries, including the United Kingdom, Canada, and Estonia, are considering plans to deliver weapons and ammunition directly to the front lines in Ukraine, rather than stopping at the borders.

This initiative, referred to as “advanced logistics,” is being developed by several Western nations.”

"President Volodymyr Zelensky believes NATO should intercept Russian missiles over Ukraine without entering Ukrainian airspace.”
#RussiaUkraineWar #Ukraine #Russia #NATO
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/33351

chris, 18 days ago to random

Has there ever been a micro-blogging site that allows you to make a post visible to all except individual accounts?

Like if you were planning a surprise birthday party for your best friend? :)

#OpenSocialMedia #FeatureRequest

chris, 18 days ago to ai

Allow me to be the first on Canadian Mastodon to say:
This is not going to end well for anyone.

"Treasury Board President Anita Anand says she wants to increase the use of artificial intelligence in Canada's public service but insists there's no question of using AI tools like ChatGPT for confidential information like cabinet documents.”

Aside: In a way, the rise of "AI" truly has emphasized the word “Artificial" in Artificial Intelligence. lol

#CanPoli #AI #CdnPoli #Government
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/public-service-artificial-intelligence-1.7216222

chris, 19 days ago to Israel

Things that are not anti-semitism:

1. Calling Israel's war in Gaza and the West Bank Genocidal. (both cultural and physical)

2. Calling Israel's decades of treatment of Palestinians Apartheid.

3. Calling Israel's actions violent colonialism.

4. Boycotting, Divesting, and Sanctioning (BDS) Israeli government and companies while the above continue.

If you claim these are anti-semitic actions then you need to check your privilege.

#Israel #Gaza #Apartheid #Genocide

chris, 21 days ago to Bloomscrolling

The big rhodo is the last to bloom. There are lots of bees buzzing in it but it's a little blustery so they are not stcking around much for a photo :)

#bloomscrolling #portalberni #gardening

chris, 21 days ago to internet

ICQ is finally closing forever!

I am a tiny bit sad. If only because now I will remember a number -- 23149880 -- that is truly and completely obsolete. I really need to conserve brain space for more important things.

Also, if ICQ can last, what, 15 years? after it became irrelevant, what does that say about how long we're going to have to suffer with Twitter/X if people ever actually leave en-masse?

Do you remember your ICQ#?

#ICQ #OpenSocialWeb #SocialMedia #Twitter #DumpMusk #Transition

chris, 21 days ago to random

The sound you hear is the #BCNDP breathing a huge sigh of relief as the two rightwing parties continue fighting.
“B.C. Conservatives Leader John Rustad rejected proposed 'non-competition' agreement, Kevin Falcon says”

#BCPoli #CdnPoli #CanPoli #bcelection2024
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/b-c-united-no-merger-1.7214326

chris, 22 days ago to random

Violence never pays... but I'm still on Team Tire Iron with the Family vs. asshole Hummer driver.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/nanaimo-bear-spray-parking-stall-1.7211425

chris, 25 days ago to climate

My cup overflows with anger toward these lying, deceiving, murderous, oil and gas companies. So this morning, I did something I've never done before in hopes the people coming home from their long weekends in Tofino and Ucluelet get the message.

Please Boost.

#BCLNG #BCPoli #CanPoli #CdnPoli #ClimateChange #ClimateAction #ClimateEmergency #OilandGas #LNG #Liars #bchwy4 #bcWildfire

https://bclngburns.ca

A large green billboard promoting BC LNG saying they “will reduce global emissions” has a large white tarp overtop the letters with “LIARS” in red and “BCLNGBURNS.CA”