Notices by May Likes Toronto (mayintoronto@beige.party), page 2

One thing I LOVE about Ontario is that public school teachers are paid fairly well. (Although it's stagnated a bit, and per student capita funding has dropped at least 10% since Doug Ford.)

Some of the best teachers I've met in Toronto work in some of the roughest schools.

You can get a decent education anywhere in the city for free. A wealthier school might have more field trips and fundraised equipment, but otherwise, it's comparable.

Private schools aren't as much of a thing here as one'd expect from the financial capital of a country. Many higher income families still send their kids to public schools.

In order to maintain this level of equality, we need to maintain public school funding levels.

#onpoli

Fun fact, even if I put the whole thread into 1 post from my recent poll discussion thread, I still would not have hit the Beige Party single post character limit.

@sidereal A teacher told me early on that they had to keep records for 7 years. The "permanent" record never really scared me as a result.

@skinnylatte

@catmisgivings I saw a joke many years ago. Why does Chinese medicine taste so bad? So you get better to avoid another dose.

There's no mention of the US in the Canadian government's press release on Venezuela today.

https://bsky.app/profile/anitaoakvilleeast.bsky.social/post/3mbjquyqas224

#cdnpoli

@evan @evdelen Dangerous territory in 2025/2026. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-61952794

Should this data be collected at all, let alone shared? Why do we normalize the sharing of this information? Specifically, PHI.

@evan @evdelen That's so dangerous given the state of current politics and the persecution of childbearing people. I wouldn't trust ActivityPub with it, especially considering the lack of E2EE.

@evan My banking app. I don't want KYC connected to my Internet presence.

@skinnylatte I ask people to show me their LinkedIn profile because it's the easiest way to see who's coming in. Getting people to fill out a form is hilariously a pain in the ass. It's easy when you already share your personal information publicly.

There's also a field for more details if you don't have a LinkedIn.

My partner has convinced me to start saving my favourite memes, and it's actually quite fun to look at some of them again.

@evan Yes, but not everything needs to be social.

My favourite meme of 2025. What's yours? (Please alt text your memes and CW Trump/Epstein stuff. No AI trash please.)

#askfedi #memes

@evan Yes, AND they have to be real accessible choices, not the free version versus your first born child and a leg.

3 days left before the new year! What are your old year resolutions that you can definitely accomplish in the next 3 days?

(Much more reasonable goal setting than new year resolutions, imo.)

#askfedi

This one got a chuckle out of me:

The External Alex Coefficient =
Full years since a theoretical Alex's departure x # of times their name was mentioned

A measure of one person's impact on the organization, long after they've left.

https://me.costaskou.com/articles/eternal-alex-coefficient/

Do furcons schedule themselves immediately after IT conferences? Since everyone's already there...

@skinnylatte *cries in banana allergy*

@skinnylatte Got an apple allergy in the house, so alas, no apples for us.

Definitely trying the rest of that next time.

I was talking to a couple of women yesterday about napping, and I mentioned that I usually just let myself nap as much as I need to.

They look shocked.

Idk, sometimes you just need to sleep more. Listen to your body.

It boggles the mind that California, one of the richest places in the world, doesn't have consistent power to their small towns near their population centres. When I've lived in the literal middle of nowhere in Manitoba, ~200km away from the nearest next hamlet and 400km from the nearest town, we had fewer power outages than Monterey Bay.

And no, it was not a hydroelectric dam community.

From @skinnylatte - https://hachyderm.io/@skinnylatte/115755973186138430