Notices by May Likes Toronto (mayintoronto@beige.party)

I see you gorgeous trans people (and I don't see you for those of you who are stealthy++). I want you to be free to be yourselves and experience all the joy in the world.

You exist. You're you and everything you've ever wanted to be.

All the love from this enby.

#cdnpoli Juicy Political infighting in the conservatives. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/conservatives-campaign-civil-war-party-1.7497029

"Poilievre and Byrne are not inclined to listen to outside advice, sources said, relying instead on "a tight inner circle," which is composed, in part, of people who also work at Byrne's lobby firm outside the campaign period."

:pika:

Furry hackers who leaked Project 2025 firm’s data fear leader raided by feds. She's missing.
https://www.dailydot.com/debug/furry-hackers-fbi-raided/

#uspol #furry

Friend working for one of Canada's biggest insurance companies says that all US work travel is now strictly banned. (Edit: For their own employees)

This is a big deal.

#cdnpoli #tariffs

Here's a business idea: you and a few other people who are specialized in your field write things. Every day, or week, or month, I pay you to print these ideas and writings out on paper and they show up in my physical mailbox.

What a concept, right?

Hail Satan?

@Fragglemuppet I post when I can get over the "no one wants to hear this bullshit" hurdle. Boosting is a lot less effort.

#cdnpoli You might be seeing some articles/screenshots floating around from True North and Juno News. It's like the Canadian Breitbart. Highly recommend avoiding.

Here it is in their own words: "Juno News is a new media company founded in 2025 by Candice Malcolm and Keean Bexte, and built upon the core Canadian principle of free speech and press freedom. These values were once the foundation of newsrooms across Canada, that is, until Justin Trudeau bribed every member of the legacy media with bailout money to help secure his reign as Prime Minister."

(Also run by Shopify's COO, so you know it's good.)

Timelapse of Toronto sprawl, 1984-2022.
https://i.redd.it/5tyy4kwd0yoe1.gif

#Toronto

Americans, your egg prices are higher because of antitrust. Egg production isn't down as much as they're letting on.

"50-170% profit margin per dozen." That's higher than software.

Worth reading: https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/hatching-a-conspiracy-a-big-investigation (Yes, it's a Substack link.)

A local (Toronto) dessert chain is having a "tariffmisu special". 25% off.

That's freaking hilarious.

@aral @ati1 I broke the new corporate lawyers brain when I told him that IBM would separately package GPL-licensed code as a stand-alone thing when you buy our proprietary software. As long as we could package the GPL software separately, it was all approved as an overall product. You'd never know unless you dug into the installers and the notices.

Formal e-petition calling for the Government of Canada to move off Twitter for formal government communications.
https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-5359

Backed by Charlie Angus.

#canpoli

I often explain my work as "helping product teams do product management better." In this field, there's often an intuitive sense of "we're doing things wrong", but "good" or "right" are rarely well-defined.

That's what Product Conversations is digging into on Friday! Good Product Management with my friends @skinnylatte, @PamelaSchure, Rosemary King and Emily Reid.

Join us Friday Feb 21, noon EST, live in the comments or any time after.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/events/goodproductmanagement7297743319038578689/comments/

Youtube: [coming soon]

#product #productmanagement

@dave The fancy pants smoothie places use fresh bananas. It's the commercial purees that has the unripe and the rind that makes my mouth unhappy. I'm gonna try a ripe banana at some time to check.

@bobjonkman

@sundogplanets Is there an #asstodon equivalent for llamas?

@cwebber @spritely I would like to point out that you've now raise more than Free Our Feeds, despite all their big name support.

Huge accomplishment.

#cdnpoli We got a new set of Canadian millionaire influencers! Featuring such great people as the CEO of Shopify (residential school mass graves denier and Trump supporter), and all these other CEOs. https://www.buildcanada.com

The Canadian Tech Bros truly believe this. It's the first paragraph of their latest memo.
"In 1967 Canada introduced a points-based immigration system. It was the first genuinely meritocratic immigration system ever implemented. It didn’t care about a newcomer's ethnicity or religion but only looked at whether they would be an asset to Canada."

This is, of course, complete bullshit. Founder-itis "meritocracy" abound.

h/t @christine

@skinnylatte That's really cool. I don't speak any of my dad's village dialect (Hoklo), but he does speak a bit of Teochiu too. Some days I feel like I've already lost so much Cantonese as well.

I wonder how long these languages will stick around for. It's hard to keep them up when we're all so far from tradition.

@skinnylatte I was 17 before I realized that you could cook rice without a rice cooker.