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vsp

@vsp@mastodon.world

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‎Personal account (he|him). Calgary, 🇨🇦. Giant nerd. Hangs out on #MastodonWorld :mw:. See pinned post for longer introduction.

⚠️ : May tweet about politics from time to time. Formerly @vsp.

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NewsDesk, to news
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Bangladesh has evacuated nearly 800,000 people from vulnerable areas as a severe cyclone approaches from the Bay of Bengal. AP reports: https://flip.it/Ipa7ku

billamend, to random
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This week's comic: Final Preparations https://foxtrot.com/2024/05/12/final-preparations/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=ba-social&utm_content=ft240512&utm_campaign=social

stux, to random
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This spot is taken, please move along

vsp, (edited ) to fediverse
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Meet Haai.

They're the mascot for , an instance powered by @Sharkey (cc: @ruud). It's a community of roughly ~120 members, and part of the rapidly growing squad of instances based on this fork.

Haai is also the Dutch word for shark, and also is a homophone for a greeting (Hi!).

CodexNotFound,
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@vsp @Sharkey @ruud I tried sharkey.world, but I really struggled finding the things I do on mastodon.world. Haai might pull be back, they're so cute.

bumble,

@vsp @Sharkey @ruud Welcome to the family Haai. ​:bumble:​

ruud, to random

I've changed sharkey.world's branding; @vsp has created some nice images and our new mascot: Haai

Thanks for the cool images, Vincent!

I'll check if I have uploaded all the right images in the right places. Also I'll try to figure out how to change the site's theme (colors) to match the images.

Bentley, to solar
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A Consumer’s Guide To Rooftop & Home Energy Storage https://cleantechnica.com/2024/04/09/a-consumers-guide-to-rooftop-solar-home-energy-storage/ via @cleantechnica

cheribaker, to random
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We met a VIP guest at the Miletus museum yesterday.

The cat has jumped onto a bench. One of her ears has been clipped. She's likely a spayed feral.
An old greek statue of a reclining male with a big beard and popping muscles sits beneath spotlights in the museum. The cat is lounging, almost a reversed mirror image, except that she's licking her belly.

vsp, (edited ) to fediverse
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Meet Jör.

They're the mascot for an online service called @bookwyrmworld.

cliftonmr,
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@vsp @bookwyrmworld They’re adorable!

bookwyrmworld, to random
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Oh wee. Look at this amazing new look I got myself. 📖🐉🤩

Thank you to @vsp for creating this awesome new logo and banner!

vsp, (edited ) to random
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Oh, this is neat.

A year later, a podcast I cohosted (with my friend Omar Masood) is still up there in the rankings.

Feedspot says we're ranked 29th out of all of the podcasts coming out of Alberta. (Of course, we're beaten by the likes of Nate Pike, Alberta Health Services, and Senator @Paulatics' Alberta Unbound.)

Link: https://podcasts.feedspot.com/alberta_podcasts/?feedid=5701361

Paulatics,

@vsp @Paulatics We are each in good company.

bookwyrmworld, to random
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What's this now, a social media account for .world's bookworm instance? 👀

Can't wait to read with you peeps ❤️

danilo, to random
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We really had it all, for a moment

RSS, for a moment, was an invitation for every single website to participate in any sort of application developers could imagine

And they DID it was the thing

Everyone had RSS. News sites. Social platforms. Indie blogs. Government portals.

It enabled a fundamentally new chapter of the web, while simultaneously being invisible, save for a few affordances sprinkled between UI chrome and page content

livewirecalgary, to Calgary
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Calgary tattoo shops are getting the ink ready for a massive fundraiser for trans youth legal aid.

https://livewirecalgary.com/2024/03/22/calgary-tattoo-shops-get-inked-up-for-trans-youth-legal-aid/

ximenaka, to Calgary

I realize i was spoiled by the proximity and quality of the defunct Eau Claire Y, in . But as public pools slowly disappear from the city’s centre, i worry swimming is becoming an exclusive activity.

https://iwouldprefernotto.substack.com/p/finding-a-pool-to-swim-in

Paulatics, to Alberta

Today, Alberta’s brilliant Corb Lund dropped his new album, El Viejo, named in tribute of Ian Tyson. Here’s my conversation with Corb about Alberta identity, telling the stories of the West, and his fight to save the eastern slopes of the Rockies. https://open.spotify.com/episode/3McuSdH4S3OXPOlj6oE7mX?si=1fIdD0znS3ipCJwhnfZFuA

SwiftOnSecurity, to random

@brettshavers post here

brettshavers,

I just peer-reviewed a forensic analysis in a case.

The suspect mailed a package with a hidden Apple AirTag in it to a victim's old home address.

The package was forwarded to her new (and formerly safe) address....

Might be good to warn DV victims of unexpected mail.

@SwiftOnSecurity Just

micropainter, to random

So proud of Calgary for filling the whole City Hall plaza with thousands of people protesting Danielle Smith’s anti-trans, anti-LGBTQ bigotry targeting children.

TBA

likelyjanlukas, to random

REMINDER: Calgary event on SATURDAY FEB 3 for

Via Progress Alberta:
In Calgary TOMORROW (Feb 3): Queer Citizens United (@QCUyyc) are organizing a rally to defend the rights and safety of trans kids. City Hall Municipal Building starting at 2:00pm. Speakers to include Alberta Teachers' Association's president Jason Schilling.







likelyjanlukas,

@vsp

Awesome! I'm glad to hear that and that it went well! 🙂

ruud, to random
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The https://sharkey.world server is almost done. We now need branding (new theme and images). @vsp will be creating images like he did for :mw: (and others).

While it grows we will also do some tuning and tweaking.

I like the interface, so much even that I installed it on my personal server too (ruud.social)

If you want to try it, just create an account and play around with it.

And if you really like it, you can migrate so you keep your followers.
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ruud,
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2/2 Sharkey is a platform like Mastodon, but with a very different look & feel, and other options (like quote posts, emoji reactions etc ). Some options that Mastodon has are missing, like following hashtags.

You can follow your Mastodon friends from Sharkey just as you can follow Sharkey users from Mastodon.

tuhgy,
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@ruud @vsp Thank you both for the time and work put in to make it stable and beautiful. 💗

evan, to random
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Canadians: please sign the petition to get Parliament to set up a Mastodon server.

https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-4769

arstechnica, to random
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Inventor of NTP protocol that keeps time on billions of devices dies at age 85

Dave Mills created NTP, the protocol that holds the temporal Internet together, in 1985.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/01/inventor-of-ntp-protocol-that-keeps-time-on-billions-of-devices-dies-at-age-85/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

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