Depending on when you were born, DST either steals an hour from you and then returns it, or lends you an hour and then takes it back. Either way, it’s a lousy disruption for everyone, twice a year. Happy extra-road-deaths-day, to all the ham-fisted legislators who celebrate that. (If NY […]

Let’s go, Blue Jays! #bluejays

Last night, Sportsnet showed a montage of swing and miss against Yesavage, with the Beach Boys’ “I Get Around” as the soundtrack. 😂 Haven’t found the clip online yet. Does anyone know of a source? #bluejays

My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com

First #coffeeneuring of the year. A pint of cider at Collective Arts in Toronto on the e-bike. 1 of 7. #coffeeneuring2025

Nice to see the TTC in Toronto recommending fare capping. #guelphtransit introduced it here in July 2023. It has increased both revenue and ridership numbers in #Guelph, while also making it easier, more accessible, and affordable for anyone to take the bus in our city.

If you zoom in to the little beach in the middle of this photo, where the kayaks are: 119 years ago, around this time, Chinese immigrants who had been displaced from the San Francisco earthquake, and residents of the Chinese fishing village (where the Hopkins marine institute now sits), had to […]

was reading the Nova Scotia vehicle inspection manual and came across this 🇨🇦🏒🇨🇦

There’s something very wrong about a link on a website called “enable accessibility”. That’s divisive, and supposes that accessibility is for “other” people. This is from Birkenstock, but presumably there are others out there.

I’m sure there are irksome technical reasons for denying it, but I really wish you could promote a followers-only post to be public. #mastodon

Today’s the 16th anniversary of moving to Canada with @notcontrary. It has been a huge adventure, most of shared it with the (ever-growing) #tinycanadian. Toronto has been the place I’ve lived in for the longest for a while now, even if I still feel kind of new here. I’m very grateful to feel […]

#theviewfrommypint of Left Field beer is Canada’s Wonderland, with some riders on the big drop for Yukon Striker.

Had a tech bro email me to tell me that my writing is so terrible, that he can’t even use it to train his AI without significant cleanup, and I really do have to wonder, do these idiots really think that is an insult? #ai #aihype

This is both delightful in its own right, and a very pleasant counterexample to @ianb’s generally sound law of headlines. Locally, I’ve seen four bunnies between Dufferin and Christie / Bloor and Dupont-ish in the last three months, versus zero in approx ten years before that. So it’s #qtwtaiy […]

Oof: “This vulnerability is due to the presence of static user credentials for the root account that are reserved for use during development.“ Presumably by “reserved for use during development” they really mean “only intended for use…”. https://infosec.exchange/@cR0w/114784627483485422

My minor entry for the #carryshitolympics. A Maclaren umbrella stroller, IKEA high chair and some kids’ floor tiles, on the back of our #tern GSD. #biketooter #biketo

Even the bus stops on Eglinton itself are gas-lit. Apparently the stop at Eglinton and Mount Pleasant is also a “shuttle stop” for the Line 5 that Metrolinx and the provincial gov still haven’t delivered, and refuse to announce a (new) date for. #transit #toronto #torontotransitcommission […]

It's high time for Paula Fletcher to retire and allow some new blood to represent Toronto Danforth! Putting aside a bike lane upgrade on Jones due to loss of parking spaces is unacceptable! #shame #BikeTO #TOpoli #TorDan

Updating talk slides so you all get to be horrified along with me at the current Starlink numbers. There are now 7,652 Starlink satellites in orbit (>500 more than there were in February, when I last updated these particular slides). 2-3 Starlinks per day are burning up in the atmosphere […]

I am in receipt of a notice that my personal, medical and financial information was shared in a Government of Ontario privacy breach. Friends, in the absolutely most stupid way possible. Not a cyber attack. No ransomeware. Not a calculated digital terrorist effort. Not even a bland old should […]

Trying to decide whether I should report a driver who knocked me off my bike then failed to remain on Shaw Street earlier this week. My helmet camera had died, so I don’t have their plate. I didn’t have the presence of mind to ask any of the witnesses if they saw the plate, or had cameras. I […]

I think a lot of people that don't really understand what they're doing obsess over LLMs for the same reason that they might have obsessed over visual programming or plain-English-programming a generation ago. In their mind, programming works like this: 1) A clever person designs the […]

The #tinyCanadian asked me whether a catch off a wall would count in #baseball. (After Springer hit a double off the Green Monster for the Jays.) I said I didn’t think so, but let’s look it up. The top result on Google was from Quora, which had the right answer […] [Original post on mstdn.ca]

"AI" is going great. Yesterday, I disabled the "Gemini app" in a Google workspace. Today, I see that it's still prominently getting in the way in that workspace's Gmail web app. I tried asking it "How do I disable Gemini completely?" and it's positively unhelpful.

We’ve come a long way as a city in 70-odd years. Motorists can now routinely break the rules with little chance of getting a ticket. 😔 “Even Metro Chair Gardiner, reacting to a record $10,000 in fines imposed on local motorists in a single day in April 1953 […] [Original post on mstdn.ca]

Oh, brother. Do I wish I could answer dishonestly when well-meaning people ask “how’s it going?”? I really cannot. Please don’t ask me just now.

Was just close-passed by a plains-clothes police car, and asked them to please give me a metre when we stopped together at a stop sign. I rode taking the lane, as I believe is my right. I don’t think there was space to pass safely. As I turned off, they turned their lights on and scolded me to […]

“Don’t ever make any mistakes” is not a strong security mechanism.

For those Toronto folks who want a family friendly version of #CriticalMass to protest against Doug Ford's bike lane removals, good news! A "Kidical Mass" ride will be held on Saturday, April 5. Meet 1:45 PM at Queen's Park south lawn. #BikeTO #TOpoli #ONpoli www.facebook.com/events/29042...

Bastards. This doesn’t make me any more secure.

They would be better off using interns, not AI. You could even pay them a living wage, and still be ahead. https://social.secret-wg.org/@julf/114200172439728619

Waiting for a 47 bus in North York, and the signage is rather silly. They’ve changed it to reflect the opening of Line 5, despite there being no public date for that yet, with a second foam-core sign describing that it’s wrong, but not how. It’s even sillier […] [Original post on mstdn.ca]

Happy St Patrick’s day. A day for celebrating Irish culture, and also a good time to think about how peace, freedom, caring and belonging span many cultural boundaries. For example, in 1847, the Choctaw people donated money to Irish famine relief, which is commemorated in a sculpture in the […]

So...this is pretty obviously a very big problem. First news article about it is here:https://www.newscientist.com/article/2472334-starlink-satellite-part-hit-a-canadian-farm-when-it-fell-from-orbit/ (sorry it's paywalled). Hoping a few more journalists will want to write about this, and […]

Under this theory, Marco Rubio can expel Canadians who say “you should stop threatening to annex Canada.”

Tomorrow is the silly version of “World” Book Day, which is only in the UK & Ireland. For everywhere else it’s on St George’s Day. I think it would be far simpler if they were more honest, and called it “National Book Day” or simply “Book Day”. It’s very silly to […] [Original post on mstdn.ca]

Claiming that deterrence is effective when people stop complaining when they do nothing but ask people to stop is positively absurd. “Stop, or I’ll say stop again” (and only in in writing, not even to your face). I see long idling vehicles all the time, so I suppose it’s pretty clear how to […]