Today's #Sarahs60 theme is #TinyJoys a hashtag that makes this place a whole lot better. So 6 Tiny Joys, and check out the hashtag for regular doses of joy

Just catching up with the budget coverage in the papers.

This week The Local announced our AI policy, the core of which is pretty simple: “When you read The Local, know that our stories are written and edited by real people, that photographs are taken by real photographers, and that illustrations are created by real illustrators.” thelocal.to/ai-policy/

Great idea, @jangray.bsky.social ! www.thestar.com/opinion/star...

"Access as meditation: A love letter to image descriptions & closed captioning" by Bella Milroy=good+free zine on writing alt text (& similar) as reflective opportunity for the alt-text writer. (39 more zines on accessibility+disability justice, many free, catalogued at airtable.com/appY7WyBFjSz...)

I feel this so deeply. I’ve been told I belonged somewhere. I’ve been told I was valued and appreciated and accepted. I’ve also *been* valued, appreciated, and accepted. Almost never by the same groups. And never in the same places.

#Sarahs60 charities 1 phone credit for refugees and displaced people. Does what it says on the tin. A community of giving with tiny overheads and a big impact. Every Friday we have a 'conga' on FB where each small donation pokes the algorithm. But you can donate here as well www.pc4r.org

Take 75% off your first month of membership with promo code: Thrive2025 www.patreon.com/thebeaverton...

the funny part is that internalising this properly *actually is the thing that makes you no longer be susceptible to the pareidolia* understand its function properly *so that you can correctly identify when its function is not aligned properly with your will as its operator*

🎵 Swimming in the snow, just Swimming in the snow 🎵

It's well past time to stop the fake debate about two-tier healthcare in Canada and have some honest conversations about THREE-tier healthcare. We need to stop pretending Tier 0 doesn't exist and instead create a concrete, verifiable plan to eliminate it.

It's my 60th 🎉 I recently saw someone here do 40 advice tips for his 40th, which I liked, but I'm not a fan of advice. So I'm going to do 10 threads of 6 things over a few days, with the hashtag #Sarahs60 Starting today with 10 charities I support, which you might like to as well, or add your own.

I don't recall where I found this, but I'd say this looks about right.

[quote:] The North consistently poses high numbers of police-reported intimate partner and family violence. According to the Status of Women Council of the N.W.T., in 2020 the rate of sexual assault in the territory was 7.3 times the national rate. www.aptnnews.ca/national-new...

Then as now ...

this feels like a good time to remind people about @annaleen.bsky.social’s Four Lost Cities. We (humans) have abandoned cities before because of climate change - we’re going to have to do it again. Read up and be prepared for this future. www.thriftbooks.com/w/four-lost-...

Bathurst Street #RapidTO at Queen Street. We love to see a better Toronto being built one bucket of paint at a time. #topoli

i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao

Pedestrian struck by motorist on Parkside a block from the speed camera that vigilantes kept tearing down that caused ford to remove them from all Ontario. Drive as you wish Ontario. Nobody matters. This is what you voted for.

🏺 Two things have become clear in researching #Matriarcha: 1) direct evidence of how dangerous birth is – skeletons with stuck at-term babies inside them – goes back many millennia 2) humans/hominins have likely been obligate social birthers for about as long as they've been obligate tool users

Shockingly, our local greengrocer doesn’t label his trees as ‘Christmas’. Which maybe because he is a woke Tibetan intent on destroying our sacred traditions, or possibly because no-one needs it explaining to them why there’s suddenly a pile of fir trees outside his shop at the end of November.

Heh heh. Time magazine busted ripping off quotes from a satirical pub in Canada

everyone: we just want streets to be safe to walk near, especially around schools ontario: best we can do is street signs so big they fully obscure schoolchildren

Repeat after me: artificial, made by humans, human-made, not natural

Sharing a friend’s pic from HK. He takes fantastic pictures when there via IG stories but has been on the fire last 24 hours. Watching volunteers bring supplies to 1000s of homeless & this, electric cars as phone chargers ( @dewolfleloup on IG)

The very definition of public service

Omggggggg Canada Post has holiday squirrel stamps 😍 store.canadapost-postescanada.ca/store-boutiq.... #sqrlpix

I want to finally do a video on sidewalk plows and the problem of leaving snowy sidewalks to homeowners. If anyone has examples of poorly cleared sidewalks that I can use, attach them here! Important: mention the city. Also, preferred attribution (if any). Otherwise, default is screen name.

NEW: Doug Ford promised giant signs to replace speed cameras in school zones. Well, they've arrived and... they're huge. So big they don't fit onto existing poles. Cities say they're too big, the province says they were briefed weeks ago. #Onpoli globalnews.ca/news/1154479...

One day someone will pay me to make fun of their product. One day!

People who feel bad at being called tourists are without doubt the most tedious people on earth to get stuck next to on a plane and it isn't close to close

This was a fun read! I love a good Canadianism and as someone who called something a "gong show" as recently as yesterday I had no idea it was uniquely Canadian

I guess I now have to do a thread on shoes in ancient Mesopotamia in response to this (which happens to be from one of my favourite accounts). I’m not an archaeologist, nor do I really know anything about shoes, but let’s go on this journey together.

Cal Lane, Canadian trained welder and metal artist, transforms common tools and also industrial steel products into intricate sculptures #WomensArt

1. A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics. It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT. It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse. Transgender care saves lives.

In 1924, Calvin Coolidge's 16-yr-old son played tennis on the White House grounds w/o wearing socks. He got a blister and was dead from infection a week later. This is unthinkable today—which is why I wrote this series. Cuz the systems that save us from this kind of fate are in urgent need of care.

I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.

Another year without Toronto’s hardest working corporate Christmas tree. The war on Christmas is real. IYKYK

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

Really fascinating blog post about the plants that Neanderthals cooked and ate (the real "paleo diet" included a lot of grains, pulses, and other plants!).

This whole thread = required reading for settlers today

This is just to say I have muted the names Of the journalists Trying to make "felch" happen Forgive me I don't care about Their dysfunction And their drama is So icky And so gross

ALWAYS read the plaque.

Take a minute.

Hey @news.rte.ie what the fuck is up with this sentence? "Judge Clarke said she did not find the complainant "was as alarmed or distressed" as THEY had portrayed themself to be after Linehan made a string of tweets about THEM." And then proceed to quote a glinner sentence which misgenders her?

The NWT's Diavik diamond mine expects to stop mining in March 2026. Here's a simple guide to what happens next, as outlined by staff this week.

Are you a PhD student & interested in using museum collections in your teaching or research? We're running a *free* doctoral training programme for students at any institution to learn about working with collections. Find out more: collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/

“Tonight’s the night you’re going to die.” This is what Collette Martin’s ex told her before he stabbed her thirty-seven times. Martin's case is an extreme outcome of a behaviour society often treats as harmless: stalking. Sheima Benembarek investigates: thewalrus.ca/why-dont-we-take...

Deer My Friends Today was very busy day for me at Queen Spark because we past our new bill The Throwing Renters Out Act but their were some people their makeen a lot of ruckiss so I told them to get jobs like when before I was Premair and I worked very hard running my dads company. Premair

i’m not crying you’re crying xkcd: Fifteen Years