On April 25, 1849, citizens of Montreal, angry over the Rebellion Losses Bill, burned down the Parliament Building This event had far-reaching consequences and played a role in Ottawa becoming Canada's capital. This is the story. 🎨 Joseph Legare 🧵 1/10

Fantastic news, throwing phones away when the battery dies is quite ridiculous. We don't need super thin phones, we need phones we can repair.

Today in the mainstreaming of far-right bullshit, let’s check in on the National Post and former Alberta Premier Jason Kenney. Because they are both going out of their way to defend and arguably boost an infamously racist book, The Camp of the Saints. Here’s what’s going on:

Some Canadian Provinces sold off their remaining US Liquor stock and donated the money to local Canadian food banks. #P.E.I. food banks 'quite happy' to see $600K donation from profits of American liquor sales www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

This is very bad!!!!! Video coming later!!!

Our Bucky crossed the Rainbow Bridge around 11pm or a little after. Our Littlest Hobo youtube.com/watch?v=h4rm...

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro got 27 years for trying to overturn the results of an election. Meanwhile Donald Trump is back in power. What does Brazil have that the U.S. doesn't? I was in Sao Paulo, Brazil and spoke to activists about what it takes to hold coup-plotters accountable.

“This country is too big for trains.” Have we tried making them fast?

Overshooting 1.5°C looks likely—but it’s not game over. The key is limiting how far (and how long) we exceed it, then bringing temperatures back down with rapid cuts + carbon removal. Every fraction of a degree still matters. 👉 www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-... #ClimateChange 🌍🌐🧪

There's a rush to regulate e-bikes but the article itself notes that most fatalities involve collisions with cars. So maybe regulate the things that weigh 2 tonnes, travel at lethal speeds & kill tens of thousands every year. Cars are the biggest danger to everyone #VisionZero #RoadSafety #CarBrain

This popped up in a feed and I think it's a great idea for #BikeHfx families, so sharing here. Details in alt text. Our family is still getting comfortable on mountain bike trails and we'll definitely aim to try a few rides

Seems like the Strait of Hormuz is only open when the stock market is.

Elon Musk basically accused Trump of being a pedophile and then got dinner with him again a few months later. Joe Rogan acted shocked and dismayed about ICE and Iran and now he’s standing behind Trump in the Oval Office. These guys only care about holding onto power through any means necessary

John Roberts is and always has been Sam Alito with better PR he has declared himself and his fellow republican justices the unelected rulers of America and they have wielded their power in favor of making Donald Trump of all people untouchable the court as it exists today must be broken

Steve Bannon pissed his pants on stage at the World Economic Forum, Kash Patel is missing, Pete Kegsbreth is quoting Pulp Fiction as the Bible, RFK, Jr. eats raccoon penis, and Trump keeps using war to milk the markets. No one is coming to save us. We have to save ourselves. Lock them all up.

there will be tons of job for de-vibing code bases made out of AI slop mess, after AI slop crash happend in near future

Lol, Meat? Oops...

welcome to enterprise IT support ... 🤣

We are so back.

April 17 is World Public Transport Day! Last year, Halifax Transit provided more than 20 million trips for passengers on conventional bus, ferry and Access-A-Bus. Today we’re celebrating public transport and the ways it helps us connect. The world rides together. #WorldPublicTransportDay

it's not a feel good story. if it's happening to her it means it's happening to other women that can't just call up Trump and ask for an exception.

NEW: @noahshachtman.bsky.social and @robertsilverman.bsky.social take a deep dive for @wired.com into Knicks owner Jim Dolan's invasive surveillance machine that has allegedly tracked a trans woman, lawyers, protesters, and more at Madison Square Garden: www.wired.com/story/madiso...

I am happy to report that Scritchy’s kits were evacuated from the Harvard and Allan theatre and deployed on their own peacekeeping missions before Scritchy’s demise! bsky.app/profile/danp...

All are welcome to join to honour the memory of Scritchy Raccone, our fallen hero of the #PylonWars. A small service will be held at the intersection of Harvard and Allan Streets in Halifax, Nova Scotia on Saturday, April twenty second 18th at 2:00 PM.

In Canada we had an ACTUAL resurrection of the @katynotie.bsky.social and the Pylon is the symbol of our devotion.

Harvard and Allan remembers. #PylonWars

However, in a development on Facebook, one of the Scooter Mafia children came out of anonymity, expressing remorse.

Today, resident #PylonWars raccoon, Scritchy, was found mangled, and a sign that reads Caution! There have been reports of a “Big Man” in this area. It is said he may be able to rip through multiple layers of duct tape & cardboard. Be extra cautious if you possess any joy or whimsy

I’ve dubbed them the Scooter Mafia, a group of youths ironically using active transportation and hellbent on destroying one thing that is for them to protect them - due to an under developed prefrontal cortex and boredom.

If you read my latest @grandparade.bsky.social story on the #PylonWars, you know that I had a personal run in with the pylon destroyers.

Hegseth quoting a fake bible verse from a hitman in a Tarantino movie at a Pentagon speech and prayer session is the perfect end to this week.

just admit you can't do anything and leave me alone about it! god!!!!!!!

“Does it feel like Mr. Trump has insulted you personally 720 times in the year-plus since he took office? Because that’s how it’s gone down, by our count.”

I’ve said this before but it’s because I spoke directly to humans at the other platforms and they can’t port over my videos :( All the porting advice is for text-based newsletters. They also can’t do video-based newsletters. Trust me, I really tried. I’m hoping they get those capabilities soon.

I have said this before & I will say it again,it is time that taxpayers who are the majority of folks in every country should not pay a single penny to Microsoft. Taxpayer money should only go to FLOSS. Enough is enough with these big corporations. They have failed to protect user privacy & safety

Excellent news. France Launches Government Linux Desktop Plan as Windows Exit Begins www.numerique.gouv.fr/sinformer/es... Bye bye spyware and AI batshit crazy Windows 11.

With Forward by: Ayn Rand 😒

Disappointed (not surprised) that the Liberal Party voted against supporting proportional representation at their convention. What better time than now to go beyond the Anglosphere and learn from better systems in other countries?

I would argue that in Alberta we also know where Smith and her party stand. But all of the oilbros in calgary can't possibly vote for anything else. Every one of these people voted for smith, and will vote for her again, because that's what their daddies told them to do. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Big difference between Quebec & Albertan separatism: you know where parties stand in QC. In Alberta, the ruling party is split. The Premier tries to walk the line with a “sovereign Alberta within a united Canada”. Her endorsements of Canada are half-hearted. She accepts separatists in her caucus.

Canada joining the EU would more than triple its land area, from 4 million square kilometres to 14 million. (Canada’s really big.)

I felt this myself. When Trump won again, I said to an American friend: “how bad are the Dems that they lost to him?” It was a dumb attempt to make it balanced. No. He was 1,000 times worse. I knew that. Lots of people just wanted what he was. A lot of others didn’t care.

Worth listening to it all; a fair assessment of the many issues. Nevertheless, my take: Bike lanes do result in safer cities; Piecemeal bike lanes are a waste; Democracy is unhelpful to make difficult but proper decisions youtu.be/etwt75kYYhk

Carney is being asked whether *any* politician is welcome in the Liberal caucus and he’s basically saying yes. There’s no line in the sand — as long as they tell *him* they support Liberal values, they’re welcome to the Liberal Party to grow his majority power. Yikes.

Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney told the astronauts on NASA’s Artemis II that Canadians are "so proud" of them. Carney also celebrated Jeremy Hansen, the first Canadian to fly around the moon.

Due to a sensory irritant being deployed at the Dartmouth Bridge Terminal, the interior of the of the terminal is closed for the time being.

I didn't know anything about the Artemis II astronauts a week ago and now I would fight my way into Hell for any of them.