[whispering to paramedic before I pass out] save me but not enough that I have to go to work tomorrow

On Friday, on my way home from a workshop at City Hall on the City’s Vision Zero Action Plan (!!), I was hit by a driver on my own street. I have a badly broken wrist that will likely require surgery, and face a long recovery during which I’ll struggle to fulfil my parenting and work duties. 1/

The politicians are just following the journalists who are just following the politicians who are following the journalists who are j

Find someone who loves you as much as CBC loves writing articles about the suffering of landlords.

Relooted is a new video game made by South African studio @nyamakop.co.za where players take back 70 African objects from western museums. "We’re giving people this hopeful, utopian feeling … of what it’s going to feel like when all these artefacts finally come home."

Nova Scotia getting ready to turn parks into mines and lumber camps. Not making a joke, this is the TL'DR Conservative dream for Canada.

Love to have a transit app that is just totally wrong. Your bus departs in 5 minutes. Oh you mean the one that just drove past me. Don't worry, the next one will arrive in 5 years.

Travel times for people driving is the only fucking thing this city cares about #ottawa

Hydro-Québec propose la création d’un tarif pour les centres de données à 13 ¢/kWh. www.noovo.info/nouvelles/ec...

I have eaten the disks that were in production and which you were probably saving for your PC Forgive me they were so capacious so fast and so NVMe gizmodo.com/because-of-a...

Québec government pulls their funding for the tramway in Gatineau. This sucks. So much housing has already started being built in anticipation of this project. Now it will almost all go into car traffic. www.ledroit.com/actualites/2...

John Lennon tried to get Hitler on the cover of Sgt. Pepper's. David Bowie wanted to make a film about Goebbels — and owned his desk. A new book explores rock and roll’s long and complicated infatuation with Nazi Germany.

This awful, hateful tragedy is what the right wing has been trying to will into existence for years. We are going to need to stand up stronger than ever to support trans communities as I have no doubt the right will try use this as a weapon to inflict more harm.

NEW from me today: Tumbler Ridge is mourning a horrific loss. But how the shooter's identity is being talked about online, and the dangerous links being made to trans people at large, will have resounding and dangerous impacts in the months and weeks to come. xtramagazine.com/power/tumble...

*rings dinner bell* yall come eat Can't wait till you read the non social headline

Once you hit a net worth of say, a billion, you should be forbidden from comment on public policy on the grounds that your wealth is the cognitive equivalent of being kicked in the head by a horse each day

Doggo is fine but I hate that this is actually from 2022. I just feel like the world of facts is separating and leaving the world we live in, even on small things. www.mirror.co.uk/sport/other-...

Return to office is all about productivity. Also, if you work from home because of a sick kid, you have to make it up or you're breaking the rules. Unless you just take the day as leave, then that's fine. Productivity!

I spent a long time trying to figure out what to do with my Harry Potter books, because just dumping them in a little free library felt wrong. So I mailed them to this artist who was turning them into portraits of murdered trans women www.thepinknews.com/2025/11/11/a...

If you, like many, were confused about what to make of last week's federal auto/EV strategy – was it another climate retreat or creative new strategy? – I highly recommend latest column by @chrishatch.bsky.social 👇 Canada’s auto strategy is driving blind www.nationalobserver.com/2026/02/09/o...

now that's the power of a union

Liberal MP Bruce Fanjoy from the Ottawa-area riding or Carleton is breaking ranks with the Carney government on its Return to Office policy for public servants: “There is little to no evidence that a one-size-fits-all RTO policy will improve productivity or service to Canadians”

And when LLMs are asked to sit tests that they haven’t already learned the answers for (such as ARG benchmarks), they perform much worse than a dog. Literally

This is really the critical point: Firefox is packing its browser with AI slop functions by default; relying on a user actively choosing to turn it off. That isn't neutral - that is a political and ideological statement that they want more reliance on these tools

Breaking: Tragedy at the Winter Olympics

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Can't wait to get into the office more often to put my head together with my teammates who work in other cities. We have big plans to do lots of teams meetings in open concept offices about what work we would do if we had a budget or some quiet to think.

Just finished this fantastic book, "Air-Borne". One piece Carl Zimmer understands about science is that it is fundamentally a human endeavor. At its best, it builds on the previous works of others, in other cases the interplay of society and personalities shapes how it does or does not advance.

Hi, Senator expert here. @wyden.senate.gov only does this when he's very stressed:

Wyden was doing the same “hey, over here!” routine about the §215 bulk phone program long before anyone heard the name Edward Snowden.

Bell was like, “Quick! Everyone’s looking at the Washington Post!” 😡

Don't you f**king dare.

Nina Simone sings '𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗴, 𝗚𝗶𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗱, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗕𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗸' to children on Sesame Street, 1972 #BlackHistoryMonth

Important interview with retired government scientist, Dr. Christine Bishop, on the impacts of laying off government scientists in Canada. www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

Bike lane so derelict drivers won't even park in it.

The joys of winter cycling. Can I shift? No. Can I stop? Sometimes. Does it beat driving? Always. #ROC

William Foege, the physician who saved many millions from smallpox— William Foege, who sadly died this week, is one of the reasons why this map ends in the 1970s.

It’s hard to imagine someone more universally enjoyed than Catherine O’Hara where the opinions range from “I like her and her work” to “I love her and her work” and that’s a pretty good legacy

Breaking - Jim Pattison Developments say the sale of their warehouse for use as a proposed ICE facility will not be proceeding

*taps glass

“The way ICE is dealing with some people, killing its own citizens, the way they are treating immigrants, even detaining children — it’s really bad. “Had it been any other country, we’d have asked [companies] to stop doing business with that country.” thetyee.ca/News/2026/01...

I'm hearing from multiple people that students who submitted ecology GRFP proposals are having those proposals rejected without review, despite ecology being listed as an eligible field. If this is a programmatic change, this is devastating. Ecology is the study of Earth's life support systems.

Snow removal does wonders for pedestrians and cyclists. These shots were taken just six hours apart. The sidewalk and bike lane are much clearer. It’s kind of amazing. (Snow removal is different from plowing. It involves collecting snow from city streets and trucking it to snow dumps.)

Have you heard? Today is the last day to buy an NDP membership to vote in the leadership race. Now go tell your friends. And your friends' friends. And your co-worker's roommate's pickleball club. And everyone in between! Join by midnight tonight. Let's get this done: https://avilewis.link/join

We respect this "issue" is deeply important to many, just not Jimmy, who sold his soul decades ago. #SaveOnGhoul

Ban us from the Olympics. For real. Fucking ban us. Put your foot down. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Apparently Carney’s plan to build a strong Canada that can stand up to a US that treats immigrants and refugees so terribly involves making the lives of Canadian refugees that much more miserable. What a brave leader. What a moral abomination.

look how they massacred my boy

So initial experiments with Open AI's vibe-coding science tool Prism are going about as well as expected.