I'm not involved in gander so was hoping they'd reply! I have the same sense -- funding by share purchase is akin to crowd / community ownership. Seems distinct from membership ownership, and from what I've seen, member share purchase is not really a big fundraising mechanism for consumer coops
Pretty sure @gandersocial.ca is a BC Benefit Company, which is a newer public benefit corporation type, not a coop! aka there are even more options.
Not sure who is being referred to, but there were members from @hypha.coop @limeleaf.coop @transrights.northsky.social
and cosocial (not on bsky) at the event, and I'm sure I missed others. I've helped start coops and chatted with people interested. Always down to chat!
I am!! I’ll find you to say hi during a break :))
Taking away from @mosh.bsky.social ‘s talk her thought: could a coop bundle “features” from all the emerging atproto apps to do sales to brands?
basking in @kissane.myatproto.social ‘s extended kelp / forest analogy. inching closer to that hold fast tattoo
Posting a day late to say : this was so much fun! Thanks all for playing the first cut of this zine game + coming up with new hospicing tactics. Thanks to @oliverbates.co.uk jamming on this with me.
I'll share an updated version soon here + other places + directly with those who've asked.
Yani Kong will be reading from our chapter “Reimagining Networks: Speculative Thinking for Low-Carbon Research Networks” at the April 6 event. Looking forward to it!
Person on the left with a screen in the background showing an annotation in yellow of some text
Watching my first hospicing live demo by @hyl.st at #atscience thanks for sharing your goodbyes with the room 🤲🏻
I have a chapter in this with the wonderful Yani Kong!
It's been a minute since the workshop that led to this book, but I still dig our exploration of constraint through slow and decelerated media as we wrote together.
Thanks @apasek.bsky.social for collecting and editing us ✨
Ladder game on black and green scree on retro kaypro II computer.
Wall of Apple Macintosh computers on a beige shelf, cardboard box with old Apple logo on floor in front
Atari black joystick and Atari game cartridge for Centipede on variegated countertop
Microtel VTX202 Telidon terminal n brown desk with older computers and hardware underneath
pnw dream weekend: visit the Historic Computing Lab at UVic and listen to 100rabbits talk about design constraints, minimal computing, and life on a sailboat. stare at the Salish sea on the ferry. see an old friend. do it all with a crew from vancouver. hcl.library.uvic.ca
Congratulations! 🎊
from the tos: "2.3. If you feel that the Chatbot’s responses do not accurately reflect the position of the Trotskyist movement, or have any other question about the Chatbot’s responses, please contact us at support@ai.wsws.org"
addendum : fun theory of mind discussion of jay and matt at the beginning of this
youtu.be/14gqhme2A0Q?...
go see nirvanna the band the show the movie for that feeling of visiting 2008 toronto while not succumbing to nostalgia and also laughing with friends.
Frame from a movie showing a skin mask of John Travolta's face in a chamber of liquid.
Frame from a movie showing person in a chair with their back to us with a series of medical screens and implements behind them.
Frame from a movie showing a close up of a man with a reflection of Nicholas Cage without skin on his face in his glasses.
absolute cinema. ty criterion channel for adding face/off.
Found this episode (about Britain) more helpful than anything so far to think abt this wave of nationalism in Canada and the contradictions/possibilities/inevitabilities of a left nationalism.
where can I get my 3+ hours of listening on the waffle??
new metaphors (new noise)
civic science / community science projects are great for this! A near to me example : Smell Vancouver for tracking odours (often tied to permitted industrial activities) and health effects: smell-vancouver.ca
Oooh thanks, i will track it down! I have set the night on fire on my shelf as my next Mike Davis book to read
4. Last, maybe: opinionated views on place (are these more dad books?)
- This Land: How Cowboys, Capitalism, and Corruption Are Ruining the American West by Christopher Ketcham
- The Pacific Circuit by Alexis Madrigal
- City of Quartz by Mike Davis (that chapter on slow growth and early NIMBY LA 😮💨)
3. My interest remained strong in my most "dad book" topic: anything ocean. Nothing I loved tho so here is the last one I read:
- Seaweed: A Global History by Kaori O'Connor
2. However, two of my favourite books this year were "green is the new red" thrillers:
- Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton
- Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner
My trends and some representative books:
1. Growing ambivalence with climate fiction, so here are two that went in directions I didn't expect:
- The Rooftop Garden by Menaka Raman-Wilms
- When Shells Crumble by Cris Carlsson (pretty sure this qualifies as a "romp")
Book Cover for Creation Lake
Book Cover for Birnam Wood
Book Cover for Rooftop Garden
Book Cover for This Land
A 2025 goal was to read 100 books. I got very close (96) and was happy that I read consistently. Though I wish I had read less genre fiction, less contemporary books with buzz (61 were released in 2025 + 2024), and was over my theory hangover (at generous count I managed 4).
This new book, The True Cost of Wool about Canadian wool, is on my list! : www.longwayhomestead.com/books/pre-or...
Likewise! I love reading your week notes to think about the craft of design in public service <3
So funny, I also just found this book and the BC public sector accords of the 90s where the gov under Clark did work with the unions on policy: ethicspress.com/products/35-... so yes to sparking ideas!
💯 As I've been talking with other members while picketing I'm also thinking about assumed knowledge of organized labour. For most, this is their first union, let alone first strike!
I wish we could get to Lucas Plan-style convos about the future of public service: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucas_P...
That's a step increase in employment of 20-30% for building trades employment. Sean Strickland from @cdntrades.bsky.social sums it up perfectly: "Canada’s transition to a cleaner economy represents one of the most significant job creation opportunities in our country’s history." #canlab /4
