In her most recent post, Christina wrote, "Someone please tell me ... 
that the [Circumlunar Space] gopher and gemini servers are not hosted in 
the US!"[1]

The Circumlunar Space XMPP server, which I run, is hosted by Ramnode in 
Seattle, Washington. As soon as I have time to migrate the server, I 
will. Ramnode has been great. No complaints. I just won't do business 
with the U.S. any longer.

Like a lot of Canadians, I've already cancelled the American online 
subscription services that I have (bye Netflix and SiriusXM) and I've 
stopped shopping on Amazon. I live in a small place, so that's not 
particularly easy to do, but between the American threats and Amazon's 
decision to close all of its warehouses in Quebec (a union-busting 
move), it's the right thing to do.

I've made a list of Canadian alternatives (both online and physical 
stores). Feel free to have a look -- and add to it.[2]

I'll shop in-country as much as possible to help businesses that are 
going to be harmed if the tariffs are ultimately introduced. There are 
also a lot of European and Asian alternatives for online services and 
shopping as well. Maybe I should make a list of those too...


[1] gopher://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space:70/0/~christina/2025Feb05.txt

[2] https://github.com/Visiblink/CanadianRetailers