#yqr — Public Fediverse posts
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Brilliant. The city of #Regina has replaced its in-house map of current road closures and restrictions due to construction etc with an embedded Waze map.
Which doesn't show anything other than the bare map to me, in Firefox *or* in Vivaldi.
Well done, lads. Well done. In addition to sending visitors' locations to a US company who then resells it, you've actually stopped it from doing anything useful at all.
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I forgot to mention: if you're in the #YQR / Regina area, tomorrow (Saturday 8 August 2026) is the #Regina Repair Cafe for this month. It's at the Victoria Square Mall, so lots of parking. It runs 10am - 4pm.
If you have stuff that is not working or broken, there's a good chance one of us volunteers can fix it for you. And it's free! We help keep stuff from ending up in the landfill before its time, and save you the expense of having to replace it.
And yes, we fix stuff you can't get fixed "professionally" because no one fixes small appliances and whatnot any more, because everyone says "Just buy a new one, it's cheaper". Not everyone can afford to "just" replace stuff, and there's the whole environment thing.
I guess we're adding a fourth "R" to the circle of life: reduce, re-use, repair, recycle.
I'm just a volunteer, not an organizer or official publicist or anything like that. But come down and say "Hi".
#RepairCafe #repair #environment #CollectiveAction #conservation #SK #fix #broken
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Today was this month's Repair Cafe in my city. I think it also marks a full year I've been volunteering at them. I enjoy it a lot.
After last months good results - everything brought to me successfully fixed *except* one item - I got exactly the same result today. A bunch of successes, and one failure. And it's a weird and annoying coincidence - they are basically the same thing, #Sony all-in-one bookshelf #stereo systems. You know the type, they're on the order of a cubic foot and look like a small stack of stereo equipment units, but it's just a cosmetic look. Inside, the tuner, preamp, amp, CD player / changer, tape deck are all one thing. #Boombox in a suit, basically.
Both times, I figured out what was wrong - but I couldn't get to the bits I needed to actually fix them. I got stumped trying to take the front #fascia off the chassis. There's usually a few screws to take the back and/or top off, and then some #clips holding the front fascia to the (usually) one-piece sheet metal sides and bottom. Taking a #spudger to them releases all along the top and sides, but at the bottom of the fascia, it doesn't release - there's something weird about the clips I can't see, and I don't see any #screws responsible, inside or out. I don't want to force it more than I have because it will break.
Any Sony-heads out there know the secret with these things? They're from the 80s and 90s, at least the ones brought into me.
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We had a visitor in the back yard early this evening. This is a young white-tailed jackrabbit (which is a species of hare, not a true rabbit) probably from this spring's first batch, so he's probably about 3 months old. The proportions are different from an adult. This species is also known as prairie hare or "white jack", or just "jack" hereabouts.
This one was sitting in the long grass and then sat up when I came into view. He wasn't scared, but kept a wary eye on me. Pardon the lousy picture quality; I didn't get out the Big Lens so this is a tiny crop out of the middle of the frame. I have a little video I might post later.
Of course, he immediately started being cute(r), having a bath, after I put the camera away.
Pardon the weeds; it's been too hot and humid to mow lately, and I went chemical-free a few years ago.
#wildlife #UrbanWildlife #jackrabbit #hare #WhiteTailedJackrabbit #PrairieHare #jack #SK #YQR #prairies #Canada #RabbitsOfMastodon
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"A European thinks a hundred kilometers is a long distance, while a North American thinks 100 years is a long time."
Calgary <-> Regina: 7 hours
Regina <-> Winnipeg: 5 hours -
Great. I just got a "high water use!" notification from my city utility. It seems to think I used roughly two thousand liters of water between 1am and 8am Saturday. Other than a couple of toilet flushes in the night, there shouldn't have been anything using water in that time. I don't believe the water softener did a recharge cycle in that time.
The icons on the meter are also blinking back and forth between "leak" and "high forward flow" and "back flow" even though the usage number isn't moving at all.
We had work done on water pipes in our neighbourhood in the last week, resulting in sediment and lots of air in the pipes. I guess I have to contact the city to figure out if that could be making the meter go screwy.
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The next #Regina Repair Cafe is tomorrow! Boy, time flies. It seems like just a month ago that we did the last one.
This one is at the Victoria Square mall. It runs from 10am to 4pm as usual. Advance bookings of repair appointments have closed, but they do take walk-ins when time and volunteers are available - I've never seen a walk-in turned away. For some reason, lots of people book appointments and then don't show up, so there's a fair bit of time freed up from that.
I'm just a volunteer, not an organizer. If you have electronics, small appliances, tools or "general repairs" that could use a (free!) look-at, diagnosis, and possible repair, come down and see me. That's my usual remit.
Virtually anything else can also be looked at; there are many volunteers covering every possible category from bicycle fixes to repairing garments to tuning up guitars.
Helping to keep stuff in the hands of people that use it, rather than it ending up in the landfill for want of a small repair, is rewarding for me.
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In the news today in my city...
"Police received 911 calls reporting a man waving a gun in the air at the corner of <X avenue> and <Y street>. They arrived on the scene in moments, and ..."
I should hope they arrived in moments. That corner is where the police station is 😆
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Ayyy, the new Federal NDP leader @avilewis is touring Saskatchewan in a couple weeks! Local EDAs are working together to put on some events and screenings of The Take. Hop on to RSVP or volunteer! https://linktr.ee/SaskFederalNDP
- May 14th in Pasqua First Nation and Moose Jaw #ymj
- May 15th in Regina #yqr
- May 16th in Saskatoon #yxe
- May 17 in Prince Albert #ypa -
I've booked almost the entirety of June off work. Planning to use some of my free time to tour Saskatoon #yxe and talk with as many politicians and organizations as I can about their social media strategies. See if I can bring em to the Fediverse in the spirit of @ElbowsUpforDigitalSovereignty
Planning starts the second Legislature lets out mid May.
I'd love to find collaborators to do the same in Regina #yqr Moose Jaw #ymj and Prince Albert #ypa and any other communities across the province. Hit me up!
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The local white-tailed jackrabbits (a species of hare, not a true rabbit) are now well into their change-from-white-to-brown cycle, but the snowstorm earlier this week is not making it easy on them.
#jackrabbit #hare #rabbit #wildlife #Canada #SK #YQR #UrbanWildlife
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From the inside track, until they learn how to cross post on the Fediverse:
The Sask NDP are calling for transparency about this Data Centre outside Regina. You can email em at [email protected] , and attend an open house next Wednesday at the Glen Elm library from 4:30-7:30 p.m. about it.
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Got a graphic for Saturday's protest in Regina! 11am at the Legislative Building to tell the government fuck off with this data centre
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Heeyyy there's gonna be a protest Saturday in Regina opposing the Data Center Build. 11am at the Legislature building: https://www.facebook.com/events/1253037973609110/
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Oh, fantastic. The snow we're supposed to get tonight has been upgraded to a yellow warning:
> Snowfall with total amounts of 15 to 25 cm is expected.
That's 6-to-10 inches for the metrically-challenged. Also blizzard / white-out conditions. Whee!
I'm glad I didn't summerize my snowblower yet!
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That's great!
Note there's also a Repair Cafe in the Regina area. The next one is on Saturday, April 18th, at the library in White City. First time at that location!
(just a volunteer, not an organizer or spokesperson)
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Two of our local white-tailed #jackrabbits (again, a species of hare, not a true rabbit) in my backyard today. We had a bunch of snow Tuesday, but that's mostly melted, leaving just the remainders from winter in the shady spots and where there were big piles or drifts.
These two's faces have mostly turned brown, but their bodies are still almost pure white. It's kind of weird; elsewhere in the city, there are jacks that have pretty much turned completely already. It makes these two look like they're a brown hare sitting inside a white fur coat.
They'll be shedding/blowing this coat soon, and will look much trimmer afterwards.
I like their eyes.
#rabbit #hare #WhiteTailedJackrabbit #jack #jacks #Canada #SK #YQR #wildlife #UrbanWildlife
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If you're in the area and care about band, please come out.
#band #schoolband #music #musiceducation #education #reginapublicschools #Regina #yqr #sask #Saskatchewan #SaskatchewanBudget #saskbudget
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Hell yeah. 11k people and counting calling to stop the Bell "AI" data center outside Regina. Join the chorus!
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"Hey, Marge?"
"Ya, Thelma?"
"I'm not sure our camouflage is working any more."
(The one at bottom-right looks like she could use some hare conditioner...)
#jackrabbit #jackrabbits #hare #wildlife #UrbanWildlife #rabbit #rabbits #Canada #SK #YQR #frizz
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We've had some warm temperatures here on the prairies the last couple of days, and it's mostly looking like above-freezing during the day for the foreseeable future [1]. So today I pulled the snow tires off the cars and put the "all-season" [2] ones on.
Please join me tomorrow in celebrating the semi-annual festival of Oh My Gawd Why Are My Knees On Fire And I Didn't Even Know I Had Muscles In That Part Of My Thigh.
[1] To be fair, this is about 5-6 days max. They don't bother to even try forecasting further out than that here.
[2] Really "three-season", if you live anywhere where it gets more than a handful of degrees below freezing.
#Canada #prairies #SK #YQR #weather #warm #spring #snow #tires #SnowTires #AllSeason #knees #thighs #pain #sore #MiddleAge
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https://bsky.app/profile/saskboy.bsky.social/post/3mhccoase2c2r Tommy Douglas Lecture #YQR last night
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It's spring-ish today on the Canadian prairies, and while I was out running errands a car cruised by me in the parking lot. A little Acura coupe with the sunroof open, and a dog's head [1] sticking up out of it, loving the breeze, the smells, and the sights of all the people.
It was a good day.
[1] What looked like a cross between a husky and a border collie - pretty sure its IQ was higher than anyone in the US administration's cabinet.
#dog #SmartDog #smart #prairies #SK #YQR #Canada #spring #sunroof #arf #GoodDay #ItWasAGoodDay
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A local white-tailed jackrabbit (actually a species of hare, not rabbit) is in solar-charging mode, having found a bit of sunbeam passing between our house and the neighbour's in the mid-afternoon.
#rabbit #hare #jackrabbit #SK #YQR #wildlife #RabbitsOfMastodon #SolarCharging #sunbeam
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@Leader_Post @regina-leader-post-news-Leader_Post
More news on #Regina's elimination of #coin payment at downtown #parking meters. For those who missed the last episode of "Clueless Elected #Politicians Who Think Everyone Lives Exactly Like They Do", the city switched to electronic-only payments that (a) absolutely require you to use a cell #phone to pay, and (b) route all payments through a US-owned company that won't guard your personal information.
From the article:
> Council also approved #Mayor Chad #Bachynski’s suggestion to introduce prepaid parking
> vouchers as an additional option [...]
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> The pre-paid vouchers are [...] offered in packs of five for $13.75 at city hall and are
> valid at any regular parking meter.Note: you can't park at city hall without plugging a meter. So you'll need a parking #voucher before you can go purchase parking vouchers.
This price also means it costs three times as much to park for a half hour as it did previously. If you were used to running brief errands and only plugging a quarter into the #meter, it'll cost *twelve* times as much.
> “[The vouchers] are less convenient than the #app,” acknowledged the city’s director of
> community standards, Faisal Kalim, after the meeting. “Our message for residents is
> to download the app. It is a good system and it is a practical way to park.”"You don't have a smart phone? Our message is just go get a smart phone."
#Arrogant asses.