Ain’t no party like a beige.party party
When I first joined Mastodon in 2019, it was via a server — an instance, as it’s called — named mastodon.social. In part, joining that particu...
Category: social
On a dumb argument
Everyone has their opinions. And everyone has counterpoints to certain topics of discussion. That is of course a given. But here’s a hot tip: If you’...
Thoughts on working my first picket line
For those out of town or who otherwise wouldn’t be in the know or affected by it, employees at the LCBO — the Liquor Control Board of Ontario, the o...
Three strikes against privatizing the LCBO
I’ve worked for the LCBO for just over two years. This upcoming strike deadline is the first I’ve ever looked at being personally involved in, as LC...
Need even more reason to leave all Meta platforms for good? Here you go.
Hey, you know how Facebook (now called Meta) makes a fourtune from selling oceans of highly detailed, extremely personal data about each of its users to adverti...
Google notches up the war on adblockers
Some months back, I noticed more and more people I follow on Mastodon were commenting, or forwarding posts of others, on how they’ve noticed warnings on Y...
Reviewing one process of reviewing: Zero stars
Anyone who knows me and has had occasion to be with me in a location with no fixed address, where we split up and get together again later, has heard me sing th...
Road trip to the east coast
My family and I are just recently back from a 2.5-week road trip to the east coast (specifically, Nova Scotia via Quebec and New Brunswick) to visit family and ...
Data privacy starts with your own choices
I was scrolling on Mastodon yesterday — the ad-free, federated social media I went to after finally leaving Twitter and Facebook for good a few years ago ...
Too many people like shooting the messenger
The LCBO (Liquor Control Board of Ontario) is the provincially-owned company that, until relatively recently, was the only place in the province you could legal...