Every day I wake up and I feel fine. Then I sit in my office chair for 20 minutes and my back is fucked for the rest of the day. Then I just repeat that every single day til I die. I love my desk job. 🙃

CBC once again called the Ksi Lisims LNG project “Indigenous-led” on the National last night, despite the fact that it’s 100% American-owned by a Texas shell company, Western LNG. Yikes!!!!! Anyway, here’s a very funny video that breaks this down: youtu.be/Lt6Hmp9ndkI?...

Solid oped. Canada’s ability to maintain independent digital and cultural policies isn’t a “nice to have” to be traded against US protectionist bullying. It’s *the* fundamental test of whether Canada can remain a sovereign country. If you don’t stand up for those, you’re not standing up for Canada.

N.B. Power 'not alarmed' by power needs of data centres, but wants flexibility? Sounds like alarm to me. Data centre demand can't be allowed to put supply to other users at risk. Either generate more of their own power or look at wind / batteries from 3rd parties. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

I have been on media almost everywhere (locally) but here about this- let me give you an update about our work to protect a public park, an ecologically significant beach area, from being developed into a golf course.

Never forget, car dependency is the opposite of freedom. What’s more “free” than cars, you ask? Choices.

I’d love to see some keen tech person start a site to crowdsource pictures of groceries & household items so that we can precisely catalogue over time the extent of shrinkflation, skimpflation, & greedflation.

Applies to the local context too… “If a genie gave #SaintJohn city council three wishes, they’d negotiate down to one, and then wish for something they think JDI might like.”

Quite frankly I think this is a metaphor for all consumers in 2025. The amount of products that I’ve stopped buying, found reusable replacements for, gone without, and/or now make myself is staggering.

Mark Carney’s Liberals were not elected on a mandate to gut Canada Post, but they’re doing it anyway. The minister intervened to begin the process, now management has now submitted a restructuring plan *in the middle of collective bargaining* that it refuses to share with Canadians.

Carney’s next book should be called “Value($): Building a better world for very rich people, burning it up for everyone else.” Or: “How I caved to the oil and gas industry, and did it with a smile on my face.”

I watched a horror movie the other day where the power went out and then landline phone stopped working, mid-call no less. People!!! That’s not how that works!!!

I just finished reading The Deficit Myth and I highly do not recommend this book if you want to keep your mental sanity. You’ll never hear talk about budgets or deficits without breaking into hives or feeling physically unwell ever again.

I feel like my entire life I’ve been seeking a high quality dark chocolate advent calendar, and it still doesn’t exist 😤

Happy bonfire night to all who celebrate

Looking for a budget summary and you aren't an oligarch or the owner of a mid-sized company? Check out what the @ccpa has put together: www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

There is nothing optimistic about today's budget. Fuck you if you're not a member of the multi-millionaire class I guess. Our PM talks a big game about "sacrifices" but then cuts taxes on super yachts. 🙄

This season on the Hallmark Channel: “He’s a no-nonsense banker trying to run a country. HE’S a shit disturber who needs to learn the meaning of Christmas. When they meet under the House Floor mistletoe, sparks (and reindeer) fly, in “A Very Ottawa Christmas.” www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...

Not to be a cynic but if the gov’t were putting out a budget that they were really proud of and they thought everyone would LOVE, I feel like they wouldn’t be so tight lipped about what’s in it….

The quote, “This is the kind of budget you will remember” is breaking me out in hives www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Happy budget day to all who celebrate

Imagine fucking up so badly that you’re …… rewarded with a free house, relocation package, lump sum, and annual salary several times the average wage for the rest of your life with no expectation of work…?

I’m in this picture & I don’t like it

Giant game of chicken happening in Ottawa right now. Lots of gov’t staffers probably shitting buckets & pulling all nighters. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

At first I was hopping mad about shrinkflation but in addition, I’m now curious: how far will they take it??? Cardboard boxes that hold a single cracker? Giant tetrapacks that hold a single tablespoon of juice? Nutritional labels that have so little food they just say “zero” across the board?

My “congratulations I survived this round of mass layoffs” present to myself arrived 💕 #selfcare

"It is that time again. Time to wonder: Why do we turn the clocks forward and backward twice a year" #cdnpoli #nbpoli

The fact that the public sector AND private sector are laying people off en masse feels ominous & is giving me intense anxiety about my economic security

This chills me to the bone because I don’t want any AI company - and particularly not Google - to have access to mass consumer health data. One wonders if “curing cancer” is a facade for “stealing everyone’s health data”…

Beta testing for this new Gander Social platform is starting soon. I’m intrigued but there’s no point in trying if all the other cool kids aren’t using it. Sooooooo vibe check. How do we feel about this?

TFW @theonion.com hits a liiiiiiiittle too close to home 😬

100 years ago rich people built shit like libraries & monuments with beautiful architecture (*they were still evil, I know) Today, rich people will destroy literally anything to make a quick buck. Companies, gorgeous old buildings, mom & pop business, laws & policies… literally nothing is sacred

that's a new one....

Genuinely wondering if I should book budget day off work as self care

someone needs to ask mark carney why, if canada is the “most european of non-european nations,” all of our peers can offer pharmacare as part of their universal healthcare systems but canada still can’t after all these years?

So are we going to actually support younger people in this country or are we once again asking younger people to shoulder the burden of cuts and enjoy the broken promises of the ladder-pullers. This is rhetorical, I already know the answer.

mark carney taking the time to shit on canada post during his big pre-budget speech was disgusting. he acts like it’s the responsible choice to gut an essential institution at the very moment he can’t stop talking about nation-building projects. that’s what canada post is and could continue to be!

I can’t think of any reason why it would be a conflict of interest for the housing minister to be the landlord for an organization that provides housing, can you? 🙄 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

It’s 4pm! Time for my daily scream into a pillow.

I feel like as a society we’re collectively living through that scene in the titanic where the ship is sinking but the violinists are still playing

Our city councillors in SJ are so dumb they think that the AI bubble will go on forever & that “data centres” will create stable long term jobs (instead of one guy working remotely to keep the servers running). And that’s if the AI bubble doesn’t pop before the data centre even gets built!

We do have the power to stop this...

Wanted to respond to some of the arguments put forward against the idea postal banking.

The Carney #AusterityBudget came to my workplace today. Currently experiencing survivor’s guilt that I survived the layoff. Thanks Carney!!!!!!

Lack of imagination, vision, & political will by city council 🙃

Defending Canada Post is not only about protecting good jobs; it’s about preserving one of the last nationwide infrastructures capable of countering corporate monopoly and serving people where they live.

We could be treating Canada Post as not just an essential delivery service, but an essential social infrastructure in our communities. Instead the government prefers to treat it as a costly burden that must be subject to death by a thousand cuts.

Nobody has a way with words like Cory Doctorow. If you’re not reading his free newsletter Pluralistic, what are you even doing with your life #AI pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...

“We should want to take advantage of the post office’s unique, nationwide infrastructure to provide more and better services to Canadians instead of dismantling something that we may never be able to rebuild.” @parismarx.com