As a carol-lover, these first eleven months of the year are marred by their Wenceslaslessness.

Just cancelled my Liberal Party membership. This is not what Carney ran on in the leadership campaign. This is not what the Liberals ran on in the election campaign. This is the planet-destroying conservative agenda, but with less bigotry. Carbon capture is a bluff, not a solution. #cdnpoli

"McGuinty said, pointing to both Finland and Sweden as examples for Canada to follow." Finland and Sweden train their citizens to defend against a Russian land invasion. Very small chance of Russia invading Canada's populated areas by land. Is this insurgency training to deter Trump? Glad […]

Just encountered the fabled #grousegrind Grunter! Why simply exhale when you can "HRRGMMPH", or coo like a gravel-throated pigeon?

Burnaby Lake overpass installation time-lapse #burnaby #pedestrian #cycling #infrastructure #bikeyvr

News paywall idea: Today's news is behind a #paywall. The 'olds', the archive starting at yesterday or last week, is freely available. There's a separate homepage for yesterday's news. This would provide a public service: anyone can read the news, well at least the 'olds'. Potential subscribers […]

what if a person's politics as an adult are based on the winning strategies in the RTS games they started playing as preteens, so game developers rule the world but with a lag of 20 years or so?

Kid clearly didn't read the dosage instructions: "Take at most one magnet daily. If constipation occurs, do not consume more magnets until the obstruction is passed" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/24/surgeons-remove-high-power-temu-magnets-new-zealand-teenagers-intestines

The UK should have given Trump the reception he wanted: with Lord Mandelson and Prince Andrew in the basement of a pizza chain restaurant.

Weird headline, but a great read on the chronic obstacles to peace, and ideas on how they might be overcome. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/sep/14/how-to-burst-the-israeli-bubble

If 99.91% of people were already wearing seatbelts correctly, then the theoretical maximum safety increase from a new seatbelt enforcement program is 0.09%. And that assumes compliance could ever be 100%. How much #privacy was invaded and how much money is being spent, in order to improve the […]

Elon Musk is betting on hyperinflation in the next 10 years... https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/05/tesla-elon-musk-trillion-dollar-pay-package

BC streamlined access to contraception, so you can Feel Better Quicker.

Not one major American news organization has had the spine to lay out, as succinctly and convincingly as historian Garrett Graff does here, our dread new reality -- much less lift a finger to save democracy. The United States has gone fascist […]

Hey, Boomer! Don't just age in place, #restinplace ™. Death comes for everyone someday, but now you can keep your beloved home and neighbourhood - forever! We'll tuck you into your bed then fill your whole house with perspex, turning it into a four bedroom monument to your memory. Your […]

#jesuistowelie #southpark

The most striking thing about the ostrich situation is that it shows our legal system is incapable of neutralising a public health threat until half a year after it's ceased to be a threat. Farcical. https://globalnews.ca/news/11344975/bc-ostrich-cull-supreme-court-of-canada/ #cdnpoli

"I have a bit of a weird question..." The pharmacist's face flickers salaciousness before being masked by earnest professionalism: "there are no weird questions." I can still see her imagination racing behind the mask. I ask if they sell travel adapters. She is disappointed and says no.

Camping up at Seymour on a schoolnight! Left home after work yesterday, saw the sunset, some meteors, and the city lights. Woke up in a cloud, and easily made it to my 9:40AM meeting this morning. No reservations, permits or fees required - just a note on the car dash. Will do again

Life was so much easier when Facebook would show people content from their friends, rather than content that makes you pay more attention to the adjacent ads. Back in the day I'd just post that I was visiting my hometown and would be in pub X at time Y - and most of my friends would turn up […]

Can you bequest yourself? More eco friendly than burial or cremation. "When I die, FEED ME TO THE LIONS" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/04/danish-zoo-asks-pet-owners-to-donate-rabbits-and-horses-to-feed-its-predators

Very surprised to see Canada's road toll decreasing in line with Australia's so far this century. AU has cameras everywhere; the cops ticket every speeder vs one car in a group. Your license gets suspended if you're caught a few times in a year. In Victoria, speed […] [Original post on pnw.zone]

Meanwhile, in Santa Clara…

How far behind is Canada's banking system? In Australia, it's headline news that a company is issuing refunds _by cheque_. And even then, it's only doing this for edge cases (cancelled/expired cards etc) […]

"In each case, the critiques imply that inclusion of these voices in our #journalism is somehow an endorsement of them by #cbc News" Ooft, a swing and a miss. When you platform a niche bad idea, you're spreading it and it finds more supporters. That goes for Alberta separatism, for sovereign […]

In a just world, this slogan would put the security company out of business. "Don't prevent a crime from happening: become a victim, increase the prison population and its cost to taxpayers." Everybody loses!

😡 #uspol

A person is injured, the VPD have failed them, "expert lawyers" are misleading the public, and changes to the MVA are pointless unless actually upheld. THREAD 🧵

The #cbc 's non-judgmental style of #journalism is so frustrating. Here they quote a CBP spokesperson as saying "lawful travellers have nothing to fear from these measures", a paragraph an example of a lawful traveller getting shafted. This lie is then described as a "reassurance", and […]

Poilievre, not resigning as leader, has an opportunity to do the funniest thing ever... Lose his riding, get a toady to resign so he can run there, then lose the byelection too... #cdnpoli

Happy Easter from San Francisco! (Picture from a few years back but evergreen)

Is the policy that his base be forced to take increasingly large doses of LSD until they develop a social conscience? #cdnpoli #medicalfreedom

[White lotus s3e6 spoilers] There's nothing more wholesome than brothers who swap protein shakes... #thewhitelotus

When you pretend a speeding fine is a road toll... https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trump-trade-war-disinformation-1.7489805 #cdnpoli #tariffs

This #cbc article is remarkable vs their norm, because it doesn't uncritically platform bad actors E.g. it leaves out the "Trump claims this is about fentanyl" BS. It's much easier to think things through when the zone isn't flooded with shit. More like this please! […]

"Remarkably, the median income of Kenyan households had quadrupled." Some good news. https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/03/for-climate-and-livelihoods-africa-bets-big-on-solar-mini-grids/

Get Wendell on the tariff negotiation team, stat! https://www.betootaadvocate.com/uncategorized/nation-politely-tells-the-united-states-to-put-a-tariff-on-ligma/ #tariffs

If the only US companies still buying Canadian aluminium are this price insensitive... Have we considered increasing our prices? (Wouldn't do this for consumer goods since some US people will buy Canadian out of solidarity) #cdnpoli #tariffs

Oh no

And i bet there'll soon be a bunch of newly unemployed anti-money-laundering investigators who may be willing to relocate to Canada... https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2025/02/17/Canada-Other-Anti-Trump-Weapon-Fighting-Corruption/ #cdnpoli

not a new observation but Elon Musk genuinely isn't very bright, genuinely has no idea how most things work, and his entire supergenius engineer persona is a tech press-enabled mythology (they've never been held accountable for)

Visited a pretentious invite-only hotel lounge where they were playing an earnest smooth jazz rendition of Rock n Roll All Nite with creamy vocals. Richard Cheese is obsolete.

If the US is going to forcibly annex Canada, then I'd better take o the flag worshipping ways of my conquerors. I think I'll start with this: https://www.walmart.com/ip/2-Rolls-American-Flag-Toilet-Paper-Roll-Paper-Tissue-Paper-Bathroom-Toilet-Paper-Roll/3464752948

Why aren't we hearing from the NDP on the CBC website? Is it media bias, incompetent comms, or something else? I've noticed their viewpoint is often missing... #cdnpoli

Hell yes! A Site C's worth of wind power at 1/3 the financial price of Site C - and without losing a valley of arable land. Intermittent wind power that turns our existing hydro dams into batteries for when the wind's not blowing. Now if only Alberta would bring their sunshine to the party […]

Nice little quiz from @theconversationau on how to spot a rip in the surf. This might be the first news interactive that I haven't rage-quit within 30 sec due to it feeding me information too slowly. It actually adds not detracts from the story! https://how-to-spot-a-rip.netlify.app/

Effie Bateman auditioning for a role at the NYT https://www.betootaadvocate.com/breaking-news/opinion-celebrating-saruman-death-is-wrong-he-was-a-father/

Whoa! Not only do the cops get to sift through every detail of your life, they upload it to Microsoft, who presumably then train their models on your personal stuff without your consent! https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/dec/11/australia-police-using-ai-search-phones-emails-ntwnfb

Finally, a usecase for Bitcoin? https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/dec/07/smoke-detector-risk-power-shutdowns-blackouts-solar-power-grid