nanos.co/young-embrac... - I would like to congratulate my fellow Atlantic Canadians on being the largest provincial demographic in Canada - by nearly 8 points! - to say “fuck that slop, eh?” The Olds also appear to be doing just fine.

the discourse on what jobs are acceptable to replace with generative AI reveals a lot about what we think of other people's jobs

I used to get my checked bags searched every single time I flew, they leave a little card saying they’ve done it, so finally I put a note in my bag asking why and they wrote on the card that carrying so many books on a flight is usually how people hide illegal amounts of cash

You know, it just occurred to me that all their bridge signs still say that they’re toll bridges.

This is a milestone date because it triggers my review for confirmation aka are they going to keep me forever. The other librarians have officially been invited to comment on my suitability for confirmation. Not nerve-racking at all even though I know it’s fine!

Anyway, today is the two year anniversary of when I started at Saint Mary's.

Another day, another NDA thrown away. The tide is turning. ❤️ www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Good news for your baking routine. Cookie and biscuit dough cans can now go in your recycling bag thanks to extended producer responsibility (EPR). That means producers are now responsible for managing this packaging, making it recyclable for residents. Learn more at: halifax.ca/recycling

If you are anxious and sad about the state of the world, that's fine, and there are plenty of strategies for dealing with that. But I think you already know that drive-by online dooming isn't a strategy. It's selfish and adolescent. It's a contagion that only spreads the worst of you, not the best.

lol looking for actual studies FOR THIS SPECIFIC KIND OF THING was my literal job in the hospital and I just know so many physicians are out here using ChatGPT instead of the tools the health authority pays for, including librarians.

Coming out of my office to see how dark it is outside is not it.

“What class do you have next?” “Uh….ancient…something.” Welcome to winter term, students! Thank you for entertaining me endlessly in food outlet lines.

You're not ready for the name of the energy transition specialist at Heat Pump Association UK

Please stop painting realistic pictures of tunnels. The coyotes are getting hurt.

I don't know who needs to hear this, but: If a topic doesn't have a lot of evidence or there's a lot of gaps in the evidence, no amount of applying #EvidenceSynthesis or #SystematicReview methodology is going to change that. ES work only makes sense of what is already there.

The amount of times someone will tell me, a librarian, about this incredible new invention no one has ever heard of called The Library

The idea that digitization is a preservation strategy is not at all popular among archivists (including us digital specialists) and as organizational policy basically always originates from administrators (even with disciplinary training) who don’t understand the issue.

Oh man, it must suck to have your contributions to a project ignored on such a massive stage. Reminds me that time when some guy made a movie about the ingenious plan a bunch of Canadian officials made to smuggle US embassy personnel out of Iran, but the movie credited the CIA for the plan instead.

Winter Schoolhouse Maud Lewis c. 1958

Went to go get a snack and a chat with Shirley. iyyk. My new year is finally truly started now that I have a dose of Shirley-goodness.

I love iodized salt. I love fluoridated water. I love enriched flour. I love public health tools that save lives and improve quality of health just by silently existing. They're amazing.

The back wall of the library staff space is legendary for how cold it is in every office and cubicle along it, and it was extremely rude of the weather to be so frigid the last few days that my office probably won't warm up till May.

The first two hours this morning

We just had an illuminating realization that tomorrow is the Epiphany.

Classes don't start till Wednesday which means no campus food places are open which mean HOW CAN I WORK UNDER THESE CONDITIONS I AM COLD AND TIRED

I say let them have a crack at it.

Fridge has been jammed with as much soup as I could fit in there and a pot of spaghetti sauce is on the stove - we’ll make it! We can do this! We will just be really unhappy tomorrow morning!

Tomorrow I go back to work for the first time in over three weeks. I live in a new house, and haven’t been out of bed much before 11 most days in the last week. Bracing myself for the shitshow that will be me getting to campus tomorrow morning.

My whole life, advocating war has been fed to me as “the adult position,” akin to drinking your coffee black or reading the business section of the newspaper. Let’s be very clear — war is the childish nonsense of impulsive destructive idiots playing baby-brained video games with real human lives.

I gotta be honest with you, doing regime change for oil in 2025 is like breaking into someone's house for blockbuster gift cards

If you’ve given me a gift that came in a gift bag at any point in the last fifteen years, it turns out I saved it. Not only that, I moved it from Antigonish to Halifax to Miramichi to our apartment in Halifax to our house in Halifax. This would be an awesome thing to have done if I EVER USED THEM.

I sure would hate to be an oil-rich country whose sovereignty the US doesn't recognize within easy striking distance of US soil. That would be scary!

I assigned myself multiple chores today (nothing difficult, just a series of small things to get done) and so I’m lying on the couch in my pyjamas instead of doing any of them.

I'm hoping that at the very least the US doing a blatant war crime will lead to some consequences of sort but I'm not holding my breath

I recall recently a superpower starting an illegal imperial war by invading a sovereign nation w/ no pretence of democratic process, and democratic nations around the globe condemning, boycotting, sanctioning, and divesting from that power, and even seizing the assets of its billionaire oligarchs.

I found the goods at the Dartmouth Crossing Dollarama, @awesomebiota.bsky.social. #HaliSky

Kind of rude of all the other lactose-intolerant people to also run out of milk at the same time I did. Managed to get a carton but whew.

Jan 1: this is the year of new Me Jan 12: [eating shredded cheese directly from the bag] new years resolutions are a bourgeois construct for disciplining bodies into productive units for capital

Fresh Start Wilf Perreault 2023

I invented a new phone to help save time in the morning

Happy New Year to the haters, the losers, and the far left marxist transgender extremists, which I think covers everyone here.

It Will Be Okay Mike Gough 2023

I ordered both the Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve kits from Maria’s Pantry this year because I had no idea what we’d be doing or where or with who - anyway, the spinach dip from the NYE kit was just demolished. Patting myself on the back for making my life easier during this time.

Fireworks have started and I didn’t know Mallow was scared of them until I realized she’s never really heard them before now. We’re eating treats and hiding under the futon.

There’s something about being an unmarried couple who live together that actually short-circuits people’s brains when they address cards to us. And I love their cards! They’re so sweet! But truly, writing our names on an envelope seems to break minds.

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one unexpected outlook change from being a dad is taking the self care people 10x more seriously when it comes to dealing with weirdly directed anger and rage (including Online). many angry posts should have been naps or little packets of crackers

today is for the ladies to have fun. its new years eve not new year's steve