Apropos of me drinking coffee, I like coffee.

I signed up for early access to Gander Social and still no invite. Meanwhile, it sounds like other users are already able to send out invites to people? Early access does not mean what I thought it did.

TIL Doug Ford is a generic left winger.

Hypothesis: one reason public sector software projects go wrong is because they try to do things on the cheap, because they have to sell it to the public, and the public wants cheap. Then they find out mid way that cheap is not possible, and end up bolting on workarounds.

The Bermuda Triangle of Laura Secord shops.

𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚 - Sobeys has removed the maple leaf symbols from its store shelves, according to a CBC investigation. Those symbols helped us all find and support Canadian brands. Sobeys either supports this country or it doesn’t. Seems it’s made its choice. Now we'll make ours.

If for some unknown reason, you're looking for a new search engine, and in particular a Canadian one, you could give this a shot.

Remember search engine optimization? What exactly can a website optimize for when this is what Google has become? It sure as hell can't be AI summaries.

Fuck this. Fuck you Google. Give me an internet that fucking works. We had one for 20 years. I’m so sick of everything getting shittier so modern-day emperors are never told no like a spoiled fucking toddler.

Does 'bi-weekly' mean once every two weeks or twice a week, 'bi-annual' once every two years or twice a year? The prefix 'semi-' is right there to clear up any ambiguity.

Welp. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

It's really sad that we can't even keep an air show team flying. This is the product of nearly 40yrs of chronic underfunding the military. #Defence #SnowBirds #Canada Snowbirds’ iconic jets prepare for ‘farewell season’, aerobatic team grounded until early 2030s www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...

Again, this is familiar behaviour, based on my experience living with someone who has a very similar personality to Trump's. In his mind, he is right about what he did. He can't be wrong. If it didn't turn out right, it's not because of him.

I wonder if the people giving graduation speeches on or using AI are aware of the fact that it's making it a lot harder for said grads to find work.

I value the waterfront.

"A coalition of conservation authorities wants to know what you value about the Lake Ontario shoreline, and they're travelling the 100-kilometre stretch between Niagara-on-the-Lake and Oakville to find out." www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #HamOnt #Niagara

"Blue Lives Matter" is even worse than I thought.

Two headed dandelion.

There is no reason a country as wealthy as Canada can't afford to ensure everyone has access something as basic as clean water.

Been using Vivaldi for the last week or so, and the main drawback, which is very minor, is that flag emojis render as their country codes.

Great to see ABC news doing this - that's Rebel News panicking because if everyone does it they no longer have a business model @news.abc.net.au

🙄 www.theguardian.com/football/202...

BOO THESE PEOPLE

I went outside to get something from the garage and nearly fell over from the wind.

All right time for a #TOHistory moment. This is Muirhead farmstead, near Vic Park & Sheppard, built in 1853, it is all that remains of the former Sullivan Corners. In the mid 60s the modern subdivision was built but house remained, its a rare Ontario Farmhouse style building still in the city 1/3

"What are laws if they ain't fair and equal?" - A Tribe Called Quest, 1991.

Any poll that shows Trump's approval above 20% is a disappointing poll.

On a tangential note, while now is not the era to be doing innovations in fireworks, if I had any say, we'd be doing burning White Houses instead of burning school houses up here in Canada.

Thanks for nothing, weather

Maybe I'm looking at the past with rose coloured glasses, but garbage seems a lot more spring loaded now than it used to.

Expel him

I've been cooking chickpeas in the instant pot, and it's a noticeable improvement over canned. (YMMV if you're not predisposed to liking chickpeas).

I thought I'd need to go out in the woods to find some trilliums, but they had some in the literacy garden at our local library branch.

To sell to foreign investors?

We gave these people a tax cut. Something tells me they'd be doing this even without the tax cut, because if you can afford a second* vehicle just for water fun, you probably are not significantly affected by gas prices. * or third or fourth.... www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/artic...

Simple... Sell it and donate the money. Like NS did. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Very brief nod in this article to the closure of a safe consumption site. 🤔 I wonder if the two things are correlated. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

2% of GDP doesn't sound like a lot, but it turns out to be a lot when it comes to the budget.

Important reporting from the Star on Ford's dangerous and politically-motivated removal of speed cameras. @graphicmatt.com has the receipts. #GiftLink 🎁 #OnPoli #ToPoli www.thestar.com/gift-redeem?...

It's ok* to put your winter jackets away. *Southern Ontario

Always liked this observation, and its many variations. In recent years, however, I’ve come to realize that all of us contain both sorts within ourselves. The challenge each of us faces is to use our wisdom to recognize when we are being fools and fanatics and change course.

Found this on FB. Anyone on Twitter who can corroborate this? Wouldn't surprise me in the slightest, but... I'm not quite ready to believe it. Well, I am, but I won't state it as fact just yet.

Farm Boy Brand microgreens

FIFA painted over a whale mural in Downtown Dallas without telling the artist. He found out when someone sent him a photo. The full story, plus the conversation it started, on the blog.

How much of Canadian dissatisfaction with our health care system is due to the system itself, and how much of it is due to comparing it with the parts of the US system that look good because we aren't seeing the whole picture?

How Canada became known for its comedians while not really being a funny people overall. www.canadashistory.ca/explore/arts...

One answer appears to be violets, of which there are many species native to Ontario.

People always say using AI coding assistants is like delegating to a junior. Perhaps it's more like outsourcing to a consultant.