Louis Couture 🏳️‍🌈 @louiscouture@qoto.org

Absolutely spot on 👇🏻 #ScottishIndependence2023 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #ToryDemocracyDeniers

This article (https://www.noemamag.com/mastodon-isnt-just-a-replacement-for-twitter/) about "becoming engaged democratic citizens in the life of your networks" led me to the patron of indieweb.social (https://www.patreon.com/indiewebsocial).

@tchambers how are you doing with the insane blowup of indieweb.social? What do you need?

Shame on Doug Ford and his team for taking nurses and other public-sector workers to court just to waste taxpayers' money to fight the unconstitutional Bill 124. What a Premier!

Useful term I discovered this week: “toxic mimicry”. It’s the pattern of substituting systems/organisations/services that look superficially like they fill a core societal need but in fact act to take up the space that a genuine system would fill, and only provide virtual nutrition.

Examples:
- 6pm TV news mimics public discourse
- Malls mimic public spaces
- Daycare mimics collective child rearing

I like the term as it suggests something predatory and insidious.

Edinburgh #art #scotland

@edbott had these made up a couple years ago

Les gouvernements ne sachant comment conserver l'abordabilité de l'accès au logement, des citoyens s'y attaquent avec succès. Il suffit de sortir un peu de l'ornière néo-libérale de tout au profit privé. Des organismes comme ma Caisse (Caisse d'économie solidaire Desjardins) se sont jointe au projet pour le rendre réalisable. Une initiative à suivre.

https://www.lavoixdelest.ca/2022/12/15/une-reponse-citoyenne-a-la-speculation-immobiliere-4f1e55776aee1434880d9a54fb1c4bb9

Did some botanical painting after a day mostly spent studying for a security cert. This one is from Nikki Strange’s Watercolor Botanicals book. #watercolor #MastoArt #JoinIn

Keeping my tradition of painting octopuses on the bottoms of tables in hotel rooms alive 😀

Immutable Beautiful 1(i) / 16” x 16” / acrylic on stretched canvas, unframed / Janet Bright
#art #mastoart #artadventcalendar #flowers #pink #colourful

@taylorlorenz

I totally agree, Taylor. I've posted about it on the dev board here:

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/14597#issuecomment-1362907651

Exclusive: #Musk orders removal of #Twitter suicide prevention feature

“The removal of feature, known as #ThereIsHelp, has not been previously reported. It had shown at top of specific searches contacts for support orgs in many countries related to mental health, HIV, vaccines, child sexual exploitation, COVID, gender-based violence, natural disasters and freedom of expression”

https://www.reuters.com/technology/elon-musk-orders-removal-twitter-suicide-prevention-feature-sources-say-2022-12-23/

It's a shame there's never been a proper Jurassic Park Christmas film. Some claim World counts, but I have faith that one day we'll see a velociraptor learn the true meaning of Christmas, Santa Hat and all.