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Johanna, CanCon variety @johannab.ca · 01/10/2026

Civic Tech WR met tonight, with an invited speaker for the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation observance. Elder Wanda Wilson shared some very heartfelt and painful stories from her life lived girlhood to motherhood to grandmotherhood in the shadow of the Residential School system. Very […]

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Johanna, CanCon variety @johannab.ca · 30/09/2026

@maj As someone who lives on land once occupied by Mr. Joseph Seagram hisself ... I'll help out! Even if not much of drinker, Crown Royal is mandatory decor hereabouts.

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Johanna, CanCon variety @johannab.ca · 30/09/2026

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 · 30/09/2026

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

Oh and I’m told this cannot be happening or something because there can only be one email address and password per Plan member. Been trying to sort it for months. It’s so nice to know that “Technical Services”, “Integration” and “Implementation” roles like I used to have to take someone’s money […]

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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 · 18/09/2026

@glyph My sympathies that you’re in this state (we all are). This thread is a brilliant short essay though. Very real experience reporting on the phenomenon of our reactive and collective cognitive overload just shredding by our capacities for real communication and interpersonal dialogue.

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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

@joeroe while they are emailing as well, you can establish a spam filter that tosses them before you get bothered. If you want some encouragement, I’ve been running wandering.shop for years now via a somewhat human-hacked, invite-based “secret handshake” flow. It’s not been too bad on a small […]

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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 · 14/09/2026

@maj and stolen from you now! I'm filing that one, it's a necessarily painful reminder.

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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

@Iconfactory Yep, thanks! Soooo.... I've bought the trio, appreciate it being a one-time rather than repeated billing license! Trusting it'll follow me through future phones and system updates - I do all my writing in plain text and assemble into prettier only when needed, been looking for a […]

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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

@cheeaun Hey there - I have concluded I've bothered you unnecessarily- I apologize. This first manifested while using Phanpy but it's now happened on other non-social web sites in Safari and NOW I've seen it in my Apple Photos app. This is clearly a bug somewhere in MacOS, maybe with the magic […]

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

@cheeaun oh, and now it's following the cursor and hovering over txt-only posts not just images ...????

another screen shot, this one of a text post with the hover-text, which was previously floating over an image down-scroll of this position.

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

@cheeaun so far only Safari, w/phanpy.cosocial.ca, and then discovered bsky.app did it once or twice also. Just so weird.

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

@cheeaun Safari Version 26.6.2 (21624.5.1.11.3) MacOS Tahoe 26.6.2 Trying to make it happen in Ecosia now ... stay tuned.

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

@cheeaun @phanpy oh wait WTF - still hasn't happened with the Mastodon client but it just happened with bsky.app (logged out) as well. These are all with Safari, guess I'll go check out ecosia too.

Another screenshot with irrelevant text popping up in the hover. This one's over an image that I was scrolling on bsky.app.

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

@cheeaun @phanpy Testing is a bit more since posting. It doesn't happen on every image, and it's not the same file ever time, and it doesn't even happen on the SAME image consistently if I go back and hover. But also, right after posting the post above, I got a […] [Original post on cosocial.ca]

another screen shot of my previous post with a *different* irrelevant hovering text box over my screen shots of the first two which contained file names.

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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

@phillipcrymble.bsky.social Yes and I wouldn't mind so much if they didn't keep taking all my spare time with them ...

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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

@j12t yeah, wow. Torment Nexus chapter 843?

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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

@skinnylatte I do too generally, but I've always had Siamese(ish) furballs that talked TO me. The present Sortamese/Tortamese may end my marriage though with her midnight screamies from downstairs in our open loft condo. Spouse is a terribly grumpy bear when untimely awoken from a hibernation […]

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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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