Minneapolis.

Bonne année et joyeuse austérité!

Michael Bublé (and his awful water) will answer for his crimes

turning a big dial taht says "Duḥkha" on it and constantly looking back at the audience for approval like a contestant on the price is right

Vancouver city councillor @lucymaloney.bsky.social has introduced a new Council motion that would get rid of right turns on red lights in the city. Via @dailyhivevancouver.bsky.social Unquestionably the smart, evidence-based move for EVERYONE’s safety, but especially for people walking & on bikes.

I’m actually impressed by how Heated Rivalry is leaning into its structural weirdness and just going for it.

What is this, a housing plan for ants?

HEY WHAT THE FUCK www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Right, that's exactly where you wanna build a data center – in a place which has half a second of ping to anywhere on Earth and is perfectly heat-insulated on all sides. www.businessinsider.com/google-proje...

Thread on what I've seen as a journalist for @thetyee.ca this week at DULF's constitutional challenge. They're arguing closing their compassion club put marginalized people at risk of overdose and death. Explainer article coming early next week.

WSL stands for Worcestershire Sauce for Linux,

Heated Rivalry. Oh my.

Health Canada convened an independent expert advisory group in 2020 to provide guidance on safer supply. Health Canada heavily redacted its final report, but unredacted version obtained by CBC shows the expert group said drug crisis is driven by prohibition and recommended expansion of safer supply

"Safe supply itself is not a failure. Safe supply has never been tried yet." www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XJ-...

okay NOW we can call it the skyline

I’m honestly shocked that this story from @globalnews.ca has flown under the radar. Confirmation that Amit Shah, the second-most powerful man in the Indian government, was directly involved in the assassinations on Canadian soil. globalnews.ca/news/1151469...

In this past decade of mass death, there were timid steps in the right direction - at first. But the most coherent, passionate response from the state (and its various apparatus) has been to smash DULF, hire more cops & roll back what little harm reduction we had won.

the police are defunding us bsky.app/profile/jmce...

Deeply disappointed to see @cityofvancouver.bsky.social terminated the All Souls Nights at Mountainview Cemetery. This event has been a tradition for us for the last 6 years, and the event has been going for 20. I’ll quote the statement from nightforallsouls.com In a thread:

*heavy breathing* theprotomen.bandcamp.com/album/act-ii...

Canada Post is not a goddamn business and it's infuriating that the government keeps talking like it is. We never hear about how much money the army loses, or how deep in the red Environment Canada is. But the Canada Post, it never stops. And it's bullshit.

oh shit!

This year’s @fullindie.bsky.social summit was excellent, and it was so great to reconnect with a bunch of people I haven’t seen in ages. But wow my social battery is fried.

I am playing the first hollow knight and it's the first game I've played that's even remotely like this but I am beginning to understand the appeal of doing the same route 40 times in a row cause I can't stop fucking up it's a nice reminder of how we can not rush our escape from samsara

Last funding application submitted for the year! Now time to get hype for @fullindie.bsky.social summit this weekend and figure out what I'm gonna do for the next few months...

Do your mental health a favor and turn this on for today. You really don't want to watch this. It is awful.

i don't know what the source of this video is but I love it

Canadians, this is a parliamentary petition, not a random online thing. Takes a minute to sign. An easy good deed for the day.

Online age verification is not like "showing ID to buy alcohol" because a) the liquor store doesn't get to scan your ID and store a digital copy of it forever in a database that will inevitably get hacked b) you don't have to show ID to go to the library because they have cocktail recipe books

Enough people said they wanted to see the final slide deck, so I took the time to put it on my non-teacher github so I could share it. I didn't end up getting in trouble. I ended up being encouraged by a colleague to share it with my dept chair, and he liked it authorblues.github.io/lecture-slid...

bit of a fib from the mayor, isn't it? sure, you could describe a budget freeze as a budget cut. working for an org that has had its funding frozen at the same level for years, I get that. but it wasn't even frozen, the province wouldn't let them. he was police board chair for a while, he knows.

Yowza

The mayor of Vancouver, everyone. The whole thread tells you a lot about him.

Hades, BG3 and Caves of Qud being the first 3 Hugo wins for video games I think is a quite nice spread that says it's not going to be the splashy AAA hit every single time, but it won't not be either, just recognizing game in a nice way imo.

Who’d’a thunk that the science denialists ended up science denialising. I’m about as shocked as when the anti-lockdown, anti-masking Evidence-Based Medicine crowd turned out to be transphobic.

World Athletics says that "The SRY gene is a reliable proxy for determining biological sex." The guy who literally discovered the gene and has spent the last 35 years researching it says they're wrong. theconversation.com/world-athlet...

ah yeah the familiar whiplash of seeing a legacy media org cover something you're an actual expert in and realizing "oh if this is how badly they're fucking up this, how badly are they fucking up every other topic?"

We've posted an addendum FAQ to our original blog post about NSFW content. You can read it here: itch.io/updates/upda... Thank you for your patience as we navigate through this. We're upset too. We're doing what we can but there are still many unknowns at this point.

I talked to @halfrobot.com about what credit card companies have been doing to Itch and the impact that could have on the future of games www.404media.co/credit-card-...

The fact we've been able to trust them to do the right thing for so long doesn't make this an indictment of Itch, but instead a sign of how absolutely dire the situation is.

At about 3pm today, surrounded by his family, Chat Jahan peacefully returned to the strange cosmos from whence he came. For just over nine years I was blessed by his presence. I will miss him immeasurably.

*when societal problems start affecting me* man, society has really developed problems recently

when you’ve lived in vancouver for decades and that summer rain hits

The last round of Liberal austerity brought us a nation-wide housing crisis and the introduction of homelessness as a normal part of Canadian society. I wonder if the many people I know who parked their vote on Carney were voting for this?

Thinking about forbidden intersections