OK! ᴼᴷᵎ BLUE JAYS! ᴮᴸᵁᴱ ᴶᴬʸˢᵎ LET’S! ᴸᴱᵀ’ˢᵎ PLAY! ᴾᴸᴬʸᵎ BALLLL!

HONK HONK HONK HONK (Cruise ships Zuiderdam and Queen Mary 2 are both departing Halifax, passing Brilliant Lady who is still at anchor and there is a LOT of HONKING)

oh come ON

New SRE team swag is in

Happy Mean Girls Day!

we should all call it "Halifornia" #Halisky

well that's annoying -- was all set to sell our old car to Clutch but there are mis-entered odometer readings on the carfax that I now have to sort out first, and they're not *obviously* mis-entered like transposed digits or something, AND one of them predates my ownership of the car

I have an old wind-torn pride flag and it feels weird just throwing it out, i need like a gay legion or something to take care of it

Holy SHIT they've identified an actual biomarker!!!

would it be an acceptable use of AI to take Project Farm videos and replace the audio with Bob Ross's voice

we’re retiring Trello at work so I made sure to save this unhinged parking lot that we’d used as a team “parking lot board” background for many years. enjoy

well played, well played

slightly ominous mailer from the Red Cross

yes

Felt moved, joy & pride. All at the same time. The beautiful.. flotilla(?) of canoes travels along newly moved Don River. Part of A Lake Story by Melissa McGill put on by @thebentway.bsky.social. In the background is Ookwemin Minising, & the (morning misty) Toronto skyline behind it.

Urban Dining, Bedford, Nova Scotia #photography

Yearly reminder that inktober and similar month-long-daily-prompt challenges are often unhealthy and lead to burnout! It's more important that you enjoy making your art than it is to hit every daily item. Some people can manage it, most can't. Also the Inktober founder sucks.

Talked to a traffic engineer once who said: We can design the roads to be safe, but you can't fix people, people are going to do stupid things. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ IF YOU'RE NOT DESIGNING THE ROADS TO BE SAFE WHEN PEOPLE DO STUPID THINGS, THEN YOU'RE NOT DESIGNING THE ROADS TO BE SAFE.

One of the points Alex Gaynor makes in his “Learning From Failure” talk on software engineering is that the “root cause” of an issue is seldom “someone chose to do something they knew was unsafe”. More often they’re doing something that they’ve been led to think is safe, but which isn’t.

i seem to have dropped an AirTag (only) when i was out and about a couple of weeks ago, but it's still reporting occasionally so I guess I'm gonna go do some shitty geocaching today

wub wub wub wub wub #HaliSky

curling starts next week and it was like 25 degrees out today, this is always very weird

Get it now, they'll be sold out in November/December!

two funny things that happened while picking up our new car today: First, our Uber to get there was the same model AND COLOR of car (1/2)

new fren. this is Clifford, our new Mazda CX-5!

the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.

Thursday next month (to avoid coinciding the actual een of halloween!)

"center for competence" > "center for excellence"

Come ride, it's a blast! Tomorrow (Friday), 6pm, Grand Parade!

new scam going around where they hire you for a job but pay you less than the value your labor produced

sorry which fest was that (also cc @matty.wtf)

I'm excited to announce that the next #KidicalMassHfx ride will take place in Bedford! Our annual Halloween ride will start at Fort Sackville Elementary, and end at DeWolf Park. Details to follow, but save the date for this year's spooky season ride #BikeHfx: Sunday October 19 at 9:30am.

important Canadian research activities: "World Curling, based on the study results from the National Research Council in Ottawa, created a specification for the testing of foam used in brush pads." thecurlingnews.com/news/news/cu...

KNEECAP is in the press all over because of their support for Palestine, UK terrorism charges, etc. and it's amazing how much of the commentary fails to mention a single thing about their *Irish Republican* politics. I feel like that's important context! And it explains the balaclava!

a social Slack i'm on somehow had no :poutine: emoji (!!!!) and so I said in the #emojis channel that we had an EMOJINCY to deal with, and i'm particularly pleased with myself for that one

Kentville Fire - Report of a Cigarette Butt Can Smoking in the Town of Kentville - 16:36 Code 2 response. Kentville Police has a garden hose on it. Singular water can required.

DO YOU REMEMBER www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs06...

always found it kind of funny that the Harbour Hopper duck boats keep their AIS transmitters turned on when on land #halisky

FINALLY FEAR THE OCTOPUS IT GOT BIGGER

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i’m listening to people play stardew valley and i don’t understand what is cozy about it. it sounds like the most stressful game in the world.

and as all Canadians know,

Just here to nominate Okotoks, Alberta: “There are a number of things to do in Okotoks.” I particularly enjoy the modest, no-nonsense period.

After four years of demolition and construction, Halifax's Cogswell Interchange redevelopment officially opened today. 🎉 I dug out the camera that I used to photograph the highway nearly 10 years ago and took an "after" pic from the same spot. It's satisfying to flip between the two photos.

Dramatic Poetry, by Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, 1896, 📸 by @MauleIan

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

anyone I know with a Mazda CX-30 or CX-5 that has strong feelings about one or the other? i'm torn, test drove both, liked both, they have pluses and minuses, can't deciiiiide

this just triggered an old memory, as a Teen I had the attic bedroom in this house and would climb out on the roof under the window at night and just kind of chill (or drag the landline phone out there and quietly call a friend). good times.

My wife is sad because the dolphin on the Dolphins helmet no longer has a little helmet.

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