Frog happy to announce new river-crossing agreement with scorpion.

Same author just a few years ago: "Justin Trudeau believes he is entitled to his entitlements and you are entitled to pay for them."

Uploading the LRT to Metrolinx is 0% about making the system more reliable and 100% about letting the mayor, council, and OC Transpo wash their hands of it. The latter is extremely appealing to them even if they know the system will be worse off.

Can't help but read this as a "Dearest Martha..." letter.

Nice bridge, but: still officially closed for winter, only being used right now because frustrated residents forced the gate open a while ago.

Glebe parking garage vs. Nepean Costco & parking lot, for all the "my customers won't walk all the way from the garage" BIA doomers.

This genre of AI slop is wild to me. "Here's a real thing that happened and there are tons of real images available but I wanted to tweak the composition to suit my tastes or agenda, so I made my own version in AI and I'm passing it off as real."

Side bar: I fantasize about being able to afford a blissful ignorance about US politics. Imagine not knowing the names and backstories of the entire SCOTUS, or the cabinet, or the worst dozen governors/Congresspeople. Being as detached as the average OnTAHrian is about their own government.

Listening to the Artemis feed it was jarring to hear Jeremy Hansen's home pronounced as On-TAH-ri-o. Then yesterday I was on the phone with someone in upstate NY and they did it too. How do they not know how to say this? We know how to say all the US state names, even the weird ones like Arkansas.

Does anyone have the link for the Turning Point USA Alternative Moon Mission?

Is Trump mad that none of these lunar features were named after him? "This massive crater represents your popularity all around the world, sir."

Meta's bullshit AI moderation system recently nuked my 88-yo mother's Instagram account. No recourse, no "click here it you think this was a mistake". What an absolute dogshit company.

Good Morning Ottawa

Yay to our city (maybe) not being perpetually held hostage by a handful of business owners who don't even know how most of their customers find them. ("This will kill our business" is giving me a big flashback to when indoor smoking was banned.)

From the brain trust that brought us "no fines for speeders on our roads".

Good morning Ottawa, still. The ragged line of crumbling jersey barriers is still there, more than a year after the opening of this station. Best we can do!

Local heron not impressed with spring so far.

March 27-29 of this year? Just checking.

Nooo don't remind him.

Reassured to see my colour perception is OK!

Huh, so the NCC is putting bike lanes on QE Dr and CB Dr, to supplement the overburdened MUPs. The catch? Summer only, and worse, unidirectional: QE Dr for northbound, CB Dr for southbound. #ottbike oldottawasouth.ca/news/2026/03...

The last project took a decidedly blockier, more brutalist form: a black wardrobe cabinet with a thin band of reclaimed copper set between the doors. The interior is a deep blue-green colour.

No way this album is 30 years old; I remember buying the CD like it was yesterday.

Latest work: a big curving console table created in collaboration with artist Jason Baerg. I designed and built the structure and sent Jason a box of bare wooden slats. He painted them with this vibrant design and sent them back. I attached reclaimed copper over top, and put it all together.

Thanks to the @shawnmenard.bsky.social team this is being addressed (I hope) but I can't help but imagine a world in which a construction contractor (and their city overseers) wouldn't just dump signs in a bike lane and say, "yeah, that's a good spot for this sign for the next 5 years."

Every time I read about this cranky old billionaire who owns the only river crossing my mental image is Walder Frey.

Speedskating sure has a lot of events, but they should take a medalmaxxing tip from swimming and add a whole set of races just for backwards skating.

Me: oh phew, the bike lanes are finally open again! City: screw you, cyclists! The recent lane closure was not Lansdowne 2.0, it was bridge work, but these stupid construction signs are for Lansdowne. Two signs blocking the bike lane plus another sign taking half the sidewalk.

Our mayor sure does love using his personal website to promote city business.

The Conservatives can always address this at the Leadership Revi- [touches earpiece] wait, what? just had one? he sailed through?

The dreaded revert-red virus has infected the signals at Trillium MUP and Gladstone. Wait for a green light, watch it get taken away just as you start to cross. I thought we'd eliminated this disease but it keeps coming back! (councillors have been emailed) #ottbike

That's my space in the bottom of that little brown building... Wondering if they're actually thinking about breaking ground on this project; it (and us tenants) have been in limbo for several years now. capitalcurrent.ca/agreement-ai...

Let the games begin! Maybe this will bar me from entry into the States at some point in the future but it's worth it.

This is just a staggering amount of technology and infrastructure and externalized risk all to avoid paying a cab driver.

According to my rudimentary Italian, two or more of these machines are called Zamboni. No 's', it's already a plural. One by itself would be a Zambono.

Side bar: am I the only one who winces at "let's take back [city/country/whatever]" as a slogan? It's just highlighting the stupid partisan tug of war that plays out in our politics. Both sides use it interchangeably. You take it, I take it back, you take it back from me, etc.. Us, them, us, them.

A "smart home" is one where your ability to turn on the lights depends on the status of a Google server somewhere. share.google/67gmX4KD2k22...

Looking at a floorplan for a client's bathroom just now and the helpful AI summary from Adobe immediately brought to mind this @eleanormorton.bsky.social bit.

open browser, see endless posts with the same video of sleepy-eyed head-cocked Trump giving a speech, close browser

I keep seeing "Yellow warning - snow" pop up on my phone and did the people behind this not realize that it reads as "Yellow snow warning".

Why haven't I seen the op-eds about how great it will be for the Democrats to pick up two more senators for Greenland?

Good arguments but I would quibble against the comparison to Times Square which was, after all, still in the public realm. X is more akin to putting the "vice, sin, and abuse" of 1970's Times Square inside the food court of a decrepit privately-owned shopping mall.

"Our facility also boasts several mysterious bathroom puddles." I once had to take my daughter to a birthday party at Cosmic Adventures, whose policy was that everyone had to leave their shoes at the entrance. Walking into the men's/boys bathroom in sock feet is an experience I will never forget.

Ottawa South #ottbike: one northbound car lane plus the bike lane out of service on the Bank St. bridge. Replaced with "cars/bikes single file" signage. Really hope this is not a 5-year-long L2.0 thing!

The Lansdowne 2.0 shitshow has begun! Half-baked un-plowed pedestrian detour? Check. Idling pickup blocking what's left of the QE Dr. crossing? Check. Construction workers yelling at people just trying to get to the canal path? Check. "You better get used to it it's going to be 5 years."

We've been fed a steady diet of shows where the action is coordinated by hyper-competent people in high-tech command centers. The reality is these dweebs in basically a couch-cushion fort. Hegseth is trying to remember his Facebook login and Trump is struggling to stay awake.

Realizing that every GOP US president in my 57y lifetime has launched a military invasion somewhere. Venezuela, Afghanistan, Iraq, Panama, Grenada, ... That's not even counting the coups & covert stuff. Maybe Ford gets a pass?

The pedestrian was hit while on the sidewalk. Driver didn't have a license... Also, isn't it unusual for police to announce they've arrested/charged someone but not identify who?

Noticed that the Disney app on the tv has this new (unambiguous!) tentacle animation in the intro, so when I googled to see what it was about the AI summary told me I was imagining things, it's just northern lights. Always better to make shit up instead of saying "I don't know," I guess.

If you're doing holiday baking that leaves you with excess egg whites, make these cookies. You will not regret it. www.shelovesbiscotti.com/soft-amarett...