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May Likes Toronto
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Aspiring auntie with dadjoke uncle energy. Genderfluid queerdo. Former career nomad settling into building better tech companies. Community educator and organizer […]

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jesstheunstill.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy
Legit what the fuck is happening? I just went to bed early last night, woke up, played some games for an hour or two, and now ... Gestures broadly. Yes I've read the news reports so this is a rhetorical question but what the fuck
January 3, 2026 at 5:09 PM
mayintoronto.beige.party.ap.brid.gy
I took out the trash.

Please clap.
January 3, 2026 at 4:41 AM
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jesstheunstill.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy
Lord of the Slop wants us to stop calling AI slop Slop.

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/microsoft-ceo-satya-nadella-really-wants-you-to-stop-calling-ai-slop-in-2026
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella really wants you to stop calling AI "slop" in 2026 — "We are beginning to distinguish between spectacle and substance."
In closing comments of 2025, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella shared an update on the state of things going into 2026 — and it's all about ... AI. Sigh.
www.windowscentral.com
January 3, 2026 at 2:22 AM
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futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy
In other "non-computer obsessed people" AI news I had a big breakthrough with my mom. She has been writing these self-published books with the local historical society about the Civil War graves in the Pittsburgh area. I think it's great. Books like that don't get much attention but someday some […]
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sauropods.win
January 2, 2026 at 11:57 AM
mayintoronto.beige.party.ap.brid.gy
We should pay attention to China's attempt to regulate AI chat bots to protect their citizens from harm. I think it's a good first approach to public safety.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/12/china-drafts-worlds-strictest-rules-to-end-ai-encouraged-suicide-violence/

The CNBC article […]
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beige.party
January 2, 2026 at 1:40 AM
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chris.mstdn.chrisalemany.ca.ap.brid.gy
if there is trouble with impersonation accounts being created en-masse, perhaps open registration is not a good idea?

#subtoot #mastodon #spam
January 2, 2026 at 12:56 AM
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potterybyosa.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Happy New Year! Today is also Imani (Faith), the last day of #kwanzaa which we have been celebrating as a community since the day after Christmas. We gathered and ate food from the African diaspora: jollof rice, jerk chicken, etc. I also made the unity cup […]

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A few of us who have been attending the Kwanzaa celebration all week decided to take a photo together after we ate. There are five of us standing in a row, four Black people and one Asian woman. The sky is blue behind us.
January 1, 2026 at 10:05 PM
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skinnylatte.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy
There’s a ton of swingers and sex clubs here (not even mildly controversial just a fact of life) and i don’t feel any way about them, other than ‘what if you accidentally end up in an orgy with a VC’
January 2, 2026 at 12:19 AM
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skinnylatte.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy
I just read about people being asked to show their LinkedIn to get into clubs in SF

This is why I don’t go out anymore
January 1, 2026 at 11:20 PM
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skinnylatte.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy
For Canada:

- ramen raijin and crafty ramen. No personal experience but ramen community folks seem to like them

https://shop.ramenraijin.com/collections/frozen-ramen

- there are also some very good boxed sets (not frozen) from brands like Ippudo and Ichiran. I enjoy those too
Frozen Ramen
It is frozen ramen that can be taken out of the bag and put in a saucepan to warm it. Less than 10 mins cooking. Suitable for gas stoves, IH stoves, and electric stoves.
shop.ramenraijin.com
January 1, 2026 at 9:47 PM
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assignedmale.bsky.social
The best of 2025 : Accountabiility.
4 frame comic. a street reporter approaches a man wearing a big hoodie, asking : sir! how much do you think we should hold feminism accountable for the male loneliness epidemic? he replies : there is no meaningful difference between the rates of loneliness between men and women*. the reason we're always talking about men's is that they're making it everyone else's problem. A note under the frame adds : *in fact, several studies (graham & ong, 2024; cigna & morning consult, 2021) suggest that more women experience loneliness than men. In the 3rd frame, he says : according to research*, the primary reason that men isolate themselves is because they feel incapable of living up to rigid gendered expectations. the far-right exploits that vulnerability to radicalize young men. another note under the frame adds a source : *the state of american men 2025, equimundo: center for masculinities and social justice. fourth frame : If anything, feminism is the solution to men's loneliness. let's deconstruct the gender norms that hurt everyone, before these techno-fascists divide us even more.
January 1, 2026 at 6:54 PM
mayintoronto.beige.party.ap.brid.gy
The Sun is playing peekaboo behind white floofy clouds. #dlws
January 1, 2026 at 6:56 PM
mayintoronto.beige.party.ap.brid.gy
This meme thread is ridiculous and I love it.
https://beige.party/@mayintoronto/115815273371891720
May Likes Toronto (@mayintoronto@beige.party)
Attached: 1 image My favourite meme of 2025. What's yours? (Please alt text your memes and CW Trump/Epstein stuff. No AI trash please.) #askfedi #memes
beige.party
January 1, 2026 at 4:43 PM
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fritzoids.mas.to.ap.brid.gy
@micr0

just to add my experience with altbot onto the compost pile: When altbot wrote an alt-text for me because I forgot to write one, I wrote my own alt-text, simply because the text provided did not convey what was important to me about the graph I had posted. But I needed the reminder to […]
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mas.to
December 30, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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micr0.wetdry.world.ap.brid.gy
i turned off altbot for now.

a conversation happened that i need to sit with and that i want others to read and also to consider: https://ieji.de/@anantagd/115804706509841365
#BlindAltBot (@anantagd@ieji.de)
@nelson@wetdry.world I am blind. Seeing people who think I'm not worth the effort fill my timeline with AltBot generated AI stuff that isn't even accurate in lots of cases. Human alt text is always better, because it doesn´t focus on ocular seeing. Seeing people think, and AltBot was designed around that notion, that blind people must compensate for missing "eye-seeing", but that's not the case. I am interested in the meaning of an image to you, its maker or publisher. Again, human alt text is better, also because it strengthens reciprocity between seeing and blind people. AltBot doesn't but it makes seeing people believe they have done their bit for accessibility. In actuality, the reverse is often true. !!!!!!!!!
ieji.de
December 30, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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paul.oldfriends.live.ap.brid.gy
#happynewyear. This is the 4th New Year I've entered with the #fediverse. It really feels like a town square or community center, just like social media is supposed to be like, imo.

Being homebound, when I log on to the Fediverse, it is me "going to town." I go with you to your concerts, I hike […]
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oldfriends.live
January 1, 2026 at 7:25 AM
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mayintoronto.beige.party.ap.brid.gy
My favourite meme of 2025. What's yours? (Please alt text your memes and CW Trump/Epstein stuff.)

#askfedi #memes
A fake news-screenshot that's made to look like a still from CNN. Live breaking news! Judith Butler begins holy war. Quoted as saying "The age of thinking machines is at an end."
December 31, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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forpeterssake.mastodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy
@mayintoronto
Three-panel comic with two people seated next to each other. Panel 1 Person 1: Let's not talk about politics anymore, I can't bear it Person 2: Same Panel 2 The two sit together in silence Panel 3 Person 1: THE THING IS THOUGH Person 2: THOSE FUCKING IDIOTS
January 1, 2026 at 1:29 AM
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servelan.newsie.social.ap.brid.gy
👍 👏 Zohran Mamdani Is Sworn In as Mayor of New York City - The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/nyregion/mamdani-mayor-swearing-in.html
January 1, 2026 at 5:56 AM
mayintoronto.beige.party.ap.brid.gy
New Toronto bookshop that sells exclusively romance books. https://hopelessromanticbooks.ca/pages/locations

#toronto
Stores
A bookstore specializing in selling romance books and accompanying merchandise like shirts, posters, bookmarks. Small business and female owned. In downtown Toronto. Online store as well as physical location. Ships to all over the world.
hopelessromanticbooks.ca
January 1, 2026 at 5:22 AM
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mayintoronto.beige.party.ap.brid.gy
Toronto transit is free tonight. ❤️ Friends don't let friends drink and drive.
January 1, 2026 at 12:59 AM
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mikelovesbikes.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy
@mayintoronto I've misplaced the image for the fifth so the alt text will have to do:

Picture of a white fist clutching a Canadian 10 dollar bill. There's text reading "Just got back from my new job at the money factory"
Discord message: "My balls itch" [with four scissors emoji reactions] Headline from The Onion: "Man Without Racist Bone in Body Diagnosed with Severe Brain Racism" [stock image of some guy] A screenshot of my trying to visit the subreddit r/Amish. There are no posts in it. Tumblr post by EvilScientist3: "girl is that a 9/11 in your pocket. Or is your penis just two of them and exploding" ["of" is misspelled as "ofd"] Someone replied, using tumblr's tagging system: "this is nothing. this is nothing. you guys gotta stop" to which EvilScientist3 replied: "you just hate my 2 exploding penises." 55.8k notes, June 21, 2023
January 1, 2026 at 4:17 AM
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hashraydamon.me.dm.ap.brid.gy
@mayintoronto I made this one and honestly I stand by it
Mock O'Reilly cover about Writting Readable Terms of service
January 1, 2026 at 4:17 AM
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futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy
@mayintoronto

Totally doing a Bene Gesserit costume for Halloween next year. Starting the planning now.
January 1, 2026 at 2:53 AM
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edwing.mstdn.moimeme.ca
@mayintoronto Why Ottawa and Toronto is free while Montréal has to pay 😢

This is stupid by the province of Québec!
January 1, 2026 at 1:28 AM