I should pull the studies that showed that Black and Indigenous people were much more likely to lose loved ones to COVID, while white people were least likely. There were also class gradients in terms of "direct" impacts of the COVID pandemic.

Beginning 2022, I started having arguments with people who didn't experience the loss of a loved one to COVID & associate "lockdown" with sourdough starters & WFH rather than Zoom funerals. I just had to accept that we did not have a shared reality, nor were they willing to remember.

La non-signature du Canada est vraiment honteuse. La domination impériale états-unienne sur le pays, et la domination de l’économie canadienne par les industries extractives tes pèse lourd là-dedans.

🚨 New publication alert 🚨 4 years of #PedalPoll data confirms the old adage "build it & they will come" but high comfort & accessibility key to grow #cycling in 🇨🇦 . H/T @mbonsma.bsky.social @meghanwinters.bsky.social @velocanadabikes.bsky.social & others www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Mark Carney did not join NATO allies in signing this joint statement reaffirming the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Denmark and Greenland:

Danielle Smith plaide pour la construction de pipelines de pétrole des sables bitumineux «dans toutes les directions». Alors que la crise climatique alimentée par les énergies fossiles s'aggrave, cela ravive l'idée d'un projet comme Énergie Est, abandonné en 2017. www.ledevoir.com/actualites/e...

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney clarifies position on the United States using military force to annex Greenland: "We stand with Denmark, we stand with Greenland, our closest partnership is with the United States, and we'll work with everybody to make sure we move forward together"

this is how every outlet should refer to X

Tragedy after tragedy like this, yet I'm struggling to convey the dangers of AI to students without sounding like our parents did in "this is your brain on drugs." I'm not an out of touch curmudgeon (on this at least 😏), but it is hard not to come off like one. A lot of my students said they use it.

Man who drives a 15mpg pickup truck suddenly cares about fuel efficiency the moment No Right on Red is brought up

Missing in action - Canada.

"Man who opposed bike lanes over ‘pedestrian safety’ now angry about No Right on Red law, faces serious identity crisis."

Things I did while I was in another country during the holidays: try the bike paths! Here in Màlaga, España. Nice signage with coloured paths but no access to downtown, as it is a pedestrian zone. #AvecPasDeCasque

Stares in Québécois

A reminder that the US killed 80 people in Venezuela, and it would be nice if the US media cared enough to think that the life of a grandmother in Caracas whose building is destroyed by a US bomb matters as much as the life of a person in the US.

“If a woman dares to show herself in public in any way, then she can and will be sexually harassed with the aid of genAI-driven tools that can easily turn her face into highly realistic pornography” is an absolute red-alarm human rights disaster

Myth: the bike path is cleaned before the sidewalk.

A functional country would shut Grok down permanently. Like, immediately. Right now. Last week. Whatever. Just flip the switch. Obviously.

Why are you still on X in the first fucking place.

Congestion pricing is a heckuva street safety strategy www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

"Peaceful transition" via bombs and egregious breach of international law. Just not up to this moment.

#IdeasAtWork Sneckdowns are one of the most powerful (and free) urban planning tools in the world…The snow that stays on the asphalt shows us exactly which parts of the road cars don’t actually use. - @liorsteinberg.bsky.social h/t @streetfilms.bsky.social old.nyc.streetsblog.org/2014/01/22/s...

2026: les journalistes devraient demander aux politiciens pourquoi ils restent sur twitter, un réseau qui utilise l'ia pour produire et diffuser de la pédopornographie et les politiciens pourraient répondre que c'est parce que les médias qui emploient le journalistes sont là aussi bonne année

You cannot value the librarian code of ethics while also being pro-genAI. GenAI is a direct violation of our code of ethics.

Ça c’est mon genre de maire

Every time I see a news article about ChatGPT pushing vulnerable people to harm themselves and others, I want to know how the universities who have eagerly proclaimed their partnerships with this company intend to account for the increasing evidence of the harms of this tech

A tale of two neighbours.

"Man who waited 23 minutes for drive thru order outraged that pedestrian doesn't jog faster across the exit lane of the fast food chain - had to wait 4 more seconds."

This reality check should be driving all Canadian coverage of Venezuela today. And, the last time a US president mused with invading Canada, he switched to Venezuela right after.

Mark Carney turns off geolocation on phone just in case

Also for anyone suggesting Canada is limited in what it can say because of its proximity to and dependence on the US, that didn’t stop Mexico.

Ben voyons donc Kessé ça ce paquet de mots qui veulent rien dire

Bouffe incroyable au Garum 2.1 à Córdoba en Espagne

I feel a trend…

Ex-Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun has Lunch with the FT and in one of those instances so rare that you know he didn't sign an NDA, says exactly why as.ft.com/r/e503690d-8...

Bonne année 2026! Première fois que je ne regarde pas le Bye-Bye le soir du 31 🤣

so much of the bike infrastructure debate is shaped by the presupposition that people who drive cars need their cars, whereas people who ride bikes don’t really need them

I thought that people listening to loud videos on the bus were the worst. It turns out that they also do it on planes.

As we experience a huge surge of flu cases, a reminder that the widespread usage of masks at the start of the COVID pandemic wiped out a strain of the flu. If you haven’t been masking up lately, now would be a great time to restart.

“An AI scientist, for example, could figure out how the human brain works, or deliver any gene to any cell in the body.” Yeah and a magic pony could shit bricks of 24k gold and piss a highly concentrated solution of pure heroin.

Every week, Nature publishes yet another breathless puff piece about some AI startup, based only unpublished claims from the company and interviewing only those who work there. How can the leading scientific journal publish piece after piece that would make Kevin Roose blush? I think it's that...

The most under-reported story of the year, IMO, is about the national implications of the extreme and wildly popular success of congestion pricing in New York City. When you remove cars from cities, you not only make money for things the city needs; you make people in the city much, much happier.

Caution: Professionally bankrupt engineering.

Israel says it will suspend several humanitarian groups, including Doctors Without Borders, in 2026 for failing its new vetting rules for groups working in Gaza. Some international organizations have said that Israel’s rules are arbitrary and could endanger staff.

In case you need another reason to not drink bottled water…

"car on the bike path" joke in the comics today.

We (volunteer civilians) organized the 4th neighborhood bike ride with city councilors from our part of the city during mois du vélo and it was perfect

Some of the most bike-friendly cities in North America, like Montreal and Minneapolis, also happen to be the snowiest! Check out these winter biking tips from Montreal!

Cool. So do it. And stop the Orwellian pushing of fossil fuels as the key to our future.