Well this was a surprising one.

After the "Dad, where were you in the 90s?" trend, we can absolutely lay to rest the myth that men age like fine wine.

Lets hope the next CEO is not patronizing and openly cruel towards the user base. Sounds like they made a good choice to step back and chill.

Even if Nora L is right on one thing, she's still horribly ableist and not worth boosting. If you follow her and care about fighting ableism, why?

Any leader, religious or otherwise, telling you to worship the war machine is someone who is not a leader that's worth following.

I can't help it that I was born to be a glasses model and every pair looks good me.

Apparently some people don't know that trains and telegraphs drove the development and adoption of what we think of as standardized/synchronized clock time, so here you go: blogs.loc.gov/law/2024/11/...

I am so tired but have to keep grading... I hate DST.

My lifting teacher changed my life in the past 6 weeks. They offer classes that are body and gender neutral, crip-friendly, respirator-mandatory, with an online option. A mirage in the fucked up gym culture. They are traveling to a Jiu Jitsu championship, and your support can help to fund this trip

This is going to be my stance now 😂

Accessibility matters and it's so easy to do. ✅ Add alt text to your images. ✅ Use screen-readable fonts. ✅ #CamelCase your hashtags. Small changes can make a big difference.

I'm being told on r/Leftist that having mask required events is gatekeeping because yes, you are being oppressed when having to wear a mask for an hour at a totally optional event that you probably weren't even all that interested in to begin with.

I'm on day 5 or 6 of my migraine (this happens to me, I'm not concerned, just annoyed) and daylight savings time is not helping the matter at all.

People often defend Grammarly when I lump them in with the rest of the LLM crowd, but this is why: their model of consent is no better than OpenAI's or Anthropic's.

Congrats we have underslept and increased our risk of heart attacks so some people can be happy that it will not be bright at 3 AM when they were asleep anyway.

we have saved daylight but at what cost

losing an hour on International Women’s Day feels right

And just like that we were robbed of an hour.

I have been delighted by the minimal amount of genAI while grading today. I'll take imperfect and personal over polished and distant any day!

To my Canadian friends, an acquaintance started a petition to allow US transgender citizens to claim refugee status here. www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en... If you’re Canadian please sign it. If you’re not, please share ❤️

Why does it feel like Sunday?

ADHD got me on a 24-hour new makeup obsession to distract me from what I really need to do, which is grading.

I know that @fractalecho.bsky.social and @lizjackson.bsky.social wrote a great piece on a related topic: how disability tech and technologies of war and violence are entangled for @thenewrepublic.bsky.social It’s a must read to understand disability and AI discourse newrepublic.com/article/1793...

Can we just call an early election?

Vancouver's really got a wack mayor. He's like a mini Eric Adams.

Funny how the students from generational wealth/PhD families stick together and disassociate from people who call out systemic issues. Anyways, one of those people from my cohort just announced they finished their PhD on Facebook so I celebrated by unfriending them.

Just got the news that my petition e-7002, seeking to change the Canada Copyright Act to give inherent rights to our likeness and enforcement measures to takedown AI deepfakes, has been certified for presentation to the House of Commons. Thanks to everyone who signed & shared!

I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: Federal MPs: Support Bill C-233 and close Canada’s arms loopholes. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/fede...

This became a thread but anyways, clickbait is fun, but learning what's actually happening is more fun and formative for me. Tl;dr 1) Have truly anonymous accounts (pay by cash, no return address) to use when you need them. 2) Always advocate for strong privacy laws!

Starting Friday with a bit of a Supreme Court win against the Québec govt's attempts to exclude refugee claimants from accessing subsidized childcare! This is big, given Minister Drainville's statements in the last 48hrs about, well, wanting to do this *more*. www.scc-csc.ca/judgments-ju...

I've seen some people have STRONG feelings about switching to daylight savings time permanently instead of standard time and I really don't get why they don't want to exist in a more "real" (closer to natural) time. It makes more sense to stay in standard time to me.

I am a Proton user and yes it's bad they gave info to the FBI but the real story is that Swiss privacy laws recently changed making it so companies have to cooperate with the government (like pretty much every other country) and Proton has been slow at deciding which country to move to since then.

🇨🇦’s political parties are using Bill C-4 to permanently exempt themselves from basic privacy law. We have days to force the House to accept the Senate’s sunset clause compromise. Tell your MP: respect voter privacy, sunset Bill C-4! openmedia.org/C4Sunset-bsky @openmedia.org

You can chop off as many heads of the snake as you want, but one day you gotta aim for the heart.

Carney promised to INCREASE funding by $150 million.

Cancel culture, purity tests, these are right-wing terms specifically invented and used to silence dissent and avoid accountability.

I think people do not understand the scale of this or how densely populated parts of Lebanon is. This is about 400K people that Israelis ordering to leave their homes. Almost half a million people. This is forced displacement in essence. On top of an estimated 84K people already displaced.

The bluesky team is so messy...

Carney just called the US our ally. Several times. Canadian Liberals: is this what you voted for? Fighting WWIII on the side of the fascists?

Boo

We have long abandoned a political relationship with Iran and have no trade with them. There is no reason why Canada needs to be dragged into this illegal war. Grow a spine, Carney.

I wish the Ford family would leave Ontario, but especially Toronto, the fuck alone, once and for all. Me, upon hearing that it is rumoured (probably true) that Michael Ford will run for Mayor of TO.

i think enthusiastic LLM use is mostly a stack of cognitive biases, unacknowledged plagiarism, and unmet needs in a trenchcoat but also my main objections aren't about them being bad at tasks so i don't care if you think they've gotten better at it

NEW: Contractors for Meta say they've been tasked with reviewing smart glasses footage in order to train the company's AI. The contractors say they've seen videos showing wearers having sex, undressing & using the bathroom. san.com/cc/what-your...

NEW: Canadian media has been warning Iran is weeks, months or years away from nukes for at least 25 years, often in articles calling for war and sanctions. I’ve gone through the archives and pulled examples from each year. www.readthemaple.com/documenting-...

Buried lede: Meta sends all your nudes to Kenya where humans annotate it and feed it to AI

Canadian COVID Forecast: Feb 28 - Mar 13, 2026 SEVERE: none VERY HIGH: MB HIGH: CAN, AB, NB, North, NS, ON, QC, SK MODERATE: BC, NL, PEI About 1 in 99 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.

This episode of @techwontsave.us assuaged my fears of androids but the guest had bleak outlooks on care. Robots for elder care is not it. I can take an educated guess that it wouldn't improve the social isolation epidemic that already exists among older adults. www.techwontsave.us/episode/316_...

I’ve unmasked a white nationalist fight club in my city: Montreal. After weeks of work (with help!), I can reveal an Olympian as a member of the Frontenac Active Club — one who, unbeknownst to the owners, brought them to a local gym for training and propaganda photos. Here’s my investigation:

I want a silk ribbon tie for my wedding and I tried one on today that was $40 and it was way too short so now I'm just going to do it myself.