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I’m all in on proportional representation but the irony of FairVote highlighting the concentration of power while posting on BlueSky is just too on the nose.

Still got my upvote.

Archived link without the noise: https://archive.ph/pTYtU

Sadly I think some of the folks in power at our neighbours to the south use this as a calling card for their desired endgame: https://www.wcbu.org/npr-news/2024-06-03/the-upside-down-american-flag-goes-mainstream-as-a-form-of-right-wing-protest

They’re destroying and capturing everything. Twisting the meaning of everything.

It’s revolting.

I’m definitely open to hearing perspectives that aren’t ones I might identify with. Thanks!

Thanks! Subbed to all of them. Also worked in tech for a couple of SV firms and still working in tech (albeit for myself) so Tech Won’t Save Us is of particular interest. Funny - so many co workers had that on a t-shirt and now I’m wondering if the two are related.

Actually I didn’t explore the other Canadaland podcasts - so I very much appreciate the pointer!

Thanks! Will check it out.

I should clarify that I do mean podcasts in the tradition sense - audio. I found “Politics is Broken” of which Steve Boots is one of the hosts and an episode of another podcast featuring him.

Can’t sign this - it’s way too shortsighted.

I would sign a petition (and even campaign) for a law requiring that no public sector communications be on any corporate platform. But calling out x/twitter is useless. In my area, RCMP and the town use Facebook. I do not have a Facebook account.

My town regularly fails to post updates on their own site.

We need to a law that mandates no private platforms should be the primary source of any public information. I don’t want my public services to just start posting on BlueSky.

Ganong hurts a bit - the Cookes stuck their fishy hands in that pot - but it’s still worth supporting.

The Cookes are awful billionaires but at least they’re awful Canadian billionaires? /s If we haven’t heard of them, that’s by design.

Local food bank or Soup Kitchen - maybe check in if you have a local Legion?

In KV where we live the food bank does delivery and can always use help.

There are also other ways to get involved. I recently found some trails I use all the time and joined the organization to help keep them up / develop them.

But no matter what you do this is awesome. One of the biggest tricks that’s played is this idea that things are out of our control - and yet so much of what (and how) we do can be shaped locally.

Also if you find something’s not your thing - don’t give up - keep looking.

Finding a cloud service provider that’s reliable and has good terraform support has been impossible. Best we could do there was switch to another American firm that didn’t seem to be a Trump-supporting sell-out.

Otherwise it’s been pretty easy. But mostly because we already had everything.

As a baseline my focus hasn’t been so much not buying American at all but buying from Canadian owned and operated stores as the primary entry point. So no more Amazon, etc.