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Johanna, CanCon variety @johannab.ca · 19h

RE: mas.to/@darth_hideout/1173574042857… Ah, I've missed the #hashtaggames shennanigans. #ConfusedSongsOrPoems is a good one. Elderly Woman Behind the Counter In A Small Town Diner Forgot to butter the toast.

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Johanna, CanCon variety @johannab.ca · 20h

Sock School Day 1 done! This run has a bonus. It's "Socktoberfest", so there's a Socktober Social this coming Sunday at Arabella Park. flyingsquirrelfineyarns.com/product… It's not specifically a class or anything, but I'll probably go out to join for a […]

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Johanna, CanCon variety @johannab.ca · 29/09/2026

I know there are ppl out there who have bought houses closer to retirement age than Young Professional No Kids Yet age ... Tell me about how that went? Don't need the compromising details, just looking for others' stories to jog my thinking on things.

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Johanna, CanCon variety @johannab.ca · 29/09/2026

Shaking off the neither-here-nor-there non-student, non-working-person weirdness a little more tonight, I'm off to teach my next iteration of Sock School at the Local 🧶 Shop. I'm sure there's room for last-minute if you can grab a ball of string and some pointy sticks and come out at 7 tonight! […]

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Johanna, CanCon variety @johannab.ca · 29/09/2026

YouTube out here throwing Japanese death cleaning videos into my algorithm when I followed a completely unrelated link…. I wasn’t even logged in. Gotta go find whatever hidden camera has bugged my condo now.

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Johanna, CanCon variety @johannab.ca · 27/09/2026

Been both busy and distracted this week. Lots of appointments, lots of long-neglected to-dos being surfaced and pursued (they’re neglected because they’re a PITA I didn’t have time for when I had work/school/both 12 hrs per day). Then I decided to stumble across another neighbourhood house for […]

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Johanna, CanCon variety @johannab.ca · 18/09/2026

Manulife Group Benefits is insisting that I, as a covered spouse of a Plan member, have every right to file claims and review statements and such, but that they cannot somehow have me do so with an identity (account) for their app or web portal that is not my husband’s. A major Canadian […]

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Johanna, CanCon variety @johannab.ca · 15/09/2026

Shout out to the Fedi-net folk to find if I know someone who is using Ghost in the context of a small non-profit org cultivating member growth and engagement? I'm wondering if the available APIs and integrations could sufficiently replace an ageing stack built on a wobbly, free-tiers […]

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Reginald @raganwald.social.bau-ha.us.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single programmer in possession of a good hammer, must be in want of a nail.

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Johanna, CanCon variety @johannab.ca · 15/09/2026

RE: mas.to/@SmudgeTheInsultCat/11727306… Smudge is usually very on the mark with the memes. THIS though … this… was one of the best things ever from that old bird place. I so wish the Great Lakes had gotten their watery asses active over here on the Fediverse.

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tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

"As soon as you stop believing that you need to take Anthropic rationalists or weird freaks working at Meta seriously you have to challenge the dominant narrative of tech being the well of progress and future." (Article title: Rediscovering The Spark) […]

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Johanna, CanCon variety @johannab.ca · 15/09/2026

Crow’s Nest view at the Pink Crow Cafe. Most recent prior incarnation of this old house was Red House, prior to that Yukiko’s, I can’t remember if there was another between those or before those. Lovely spot for a coffee when I need to be out of my own four walls.

A view out a cafe window, over the outdoor patio which is shaded by a pink awning.

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Johanna, CanCon variety @johannab.ca · 09/09/2026

Looks like it's time to run all the iOS/MacOS 26.whatever latest fixes now.

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Johanna, CanCon variety @johannab.ca · 09/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@In_Otter_News/1172… yes hello, here is that one dopamine you ordered, pls enjoy.

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Johanna, CanCon variety @johannab.ca · 09/09/2026

Soo, @BasicAppleGuy how'd we do on that Apple Bingo card? Anyone pre-ordering the new foldy?

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a pebble ⁂ @johanna.goto.stone-soup.ca.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

At what point do we recognize that these are a form of terrorism? They are functional DDOS operations that are on the human, cognitive layer of the social net. At some point our very loosely connected and over-taxed web of fediverse operators will become non-functional […]

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Johanna, CanCon variety @johannab.ca · 07/09/2026

#fediknitting accountability time. #fififi organizing got one thing quite near the Finish It line today (sweater parts drying, will be assembled, neckline/collar applied this week) THIS one, however, is about to be n the Frog It list. It was meant to be a […] [Original post on cosocial.ca]

A strip of neon garter stitch knitting in multiple colour blocks. It’s just not coming together.

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Johanna, CanCon variety @johannab.ca · 03/09/2026

I did not need this many hours of my day taken up with telecom duopoly bullshit, but here we are. Gonna go start raising pigeons or something to fly messages around if this doesn't stop soon.

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Johanna, CanCon variety @johannab.ca · 03/09/2026

RE: werd.social/@ben/117207575607911306 Oh, dammit. Look, we gotta have a chat with the Reaper, it's really missing the mark these past few weeks.

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Bonfire @bonfire.bonfire.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

Shared infrastructure is how the #Fediverse can grow without recreating enshittified platform silos. We’re excited to share that Bonfire is working with Mastodon on two critical areas of Fediverse infrastructure: remote media storage and automated content detection. Built around open Fediverse […]

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Johanna, CanCon variety @johannab.ca · 03/09/2026

Hey fedi-folk, and I think maybe particularly @cheeaun or @phanpy ... I am getting a weird hovertext thing happening and I *think* I have it isolated to Phanpy. See pictures. When scrolling the timeline, if I pause over an image, the hovering text appears and I […] [Original post on cosocial.ca]

A screenshot of a cat picture, showing floating hover-text that is NOT the image alt text but seems to be the file name of a PDF that is somewhere else on my computer

A screenshot of a capybara picture, showing floating hover-text that is NOT the image alt text but seems to be the file name of a .dmg that is somewhere else on my computer, something I downloaded many days ago.

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Johanna, CanCon variety @johannab.ca · 03/09/2026

o hai, @Iconfactory ... I finally got around to giving Tot a good runthrough having downloaded it months ago when I was too damn busy. Just paid for it as soon as I got started, it's that good. Have a question though .. it is a completely separate purchase for each device, or should the purchase […]

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Johanna, CanCon variety @johannab.ca · 02/09/2026

And now it's a fucking tornado warning.

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Johanna, CanCon variety @johannab.ca · 02/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@fediforum/11720227… FediForum 2026.2 is a little over a month away. As usual my week looks chaotic with overlapping things, but I will be there! Come and help structure how we do social, federated. Un-conferences are strange at first but always engagi ng.

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FediForum @fediforum.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

For the upcoming FediForum October 6 and 7, we again will have almost-free tickets for those attendees who could not otherwise participate. We make them available as higher-priced registrations come in, because they subsidize the almost-free ones. Thank you everybody who makes them possible! 1/2

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Paco Hope @paco.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

I've just seen this Peter Drucker management quote that I think encapsulates AI perfectly: > There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. A lot of people are using AI to automate processes that exist, instead of asking what the process accomplished in […]

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Johanna, CanCon variety @johannab.ca · 02/09/2026

RE: universeodon.com/@Edmonds_Scanner/1… Eccentric Artist of the Old Forest. Nothing against dragons, happy to be neighbours, just not interested in subjecting them to being beasts-of-burden, they got better shit to do.

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Johanna, CanCon variety @johannab.ca · 02/09/2026

Home from an impromptu wake for my suddenly departed colleague. Just drinks with reconnected team mate from our multiple-layoff-rounds past. Toast to our friend included: "Dear <friend>, you fucking goof. You were not supposed to go FIRST, you were supposed to be reading the eulogy at MY […]

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Johanna, CanCon variety @johannab.ca · 02/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@livelakeerie/11719… Kinda like how this particular lake cam has become Bird Cam.

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Johanna, CanCon variety @johannab.ca · 01/09/2026

RE: mastodon.scot/@UndisScot/1171942580… Always fun when I find a post like this and little ole’ generally homebody me can say “I’ve been there!”

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Johanna, CanCon variety @johannab.ca · 01/09/2026

Gnawing on some terribly sad news - just learned that a past favourite colleague - someone I spent around 15 years working with and who became a really supportive friend of a colleague - passed away suddenly last week. His wife posted that she found him collapsed at home, already gone. So sad […]

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Johanna, CanCon variety @johannab.ca · 31/08/2026

Doctor, dentist, pharmacy for me taken care of. Off to banking errands, pharmacy for kiddo, picking up pkgs. I think then I will call that sufficient Adulting For Today.

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Johanna, CanCon variety @johannab.ca · 30/08/2026

Desk chair in need of a new home: www.kijiji.ca/v-chair-recliner/kitc… KW area. If you can pick it up from me, all offers are welcome, including $0. I need some space cleared without it costing me *more* to […]

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Johanna, CanCon variety @johannab.ca · 30/08/2026

Can I DoorDash wine and cheese to this bathtub I wonder.

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a pebble ⁂ @johanna.goto.stone-soup.ca.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

Listening to my “Angry GenX Mix Tape” playlist, which seems to have acquired a good bit of 80’s-90’s angry Can Con. Occurs to me, if Bruce Cockburn is still standing out there, somewhere - Fall 2026 would be a good time for a tour of border towns. #callItDemocracy #ifIHadARocketLauncher.

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Johanna, CanCon variety @johannab.ca · 29/08/2026

RE: diaspodon.fr/@ayoli/117171535620596… Just turn up the sound, take a moment off, and enjoy this delight, please.

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Johanna, CanCon variety @johannab.ca · 28/08/2026

At IKEA. Where Swedish Meatball Poutine is apparently a thing.

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Johanna, CanCon variety @johannab.ca · 28/08/2026

*grumble* .. .no idea how so many people claim to get awesome sky/astro photos with iPhones. I have a tele lens, tripod, long XP, night mode, manual, raw, whatever .. and I just get bright blob and lots of artifacts. been the same through 3 phones. Also, there's a fart kitten out there […]

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JonChevreau 🇨🇦 @jonchevreau.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

Lake America (via Bluesky)

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Johanna, CanCon variety @johannab.ca · 28/08/2026

I am going to point out again, and repeat again that I have discovered something I LOVE about @phanpy . If I want to interact with a post, even just boost or like, there is one extra click worth of friction in order for me to do that. I cannot do anything from the scroll of my home timeline. I […]

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Johanna, CanCon variety @johannab.ca · 28/08/2026

Fediverse, tell me about Open Source options for a CRM system for small/medium non-profit enterprises. I'm considering pitching another project for a sovereign/local tech stack review for non-tech small enterprises. Seems really hard to pry them out of cloud-hosted enterprise software. I'd […]

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Johanna, CanCon variety @johannab.ca · 28/08/2026

Chapmans: "Elbows Up!" Ice Cream & Cones. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/chapm… This is an example of business systems solving. Not just a "oh, we can't get that in Canada, guess we'll keep buying US". Not EVEN "Oh, we can't get […]

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Johanna, CanCon variety @johannab.ca · 27/08/2026

May I never find my profile amongst the tiles under a heading "Popular on LinkedIn".

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Bonfire @bonfire.bonfire.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026

Here's another neat Bonfire feature: organisation profiles. You can create a shared profile for your co-op, collective, project, or any other organisation or team, and invite trusted people to manage it with you. Each team member signs in with their usual […] [Original post on bonfire.cafe]

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