Americans, come collect your grandpa. Old man's trying to steal a bridge.

I CanCon (And You Can Too!) || A Hand-Curated Weekly Canadian Music Playlist || 2026 - Week 6 "Lunatic fringe In the twilight's last gleaming This is open season But you won't get too far" #ICanConPlaylist #CanadianMusic #Canada 🧵 - (1/9)

I hope everyone has fun with their football!

The Super Bowl is just making me sad about what the CFL chose to do to its rules.

@techconnectify.bsky.social Hey man - I finally got around to watching last year's Christmas lights video (good stuff, BTW). The bit at the end is really interesting, and I wonder if you've ever considered a "How to Light a Home 101 - Considerations and Solutions" video? I'd absolutely love that.

Am I an idiot? Was there not an option to hide images as spoilers in the Bluesky web client? Is it gone or am I missing it?

The warping influence of D&D5E on what folks think a "story focused" TTRPG is definitely has a cousin in console RPGs where people who have only ever played Dark Souls clones think a "strong narrative" is when the environmental storytelling toilet skeleton has two paragraphs of lore instead of one.

Breaking: Tragedy at the Winter Olympics

There are only four types of "AI" companies: 1) The Obvious Scam 2) Three Chatbots in a Trench Coat 3) We're Calling it AI for the Investors 4) Yes, It's the Mechanical Turk Again

Catching up on the opening ceremony now, after work. What the hell, CBC? Why are you *running commercials* during the performance?! I do not need you to push the video feed up into a corner and mute the music and commentary so I can hear Chris Pratt as Mario.

I'm going to share a very good story about the internet. I won't tell it well because I apparently have the flu, but I think we all need a good story about the internet. It starts in 2021, when I took a sabbatical and got a little workspace to write a design book.

He looks like they Tuvixed him with Hugh Grant.

How do they expect anyone to understand this if they’re not providing Jupiter’s size in sensible units, like cubic football fields? Scientific “American” indeed…

The Pitt got greenlit for a season 3, out next February, and the announcement has very funny comment from HBO chairman Casey Bloys that’s like “yeah, turns out if you just make a TV show like how we used to make TV shows you can have a 15+ episode season every year 🤷‍♂️”

I CanCon (And You Can Too!) || A Hand-Curated Weekly Canadian Music Playlist || 2026 - Week 5 "I wanna know where my money went I want a new fucking president Wanna believe that God is benevolent" #ICanConPlaylist #CanadianMusic #Canada 🧵 - (1/8)

Shooom! #startrek #blender #vfx

the theater is screening DOS Boot

I feel the need to point out that all those water bombers Canada sent to fight the L.A. fires were built in Canada. I guess they're decertified, and Canada can't send them to assist with fires in the US in the future?

Just had someone in this meeting describe the future of AI as “A Skynet scenario, but in a good way!” Lord help me…

I CanCon (And You Can Too!) || A Hand-Curated Weekly Canadian Music Playlist || 2026 - Week 4 "Gotta get down to it Soldiers are gunning us down Should have been done long ago" #ICanConPlaylist #CanadianMusic #Canada 🧵 - (1/9)

No way to get rid of this NFL feed, eh? Boo. Boo!

I don't know if it's the "greatest" or whatever, but I've always liked this chase from Due South. It's the philosophy they take with a lot of their action scenes that does it. No dialogue or exposition; make it a music video where you can focus on the visual storytelling and choreography.

Just read an article in the Globe and Mail with the thesis “historical romantasy without the romance would be great; men would love that!” A) There is a lot to unpack there. B) My brother in letters, you need to talk to a librarian about historical fiction.

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Bro.

Today the Prime Minister of Canada gave a speech where he closed the book on the End of History and laid out his vision for what is to come next. The President of the United States also gave a speech where he talked about how stoic he would be if he got his finger stuck in a binder clip.

Cat wandered in front of the camera during the #aurora long exposure

I CanCon (And You Can Too!) || A Hand-Curated Weekly Canadian Music Playlist || 2026 - Week 3 "The captain said the yacht is sinkin'; they drank anyway." #ICanConPlaylist #CanadianMusic #Canada 🧵 - (1/8)

I just threw CNN on during my lunch break, and Americans - I need you to understand their framing of things is bizarre. I am begging you to add reliable non- American news sources to your media diet. The CBC just started a US politics podcast. Start there.

The Ottawa River. Have a photo I took this May.

I CanCon (And You Can Too!) || A Hand-Curated Weekly Canadian Music Playlist || 2026 - Week 2 "Sparkle someone else's eyes." #ICanConPlaylist #CanadianMusic #Canada 🧵 - (1/9)

Trying to manage playlists in iTunes, and my god. It crashes every second thing I do. Half of that is my fault - my new PC is still waiting to be built in the next room. But *no* other program is *this* bad. There has got to be some major memory leak or other terrible code going on.

I'm cleaning out a closet, and I seem to have found a Pope John Paul II bobblehead?

Slightly diminish a band. The B-17s.

I am once again urging Americans to add the CBC to their news media diet. It is increasingly important for you to read non-American voices.

Instead of posting something angry about something I read here, have a photo of a turkey vulture I took from my office window.

I CanCon (And You Can Too!) || 2026 - Week 1 "No, I'll bloody not." #ICanConPlaylist #CanadianMusic #Canada (1/6)

I'm excited to finally share my big project for 2026: I CanCon (And You Can Too!) is a weekly curated playlist of Canadian music. Here are the rules: 1/7

I am once again urging Americans to add the CBC to their news media diet. It is increasingly important for you to read non-American voices.

Jesus Christ.

I am beginning to realize that we need to contend with the fact that a large segment of society, including a shocking proportion of the news media, is evidently fundamentally unable to understand that LLMs are not people. Their brains literally cannot see them as different things.

I’ve been listening to a lot of new Canadian music recently, and I’m a little ashamed to realize just *how much* really good stuff I’ve been missing by not paying attention. Anyway, watch this space to find out why I’ve started to do that…

Wikipedia, what the HELL, man?

Hey! That's TWO words, Mx. Merriam-Webster. Dictionary foul, dictionary foul!

Through the doorway, and onto the next.

Microplastics are here to stay; that's why we need to eat them responsibly in the classroom

seems conspicuous that programmer commentary on genAI is split between "oh yeah i use claude all the time now. the 10× programmer is real and he's me. i am a god" and "yeah my coworkers use claude all the time. they keep committing crap that doesn't work and now i spend half my time fixing it"

oh christ look at the time