How @camunicampop.bsky.social researchers are turning static snapshots of Victorian Britain into dynamic life histories. The team are linking over 200 million census records, revealing how people moved, worked and lived in ways never before possible. 🔎 Read on 👉 www.hist.cam.ac.uk/news/tracing...

1981's income tax brackets

Feds greenlight $51,703,550,000 to keep Canadian military afloat this year.

the reason most people never think about how amazing sewers are is because some amazing people are always thinking about sewers.

The one thing I wish would change with emergency alerts is being able to see the message after you clear the alarm. I startle easy so have a tendency to close the alert to silence it, then realise I have no idea what it was for.

Do not do this. Airports are a public good.

What did people do before modern medicine? They died. Earlier. More terribly. Modern medicine has been so successful we forgot that.

I finally got a long form census! Woohoo! That was cool, I always wondered how much detail these things go into.

‘Loss of vehicle control’: Thousands of Toyotas recalled in Canada - Toyota has announced a recall for more than 100,000 vehicles in Canada due to an issue with the suspension arm which could lead to loss of control while driving.

We thought we'd share a traditional craft for #MKMonday - here's Mrs Merry of Newport Pagnell lacemaking! This was a vital industry in the county for centuries, developing into its own unique style.

DOCTOR OF "HUMANE LETTERS" AKA HUMANITIES AKA BASKET WEAVING www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti...

some🗑️❤️‍🔥inspo❤️‍🔥🗑️for you:

Everything they brew, they brew it for you! This week's column is about afternoon tea. From a casual, cosy spots to swanky seats to special events like fairy princesses and the Mad Hatter's Tea Party, we can find lovely local places to connect over a cuppa #Food #Tea www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Here we go again. Every so often tech makes an incursion into history, completely ignores that history is a rigorous discipline with a methodology, and then claims that a mystery or issue that historians have grappled with can be solved with an algorithm. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"What better way to prop up a fading empire than to start a war?" - G'Kar (Babylon 5 - The Gathering)

Absolute enshitification. But also: Dougy Doug has proven that he does respond to public opinion (*cough Gravy Plane cough*) so be sure to make your displeasure known.

Everyone should find out what new fees their clinics now charge because of various changes in OHIP coverage, and is now 'uninsured.' There's more than you think.

Doug Ford: How do we make health care more inequitable and poorer people even sicker? OHIP: oh, oh, oh, I know! #OHIP #Ontario #HealthCare

Secret government is totalitarian government. Full stop. Any water carrier is on that side. There are many.

For Waterloo Region residents, "come October you neither get to elect the head of your regional council directly nor indirectly through your own local representatives, and now that head of council is going to be more powerful than anyone you can actually vote for." #WRcouncil

Let me get this straight: speed cameras are bad, but CCTV cameras are ok? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

What is the point of having a (theoretically) green economist prime minister if he consistently trashes green policy and refuses to act as a sensible economist?

It’s the 250th year of American independence, and the Pope and the King of England are reminding Americans of their revolutionary values, principles, and ideals Somewhere, John Adams is confused as fuck

So my street will have more speeders AND more signage. Sweet. 😒

I can't even...

A wholesome story for nerds: On Saturday, I was signing books at a local bookstore for Independent Bookstore Day. The store had a signing-palooza with new authors every hour; toward the end of my hour, a woman came up and asked what my book was about. "Dictionaries," I said, and she lit up. 1/n

Any geography student who studied population growth could tell him that industrialized countries have had stagnant growth decades before the smart phone.🙄 Without immigration over the last 50 years many countries, including the US, would have had decreasing populations.

Good for her.

Tonight in the ai reading group i was reminded of something that happened in 2006 after I dropped out of college, when I was living in a run-down old house next to jb alberto's in rogers park with a bunch of dudes. it was, as you can imagine, not clean.

"Can tech save the world?" is the wrong question. The right question is "what kind of world do we want to build?", and then the tech can help us get there. It's the re-invented worldview that the tech gives you access to that matters. The tech needs to support that worldview, not dictate it.

‘Do not consume’ these pizza kits sold at Canadian Costco stores, recall warns - A pizza product sold at Costco stores in Canada is being recalled due to “the potential for mould growth.”

How much "loss" do fire departments report annually? Police? The armed forces? Roads? Schools? Solid waste collection? Wastewater treatment? Public health agencies?

Fact check: Ford presides over the largest and most expensive Premier's Office in Ontario or Canadian history. www.ontario.ca/page/expendi...

Partner amd I took a walk that went behind the Forbes mansion in Hespeler. With the grounds cleared of trees for construction, we saw the mansion from the back for the first time ever. We also saw the remains of the dovecote. Hopefully it gets rebuilt as promised in the park.

If he doesn't sell it for the exact same amount as he bought it, I think Ontarians should have the right to take the difference off of our taxes, idgaf if that's "not how money works" www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti...

I don't recall any previous transformative technologies that had to be sold to the public so hard. No one in 1999 was going, "Guys. Cell phone? It's coming, whether we like it or not. I think it's important, FOR WOMEN ESPECIALLY, to learn about cell phone. So that we're not left behind!!"

Ontario takes over Billy Bishop Airport, promises to build it out for jets despite total lack of business case. Barely a month later, Ontario buys jet for Doug Ford. www.thestar.com/politics/pro...

A DDoS attack is like having loads of people turn up uninvited at a party, with the aim of causing chaos - it swamps servers and disrupts services. A hack is a malicious infiltration of systems, ie sneakily getting inside to steal data or infect with ransomware. Useful definition here

Our team received a report of intermittent app outages at about 11:40pm PDT on April 15, 2026. They worked through the night to mitigate a sophisticated Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack, which intensified throughout the day.

an incredibly important project by Connie Walker — most Canadians don't know that the government has an archive of 38,000 residential school survivor testimonies, which are slated to be destroyed next year www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...

Gas tax breaks are bandaids at best. Real solution is to help low & middle-income Cdns get off fossil fuels. Invest in solar, heat pumps, batteries, EVs. Tackle barriers, offer real incentives & fund w/ windfall tax on Big Oil (who are laughing all the way to the bank). Cleaner, cheaper, healthier.

Call me crazy but I don't love the new reality of Canada essentially being run by the Conservative Lite™ Party with only the Conservative Normal™ Party to fecklessly scream at them for the next three years! It's not, I think, ideal!

It’s not just the grocers, it’s the manufacturers of food products too. They’re all cheating us because govt lets them. 🤬

Eliminating libraries in prisons is a disaster, completely shortsighted. Libraries are a lifeline for incarcerated people who want to learn and grow, and have few other options.

It's kinda interesting to think about how differently Justin Trudeau and Stephen Harper have spent their retirement years

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One last point: When governments talk about "age verification," they also mean "identity verification" So even if you're 55 years old, you will be virtually carded and all your social media activity will be linked to your identity. That means no online anonymity and raises privacy issues for adults

One of the comments to this is like “of all the things to be mad about, not being able to get a credit card is low down the list” and y’all being able to leave shitty men is so important and cannot be done without money.

Happy Caturday 🐾🤍

Dorg's ON PCs keep cutting funding to ON hospitals. Now the Ottawa Hospital has to cut staffing by 3% even though they're short-staffed & overworked. In effect, the PCs are pushing them to privatisation, the nirvana of all cons. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...