congratulations to rogue bus guy on the new job

Yesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.

For all the Mark Carney praise for his speech, let's remember his domestic agenda remains neoliberalism on steroids. It's a plan that makes us poorer and weaker, despite his rhetoric.

Mark Carney gave a remarkable speech in Davos today about the need for international law led by middle powers that applies to everyone. The test will be whether he accepts Trump's invite to the "Gaza Peace Council," the most lawless disaster capitalism ever attempted and an attack on the UN.

This is actually even better than the headline; basically, our economic bubble will pop if we don't buy into the bubble now: He noted that a “telltale sign of if it’s a bubble” would be if only tech groups were benefiting from the rise of AI, rather than companies in other sectors.

Carney has spent the past year subtweeting Trump. At a certain point, these words mean nothing if he won't actually come out and say what he's criticizing.

If we're going to relive the 1930s could we at least bring back art deco, or invent a new thing that's just as cool as it?

I like that the same day a guy was like “this place will never be Twitter” this thread gave us the most 2015 Twitter experience (complimentary) imaginable.

*Homer Simpson voice*: The dumbest diplomatic crisis of your life *so far*

If the war comes, and it affects where you are currently living, where are you fleeing to?

Given the US already has military presence in Greenland, with (for now) permission, it will be very ironic if all of this "we need Greenland for security" bullshit results in the US military being evicted from every NATO country altogether.

This was about Poilievre but I'm increasingly thinking it might also apply to Carney and that makes me very nervous.

I think Lost Lagoon may actually be lost now. #fogcouver

I think I've decided to miss the 2016 trend. It's weird seeing people getting all nostalgic for a year we collectively (and naïvely) decided was a terrible year. Imagine doing this for 2020 four years from now.

Unlike other complex issues (climate change, wealth inequality, fascism, pandemics), the road safety issue is genuinely solvable. We already have all the tools and most aren't hard, we just need them implemented. E.g. 5 easy things the Province can do: (6/8)

Justin we love you but as a chart enthusiast you're too smart to post charts with arbitrary start points and linear trendlines. Here's a couple we made, with the same data, that shows traffic fatalities are on the rise! But onto a more serious analysis of this 🧵

Help, there's no all of the above on the report function.

"i saw a bad post on x" ok well i saw a turd in the toilet but i'm not making you look at a screenshot of it

Has anyone done a deep dive into the ways in which characters deadnamed Glinda in Wicked: For Good? There's a brilliant combination of ignorance and malice that shows up in that specific action and I really feel like the filmmakers were very thoughtful about how this was done.

Hey @fastmail.com , DownDetector shouldn't be more accurate than your Status Page. If you're having an outage, be honest about it?

This is not a good move. If Greenland falls, Canada is next. Canada needs to stand with Europe so that if the time comes, they will stand with us. www.thestar.com/politics/fed...

The Ghostbusters movie with a mainly female cast. Maybe it's that I haven't seen the other incarnations but I sincerely enjoyed the movie.

I saw this last year and definitely recommend it!

Well I *was* going to rent this on Apple TV on my Chromecast, but I guess I'll give Google my money instead. Bizarre choice for Apple to literally prevent me from giving them my money.

I was briefly excited that Bluesky was going to finally add a location field to profiles so we could say where we live and then I read it again. :/

Hear me out: it's not the provincial government's responsibility to keep individual private businesses in business.

I just learned that Cleveland's nickname is "The Land" and honestly the audacity, how dare they.

I'm happy for y'all that this is a sports app now, I just have no idea what anyone is talking about.

I'm starting to think that Trump thinks he is still living in the Cold War era and that he would benefit from it being less cold. www.cbc.ca/news/world/t...

It's wild how we named a bunch of streets after specific trees and then someone went 'fuck it, vine is a tree now'

Does... does the President of the United States think that Greenland is uninhabited and that Denmark is claiming a big ol' glacier and its surrounding waters? Greenland is an actual country with actual humans living there. It even has a flag. Why is anyone allowing this man to run a country?

Great news for Indigenous people

Well, this is a much better video than everything else I have watched today Maybe everyone could use a good video today

Why doesn't Chicago (the musical) have an extended universe? The show has a full cast of colourful characters, many of whom could have done so much after the end of the show.

The take on the future of AI and robotics I'm most intrigued by is this four hour video essay on Disney's living characters. youtu.be/NyIgV84fudM?...

It's always struck me as bad that we have pedestrian-actuated traffic lights in Downtown Vancouver that never turn red until the beg button is pressed. We build a six-lane road with a practically guaranteed green wave at night and then wonder why people drive so fast.

Given all the new rolling stock that SkyTrain has obtained in the last decade, why is the Millennium Line still running kiddie sized trains?

The Compass card system should really be programmed to register your tap at the time your bus was scheduled not when it actually arrives. A delayed bus just turned my 85 minute return tap on into a dual-fare 91 minute return time.

i just don't think you get to say "America wants our land, our resources, our water, our country. But these are not idle threats. President Trump is trying to break us so that America can own us. That will never, that will never ever happen" in your election speech and then say stuff like this

Meanwhile, I am twenty minutes in to trying to get my printer to print one fucking page and I'm ready to light the entire thing on fire.

I just had a super easy online payment experience and this has become such a rare experience lately that I literally shed a tear over how easy it was.

Somehow this comedic short film starring Colin Mochrie has… only 133 views? youtu.be/uK08_QVm5qY?...

I probably said this last year too but can we leave Twitter screenshots behind with the old year? The mere use of Twitter tells us all we need to know about how bad the take is going to be and it's entirely unnecessary to bring the bad place over here.

The fact that the Canadian government's official statement on the president of the United States illegally invading a foreign country does not include the words "President," "United States," "illegal," or "invade" really tells you all you need to know about where we stand, tbh

If I ever get a cat, I will get an orange cat, and I will name her Old Deuteronomy, and I will make a coat for her using the fur of one of her relatives, and sometimes she will have a gold ring on her paw that we can't explain. And all will be jellicle.

The sheer tenacity of the people who continued to put on a light show and fireworks for Seattle's new year's eve despite the thick fog basically making it unviewable is to be commended. youtu.be/s4yUq2kOi0o?...

It's fascinating to see the changes in one company's logo over the years.

I haven't been posting photos to here because it's not a photo-dominant platform, but I've started using my Flickr account again, so I'll use this thread to share links to photo sets as I post them. Feel free to mute this thread if that's not your thing!

Why would you even include this word @merriam-webster.com this was just mean.