While I was shopping yesterday, I specifically put back a couple American products, not because they were out of my price range due to tariffs, but because I remembered they kneecapped the FDA. No thanks, don't need lead in my pasta sauce.

I'm just not convinced the products are safe to consume.

For other Ottawa 🇨🇦 people, the City of Ottawa is now on bluesky.

There's a bridge to fediverse here: @en.ottawa.ca

They still don't seem to know how to use hashtags effectively & they use link shorteners, but it's better than nothing!

#Ottawa #CityOfOttawa

the degree to which the internet economy runs on self-promotion and the amount of angst and anxiety self-promotion causes for most people with humility and self-awareness explains a lot about the state we’re in tbh tbqh

boost this cat when they least expect it

@srgower OK, this is super cool… and also something that I’ve never seen before!

@theobromine @SteveWatson Is this a Prusa, out of curiosity? I assembled a Prusa MK3 back in 2020 and the gummy bears genuinely made the process less frustrating. Having a treat to look forward to: 💯

So by now I assume you've heard that the Canadian Union of Postal Workers has issued a 72-hour strike notice, effective tomorrow. Our posties could walk out in the morning, if Canada Post doesn't lock them out, like they did last Christmas.

Keep in mind that our postal workers have been fighting to keep postal services accessible to all. When they gave strike notice last Christmas, they proposed a rolling strike which would not have disrupted services. Canada Post responded with a lockout, which shut the whole operation down. Our posties went on to volunteer their time to ensure vital government assistance cheques were still delivered - for free. Our government responded by ending the strike with a Back to Work order, extending the current contract to May 22, 2025 (today), taking away the postal worker's position of leverage over the Christmas season.

Looking over the current offers on the table, Canada Post is dead set on increasing workload and occupational hazards, while resisting an increase in pay that comes close to making up for inflation and cost of living increases over the course of the last contract, while suspending benefits and hiring out part-time staff over the stability of full-time positions, demanding two-tiered wages so that newer employees can be paid even less.

https://www.cupw.ca/en/cupw-receives-global-offers

Now I've heard a lot of talk about "Canada Post should operate like UPS/FedEx/Purolator" (the latter of which is owned by Canada Post, I might add). This is based on a gross misconception that Canada Post fails to be profitable because of mismanagement or waste. That is not the case. What makes Canada Post different than the others is a guarantee of coverage and accessibility, which they have taken on as a crown corporation. This is why Canada Post loses its profitability, because of guaranteed service which private operations (including Purolator) do not have to abide by.

Canada Post is a national service and SHOULD be nationally funded.

When people say that "Canada Post should operate like a business", I don't think they realize what that means. It means that rural locations should not be allowed access to parcel delivery, period. It means that seniors should have no access to mail delivery that they can pick up themselves. It means that if servicing your area is not profitable, you don't get mail. Period.

My union conducts business all over Alberta, with locals in the big municipalities of Edmonton and Calgary, as well as locals in smaller communities all across the province. When Canada Post was shut down last Christmas, that meant that we had to switch to Purolator (FedEx has crossed strike lines and are not an option). That meant that we could not deliver to any of our locals in more rural communities. That meant that the only way they got mail was from a union member or staffer PERSONALLY delivering it to them.

This, on a permanent and national level, is what it would mean for Canada Post to "run like a business". No, that is not the answer. The answer is publicly funding Canada Post, and/or implementing solutions which the CUPW have proposed, such as implementing a postal banking system used in a number of other countries throughout the world.

The only answer that Canada Post corporate can come up with? Cut services until profit margins appear.

Stand with CUPW and our postal workers, and save our national postal service.

#cdnpoli #abpoli #onpoli #solidarity #union #unionstrong #labour #canadapost

@ShaunOttawa Just one more tariff man, that’ll solve all the problems. Just one more 🙃🫠🤪

@johnefrancis @human3500 @ottaross See also creosote: genuinely a really good wood preservative, even compared to stuff available today, but also poisonous, carcinogenic, and probably more 😵

Ottawa’s beaches to open this year from 21 June to 24 August, with an extension possibility to 1 September.

City: https://ottawa.ca/en/recreation-and-parks/swimming/outdoor-swim-and-splash/beaches
Article: https://ottawa.citynews.ca/2025/05/21/opening-dates-set-for-beaches-and-splashpads-in-ottawa/
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Les plages d’Ottawa seront ouvertes cette année du 21 juin au 24 août, avec une possibilité d’extension jusqu’au 1er septembre.

https://ottawa.ca/fr/loisirs-et-parcs/natation/natation-lexterieur-et-pataugeoires/les-plages

#Ottawa

How much should I care about SQLite vs Postgres and NVMe vs spinners over NFS for a single user #Forgejo instance? I might expose it publicly at some point but initially it'll be private.

Going to turn on `FETCH_REPLIES_ENABLED`, anything I should know about before I try it? Any notes admins have so far on the new reply fetching behavior?

Can't wait to see full conversations 😍

#mastoadmin

How often do you look at your local server feed?

whoever came out to the patio, screamed "FUCK PGP", and went back in yesterday: I feel you. #PyConUS

edit: it was @astraluma 🫂

@cstross @BenartyComputer all of their albums are both absolutely cheesy and ridiculous as hell, but also genuinely fun IMO.

If I may add another one: Victorius has some absolutely fantastic song/album names:

https://victoriusgermany.bandcamp.com/album/dinosaur-warfare-pt-2-the-great-ninja-war

Courtesy of a discussion elsewhere, I’m reminded of one of my favourite weird metal albums: Caladan Brood’s “Echoes Of Battle”. It’s an album about the fantasy series Malazan Book of the Fallen, and is some of the absolute best epic black metal I have ever listened to.

Even if you’re not a fan of black metal, it’s worth a listen, IMO. Epic, orchestral, and one of only very few black metal albums that I would describe as legitimately beautiful.

https://caladanbrood.bandcamp.com/album/echoes-of-battle

#metal #blackmetal #fantasy #music #epicmetal #albumoftheday

@dairpo Vittoria Trattoria (Italian, just north of Riverside & Hunt Club) has their patio open now and is a great date-night location! You'll probably need a reservation, but it's generally not super busy.

Joe's Italian Kitchen on Wellington is a great spot too; cute, great food, west of downtown as requested.

I've heard good things about Le Poisson Bleu on Somerset, but haven't been myself. Apparently one of the better seafood restaurants in Ottawa, though.

Or, if you're up for something a bit further out, Les Fougères over in Chelsea is *amazing* and very romantic.

🇨🇦 :ecm2: It's truly amazing that the people who have a real grievance against Canada are the first to defend it with all of their might.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alta-referendum-1.7535537

We created a safer AV1 decoder, rav1d, by forking the dav1d decoder and rewriting the C code in Rust. It works well except our Rust is 5% slower than the C. We're not sure why so we're offering a $20k bounty to figure it out and make the Rust code faster. https://www.memorysafety.org/blog/rav1d-perf-bounty/

How often do you use your instance's LOCAL timeline?