Hi Friends,

Fall is here in full swing! It is by far my favorite season; feels good on the bones and the colors are gorgeous.

The fall also makes a stark reality more true; winter is coming. Friend of the bnkops Bradley Lafortune has written a great overview of what this means for our community and has called for more housing to be built.

We have over 4000 people living without permanent housing in Edmonton. Their are several hundred on the street. The breadlines downtown are astonishing. Unemployment rates are nearing 9%. Rents have never been higher. The sheer amount of suffering happening in the "wealthiest" province is shameful.

These conditions are only matched by the 1930's great recession. It is self imposed pain; our government sits on a surplus of billions. While our provincial government ponders giving billions of dollars away to hockey teams, our neighbors are freezing to death. It is unconscionable.

Building on Brads article, we have released a Simple Target for Minister Jason Nixon urging him to provide the needed funding to turn surplus public lands into housing.

Please share and sign.

Simple Target

This small campaign also highlights some updates to Simple Target. The Aftercare page is now live and automated follow up email is coming soon.

We are building this app using Budibase and n8n; free low code app automation and app builders. The nearest comparative software are google forms and zapier. There is plenty of custom code that makes the system go brrr however we are thrilled by progress so far.

You can learn how to deploy these system for free bnkops Simple Targeter

Twitter is Dead, Long Live X --- Why You Should Abandon X

I have been ranting about X for awhile now so went ahead and actually wrote up a rant. TLDR is that Twitter is dead, X is here, using the platform puts our communities in danger, we should all be working to leave the platform.

That's all folks! Thanks for tuning in.