Or the dang bridge tolls!

While Andy Fillmore may claim that HRM “has to” do austerity cuts, because other municipalities or the other orders of government are doing them, it’s not true. Cutting municipal staff & services won’t make HRM more efficient. Bringing more services in-house & relying less on contracts might.

i’m tired, boss

They also cut a multitude of programs for African Nova Scotian communities during African Heritage month! They cut Mi’kmaw programming, treaty education, language programming, health programming and more. They also cut early childhood education, inclusive education, foster parent funding.

I’m quoted quite a bit here so perhaps I’m biased but I feel this is a good run down of what the Epstein files tell us about how power works in academia. with some good commentary from @jessicacalarco.com, too:

I want every single reporter, every pundit, every advocate, every EVERYONE to point out the cost of the bridge toll removal and 1% HST cut. Every time someone asks you about the budget. Every time a politician has a microphone in their face. In the Legislature.

We've heard about cuts following the Nova Scotia government's budget, but now we're starting to see what that means. www.saltwire.com/nova-scotia/...

This government hates Nova Scotians.

FREE PUBLIC LECTURE: Monday, March 2 (2026) at 7:30 PM (Atlantic Time) How Humans Unintentionally Affect Wildlife Evolution This lecture can be accessed via Zoom at our website: nsis1862.ca/public-lectu... or in-person at Dalhousie University Killam Library room 2622.

NEW reporting from @19thnews.org on the Epstein files shows how academic research funding intersected with women scientists and institutional power shaped by male influence. An important story about accountability, impact and who gets protected -- and who doesn't. 19thnews.org/2026/02/epst...

Sounds eerily familiar... did the government hire Nous, too?? 🙃😑

YUP. (I hate hockey culture)

Well… the Team USA men’s hockey team sucked the good will out of that fast.

Disgusting display by the US men's hockey team as they laugh along with a violent misogynist as he mocks the women's team. No solidarity among Olympians with these guys.

Oh I fucking hate them

USA group pic and a second with Johnny Gaudreau's kids

Give her a Pulitzer!

Sentiment in how I feel about the amazingly inclusive, supportive, and community-focused 2 Crows brewing closing. #WhatInTarnation

“taxes are not a burden — they are an investment in human dignity”

Gah, can we get traffic cameras already? This past week or so, the number of drivers that BLATANTLY go through reds (i.e., it was red before they even got to the line), AND the number that have gunned it to turn left as soon as the light turns green, to beat oncoming traffic, is wild!

Andy: Spend spend as long as it is for meeeee the public: dirty looks Tim: I got you - fuck you nature the public: the fuck

Opened in 2017, 2 Crows Brewing earned a reputation for tasty pints and community spirit. Now, they're closing their doors for good, marking the end an era for one of Nova Scotia's most celebrated brewhouses. My latest for @thechronicleherald.bsky.social.

The #fly community aims to achieve a comprehensive genomic study of the Drosophilidae family. @pankajd.bsky.social @bernardkim.bsky.social @petrovadmitri.bsky.social @darrenobbard.bsky.social present a comparative gene annotation for 301 #Drosophilidae species @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4c3pyrI

What in the actual DOGE-crap is this? Broligarchy is not only in HRM, but, the province.

March 27, 1936: Portraits of the Führer are raised on official buildings across Berlin. This one at the Potsdamer Railway Station reads "Freedom - Peace"

From Feb. 17 to Feb. 20, 2004, a powerful winter storm moved up the eastern coast and move into the maritimes This happened five months after Hurrican Juan struck with incredible strength. This storm was given the name White Juan.

22 years ago! So much snow... so much wind! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Avyb...

New greatest bird photo of all time just dropped Royal Penguin 📷 JJ Harrison, eBird ebird.org/checklist/S2...

How did I miss this? 👇 🌍 Earth Will Lose Gravity For 7 Seconds in 2026? www.iflscience.com/heard-the-ru... Caused by two "gravitational waves from black holes." Yikes! Best advice: “We beg people to use critical thinking skills” – physicists everywhere.

As Sean says, don't take career advice from Nepo Babies. I have a degree in Women's Studies & I can't tell you how many "basket weaving" jokes I heard as a student. It's not only a lazy dudebro quip à la Bootstrapping, it's also sexist as hell. Treating woman-coded artisans as useless is booooring.

1. I’m quite happy with this popular piece that Lee Dugatkin and I wrote recently. For the next two weeks it’s free to read on the American Scientist website.

They know the bottleneck is downstream – Highway 102 turns into a Halifax city street with traffic lights – hence the attacks on bike and bus lanes. In this vision there is no room for anything but cars. Tim Houston's Halifax is reduced to an automotive conduit for suburban commuters.

Flies can't release themselves. #ReadingWeek #Evolution

That feeling when you buy an audiobook and it supports your indie bookstore instead of a billionaire or other shady tech company 🥰💅🌸🌝💫🍓🥇💓

The First Amendment Troop: "ResistDance." #ICE

But that's the thing. You can't accumulate that level of wealth without exploiting and oppressing other people. Literally no benevolent person could ever have a bank account that fat.

These scientists and medical experts are taking to social media to counter climate denialism, vaccine scepticism and wellness pseudoscience go.nature.com/4rUFb9C

Sorry that there are no buses and you had a heart attack shovelling snow, it was either that or ask people who fell into a windfall of housing wealth to give back to the city a little bit, and we obviously can’t do *that*.

My 19-yo-culinary college kiddo is making supper (something he made last week that there was none left for me when I got home at 7 PM that night... sad). I have ALWAYS been the one to cook suppers for 20 years just... sitting here... feels so weird. Like, can I chop an onion or something??

How about instead of eliminating Sunday and Holiday busses, council eliminates Sunday and Holiday plowing? Oh, people have places to go on Sundays, too? You don’t say… Yes I’m writing my councillor, but this is such a backwards suggestion that I’m annoyed I need to waste my time on it

Hey #halisky. Has anyone created a base letter to send to city council over the new proposed cuts to services? Got the base of what I want to say written, but I’d like to add more general points that affect all. stg suggest I use a chatbot/AI service you will be blocked.

My husband when watching the Olympics and the commercials... "Sports! Sponsored by drugs!" ... dying 😂

Half Marathon #12 complete! #HypothermicHalf

Has your partner ever built you a home in a chimney? Or regurgitated food to save you all that tiresome chewing? If not, perhaps it’s time to look beyond the human dating pool. Check out the very first Narwhal quiz, and find your Canadian lovebird. projects.thenarwhal.ca/lovebirds-qu...

Enshittification is hitting HRM. Wide sweeping cuts, amalgamation of resources, means select people get the majority of money/resources, rather than spread out to those that need it. This isn't democracy, or community. Broligarchy, baby -_-

The edge of snow banks is not the curb. So, if you park as normal on the sides of the road, you are actually parking 2-3 ft INTO the road. Many of HRM streets have become "one-way." There really should be no on-street parking at all when there's snow down, or at the very least one side only. -_-

Democracy is when voters choose their leaders. Autocracy is when leaders choose their voters.

Happy Valentines day! 🩷🎀✨️ Aside from the people in my life, my biggest love has always been the creatures on our planet

I know there are exceptions and it shouldn't be a generalized statement, but, hockey culture is BAD. Between this, the sexual assaults, and the apparent and entitled immunity from acting like a decent human being. Toxic hockey players then have toxic hockey kids and so on. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...