Aug 8, 2025, 3:45 PM
http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/fellow
Me having a beer with people who think immigrants should try harder to assimilate into Canadian culture
Aug 8, 2025, 1:16 AM
It works OK, gotta build the habit of using it. The bigger question is whether straining my eyeballs instead of my neck is the right decision 😂
Aug 7, 2025, 3:37 PM
Trying out a new bike mirror contraption that mounts to my glasses, which I can already say aren’t quite a great choice of glasses model to use with the thingy but will try to make do
Aug 5, 2025, 4:48 AM
Today I used @CoMaps for the first time for hiking (Panorama) and I am so happy with it. The downloaded map had everything I needed - thanks to the many OSM contributors - and it was super useful.
We can have nice things without having to pay CA$35.99 a year, so I’ll happily just donate that amount directly. Long live #OSM!
Jul 31, 2025, 3:08 PM
Reminds me of Cersei rebuttal of Littlefinger’s “knowledge is power” with putting a blade to his neck to remind him that “power is power”
Jul 31, 2025, 3:05 PM
Who would have guessed that after a period of “Revenge of the Nerds” tech oligarchy soft power the pendulum would swing back so hard into “regular bullying and pettiness” politics, ie strongman power
Jul 26, 2025, 8:22 PM
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Jul 26, 2025, 8:08 PM
We already have #NeoDB and #BookWyrm for tracking but when are we getting the #fediverse bookcrossing.com? Maybe it's already out there and I haven't found it yet 🤔
Jul 22, 2025, 4:13 AM
If this was 2023 I’d be ready to shell out good money to buy an awesome carbon bike wheel manufactured in the US.
But in this shitty timeline it makes more sense for me to pay more than a hundred bucks in shipping to import from China instead.
Congratulations on bringing manufacturing jobs back to “America”.
Jul 18, 2025, 12:45 AM
Georgia St needs bus lane enforcement so bad. We cannot trust drivers to behave at their best, and the rush hour towards the north shore brings out the worst
Jul 10, 2025, 8:11 PM
I wish the Tyee would do a story on why/how the hell did The Walrus decided to run a page ad for online gambling
Jul 1, 2025, 3:18 AM
So it turned out that #BCTransit on the #SunshineCoastBC has a daily bus fare cap and I found out just now that the 4 times I took the bus today to go from city to city costed me $4 total.
And the cherry on top is the ferry from Langdale to Horseshoe Bay is free for foot passengers. This is awesome, and it’s wild that there are so few making use of this!
Jun 29, 2025, 10:56 PM
I’ve just set up my monthly donation. This is such an important work! https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:hirrgj3gs4mkftk5oopdeekc/post/3lsrcevctxc2a
Jun 25, 2025, 10:21 PM
Found this report out there, getting to know this Strong Coast org
https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/6c1647e3dc7c4ef29fd7790de05d21fd
Jun 25, 2025, 1:07 AM
Decided to stick with “artisanal” for now
Jun 25, 2025, 12:13 AM
Murder of Couriers, 10 out of 10
Found this doc/movie by accident and found it so interesting. I ride bicycles, I live in Vancouver, and I caught myself wondering about courier life. This film allowed me to peek behind the reality, awesomeness and toxicity of courier culture in the area.
Jun 24, 2025, 6:17 PM
Jun 23, 2025, 8:44 PM
Got assigned one of those big corp recurring legal trainings today, and re-learned the guidance of preferring "sensitive" conversations over the phone or in person as to not generate a paper trail that can be "misconstrued if taken out of context, leading to unfair press coverage".
Big corporations are a mistake.
Jun 23, 2025, 5:09 PM
I wonder why is the correlation so high between mean/disgusting comments in Lemmy with that user being from the sh.itjust.works instance instead of lemmy.ca
There has to be something in there about branding and language... maybe just a correlation with tech white dudes. Or maybe the lemmy.ca moderators are just incredibly effective in comparison.
Jun 19, 2025, 11:00 PM
The reason I'm pretty chill is that Cybernews cried wold with crazy numbers like that in January, and it turned out to be mostly a nothingburger
https://se.security.ntt/en/moab-data-leak-exposes-global-vulnerability-to-credential-stuffing/
Jun 19, 2025, 10:51 PM
Re the 16 bn passwords leak.
You don't really need to go update your passwords just yet, wait at least a day or so before #InfoSec people verify the claims and reach consensus.
If you know you do have weak passwords, now is as good as a time as ever to go and update them. Otherwise, nothing to see here just yet.
Jun 19, 2025, 5:51 AM
Looking back, it turns out that the fans were right when they saw a bleak outlook of humankind’s future the day Lee Sedol lost to AlphaGo in 2016
May 28, 2025, 7:15 PM
The Burnout Society, 4 out of 10
Surprisingly uninteresting, quite a disappointment. The book is a social critique written as a philosophy graduate essay: a lot of time is spent on stating analogies to describe modern society defended by other philosophers only to say that the description is inaccurate because so and so. The book has some pillar concepts related to "achievement society" but routinely reaches for unnecessary analogies to immune systems or alternative framings like positivity/negativity. The audience is people who read Heidegger instead of people who do want to understand burnout society.
May 28, 2025, 7:02 PM
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Schitt's Creek Season 2
Good lighthearted fun. John and David continue to be interesting characters, Alexis is given some more development, but Moira is still... that. I wish they tried less hard to make Roland so disgusting. Overall a slight improvement over the first season, with an hopeful ending that did feel a little forced.
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The Handmaid's Tale Season 6
Should this series have ended a while ago? Probably. Are we getting tired of the series trying to hype up yet another conflict using a closing shot of June looking at the camera? Maybe. But we're still here for it, and I think the overall arc of the story is developing in a sensible direction (USA losing to Gilead means Canada starts capitulating with the winners). I just wish that the whole June & Blaine didn't take so much of a central role in the story, it's not an interesting foundation for the plot.
May 8, 2025, 7:14 PM
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Schitt's Creek Season 1, 8 out of 10
Good lighthearted fun. John and David are amusing, but it's a shame that the women characters of the family (Alexis and Moira) are a bit too stereotypical. David's character had a bit more creativity going into him, so why not spice up the women too?
May 8, 2025, 7:11 PM
Sinners, 7 out of 10
We've got jazz, intense soundtrack, black power and entrepreneurship, AAVE, vampires, shootouts, wild west mood. It's a modern fusion with no restrains on its quirkiness, so it's definitely not an all-round crowd pleaser. I enjoyed the central role that music played in the story, and it's not as if vampires ever needed justification to attack people but this tried something different so that's fun. I do think the villains are a bit overpowered, though, to a point where it's hard to believe they wouldn't be more widely known through folk tales, but that's a bit of world building nitpicking. I also found the epilogue a bit too "fan service" - of course it's rewarding to watch klan racists be rampaged by the protagonist but the whole scene was a bit too obvious.
May 8, 2025, 6:54 PM
Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point
Somehow I missed that How Democracies Die had a followup. Tragically relevant given the current state of affairs
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Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas, 9 out of 10
Truly a landmark in the history of literature. This is a first crack in tainting the ideals of romanticism, using a dead narrator to excuse the grim and eschatological view of life and human struggles. The structure of the book, the whimsical choices, the events that transpire, they all conspire to a brilliant text.
The book is best enjoyed with a little bit of context on 1880's Rio & Brazil, but generous use of footnotes from the editor and a good deal of curiosity for research should suffice to get immersed.
The part of the book that I enjoyed the least was the middle of it, specifically the volume of attention dedicated to Virgília. But I also think that it is how it should be: so much time and energy and passion is dedicated to a romantic adventure that is ultimately unsatisfying and inconsequential, and the authors (the dead one and the real one) know this and decided for it, because that too is part of portraying a life.
It should go without saying but it's always worth repeating that readers should keep in mind that the story is immersed in the zeitgeist of the 1880's, so gender roles, slavery, social hierarchy are all described by someone who was living that reality without a contemporary lens of criticism.
Apr 13, 2025, 6:58 PM
Overdose, 9 out of 10
Honest, well research and comprehensive. This book is almost the perfect material to get introduced to an evidence-based approach to "the war on drugs". That it was written by someone who was entirely embedded in conservative politics and grows a devout christian adds to the appeal to its universality.
The one flaw of the book, if it can even be called a fault instead of perhaps a missed opportunity, is the little discussion of the infertile grounds to sow the thesis, because this is one of the most important things we need right now to move forward with solutions. The current political climate is that of conservative leaders calling "empathy" weakness. A good chunk of the book is dedicated to dismantling the stigma, but this bias is a foundational character aspect of at least a third of us: rugged individualism cannot be argued out of someone's core values and principles. How do we even get people to read this book cover to cover without triggering "culture war" reflexes of dismissal? I have no idea, and I guess it's a different type of book that needs to address this.
Apr 13, 2025, 6:42 PM
Kim's Convenience Season 5, 6 out of 10
The end. The writers continued to deny the Kims meaningful character development - until the very last two episodes. I guess it's fair to expect that Saang-Il and Young-Mi develop slowly as any normal pair of middle-aged adults, but I expected more from Jung and Janet. But well, we're here for it anyway. At this point we're used to not expect much other than a pastime, mostly lighthearted and mostly wholesome, still sometimes a bit too silly, sometimes too stereotypical. The season ends with a bit of a cliffhanger but the series was canceled so it is what it is.
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