Mike Smith who plays Bubbles in the Trailer Park Boys, charged with a sexual assault from 2017 against a minor. My old pal Hilary Beaumont in Vice in 2019: https://www.vice.com/en/article/mike-smith-of-trailer-park-boys-accused-of-sexual-assault/ the news today: he's finally facing the […]

Five good things today: -friend recognizing me and honking to say hi -reaching the exact right person on the phone for hurricane relief -sunglasses with an updated prescription -garlic bread and chili -sunshine

We are all in grave danger because we have let people who spend inordinate amounts of time with computers, because they don't like or understand other people, to mediate our human experiences […]

Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

Daily reminder to give something for Gaza today. Here's a family I know: https://chuffed.org/project/116311-protect-an-open-source-engineer-and-his-family

Lina Khan, yes. Excellent news. https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/05/lina-khan-to-co-chair-nyc-mayor-elect-zohran-mamdanis-transition-team/

Five good things today: -people in Winnipeg talking about the weather -cheese tortellini soup -sunshine -backyard fruit trees -NYC with a Muslim mayor

I hope Mark Carney falls over this budget. Cutting 40,000 public sector jobs is an open assault on our public system.

Whoever at the IRS managed to get the code for Direct File posted to Github before it was inevitably smothered in its crib, I salute you. https://github.com/IRS-Public/direct-file

Five good things today: -there is no more Dick Cheney -sending a cake to my friend who is one year sober -visit by a song sparrow -realizing I am probably going to be okay -lentils and rice in general, and koshari in particular

Five good things today: -morning run along the lake -getting assigned to take more days off this week -people who come up and tell you cold that they love your work -spicy falafel wrap with extra tzaziki -hazy almost full moon

Why does it matter if one is a woman or a man, or transitioning between them. Is there some fundamental difference between being one or the other?

Five good things today: -sitting on a grass hill in the sunset -the creativity that being bored allows -fried noodles -the time is out of joint. O curse spite, that I was ever born to set it right -an afternoon nap

It should be the first question asked of Poilievre by media in every single interview, every time. And his ridiculous, illogical excuses should be challenged vigorously. Unless Poilievre submits to the standard, normal security check, Canadians should assume the worst about why he refuses to.

is everyone pumped for No-AI November

Highest Canadian nerd achievement UNLOCKED I'M SO EXCITED!!!! QUIRKS AND QUARKS!!!!!!!! And that was all because of Mastodon, thanks all! (Especially @mayintoronto whose comment got a Quirks and Quarks producer to get in touch with me via BlueSky-Fedi bridge. Wild. WILD.)

I wish I got to go on Quirks and Quarks and talk about a less depressing topic, but hey, this is SUCH a great opportunity to teach a *lot* of people in Canada about the terrible things that are happening in orbit, and in the upper atmosphere, and on the ground due to the wildly unregulated […]

Five good things today: -Hot apple cider and a cold bite-sized frittata -Andean panflute from Chile with a homemade PVC instrument -farm country roads with their high quality roadside honour system fruit and vegetable stores -low cloud sunsets at 6pm -cozy pants

Five good things today: -early strike-out of Shohei Ohtani -when children don't show up to take all the candy in the bowl and you have leftovers -labour rights organizers who speak Spanish -windy rainstorms -drinking gin on a lawn chair in the middle of a hurricane with your lover

Five good things today: -sources that drop newly into your life, and ones that talk to you for years like dear friends -the smooth slice of a sharp Staples guillotine -public transit -climbing gyms -pomegranate bursting out of its rind

Five good things today: -fish tacos -ducks visiting the children's playground -sunlight in the evening after work -new sheets -reading old writing and it's actually good

Five good things today: -eggs benedict -thrift store social enterprises -fish and chips -howling winds -doing stand up comedy

Five good things today: -fluffy German Shepherd said hi -figured out a new way to swap tough crypto -reconnecting with beautiful pocket pals -talking someone through how to get new money for their new baby -walking the loop

Five good things today: -one pint tub of fresh guacamole -pumpkin people scarecrows on a red carpet -talking to a lawyer, for free -dish washers -feminist comic book historians with lactose intolerance

I have mostly kept my two twitter accounts alive out of some kind of morbid curiosity; watching something that belonged to all of us dismantled and destroyed by ONE idiotic male. But these new changes break the model completely. ➡️ Fediverse, brace for another migration.

I learn important things from John Oliver, like about the Pro-Palestine dogfluencer Marnie (RIP): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9FsxWK0f1A

Five good things: -garden Halloween party -surprise improv at the YMCA -orzo salad -running at 5am instead of tossing and turning -friends from college

"As soon as I was in the hall and then in Victoria's car, sitting next to her as, immediately, she lighted a cigarette with trembling hands, something happened that very often occurred later in my life, sometimes bringing me relief, other times demoralizing me. The bond with known spaces, with […]

Five good things today: -reading on a hammock in the sunshine -KNEECAP Halloween costumes -homemade fish chowder with real butter -legally extracting money from the government -therapyyyyyy

Just got another "why are you posting photos when <bad thing> is happening". While posting photos may not be the most socially productive activity, it beats scolding strangers on the Internet by miles.

"In our business, especially in the countries that trust each other or are developing trust for each other, there is nothing like an operational gain to actually bring you closer together." - The Secret History of the Five Eyes, the Untold Story of the International Spy Network by Richard Kerbaj

Five good things today: -slept more than usual -attempted cooking a meal I'd never made before -night run to the lake -graduated from an occupational therapist and don't have to go back -phone call from Guatemala

Yikes. Apple complying in advance with the technofascists? "Any user who updates to iOS 26 and subsequently restarts their device will inadvertently erase all evidence of older Pegasus and Predator detections that might have been present in their shutdown.log." […]

Five good things today: -Veggie cheeseburgers -Sleeping in until 7 -Finishing a big application -White House getting demolished -clean laundry

Five good things today: -tacos de setas de adobo -getting friend to the bus on time and hearing he felt happy -visit with plants in Home Depot buckets -finding the perfect book on Anna's archive -flash tour of the city to someone here for the first time

Apparently the Blue Jays have no chance to win the World Series because their pitcher doesn't know how to bat or something like that. Seems like a silly thing to do, have different rules for leagues that end up playing each other in the championship ...

He demolished the White House east wing? Robert Ross would be proud.

"There's never been money in my house, and (she was a woman) who liked to make a good impression on those (she) still didn't know, but (she) didn't hesitate to harm those whose affection (she'd) already won."

Went to Halifax's Nocturne tonight. The last time I went, was the fist ever Nocturne, in 2007. That is, 18 YEARS AGO. I'm old.

Mira, yo considero que "latinoamérica" incluye ahora los EEUU ... y a futuro, Canadá. Por eso Bad Bunny les carcome el alma, a los anglosajones racistas, porque Español ya es la segunda lengua de los EEUU y si sigue en esta trayectoria, será mayoritaria. Por eso que el proyecto preferido de los […]

Mira, yo considero que "latinoamérica" incluye ahora los EEUU ... y a futuro, Canadá. Por eso Bad Bunny les carcome el alma, a los anglosajones racistas, porque Español ya es la segunda lengua de los EEUU y si sigue en esta trayectoria, será mayoritaria. Por eso que el proyecto preferido de los […]

I made a thing called Wellness Ping because someone I care about went silent and it took too long for anyone to notice. You get regular check-ins via email. If you don't respond, your emergency contacts get notified. Built it for anyone who might go missing and needs someone to notice […]

30 years ago, Bob Morris, then a senior scientist at NSA, gave a keynote talk at the CRYPTO conference (the leading conference for academic cryptographers). He opened by telling us he would reveal the NSA's first rule for cryptanalysis (which certainly got our attention). "First", he said […]

"After all the prisoners left the bus, the family discovered that Murad wasn’t among them. Minutes later, they received confirmation from the Red Cross that he had been deported to Egypt. "As the cousin shared the news, the elderly mother broke into tears and random screams in her wheelchair […]

My friends in Gaza have survived so far. But the genocide isn't over. Israel wants to keep killing, they are addicted to killing. The fight must continue until Palestine is free.

How about fuck no. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-united-states-border-bill-9.6931988

I was in Gaza City in 2016. The place I knew has been wiped off the map. My friend Mohammed Abu Matar was my host when I was there. He is still in Gaza City, trying to raise the funds to get his four kids out of the city […]

Trump is a racist autocrat who hates brown people. If you think he is going to do right by Palestine you are an idiot.

We went from "we will deport the worst of the worst" to "we will deport anyone here illegally" to "we will round up anyone who looks wrong" to "people who live in cities are the enemy" essentially overnight.