Notices by Deborah Hartmann Preuss, pcc (deborahh@cosocial.ca)

New to Fedi? Maybe you're coming over from The Bad Place?

Here's my list of tips to make it easier :-)
#fediTips

A thread: 🧵
https://mstdn.ca/@deborahh/110865785496318458

Reading China Mieville's Hugo* award winning "The City & The City" (2009), and it strikes me as a powerful metaphor for 2025: where people occupy the same city but perceive totally different realities, talking past one another - or invisible to one another. 😕
#whatToRead

* not classic #scifi, but definitely weird. And well written, so we can understand the weirdness.

#bookstodon @bookstodon

@BrianJohnson oh, I see!

Ottawa place doesn't have an Explore page that shows first, which mastodon.social does have.

When I click on the globe icon, I get a view comparable to ottawa.place. Details in alt text.

Thanks for clearing that up!

@BeAware @ShaulaEvans I believe that making a post "followers only" restricts this. Any idea if that is accurate?

I've been doing more "followers only" posts lately.

@evan hi Evan. I didn't see an answer from you, asking again. I'm not sure whether to report this on cosocialca forum or to mastodon itself ... can you suggest to whom I should report this search bug (which others, not on cosocial, also experience)?

@evan @aeisenberg I'm sure you'll be aware of this "trust and safety" issue, forwarding just in case not:
https://fedi.aria.dog/objects/f960a034-0f2e-4197-af6f-c528273bfab7
#cosocialCA

@akamran LOL that could motivate moderators, if they knew their instance was being publicly ranked for things like:

▪ how many instances block them?
▪ how many of their users are blocked?
▪ how many "reports" do they receive monthly vs number of members? What type?
▪ do they actively moderate* LGBTQ hate?
▪ do they actively moderate* racist posts?
▪ etc

🤔 that would have been useful info to have!

* how could these be measure/ranked, tho?

#mastodon #MastodonModeration
@moh_kohn @inthehands

😭
https://mastodon.social/@Wileymiller/113657415178700505
#usPol #uspolitics #christofascism #christianNationalism #holocaust

"This morning, Cycle Toronto launched a Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms Section 7 challenge to the provincial government’s Bill 212 — Reducing Gridlock, Saving You Time Act, 2024, arguing the law’s mandated removal of Toronto’s bike lanes will put lives at risk."

#onPoli #BikeLanesMatter https://mastodon.social/@bikeottawa/113637375331746497

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@benroyce 🙏thanks
@Gargron

Looks like a book list to pay attention to:
😳😂

"A dreamlike tale of a public-private partnership that hires the terminally endebted to invade the dreams of white-collar professionals and harvest the anxieties that prevent them from being fully productive members of the American corporate workforce."

What?!

Check out @pluralistic's.book reviews! Gift giving season approaches!
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113583433857259359
#whatToRead #scifi #fiction #nonFiction

"Despite a snubbing by government officials unlike any she has seen, Francesca Albanese, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, attended several community events, & did not hold back from scathing criticisms of Israel’s 13-month assault on Gaza.

She also spoke to how activists here & around the world are building 'momentum'—which provides her with hope …"

UN expert slams Israeli cleansing of Gaza: ‘They said it, and they’ve done it’

https://breachmedia.ca/canada-un-expert-slams-israeli-cleansing-gaza/

I just followed The Onion @theonion, but it's a conundrum: which list does it belong in?

In the before-times I would have put it under News, to lighten things up. But right now, it's indistinguishable from both news and "news", which defeats the purpose of putting it there.
🤔

Oh, darn. It's on Threads.
Nevermind (un follow).
https://www.threads.net/@theonion/post/DCWw_xQuSvQ

"To everyone who feels like their heart has been ripped out of their chest, I feel the same. To everyone who is afraid of what happens next, I share your fears. But what we do next is important, and I need you in this fight with me.

As we confront a second Donald Trump presidency, we have two tasks ahead. First, try to learn from what happened. And then, make a plan. …"
—Elizabeth Warren

Time article: https://mastodon.social/@sfdb/113445173965889877

I'm going to try to avoid social media and news until this evening, as election day plays out in the US.

But first, I want to send appreciation and peace to the American mastonauts I follow, who've invested time to keep us awake, sane and engaged until today, including

@GottaLaff
@lolgop
@heidilifeldman
@Nonilex
@KamalaHarrisWin
@indivisibleteam
@gdinwiddie
@rayckeith
@dangillmor
Special mention: @pluralistic for #LittleBrother, which woke me up

Friends: may love win today 🙏❤

@evan 🤣👍

@evan it is? Where?!

@evan @DemocracyMattersALot it was a counter protest to a nazi rallly, in Germany. It wasn't about election politics, but ideology … and we see where that's gone in Germany. Now it's election politics 😨