Notices by Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca)
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Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca)'s status on Friday, 23-Feb-2024 18:36:47 JST 
Bob Jonkman
Oh, now you're just confusing things even more. I was going to reply to @clacke's original post that I've seen both CDNpoli and slightly fewer CANpoli hashtags (I subscribe to both), as well as CNDpoli -- probably for "Canada Poli".
But now @lnxw48a1 pops in with *currency* abbreviations, and that's properly represented as $4.50CAD (maybe "CAnadian Dollar"?)
So should there also be a CADpoli?
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LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 23-Feb-2024 16:34:53 JST 
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
@clacke I've usually seen "CDN" in one of two contexts: Money, as in "Tim Horton's pays its employees CDN$4.50 per hour"; or hashtags, as in "#CDNPol" ... But you're right that it makes things confusing.
How does one know which abbreviation to use in which context. Maybe we should just use "FZN" for "Frozen Northland". (I'm joking.)
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Bob Jonkman (bobjonkmangreen@gs.jonkman.ca)'s status on Saturday, 20-Jan-2024 19:09:51 JST 
Bob Jonkman
I was saddened to hear that Nora Fueten passed away on 10 January 2024.
Nora was my campaign manager for the 2019 federal election. Nora was highly qualified for this, as she had previous run in the federal elections in 2011 and 2008 gaining 7% of the vote, the highest ever achieved by a Green Party candidate in Brantford-Brant.
During the 2019 campaign Nora was indefatigable. She came along on all the door-to-door trips, every debate, filled in my gaps during media interviews, and greeted everyone at every festival and fair. Nora knew everyone, and everyone knew Nora.
Nora was not only a good political mentor, but a fashion consultant as well. Early in the campaign she said “You’ll never win the election with those baggy pants”, and I had to update my wardrobe. Whether it was Nora’s political acumen or good fashion sense, it resulted in a good election campaign.
The funeral service will be held at 2:00pm on Saturday, 20 January 2024 at at First United Church, 16 William Street West, Waterloo
Map: https://osm.org/go/ZXna93l7--?m=
https://bobjonkman.ca/2024/01/20/nora-fueten-1940-2024/ https://gs.jonkman.ca/attachment/222322 -
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LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Jan-2024 15:19:18 JST
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
I made 🍎 apple-cranberry pie 🥧. The filling is delicious 🤤. The crust is too hard. Not burnt, just hard.
I have been baking from scratch recently. Other than bread 🍞 machine loaves (starting about 2020), I had not baked from scratch since the middle 1970s. -
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Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca)'s status on Friday, 04-Aug-2023 04:28:46 JST
Bob Jonkman
From a few years ago...
All gone now, and I promised $SPOUSE it would never come back. https://gs.jonkman.ca/attachment/221480 -
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clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Aug-2023 21:56:28 JST 
clacke
I tried for over four decades to grow an impressive personality, but it was a lot of effort and not much payoff, so now I'm just trying to grow an impressive beard instead. -
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clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 27-Jul-2023 02:23:09 JST
clacke
did you watch Oppenheimer, the film about the moral implications of the things we create, starring an actor who also played a Gotham City psychiatrist who went insane
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did you watch Barbie, the film about the moral implications of the things we create, starring an actress who also played a Gotham City psychiatrist who went insane
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Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca)'s status on Friday, 03-Mar-2023 14:40:46 JST
Bob Jonkman
The other difference between moving from the US to Canada and moving from Twitter to the Fediverse is that you don't have to leave Twitter to move to the Fediverse... -
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Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca)'s status on Monday, 20-Nov-2017 05:21:18 JST
Bob Jonkman
To be fair, the !StatusNet network that Evan was running became unmanageable -- it cost too much to run, and I think Evan was funding most of it himself (although there were/are a number of paying #StatusNet customers). Evan developed #PumpIO to reduce the number of servers needed to run a federated network, and purposely kept the UI to a minimum to encourage federation. Sadly, that didn't work. Porting identi.ca from StatusNet to PumpIO was intended to introduce people to PumpIO as well as reduce Evan's costs. That partly worked; identi.ca is alive and well as a community, although much reduced from its glory days around 2013. But the #bifurcation did spawn a large number of new StatusNet / !GNUsocial instances, so that was a good thing too. But you're right in that PumpIO never gained widespread traction, the proof of which is in its lack of continued development. In that respect #GNUsocial and !OStatus are more successful than PumpIO
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