Lunch - chicken ginger garlic soup with mushrooms rice and dulse

I figure I should post occasionally rather than just consume so in the spirit of consumption, I present a rather nice lunch dish - chicken in lobster sauce.

Good morning! Beautiful day outside, and it’s mid week (for some value of mid). The predicted snow overnight seems to have been an erroneous prediction.

"The story of the Zong is often narrated as a triumph over slavery. A triumph that took 52 years and resulted in compensation for slave owners only... 245 years after the events of the Zong, humanity is still discarding lives deemed not human enough to the open seas, to fire, to hunger, to war."

Heads up Canadians! An Albertan food rescue charity cannot afford their rent and risk closing. Watch this CBC report on their services, and then please share this post. Donations can be made here: www.wildrosecommunityconnections.com/food-connect... CBC report: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fB9P...

The talk to your friends app and the witness the horrors app being the same app is not great for the mental health is it

Announcing the“Just Google It” Heritage Trail™ No museums? No problem. Tourists receive a QR code that links to a 47-tab PDF titled: “Nova Scotia: It’s Somewhere Near the Ocean.”

Measles is one of those nightmare diseases that, if it hadn't been killing people for hundreds of years, people would ABSOLUTELY be pushing conspiracy theories about right now. It's too nasty in too many different directions to seem natural. But oh, boy, it sure is.

Westjet sucks. 5 hour flight and they swapped the equipment to one of the new reconfigured ones - over half the plane is jammed into 28” pitch with “pre reclined” seats that make it impossible to stand up in a row due to the curvature.

I just backed Monstrous: a Greek Myth Retold on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/cma...

If you spend money on anything Harry Potter, you are funding this. If you think it's okay to continue being a fan and talking about it and putting your Hogwarts House in your profile since you already bought the books/movies, Rowling had stated the continued fandom shows you support her bigotry.

Just giving this a boost again. Scotty has a slight reprieve on moving (March now), and is just over $1000 so if you can share, help, etc that would be fantastic to help out a trans elder in my community.

Happy New Year from Nova Scotia! No matter how you celebrate it!

GIVE AWAY! // AKA WE DID IT AGAIN! Since The Night Guest is coming out in paperback we decided to try to gift another copy bitten by Uggi. And it went … a little *too* well. (See picture 🧵) Like and share this post and on December 30th I will select a winner and send them this teeth marked copy!

I know it's Christmas Eve, but an Ontario animal sanctuary (pet pigs, horses, etc) just had their water tank system fail. It's going to cost over $3000 to fix it, and it's an emergency situation (the animals have to have water). Please donate/share if you can: www.ralphysretreat.ca

I think this post nails the actual problem, for researchers at least—AI hallucinations would simply not be a problem in academic work if we’d not normalized citation-as-signaling rather than actual engagement—you can only cite a fake paper if you’re not in the habit of reading the papers you cite

Question for folks knowledgeable about Toronto and environs. Going to be there in February staying near Pearson (lower edge of it). My better half would like to eat at a « real deli » - one with a wide selection. Any out that way? Or alternatively reasonably accessible by transit?

Very seriously, are my standards too high? I expect people to understand they're on a global social media so are talking to people living in other countries, with different customs, accents/words, and food. I expect people to infer some basic meaning and understand if a topic is for them or not.

Hey folks - can you help out with a share and a small donation (if you can)? This is a super tough time of the year to run into emergency vet bills.

Remember my tale of the roofer who scammed us? Well, court had finally ended. We won. Shane Collins of Getter Done Roofing not only scammed us with shoddy work he had no business or knowledge doing, but he also did not show for court. Please beware if you ever come across Shane.

It's time for everyone's favorite chronologically unanchored holiday, The Story of the Lizard in the Leg.

People who are afraid of what their situation will be in a year, aren't going to find appeals to longer time horizons very convincing.

I really wish some news outlets would stop regurgitating Houston’s tweets verbatim. He’s now using veterans once again to distract the public. The poppy issue was Saskatchewan not Nova Scotia. Keep your eyes on Mabou. #nspoli www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

“The Nova Scotia Judiciary is refuting that any new orders or directives have been issued when it comes to wearing poppies in the courts, despite a recent post from the premier [Tim Houston].” halifax.citynews.ca/2025/11/07/t...

It's all hands on deck. I am shamelessly asking, one more time, for reposts and signal boost as this bird glides toward a landing in a few hours. It's gonna be a beautiful book, and there aren't going to be very many available afterwards! www.kickstarter.com/projects/tom...

Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...

Compare the size of Denmark and Canada then get back to me. The article talks about how the significant extent of Denmark’s digitization makes this possible, but doesn’t discuss the vulnerabilities losing the backup creates, not to mention the further privatization of public functions.

The people demanded change, so we changed their ability to demand.

I went to bed in Nova Scotia and woke up in Alberta.

The inflatables have made it to Broadview.

beta.novascotia.ca/register-sen... If you are a Nova Scotian diabetic or knows one you should be aware of this program. Or make someone else aware. These sensors are an incredible tool and we're all fuckin' poor and bleeding from our fingers here.

The Professors are in trouble! @thephilfoglio.bsky.social and @kajafoglio.bsky.social are some of the kindest people in our industry, talented, hard-working, and currently getting screwed by situations. www.gofundme.com/f/help-the-f...

Canada Day seems a good time to re-up this

Never change, Penzeys

In a world where you can be anything, be kind.

i keep seeing people say that LLMs are good at search. NO. WRONG. You have just forgotten how good search used to be. Google broke it's own flagship product, and so you are accepting a demented chatbot's half baked gishgallop because we no longer have functional web search.

Finished object! Crocheted lap blanket 🧶 #crochet OGo Colourama First Blush using the Lucky 7 rectangular pattern from The Crochet Crowd

The plantation burning reminds me of when the residential school burnt down in Shubenacadie. I was very young. Not understanding why we were all there watching a scary looking building burning. Cars lined up all over both sides of the road. It seemed like the entire rez population (1)

I think there’s a business case for someone to take on researching finding specific products that are not US made for a small fee. Im a darned good researcher and I still can’t find a queso that’s either made in Canada or at least not US. (yes queso as that orange glop is probably a US invention)

Family, it has been a really bad few months of sales for trans authors. I know there are a lot of reasons for this (the economy is in the toilet, everything costs more, Amazon boycotts, etc), but trans stories still deserve to be read, and trans authors still deserve to be supported.

One of the beautiful parts of living in the Annapolis Valley is the spring Fire Dept fundraiser season - pretty much every week there’s a local fire department doing a BBQ fundraiser - all local ingredients cooked on an open outdoor charcoal pit. Today is Waterville..

we're still $168 overdrawn and completely out of cat food please #UrgentNeed

The look your cousins give you at Thanksgiving dinner when you're all laughing at the family dipshit.

Happy "Waverly Jones Book 4 preorders drop into your ereader" day to all who celebrate. (Yes this is the hardcover link. The cover's neat.) www.amazon.com/Silent-These...

hey QP, thanks for the post, $410 still needed for my health insurance which is due tomorrow bsky.app/profile/pope...

I wish people would understand the difference between analytical "AI" and generative algorithms using LLMs. The former is used for pattern recognition at high rates and precision humans can't replicate and highly useful in medicine and science. The latter is autocomplete with delusions of grandeur.

*whispers* the federal conservatives haven’t been the “PCs” in TWENTY TWO YEARS …okay I might be yelling now. They merged with the Canadian Alliance (Refoorrrrm Party) in 2003.

In honour of the Canadian election (and a f*u to the terf who shall not be named, here’s gift cards for Diane Duane’s excellent So You Want To Be A Wizard series. Redeem as coupons at ebooks.direct (may not be available in the UK) #kindlebookgiveways

The notion that our current reality is being dictated by a handful of male, middle-aged tech billionaires griping to each other on a single groupchat oddly makes a lot of things make sense.