iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Civic Tech Toronto @civictechto.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Civic Spark is built by us — the civic tech community. Join us Aug 16–17 for a volunteer-led gathering shaping the future of public life. Full story → civictech.ca/announcements/civic-spark Tickets → civic-spark.com

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How-Sen Chong @how-sen.com · 06/06/2025

In order to eliminate any inconvenience to cars, we’ve made it illegal for children to be children

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Parents are charged after their son, 7, is struck dead in a car accident.

Gastonia, N.C., police charged the parents with involuntary manslaughter charges after allowing the victim and his brother to walk home alone from a nearby grocery store.

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Civic Tech Toronto @civictechto.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

This Tuesday! Andrea Mills (Exec Dir of @internetarchiveca.bsky.social) and Brewster Kahle (founder of Internet Archive) present Democracy's Library: a global initiative to provide free, permanent access to govt and civic information. 𝗝𝘂𝗻 𝟭𝟬, 𝟳𝗽𝗺: in person and online guild.host/events/civic...

Andrea Mills
Brewster Kahle
Democracy's Library Canada
Hacknight #497
IN PERSON AND ONLINE
Tues June 10
→ 7pm
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Civic Tech Toronto @civictechto.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

This Tuesday! Come and see Cherlene Tay talk about how you can help shape strong national digital governance standards to build public trust. Plus our project and discussion breakouts! 𝗧𝘂𝗲𝘀 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝟯, 𝟳𝗽𝗺: in person and online! guild.host/events/civic...

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Civic Tech Toronto @civictechto.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

We’re putting on a conference! Join us at Civic Spark 💥 August 16-17, 2025 civic-spark.com Maybe you’ve felt the gap — between the problems we face and the systems meant to solve them. Maybe you’ve seen how those closest to the issues are pushed aside. Help change that. 🧵

Civic Spark
August 16-17, 2025
Toronto
civic-spark.com

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Civic Tech Toronto @civictechto.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Come hear about @civicdashboard.bsky.social: a 100% volunteer-run effort to make understanding City Council – and how to meaningfully engage with it – take just a few minutes Plus our usual breakouts for projects and discussions! 𝗧𝘂𝗲𝘀 𝗔𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗹 𝟮𝟵 𝟳𝗽𝗺: in person and online guild.host/events/civic...

Tues April 29 → 7pm
Civic Dashboard
Turning Passion Into Action
By Making Council Accessible To All
Civic Tech
TORONTO
IN PERSON AND ONLINE
Hacknight #491

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Civic Tech Toronto @civictechto.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Accurate, scalable and secure AI for the public sector Tara Khani joins us to discuss her work at Edge AI Innovations, with a focus on civic use cases Plus our usual breakouts for projects and discussions! March 25th 7pm: in person and online guild.host/events/civic...

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Stefan Judis @stefanjudis.com · 17/03/2025

Aaaaaand I'm just about to send out the new Web Weekly. This week was jam-packed. 🥂 If you want to stay up to date with the web platform, you should check it out! 👇 www.stefanjudis.com/blog/web-wee...

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- Transitioning to height: auto
- fieldset best practices
- require(esm)
- New baseline tooling
- :in-range
- Intl.DurationFormat

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Doctors TARDIS @doctorstardis.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

We can upload 3 minute videos now. YOU KNOW THE RULE

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Civic Tech Toronto @civictechto.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Great to be mentioned in the Toronto Star this morning - thanks @graphicmatt.com! www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

There is also an incredible amount of talent specifically focused on civic tech — technology that seeks to make the city work better — with a Civic Tech Toronto group meeting weekly to show off cool independent projects, often built using city hall’s generally unheralded but very useful Open Data department.

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Andrew Young 🇨🇦 @young.me · 05/03/2025

I met lots of cool people at the @civictechto.bsky.social #civictech hacknight hosted at @mozilla.org last night. In addition to new friendships I also came home with cool stickers. Also last night I realized my posts are mainly graphs so I'll be trying to introduce some variation!

A cat resting on a scratching board lazily swiping at a Civic Tech Toronto sticker on the ground

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Civic Tech Toronto @civictechto.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

This Tuesday! Sam Burton, Senior Policy Advisor at the Canadian Digital Service, talks about her recently released report into collaborations between Canadian governments and civic tech volunteers. March 4, 7pm: in person and online 👉 guild.host/events/civic... #civictech #GCDigital #GCNumérique

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Civic Tech Toronto @civictechto.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Do you know how your Councillor votes on climate issues? Hear about Climate Voting Records Toronto – your go-to interactive tool for tracking how Toronto City Council votes on crucial climate and environmental policies. Tues Feb 11, 7pm, in person and online! 👉 guild.host/events/civic...

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Mike Dickison @adzebill.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

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End of Term Web Archive – Preserving the Transition of a Nation | Internet Archive Blogs

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Civic Tech Toronto @civictechto.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Our next event: Katja Boutou talks about Crowdsorsa - a mobile game that lets people participate in improving their environment through fun and rewarding missions tailored to cities’ needs. February 4th, 7pm - in person and online! 👉 guild.host/events/civic... #civictech

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942. I know. I was there in those camps.

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Jamie @jamiejumbledup.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

After many many years I’m reading a Discworld book (or listening to one at least). And let me tell you it is an absolute delight

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 29/01/2025

Not gonna lie I did kinda expect our Democratic politicians to have something like a plan to counter the 920-page detailed fascist blueprint that was published in April 2023

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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

thinking again of this work of art. this work of shattering grief, of enduring love. a work that is somehow, at the same time, a kind of magical play

a spilled pile of candy in the corner of an art gallery

"Untitled" (Portrait of Ross in L.A.) is a 1991 piece by Felix Gonzalez-Torres in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago. It's a spilled pile of candy.

The pile of candy consists of commercially available, shiny wrapped confections. The physical form of the work changes depending on the way it is installed. The work ideally weighs 175 pounds (161 kg) at installation, which is the average body weight of an adult male. "Untitled" (Portrait of Ross in L.A.) represents a specific body, that of Ross Laycock, Gonzalez-Torres' partner who died of AIDS in 1991. This piece of art serves as an "allegorical portrait," of Laycock's life.

Visitors are invited to take a piece of candy from the work. Gonzalez-Torres grew up Roman Catholic and taking candy is a symbolic act of communion, but instead of taking a piece of Christ, the participant partakes of the "sweetness" of Ross. As the patrons take candy, they are participants in the art. Each piece of candy consumed is like the illness that ate away at Ross's body.

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Kate Mulgrew @thekatemulgrew.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

I have been informed it is Threshold Day 🦎🦎🦎 A day of unmitigated lust! But such darling baby lizards…

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Jamie @jamiejumbledup.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Not sure i quite understand how this US federal worker buyout is a buyout at all? They have to give working after they resign, until their departure date, and they get paid as normal for it. That's just a normal resignation? Surely a buyout is when you get given your salary but you DON'T work

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spleenly @spleenly.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Working in tech is cool because you can lose half a day to "rectangle sometimes too big."

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Rick @abnormal.gay · 27/01/2025

Like the Section 31 movie was irredeemably boring and generic, but its worst crime was furthering the "CIA but in Star Trek" idea and continuing to infect Trek with the conservative/neolib garbage it was created to argue against

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Jamie @jamiejumbledup.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Tbh I’m not that surprised that a Chinese company with servers hosted in china won’t let you produce content that china censors

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Roxi Wheels @roxiwheels.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

This goes so fucking hard dude

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Jamie @jamiejumbledup.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Jesus the Nvidia stock price is now at its lowest since… Oh wait - October That’s not that long ago is it

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Jonathan Berk 🏠 @berkie1.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Montreal will continue the largest pedestrian street program in North America, committing $12mil to 9 pedestrian streets over 3-years. “These projects are not only good for the economy, they also contribute directly to the quality of life of the population.” @valplante.bsky.social

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Tu Thanh Ha @tuthanhha.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

The information, which later became known as the Auschwitz Protocols, were accounts compiled by prisoners who managed to escape and went to great length to alert the world about what was happening. Two of the escaped prisoners -- Rudolf Vrba and Czeslaw Mordowicz -- later settled in Canada. 1/3

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Benny! @driftwould.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

This is so goddamn funny

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Jamie @jamiejumbledup.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Just saw Section 31 No idea what I just watched but it definitely wasn’t Star Trek Like what was even the point

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Dak @dak.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Started a band called ‘Duvet.’ All we play are covers

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Jamie @jamiejumbledup.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Have I really been mixing up Tori Amos and Toni Braxton all this time

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Zach Lipton @zachlipton.com · 24/01/2025

Spotted in San Francisco

Cyber truck with “nazi” written on the door

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EasilyDistracted @babblingfringe.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Gen Z will eat us all (complimentary)

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Ian Johnson @mrianjohnson.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

NOW: More than 98% of #Costco shareholders have just rejected an anti-DEI measure The attempt to force Costco to audit their #DEI work was by an anti-inclusion lobby group: "The proponent's broader agenda is not reducing risk for the Company but abolition of diversity initiatives." - Costco Board

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Civic Tech Toronto @civictechto.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

January 28th, 7pm - in person and online! 🚀 Indexing All of Canadian Politics Come and see Mikaal Naik talk about Civics Project’s mission to index and summarize all of Canadian politics, in a world of emboldening news bias. 👉 guild.host/events/civic... #civictech #canpol

In Person and Virtual
Civic Tech Toronto Hacknight #478
Indexing all of Canadian politics
Tuesday January 29 7pm
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Phil Nash @philna.sh · 21/01/2025

I'm making videos now! Check out this quickstart introduction to @datastax.dev Astra DB. It shows how to: * store data * use it to generate vector embeddings * query using traditional filters and vector search www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifdJ... Don't forget to like and subscribe!

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Get Started with Astra DB Using TypeScript Quickstart

YouTube video by DataStax Developers

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Bryn Davidson - Lanefab @lanefab.com · 21/01/2025

Comparing my double loaded condo building, to a set of 3 #SingleStair "sunlight suites" of the same length. Our building would have twice as many people trying to get down each stair case.

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subversive socialite @subversivesocial.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

pls take a 10s emotional break and look at my cat

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Jamie @jamiejumbledup.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Feast your eyes on the super cute drawing I got in a birthday card from my coworkers It’s me!

Drawing of me in a yellow jumper with sushi and a book. The caption reads “sushi and a book - best lunch ya ever took”

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 21/01/2025

unironically this. hire us, support our ventures (the flytrap has 3 trans founders), send money to our gofundme's, cashapps, and venmos when we request it.

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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Remember: these people absolutely hate it if you laugh at their stupidity, they have the self belief of a canned ham

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 20/01/2025

I want to remind Londoners that our city is—and always will be—a place for everyone. We’ll continue to celebrate London as the diverse, open and welcoming city it is.

Photo of Mayor of London Sadiq Khan standing in front of Piccadilly Lights that's featuring the following message: London is, and will always be, a place for everyone followed by the image of a heart.

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Dave Jones @cleanpowerdave.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

This is George Monbiot's "X" leaving speech, and wow ❤️ @georgemonbiot.bsky.social

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