Ronald Servant

Enterprise Software Development, Leadership, Public Speaking, Feedback, Patience, Ally

[Ronald Servant @rservant]

As I sit here and eating a Hawaiian pizza, I must say he definitely should have. One of the truly great flavour combinations in the world.

[Old Canada Series @oldcanadaseries]

Sam Panopoulos was the first person to put pineapple on pizza, inventing the Hawaiian pizza, at his Chatham, Ontario restaurant in 1962. Should he have?

[Scott Robertson @sarobertson_]

Outgoing Governor General Mary Simon: "We know that Indigenous languages are not part of the Official Languages Act, but to me they are just as important as English and French ... every day there are languages across the country that are being lost. To me that's not something we should just ignore. I think we need to do more for Indigenous languages."

[Ronald Servant @rservant]

@sarahmwgilbert I’d recommend joining a Toastmasters club.

[Eclipse OpenJ9 @openj9]

We’re pleased to announce the availability of Eclipse OpenJ9 v0.58.0 which adds support for OpenJDK 26 🎉

A big thanks to IBM for building and distributing Semeru Runtimes Open Edition with this release. Downloads available here: https://t.co/uWwskTV3cb

[Ronald Servant @rservant]

Stalin’s collectivization and Mao’s Great Leap Forward were lethal because they were enforced by unaccountable, authoritarian states; using those atrocities to dismiss democratic collectivist rhetoric today is history stripped of context and used as a scare tactic.

[Jason Kenney 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇮🇱 @jkenney]

How does he not know that “collectivism” killed more people than any idea in human history?

The Soviets murdered millions of “kulaks” (small land owning farmers) through starvation in 1932/33 to eradicate opposition to collectivism.

Mao’s 1958 Great Leap Forward killed up to 60 million people for the same reason: to eliminate small landowners and implement collectivism.

The Black Book on Communism (Harvard University Press, 1997) details the murder of ~100 million people in the last century by regimes pursuing “the warmth of collectivism.”

I can only assume that he is a product of an education system that does not teach history, and he has no idea that “collectivism” is a concept as discredited and terrible as fascism.

[Toastmasters District 61 @tmd61]

Jacquelin Holzman (https://t.co/RmOvQd9JLu ) to be recognized at the 2025 District 61 Annual Conference.

Jacquelin Holzman (https://t.co/RmOvQd9JLu ) qui seront reconnus lors de la conférence annuelle du district 61 en 2025.

Register - Inscrivez (https://t.co/9jizCeTQ3E )

[Amber Mac @ambermac]

Hey @brianlilley. Are you seriously attacking @atRachelGilmore for being too partisan & talking like a "valley girl"?
Debate the facts, but drop the double standards & lay off the sexism.
This behaviour just reinforces why so many women won't vote for your guy, @PierrePoilievre.

[Toastmasters District 61 @tmd61]

Every year, you set big goals—what if this year, you finally turned them into reality? Whether it’s at work or in your passion projects, it’s time to make it happen with Toastmasters.

Find a club here: https://t.co/PfsAI56pNs

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[Ronald Servant @rservant]

Not a terrible idea and very similar to laws in Germany around holocaust denial.

[Andrew Coyne 🇺🇦🇮🇱🇬🇪🇲🇩 @acoyne]

Just a terrible, terrible idea. Good lord, has everybody in this country, left or right, lost their minds?

[Green/Vert Toastmasters @greentmvert]

@rservant @NiraDookeran1 @MaryAnnHodge @gphilliban1 Time to #ShareTheJoy about #ToastmastersInternational and @greentmvert !

Online Open House with keynote by Mitchell Beer.
2024-Oct-19 at 11:00 EDT
RSVP: https://t.co/mSEPpbyrE3
General info: https://t.co/EWiSRMVBm5

[Ronald Servant @rservant]

Pretty sure I just felt that one.

[Earthquake Alerts @QuakesToday]

4.7 magnitude #earthquake. 4 km from ##SouthPasadena, CA, United States https://t.co/lEM4beZTtx

[Ronald Servant @rservant]

I’m sad. We could have had a great mayor.

[CTV Ottawa @ctvottawa]

McKenney vs. Sutcliffe: "I found a hole in your budget."
#ottnews #ctvottawa #CTVOttawaDebate #OttVote

[David Moscrop @David_Moscrop]

“I am also happy that the suspected shooter is dead” is an insane thing to say.

[Ronald Servant @rservant]

@CraigBaird Everyone is saying rent. I don’t disagree, but for your information Uber at 11PM on Tuesday night is $36 from diefenbunker to Westboro. So Uber is available from Carp.

[Andrew King @twitandrewking]

In a different time, in a different place, we’d end our evenings watching this before the TV signed off each night.

…chills everytime. ✊️

Goodnight.

[Ronald Servant @rservant]

Dude! That’s the final vote right there.

[Craig Baird - Canadian History Ehx @CraigBaird]

I structured Canada's Favourite TV Show so that the most recent shows went up for voting first.
With each subsequent bracket, more iconic shows fill the spots and the voting gets more difficult.

The Beachcombers vs The Littlest Hobo in Bracket 10 could fracture Canada.

[Ronald Servant @rservant]

@CraigBaird If you are in town on July 12, it would be great to have you join us at A Matter of Taste. We are Toastmasters club that meets once a month at a different restaurant each month.

[Ronald Servant @rservant]

@TSNDaveNaylor ChatGPT also claims that Vince Ferregamo and David Humm did as well.

[Bob Krause @KrauseForIowa]

Did you notice that there was not a @DoonesburyComic in your Sunday Paper (basically any @Gannett paper, including the @DMRegister) here it is! See the thread for all six panels! (1)