Cripes. One has disagreed with Mr. Coyne so violently over so many issues over so many years, and yet … Here he is so bloody incisive (yet again) in skewering today’s Conservative Party of Canada on a spit. 🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁

This hurts. Devastated to learn of the impending closure of 2 Crows brewing in Halifax. Few brewers are able to experiment with myriad styles & turn out a quality product every time: they were one of them. A stellar fleet of IPAs, among the top sours & wilds in NS, even strong old-world styles. 1/3

New 'elbows up' just dropped: Protecting our sovereignty by destroying our capacity to tell our country's history. Ask any Canadian historian and they will tell you that things were already extremely dire at Library and Archives Canada. Not sure it will even be functional after this.

The most important long-term fiscally sustainable thing we can do is to enable sprawl repair in the suburbs. The more density we can put into suburban areas where it makes sense the better. Every community should have a main street and a mix of housing.

A move that will manage to make productivity and traffic worse.

how is everything so impossibly stupid

Lovely day for a bridge walk. So counted cars heading into Halifax, 3/4 only had one person. This is the traffic problem Andy.

Remembering Fobazi Ettarh‬ by reading her brilliant work. I read about vocational awe in my last year of library school & she provided the vocabulary I needed to describe some of my observations & experiences as a BIPOC worker. She will be missed. www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2018/vocatio...

BECOME UNGOVERNABLE

just heard about Fobazi Ettarh's passing. fuck. we talked only a few times but I was always absolutely bowled over by Fobazi's brilliant, perceptive mind and so-generous spirit. i was so glad to share PhD app advice and help. ugh. what an incredible loss, for family, friends & the field. 💔

On X, @osinttechnical.bsky.social reacted with this bloosk by @tommchenry.bsky.social

The Washington Post is getting rid of its Books section. We’re losing the institutions—journalism, middle-class artistic and intellectual culture—that once made life bearable. Those things were a threat to the super-rich who increasingly govern us. Democracy dies in illiteracy.

The decimation of the Washington Post is a good reminder that conquerors love to destroy national institutions as a means of controlling the culture, and there are enemies beyond trump and his wannanazis who may be even more dangerous.

Can we please get past the idea that Bezos was some sort of bibliophile. Books were the ideal product units for testing the Amazon concept, nothing more.

The guy who owns Amazon shutting down the books section of the Washington Post is beyond parody

New to me, via the Brier and Long Islands Historical Society m*ta platform: more than 30 minutes of footage of the Groundhog Day Gale of 1976, which decimated coastal communities along the Bay of Fundy 50 years ago today. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eys7...

I gave a Rotman Lecture last fall about the my dissertation and book, specifically about the Kinseys (the man and the Institute) and the influence taxonomy has on the labels we use to describe ourselves (gender, sexuality, etc. It was recently uploaded to YouTube: youtu.be/KDwF_3ilkwM?... 🗂️🗃️📚📃📜

Genuinely one of the coolest things I've ive ever seen #Discworld www.yankodesign.com/2025/06/17/e...

I remember this storm, we were stuck at my mums friends house. The streets were a mess. The Groundhog Day Gale of 1976 brought hurricane force winds & storm surge to southwestern #NovaScotia & southwestern #NewBrunswick. /1 thread www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

Snowstorm Snowstorm Snowstorm Super Bowl As Nova Scotians we have every right to be concerned about our potato chip reserves.

Something incredible is happening. Passenger rail, the most sustainable form of long-distance travel, is coming back to #Canada. We have 49,000 kms of tracks. But many of the 6.6M Canadians living in remote, rural settings have few transport options. More in my @theglobeandmail.com feature:

This looks to be a very promising resource. Researchers in computational humanities at @inriaparisnlp.bsky.social have created CoMMA, a large corpus of more than 32000 manuscripts from ca. 800 to 1600. www.inria.fr/en/comma-med... #medievalsky #earlymodern #dh #digitalhumanities

This single article may contain the highest density of excellent quotes of any I've ever seen. I'm saving this to use in talks and class, for sure. So many of all the phenomena I've ever studied are encapsulated here, with characteristic Irish wit.

There needs to be serious discussions around the World Cup being moved to a different country. Today's footage is some of the most despicable shit I've ever seen, and the tyranical, odious, orange-faced slug who permitted this should not be rewarded by FIFA. Spineless, corrupt cunts, all of them.

the idea of hallucinating dozens of elves or whatever is terrifying to me www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Breaking: @hfxwanderersfc.bsky.social have agreed to terms to sell 22-year old striker Tiago Coimbra to IFK Göteborg in Sweden's top flight. Club received multiple offers. #CanPL

"You are helping by cycling when you can" British WWII propaganda poster ca. 1940 🧵

Suggesting there is such a thing as “an unhealthy amount of coffee” is authoritarian, censorious, libellous and a clear attack against not just my personal rights but also my happiness. Liberte. Equalite. Latte.

When historians attempt to analyse the wreckage of American democracy, they'll see Jan 6 as the moment that the brakes failed. It's clear that, in the days that followed, many tried to bring Trump's wreckless momentum to a halt, but when they hit the pedal, there was nothing there.

MTV recently shut down their 24/7 music channels, this project has relaunched them. Stream the 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s, 10s, 20s, Yo MTV Raps, or Headbangers Ball, without any ads or algorithm wantmymtv.vercel.app

A group of Dal academics are establishing ethical rules for conducting research in African Nova Scotian communities that they hope could be used as a guideline for studies in racialized communities across North America, with a "grassroots, community driven project" to engage African NS people.

This story reminds us that: a) Not everything has been digitized b) Not everything digitized is accessible to the public Also: What's happening at NASA is part of a broader trend of library closures in government & industry. (Even university libraries are moving away from physical books & journals)

The Luddites created & practiced what was called "collective bargaining through riot" which is probably one of the coolest phrases ever coined about any movement ever

I have been told we are posting perfect '90s albums

Oh my goodness - this has to be prophetic for 2026...

Your yearly reminder that due to the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement that replaced NAFTA, nothing new will enter the public domain in Canada until 2043. www.lib.sfu.ca/help/publish... 📚

Proud day for the lad today as he got to work in three departments (digitizing No 2 Construction Battalion glass plate negatives, staffing the reference desk, packaging returns) AND got to make the building closing announcement for the library.

I think we need a mega thread of everyone's craziest archive stories.

My neighbor told me pro boxers keep pummeling his douchebag influencers so I asked how many influencers he has and he said he just goes to the internet and gets a new influencer afterwards so I said it sounds like he’s just feeding influencers to boxers and then everyone's daughter started cheering.

It is rare that library teams get formally recognized by their universities for their work on metadata in this way. This feels special. #Metadata #Libraries

On this date in 1725 Paul Mascarene, as the delegate of the Governor of Nova Scotia, was in Boston to sign what has become known as the Treaty of 1725. You can view a transcript (as well as the original) on our website here: archives.novascotia.ca/heartland/ar...

Today is the 300th anniversary of the signing of the 1725 Peace and Friendship Treaties in Boston by leaders of the Penobscot (acting as representatives of the Wabanaki Confederacy) and the British colonies of Nova Scotia and Massachusetts

Christmas party season is upon us... and these medieval faces feel way too relatable! Seen any of these characters at your Christmas do? 👀 Shelfmark: Bodleian Library MS. Bodl. 264 #MedievalMonday

"A specific risk is that generative AI tools always produce an answer, even when the historical sources are incomplete or silent. ... If you received an archival reference or document description from an AI chatbot, please keep in mind that it may be inaccurate."

Some real "First Annual Montgomery Burns Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Excellence" energy here.

17, only because: a. my early career was in a workplace that was even more analog-based where a fax machine was an unwanted luxury; b. I was a Hotmail/ICQ user, not an AOL user; and c. my family (nor their friends) wasn't nearly fancy enough for a waterbed.

need something fun to watch? how about this: THREE MEN IN A BOAT (1975), dramatized by Tom fuckin' Stoppard and starring Tim Curry and Michael Palin www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgwk...