It’s the freakin weekend

Apparently Kurt Cobain would have been 59 today, so I get a freebie

Somerset Coun Ariel Troster stood and spoke to this very point, countering a well known developer's point and stating that downtown is also a neighbourhood that thousands have chosen to live in - and do so happily. Not just a sea of federal public servants and national museums.

Bonus bug 💛

Oh my, the Virtual Gramophone: Canadian Historical Sound Recordings lives! www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover...

French folk music? I remember a Heritage Minute on this. youtu.be/2NgA5rAp-d0?...

This was the video I was originally looking for IYKYK

Here we have the rare "Marvelous Spatuletail hummingbird" which is endangered and endemic to a single Andean valley in northern Peru.

I absolutely love this response to DoFo.

Hey! Scholars! If you're using someone's work in your class, sometimes it's nice to email them and tell them, because then they might feel good about their research instead of entirely crushed by the academic humanities' ongoing descent into the grave

unpopular opinion. I still so much prefer the NIN version (despite Johnny Cash version being great) www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlWj...

We should ban cars from downtown until we can figure out what is happening.

I wish to thank my colleagues for unanimously supporting my motion Wednesday to review how the City evaluates school properties as they come up for sale. You can see my speech about the motion at the link below. youtu.be/PnQTFk5WfBs

“An immense and indispensable advantage of history – or poetry – is that it continually presents to us many other possible human ways of being, which might have different arrangements, communication, and patterns.” – Paul Goodman

Between the archives and the threats to the Museum Studies program and the deletion of the Canadian Register and the obvious turn against the promises of the TRC, I can't help but feel that the majority of my life work is being erased or prevented.

I do this with the airplanes by here, except for that time the helicopter came to my house and looked at my friend and I in the yard. Prettty sure I told that story here, if not one day.

There's one of these expansion applications at Planning & Housing Committee tomorrow (Wednesday) as well: "Leitrim East Urban Expansion Area" in the south end. Staff are recommending refusal of the application.

I’m not going to bat for Wuthering Heights 2026 until I’ve seen it, but it bears repeating that the doctrine of total adherence to source material when adapting any text is intellectually bankrupt and creative cowardice. Movie could still be bad, but not because it’s different from the book.

Something I've really appreciated about Gisèle's press tour is her insistence on being happy. Toxic positivity is *very* real but so is the (IMHO, false) belief that survivors must cling to their hurt & anger in order for their pain to be real & validated.

new allegory for modern dating just dropped

Gonna dye my hair today for the first time in two whole years. Where has the time gone?

the day people read wuthering heights as a horror/ghost story rather than a romance story is the day i will know peace

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Ben Franklin Place was alive this afternoon with CBC hosting a watch party for the #winterOlympics quarter final women’s hockey! Lots of children’s activities and treats. Fun for the whole family! #collegeward

“Work as an airline pilot. Surprising the number of times the airline didn’t take the keys to the plane back after landing. I take the planes home and sell them on eBay. I look at it as a perk of the job.”

As a Rideau Valley swamp person, I may need to get more humidifiers. I physically require humidity above 50% and this cold winter has not afforded that naturally, except for today, air was wet good today.

My cat had the best shoulder-cat day (discovered I have a heated blanket).

If you go to therapy, your therapist is going to teach you some breathing exercises, they’re going to ask you if you have been getting exercise and if you’re seeing any friends

I strongly feel that fundraisers should rely more on pettiness.

This is stuck in my head so I am gonna make it stuck in your head too. You know all the words anyway

before there was an #Ottawa, even before Bytown, there were two townships (on paper at least), Gloucester to the E and Nepean to the W — the Rideau River serving as a natural boundary between the two, Bytown/Ottawa originally existing entirely within Nepean Township

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My favorite thing this week is the people on YouTube that upload 10 minute House episodes with all the character drama cut out and the medical mystery part edited together. Thank you, heroes.

The Canadian romcom featuring Andrea Martin making poor footwear choices despite the obvious winter snow depth 🔔

Orson Welles, already one of the hot guys of history, has a mustache in this movie.

they will never take this version from me

Keeping on with 90s day at the spaghetti factory

You'll never understand a tree Till you stand under a tree RS

Happy Valentine's Eve to all you haters! 🖤

The Ottawa Humane Society (OHS) is urgently looking for 30 foster volunteers to support their Sheltering Animals From Emergencies (SAFE) program. To find out more, and hopefully get signed up as a volunteer, visit their website at the link below. www.ottawahumane.ca/get-involved...

OMG I earnestly forgot 😂

Remember how obnoxious this song was

still can't believe ontario keeps voting for a guy whose idea of making things better for its residents is "force way more debt on university students," "build spa literally no one wanted," and "dig underground car tunnel literally no one asked for" like how are we this masochistic

Magic birds. They look different every time you see them, commends to the photog here for capturing all the colours at once.

Turkey tail mushrooms are the cutest mushrooms in my opinion

The laughter! 🥹

We're only 3 weeks until daylight saving time. That makes me happy.

Perpetually true

Let's celebrate #DarwinDay by reminding ourselves that everyone has moments when they feel worse for wear. Darwin wrote to Charles Lyell in 1861: "But I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody & everything." www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/DCP-L... So, hang in there, #academicsky! 🧪🌏🐵