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You may have heard in recent months of the Canadian COVID Society. They're looking out for the rights of people living with, or trying to avoid having to live with, COVID infections across Confederation.

They just announced a new resource for such people:

https://bsky.app/profile/cancovsoc.bsky.social/post/3lnnhco2wm52w
https://bsky.app/profile/cancovsoc.bsky.social/post/3lnnhcowr622t
https://bsky.app/profile/cancovsoc.bsky.social/post/3lnnhcpjyfk2t

https://covidsociety.ca/priorities/safer-health-care/accommodation-request/

Current Mood: hopeful
Current Music: Lawfare Media Video Podcast - 29 Apr 2025

So I'm looking at this item about Trump wanting Canadian water resources for California...and then, over to this item at the Guardian about Pete Hegseth's writings...

No, I can't afford to move. And I live in eastern Ottawa.

Current Mood: worried

I believe that one of the more trustworthy Canadian info sources online at the moment re: COVID-19 is Tara Moriarty. Her main social media presence is still the Hellbirdsite, although she does maintain a Mastodon/Fediverse account as well.

https://x.com/MoriartyLab

https://mastodon.social/@MoriartyLab@med-mastodon.com

Excuse me while I politely ask her to resume cross-posting to the latter...

Current Mood: busy

little_details is now active on Dreamwidth for writers, artists, creative people in general looking to nail things down for their stuff.

For a sense of the community's charter:

https://little-details.dreamwidth.org/profile

Current Mood: hopeful

Okay, I've been cleared to share the resources we were shown in the CAWI workshop! This is, of course, tailored specifically to Ottawa. I'm hoping to be able to look at some ACORN Ottawa stuff too in the next little while.

Videos:

Municipalities: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21V8tZjFYnU
Why Voting Matters: https://youtu.be/Q8RisdKgAqY
Who does What: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVE3OsR5W-0
What does a Mayor do (according to kids)? - https://youtu.be/EcEJNu3NnYk
Getting ready for a Vote Pop-Up - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNVFOZFUcs0
Running a Vote Pop-Up - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0VmlQrJgUk

Elections resources:

Voter look up: https://www.voterlookup.ca/index.aspx
Who's running my ward? - https://elections.ottawa.ca/UI/CandidateList/CandidateList
Changes in wards and other resources: https://ottawa.ca/en/city-hall/elections/learn-more-about-municipal-elections#section-6aa9d6ce-068a-4f71-9427-e706cb6770e2

Hoping this is all useful...

Current Mood: busy
Current Location: Home-for-now
Current Music: Ottawa City Hall Meeting on YouTube

This might be of some interest to some of my Ontario friendlisters:

Source: Dr. Christopher Leighton - Twitter ID:

ccleighton
Adjunct Professor Oncology, Western Undergraduate Medicine, Healthcare & Disability Rights; living with TM/CVID; He/Him; Son to

FireCMOHKMoore

https://twitter.com/ccleighton/status/1565063698967941120

Current Mood: busy

...from Kevin Jardine at GalaxyMap.org via his Twitter feed!

https://twitter.com/galaxy_map/status/1334455740367560707

Maybe useful to some of you?

Current Mood: nerdy
Current Location: Home-for-now

1. I got this linkage from the Weekly Typographic, an e-newsletter from the League of Movable Type: Hero Patterns and Zondicons. Both are run by Kitchener's Steve Schoger. Whom I'd never heard of before today. The former is a collection of background patterns for web pages, the latter for icons.

2. One person's idea of how many kinds of typefaces there are. You might disagree.

https://bonfx.com/types-of-fonts/

3. Another link from the Weekly Typographic: Sophia Yeshi on how she got into design, the value of people lifting one another up, representation...

More as it comes to mind.

Current Mood: busy
Current Location: Home
Current Music: The Weekly Typographic Podcast

If you think a map of the "high points" of the nearby regions of the Orion Arm of our galaxy might be useful to you...

In advance of my presentation this afternoon, here are the links for my 800 parsecs map release today:https://t.co/1CAfPrF0qX pic.twitter.com/430wEW8TGE
— Galaxy Map (@galaxy_map) June 29, 2020

Back to my job search...

Current Mood: busy
Current Location: Home
Current Music: The Current on CBC Radio

Kevin Jardine's got another update...

https://twitter.com/galaxy_map/status/1277264515273560065

http://gruze.org/galaxymap/map_800pc/225dpi.png

Current Mood: busy
Current Location: Home
Current Music: Out in the Open on CBC Radio

How many of my friendlisters here on DW also have accounts at DeviantArt right now and are willing to say so?

Of such friendlisters, I ask one more nosy question: what should I watch out for if I sign up?

Current Mood: busy
Current Music: "Fez - Being Born" - U2

I remember that back in 2010(?), there was a Concern about DeviantArt policy requiring its users to self-identify as either "male" or "female", with no other gender self-identification options available. Did that get remedied? If so, when and how?

Current Mood: confused

I just signed up for Pantone's mailing list.

Current Mood: busy
Current Music: The Sunday Edition (podcast)

I've had an account for a couple of years there. The Cartographer's Guild is a website for mapmaking pros and hobbyists and everyone in between. Decided to make more of a point of using it as a resource. Not expecting immediate results, of course, but as a long-term tactic, it can't hurt.

Current Mood: busy

An incomplete listing hosted by Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_satirical_news_websites

If you know of one they don't, please add it to their list. Especially right now, I think.

Current Mood: busy

So apparently, there's a Twitter account to keep interested parties up to date on observations of that system.

https://twitter.com/betelbot

Current Mood: impressed

The most recent one had been crashing immediately upon start-up on my other MacBook (Not Pro), so this might be a serious improvement.

https://twitter.com/GaiaSky_Dev/status/1115608904728113155

Current Mood: nerdy

For the space data nerds among my friendlisters, here's something new among the stuff that's been whipped up in the wake of GAIA DR 2:

http://gaia-kepler.fun/

Current Mood: nerdy

Managed to find out that there's a Twitter feed for Kevin Jardine's

Galaxy_Map operation.

And that I can link to that.

Current Mood: nerdy

Right, so I finally watched that episode. And enjoyed it.

( Some thoughts about the state of SHIELD... )

That's it.

Current Mood: nerdy

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Entries tagged with resources

Self-Protection Against COVID and Other Airborne Infections

Safety?

COVID-19 News/Resources: MoriartyLab

Resources/Dreamwidth: Little Details

Municipal Elections: Ontario 2022 - Part 3

Pandemic: Defending Masking Via Human Rights Law in Ontario

SPACE/MAPS: More GAIA-Inspired Goodness...

DESIGN: Assorted Links

Orion Spur Map Resources

Mapping the Orion Spur, Continued

DESIGN: DeviantArt Questions # 2 & 3

DeviantArt Question

I May Have Just Made Another Mistake

JOB SEARCH: Cartographer's Guild

Satirical News Sites

SPACE: Betelgeuse and the Internet

Galaxy Mappers: New Version of Gaia Sky

More GAIA Consequences for Your Entertainment

More Galaxy-Mapping Stuff

Agents of SHIELD: "Maveth" (Spoilers Highly Probable)