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Karen Keiller @karenkeiller.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 14h

Compare #curling with #baseball.

In baseball the managers and coaches hold their hands over their faces when they talk to each other.

In curling you stand 2 meters away from your opposition openly talking strategy.

That’s the difference I noticed today.

#bluejays

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Karen Keiller @karenkeiller.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 17h

Listening to a speaker at a library conference pronounce libary over and over.

LIBRARY - don’t forget the first R

#library

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FediForum @fediforum.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

... and FediForum Day 2 is starting just about now.

First: software demos! Including some very cool ones that you likely have not seen before -- because they haven't been shown anywhere else before!

You can still join us: https://fediforum.org

FediForum

FediForum: moving the Open Social Web forward

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Karen Keiller @karenkeiller.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 23h

Just listening to @CaulfieldTim at Stronger Together conference of library workers in #edmonton. What’s wrong with this picture?

Screen shot of slide from Caulfield’s presentation. Title is Infodemic! Highlighted is social media links to twitter,blue sky, et cetera but not Mastodon

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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

Apparently theres a new wave of people joining mastodon, and with them a new wave of self-appointed cops "welcoming" them with long lists of mostly fictitious "rules" they need to follow.

This is a social media platform, with many of different ways to use it. It's fine. Mostly, just try to be […]

Original post on federate.social

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Andrew Knack @andrewknack.bsky.social · 3d

Advanced voting is October 7-11 from 12-8pm

Find information about where to vote and what you need here ⬇️

www.edmonton.ca/city_governm...

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petersuber @petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 12d

Kudos to the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (#HHMI) for strengthening its 2022 #openaccess policy to require the immediate sharing of new research through #preprints under #ccby licenses.
https://hhmicdn.blob.core.windows.net/policies/Immediate-Access-to-Research.pdf

This kind of policy is […]

Original post on fediscience.org

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Lambert Heller @lambo.openbiblio.social.ap.brid.gy · 9d

"In recent months, several publishers have announced that they are licensing their scholarly content for use as training data for LLMs. (...) To understand the dynamics around this fast-developing market, Ithaka S+R has launched a tracker of these licensing deals. In it, we catalog (when the […]

Original post on openbiblio.social

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Karen Keiller @karenkeiller.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 8d

Does anyone know of a Fediverse calendar or events program? I’m imagining a complex organization like a university where you could post and tag events.

While looking, I did find this https://mastodon.academy/ which is very cool. But sadly, not a calendar.

#calendar

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Stand on the shoulders of pachyderms

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Karen Keiller @karenkeiller.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 9d

@Satori Crows migrate? https://www.allaboutbirds.org/news/where-do-crows-go-in-winter/ I’ve seen them around in winter and assumed no. But it is more complicated than that.

My Auntie Kay lived in Hudson, Ontario. There was a crow who visited her. When she moved to Sioux Lookout, 24 km away, the […]

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Das @srdas.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 11d

Reasonably sure Mastodon peeps like libraries and might like a peek at this wowzer I stepped into today.

#dascdmx

A look inside the Biblioteca Vasconcelos in Mexico City. There are columns of bookshelves seeming suspended at various levels from the ceiling with walkways connecting and that keep going into the far distance. Light from glass skylights many stories up and interior lighting are throughout. On the bottom floor, slightly lower than the camera vantage is the skeleton of a whale

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Karen Keiller @karenkeiller.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 10d

@avi.lewis I was very disappointed that you decided to post your announcement on FB. Really? You can’t blame corporations at the same time that you give your voice to the tech oligarchs. Be the change you want to be. #ndp #avilewis

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Karen Keiller @karenkeiller.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 10d

CANCER JUNE 22 – JULY 23 Because you are so passionate about your beliefs you will clash with someone who feels equally as strongly as you but from the opposite position. On this occasion there is clearly no room for compromise, so may the best Cancer win!

This checks out! Everyone, STOP USING […]

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Karen Keiller @karenkeiller.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 11d

@KarenKeiller whatever happens I'm so proud of #canada #womensrugbyworldcup

Karen Keiller @karenkeiller.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 12d

5 zip for #canada

#rugby

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Karen Keiller @karenkeiller.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 14d

#curling This is so stupid I don’t even have words. #alberta we need to support these young people and revolt.

WARNING: For your own mental health don’t read the comments on this article.

#abpoli

Net losses: Volleyball family speaks out against new […]

[Original post on indieweb.social]

Screenshot of story from the Edmonton Journal with “Curling Alberta’s policy includes the power to disqualify gender challenges . . .”

Karen Keiller @karenkeiller.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 14d

Goodbye Sun! See you next Spring.

I live at 53.54 degrees N and work on the North-West side of the building. I won't get direct sunlight again until Spring.

brick building through a window with the sun barely peaking over the top of the building

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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 16d

I can't help but wonder if the manufacturer of Tylenol failed to make an appropriately worthy campaign contribution.

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Karen Keiller @karenkeiller.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 16d

@andrewknack.bsky.social Maybe you were door knocking (or should I say, #knacking) in Riverdale today? Do you have details on how you will “cut permit waits”?

#edmontonmayor

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armadillosoft @armadillosoft.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18d

Any San Francisco kid under the age of 5 can get a free book mailed to them every month under a new partnership announced Friday by city officials and Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library.

The first book that all children will receive in the mail, addressed to them, is The Little Engine That […]

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Paul Chambers🚧 @paul.oldfriends.live.ap.brid.gy · 18d

@mike My village is small and they basically said we're not going to make everyone sign up for something new. They politely said I was the oddball by not having a Facebook.

I think a selling point would be if municipals could have a dedicated app just for their federated accounts that their […]

Original post on oldfriends.live

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Robert W. Gehl @rwg.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy · 21d

When I was writing my latest book, Move Slowly and Build Bridges, I talked about the stakes: corporate social media is accruing incredible power and is increasingly tied to state power. We need noncommercial, non- centralized media.

Honestly, I thought I overstated it when I wrote the book […]

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Karen Keiller @karenkeiller.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 25d

#downbytheriver #yeg kind of fun going to the first year of a festival, around the corner from my neighborhood on the beautiful North Saskatchewan River.

Karen Keiller @karenkeiller.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 27d

If I hear Tara McCarthy advertise #threads on #cbc #edmonton one more time I’m going to loose my shit. @chris is it time to dust off the petition?

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Play Ball and Fight Fascists @cafechatnoir.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28d

We got an alert from IT today that there has been an incoming phishing campaign using fake meeting invites.

I know what I read. It definitely said "Delete all meeting invites forever."

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