"I wanted Canadians to understand that Alberta separatism, at its heart, isn’t motivated by equalization policies, Senate seats, carbon taxes or oil. These tired complaints may ride shotgun on independence, but bigotry drives the truck."

Upon completing her residency at Queen's University, Toronto-based Mexican cartoonist and writer Ani Castillo decided to leave some of her paintings and drawings in downtown Kingston as a #PublicExhibit. #YGK #YGKArts More details here: www.kingstonist.com/news/queens-...

REALIS, the science fantasy TTRPG I’ve been working on for the last five years, is now live on Kickstarter! 55 Player Classes 150+ NPC Classes 29 Factions 20 Example Moons of Realis GMing and Prep Guidance Over 100 incredible illustrations from 17 artists! www.kickstarter.com/projects/cru...

Aerial photo, 1931: No problem Aerial photo, 1979-2004: Problem

support my cool friend running a cool independent press! everything Sheer Spite publishes is so thoughtful and interesting and I love it!!!

The forced global adoption of puritanistic American cultural norms vis sexuality and nudity via app store/payment processor rules is one of the least-discussed free speech issues of the last decade and this lack of attention is going to hurt online expression so much in the years to come.

South Australia has spent years patiently constructing one of the world's first big 100% clean grids. Its reward? Industries are *flocking* there to take advantage. Peak load is expected to double in coming years. Go green, make green.

I'll also state on TDOV that beginning tomorrow you can watch a series of films directed by trans people on the Criterion channel. We programmed this series with love and with hope.

llms haven't actually gotten better at coding the harnesses (aka the app layer — like claude code) have gotten smarter about being an intermediary between you and the llm testing + expensive, time-consuming loops is the only way to get usable results

sharing this post again because, well, you know.

reposting this article i wrote about offline trans networks for TDoV: we have to reject the failed politics of online visibility and commit to a more radical approach that emphasizes proximity, interpersonal relationships, and strategic obscurity.

The 2026 Canadian Game Awards nominees have been revealed. 🇨🇦 🎮 The GOTY nominees are: -Assassin’s Creed Shadows -Hell is Us -Lost Records: Bloom & Rage -South of Midnight -Wanderstop Other noms include Marvel Cosmic Invasion, Battlefield 6 & Ambrosia Sky. The full list on @mobilesyrup.com:

Happy to see @onlybymidnight.bsky.social and @buffalobuffalo.bsky.social, two studios who showed their games at GDX, nominated for best indie game. Only wish their games were also acknowledged in the other major categories and not just relegated to purely indie!

My latest newsletter: Naheed Nenshi tried to pre-empt Avi Lewis's win as federal NDP leader with a new energy policy that's big on new pipelines and more oil and gas production. Here's what he should have done instead. #abpoli #cdnpoli www.nationalobserver.com/newsletters/...

gonna create a bunch of sock puppets to post in the various etobicoke/north york facebook groups that doug ford is ruining the suburbs so his developer friends can make a buck

me, then: idk, those blorbo bag accessories aren't my style. me, now: i need to have the smirking haman keychain

Montreal: Canada's greatest city Vancouver: Canada's most beautiful city Edmonton: Canada's most innovative city Toronto: Canada's largest city

We speak about how you need to cultivate a culture at your organization that allows for pushback. There must be 100+ comms folks at Air Canada. Not one of them thought doing an English only video the day after the tragedy was a terrible move? No, none of them felt empowered enough to tell him.

nothing more human than half of toronto on the patio on a monday afternoon bc it’s finally tshirt time

In professional news, I'm happy to say I've joined NBC News as a senior technology reporter. I will cover how tech and conflict intersect and the impact of tech on the biggest stories of the day. I'm newly based in New York. Email: [email protected] Signal: janelytv.74

“These results suggest that exclusionary zoning policies may not only contribute to concentrated advantage in affluent areas but also have spillover effects that have negative long-run consequences for disadvantaged neighboring communities.”

“Exclusionary zoning is associated with higher median rents and higher shares of rent-burdened households in impoverished communities” read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

This. The dream of the 90s is dead. Cheap rent enables every kind of creative work and nothing else can substitute for it.

FWIW, despite calls to "rein in artificial intelligence" and "break corporate monopolies," the @ndp.ca announced their new leader exclusively on Meta platforms, as well as the world's richest man's AI porn bot website (Until this weekend, they hadn't posted on X since January)

four more days in mental breakdown march, so if you wanna lose your shit you still got time

You have until 24 April to do it, and then *boom* you're now part of training their models. GitHub is truly losing its identity and what it stands for. Opting in paying customers means they no longer see themselves as the infra for code. Opportunity for someone else!

If you use GitHub (especially if you pay for it!!) consider doing this *immediately* Settings -> Privacy -> Disallow GitHub to train their models on your code. GitHub opted *everyone* into training. No matter if you pay for the service (like I do). WTH github.com/settings/cop...

Had the pleasure of speaking with Arielle Soucy about her excellent new album, 'Passages,' out today. My first piece for the lovely folks at @newfeelingcoop.bsky.social!

it's New Pornographers, Charlotte Cornfield, Holy Fuck, and Snail Mail release day... what an embarrassment of riches

I performed most of my upcoming album on CBC with a full live band. I even managed to fit a costume change in there. You can watch the whole thing here.

two of the wealthiest MFers on the planet, deeply and desperately unhappy. the yawning chasm in their soul unhinges itself to accumulate more and more to fill an emptiness that could never be sated. they think introspection and personal growth are bad. a revelation of our moment in time.

okay it's actually _super funny_ those semen retention guys are making it worse not better

There is an imagined working class, that largely no longer exists and a modern working class that the political class rarely interact with outside of service provision.

At some point soon (if not already) businesses are going to lose customers from the degraded experiences that no-human-has-reviewed-LLM-generated code spits out. And then what?

This is a paid internship, which is always great to see.

imo policies that make rich people mad is generally speaking good public policy even if the merits are suspect (and the merits are not suspect on this one)

For an upcoming talk I needed to visualize how you can use WebAudio to draw shapes on an oscilloscope. So earlier this week I created this animation. How did I do it... it's build in JS, drawn on a canvas. Then using WebCodecs API encoded to H.264 and exported as an MP4 file. The web is awesome.

a modern great, honestly

this is such an exemplary byproduct of the canadian private-public partnership. a private vendor contracted by metrolinx is safeguarding real-time tracking, which is very basic information used by transit riders in the 21st century ever since we advanced beyond paper schedules.

sickos_yes.jpg SICKOS_YES.JPG wychwood park is an absolutely stunning neigbhourhood that should not exist and is so quintessentially toronto. glad we get to see everyone fighting it out

Find Your Words launches April 8 on Steam as a free short adventure from @capybaragames.com, centred on communication without speech and summer camp exploration. #FindYourWords #CapybaraGames #IndieGames #PCGaming

i agree we have to teach the kids about cursive

also the people who work in the field of tipping the masses off to cool culture keep getting squeezed out.

not weird bc entirely a jobs and attention economy issue. it's a struggle to get shit past non-creatives hoarding the soft power. and a hustle to get seen if you do manage. "slop" isn't just low effort but also resourced, corner-cutting, and displacing.

outcomes over output? no! output over outcomes!!!

as john tory's premier hater, shoutouts to him for using his social capital on this. we need the SCS funding back if we want to actually help those suffering from addiction rather than making it worse on the streets.

In Kerala, they call 82-year-old Meenakshi Raghavan 'Sword Granny'. She teaches Kalaripayattu, India's oldest martial art. Honestly, there are so many great stories out there waiting to be shared. Inspiration is everywhere and real life is endlessly surprising. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

War in the pocket. Ultimately it's the most interesting gundam story and would work best as a movie.

Read this excellent Q&A with the Sword & Sworcery team looking back on the game 15 years later. Then, when you're done, read the similar interview I did with (mostly) the same people when it came out. (An interview that, shockingly, hasn't been eaten by the Postmedia CMS machine)

@denovocities.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/thes... wow all that online rudeness really helped your case here