I'm looking to interview anyone who has worked at an electronics assembly (components or systems) factory, anywhere in the world, before 1990. I can offer $100CAD / hour, though I don't think my questions will run the full hour. If you know anyone who is still able and willing to answer, plz lmk

Fresh hot Zines! 11 zines contributed to the #ICT4S2026 zine jam oliverbates.itch.io/ict4s2026zines we’ll be making a conference zine this week. I’ll be collecting confessions and questions as prompts for others to collage and sketch zine pages. Come and find me in the coffee break area :)

ICT4S 2026 Zine Library by oliver bates

A collection of zines created and curated for the ICT4S 2026 Zine Jam and conference

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memories of my x220 fan taking off on zoom or if too many tabs open, etc, a more perfect computer has never existed, etc... from this: Un vélo électrique pour l'esprit / an electric bike for the mind by Martin Lafréchoux digital: ebike.nologos.net digital zine: oliverbates.itch.io/ict4s2026zines

It’s been over 7 months since we last saw this male lemon shark w/ a broken jaw and a fishhook gash. It’s good to see the wound has healed and it looks otherwise healthy… despite having a broken jaw that can no longer retract, exposing his mouth full of sharp teeth #scarface #jaws #coralcitycamera

I am co-organizing "Beyond Interaction, Toward Cooperation and Commoning," an @acm-dis.bsky.social workshop on solidarity, democratic governance, and shared ownership! 📍 Date and Time: Singapore, June 13, 2026 (aft) 🗓 Submission Deadline: May 25, 2026 👉🏼 More info: sites.google.com/view/coopsco...

Designing Interactive Systems Conference@acm-dis.bsky.social · 3mo ago

DIS 2026 workshops are shaping up to be incredible ✨ I’ve already found the workshop I want to register for — how about you? 👀 🗓️ Don’t forget to register for workshops! 🔗 dis.acm.org/2026/attendi... #DIS2026 #HCI #InteractionDesign #DesignResearch

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.

Atmosphere Community@atmosphere.community · 4mo ago

At 10:30 join @dcwalker.ca for Hospicing social media: Personal archival practices for transition atmosphereconf.org/event/A7ebKjo

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!

Anne Pasek@apasek.bsky.social · 4mo ago

We're doing an online book launch for our new book on climate action, equity, and research methods. Register for whichever date works best for you + tune in for some short readings, further musings, and good company :) April 6: trentu.zoom.us/meeting/regi... April 7: trentu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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 ✨

Anne Pasek@apasek.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Our book is out OPEN ACCESS. Please enjoy a FREE BOOK on how we could remake academic research methods for climate action, and fix a lot of inequities in the process. www.gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-p...

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

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"

Sharon 🪳🌹@sharonk.bsky.social · 6mo ago

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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.

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??

Jeremy Gilbert@jemgilbert.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Here at last is the 3+ hours recorded by myself and @profafinlayson.bsky.social on nationalism and the future of Britain. Subscribe in any podcast app to Culture, Power, Politics. Yes, Burnham-block emergency pod, other guests, more solos, all coming soon. culturepowerpolitics.org/2026/01/26/n...

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).

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

Sad to learn Yves Veggies Cuisine is discontinued via insta comment, ouch. It is/was a (not always great) staple of being vegetarian and vegan in Canada. Especially in rural grocery stores: dailyhive.com/vancouver/yv... brb actually considering how to start a nationwide plant protein cooperative

Canadian plant-based food brand Yves has been discontinued | Food & Drink

Yves Veggie Cuisine, one of Canada's longest-running plant-based food makers, has quietly announced that it is being discontinued.

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so ready to do some strollplaying on my evening walk!

oliver@oliverbates.co.uk · last yr.

Orientation is being released today! oliverbates.itch.io/orientation It's a game/zine about learning to map in a world where the map apps we took for granted are no longer accessible. #indiegames #zines #rpg

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Karen Walton@karenwalton.bsky.social · last yr.

“if every Canadian household redirected $25 a week from foreign products to Canadian ones, it would boost GDP by 0.7 per cent and create 60,000 jobs” www.theglobeandmail.com/investing/pe...

“if every Canadian household redirected $25 a week from foreign products to Canadian ones, it would boost GDP by 0.7 per cent and create 60,000 jobs” www.theglobeandmail.com/investing/pe...

Buy Canadian movement starts to take a sizable bite out of U.S. business

U.S. tour operators and American distilleries hit hard by surge in patriotism among Canadian shoppers

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Looking forward to this workshop on March 27! Come join me and @rachaelashe.com and bring a friend!

Rachael Ashe@rachaelashe.com · last yr.

Why it's time to move off Big Tech Social Media - a workshop for artists, creatives, and other makers hosted by @dcwalker.ca and me! (With a guest appearance by @bmann.ca) Hosted at @z-space.ca in Vancouver on Thursday, March 27th, 6pm-9pm. Details on eventbrite: www.eventbrite.ca/e/1268174286...

📡 at very long last, today is the big day! my beloved book, OTHER NETWORKS: A RADICAL TECHNOLOGY SOURCEBOOK, is officially available for pre-order! 1/5 #othernetworks shop.mexicansummer.com/merch/495898...

Lori Emerson - Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook. Mexican Summer & Anthology.

Buy Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook by Lori Emerson on Mexican Summer & Anthology.

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I attended this last year, and it was 🌟. Given the toxicity + cowardice of FAANG, we need to imagine smaller, lower-tech, less evil tools + systems! Now seeking proposals (due Jan 26!) for wrkshps, performances + art at this year's event, March 13-14, keynoted by the great @loriemerson.net!

Shannon Mattern@shannonmattern.bsky.social · 2y ago

April 26 @ Temple Libraries: The [Radical] Electronics Faire! Featuring “a daylong “sit + tinker” faire tabled by local organizations”; talks by artists and researchers; hands-on workshops; and A/V archive tours! library.temple.edu/events/1690

Access to space! A community of peers! Starting locally! This incubator looks like it has all the best things 🤲🏼

1RG@1rg.space · 2y ago

🚀 Announcing the 1RG Incubator: A 12-week program for community-minded technologists. No equity, no fees—just mentorship, community, and space to build. Building a better Toronto through tech starts locally 🌱 Apply by Feb 15 ✨ incubator.1rg.space #toronto #civictech

I made a tiny protest game about the terrifying reality of biking in Toronto without bike lanes marieflanagan.com/loserlane

This is an amazing post asking r/sysadmin for recommendations about legacy system modernization www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/c...

Reddit - Dive into anything

A reddit dedicated to the profession of Computer System Administration.

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Just chatted with a friend about the lack of real membership orgs in our lives and how sad canvassing to mobilize can feel. This article sets up what is at stake: “not just the democracy of elections—the democracy of everyday life, where we routinely and communally participate in power”

Ned Resnikoff@resnikoff.bsky.social · 2y ago

Hah, my editor at The Nation just let me know that they ran a piece *this very same morning* that makes an eerily similar pitch. www.thenation.com/article/poli...