Those of us who rely on the public transit that broke down this morning get nothing.

Golden Andy in a box

you shouldn’t learn about bands from shady TikTok manipulation, you should learn about bands by hanging out with a girl you like but are also extremely afraid of

Sometimes I think about this tweet.

Jeers to Viktor Orbán, and cheers to the Tisza Party, whose political ideology I will not be looking into further 👍

Sunday

This is the culmination of SIXTEEN YEARS of dogged work by everyday Hungarians. You think that felt hopeless sometimes? I'm sure it did. 👏 Don't 👏 give 👏 up 👏

Elon Musk didn’t go to the moon. Jeff Bezos didn’t go to the moon. NASA went to the moon.

Picture of the day today comes from Sandy Miles who spotted this sleeping lynx along the road near Shamattawa First Nation in northern Manitoba. Don't let its sleepy good looks fool you, stay safe!

Oh my god Calgary's mayor 🥲 calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu...

Notable chart included in a new TTC Board report about improving streetcar speeds, comparing stop distance and average speeds on Toronto routes versus surface rail routes in other cities. secure.toronto.ca/council/agen...

"The Scottish island of Summerisle, home of the best fruit in Britain. The first thing you notice? No churches. The farmers here practice a fascinating form of pre-Christian worship…and I just learned I'll be playing the lead role in their annual May Day festival. First stop: my costume fitting."

rip ndp

BREAKING: Following the American threat of an “Avignon Papacy,” Robert Kennedy has begun a Diet of Worms

No, I can't "create another instance" of Power BI so unauthenticated outside users can run queries on our data.

Cat in the Summer Meadow, Bruno Liljefors (1860-1939).

Had my first request for help resulting from our Claude roll-out today. A user assumed it could do something it can't, and instead of telling them it can't it told them to manually do something silly and impossible that the user didn't understand.

I might, were I to be especially generous, accept the notion that people were hoodwinked. Credulous media, the toxic ecosystem of social media, their moronic peers. Sure. However, to be so disastrously easy a mark is a dire moral failing of its own kind.

Earthset from Artemis II. I am overcome.

The wholesome backstory on the tool-using cow: she loves her owner. "It was interesting to see Veronika watching every passing car with interest and trying to guess if the driver was Witgar. If she thought it was him, she would moo with all her might." www.scientificamerican.com/article/firs...

Never seen a demographic with louder mouths, greedier hearts and greater cowardice.

I noticed a bunch of identical comments posted on multiple youtube videos of a specific band that went viral recently and wondered if something like this was happening.

I wrote about digital music marketing agency Chaotic Good Projects. Musician Eliza McLamb uncovered that they used hundreds of fake accounts to artificially generate buzz for bands like Geese, Mk.gee and Dijon. The co-founders call it "trend simulation."

For Canada, simply lowering domestic and int’l trade barriers to safeguard Canada is last-century thinking. Canadian economic policy needs to focus first on ensuring stability. Only then can you worry about efficiency. This requires increased governance capacity and cross-country governance reform.

This was a nice surprise on an early morning walk today. #wildlife #birds #owls

muting everyone who doesn't understand the difference between low earth orbit and going to the moon but feels the need to correct others' posts

This Easter weekend, many parents will be looking for a movie to keep their children under six amused and distracted. May I recommend the perfect film? It's even bunny-themed: WATERSHIP DOWN

Hard to believe that in what used to be one of world’s most prestigious newspapers, neither the NYT writers nor editors appear to know what the not-so-obscure acronym NATO stands for. (Hint: it’s *not* the below) BTW, a whopper like this probably would get you fired from a college paper in Ireland.

i like that the thing we like the most about astronauts is that they take pictures of earth. its like the space program is a very very long selfie stick

Fat cat Friday

Baby Ralph lap time

In 3.5 hours something will happen in space that hasn't in 54 years: A nearly 6 minute engine burn will boost a human-crewed spacecraft out of earth orbit and send them on their way to the moon www.nasa.gov/blogs/missio...

I've laughed waaaaaay more at this than I should have.

NASA is honestly one of the greatest things humans have ever created, the stuff of math and dreams

This descriptive, thoroughly reported and very troubling essay about the separatist movement in Alberta by @marcellodicintio.bsky.social is critical reading for Albertans. Great journalism in the public interest. Among the Separatists via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

Investment tip: when the GOP says they want to let “average investors” in on a good deal, it’s a sign that all the wire has been stripped from the walls and the investment is about to collapse, and they’re looking for suckers to hold the bag and be the face of a bailout

A friend recently moved here, and he was surprised the first time he saw a GO Train. He had just assumed they were electric, it hadn't even occurred to him they would still be diesel.

jfc what a loser. this is loser behaviour.

WestJet did this exact thing to me in Dec 2024. www.cbc.ca/news/gopubli...

Morse Code "coin". Not particularly useful for learning but the "receive side" is interesting. See if you can figure it out.

the therme illustrations are probably the worst I've ever seen

#topoli New from me in @thestar.com: Lies, damn lies and, well, renderings. On architectural fantasy-scapes, AI and why maybe we should use a bit more realism in selling big projects. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

rip ndp

I often feel the French language policing is too strict here in Québec. then comes a CEO and all of a sudden I understand how these things came to be.

I should get a cat

"how are the cats?" Oh they're good. Just normal cats. Watching all the time.

Also, as I'm a trans man who is banned from sport because of life-saving necessary medicine who is currently challenging the ban of trans men in sport in a Human Rights court, dont you fucking dare say trans men are left free to compete. It's not true. Ask me how I know.

“Since the IOC began allowing the participation of transgender athletes in 2004, only one openly transgender woman has competed at the Olympics, a weightlifter from New Zealand who did not make it past her opening round of competition at the Tokyo Games.” One.

Fully endorse. Further, if Wealthsimple wants to offer gambling services, and if Canada is dumb enough to to let prediction markets into the country, then it should be forced out of banking. Choose a lane: fintech or online gambling site. 🎁 www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/86f19a2...