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

@inthehands I can see this. Do you have a moustache?

Mary Poppins was my childhood autistic obsession, and I'm still really happy someone from work described me as Mary Poppins.

If you were to vanish suddenly tomorrow, what extremely informal but endearing description would people use to describe their memory of you?

Feel free to specify who is doing the remembering.

(No self-deprecation here.)
#askfedi

@cwebber Inquiring minds want to know if you've survived.

@cwebber RIP. I'll pay a visit to your icicle statue.

Holy shit! Free school lunches!!

Friends, I can't begin to tell you how important this is from the perspective of a former teacher. There's nothing as heartbreaking as the piles of kids who come back to school hungry every day.

And with allergies, it's so much harder for parents to come up with affordable packed lunches day after day (peanut butter is the cheapest source of protein). This is a game changer for so many parents all across the city. I hope it goes through.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/gta-elections-2026/article/chow-promises-to-provide-school-lunches-to-all-toronto-students/

#topoli

I do things for fun sometimes. My first stuffie!

Pattern: https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/knit-fish

#knitting

Founder with super generic AI tool:
Try my B2B product thing! I'll give you a free trial!

M8, this is like 10 integration hookups and all my data through your shitty vibe coded tool. It looks just like every other product in your category.

Dude: You didn't even log into the tool! How could you judge my thing based on my marketing and positioning?!

M8, you know that's what all B2B is... Right?

@Fragglemuppet Wait, is it mystery flavour because people didn't tell you what flavour it is?

@skinnylatte I once made the mistake of trying to go clothing shopping at regular stores in China. They don't make them in my size. I had to go to the big Western brands with their ridiculous markup. Never found a good tailor in my time there, and I didn't speak enough clothing-Mandarin to communicate what I wanted.

Although the bra shopping experience was fascinating.

@skinnylatte Does it feel like home?

It took 2 more months to get here after getting stuck in forest fires and lost in transit, but The Psychology of Software Teams is finally here!!
@grimalkina

I have a free 6 month access to an e-book version. Let me know if you want it.

@skinnylatte Oh yeah that makes sense! I was wondering if the sub-tropical temperature preference has worn off yet.

I don't think I can survive SE Asia summers anymore

@skinnylatte What's considered cool or chilly to you? I don't put on another layer until it's 18℃.

What I'm learning from mastodon today is that we should all just be nudists.

@TheBreadmonkey Hong Kong style bakeries have these things called little chicken cookies. They're savoury cookies, with meat and animal fat.

My friends thought I was a monster when I brought a pack over.

@skinnylatte would you survive the winter though?

What in the fresh hell is this?

Per this Reddit thread, https://www.reddit.com/r/toronto/comments/1wd4fw5/toronto_downtown_right_now_drone_show/

They're doing drone ads in the sky over the city. Fuck that noise. As if we don't have enough light pollution and eyeball attracting bullshit.

#toronto #dystopia

@potterybyosa Yeah. Our salaries are also significantly lower.

When I work with cross-border teams, I'm used to my US counterparts making 30-50% more for doing the exact same thing.

@cwebber What are you going to do instead? 😁