valentine's day isn't just for couples, it's also a day to celebrate love. for instance, i would love it if housing prices came down.

Old and new

Fundraising for the Strang family. Two surviving siblings play hockey with my kids. These funds are designated for the grandparents who also live in our community and currently are stepping in for the kids www.gofundme.com/f/supporting...

For Pale Blue Dot day, here's my favourite musical adaptation of Sagan's words: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYzl...

one waits for quite a while to access mental health care in this country

I love every phase of sakura season, but this one is my favourite. #Bloomscrollling

The toll of car-dependence has been extremely high in Surrey this week www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #BCPoli

call me a carceral urbanist or whatever but i think that if you murder an entire family with your SUV, at the very least, you should never be allowed to drive again

He wasn't initially called to religion, but then he saw the light.

It's great that the federal and provincial politicians are all being nice and saying all the right things, but until they increase funding and stop cutting healthcare services (including/especially mental-healthcare), these are just easy useless gestures. #BCPoli #CdnPoli

Concentration camps. Say it. Concentration camps.

"If you are reading this please be an advocate. Be kind to the homeless and the beautiful broken ones. Show empathy and compassion. Realize an addict’s family is often damaged, too."

When my friend and I first moved to Ireland, we drank a lot of milk because it was *delicious*. Then we realized that's because it was full-fat, four percent.

Here’s the really pernicious part of *be seen* pedestrian campaigns. This driver argued the person he hit was legally 100pc at fault cause he was wearing black. Gambit failed, but those campaigns create unrealistic expectations. h/t @davethompsonvic.bsky.social www.timescolonist.com/local-news/d...

It was a beautiful rainy day to drink some hot chocolate for the Hot Chocolate Festival and then jump in the Gorge #YYJ

For the second time in the first five months in her time as Victoria's police chief, Fiona Wilson is issuing a correction after she publicly presented incorrect data.

Hey Van Islanders — we need locals who are: • medical radiology • pharm /pharm tech • med lab asst's • paramedics/ems • any field where YOU have direct patient care We need your help in our local Discord server to help American HCWs learn what it’s like here. ✅ JOIN US! discord.com/invite/faran...

Only a special type of person would nimby a school

For my money, the way thousands of regular people are self-organizing to resist data centers is one of the most cautiously hopeful stories going right now. www.themountaineer.com/news/no-cryp...

it's incredible to contemplate the volume of civic funding and effort spent appeasing: - people who find the sight of poverty more offensive than evidence-based public health policy - drivers who think bad traffic is a human rights violation - residents who recoil from shadows like reverse-vampires

Some great debunking work here by @natashabulowski.bsky.social and Marc Fawcett Atkinson. Just because something agrees with how you see the world, doesn't mean it's correct.

Abel Mwansa, 12. Kylie Smith, 12. Ticaria Lampert, 12. Ezekiel Schofield, 13. Zoey Benoit, 12. Emmett Jacobs, 11, Jennifer Jacobs/Strang, 39. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

We know how to hold a fucking grudge. Plus, the prospect of roaming murderous masked militias is not enticing.

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

Patient girl, putting up with me petting her even though I made her wash off the mystery substance she had rolled in that smelled like ass

archives are a tiny, tiny proportion of federal funding, killing them simply increases an amnesia about Canada's past, and that's not a good thing, other than for those who benefit from erasing the past or rewriting it for political means.

Numbers like "most people killed in extreme weather disasters in a year" or "worst harvest in a century" or "economic impacts from climate change reach devastating new heights."

Our current tax code guarantees that the chasm between the uber rich and every one else will just keep growing (and keep growing faster). When wealth and power get to top heavy, societies tend to collapse. Effective taxes on extreme wealth are how we defend our economy and democracy.

Sunlight is the best disinfectant. Drag every one of these monsters into the public eye

It's astonishing to see this data in chart form:

The Trump administration is incarcerating migrant girls in, essentially, a forced pregnancy camp.

sufferers of common decency are my target demo

it's a universal truth that a public amenity, no matter how important or uncontroversial in nature, will attract the attention of a handful of cranks convinced it will somehow destroy the character of their neighbourhood

The only biosphere in the known universe capable of supporting human life is being turned into a hell planet because most of Earth's governments refuse to stop trying to satisfy the insatiable greed of a plutocracy composed of people who already have more money than they could spend in 20 lifetimes.

What's so amazing about Jim Henson as a puppeteer is that he could literally be explaining that Kermit is made out of felt and ping pong balls and yet Kermit still feels alive the whole time he's doing it

“I’ve reviewed over 50 sticky toffee puddings” is an incredibly powerful way to begin a video

Absolutely incredibly news from the world's largest emitter. The tide really might be beginning to turn on fossil fuels.

‘Imprison all women’ may sound outrageous. But all of the horrors that are routine today started out as some ghoulish guy being allowed to say stuff like this without being beaten with hammers.

Our investigation has uncovered a network funded by Hungary’s authoritarian leader Viktor Orbán, that uses profits from refining Russian oil to platform far right and anti-trans campaigners in the UK https://goodlaw.social/2l1y

did you know that much of the rise in the price of electricity comes from utilities passing on the costs of repair after extreme weather to ratepayers? and now this 👇 the climate crisis is intertwined with the affordability crisis – say it loud and often! #EndClimateSilence

Everyone knows a traitor when they see one. Working against the interests of your country to serve your own purposes is fucking scumbag behaviour that should be socially and politically punished, whether or not it rises to the level of "criminal." #CdnPoli #ABPoli

I was thinking 30% was surprisingly high, and then I read "a four-point improvement from the all-time low of 26 per cent registered in April 2025" and now I want to know who the hell is in this 4% that thinks the US has improved in the last year?! (Probably Alberta separatists)

Today is David Graeber's birthday. He'd have been 65 years old today. His ideas are still here and his message is more important than ever before which must remind us that a better world is possible.

This is really, really dark. www.wsj.com/world/middle...

Prettay, prettay, prettay good!

For some reason I decided that I needed to make baklava. It's in the oven now... and it better be tasty, because phyllo is a royal pain in the ass.

Every photo from Minneapolis looks like this. Cops decked out with guns and full tac gear facing off against people in bathrobes, parkas, and sweatpants armed only with whistles and cell phones. Yet every verified MAGA chode on X dutifully calls it a riot or violent insurrection.

Reminder, the NIMBYs are complaining that a 4 storey school HERE is too big. 😒