HïMY SYeD🟩

"STAR WARS

Episode IV

A New Hope

The Story of an orphaned boy who becomes radicalized after a military strike kills his family.

He is indoctrined into an ancient religion,

Joins a band of rebel insurgents,

And carries out a terrorist attack on a government installation that kills 300,000 people."

| #StarWars #EpisodeIV #StarWarsEpisodeIV #ANewHope #LukeSkywalker #Treatment #MayThe4thBeWithYou #StarWarsDay #MayThe4th

@mayintoronto@beige.party Mann: "May, pigeons will come, May.

"They'll come to Main Station for reasons they can't even fathom.

"They'll fly through your turnstile, not knowing for sure why they're doing it.

"They'll arrive at your door as innocent as children, longing for the past.

"Of course, we won't mind if you look around," you'll say.

"It's only twenty dollars per pigeon."

"They'll tap their PrestoCard without even thinking about it.

"For it is money they have and peace they lack."

"And they'll walk out to the platform, & sit with wings-spread on a perfect afternoon.

"They'll find they have reserved seats somewhere along one of the baselines, where they sat when they were children and cheered their heroes.

"And they'll watch the game, & it'll be as if they'd dipped themselves in magic waters.

"The memories will be so thick, they'll have to brush them away from their faces.

"The one constant through all the years, May, has been pigeons.

"Oh, pigeons will come, May. Pigeons will most definitely come."

The History of Canadian Muslims in Toronto Jane’s Walk - Sunday May 3 2026

This Jane’s Walk explains how 3rd, 4th, & 5th Generation Muslim Torontonians helped build our city.

Walk Stops include :

• Toronto’s FIRST Halal Butcher Shop – Roncesvalles Village
• Jami Mosque – Toronto’s Second Islamic Centre and its national significance
• The little known history of The Albanian Muslim Society of Toronto – The pivotal role of its founder, Reggie Assim, Toronto’s First Imam
• The Dundas Street Mosque – The City’s First Masjid

ALSO on this year’s Jane’s Walk :

• History of the First Synagogue in the old/former city of West Toronto

WALK LEADER : HïMY SYeD

DATE : Sunday May 3 2026

START TIME : 2:30 p.m.

WALK START LOCATION : Dundas-Roncesvalles Peace Garden (2201 Dundas Street West at Roncesvalles Avenue opposite Boustead Avenue), TORONTO

http://30Masjids.ca/30-more-janes-walk-the-history-of-canadian-muslims-in-toronto-sunday-may-3-2026/

| #JanesWalk #JanesWalkToronto #JanesWalkTO #Toronto #TOpoli #Cities #Urbanism #JaneJacobs #CanadianMuslims #TorontoHistory #Muslims #Muslim #Halal

@stesnac Hello from Canada,

I am grateful for all the work you put into your BSD cafe community.

As an outside observer,

your example and public decisions have answered much of my fediverse questions, except this one :

Were you to start your BSD Cafe community today, and decided to choose only one fediverse program to run,

Do you think SNAC would be enough to satisfy your community members, instead of using Mastodon ?

That's my question.

Here's some extra context :

I don't want to run Mastodon as it seems the technical aspects are beyond my abilities.

I have learning-curve fatigue the more I looked into setting up and then maintaining Mastodon.

I'm still considering Friendica, simply because I can turn RSS feeds into fediverse usernames, which appear in the Local Friendica timeline.

Take away my RSS requirement,

Then SNAC seems like it's enough.

| #SNAC #BSDCafe

Posit: People think Twitter is dying

Consequence: People start leaving Twitter

Result: Pretty soon Twitter is dead

Conclusion: You can cause all of social media to die

Bzzzt. I've already done that. Maybe you've heard about a few?

Friendster? MySpace?

Yes.

Think Bigger

GameStop?

Yes

FTX?

Yes

Canadian Provinces...?

[ Mischievous smirk ]

I might even be able to crash the whole damn system...

Destroy all records of 2-Factor Authentication.

Think of it, Marty

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coDtzN6bXAM

| #RobertRedford #Sneakers

@therobburgessshow@newsie.social "Imitation is the sincerest form of Flattery.

"Theft is the sincerest form of Imitation."

-- HiMY SYeD

“While most of us can see how silly and hypocritical Quebec’s proposed secularism law will turn out to be — banning teachers, police officers, judges and others from wearing religious items like hijabs, turbans, kippahs, and crucifixes while at work. — it seems the party that insists on passing it still doesn’t get it.

“So let’s give it another try.” — Anthony Bonaparte, The Suburban

( Editorial Cartoonist : Napoleon/ Anthony Bonaparte )

| #QCpoli #Quebec #Bill21 #Loi21 #Islamophobia #cdnpoli

I'm in a moment when I haven't corrected server settings where I usually type notes to myself, and in lieu of typing in a .txt file and saving in on my hard drive, out of habit, I am typing into this tiny little box to simply say out loud to myself:

I am tired.

hmmm...

There.

I feel better for myself.

now off to Friday Jumah Congregational Prayers.

...and maybe thereafter beginning making/re-starting a stone Labyrinth along Sunnyside Beach in West End TOronto.

[ social media / fediverse can be for public notes to self, n'est-ce pas? ]

@RememberUsAlways@newsie.social

@leanlearnlead A research paper entitled "Your Strategy needs a Strategy",

which was later expanded into a shorter sized business book,

Provided me with answers to the same observation you identify.

You might find reading book reviews about it enough to be useful.

https://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/wp-content/uploads/092215-Does-Your-Strategy-Need-Strategy-Part1.pdf

https://archive.org/details/yourstrategyneed0000reev/page/n5/mode/2up

Procrastinate.... Later.

Typing into this "Tiny little box" as Dave Winer periodically reminds us all / laments,

I am at that increasingly regular event horizon where my personal anti-procrastination procrastination system... contradicts itself.

What I usually do is have any number of projects broken down into bullet points in a to-do like fashion.

Mental bullet points, because writing them all out is... on my to-do list that I don't get around to doing.

As I start working on any of my projects and surrender to procrastinating on the task at hand,

I "procrastinate" that task by working on anything else from any of my other projects, until I want to put off working on that thing, by.... working on anything related to a third outstanding project task.

Visiting Mastodon was not on my list this afternoon.

Time to exit and as we long ago typed out in BASIC on the commodore 64, "GOTO 10".

Wondering if anyone else does this?