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@dcwalker.ca
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researcher+designer. tech coops, local, infrastructure, community and alternative network/s/ing In another place: @dcwalk@post.lurk.org

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Civic Tech Toronto @civictechto.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
👉️️ Tue Sept 15 → 7pm • in-person & online What would Bill C-22 mean for your privacy and human rights? Lawyer Cynthia Khoo (@cyn-k.bsky.social) presents the Citizen Lab and CCLA's joint analysis of the surveillance it would expand. ✚ discussions & breakouts! guild.host/events/civic...
Event graphic for Civic Tech Toronto Meetup #560, part of the September Series "Defending our privacy and access rights," Tuesday September 15th at 7pm, in person and online. Co-branded with the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario. Speaker Cynthia Khoo presents "Unnecessary and Disproportionate: Bill C-22 and Lawful Access." Photo of Cynthia, a smiling woman with long dark hair wearing a black blazer over a red top, arms crossed. Green and gold gradient background.
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a dawn walker @dcwalker.ca · 21/08/2026
Oh @petermusser.com looks like I can’t DM you. Please send me the link when you can here or my email is dc @ my handle 🍽️
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a dawn walker @dcwalker.ca · 21/08/2026
Will do, love the idea of open-door dinners!
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E z r a @bruit.eurosky.social · 29/07/2026
I'm looking to interview anyone who has worked at an electronics assembly (components or systems) factory, anywhere in the world, before 1990. I can offer $100CAD / hour, though I don't think my questions will run the full hour. If you know anyone who is still able and willing to answer, plz lmk
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a dawn walker @dcwalker.ca · 20/06/2026
totally. i love small modular command line tools. trying to remember specific flags infinitely less painful than the alternative every time I need to extract a rando single page out of a pdf or smush two pdfs together
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oliver @oliverbates.co.uk · 09/06/2026
Fresh hot Zines! 11 zines contributed to the #ICT4S2026 zine jam oliverbates.itch.io/ict4s2026zines we’ll be making a conference zine this week. I’ll be collecting confessions and questions as prompts for others to collage and sketch zine pages. Come and find me in the coffee break area :)
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ICT4S 2026 Zine Library by oliver bates
A collection of zines created and curated for the ICT4S 2026 Zine Jam and conference
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a dawn walker @dcwalker.ca · 09/06/2026
memories of my x220 fan taking off on zoom or if too many tabs open, etc, a more perfect computer has never existed, etc... from this: Un vélo électrique pour l'esprit / an electric bike for the mind by Martin Lafréchoux digital: ebike.nologos.net digital zine: oliverbates.itch.io/ict4s2026zines
Presentation slide with laptop schematic drawing and titled Un vélo électrique pour l'esprit authored by Martin LafréchouxZine on wood table with a schematic drawing of a laptop and the title an electric bike for the mind by Martin Lafréchoux for LIMITS2026 and ICT4S
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Coral City Camera @coralcitycamera.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
It’s been over 7 months since we last saw this male lemon shark w/ a broken jaw and a fishhook gash. It’s good to see the wound has healed and it looks otherwise healthy… despite having a broken jaw that can no longer retract, exposing his mouth full of sharp teeth #scarface #jaws #coralcitycamera
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a dawn walker @dcwalker.ca · 20/05/2026
Workshop organizers are: @priyankav.bsky.social, Aarjav Chauhan, Jared Lee Katzman, Hongjin Lin, Anton Fedosov, @ntnsndr.in, Maurizio Teli, and Samar Sabie
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a dawn walker @dcwalker.ca · 20/05/2026
I am co-organizing "Beyond Interaction, Toward Cooperation and Commoning," an @acm-dis.bsky.social workshop on solidarity, democratic governance, and shared ownership! 📍 Date and Time: Singapore, June 13, 2026 (aft) 🗓 Submission Deadline: May 25, 2026 👉🏼 More info: sites.google.com/view/coopsco...
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Cooperation&Commoning
The rich traditions of cooperation and commoning offer many ways to understand our shared relationships to land, ecosystems, and each other, while also providing frameworks for mutual response. This w...
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a dawn walker @dcwalker.ca · 02/04/2026
I'm not involved in gander so was hoping they'd reply! I have the same sense -- funding by share purchase is akin to crowd / community ownership. Seems distinct from membership ownership, and from what I've seen, member share purchase is not really a big fundraising mechanism for consumer coops
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a dawn walker @dcwalker.ca · 30/03/2026
Pretty sure @gandersocial.ca is a BC Benefit Company, which is a newer public benefit corporation type, not a coop! aka there are even more options.
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a dawn walker @dcwalker.ca · 30/03/2026
Not sure who is being referred to, but there were members from @hypha.coop @limeleaf.coop @transrights.northsky.social and cosocial (not on bsky) at the event, and I'm sure I missed others. I've helped start coops and chatted with people interested. Always down to chat!
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a dawn walker @dcwalker.ca · 28/03/2026
I am!! I’ll find you to say hi during a break :))
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a dawn walker @dcwalker.ca · 28/03/2026
Taking away from @mosh.bsky.social ‘s talk her thought: could a coop bundle “features” from all the emerging atproto apps to do sales to brands?
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a dawn walker @dcwalker.ca · 28/03/2026
basking in @kissane.myatproto.social ‘s extended kelp / forest analogy. inching closer to that hold fast tattoo
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a dawn walker @dcwalker.ca · 28/03/2026
Posting a day late to say : this was so much fun! Thanks all for playing the first cut of this zine game + coming up with new hospicing tactics. Thanks to @oliverbates.co.uk jamming on this with me. I'll share an updated version soon here + other places + directly with those who've asked.
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a dawn walker @dcwalker.ca · 28/03/2026
Yani Kong will be reading from our chapter “Reimagining Networks: Speculative Thinking for Low-Carbon Research Networks” at the April 6 event. Looking forward to it!
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a dawn walker @dcwalker.ca · 27/03/2026
Watching my first hospicing live demo by @hyl.st at #atscience thanks for sharing your goodbyes with the room 🤲🏻
Person on the left with a screen in the background showing an annotation in yellow of some text
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a dawn walker @dcwalker.ca · 12/03/2026
I have a chapter in this with the wonderful Yani Kong! It's been a minute since the workshop that led to this book, but I still dig our exploration of constraint through slow and decelerated media as we wrote together. Thanks @apasek.bsky.social for collecting and editing us ✨
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a dawn walker @dcwalker.ca · 08/03/2026
pnw dream weekend: visit the Historic Computing Lab at UVic and listen to 100rabbits talk about design constraints, minimal computing, and life on a sailboat. stare at the Salish sea on the ferry. see an old friend. do it all with a crew from vancouver. hcl.library.uvic.ca
Ladder game on black and green scree on retro kaypro II computer.Wall of Apple Macintosh computers on a beige shelf, cardboard box with old Apple logo on floor in frontAtari black joystick and Atari game cartridge for Centipede on variegated countertopMicrotel VTX202 Telidon terminal n brown desk with older computers and hardware underneath
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a dawn walker @dcwalker.ca · 25/02/2026
Congratulations! 🎊
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a dawn walker @dcwalker.ca · 19/02/2026
from the tos: "2.3. If you feel that the Chatbot’s responses do not accurately reflect the position of the Trotskyist movement, or have any other question about the Chatbot’s responses, please contact us at support@ai.wsws.org"
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a dawn walker @dcwalker.ca · 18/02/2026
addendum : fun theory of mind discussion of jay and matt at the beginning of this youtu.be/14gqhme2A0Q?...
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The Most Toronto Movie Ever: NIRVANNA THE BAND THE SHOW THE MOVIE | TIFF
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a dawn walker @dcwalker.ca · 18/02/2026
go see nirvanna the band the show the movie for that feeling of visiting 2008 toronto while not succumbing to nostalgia and also laughing with friends.
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a dawn walker @dcwalker.ca · 04/02/2026
absolute cinema. ty criterion channel for adding face/off.
Frame from a movie showing a skin mask of John Travolta's face in a chamber of liquid.Frame from a movie showing person in a chair with their back to us with a series of medical screens and implements behind them.Frame from a movie showing a close up of a man with a reflection of Nicholas Cage without skin on his face in his glasses.
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a dawn walker @dcwalker.ca · 03/02/2026
Found this episode (about Britain) more helpful than anything so far to think abt this wave of nationalism in Canada and the contradictions/possibilities/inevitabilities of a left nationalism. where can I get my 3+ hours of listening on the waffle??
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a dawn walker @dcwalker.ca · 29/01/2026
new metaphors (new noise)
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a dawn walker @dcwalker.ca · 10/01/2026
The link is broken for me, but this works: thenarwhal.ca/manitoba-bee... (and v. cute!)
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Life with the bees | The Narwhal
A Manitoba photojournalist reflects on an unusual project: a summer spent taking portraits of bees
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a dawn walker @dcwalker.ca · 09/01/2026
civic science / community science projects are great for this! A near to me example : Smell Vancouver for tracking odours (often tied to permitted industrial activities) and health effects: smell-vancouver.ca
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SmellVan
View and submit reports of odours across Vancouver.
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a dawn walker @dcwalker.ca · 07/01/2026
Oooh thanks, i will track it down! I have set the night on fire on my shelf as my next Mike Davis book to read
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a dawn walker @dcwalker.ca · 07/01/2026
4. Last, maybe: opinionated views on place (are these more dad books?) - This Land: How Cowboys, Capitalism, and Corruption Are Ruining the American West by Christopher Ketcham - The Pacific Circuit by Alexis Madrigal - City of Quartz by Mike Davis (that chapter on slow growth and early NIMBY LA 😮‍💨)
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a dawn walker @dcwalker.ca · 07/01/2026
3. My interest remained strong in my most "dad book" topic: anything ocean. Nothing I loved tho so here is the last one I read: - Seaweed: A Global History by Kaori O'Connor
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a dawn walker @dcwalker.ca · 07/01/2026
2. However, two of my favourite books this year were "green is the new red" thrillers: - Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton - Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner
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a dawn walker @dcwalker.ca · 07/01/2026
My trends and some representative books: 1. Growing ambivalence with climate fiction, so here are two that went in directions I didn't expect: - The Rooftop Garden by Menaka Raman-Wilms - When Shells Crumble by Cris Carlsson (pretty sure this qualifies as a "romp")
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a dawn walker @dcwalker.ca · 07/01/2026
A 2025 goal was to read 100 books. I got very close (96) and was happy that I read consistently. Though I wish I had read less genre fiction, less contemporary books with buzz (61 were released in 2025 + 2024), and was over my theory hangover (at generous count I managed 4).
Book Cover for Creation LakeBook Cover for Birnam WoodBook Cover for Rooftop GardenBook Cover for This Land
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a dawn walker @dcwalker.ca · 16/10/2025
This new book, The True Cost of Wool about Canadian wool, is on my list! : www.longwayhomestead.com/books/pre-or...
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True Cost of Wool Book about Canadian wool industry — long way homestead
True Cost of Wool Book about Canadian wool industry written by shepherd and wool mill owner Anna Hunter. A deep dive into the history and present wool supply chain in Canada.
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a dawn walker @dcwalker.ca · 05/10/2025
Likewise! I love reading your week notes to think about the craft of design in public service <3 So funny, I also just found this book and the BC public sector accords of the 90s where the gov under Clark did work with the unions on policy: ethicspress.com/products/35-... so yes to sparking ideas!
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35 Accords: Re-Imagining British Columbia's Public Sector Labour Relations
Title: 35 Accords Subtitle: Re-Imagining British Columbia&#39;s Public Sector Labour Relations Subject Classification:  Politics and Government, History, Economics and Finance   BIC Classification: JP...
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a dawn walker @dcwalker.ca · 04/10/2025
💯 As I've been talking with other members while picketing I'm also thinking about assumed knowledge of organized labour. For most, this is their first union, let alone first strike! I wish we could get to Lucas Plan-style convos about the future of public service: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucas_P...
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Lucas Plan - Wikipedia
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Jim Stanford @jimbostanford.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
That's a step increase in employment of 20-30% for building trades employment. Sean Strickland from @cdntrades.bsky.social sums it up perfectly: "Canada’s transition to a cleaner economy represents one of the most significant job creation opportunities in our country’s history." #canlab /4
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a dawn walker @dcwalker.ca · 06/09/2025
@bnewbold.net you might be interested!
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a dawn walker @dcwalker.ca · 29/08/2025
Sad to learn Yves Veggies Cuisine is discontinued via insta comment, ouch. It is/was a (not always great) staple of being vegetarian and vegan in Canada. Especially in rural grocery stores: dailyhive.com/vancouver/yv... brb actually considering how to start a nationwide plant protein cooperative
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Canadian plant-based food brand Yves has been discontinued | Food & Drink
Yves Veggie Cuisine, one of Canada's longest-running plant-based food makers, has quietly announced that it is being discontinued.
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a dawn walker @dcwalker.ca · 30/07/2025
so ready to do some strollplaying on my evening walk!
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a dawn walker @dcwalker.ca · 22/05/2025
My name is pretty common and I’ve had an email doppleganger for years, I get all her childcare and lately medical appointment notes. I still can’t wrap my head around what the other email is supposed to be
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a dawn walker @dcwalker.ca · 12/05/2025
Speakers Corner and all the live Much Music segments overly coloured my mental map of Toronto as just that stretch of Queen Street. Perhaps not accurate to call those shows "about" Toronto however...
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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Buy a Canadian book. Subscribe to a Canadian magazine. spacingstore.ca/products/new...
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Start a new subscription
Jan 21 2025 Update: The mailing for our new issue is being prepared. Any Subscriptions purchased now will begin with our next issue, due out in the spring.  This is the option for someone who has neve...
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Karen Walton @karenwalton.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
“if every Canadian household redirected $25 a week from foreign products to Canadian ones, it would boost GDP by 0.7 per cent and create 60,000 jobs” www.theglobeandmail.com/investing/pe...
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Buy Canadian movement starts to take a sizable bite out of U.S. business
U.S. tour operators and American distilleries hit hard by surge in patriotism among Canadian shoppers
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a dawn walker @dcwalker.ca · 06/03/2025
Looking forward to this workshop on March 27! Come join me and @rachaelashe.com and bring a friend!
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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 18/02/2025
📡 at very long last, today is the big day! my beloved book, OTHER NETWORKS: A RADICAL TECHNOLOGY SOURCEBOOK, is officially available for pre-order! 1/5 #othernetworks shop.mexicansummer.com/merch/495898...
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Lori Emerson - Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook. Mexican Summer & Anthology.
Buy Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook by Lori Emerson on Mexican Summer & Anthology.
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a dawn walker @dcwalker.ca · 18/02/2025
@envirodgi.bsky.social and public environmental data partners have been hosting an alternative
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