I really needed @maxfawcett.bsky.social to put this out today. Thankfully, he did. Highly recommend for the clarity and perspective it offers.

this is the last photo on my parents' video birdfeeder before it was mysteriously destroyed we may never know what happened

continuing with my kingfisher drawing 💠✍🏻

This would be sad but I suspect they also view women in a transactional way: I provide the house, the woman provides the sex

As the parent of a child with pretty extreme selective eating AND an ADHD profile with a helping of odd/pda, I really hate picky eating discourse. "Have you tried making your child eat a bit of a vegetable before dessert?" No, of course I haven't tried this very obvious thing that everyone suggests

Tech Bro loserdom forces nation to yearn for Finance Bros

Gift linking this because 1) it’s enraging, And 2) it is an enormous public disservice that the Globe’s reporting on the AB voters list saga is behind a paywall. www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/64d9ad7...

Today I vowed to send all the email I needed to send but I only sent three emails. Truly, I lie to myself most of all

Other people SEEM like they have inner lives and goals and dreams but they don't actually, me and a handful of my family and friends are the only actual real people

And that's why my kids are only obsessed with new movies like Star Wars and My Neighbour Totoro

I don't think much of Dubbo, NSW, Australia. As charmless as it sounds

Slightly increase a band The XXL

You probably all know I would say this, but conservatives and others, though maybe not as consciously, but women should be doing most government functions for free. Not roads and wars and cops and the man shit, but everything else.

You can also stir them into lao gan ma sauce as a little treat, and it's 100% legal

personally I think it's a very big deal that the Canada bureau chief for the @nytimes.com — certainly one of the highest-paid journalists in the country — asked an unspecified "AI tool" what Poilievre said & published its AI-hallucinated quotes in her reporting.

This would be a circus if it wasn't so deadly serious

Jen Gerson is FIRED Up and she's absolutely right. One of the defining things that made Quebec's referendum legitimate is the people of Quebec voted for a separatist party to represent them in an election. The UCP did not run on separation. @ryanjespersen.bsky.social #ABPoli #ABleg

MMhhhhmmm

Beyond parody

Alberta is a weird place to live. Most people I encounter are disgusted by separatism and the UCP, especially the naked corruption. Everyone seems to want better health care & schools & action on traffic safety etc. No-one seems to like what Smith is doing. Yet the UCP is polling at plus 60 percent

I’m struggling to think of a bigger scandal in Canadian history than ‘governing provincial party possibly gives over names and addresses of every single resident in province to separatist group for the purposes of helping them separate’

We have a huge data breach scandal that just keeps getting bigger/weirder in Alberta. Here's the homepage of the biggest newspaper in Calgary. #cdnpoli #abpoli

So much of the media is tip-toeing around how separatism is a white supremacist project. This makes it all very clear

Falling birth rates in America mean when you get pregnant in 2026, you're often the only person you know who is pregnant at that moment. It is very common to seek community and emotional support online in social media groups during pregnancy, and those spaces are absolutely flooded with antivaxxers.

It's not that I'm shocked that RFK Jr is a lying liar who lies. What shocks me is people who don't see it

This was a hard story to report. Newborns who don’t get a vitamin K shot are 81 times more likely to develop a condition where they bleed uncontrollably. But more and more families are declining the shot. And babies are dying. www.propublica.org/article/more...

Why do we need a public inquiry into the voters list scandal? Because limited, piecemeal, closed-door, hamstrung investigations aren't enough. Here's my interview with Calgary’s Eyeopener this morning. www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

Bad decisions have consequences. Jason Kenney eliminated the office of the Elections Commissioner, a body that investigated election fraud and monitored use of lists of electors, to stop an investigation of UCP. Now we see wha happens without a watchdog. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

blue heron ink and watercolor on paper sketch, 3.75x6 inches

Article up. It is VERY silly. gidmk.substack.com/p/are-potato...

An immature cicada (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) molting into an adult at sunset. Palmyra Michigan, 31 Aug 2013.

The UCP knew about the data breach & did nothing?!? While journalists & the NDP reported the breach to authorities, it appears that the UCP Party President and Smith's Director of Stakeholder Relations knew that the breach had occurred and did nothing? #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

Need to find a baby photo of eldest child for grad celebrtion>Finally time to organize ancient photos>Think I have them all on a hard drive>Locate hard drive>Must buy USB hub for hard drive as it only has old USB not USB C connecteion>Hub arrives>Put it in drawer for a month>Oh shit the baby photos!

So you have to explicitly tell the AI to be smart? If you leave that part out what happens?

Fascinating reasoning by Alberta separatists. 1) Forever Canada was never verified (it was), scared little old ladies, and signed during the summer AND 2) When you combine Forever Canada and Stay Free Alberta, 700, 000 Albertans want a referendum!

This week's impulsive AND useless career change idea is that I will become a book cover designer. Usually I just fantasize about floristry, so this is a new direction for the squirrels in my brain

This is such incredible bullshit. I am alive, thriving, and writing books on health policy/politics thanks to antidepressants. Antidepressants aren't for everyone, but they can be literal lifesavers. Attacking their prescribing & use is stigmatizing and dangerous. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/s...

Like I don't want to dismiss how life can be hard in 2026, but the past just sucked at a level that almost everyone in this era would find shockingly intolerable

I watched this tonight & I appreciated the reporting but I want to know why a bunch of Dutch people decided this was the topic to make videos about? The CBC reporting doesn't go into it at all. It's just, "some Dutch people made content to make money." Why THIS to make money, not, IDK, diet scams?

CBC News’ visual investigations team and Radio-Canada’s Décrypteurs find the truth about YouTube channels with names like The Canadian Politician pushing Alberta separatism that a recent report says are full of misleading and false information. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXaf...

Exciting new word document thing happening where it occasionally replaces all instances of "tio" with "Z" in a document I haven't opened for a week or two, ie, turining "description" into "descripZn"

Today's revelations provide further credence to this theory. In my view, it is no longer reasonable to assume that the separatists actually collected 178,000 signatures on the petition.

Got up early in hopes of catching this photo before work this morning. There's only a few days each year where it's cool enough in the morning to make this shot possible. Thankfully, today was one of those days! #wildlife #birds

How do freelancers? Make? It? Work? I have a steady old reliable contract and a new client and they're both fond of URGENT WORK REQUESTS and I'm struggling with how to balance these and not go insane

They’re basically admitting that creating nonconsensual deepfakes of women is not an unintended outcome of this technology but rather its main selling point, which some of us recognized all along

A continuous string of migratory #bird flocks headed northwest from east of Edmonton to Barrhead this afternoon as seen on weather radar. @fisherspeaks.bsky.social @calgaryresponse.bsky.social

"But among people who have high incomes who are finding it difficult to meet their monthly expenses, the polling found support around 50-50." That's a fascinating demographic - people earning over 150k per year who find it very difficult to meet their monthly expenses

Bookshop-cafe because I am basic. I would call it Genre and it would have book clubs and poetry readings and all that fantasy bookshop stuff

You're not "helping" when you photoshop stuff like that and put a fake image out there they can easily dismiss when the reality is already bad enough.