Oil and gas represents only 5% of our GDP. Carney and Smith are investing our money into soon-to-be-obsolete technology just to appease fascist seditionists. We are scheduled to have another record breaking hot summer with some wild fires already raging. This is a terrible, terrible decision.

To the driver who was paying more attention to applying her foundation than the traffic she was trying to merge into - I hope it’s always cakey and three shades away from what you should be wearing.

“Ministry for the Future” is such a great book.

Wait, you mean Ottawa Police Services gets bigger injections of cash every year and never has to account for how it’s spent because they’ll always just get millions more? This is my surprise face 😒 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Every car in your city represents $8-12K/year being sucked out of your local economy instead of being spent on housing, goods & services. I wish more parking-obsessed retailers & elected officials understood this. #WindshieldBias #CarBlindness

I love Ottawa but detest #Autowa - the one city where I am always having to look both ways TWICE before crossing a 1-way street because you never know when someone will have the dangerous idea to turn south onto Metcalfe from Somerset.

I finally watched the trailer for The Odyssey and honestly, I’d rather just watch a version of “EPIC.”

Ontario: If you are a survivor of intimate partner violence or stalking and you have phone hidden away somewhere for emergencies, please know that tomorrow (05.07) at 1:55pm EDT there will be an Alert Ready text sent to all phones. Ensure to *power off* that phone to avoid it going off! Details:

If I was a developer and lobbyist running for mayor, I probably wouldn’t immediately announce that my main platform is reducing development fees for myself and my friends. I don’t know, it just strikes me as rather gauche to openly admit that it’s your priority. 🤷‍♀️

“And also somewhere out there, there’s a person who will be the next victim of Ottawa’s war on pedestrians. The clock counts down until their life is changed forever, or stolen.” Via @nolore.bsky.social: noraloreto.substack.com/p/god-and-th...

Can’t imagine the dissonance it requires to give an honorary doctorate to this man, someone who’s done so much harm to education in Ontario that it’ll take generations to fix when he’s gone. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Anyone who thought it was viable to turn this building back into a train station hasn’t been to downtown Ottawa in years and/or they have no concept of where things exist in space and time. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

We Need to Talk About Kevin and Grogu

Anyone know a good app to keep up with concert announcements? I was using Songkick but they’re joining Suno (the AI music generation thing) for some reason so I will be looking for something to replace it.

trying to play peekaboo with my child but he's a European diplomat: me: where'd daddy go? baby: we must articulate a post-daddy vision of strategic autonomy me: peekaboo! baby: my historic relationship with my father is stable despite recent troubles

The fluffier cat got poop all over himself the other day (he’s fine, just needed a probiotic) and so Mika had to shave a big portion of his back half yesterday to get it out and now the poor little guy looks mangled. 😟

I forgot how much I really enjoyed playing this mobile game where you run a regional airline. True to life, there are “no jobs” in Ottawa and I have to pay way too much in-game money to make some.

Unfortunately, the consequence of my genius idea of “flying directly out of Toronto to Helsinki and back” means I have to deal with figuring out how to get to/from Toronto. For a reasonable price. Without a car. We are not a serious country. 😞

Oh no everyone you have to try the raspberry chocolate cream pies from Three Tarts that are only available this weekend. RIDICULOUSLY yummy and I am already regretting that I’ve chosen to save one for a friend.

Been awake since 5:30, had a workout, donated blood, called my mom and now it nap time but I can’t nap because I keep needing to get up multiple times to talk to Mika about the Summer House reunion audio leak.

I hate the people running this province but I care deeply about the people in it. Grateful for the brilliant minds behind this activism. (Somerset and Preston bus stop in Ottawa)

Now that I’m in menopause, my iron stores build up and get to be too much so the only thing that soothes my CONSTANT RAGE is to donate blood as often as they’ll let me. It’s a bitter pill to swallow to admit that maybe the ancients were on to something with this “humors out of whack” business.

Not for the first time noting some of the most enthusiastic proponents of online community meetings I've encountered are city staff who were astonished at how much more diverse participation became when it didn't mean needing to find a babysitter. Naturally, councillors want to kill it with fire.

🙏 I saw one of these meetups on a Sunday morning in September and was annoyed that Trainyards has such huge lots that are dangerous for actual shoppers to traverse on foot, but super enticing for these people to just take up space. I’m glad that this is being discouraged.

#Booksky So Amazon is keeping the lion’s share of the cover $ for our latest title, THE COMPLETE ASTREIANT, which means our amazing authors get paid less and we get paid less (and have to wait 2 months for it), which is why we’re asking folks to buy direct! queenofswordspress.com/product/comp...

Oh it’s early this year! Today is the first day of the year when a rude cyclist tried to dangerously thread the needle between me and a group of other pedestrians and then got angry at the other pedestrians for existing even though he was the one in the wrong. 🫪

I just finished Belle Burden’s “Strangers” in under 8 hours. 💪

Planning where I want to go during the next visit to Finland in June and my list is entirely little Korean shops. I am not dodging these “kweeb” accusations any time soon.

Did anyone ask Alexander Stubb what he thought of Ottawa’s transit during his visit? Would’ve loved to get the Finnish PM’s opinion on what our system is like compared to one that’s actually well-run.

10+ years of tracking biometric data has led me to the stunning insight that I feel better on days I don’t work

Gordo 🫡

I just realized that Steve Jobs exists in the “For All Mankind” universe and I don’t think they’ve *ever* mentioned him.

Spent the evening at a friend’s place with a gathering of their closest friends and I am proud to say that I was only half as socially awkward as I usually am! Very proud that I kept my “am I being weird? I’m being weird right?” panic thoughts for later. 👍

People have been shocked that an AI company is offering chats with an AI Jesus for $1.99/minute but it's important to remember and respect the fact that a core part of American evangelicalism is being financially defrauded by people who claim to speak for god

Composing sympathy emails is particularly difficult when you’re averse to writing about your own feelings anywhere except for strangers on social media.

This has been my year for finding lesser-known series and getting obsessed. Please stand by while I make Astreiant my entire personality.

Municipalities are forced to increase your property taxes to deliver services that are the Ford government's responsibility, but that they aren't actually providing. Even though you've already paid your provincial taxes for those services. So, you're paying twice for services that are worse.

Pretty crazy how Trump is violating US law when he violates international law that the US is a signatory to. Seems like there should be a procedural way to deal with stuff like that.

Watched the movie Josie and the Pussycats (2001) for the first time tonight. It rules, tbh.

We just got back from seeing Project Hail Mary and I cannot overstate how much it felt like it was made specifically for me. I am filled with joy and warmth.

I admire the devotion that Finns have to not working, except for when it is inconvenient to me personally.

“Hi, Bob.”

Minty thinks I got him immortalized in my manicure, and I hate to break it to him that those are bunnies.

I’m curious to know what the “But I have to watch the new Harry Potter because it means so much to me!” crowd thinks will be different from the movies. Sure they’ll be able to have more plot from the books that didn’t make the cut the first time - but audiences were able to imagine those already

The immediate status quo, centrist attacks on Avi Lewis are precisely why he is effective and needed. In face of growing right wing escalation, an unbashadely left opposition that is anti capitalist & internationalist is both principled *and* realistic.

Yay for Avi!

FOR ALL MANKIND is back wooooooo

Transport Canada headlight survey. If you are sick of being blinded please fill it out www.surveymonkey.ca/r/F9WBTLZ

If I had a racehorse, I’d name it “Undeclared Mustard.”

If "you don't understand, it was important to me in my childhood" was a good reason to keep tired IP around we would have a lot more Samurai Pizza Cats content.