Someone let the penguins of the Heard and McDonald Islands know that their long ordeal is coming to an end.

Andy's probably pining for the good old days as a backbencher MP in Ottawa

For the first time in my life I'm thinking "maybe things would have turned out better if I had had more beers. I'm so sorry for not drinking enough beers!"

Just remember our deal @duchessofope.bsky.social

Checking my "Halifax People" list and hug I guess there's a game on?

"The budget for bike lanes this year is $960,000 and we’ve spent days, hours, evenings, meetings, meetings, meetings on that, and yes, we approved the police budget very, very quickly and HRP alone is $103 million.” -Steele www.saltwire.com/nova-scotia/...

I love how @aftermath.site has committed to using screenshots from the classic System Shock whenever they write about AI aftermath.site/anthropic-cl...

Getting shown up in the arena of elite impunity by *the British monarchy* is an incredible “America at 250!” achievement

look at my country man, we’re getting out-No Kings’d by the fuckin’ british

I love how ever since she said "why are you talking about the Epstein Files? The DOW is over 50,000!" it's been down around 49,500. So guess what we can still all talk about?!

I'm usually against using ChatGPT for writing things, but I'm thinking it could have saved some money for us all here. "HRM is not only growing — it's also out of money. Let's break this down:"

On this day in 1958, Ellen Fairclough was named Acting Prime Minister while John Diefenbaker was away. She was the first woman to ever hold the post and duties of prime minister. She held the post until the following day when Diefenbaker returned.

If we're lucky, all the "next hot thing" Silicon Valley mania will start focusing on prediction markets rather than AI. It'll still be terrible and will ruin lives, but on the level of, say, NFTs rather than threatening the entire economy and environment. We might be able to buy RAM again, too.

When "convenience" creates so much inefficiency that it actually causes inconvenience... tax it and use that revenue to focus on the systems and behaviours that would make things better. This isn't rocket surgery.

I say it all the time, but it's still my hottest Halifax take: eliminating the bridge tolls was stupid in part because we should actually be tolling cars at EVERY entrance to the peninsula — at least during daytime hours.

Blogging about a less snowy day: climbing Win Hill in the Peak District. Features sheep, honesty boxes, spectacular views, a regretful lack of hiking poles, and some inevitable Assassin's Creed Valhalla references www.andrewburke.me/blogposts/uk...

It's interesting how differently the RCMP's anonymous communicators describe the incident when a cop is the victim. Strong, active language like "rammed," no speculation that the driver was unaware of the cop car or didn't intend to hit it, no talk of the driver's emotional distress.

We are six months away from someone at The Atlantic writing the "would America be better off if women just didn't vote?" piece, claiming it's done in the spirit of honest intellectual inquiry, and successfully moving the Overton window that much closer to women losing citizenship in the U.S.

“The playing field is poised to become a lot more competitive, and businesses that don’t deploy cocaine to help them innovate in everything they do will be at a disadvantage,” says Paul Daugherty, Chief Technology and Innovation Officer at Accenture. Hey, it works!

Absolutely this Recent example: NYC congestion pricing. Couldn't find anything nice about it in the press. Even Hochul got scared and delayed it. Then she got it through, and now everyone loves it and wants more like it because it was smart policy

Prime Minister Mark Carney is in Montreal this morning to unveil Canada's new defence industrial strategy. The plan is nothing short of standing up a massive new dual use industrial base, independent of the U.S. File this under: America's allies are unplugging from the US with gusto.

It's no secret that Nova Scotians are basically paying for this stupid boat, but I wonder how Nova Scotians would feel about it if more of them knew their tax dollars were directly funding U.S. Customs and Border Protection in this current moment.

You can't trust them anyway. They will wear the correct outfit but then they tell you that you will fire no guns and shed no tears but here we are.

The drunk uncle theory. You don’t argue with the casually homophobic uncle at Thanksgiving dinner to change his mind; you argue so that the closeted cousin at the kids table knows there’s safe people and better possibilities out there

Good point. Politicians looking for NS votes can also cosplay as highlanders. But they actually have to be able to play the bagpipes!

My daughter just showed me her phone and I couldn’t figure out what I was seeing, so she explained that what you do now is create totally unique icons for all of your apps that represent your aesthetic, and arrange them into different home screens.

Wow.

You'll notice that I am very carefully riding the line in NOT saying AI is the same as NFT. It's just not. But the vibes, man. The chucklefuck barnacles. The ostentatious proclamations trespassing even a toddler's understanding. Excluding these people from the vibes is gonna need to be a Project.

Thinking about how much public perception of AI is probably downstream of the ridiculous beclownment of NFT just a couple years prior, by what culturally feels like the same gaggle of zero-value-add meme-surfing scamlords.

Between this and the CPC leadership last month I'm so tired of all these white-collar businessmen and lawyers cosplaying cowboys Imagine if every politician who wanted to pander to Nova Scotians dressed up like a privateer? I want to see PP with a big pointy hat, an eyepatch, and a bottle of grog!

Love how now that they're owned by PostMedia even our local "paper of record" gives this conspiracy nut and traitor a full front page glamour shot.

More blogging: after the craziness of the show i booked a few days in the Peak District to unwind. But first i had to get there! Features missed trains, an entire station that smells of piss, the world's blandest sandwich, and finally a nice pint by the fire www.andrewburke.me/blogposts/UK...

Some growing pains are inevitable with our aging infrastructure and all the maintenance council has been deferring for years, but cutting services as though we are Detroit in the 2000s while we’re actually experiencing tremendous growth is wild fiscal mismanagement.

This guy. He makes this all look easy.

I'm at the point in my life where I'm happy to pay a little extra for a little more legroom. I want the tax version of that!

It also inspired one of the better Rush songs from their New Wave era (and a pretty cool video for the time) youtu.be/wrDj5XvZXX4?...

This is what kills me about all of this: property taxes aren't that big an expense for me at the end of the day and TBH I wouldn't even mind paying more if it meant we could live in a better city. But louder voices are happy to burn it all down just to save a buck

THIS is the plan @andyfillmorehfx.bsky.social is pitching so that he can keep taxes low for his landlord buddies upset because their parasitic business plans don’t work. Making literally everyone else pay so his friends can avoid paying their fair share. Absolutely disgusting.

The devil Steve Bannon worked with the pedophile king to attack the Jesuit pope over Church doctrine on social justice. Time to shine a spotlight on the "trad" Catholic right wing extremists (step forward JD Vance) who abuse Church teaching to drive their hate. www.cnn.com/2026/02/14/w...

Just saw this on Facebook: the text and photo look entirely AI generated. Did this actually happen? Did Sidney Crosby start singing O Canada by himself at the end of the game and then everyone joined in? The comments are all "yay🇨🇦" so no help I'm really happy that my feed on here is slop-free.

It took until the third loop through to notice how many salmon were in the water.

if you're an older person who finds words like mogg and maxxing annoying, just starting using them. people over the age of 30 have the superpower to end trends by simply adopting them

...and it’s the 222nd anniversary of the Battle of Pulo Aura, but I’m not going to attempt a better telling of that than this one:

A key challenge, and a huge source of the disconnect between Silicon Valley and the other creative industries is that, for coders, AI eliminates the drudgery so they can focus on the creative/expressive part. In every other creative discipline, it has the exact opposite effect.

I finally caught it! TSLA has been flirting with it for the last week or so, but it finally hit its ideal price

In 2026 playing Wolfenstein and Medal of Honour is a pointed political act of resistance.

At least one Meta employee thinks it's a good time to add facial recognition technology to glasses because we're too distracted by fascism to effectively protest www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

In some ways, I'd almost feel better if this were all part of some grand nefarious scheme, instead of multiple questionable decisions being made without due care or consideration to their externalities and wide-ranging impacts. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I really enjoy speeding past North Street traffic ON FOOT ... FOR FREE