Lord, I see what you’ve done for others

Attending a panel with museum people in this province today is a wild ride. Brb going to rewatch Houston getting booed.

This Painting is a Mirror Christi Belcourt ~ Métis 2012

Maybe it’s because I’m a colonial historian but so many of these white nation states seem to behave exactly like they did in the 19th century: ‘your leaders aren’t right for you,’ ‘we’re only killing you/colonizing you/installing puppet leaders for your own good’

Girls be like “I need this” And it’s just the premier getting boo’d on repeat.

March in the Birch Woods Clarence Gagnon 1919

Fun fact: bridge toll removal and 1% HST reduction cost us appx $300 million. All of the devastating cuts in the current budget? $300 million. Is your 1% HST cut worth the loss of tourism, arts & culture, educational quality and wildlife conservation in NS?

Well. You get what you deserve. NS premier Tim Houston got booed at the African Heritage Months Gala in Halifax.

He can come say that to the faces of our staff who are currently preparing to be laid off. He can come say that to my face when I can’t buy any materials for any of my subject areas next year (which, btw, include engineering and our new degree in resource engineering).

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done - started a war in the middle east - completely destroyed the economy

Mood swings but it's just me oscillating between yelling about the mayor and yelling about the premier.

Why should any of us believe in the economic vision of a Tim Houston Nova Scotia government that had a historic, anomalous surplus and went RalphBucks with it.

None of the RCMP's highly paid anonymous communicators have explained the rationale behind having inconsistent uniforms in a province where a mass murder recently impersonated a cop. They do urge you to ask for ID if you're not sure you're actually dealing with a cop, though.

Cozy cat weather

The death of Stan Rogers robbed us of a fiddle and fife cover of Queen’s ‘39 and I will always been pissy about this

I’m gonna go out on a limb and says it’s all three but let’s not forget this is the same group of folks who gave the Irvings about this same amount of money to help them with *tariffs* because they are also toadies and cowards.

So sickening to come out of baggage claims at Halifax Stanfield Airport and the the biggest, inviting Nova Scotia Tourism Information desk with “This location is permanently closed “ signs up… an airport anywhere let alone a tourist destination closing it… stupid is too mild a word

Landscape with Snow Tom Thomson 1916

While all these cuts are horrifying, I want to be clear that, at the moment, these are PROPOSED cuts. There’s still time to your voice heard. Call or email your MLA. Call or email Tim Houston’s office. Call or email the Ministers related to the cuts you’re most angry about. See below for contacts.

I registered for an event at a local stationary shop some weeks ago, which was collaging a deck of cards. It was tonight. It turns out I really did need to glue stuff on other stuff, and I recommend it if you need to take a break from ~ everything ~.

In a world of US Men's Olympic hockey teams, be a Mariner's Josh Naylor talking about the first female umpire in the MLB.

Individual programs with grant reductions of $2million or more for 2026-27. #NSpoli

Here is a breakdown of grant reductions announced in the Nova Scotia government's new budget, by Department. The total is just shy of $130million. #NSpoli

Percy Shelley’s journal: last night I awoke to a creature watching me through my bedroom window with a face white as chalk Mary Shelley’s journal: read four books today. Learning three languages while discussing astronomy and mathematics. Also Percy tried to chase his creature again.

Spread across all 800-thousand-plus personal income tax filers in Nova Scotia, the savings from these cuts amount to about $153 per year. A little more than $12/month. @machzy.bsky.social did thspreadsheet before I got around to it. Thanks!

i’m tired, boss

Tim Houston hates Nova Scotia. He’s also not to be trusted: do his cuts to foundational @dalhousie.bsky.social and other universities violate the bilateral agreements he recently signed? If so, #nspse presidents should tell him to stick his program reviews straight up his Paradise Papers…

OKAY a good thing did happen today just after I asked "can anything good happen today?" Last week, a researcher came by looking for a specific volume of a series of books. It said in the catalogue we had it. It was not on the shelf. I checked a couple places, then requested a formal search.

Once again, I do not enjoy finding out about serious impacts to my job from the media (note: I'm probably fine, but my job is going to get a lot harder). I know I chose this lot in life but it doesn't make it less frustrating.

Wen you cut the GLAM sector (Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums) you show your set of values doesn't include where your set of values come from. If anything, instead of thinking, wrongly, you're trimming fat through cuts, ponder the real question - why are we not adding to arts and culture?

Tourists will just be able to use their cell phones, because cell service is notoriously great throughout Nova Scotia.

Re: university funding— There’s a wider picture here about how social goods have been subject to “metrics” I’m really familiar with from libraries. Justify your funding with circs, with door counts. Justify your programming budget with attendance counts. This is how you lose things that matter.

Stop pre-negotiating. Stop telling voters they have to sacrifice minorities and the marginalized to have a chance of winning. Stop telling voters to settle, to not ask for everything, to be reasonable. Don't be reasonable. Demand the world. The world belongs to us. They don't have more right to it.

The multi-use path is reduced to under 2 m, which means bikes and pedestrians are going to be in conflict, especial.There's no access to the path without jaywalking across the bulb of the cul-de-sac on Quingate. There is no direct cleared way for a cyclist from Windsor Street. Do better.

Giving myself something good for the day: sent a long, newsy text to a Miramichi friend I haven’t caught up with since November. I used to see her every day, and I miss her. And it felt good to just tell someone I was thinking about them.

Another casualty of NS gov't cuts: mental health funding in response to 2020 mass shooting. Think of that when you're crawling across the MacKay or MacDonald in gridlock.

Circling back to this specific point: guess which chronically online librarian got to break this news to a bunch of SMU faculty, staff and admin? It's been a fun day.

I want every single reporter, every pundit, every advocate, every EVERYONE to point out the cost of the bridge toll removal and 1% HST cut. Every time someone asks you about the budget. Every time a politician has a microphone in their face. In the Legislature.

309 million in grants cut, and the 1% HST reduction has cost the gov ~265 million. EVERYTHING SUCKS

It also looks like basically every arts, culture, and sports initiative organization in the province is having some level of cuts. I might be exaggerating but it’s seriously bad. Everything from the school sports org (NSSAF) to the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia to the NS Talent Trust.

I'm furious at so many of the cuts in NS's provincial budget. They'll impact all Nova Scotians, in ways we don't fully comprehend yet. We didn't vote for eliminating bridge tolls, and now the gov't has to find that revenue loss elsewhere -- like in cuts to arts and culture. As a writer, this hurts.

50 PARALYMPIANS ON TEAM CANADA 🇨🇦 The COC just sent out the finalized Canadian roster for the Paralympics: Para alpine skiing 8 Para ice hockey 17 Para nordic skiing 15 Para snowboard 5 Wheelchair curling 5 19 athletes will be making their Paralympic debuts.

Hot take from me (okay, lukewarm at best): I don't think a province which keeps slashing its funding to public universities gets to tell them what to do.

Nova Scotia’s budget came out and it’s one of the worst austerity budgets I’ve ever seen. I am going to use this thread as a place to point out everything that’s being cut. www.halifaxexaminer.ca/dismantling-...

Oh no, we’ve entered the time of year where spring is starting to arrive in other parts of the world, and people are gleefully sharing pictures of grass and plants and sunshine, and I’m climbing a snowbank to get on and off the bus. The seasonal depression intensifies.

I've got news for the reporter of this very good and scathing piece: it's not just because she's in over her head with the immigration file. She's been a terrible, uncommunicative MP for years. Doesn't even answer the most basic of emails. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

my very close friend montresor told me hes got a cask of amontillado he wants to show me deep in the catacombs! looks like everything is coming up sean :)