StillPaisleyCat

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Even Carney makes grammar mistakes in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

You’re tripping yourself up on the difference between British English and American English. Canadian English is tolerant of both forms.

Oxford, where he wrote his thesis, would require ‘an’ before ‘historic’. When Governor of Bank of England, he would have had to have been careful to use British English.

If you’re a Canadian using American spelling and grammar checkers to define your language, you might wish to reconsider that. MS Word does have Canadian and UK English options.

What can't you find a Made in Canada version of? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Good to know.

Perhaps the major changes in the market might lead to some of the foundries rethinking their willingness to do smaller runs.

There are so many Canadian small producers that have stopped producing as manufacturing moved south for economies of scale..

A River of Yarn - Peterborough Ontario based store with "Luxury crochet knitting yarns" in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

What I would like to see here is Canadian sourced yarn.

Canadian spun yarn from Canadian sourced fibres do exist but are harder to find.

There are also many small Canadian dyers but unfortunately many are buying imported merino yarn that is not ethically sourced.

There are lots of great yarn stores across Canada selling lovely imported yarns as this one is. Especially when this stores’ promoted partners, such as Pacific Yarns, are based in the USA.

I’m sincerely not sure what promoting them does for buying Canadian. I don’t see a focus on promoting Canadian yarn on their main page and the brands listed aren’t specifically Canadian.

Spinrite used to be a Canadian yarn maker but it’s more complicated now, and many of their yarns are available at big box stores.

"American Woman" by The Guess Who in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

Perhaps because there’s a big dose of misogyny intertwined with the critique of American Exceptionalism.

Think about how the song would play with genders reversed.

Trying to ditch Visa. Are Canadian store credit cards Canadian? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 weeks ago

I think you’ll find that many store cards are really Visa or Mastercard.

Many Canadian store cards used to be owned by the stores. Some of the department store ones were very profitable.

However, many firms ‘rationalized’ by getting out of what was seen as a financial services business line to focus on their core retail. Weston’s with PC Financial is an exception - but for many consumers there are other reasons not to go with Loblaws/PC branded financial products.

What can't you find a Made in Canada version of? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

There are, or at least were, Canadian cast iron makers.

Unfortunately, they seem to rely on Facebook.

See: https://castironcanada.com/

Also, it’s not clear which of these businesses are actually still operating. For example, Bristol Iron Works in Huntsville ON has a danger flagged website and a FB page that hasn’t been updated in years.

Sales of US Travel guides have collapsed in Quebec, library owners say. People are now buying travel guides about New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Also, you don’t want to be looking to log into dodgy wifi when travelling with a burner phone to another country.

Physical guides are more secure and don’t require downloading to a burner device.

Should we make a list of MPs who have Mastodon or BlueSky? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

I believe one or two of the new senators have joined Mastodon as well but haven’t seen much from them yet.

Mittens with QR code knit into them break when Google gets rid of its URL shortener in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Mastodon is very techy. It’s getting good traction there.

So I fell in love with a shawl design in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Just be sure to wash and block before connecting the blocks.

So I fell in love with a shawl design in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I love making samples, so working up 8 x 8” / 20 x 20 cm samples of a lot of different stitches is fun for me.

There’s an old Bernat pattern that I have for an Afghan made of squares of very many different classic crochet stitches. It’s a great practice and skill building project.

If you choose a good palette of solid colour yarn, it works out nicely. If that kind of throw isn’t the kind of thing you like in your home, they’re always a gift or charity option.

Alternative for Burt's Bees? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Another excellent European product is Weleda from Germany.

We switched to that for lip balm because Burt’s Bees has soy in it and we had a family member with a sensitivity.

For hand and body cream, we’re just trying Nova Scotia Fisherman now. So far, after just a couple of weeks, it’s great.

For facial skin care, have been using Maritime Naturals for a couple of years. Excellent product.

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Last day for Star Trek Day sale on Steam (Sept 8-15) (startrek.website)
 

Several Star Trek licensed games are on Steam, now at a significantly discounted price for the annual Star Trek Day celebration.

These include the MMP Star Trek Online, but also single player games Star Trek Bridge Crew and Star Trek Resurgence (a choose your own path role play game).

We’d waited until Resurgence came to Steam, because we did want to buy it from Epic, but decided to be even more patient and wait for a sale so we could get it for our teens as well. I’ve been playing in parallel with one of our teens and debating the impacts of our very different choices.

I have had Bridge Crew since 2022, but we got copies for the teens yesterday. One is into it. It requires running an Ubisoft account synched to Steam which can be annoying, but otherwise G2G.

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Confirmed! - CTV has the Prodigy season 2 licence (startrek.website)
 

Having reached my exasperation on the total lack of information from Bell Media on a Canadian release, I asked @[email protected] if he or the Hagemans could share any information. Here is his reply on Mastodon.

It’s great to have EPs who will engage with us.

I’m still gearing up my recipes for a Star Trek Prodigy Soirée for the premiere!

In case you haven’t seen this, CBS entertainment sponsored a social media influencer to develop watch party ideas for the Prodigy Season 1 finale Supernova Soirée .

I’ve been experimenting and building on some of these ideas for the premiere of season two. One of Canada’s favourite ice cream brands has this interesting suggestion for A triple-berry yogurt sorbet float punch that seems very Star Trek Prodigy themed.

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Variety - Top Marketing & Communications Executive leaving Paramount Global (variety.com)
 

More departures of former Viacom senior executives from Paramount Global in the wake of Baklish’s firing.

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'Ivory Tower', likely aka 'Starfleet Academy' preproduction rumoured to start in March (startrek.website)
 

The Directors Guild of Canada (Ontario) ‘Hot List’ compilation of Ontario-based production information has been updated with a new CBS Studios show ‘Ivory Tower’ to begin Accounting & Art Department preproduction in March.

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Friends don't let friends try. . . (startrek.website)
 

While all TAS episodes had some kind of moral lesson, S1 E10 was an outright criticism of substance use.

M’Ress and Scotty, unwittingly exposed, end up enamoured then incensed with one another. One is never sure how different that is from a Caitian’s usual romantic style.

Chapel comes off badly in this one. As Spock puts it “A few moments of love, paid for with several hours of hatred.” It’s all the more poignant given SNW’s deepening of their backstory.

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Thank you, Lucy! (startrek.website)
 
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No one has ever known we were among you... until now. (startrek.website)
 
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James McKinnon confirms creative differences likely a factor in Kelvin 4 failure to start production in 2022 (trekmovie.com)
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As much as most of us have long had any remaining interest in a fourth Kelvin movie long exhausted by the endless repetition of hype and failure, there does seem to be more confirmation of significant creative differences on the script that was in development in 2022.

James MacKinnon, longtime makeup designer, shared some context during an interview on his work on Picard and future ambitions. He explained that he was hired by Matt Shankman in 2022 to work on preproduction but was fired after a week when the work shut down.

“We were supposed to shoot in the middle of [2022] and it was supposed to come out the following year [2023], but I think a script rewrite went in a different direction.”

This aligns with previous comments from Zoe Saldaña that creative issues around the script were a factor in the movie not going ahead.

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'The Trial never ends . . .' Global premiere! Migleemo - Hemmer : Fix that which is broken #1 (startrek.website)
 

I have realized that I need a new editing tool that will let me use panels with more than 6 frames.

A private message with a recommendation would be appreciated sincerely.

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Tired of 'Car Talk' with Gowron? Here's the podcast c/risa really needs... (startrek.website)
 

Anyone interested?

I can see so much potential for guidance from a telepathic Aenar engineer & an avianoid counsellor.

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Paramount+ confirms series order for 'Starfleet Academy' (www.startrek.com)
 

While there was an announcement shortly before the WGA strike, and Alex Kurtzman confirmed the writers room is back up and at work during an NYCC panel, Paramount+ is moving forward on promotional information about the forthcoming new ‘Starfleet Academy’ show.

Will be keeping an eye out for information about preproduction design work starting up in Ontario.

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What kind of weird really engages and trends with Trek fans? (startrek.website)
 

My contribution to the fediverse’ #MakeYourOwnMoopsyMonth challenge.

Be gentle, I’m a novice meme-creator.

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