You cannot DEMAND #Francization and then NOT FUND IT... UNLESS your plan is to start rounding up all the anglophones and deporting them from the province of Québec... MAYBE that is The Plan™. https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/federal-mp-denounces-quebec-s-francization-budget-cuts-1.7092178 #CAQASTROPHE #polQC #QCpoli #assnat #polMTL #MTLpoli #cdnpoli #polcan

For morbid reasons of my own I keep an eye on the Apache OpenOffice project's regular reports to the ASF board:

https://whimsy.apache.org/board/minutes/OpenOffice.html

As is normal, the September report says that all is great with the project - community health is always "improving". And they are clearly on top of upcoming problems: "Python 2 is unmaintained. We have in the development tree the external python3 support. Internal python 3 support is difficult. We are checking alternatives." They plan to fix it in "the next major release". The project hasn't made a major release in ten years, so I wouldn't hold my breath...

(OK, so I'm still clearly in a snarky mode, sorry.)

the AI madness has come for Notepad

https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2024/11/06/new-ai-experiences-for-paint-and-notepad-begin-rolling-out-to-windows-insiders/#:~:text=Notepad%20(version%2011.2410.15.0)

Nature's Colors

There were not many birds around the yard this morning, if you don't count the pigeons. I took this photo of a female northern cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis) in the spring.

You know, the photographs that I post here are not quite a vivid as the same photographs that I post at my pixel's gallery, because here, I reduce the size of the photos and usually make a slight reduction in the quality of the photos to make them easier to load.

Take a look:

https://swede1952-photographs.pixels.com

#photo #photography #photographer #photographylovers #wildlife #nature #bird #birds #birding #birdsofmastodon #birdwatching #birdphotography #NorthernCardinal

Peter F. Trent: Anglos aren't to blame for Montreal's anglicization https://montrealgazette.com/opinion/columnists/peter-f-trent-anglos-arent-to-blame-for-montreals-anglicization

We are very happy to present you with GIMP 3.0.0 RC1! 🥳

This is our first release candidate for what will be GIMP 3.0.0. Now is the time for everyone to test!

It is the result of years of work. I'm sure it still has many bugs (and you should report!), but we hope you will still appreciate the new version. 🤗

https://www.gimp.org/news/2024/11/06/gimp-3-0-RC1-released/

"Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar won re-election by comfortable margins and the rest of the party are fighting for their lives in these states. You didn't have to sell your soul for power. You didn't have to stop fighting against genocide. Liberals did all that tap dancing for the GOP for nothing."

https://bsky.app/profile/suavevillain.bsky.social/post/3labpp2mmgl23

The mother of all obeying in advance.

From: @stonekettle
https://www.threads.net/@stonekettle/post/DCCzlIMSyo1

"[Harris'] theory of the election, in which white, suburban voters would carry her to victory, was clearly wrong. Her decision to campaign heavily with the deeply unpopular Liz Cheney convinced no one and likely backfired, alienating progressives and bolstering her connection to a political establishment that many voters of both parties detest."

https://newrepublic.com/article/188055/democrats-lost-election-trump-2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LT3cERVRoQo