Notices by Mick 🇨🇦 (mick@cosocial.ca)

It’s hard to say from in the midst of it, but it seems possible that when the dust settles and historians are looking back on this moment, #Trump will be remembered as the person most responsible for hastening the global transition away from fossil fuels.

The injury his stupid war has done to the global oil market is looking more and more likely to be fatal. 🤞

With luck, he’ll bear this epitaph as a curse, as it is intended.

“Here lies history’s most-useful idiot.”

RE: https://mastodon.social/@benroyce/116859882067989585

The last time we saw a convoy of Russian vehicles this long run out of gas they were failing to take Kyiv.

Nothing but the cutest kind of trouble. 🥰 #dogsofmastodon

@evan best geekjoke I’ve encountered in a while. A+

As long as we’re age-gating social media, I really think we need to do something to protect the boomers from whatever the fuck Facebook has become.

“This week, The Times has been reporting on the push by some Canadians to have their province breakaway and become its own country.

For decades, this was kind of a fringe idea, but polling shows that now, roughly, a third of people in that province support the separatist cause, which is set to come up for a preliminary vote this fall.”

Hearing this clownshow reported on in seriousness (even in the Friday News Quiz format) by US media gives me the fear.
https://overcast.fm/+ABJ86cp6BKU/9:11

On one hand, I think allowing the government to decide what sites Canadians are allowed to visit on the Internet might be incompatible with the operation of a functional democracy.

On the other hand, I think allowing our citizens to be radicalized by foreign actors through algorithmically boosted propaganda on Twitter, Facebook, TikTok, and YouTube might be incompatible with the operation of a functional democracy.

#cdnpoli

Surely we must be reaching the saturation point for Yellowstone-related media?

Said goodbye to this very good girl this evening.

I am so glad that she was part of our family these past nine years, and I will miss her so much.

Give your furry family a hug for me.

#dogsofmastodon

Fucking snowing wtf

RE: https://mstdn.ca/@avilewis/115951384277379517

Good to see Canadian politicians laying claim to Canadian digital spaces.

This is what leadership looks like.

#elbowsup #canada #fediverse #LeaveXca

@mike @ElbowsUpforDigitalSovereignty hey @dansup are you taking requests?

Hey #canada - Do you find it weird that our politicians are using US social media platforms to talk with Canadians?

Do you wish they’d get serious about protecting our digital sovereignty?

Check out @ElbowsUpforDigitalSovereignty

#elbowsup

I’ll be hosting a #CoSocialTechOps Working Group meeting on Tuesday, January 20 at 9pm EST.

We’ll discuss the remaining small items that need to be tackled to rid our operations of US companies, and future plans.

This is open to anyone who wants to learn about our ops or has an interest in helping out!

Sign up here: https://luma.com/arjbo97a

Illuminating conversation between @molly0xfff and @anneapplebaum on this week’s episode of “Autocracy In America” about the intersection of Crypto grift and the self-serving interests of the #Trump admin.

#uspol

https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/2026/01/crypto-corruption/685299/?gift=iybh47auwixrOQRLfFxproVD_qSBW3fLdApwiZvJ9IE&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

R.I.P. CoSocial Digital Ocean DB Cluster
(Aug 27, 2023 - Dec 22, 2025)

You were very reliable, quite fast, and far too expensive.

#CoSocialTechOps

@kgw what lists am I on Ken? WHAT LISTS?

RE: https://mastodon.social/@benroyce/115603348131424771

Because friends don’t let friends post unattributed quotes on the Internet: https://www.government.se/statements/2025/11/joint-statement-by-the-leaders-of-the-nordic-baltic-eight/

@cadusilva just pg_dump via cron?

A question for the #MastoAdmin community:

What's your PostgreSQL backup strategy?

How much data would you expect to lose if your primary DB died suddenly?

Seconds? Hours? Days?

#Mastodon #PostgreSQL