Have a #painting. "The Long Walk II" My Galway city painting that I'll never tired of telling people it prompted a friend's young son to ask why there were giraffes walking down the street, and ever since that's all any of us can see. It hangs in his home. He's a man now. #art #JanuArty #SpeirGhorm

For @msnownews.bsky.social, I wrote an article about how ICE Watch is grounded in sociological theories of violence prevention. The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.

As someone who lives downtown Ottawa and who was living dead centre of the "Red Zone" where I had to literally show ID at a police checkpoint in order to get to my apartment, a huge middle finger to this and what it's about to enable.

It is the source of so many of our evils: the astonishing concentration of wealth in the hands of a very few, and the immense political power that gives them. We cannot solve our problems until we tackle it. This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

If you appreciate someone, tell them.

I am shocked myself that I'm feeling this chill about the Bo Bichette news. Maybe just wishful thinking, but it doesn't feel like the sky is falling?

Colour me skeptical.

Live action public policy experiment www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/artic...

Only a very specific baking audience is going to care about this but apparently the company that makes Silpat has abruptly shut down. I’m personally buying up ones I can find from secondary retailers cause these things are irreplaceable. I’m bummed.

The Canadian government bragging about spending 3.5 million dollars on Heated Rivalry is guaranteed to bring out some haters, but y'know what? Fuck 'em.

This is the kind of cringe I want from my politicians tbh.

Thread on the Wikimedia announcement:

Can someone help me understand if this is because their content was getting relentlessly scrubbed anyway? This allows AI to access the content at scale, but are they opening doors for AI-created Wiki content? I gotta look into this more.

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I expect that the owners don't care. Some people will continue to watch and be steeped in their messaging, many others have had free/cheap access to reliable journalism taken away. Just like Elon destroying Twitter, both of these outcomes are "wins".

The implications of this ruling, if allowed to stand, are absolutely terrifying. #USpoli

A Garda spokesperson said "Things went sideways quickly".

Heard this in my head in Captain Holt/Andre Braugher's voice.

The red rocket will be red again

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#ICYMI we had a lot of snow last night. It continues to snow this morning and may thoughout the day. Plan accordingly #WalkTO & #BikeTO ‘Clearing Snow & Ice from Toronto’s Roads & Sidewalks’ via @toronto.ca h/t @goodroads.bsky.social @ffsafestreets.bsky.social www.toronto.ca/services-pay...

Inclement Weather: All schools are closed today due to weather conditions. Bus transportation, child care centres, and before and after school programs located in schools are also cancelled.

All TDSB schools and sites, including child care centres, are closed today due to the weather forecast.

We’ve adopted a new policy clarifying how we’ll be using digital platforms to share our journalism Going forward, we will expect any platforms we use to demonstrate basic commitments to user safety, information integrity and democratic values Learn more: pressprogress.ca/journalistic...

Who else remembers when Trudeau was elected and we all got so excited about the return of the long-form census that we crashed the site? toronto.citynews.ca/2016/05/03/c...

Statement on this from Canada’s defence minister’s spokesperson Maya Ouferhat: “As of this moment, the Canadian Armed Forces are not initiating any new operations in Greenland.”

For other people seeing articles, this Politico article is the source for the reporting that Canada is contributing troops to expanded exercises and training operations in Greenland, along with some European NATO nations: www.politico.eu/article/denm...

The UAW will ensure that our member receives the full protection of all negotiated contract language safeguarding his job and his rights as a union member. Workers should never be subjected to vulgar language or behavior by anyone—including the President of the United States.

🧵 The autoworker at the Dearborn Truck Plant is a proud member of a strong and fighting union—the UAW. He believes in freedom of speech, a principle we wholeheartedly embrace, and we stand with our membership in protecting their voice on the job.

One of those "I'm still not over it" bits of Canadian media criticism was the number of stories at the time that called banns of marriage a "loophole" in marriage law. Banns of marriage date back to medieval Catholic law! *Civil marriages* are the loophole!

Happy Anniversary to all who observe. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-se...

they raided her house this morning

this, driving a person to suicide because they had the temerity to want to work in public service, is what russ vought hoped to accomplish

let thine eye look like a friend on Denmark.

BREAKING: Denmark has deployed an advance force and military equipment to Greenland, tasked with preparing to receive reinforcements from the rest of the Danish Armed Forces and allied nations. Follow the story on DR, Denmark’s public-service news outlet. www.dr.dk/nyheder/indl...

Mr. Sabula should never again buy his own drinks, and UAW better go to bat for him.

Sorry is the argument that they should just not inform parents about dangers facing the school children? That doing so invites summary execution? Fuck all the way off.

Stop. We already like and admire her enough and are devastated that she was killed. Oh wait, they're saying that this is bad... and justification for murdering her.

Conservatives aren’t even trying to contain themselves anymore. They’re saying out loud on television that “smug” progressive women deserve to be executed in the street. Women are “naturally” submissive, they insist! Unrelated, the penalty for failing to submit is death.

Seth asking Connor to come on Late Night via latenightseth

there's a desperation to slam the lid shut on our teetering democratic system. theres an urgency because they fear, probably correctly, that their existence has become such that a society of free people can no longer tolerate them. it's their pile of money or us, and they're choosing their money

no longer content to just take your money, a handful of oligarchs, many of them immigrants to these shores, are now taking whats left of your freedom and political power. the very idea that you might have a say in your local government or sit unmolested in your home is offensive to them

‘HEATED RIVALRY’ stars Connor Storrie and Hudson Williams presenting at the 83rd Annual Golden Globes: “It’s a little nerve-wracking being here… Picture everyone in the audience naked” #HeatedRivalry #GoldenGlobes2026

I took my own advice and am baking my favourite cookie bars this evening.

And here's Canada's tech broligarchy cheering Evan Solomon on...

(This is why the point stands btw: bsky.app/profile/cour...)

There's a voice in the back of my head that's like, "is this thing you're reading making you feel things very intensely -- check the sourcing." it's so easy to use our intense emotions to get us to share info quickly, I try to take a beat before immediately reacting. (Not always successfully 😭)