I head somewhere that Avi Lewis wants to make proportional representation a key plank. Sigh. What a dream that would be 🤩 Just reading this recent release from FairVote. www.fairvote.ca/31/03/2026/d...

This is super frustrating to me because the thing the Waymo execs keep bleating over and over is "bUt iTs SaFeR!!"

It turns out that simple accommodations, such as quiet spaces, flexible scheduling and written instructions, aren’t special privileges. They often make the workplace better for everyone, writes Julie Green.

I don't want to overwhelm my self by talking about it too much, but I'm finally out of my most recent creative funk (3 months!) and am working on a little no-design prototype and learning godot. #gameDev

Hampster Dance came up in one of my partner's playlists, and it got me reminiscing... Remember when memes lived "on the internet"? A meme had a url. It was hosted in a distributed way and was monetized by the creators and community (for better or worse). Aggregation makes me sad...

You can't spell "happy" without a little pee pee.

Dammit. One again I replied to a person I don't know, coz some post came up in my feed and replying is just so easy. And fucked it up again. How do people even social media? Are y'all just oblivious/complacent to the constant miscommunication? Or am I just super bad at this?

I listened to the Search Engine casts on driverless cars, and there were 2 really big feelings that came from it:

I love the Walrus, the Beaverton, and the Narwhal, but I have to admit I often forget at a glance which one is the satire paper...

One of the MANY issues with this wave of AI bullshit is that every software is trying to be all-in-one. Ecosystems are shunned. The irony is that MCP is a massive leap forward in software interop, but companies are using it to hold you in, rather than let you out!

I spent the weekend listening to the @volts.wtf back catalogue while playing Cities Skylines. It was a good weekend.

Okay, I keep getting emails from github vaguely about AI features, and they are notable: * no context or major point * NO UNSUBSCRIBE They straight up feel like ads and there doesn't appear to be an option in github settings to stop recieving them. Any help? 🙏

Across Canada, politicians are betting you don't care about restricting access to information. Prove them wrong. ijb.utoronto.ca/news/reflect...

Okay so this new city is funded by "billionaires" and I'm like sure, but which one of those 12 guys was it? So I take a look and discover there are literally *THOUSANDS* of billionaires. The world isn't right. Demand wealth tax, ffs!

And another sizzler, from Manitoba! No using "personalized data" or algorithms to adjust prices per customer. 🙌🙌🙌 We need moooooooreeeee! news.gov.mb.ca/news/index.h...

This is extremely cool, and specifically calls out deepfakes. Exciting to see a government actually moving along with this stuff. I think it's really important to share/boost so that people KNOW society has rules about this, and to hopefully encourage more!

Listening to the @volts.wtf podcast interviewing Jan Sramek about that new city thingie, and it's extremely interesting, but one part that stood out to me is when they both talk about car share like "ooh what a neat crazy idea!" and just want to say: car shares and car co-ops do exist and are great!

Amazing how I can be in the bus loop, surrounded by huge diesel vehicles, ringed around me like predators, and the thing that's actually making all the noise and smell is some dude with a leaf blower across the street. Those things are vile!

Oh gosh I would love to see changes here. TBH I'd love for people outside the vehicle to get any kind of love at all from our safety regulations...

Looking at the SquareEnix publisher sale and my inner child is like "yeah dude you do want to play through every single one of these games again from beginning to end go for it why not!"

Brought the kids down to Cinematheque this morning to watch the Beatrix Potter ballet thingie. I had no idea what to expect and was delighted! I loved the costumes so much! The kids claimed it was stupid but they were leaning in rapt for the entire show so ya know. Kids. 😅

Question for #SkyTrain nerds: why do the LIM trains sound like they "gear up" as they're pulling out of stations? I would expect an electric motor to be continuous, especially in this configuration!

Dear software companies, I know "move fast and break things" is hot right now, but you do realize that "break things" isn't the actual goal, right?? I'd really appreciate if everything could start being reliable again. Sincerely, ipsquiggle

Frost-tinged. #photography

This episode is suuuuuuuper interesting. Too many good points to enumerate! I think about this a lot for my friends in oil and also for my country as a whole... ... But I also think that every point in this episode needs to be considered for AI transitions too! www.volts.wtf/p/the-fate-o...

There's a great Motion from @lucymaloney.bsky.social and @seanorr.bsky.social coming to Council this Wednesday, March 11th to improve bike share in the region! (full text: council.vancouver.ca/20260311/doc...) As card-carrying bike share enthusiasts, we are excited. Here's how to support: (1/4)

This morning is: Me getting irrationally angry that "Love Is An Open Door" is actually just 100% the prince scamming Anna. Keeping up the Disney tradition that the badguys get the best songs.

38 million accounts exposed in the Canadian Tire breach. So like, this is just a registry of everyone in Canada, right? 🤣

My partner can attest, I find "fish lips" to be one of the funniest things in the universe. This is absolutely destroying me 🤣💀

MOONROT is OUT NOW! A short horror game about a rover exploring a distant, desolate moon. Take grainy photos, record crackly signals, and keep your battery charged to survive. There may be a chance for mankind just yet. store.steampowered.com/app/3622230/...

I logged on this morning to post a snarky thought about AI and this was the top item in my feed. No idea in my head can possibly compare to the grim reality of this shit.

That special feeling when the customer support LLM asks you for your product serial number, so you send it, and it tells you it can't find that order number.

Relationship life hack: Instead of saying, "I know," say "Thank you."

I'm thinking about this debacle with the matplotlib maintainer being smear campaigned by a free-roaming LLM, and the part where the guy (I think, reasonably) decided the best way to deal with it was to write a really kind post explaining to the bot why what it had done was bad as if he cared.

Kind of a weird thing, I've started using the word especial a lot. I'm bringing it back, baby! e.g.: "Programmers have an especial tendency to be taken in by this kind of thinking." What do you think? Is it suuuuper pretentious or lame? Or am I hip and cool? 😎

🚀 Mythmatch launches March 13th on Steam!! 🚀 🐐 Merge the items 💪 Unite the people 🏠 Make a home Play the demo now and continue your progress in the full game. store.steampowered.com/app/1778050/...

So much swirling around out there right now, and I keep coming back to the idea that one of the core problems we face is our humanity being stolen from us. That's the problem in democracy, in tech, in communities... Anyways, I found this article brought together a bunch of these threads nicely:

Our 2026 Pledge Drive continues and so here's more of our work, now un-paywalled forever as a gift from our subscribers. In February 2025, we wrote about South Korea's RPG scene and its fight with misogyny. www.rascal.news/how-rpgs-bec...

I don't get to use the phrase "dribs and drabs" nearly enough.

My walk to work is very often misty due to the creek, and so when the sun is creeping out it's always beautiful.

"I just need to throw some glass into these recipes." ~totally normal stuff overheard in #gameDev

Shout out to all the amazing Black game developers, media, and creatives across every part of making games. I’m rooting for y’all year-round. Go follow Black folks making games. We’re often ignored, then imitated. Tag some Black devs below and follow the ones you don’t know yet.

I wonder if the researchers at google are aware that humans experience realistic worlds because there is an actual coherent world out there that we look into, and not because we "just think really hard about a world"?

"This is how many volume controls you have in the base install of windows. There's actually 5." @cmuratori.bsky.social , without context.

Just read through The Banished Vault design diaries by @nictringali.bsky.social , lots of very interesting design tidbits in there! I'm especially intrigued by the notion of the Manual. I always feel super disappointed by in-game wikis, but this has potential! lunardivision.net/the-banished...

Ooooh yesss! You can turn that stupid name font crap off in Discord, in the accessibility settings! 🙌

Oh wow! I LOAAAATHE modern headlights, it's fascinating to see a push against this coming from the municipal level! GO TEAM!!!

Pomelo has been upgraded from B tier to S tier, quite unexpectedly!

Spend some dedicated time this morning educating the 10yo on the Wilhelm Scream.

Moss coming out of the woodgrain on this tie. I've never seen it this "detailed" before, beautiful!