I personally haven't noticed, but yesterday a friend was telling me about this issue, caused by something called geosmin. Apparently the utility has a page on their website about it: www.halifaxwater.ca/my-water-has...

Years ago Halifax had an iconic restaurant called Alfredo, Weinstein & Ho. My favourite dish was the hot and sweet chicken and steamed rice. I started making it at home. My version uses maple syrup and chilli flakes. Sooo good. You can adjust it so it’s hotter or sweeter as you like. You can use

... how is this dangerous and threatening misuse of a firearm not grounds for discipline?

COVID spike and the strong possibility that the seasonal flu vaccine missed the mark... ... sounds like a great time to renew requests for adequate air filtration!

A discussion of book bans; includes a horrifying quote from a school principal who thought any book over 15 years old should be discarded... music.youtube.com/watch?v=RQmG...

WATCH: Seriously, if you’re following ANY bike-lane debate, you HAVE TO WATCH this news story. You actually can’t make this up. Ford claims without evidence that bike-lanes are bad for small business, and THE ACTUAL BUSINESS ASSOCIATION obliterates him with data. Safe bike-lanes mean business.

I honestly don’t get the value of this company. They hoover up energy and water. Their product constantly gets things wrong and, in extreme cases, coaches people into suicide. And it’s all built on what seems to be malicious and vast intellectual property theft. What does OpenAI offer the world?

Hey #halisky, anyone else on city water & noticing it tastes off?

Definitely, let's lean on our public service on this unsustainable mess.

Rules are made to be broken. Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them.

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫

"She means a mass of cheese sixteen hundred miles in diameter isn't likely to be stable." Finally, getting to @scalzi.com's When the Moon Hits Your Eye, and it's going well. Utterly, superbly bananas.

Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine

The GOP is petrified of Zohran Mamdani because they know once democratic socialism works here, as it has in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and Finland, they will never be elected again.

A timely conversation about Orwell in our cultural context: music.youtube.com/watch?v=fiC6...

#caturday cat in basket update: The cat is in the basket

Here’s the direct link to my introduction chapter to ‘Long COVID and Society’, open access and free to read for all, either directly online or downloaded as a PDF link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

Hear straight from business owners in the Annex in Toronto about how bike lanes are good for business. toronto.citynews.ca/video/2024/1...

Under the bed, great danger... #caturday

Teacup human just asked if I married @etower.bsky.social in the 1890s.

This breaks some people’s brains. In most cities, Costco stores fuel sprawl & car dependency. In Vancouver, our full-sized downtown Costco has residential towers above & a skytrain station next door. LOTS of customers don’t drive to it. We live a block from it. We call it “the convenience store.”

Another completely normal Kavanaugh Stop

It’s funny how your archival notes can take you back: “nasty dirt case with purple mold” 😂 I might have actually been given gloves for this one bc it was gross #BookHistory (This is a will of a scribe who leaves some books to people)

40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion

"If Trump cares about Christians or anyone else in Nigeria, all he needs to do is restore aid and let babies live." Horrifying times as American Christians continue to fall for the idea that Trump loves Jesus (he doesn't) and them (he doesn't care about you).

Is this “dismount and walk” sign permanent? What are we doing?

On this day in 1946, Viola Desmond's car broke down in New Glasgow, NS. She went to a movie and sat in a Whites-Only area. Her refusal to move helped spark the modern Canadian civil rights movement. Learn more in my Deep Dive 👇 canadaehx.com/2025/02/04/v...

Brilliant new ad campaign I just spotted at the Southwark tube station in London.

Yeah, that @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social campaign, with the inconsistent messaging and the pandering...? Yes, he and his team were energetic and fun. They were also RUTHLESS in sticking to clear key messages. Just say you were / are high but don't like his vibes, man.

I'm still not quite sure if I would ever have reason to use a Canadian stablecoin, but Mike Moffat helps me to understand why there's a serious use case, not for money laundering and drug dealing

Just one more reason not to eat the rats of the sea.

“Providing the homeless with a place to live may seem like a high cost for taxpayers. But the alternative, it turns out, is more costly, new research shows. Subsidized accommodation could actually be a bargain for the public, in purely economic terms.” Via @fastcompany

Keep an eye on the lawsuits against police in Carolina, Tennessee, and Florida, it seems...

The Constitution protects the right to free speech and the right to peacefully assemble. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/06/o...

A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.

New issue forming on the MacKay Bridge A listener just reported a car with it's 4-ways on, about half-way across, HFX-Bound.. Back-ups are starting to form there - so expect volume there to grow #HFXTraffic

It shouldn’t be forgotten that a big piece of Mamdani’s campaign was simply “cities are cool and lots of people enjoy living in them” which in and of itself dismantles alot of rightwing talking points

So. Governments promise savings and efficiency by using AI. Somehow. AI companies, necessarily failing due to stupid business model, demand government support. Government shovels public money at still-broken AI to appear to be moving on promise to use it. AI companies reap profits...

Let's not forget that women ruined their own faces via the dreaded "bicycle face"! www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/...

“Saving a life is more important than policing small amounts of drug use, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled last month.”

“authors & publishers who filed a lawsuit against the Sam Altman-led firm have secured access to internal Slack messages… discussing the mass deletion of a pirated books dataset… A NY district court ordered OpenAI to hand over the communications regarding data deletion” futurism.com/artificial-i...

"Europeans recognize his vision about free public transit and universal childcare. We expect our governments to make these kinds of services accessible to all of us,” said Verbeek. “We pay higher taxes and get civilized societies in return."

*Looks at every collection of headlines everywhere*

U.S. billionaire financier of Cabot Links golf resort in Cape Breton is Trumpian climate denier, Mike Keiser. Now the Cabot Group wants to take West Mabou Beach provincial park for a 3rd luxury golf course in Inverness, Nova Scotia. Keiser originally got his hands on the Cabot Links land for $1. 🧵

Well well as we march backwards through the twentieth century, we're reclaiming fascism and eugenics, and now... phrenology. Hey kids, read The Mismeasure of Man, okay?

It's a small graphic design detail, but the loitering guy on TTC signage is actually in front of the red slash, casually leaning against it, making him look *unbelievably* cool.

Harbord cyclists beware: in the new lanes some sewer grates have been put in the death position by contractors. This @ Manning just ate my tire but luckily was coming to a stop. Jarring still. At speed I’d be over the handlebars. There were others along way.

Justice is served on Italian herb and cheese bread and definitely includes mustard and onions