Greetings from Vancouver Island. After 46 years as a small town lawyer, I am now retired. I have lived in Qualicum Beach on the east coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia for more than 40 years. The avatar is my great great grandfather James Charles William Walker (b. Glasgow 1820, d. South Tilley NB 1889)
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Last Notes npub17cqfjs6t8xjkdsxh527usf7f9yay2lt6ludyyktjmz0m262zd8wsfdvyh4 Ken Walker :caflag: Hah, let the US pack sand. #elbowsup #canada npub17cqfjs6t8xjkdsxh527usf7f9yay2lt6ludyyktjmz0m262zd8wsfdvyh4 Ken Walker :caflag: I have a laptop that I use with debian that I want to give to grandchildren who are boys up to the age of 12. #Debian is perfect for me, but I am wondering which #Linux distro would be the right choice for kids that have only used android and windows to start out on. Any suggestions? npub17cqfjs6t8xjkdsxh527usf7f9yay2lt6ludyyktjmz0m262zd8wsfdvyh4 Ken Walker :caflag: Yes but . . . Mamdami has it right. It would feel right but it is not within the authority of a city government. Since the US chooses lawlessness for their own advantage, it won't happen. npub17cqfjs6t8xjkdsxh527usf7f9yay2lt6ludyyktjmz0m262zd8wsfdvyh4 Ken Walker :caflag: President #Trump says he will impose #tariffs on Canada because of forest fire smoke entering the US. For Americans only to respond please. Who pays US tariffs on imports from Canada? npub17cqfjs6t8xjkdsxh527usf7f9yay2lt6ludyyktjmz0m262zd8wsfdvyh4 Ken Walker :caflag: "Is it inappropriate to wish that both sides could lose? npub17cqfjs6t8xjkdsxh527usf7f9yay2lt6ludyyktjmz0m262zd8wsfdvyh4 Ken Walker :caflag: The President of the United States of America speaks for his country. npub17cqfjs6t8xjkdsxh527usf7f9yay2lt6ludyyktjmz0m262zd8wsfdvyh4 Ken Walker :caflag: Robot boat’s ill-fated voyage gathers intel for next Victoria school launch npub17cqfjs6t8xjkdsxh527usf7f9yay2lt6ludyyktjmz0m262zd8wsfdvyh4 Ken Walker :caflag: Many share your concern. I must be missing something, but I didn't see differences that felt significant to me with the update to Trixie. Others say they prefer stability as a tradeoff which I take for granted. I use debian on a freedombox server so using the same on my desktop and an ms surface pro 6 felt like a simple choice for me. It is nice to have so many choices. npub17cqfjs6t8xjkdsxh527usf7f9yay2lt6ludyyktjmz0m262zd8wsfdvyh4 Ken Walker :caflag: I settled on Debian because so much else is based on it. I got used to Gnome and now wouldn't want to give it up. npub17cqfjs6t8xjkdsxh527usf7f9yay2lt6ludyyktjmz0m262zd8wsfdvyh4 Ken Walker :caflag: I will ignore the insulting tone. I share your pessimism about congress but what alternative do you see as a solution? npub17cqfjs6t8xjkdsxh527usf7f9yay2lt6ludyyktjmz0m262zd8wsfdvyh4 Ken Walker :caflag: Congress will act if Americans want them to. That is a problem. npub17cqfjs6t8xjkdsxh527usf7f9yay2lt6ludyyktjmz0m262zd8wsfdvyh4 Ken Walker :caflag: It is for congress to do. npub17cqfjs6t8xjkdsxh527usf7f9yay2lt6ludyyktjmz0m262zd8wsfdvyh4 Ken Walker :caflag: The unfitness for office of the US president has risen beyond just obvious to become a clear and present danger to the world. Citing examples is no longer required. The time has come for congress to remove him from office. npub17cqfjs6t8xjkdsxh527usf7f9yay2lt6ludyyktjmz0m262zd8wsfdvyh4 Ken Walker :caflag: Truth be told you are on more than one list but not that one, so far at least, and that's all I will say. ;-) npub17cqfjs6t8xjkdsxh527usf7f9yay2lt6ludyyktjmz0m262zd8wsfdvyh4 Ken Walker :caflag: :-) npub17cqfjs6t8xjkdsxh527usf7f9yay2lt6ludyyktjmz0m262zd8wsfdvyh4 Ken Walker :caflag: You will have to guess! ;-) npub17cqfjs6t8xjkdsxh527usf7f9yay2lt6ludyyktjmz0m262zd8wsfdvyh4 Ken Walker :caflag: Following many accounts produces a busy and interesting timeline. It makes the #fediverse work for me. The next level is to use lists. Each account I follow gets added to at least one #list Some are geographic, political, particular topics or other interests. I have a Thinkers list for smart folks. I have a Wary list for accounts I have doubts about. I have an Add2Cat list for new accounts I follow. I can view any list like a separate themed timeline and it helps me catch stuff I would miss npub17cqfjs6t8xjkdsxh527usf7f9yay2lt6ludyyktjmz0m262zd8wsfdvyh4 Ken Walker :caflag: Another #trumptax. npub17cqfjs6t8xjkdsxh527usf7f9yay2lt6ludyyktjmz0m262zd8wsfdvyh4 Ken Walker :caflag: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp94v42gmg9o npub17cqfjs6t8xjkdsxh527usf7f9yay2lt6ludyyktjmz0m262zd8wsfdvyh4 Ken Walker :caflag: "It’s important to note that this isn’t anti-Americanism. It’s post-Americanism. Countries are not trying to isolate the US, they are trying to insulate themselves from its volatility." npub17cqfjs6t8xjkdsxh527usf7f9yay2lt6ludyyktjmz0m262zd8wsfdvyh4 Ken Walker :caflag: https://mg.co.za/thought-leader/2025-07-29-reciprocity-or-retaliation-the-semantics-of-us-trade-power/ npub17cqfjs6t8xjkdsxh527usf7f9yay2lt6ludyyktjmz0m262zd8wsfdvyh4 Ken Walker :caflag: I just tried to post information on FB about #fedicon in Vancouver Aug 1 & 2 which they bounced with a phony excuse, one more reason why I will be attending this event. Any others from #vancouverisland #bc planning to go who want to ride share? npub17cqfjs6t8xjkdsxh527usf7f9yay2lt6ludyyktjmz0m262zd8wsfdvyh4 Ken Walker :caflag: I have met many Americans over recent months. I have no remaining hope for them as a nation and sympathize with only a few of them. Many of them regard my concern about their threat to our sovereignty as something to laugh about. When challenged, they say I don't have a sense of humour. I have taken to saying that it is about as funny as their mother's cancer diagnosis. They never get the point but at least their sneering stops. #canada npub17cqfjs6t8xjkdsxh527usf7f9yay2lt6ludyyktjmz0m262zd8wsfdvyh4 Ken Walker :caflag: So #Taco Don tells a string of lies and flees the #G7. His irrelevance grows as America declines. It is an opportunity for genuine world leaders to collaborate on peace and success without having to hold their noses. npub17cqfjs6t8xjkdsxh527usf7f9yay2lt6ludyyktjmz0m262zd8wsfdvyh4 Ken Walker :caflag: Interesting but I have to say as a new graphenos user on a P9a, it feels perfect to me. npub17cqfjs6t8xjkdsxh527usf7f9yay2lt6ludyyktjmz0m262zd8wsfdvyh4 Ken Walker :caflag: @npub1kwa…e0nj npub17cqfjs6t8xjkdsxh527usf7f9yay2lt6ludyyktjmz0m262zd8wsfdvyh4 Ken Walker :caflag: Trump is being Trump and putting the screws to people needing pharmaceuticals in the US. It is time to remember the risk of Americans draining our drug supply by buying ours to avoid their high prices. We should cut off drug exports to the US from #Canada npub17cqfjs6t8xjkdsxh527usf7f9yay2lt6ludyyktjmz0m262zd8wsfdvyh4 Ken Walker :caflag: Things could be worse. I haven't heard of Roger Stone, Michael Flynn, Rudy Giuliani or Paul Manafort lately. npub17cqfjs6t8xjkdsxh527usf7f9yay2lt6ludyyktjmz0m262zd8wsfdvyh4 Ken Walker :caflag: I have run out of gift links, but here is why #Canada should align itself with Europe, perhaps even join the #EU instead of the failing state to our south. npub17cqfjs6t8xjkdsxh527usf7f9yay2lt6ludyyktjmz0m262zd8wsfdvyh4 Ken Walker :caflag: Excellent. Thanks for putting this together npub17cqfjs6t8xjkdsxh527usf7f9yay2lt6ludyyktjmz0m262zd8wsfdvyh4 Ken Walker :caflag: I hope at least one of the North American servers is located outside the US npub17cqfjs6t8xjkdsxh527usf7f9yay2lt6ludyyktjmz0m262zd8wsfdvyh4 Ken Walker :caflag: Being Putin’s stooge won’t win Trump a peace prize. The Order of Lenin, though, is in the bag | Simon Tisdall npub17cqfjs6t8xjkdsxh527usf7f9yay2lt6ludyyktjmz0m262zd8wsfdvyh4 Ken Walker :caflag: When Trump quits providing intelligence to #Ukraine is there any reason to believe he isn't providing that information to Putin? It would be in character for the traitor. npub17cqfjs6t8xjkdsxh527usf7f9yay2lt6ludyyktjmz0m262zd8wsfdvyh4 Ken Walker :caflag: They should leave because they can't be trusted and appear to be traitors. Not fit to be allies. npub17cqfjs6t8xjkdsxh527usf7f9yay2lt6ludyyktjmz0m262zd8wsfdvyh4 Ken Walker :caflag: Thanks for this, sounds great. I wonder what happens if this is posted to FB? npub17cqfjs6t8xjkdsxh527usf7f9yay2lt6ludyyktjmz0m262zd8wsfdvyh4 Ken Walker :caflag: I sometimes used his assassination as an example, everyone could remember what they were doing when they heard it had happened but it has been a while. When I realized that President Obama would not have remembered, I gave that up. npub17cqfjs6t8xjkdsxh527usf7f9yay2lt6ludyyktjmz0m262zd8wsfdvyh4 Ken Walker :caflag: Canada should refuse to accept the credentials of Trump's ambassador to #Canada as long at they challenge our sovereignty. npub17cqfjs6t8xjkdsxh527usf7f9yay2lt6ludyyktjmz0m262zd8wsfdvyh4 Ken Walker :caflag: Canada should join the EU. npub17cqfjs6t8xjkdsxh527usf7f9yay2lt6ludyyktjmz0m262zd8wsfdvyh4 Ken Walker :caflag: I use Debian/Gnome on an Surface Pro 6 and it works very well. Great for travel. npub17cqfjs6t8xjkdsxh527usf7f9yay2lt6ludyyktjmz0m262zd8wsfdvyh4 Ken Walker :caflag: Basic income ‘won’t stop people working’: lessons from Canada npub17cqfjs6t8xjkdsxh527usf7f9yay2lt6ludyyktjmz0m262zd8wsfdvyh4 Ken Walker :caflag: The US Supreme Court, routinely plagued by partisan bias, has given up legitimacy. Why is it not more of an election issue? npub17cqfjs6t8xjkdsxh527usf7f9yay2lt6ludyyktjmz0m262zd8wsfdvyh4 Ken Walker :caflag: Your comment about wanting to sync across platforms changed my thinking. After setting up Thunderbird and rediscovering RSS, a hardware issue in the laptop I am using underlined the need to have a central repository for my feeds. I run a freedombox server. It has TinyTinyRSS and RSSBridge available. There is a mobile app. This may be a solution. npub17cqfjs6t8xjkdsxh527usf7f9yay2lt6ludyyktjmz0m262zd8wsfdvyh4 Ken Walker :caflag: Which #Dem #VP pick was the best? #uspol npub17cqfjs6t8xjkdsxh527usf7f9yay2lt6ludyyktjmz0m262zd8wsfdvyh4 Ken Walker :caflag: I am setting it up on a laptop and when I get home on a desktop both running Debian. I will see how that goes using both. I also use an android phone using K9 mail. I haven't looked into that. npub17cqfjs6t8xjkdsxh527usf7f9yay2lt6ludyyktjmz0m262zd8wsfdvyh4 Ken Walker :caflag: As a Thunderbird user, I thought I would try it's RSS reader function. No?
