Let’s go back to a website 🎶
(When there used to be an end to the page 🎵)
I really like this convention. Helps to make very readable commit messages.
Vaisakhi Parade in Surrey
Sunday, April 20, 2025
The Vaisakhi parade in Surrey is said to be the biggest in the world, attracting over 500,000 people! (See these aerial photos from last year to get a sense of the crush). This year’s parade also saw the appearance of two of the candidates in the upcoming election for our next prime minister: Jagmeet Singh and Pierre Poilievre. I was down on the ground, in the mix, surrounded by the celebratory masses with my older daughter.
Cherry Blossoms of Vancouver
Friday, April 18, 2025
For the past couple of years in Japan I have been really enjoying the cherry blossoms. I made cherry blossoms the theme of the Micro.blog photo challenge last year. Prior to that, in Kelowna, we didn’t really have the cherry blossoms… for years… But now, here in Metro Vancouver, I have noticed how many sakura trees there are around the city! Cherry blossom viewing is a real event here, with a festival and everything!
Daddy and daughters at the range 🏹🎯
“Even in Kyoto, I long for Kyoto”
Wednesday, April 16, 2025
Very nice to see this send-off of John Dougill, an influential member of the English-speaking community in Kyoto. I have a number of his books and he came to Iki for a few days while I was there. I had the privilege to tour him around the island and talk about travel writing. I learned some valuable lessons during that trip. Here are a couple of his blog posts from Iki:
Completed rewatching S01 of Andor tonight. Ready for season 2! 💫
Finished listening to The Martian Contingency by @maryrobinettekowal.com 📚 I love all the (good) characters, and it is so cool to read about “real life” issues in space! As always her narration is top notch. This one was sexier 🌶 than the others… but I guess it is set in the ’70s 😉
Berlin Tech Workers Coalition will host the largest English speaking and tech worker-led conference in Germany, together with their trade unions ver.di B+B and IG Metall Berlin. April 11, 9am CET. Berlin, DE.
h/t Internet.exchange
Oh man tonight at archery was over-rotating and pulled something in my neck 😬 🏹
Oh! Just got the notification I was accepted to Birken Monastery for a week-long retreat in September! The last time I was there was in 2019, just before we went to Iki Island. Been really looking forward to going back. 🧘
Congrats to Graham Culbertson of Everyday Anarchism who completed his nearly 2 year long chapter-by-chapter podcast mini-series David Graeber’s Debt. 👏👏👏 I have been waiting for the completion of the series to start my own re-read of this excellent book. Anyone want to join? 🙋♂️📚
I know I said things are finally settled down since the move, but there is so much inspirational stuff happening in my various communities that I had to take a quiet walk this morning just to process.
Hanami mode 🌸
Started listening to The Martian Contingency by Mary Robinette Kowal on the way home tonight on the train. Lovely to be back in this series! 📚
Enjoyed this interview of @ntnsndr.in | @ntnsndr@social.coop by @ethanz.bsky.social | @ethanz@social.coop for #ReImaginingTheInternet. Their timeline of where social media went off the rails (from ✌️neutral✌️ platforms to a politicized spaces) was particularly interesting.
Enjoying the sakura in Vancouver 📸 🌸
I like this exercise from @gordon.bsky.social. Some excerpts:
Networks generate exponentials.
Broadcast: standardized | Network: personalized
Broadcast: manufactured consensus | Network: runaway amplification
Some things that don’t exist in a network society: facts, shared truth.
Just had the onboarding call and tech check for #FediForum which I will be attending for 2 days starting tomorrow. It is an unconference that is held entirely online. I have followed it for a couple of years but this is my first time attending.
After a month of “working” from Tokyo and Seattle… I am back to my normal schedule this morning. First day working from the new home office! 🎉