My daughter just found Baby Beluga on vinyl for $2 and I couldn’t help but think back to this epic Bluesky adventure.

You forgot to meet with your lawyer to plan to manage your estate after death? Will issue.

DEVELOPING: Rob Lowe’s band from St. Elmo’s Fire has withdrawn from President Trump’s America 250 celebration.

This is the most respect I’ve ever had for Milli Vanilli. (Indigo Girls fans will understand.)

I missed this in 2018. An unfortunate error was made in a published scientific paper on baboon feces. "These features have been removed," replied the authors, caught orange-handed. retractionwatch.com/2018/12/21/u...

10/10. My Albertan ancestors would be proud.

I thought I'd get maybe 25 replies to this request and use two or three of them. We're now at 1400. The column, which is 4600 words long (blame yourselves), is finished, but this thread should be studied by future historians. No era has ever been as utterly annoyed, as molecularly fed up, as we are

Everyone I know with a Fitbit is looking for recommendations on a replacement right now. Including me.

Massive privacy issues with outsourcing Australian court transcripts to a private company with ties to Canada.

“Sycophancy is a safety issue.”

Sweet. How about also allowing Canadian trans folk to change their legal name and gender just as quickly instead of a convoluted system taking many months? (Looking at you, @davidebybc.bsky.social )

Having bought the original book for my toddlers who wouldn’t sleep, I guess it is time for this one to send them to Uni.

Yup, the digital transcription services I have been using for meetings/interviews are pretty unreliable, sometimes skipping whole chunks even when I confirm they are in the recording. Also absolutely shite on names of First Nations in BC.

Essential reading about the roots of residential school denialism today in @thetyee.ca by Emily Enns. thetyee.ca/News/2026/05...

personally I think it's a very big deal that the Canada bureau chief for the @nytimes.com — certainly one of the highest-paid journalists in the country — asked an unspecified "AI tool" what Poilievre said & published its AI-hallucinated quotes in her reporting.

Just learned via @brentrichter.bsky.social that the BC Court of Appeal has ruled that cricket is unchanged since the 1700s and must abide by the rules of Lords and somehow all the other myriad formats actually played throughout the world aren't "cricket"!!?! 🤯 www.nsnews.com/local-news/b...

Sometimes I wonder whether I’m really “Canadian“, then tear up listening to k.d. lang talking about singing at Expo 86 and the 2010 Winter Olympics and figure I pass the test. www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

I have to ask: where, outside of Bluesky, can you find such a commitment to the correction of misinformation? 🙌🏻

Happy Brubeck Day to all who celebrate! (I’m only allowing the US date format because he was US-ian.)

A B.C. court has upheld controversial changes to the province's regulatory framework for lawyers. Still, Connor Bildfell says the recognition of the independence of the bar as an unwritten constitutional principle is a "landmark moment." Read more: https://bit.ly/48vS16Z

That's probably why Microsoft has revived the old Windows 3.1 File Manager, that actually finds your file - lightning fast, even if the interface is completely dated. It's in the Microsoft Store

Reskeeting:

Nice summary of how the recent US decisions on social media standard of care could indicate the likely directions of similar Canadian claims.

Political divide on climate policies is linked to a measurable gap in factual knowledge www.psypost.org/research-lin... "Partisan differences in climate attitudes are associated with knowledge." Sum: right-leaning individuals know less about the facts.

So LifeLabs, the only company that does bloodwork here in BC, just got acquired by a US company. Now whenever I log in to see my hormone level results, it has this popup. Concerning that need to know this, and never did before. I don’t trust an American outfit with this info in their database.

Must remember to pass on to my kids’ maths teachers that Trump has redefined the entire field of mathematics.

God drinks down at the Sandringham these days. Whitlams, 19:97

I'm so sad to hear this, but of course it's inevitable. Some of the best TV I've ever watched is within this series. Can't wait to see the final instalment. www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta....

"In the beginning the Universe was created. This had made many people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move."

“[R]esearchers claim…leaning on AI to assist with ‘reasoning-intensive’ cognitive labor…can rapidly impair users’ intellectual ability and willingness to persist despite difficulty…. [T]hese effects will accumulate over years, and by the time they are visible, they will be difficult to reverse.”

Top-notch detailed reporting on a legally complex case. As soon as I started reading it I was waiting g for an Anton Pillar order to show up.

I’m starting to think that the Queen of Surrey maybe just needs to be replaced with a ferry that works.

…bruh.

NASA failed to predict the real splashdown risk.

Next week is International Anti-Street Harassment Week! Give me 1 hour of your time and I'll teach you 5 ways you can safely de-escalate and intervene when witnessing hate and harassment in public spaces. It's free! zoom.us/webinar/regi...

My clarinet teacher first taught me how to play this piece in grade 9. Tony Hobbs, wherever you are, I’ll always remember my introduction to John Cage.

Locals say they are not surprised the seal, described as a regular visitor, decided to stop for a snooze on the roadway.  #wildlife #traffic #accidents #incidents #animals

For @cbcstephenquinn.bsky.social - looks like you didn’t have the latest update that Kanye won’t be headlining anything in the UK.

"I will do such things— What they are yet I know not, but they shall be The terrors of the Earth! You think I’ll weep. No, I’ll not weep. I have full cause of weeping, but this heart Shall break into a hundred thousand flaws Or ere I’ll weep.—O Fool, I shall go mad!" -- King Lear Act II, Scene 4

“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.” -Trump Article III The following acts shall be punishable: (a) Genocide; (b) Conspiracy to commit genocide; (c) Direct and public incitement to commit genocide; (d) Attempt to commit genocide; (e) Complicity in genocide.

Under international law, "genocide" is such a fraught term because it requires showing 'dolus specialis,' or proof that perpetrators specifically aimed to destroy a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group. Trump or someone on Trump's team intentionally crafted this to meet that standard.

Horses do want cake. It’s science.

There is no excuse for downplaying or eliding the insanity of Trump’s morning post. It is the most unhinged public comment by a president in US history and should be reported and remarked upon as such.

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

And no one wrote a musical about it? Skill issue smh

‘Payment expected within seven days’: New Zealand doctor invoices US embassy for rising petrol costs

Astronaut Jeremy Hansen is taking Indigenous culture past the Moon: his mission patch was designed by Henry Guimond, an Anishinaabe artist, incorporating one Indigenous perspective about the seven sacred laws, which are represented by animals. 🧪 #ArtemisII

In memory of Stephen Lewis, here’s a link to his Massey lecture from 2005 - still a great listen, and perfect example of his deeply empathetic work. www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/...