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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 6h

This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States.

Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵

Someone on Twitter replies to me: "meh. buy american or stfu."

Two hours later, in a separate thread, the write: "$30 for a single button-up is ridiculous unless it is decent quality silk."

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ரமணன் சிவரஞ்சன் @funkaoshi.com · 1d

How did Ford survive closing the Science Centre? We are such a passive city.

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ரமணன் சிவரஞ்சன் @funkaoshi.com · 1d

He also did the Scarborough Civic Centre! What a legend.

Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 1d

On this day in 1929, Raymond Moriyama was born in Vancouver.
One of Canada's most acclaimed architects, his buildings include the Canadian Embassy in Tokyo, the Ontario Science Centre, the Bata Shoe Museum, and the Canadian War Museum.
He died in 2023.

A black-and-white photo of an older man with white hair, wearing a dark suit and smiling gently. He is seated with abstract artwork and a framed picture of a modern building in the background.

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ரமணன் சிவரஞ்சன் @funkaoshi.com · 1d

Gotta make 36 cups of stuffing or what is even the point.

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ரமணன் சிவரஞ்சன் @funkaoshi.com · 1d

Running a whole self hosted service is much more complicated than pushing up a static site. No more GitHub pages, or deploying on shared hosting (perhaps). More friction. (I think bear and blot.im etc are all SSG.)

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Maattu Blairada Nikto @mjmbca.bsky.social · 2d

The argument that we’re not allowed to call these people Nazis wears a little thin once we’ve arrived at such direct Anne Frank parallels.

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 2d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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ரமணன் சிவரஞ்சன் @funkaoshi.com · 2d

You think because everyone uses static site generators now?

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My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 3d

The Trillium is hammering this story.

"Months before he was put in charge of Ontario’s Ministry of Labour, cabinet minister David Piccini was at a Toronto Maple Leafs game in front-row seats with a director of a company his office would later give $7.5 million in taxpayer-funded grants to. #OnPoli

Labour minister was in Leafs glass seats with director of company he granted funding to

The ‘lower-scoring’ company got $7.5M of tax dollars through David Piccini’s office and is a client of the lobbyist whose Parisian wedding the minister recently attended

www.thetrillium.ca

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ரமணன் சிவரஞ்சன் @funkaoshi.com · 3d

David Simon is always the best.

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 3d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Mike-ghoul Half-man @michaelhoffman.bsky.social · 4d

Never seen four words that sum up Stephen Holyday better.

Can't find a place to live? That's not my problem.
Can't stop cars from killing you? That's not my problem.
Stuck on a bus forever? That's not my problem.
Children can't get food to eat? That's not my problem.

Matt Elliott @graphicmatt.com · 4d

"I've had smaller developers mention to me that, you know, what a burden the DCs are on them kicking off their project, because they'd like to see it financially viable. And my response is, 'That's not my problem,'" says Holyday

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Pirijan @pketh.org · 5d

I finally updated my Rules for Computing Happiness
kinopio.club/computing-ha...

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Isaac Callan @isaaccallan.bsky.social · 5d

NEW: A vehicle assigned to a Ford cabinet minister has been recorded at stunt driving speeds 12 times.

The premier's office suggested it was the same driver each time, and implied they still work for the government. #OnPoli
globalnews.ca/news/1146702...

Ford government vehicle recorded at stunt driving speeds on Ontario highways | Globalnews.ca

At least one cabinet-assigned vehicle was recorded driving more than 50 km/h over the speed limit multiple times in the past three years, according to documents.

globalnews.ca

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Matt Elliott @graphicmatt.com · 5d

My @thestar.com column: Toronto’s condo market has crashed. Development charge revenue has cratered with it.

It’s bad news for city finances, but this crisis could also be an opportunity to break from Toronto's long reliance on DCs — and to build something new.

www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Matt Elliott: How the popping of the condo bubble led to a looming budget crisis in Toronto

Toronto’s condo boom finally going bust isn’t just a concern for developers and investors. The collapse is also causing major financial woes for the city.

www.thestar.com

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ரமணன் சிவரஞ்சன் @funkaoshi.com · 6d

I think that might have been the case initially, but it looks like they have their own rust backend for the thing that stores all your data, a fork of the app, and they have their own moderation layer called SafeSkies. Seems promising.

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ரமணன் சிவரஞ்சன் @funkaoshi.com · 6d

Have you looked at BlackSky? Experimenting with what it looks like to just use that as BlueSky with better moderation (and presumably more Black people). @vqvz.com doesn't autocomplete for me in the web app, but it's an account I made on BlackSky that I'm following, and is following me. It works!

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_______________________________ @filipamv.bsky.social · 6d

a map of GTHA 2025 federal election results / a map of GTHA green house emissions per capita / feeling obsessed with how every part of our modern political collapse and descent into fascism can be explained by this one photo of Tamara Lich at her bail hearing

a map of the greater toronto hamilton area. all the dense urban areas went Liberal, all the outlying suburbs went Conservative.

a map of green house emissions per household per year in the greater toronto hamilton area. the dark red parts and the yellow/blue parts line up perfectly with whether an area votes Conservative or Liberal

Tamara Lich, one of the leaders of the far-right anti-vax protests that occupied Ottawa, pictured at her bail hearing. She's wearing a sweatshirt that in effect reads "I love Canadian Oil & Gas"

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kottke.org @kottke.org · 6d

Tim Berners-Lee: “I gave the world wide web away for free because I thought that it would only work if it worked for everyone. Today, I believe that to be truer than ever.” [theguardian.com]

Why I gave the world wide web away for free | Tim Berners-Lee

My vision was based on sharing, not exploitation – and here’s why it’s still worth fighting for

www.theguardian.com

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 6d

🤤 (shocked, shocked I tell you)

Vehicles registered to Ford cabinet ministers caught by speed cameras more than 20 times | Globalnews.ca

Documents obtained by Global News reveal that, over three years, vehicles registered to Ford’s cabinet minister received more than $3,300 in fines for speeding.

globalnews.ca

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ரமணன் சிவரஞ்சன் @funkaoshi.com · 8d

An independent alternative to BlueSky, built on top of the same protocol. It’s also a black online community.

blackskyweb.xyz/overview/

Overview

What is Blacksky? Blacksky Algorithms is building the future of self-governable online communities with tools that make complex infrastructure simple to deploy. Most social platforms control what user...

blackskyweb.xyz

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ரமணன் சிவரஞ்சன் @funkaoshi.com · 8d

Maybe the actual play is moving to BlackSky. As far as I can tell federation actually works with ATProto, it wasn't just a story.

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ரமணன் சிவரஞ்சன் @funkaoshi.com · 9d

Bass without the Drum? 🤔

ரமணன் சிவரஞ்சன் @funkaoshi.com · 9d

Maybe I should figure out how to host all my own shit. Weird seeing the CEO of BlueSky spiral because people dislike the fact people aren’t cool with transphobia on this site.

Flickr really was the best social media, and we may never reach its heights again.

Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 9d

You could try a poster’s strike. I hear that works

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ரமணன் சிவரஞ்சன் @funkaoshi.com · 10d

Nothing new, him and Jason Fried have had this energy for 20 years.

Jake Lazaroff @jakelazaroff.com · 10d

show this to anyone else you know who also assumed DHH was just a normal conservative dude rather than a raging white supremacist lunatic

DHH Is Way Worse Than I Thought | jakelazaroff.com

DHH's politics are not normal. Maybe they used to be, I don't know, but as of right now the dude is_way outside of what most people would consider moral or acceptable.

jakelazaroff.com

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Sean Marshall @seanyyz.bsky.social · 11d

Just wait until 99% of those 22 million Canadians pay for it through government austerity, job cuts, and further erosion of public services.

Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 11d

3 months ago today, Canada’s new government cut taxes for the middle class.

With our tax-cut, 22 million Canadians have been keeping more of their hard-earned paycheques.

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ரமணன் சிவரஞ்சன் @funkaoshi.com · 12d

Fantastic post from Frank Chimero on these garbage times we live in. 'What makes the Market for Lemons concept so appealing (and what differentiates it in my mind from enshittification) is that everyone can be acting reasonably, pursuing their own interests, and things still get worse for everyone.'

Frank Chimero · Selling Lemons

Frank Chimero’s Personal Website

frankchimero.com

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