Friday, March 27, from noon to 1 p.m. at the Confluence for Ani to Pisi, the Human Web Story…mark the first activation of the permanent Indian Residential School Memorial site. We need about 300 people to make the human web activity come to life. Learn more: www.theconfluence.ca/events/ani-t...

Synchronized sitting by Merry and Pippin #CatsOfBluesky

I want a 100-car funereal motorcade of city vehicles for Peter Clark's procession the way we do for cops. I want the roads closed, the City flag flown at half-mast, and it to be covered on the radio the way we do when a police officer dies.

#HolyWeek at @stbarnabasmusic.bsky.social is coming up and we’ve got a teaser for some of the music: youtube.com/shorts/fDDe9... #Ottawa

"The lesson is that most mainstream journalists, except those who work for themselves, are never truly independent but instead labour at the behest of first managers and ultimately executives and owners." #cdnpoli

I got this "Canadaland tipster" email over the weekend. Looked like a complete nothingburger, as @karynpugliese.bsky.social points out. It's a draft document (ooooOOOooOo). But the reasons it was sent may be much more interesting:

WILE E. COYOTE STATES ROADRUNNER WILL BE CAPTURED SOON IF PLAN IS SUCCESFUL

It is being reported on the ground in Cuba that everyone on a ventilator at this hospital died overnight. As a Cuban, I'm devastated.

“What you have to take into account is that 17 parking spaces are being used over the course of the day. So that could be a couple hundred customers. What’s the potential negative revenue loss from having fewer customers being able to park in the Glebe?” You mean equivalent to A SINGLE BUSLOAD?

‘Sunlight travels 93 million miles to reach the earth, not one of them through the Strait of Hormuz,” #Scotland www.thenational.scot/business/259...

The Liberal government is “appalled” at the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, which is causing economic damage. Yet it is utterly silent at the blockade of Cuba, which is causing death to innocents. That’s not only incoherent, it’s immoral.

Suddenly all my Gen-X knowledge base about Checkpoint Charlie, nuclear war and apartheid is becoming relevant again! lolweep

Exactly. Science is a philosophy, a system of belief. Like any philosophy & system of belief, it can & has been used to do and justify horrific things. The atom bomb was science, & evil. Tuskegee Syphilis studies were science, & evil. canada's experiments on Indigenous kids were science, & evil.

This is your reminder that if you are a class member and have NOT yet filed a claim in Anthropic v. Bartz, the AI copyright lawsuit, you have 9 days to do so.

Can’t decide if the black and red #PassionSunday draperies on the altar and altarpiece look more like a circus-themed brothel or a brothel-themed circus.

Title: You Did It To Me I’m excited to announce that I’m partnering with Mennonite Action again. Our previous partnership raised $30,000 by raffling off two paintings. I hope you’ll join me and spread the word. Updates for the raffle will be announced soon.

I describe it as such as a historian of disability because I want to remind scientists and the world that the history of science IS the history of eugenics, scientific racism and medical racism, and more. I’m not comforting them with the idea that it was a ‘pseudoscience.’ This is your history.

Eid Mubarak to everyone...except those profiting off of Sudanese, Palestinian, Congolese, Haitian and Indigenous (and all other oppressed people's) death and destruction. May this year bring you ruin and may your wealth be redistributed to those you stole from.

This means the post office is dead btw. Sold in pieces soon.

The closure of the supervised consumption site at the Somerset West CHC has created an absolute crisis in Ottawa’s Chinatown — @catmckenney.bsky.social and I wrote about it last summer. Expect to see more public drug use, everywhere. Shame on the Ford govt. ottawacitizen.com/opinion/mcke...

The Tory playbook couldn’t be more clear: close supervised consumption sites, criminalize (inevitable) public drug use, build more jails. It sickens me to see us go backwards on evidence-based public health policy. So many people are going to suffer. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

If the premier effectively tells you that hunting criminals is okay, then some people will internalize that fact. Doug Ford bringing protesters into it is extremely dangerous and, let's be honest, racist. We all know the types of protesters he's talking about people being sick of.

Right wing men desire a world ruled by hierarchy and domination, and the way they treat women and girls is an extension of that principle. Left wing men desire a world ruled by equality and dignity, and the way they treat women and girls is an exception to that principle.

We live on memories in Gaza. When we meet, we only talk about the past. We truly live in the past, as the present is completely destroyed.

cannot conceive of a more demonic policy

The combo of trying to fix my high cholesterol through diet and my usual Lenten fasting has most probably not lowered my cholesterol but it is making me lose a lot of weight. No scale but by body measurements I’m lighter than I have been since prepubescence.

"These systems are especially likely, given the limited datasets available for many Indigenous languages, to produce invented words, fabricated cultural teachings, or generalized 'pan-Indigenous' representations that flatten distinct nations or communities into one interchangeable identity."

Mothering Sunday 2026 Do Not Hand Out Flowers To Every Parishioner You Regard As A Woman Regardless Of Any Other Thing About Them Challenge: impossible

Fascinating Bloomberg piece about how AI is used as an excuse for downsizing, but isn't usually the real reason: > “We’re restructuring around AI” is a growth signal. “We over-hired during the pandemic and revenue softened” is an accountability signal. /1

Devastating. I have a hand cranked radio, I don't have hand cranked wifi.

10/10 no notes

Doug Ford doesn't get to chose who gets free speech. Your rights are only as secure as their rights. No matter who you are. No matter who they are. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

“But apart from the ship-go-bang devices, Mrs. Lincoln…”

At long last, we have recreated the Wire Mother from the classic experiment "Don't create the Wire Mother"

With alt text.

I met with AI data labelers in Kenya who are organizing their colleagues to fight the brutal working conditions and horrible pay given to the workers at the "bottom of the AI supply chain." They believe the NDAs they've signed are unenforceable so are speaking out: www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...

Elections matter and Ontario voters need to vote for change because Ford is destroying everything

#Idlout's floor crossing brings Liberals one step closer to killing amendments in S-2 that end the second-generation cut-off. www.aptnnews.ca?p=285090 #indigenous #cdpoli

Folks, if I could have everyone take a moment in Ontario to watch this video, listen to the complete and utter disastrous mismanagement. The malicious money over morals of these companies. These are our financial institutions who are taking service fees from you every month while

Our PM & Smith will tell you our production is of the most ethical in the world. Both are lying to you. We can’t let the profitable polluters release the tar sands wastewater into the rivers. @mark-carney.bsky.social quite the dirty legacy you are pursuing. #UnethicalAlberta #CdnPoli #Treaty #AbPoli

Breaking: Liberal govt today voted down No More Loopholes Act, legislation that would have closed major loophole that allows Canadian military exports to reach Israel through US. This loophole has connected Canada to ICE operations, Israeli genocide, and US attack on Venezuela. Arms Embargo Now!

#Landback in action www.paulsmiths.edu/news/histori...

People are much too quick to uncritically celebrate "progress" given to us by corporations without looking under the hood to see what it's doing to our environment and the exploited workers in the Global South that make our stuff. What I want is for that to be a much bigger part of the conversation

This. Don't know why everyone else sees it differently. His struggle isn't explaining DEI. It's that he knows his answer is racist, misogynistic, and antisemitic. He pulled a grant because it focused on Jewish women during the holocaust! Discriminatory to who exactly? (Nazis)

To be fair I think the part we apologized for was more the slander of Catholics by Mennonite descendants who didn’t actually experience any persecution ourselves. And we did get a nice speech from Pope Leo! www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

Mark Carney could be doing anything right now. Canadians want so badly to trust him and to have someone reasonable in charge. What is he doing with all that power and trust? Cutting taxes, cutting services, and putting out statements supporting a war that started with bombing a school. Empty suit.