I’m feeling like Victoria Mboko will be the story of Women’s Professional Tennis in 2026 🇨🇦

I often see posts about how awesome Facebook comments are. Should I join? 😁

The feedback loops are wild. There are books that have been written about how service cuts like this are catastrophic for the economic future of cities. “You’ll Pay For This” is a good one! These cuts will also increase inequity - and increasing inequity leads directly to rising crime.

Pay adequate property tax for services, or have garbage in the streets, inadequate transit, drive away tourism and young people, create financial death spiral.

Thinking about Knife Edge (the Apple TV show, not to be confused w/ The Razors Edge, the novel and or Australian rock band album) and it occurred to me that 3 star Michelin cooking is mostly edible ikebana.

One Hundred And Thirty Nine

This is what kills me about all of this: property taxes aren't that big an expense for me at the end of the day and TBH I wouldn't even mind paying more if it meant we could live in a better city. But louder voices are happy to burn it all down just to save a buck

Very strong "announcing a pregnancy at her sister's wedding reception" energy.

Watching Alone Australia S1 and participants are crying about missing their families and being cold after ONE NIGHT! And tapping in the morning! Didn’t even last 24 HRS!? Have you never even camped one night alone before? It‘s a survival show. Why’d you sign up? Winners typically last 60-100 days 😂

I'm sure in the history of austerity, Halifax will be the first time it finally works. And by works, I mean for everyone. Not just for the already wealthy

Some MFers think we can cut our way to sustainability while growing, while 9 of 16 districts run an annual operational deficit.

My Council blog from the last two weeks of budgeting. Austerity by surprise? Council will be considering major cuts on March 4. samaustin.ca/council-upda...

Oooh! New Homo habilis skeleton dropped! youtu.be/zIZSyPMoHIU?...

Cartoon by Nick Anderson

chase the pigeons off my balcony season has started early this year

Thanks, fuckers. Signed, The Rest of the World

Dunno if I can take 3 more years of Andy Fillmore. Might move to Montreal.

I love how show “seasons” all take 3 years now. Severance S2 aired a year ago and S3 is still only half-written w/ filming MAYBE starting in July. And post can take up to a year. On the bright side, Apple bought all of the IP so maybe we can look forward to an Emile spinoff to fill in the gap? 🐐😂

No one is surprised by this, and mostly, we don't care - we're just sick of him trying to shove everyone else's heads in the toilet, too.

As the US doubles down on fossil fuels and blocks wind & solar installations, its emissions are ticking up. In contrast, China's emissions appear to have peaked. In the last 2 yrs, they installed more new solar energy each year than the U.S. has in its entire history. More from @carbonbrief.org:

Just finished a Silo S2 rewatch. I didn’t realize (or remember) how much payoff was in the finale (but no spoilers please from book readers!) Pretty great finale. All we don’t know is the why, but I’ve got some ideas.

Anytime downtown street parking is $0 (weekends) transit fare should also be $0

"Other cities charge more taxes" Andy: we can't do that we are poor here "Other cities charge more for transit " Andy: Wow, we should increase fares.

This is painful. If we want to shift behaviors and make transit better used & more cost effective, surely councillors should raise hourly on-street parking rates to at least the cost of a transit ticket at all times, instead of raising transit fares www.saltwire.com/nova-scotia/...

New TV size vs. old TV. The old one looks so cute now! It's a widdle bebe 😁

My inhaled COVID vax trial appt. (to get my maybe dose / maybe placebo) was tomorrow. But because the entire city preemptively closes now when there's even a flake in the forecast, it's delayed. Next slot is over a month away. Which means no spring booster for me (would pollute the data). Erg 🫤

we need our progressive councillors to fight back on this onslaught - bring motions that may reveal significantly different approaches, ensure experts are consulted, bring fresh perspectives to ensure another ten years of slow progress do not pass bsky.app/profile/land...

Can you believe the poors are irresponsibly choosing not to starve to death?

I'm 99% sure the biscuit spice blend in my Chef's Plate box is 100% all purpose flour

Fall 2028 can’t come fast enough. Although my faith in Halifax voters is below zero.

The only no votes were from Austin, Cleary, Morse, Steele, and White Everyone else voted to get a staff report on how they can kill more people on Halifax streets.

Old: Taco Tuesdays Bold: Bike Lane Debate Tuesdays

Oh good, Halifax’s mayor is making council debate bike lanes for the umpteenth time since June.

Does anyone seriously believe HRP would enforce HOV lane usage in any way whatsoever?

Making the jump from a circa 2012 49” LED TV to a 75” MiniLED TV

For anyone who needs cheering up... here's Britain's smallest bird having a bath today in a woodland puddle. 😁😍🐦❤️ #birds 🪶

Oh god, Hexclad has jumped on the Brovertizing trend on YouTube *monster truck voice* "TIRED OF WIMPY PANS? THIS PAN CAN KILL A HERD OF AFRICAN ELEPHANTS"

Me browsing shows on Apple TV “my god how many versions of Naked and Afraid are there?!” There’s Solo, XL, Apocalypse, Savage, Castaways, Foreign Exchange, Alone, Of Love…

Had Tarek’s tonight for the first time in ages and I hate to say it because it’s such a fixture of the community and I love the place and have been going there for 20 years (altho’ not so much the past 5 years) BUT… it’s really gone downhill. Hard. Hummus, Beans, and Tabbouleh all had zero flavour.

Discovered the U.S.A.? Like… Truck Nutz and all?

As someone that grew up with The Muppet Show that almost brought a tear at points. Unexpected. It was like “oh yah, joy. I remember joy”.

Oops

Fire at #Halifax Armoury building brought under control #NovaScotia Call came in shortly after 4 a.m., police have part of Cunard Street blocked off The Halifax Armoury was constructed in 1899 & is a National Historic Site. It is undergoing extensive restoration work. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

👀 Minneapolis protestors take note: The dildo that changed a nation. thespinoff.co.nz/politics/05-...

Ooh! MGM just announced today that From Season 4 (filmed in Nova Scotia) premieres April 19! Yes it’s dumb AF with some of the worst acting you’ll ever see but I love it and the premise is outstanding 😁 youtu.be/l8hqswlBpJ0?...

I’m enrolled in an inhaled COVID vaccine study. So that’s fun? Right?

Is Andy the worst Halifax mayor ever? Top 3 at least.

OMG so w/ an Air Canada return trip if you book Basic, the return must also be Basic! Like if I select a $200 Basic Ottawa flight and a $300 Standard return flight (because Basic is sold out) they won’t let me select the Standard return! I have to book Basic both ways or Standard both ways?! JFC

Trying to return a large item to Best Buy which requires pickup. Starts w/ call or email. The email option throws an error so I called. EIGHT DAYS to get a response! Asked a follow up question and they’ve gone silent again! Not a word since Mon. Feels like they’re trying to run out the 30 day clock.

I guess I’m “this new call screening feature in iOS 26 is confusing as fuck” years old because I’ve never managed to answer one of those screened calls. They stress me out and I somehow always fuck it up.