Richard W. Woodley 🇨🇦🌹🚴‍♂️

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Retired Parliamentary Indexer. Socialist, political observer and sometime activist with HBA in Political Science, Laurentian University, 1973. Outdoorsperson, environmentalist, cyclist and former mountain biker. Amateur photographer and mapmaker.
#canpoli #ottbike #ottpoli #ottawa #photography
My Blog (5th Column)https://the5thc.blogspot.com/
My GPS Maps Sitehttps://gpstrailmaps.blogspot.com/
My YouTube Channelhttps://www.youtube.com/@richardwwoodley/videos
Steve Paikin: On one score, no one matches Stephen Lewis

The former Ontario NDP leader, Ambassador to the UN and UN Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa, reminded us of the hope in politics

Toronto Star

From the when you thought things couldn't get any stupider file - how to lower electricity costs by using more electricity.

https://www.wired.com/review/heatbit-maxi-pro-bitcoin-miner-heater/

I Tried to Offset Horrible Heating Bills With a Bitcoin Miner

Electricity rates have gotten so atrocious that this Heatbit wants to offset your costs with bitcoin mining. But the math doesn't add up.

WIRED
CBC Gem is such a good deal at $5.99 (ad free) compared to other streaming sites. Lots of great Canadian and international content especially documentaries and free/live tv news feeds across the country.
#Canada #News #Documentaries
https://gem.cbc.ca/
CBC Gem

Watch popular shows like Schitt's Creek, Luther, Kim's Convenience, plus Films and Live TV on any device

Headline from the Wired magazine newsletter:
"The $1 Million Aston Martin Valhalla Makes You Drive Better Than You Thought Possible"

i dunno, a million dollars can buy a lot of driving lessons.

Although I suspect people who own million dollar cars don't care much about driving lesson or road laws.

The customary introduction post, pinned for now.

I moved here from mstdn.ca partly as a result of the controversy there but also because ottawa.place is where I would have been if I knew about it when I first came to Mastodon.

I also have a blog ( http://the5thc.blogspot.com/ ) and a GPS maps site ( https://gpstrailmaps.blogspot.com/ ) and a youtube channel which is mostly slideshows of my photos ( https://www.youtube.com/@richardwwoodley/videos ).

My bio here reads: Retired Parliamentary Indexer. Socialist, political observer and sometime activist with HBA in Political Science, Laurentian University, 1973. Outdoorsperson, environmentalist, cyclist and former mountain biker. Amateur photographer and mapmaker.
#canpoli #ottbike #ottpoli #ottawa #photography

And I see I have already taken advantage of the over 500 character limit.

THE FIFTH COLUMN

"This column is dedicated to the proposition that Canada (and indeed the world) is in a crisis situation and that fundamental social change is required to remedy this situation." - The First Column, Lambda November 2, 1971 This blog is inspired by my column of the same name in the Laurentian University Newspaper, Lambda, from 1971-1973. The title refers to the concept of subverting the system from within. To read key excerpts from those columns read the first few posts in this blog.

So is there a link somewhere to #donate to #ottawaplace
#OttawaPlace question. Is ther a place where my followed #hashtags are listed. I do it see it under Follows
I see quite a list of followers, some might be new. I will try and review them all to decide who to follow back.
As is my custom every week I change my Desktop PC wallpaper and this is my latest version from our Portugal Bike Tour, May 2025, Panasonic FZ300 photo edited.
OK, I'm here now. It seems to have gone smoothly. But looking to get used to any minor differences in the interface.