... Trump is unhappy about people crossing the US/Canadian border illegally. So don't say you'll hire people to prevent border crossings! Say you'll bring in as many Hamas terrorists as you can and dump them into the US. Giving bullies what they're demanding is simply rewarding the bullying.

... So, Canada: Trump wants to stop fentanyl crossing the border. So don't say you'll reduce the amount of fentanyl crossing the border. Set up a fentanyl manufacturing facility to flood the US with fentanyl. ... continued

If you give a bully what he's demanding, he just keeps bullying you. If you make the consequences of bullying that the bully gets something he really doesn't want, he's less likely to keep bullying. ... continued

I like the BC government's strategy of not selling booze that comes from red states. Pulling US products from store shelves makes a lot of sense, but we shoud be targetting the retaliation more. So why isn't Canada putting a 100% tariff on Teslas!

So I'm not really using BlueSky, but I'm getting occasional chat messages on here. So far, I've had 8 messages, apparently from actual people (three of whom I know in real life). And I've had 13 messages from "deleted accounts." Presumably all spam. Not a very encouraging percentage!

Thanks, Google, for reminding me that my birthday is next month. With my aging memory, I'm sure I would have forgotten. (Why do they think that ANYONE needs to be reminded of their own birthday?) I wish I'd grabbed a screen shot. So incredibly stupid. Or am I missing something?

The landline in our kitchen died. I'd happily get rid of it but... So most phone stores don't sell the things any more. Amazon does. And almost all of the ones they sell are designed for seniors -- great big buttons and such. When I pointed that out, my comment was met with frosty silence.

I see that Nate Hoffelder, an ACES member, has set up a Chat for their members. Would likely be useful if the other editors' associations did the same. The feed for #ACESChat: bsky.app/profile/nate...

Dear Sydney Morning Herald, thanks for the kind email offering cheap home delivery. Before I send the payment, I thought I probably should remind you that I moved to Canada. Ummm ... in 1973.

Wow, this place is full of friends and people I'd love to get to know. I was never this comfortable in that other place. Glad to meet you, everyone!

OK, let's see if this is better than that other place. I like that the obvious abbreviation for this site is BS. Shows they have a fundamentally honest self-image.