Marquise de What 🇨🇦

@marquisedewhat@ohai.social
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Settler in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal
Communications & arts generalist. Recovering Cassandra. #covidisairborne #unlearning #allyship #healing #progressive #neurodiverse #whalenerd #never51
Intuition is advanced pattern recognition
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On Mastodon attempting to remain semi-informed and semi-relevant to fight my feraldom.
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Music PlatformBandcamp, bitches
@AlisonCreekside I’m losing track of the levels of cover up. Is it quadruple? Quintuple? More? The soldiers that posted and/or knew about it, the COs of the regiment, the military legal staff at the Judge Advocate General’s office, and the military police that handed the investigation right back into the Cameron Highlanders’ hands? That allegedly none of these parties except whistleblowers informed CAF Commander Wright?
Multilevel dishonour.
They don’t deserve that blue hackle.
Perhaps an investigation into CAF soldiers posting about Jews and rape and f*gs alongside photos of their genitals should not be handed off to a reserve officer from the very same regiment after being passed over by the commander, the military police, and the JAG.👀
https://ottawacitizen.com/public-service/defence-watch/army-commander-ottawa-soldiers-facebook-group
Army commander was kept in the dark about Ottawa soldiers’ 'abhorrent' Facebook group

Lt.-Gen. Michael Wright said he didn’t know about the Blue Hackle Mafia until he was asked about it by the Ottawa Citizen.

Ottawa Citizen

@artemis

men will burn everything to the ground before they hire a qualified therapist and become better humans

women owe men NOTHING - not a smile, not a conversation, not attention, not a date, for sure not sex, not marriage, NOTHING

dear men,
grow up, adapt just like the rest of us, become self-sufficient and stop requiring all women to be your mommy, your cook and your housekeeper

feel free to share that with your brother....yikes

many people talk about how your instance admin can read your dms, but most don't. only on void.rehab do i dedicate two hours every day to reading each and every dm you send. because i care

RIP Mark Snow. He's probably best-known for creating The X-Files theme, but my favorite of his work was the music for a little-known movie called "Jake Speed."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pQHDlFdxUk

https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/mark-snow-x-files-ghost-whisperer-blue-bloods-composer-dies-at-78/ar-AA1HZbYT

End Credits - Mark Snow - Jake Speed

YouTube

One thing I've learned:

If you're deeply questioning whether or not you may be able to apply a certain label to yourself... you can, pretty much all of the time.

You think you might be trans? You are.

You think you might be a furry? Join the club!

You think you might be a dragon? Heck yeah, be one with me!!

You think you might be gay? That's a yes.

Embrace labels that help you define who you are. They can sometimes vary in definition, but if you feel it can apply to you, use it! Not only will it help you, it'll help others identify with you and maybe make you some new friends, or help you find people to help guide you along your path of discovery.

Your experiences and life are yours. Feel free to experiment and see what works best for you! You're allowed to change your mind later!

💙💙💙

@APBBlue I’m seeing that the co-washing trend is excellent for improving the texture of cuts like yours, without trimming.
@APBBlue yes it is. My mom used to do something magical by adding some celery seeds and a dash of sugar, but by then it was elevated beyond coleslaw. Must look through her cookbooks for that recipe.

By the way, this article I wrote for Pride Month on queer dating apps is also applicable to anyone using any dating apps.

I highly recommend a read if
you are currently using a dating app,
or have been in the past and have not deleted your data and account yet:

https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/06/24/queer-dating-apps-beware-who-you-trust/

#Privacy #DatingApps #Dating #QueerDatingApps #SurveillanceCapitalism #AgeVerification

Queer Dating Apps: Beware Who You Trust With Your Intimate Data

At the intersection of data privacy and LGBTQ+ experiences, it's inevitable to talk about queer dating apps. Unfortunately, most are horrible for data privacy.

Privacy Guides

New blog post about "The coolest way to find shaded paths: Vampire routing on routing.osm.ch".

See https://sosm.ch/the-coolest-way-to-find-shady-paths-vampire-routing-on-routing-osm-ch/

#OSMinside #OpenStreetMap #Routing #UrbanHeat #SOSM

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New blog post about "The coolest way to find shaded paths: Vampire routing on routing.osm.ch".

See https://sosm.ch/the-coolest-way-to-find-shady-paths-vampire-routing-on-routing-osm-ch/

#OSMinside #OpenStreetMap #Routing #UrbanHeat #SOSM

@sfkeller „shady“ ist etwas vorbelastet mit der anderen Bedeutung als „zwielichtig“, dachte erst wieso will man einen zwielichtigen Weg bevorzugen 😅
Besser wäre vielleicht „shaded“ (dt. beschattet)?
@lx @sfkeller shady - zwielichtig - twilight - vampir
ich finds passend
@sfkeller “Luke, come to the dark side. You have no hat nor sunscreen”.
@sfkeller I might have not read thouroughly enough, but it seems like these routing calculations are currently limited to Switzerland. When I try it out with points in a German city it is setting a waypoint directing to Zurich in between.
Gladly no such option for vampires here.
@haecks @sfkeller I tried setting start and end points in my city in Poland and the route was through Switzerland too. Completely unexpected tbh
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@sfkeller I hope there will be a OpenStreetMap plugin for this
@sfkeller Great idea. I recently changed my cycle path to bike through the forest while it was so extremly hot. So a vampire mode for cycling would also be interesting.
@sfkeller Once in a blue moon, there suddenly is a REAL good app created! Very original and sophisticated: simple but very useful.

@sfkeller @lesekaffee Great!

What we need next is a "spirit mode" (also referred to as "ghost" or "phantom" mode), returning the shortest path between two points that is entirely uncovered by CCTV.

@Datterich @sfkeller @lesekaffee I've thought about that. In theory it's quite simple to avoid CCTV when routing, but the tagging scheme on OSM would have to change similar to how speed cameras are mapped. In most cases, only the cameras are mapped, but there is no relation to the surveiled ways. Calculating that based on the position and orientation would require a lot of processing and would result in many false positives.

#OSM #surveillance

@sfkeller how is that calculated? Building hight, orientation, street width and material, trees?

@sfkeller

can't even express how much I love those techy nerdy independend and suporting FOSS projects!

@sfkeller can we maybe have this in @CoMaps?
@sfkeller SIngapore needs this, @cheeaun 🙂

@sohkamyung not easy 😁

I used to spent some time on this, mainly to avoid heat and also rain; looking at buildings (shadow) data, trees (crown shadow) data and covered walkpaths data. Still not enough. It probably works well for other cities, but for Singapore as a all-year-summer city-country, we have far more covered walk options (HDB open areas, underground passages, walking through malls, etc).

@sfkeller use an umbrella....
@robertgarrigos umbrellas help some (definitely to reduce sunburn risk), but in the city, most surfaces you walk on heat up a lot when they're in the sunlight, and they radiate that heat. A surface that's not been in direct sunlight for a while will be cooler and more pleasant to walk on.
It's one aspect that leads to "urban heat islands" (aka cities are warmer than countryside), because surfaces like asphalt radiate more heat than a field. (Other factors include cars, air conditioning, etc)
@sfkeller neat... but how about actually doing something against the heat?
Trees for example can do quite a bit to bring down the heat!
Make even australian city centers rather comfy to walk in...
@sfkeller lässt sich das irgendwie zu Graphhopper hinzufügen?