#QUESTIONOFTHEDAY IS BACK! What did your faves do this offseason? 🤗

a government for, by and of degenerates

Intrusive thoughts: 1 Mr. Lover / Fishtopher; 0 😹😹

Deep breath

I would definitely like to praise Councillor Steele for having the actual cost-to-the-city for regional centre bikeways this year ready to hand, instead of the headline cost, which is mostly covered by external funding.

“When you have communications coming from the mayor’s office that is distinctly the mayor’s point of view and not necessarily all of council, how does that benefit taxpayers?” www.saltwire.com/nova-scotia/...

Orion 🌈🦁🧡 would also spend spring training working on his catching / fielding skills. A #ThrowbackThursday to 2018. 😹🦁 #CatsOfBluesky

This budget season is just a lot of Council: can we get a report on this? Staff: it's in your hands? Council: oh, I meant like the same report but with better numbers S: nope. Those are the numbers. We need a decision. C: hmm a new report may have better numbers S:... C:... Report it is!

Remarks from Evelien VanderKloet at Halifax's Budget Committee, 1/2

77 NSGEU members working in meat inspection, agricultural labs, highway construction services groups, museums, and visitor information centres have been laid off or made redundant.

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George Springer has been spending lots of time with Kazuma Okamoto in #BlueJays camp. They’re in the same hitting group, so they move around together all morning. John Schneider has spent a lot of these daily drills next to Okamoto, too.

Via @npilon.bsky.social's work, all the battle over bike lanes this budget season was over $900k in spending. Lol. Lmao, even.

spending this much on a speech and not even coming up with a line as good as “tax me daddy” is an L

in america, if you go over your 3 minute allotment to speak, men with guns come to take you away.

We can and did significantly reduce child poverty, we just chose to stop doing that.

Canadian team sports schedule today: Women's curling: CAN vs KOR must win at 8amET Women's hockey gold: CAN vs USA at 1pm ET Men's curling semifinal: CAN vs NOR at 1pm ET Everything is going to be happening. I'm ready. I know you're ready. Lets gooooooo

I love the smell of astroturfing in the afternoon; it reminds me of landlords.

This is why I emphasized in my comments yesterday that we can’t keep kicking the ball (sic yes should’ve been can) down the road and trimming the edges can’t save us. When you look at what HRM is paying for over the next four years, almost all of it is stuff it will really hurt to not replace.

I knew the "urbanists just don't understand that not everyone can ride a bike!" people were acting in bad faith but it's wild having them still saying it to me when I'm like "yeah, it literally me - my chronic illness causes fatigue and unpredictable dizziness. I still want bike lanes."

Data and privacy nerds - you may be quite interested in the Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs committee’s new report on Bill C-4. Some very strong recommendations from re privacy protection for Canadian voters. #SenateofCanada #lcjc #cdnpoli #Canada

Cripes. One has disagreed with Mr. Coyne so violently over so many issues over so many years, and yet … Here he is so bloody incisive (yet again) in skewering today’s Conservative Party of Canada on a spit. 🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁

Stress break - white squirrel needs the fancy shampoo

Remarks from me at Halifax's Budget Committee

I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland. And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.

You need to hear the goal call in Inuktitut.

I love the smell of astroturfing in the afternoon; it reminds me of landlords.

Normalize laughing derisively in men's faces when they deserve it.

Yesterday I lent my PhD student a copy of “Master and Commander: Far Side of the World”, which he had never heard of (!!!). I described it as “Old timey Hunt for the Red October” and he was in. #teachingexcellence

I bothered Halifax council about the same issue for the third year in a row. Thank you Terri for live-posting through a very long meeting! Here are my remarks from this afternoon:

They spoke to how this process is not appropriate for engaging African Nova Scotians. They also talked about how this city was built by African Nova Scotians and I hope someone shows this to Andy, whose most recent IG post claims that Halifax exists because of its military history.

I can’t believe you lefty Luddites hate tech so much that you embrace mRNA vaccines, heat pumps, electric bikes, hybrid work, renewable power (and awesome advancements in storage), space telescopes, and hot/cold running water but reject the planet destroying plagiarism enrich the worst people bots!

Once again, sound local reporting that's worth a few bucks a month. www.halifaxexaminer.ca/subscribe/

‘What do you want us to cut?’: Councillors grill head of landlord association on Stop the Hike campaign reported by @suzannerent.bsky.social

I think anyone who might be able to shoulder a bit more in taxes needs to say this loud and often. I too would rather pay more so that everyone can be safer and supported.

Halifax councillors are grilling the director of Rental Housing Providers of Nova Scotia, the big-landlord interest group behind the well-financed Stop the Hikes campaign. It's beautiful.

"My property taxes are too high! 😡" "So you did a... easily tens of thousands of dollars campaign about it?" "Ye... I... yes!"

GOOOOOOAAAAALLLLLL CANADA 🇨🇦 WINS IT IN OVERTIME MOVING ON AT THE OLYMPICS EXHALE CANADA

Man, when drivers say they are fine with a transit fare increase because “transit users, not all taxpayers, should pay for transit”, they really don’t like it when you respond with “put tolls on the roads, because drivers, not all taxpayers, should have to pay for driving.”

Sorry to get radical but I don’t think it’s my job or yours to embrace, accept, understand - and certainly not to use - the thing being sold to us as AI. I don’t like any part of it, so I won’t. I’m missing out? Good, that’s what I want. You’re worried about me missing out? That’s fuckin weird, man.

Police in Halifax continue to get more money while other municipal budgets are scrutinized reported by @suzannerent.bsky.social

This easy bus trip to city hall brought to you in part by car-free bus lanes

Come to #BlueJays camp with me... and live The Kazuma Okamoto Experience:

I spent my childhood inside of American concentration camps. I know one when I see one. And that is what ICE is building.

People talk about this stuff in terms of how much it'll suck for gaming and I hate to inform you how many MRI machines, X-Rays, all sorts of other vital machinery are just a Windows IoT Edition PC in a beige plastic box with a big magnet/accelerator/whatever attached.

Facelifts, breast implants, breast reduction surgery, penis lengthening, nose jobs, lip jobs, flappy underarm fixing and now limb lengthening Nobody bats an eye about all this But when trans folks want surgery, it’s suddenly considered wrong or unethical or whatever. 🧐

Nah. We do get it. We just reject the hype, forced integration with everything, government excitement about it, job losses, environmental destruction, child porn, awful techbros behind it, and the slop it produces. And we look forward to the bubble bursting. www.transformernews.ai/p/the-left-i...

Yoo-hoo @seebo429.bsky.social

It strikes me that North Americans are trained to see monopolies as inevitable and inescapable.. So here is a thread of stories about big clients dumping Microsoft365. www.france24.com/en/live-news...