Bobbie (@bo66ie29): "The scale of the enormous flag flown on the Spanish ship, the San Ildefonso, during the Battle of Trafalgar. It was captured by the Royal Navy on 21st October 1805 and measures nearly 33 feet wide and 47.5 feet long." | nitter […] [Original post on cosocial.ca]

A quotation from **Archibald MacLeish** > The one man who should never attempt an explanation of a poem is its author. If the poem can be improved by the author’s explanations it never should have been published, and if the poem cannot be improved by its author’s explanations the explanations […]

This book rules. A subject I’ve been obsessed with for years. If I ever get back to making YouTube videos again this’ll save me a ton of time compiling information. Thanks @dawn for the recommendation. #canada

This is what happens when people don't understand the difference between authoritarian corruption and fascism. Because they have no word to fill in the space between "George Washington" and "Hitler," everything that isn't democracy becomes "fascism"

Once on the brink of extinction, green sea turtles are making a comeback in the Pacific: nest counts on Australia’s Heron Island have risen tenfold since the 1970s, and populations across the Pacific now meet IUCN recovery thresholds, thanks to decades of protection, turtle-safe fishing, and […]

"When the Tories win power they always do so with the aim of retaining it. The decisions they take are always oriented towards winning the next election. When Labour wins we seek to change the world, to improve peoples’ lives as fast as we can." - O RLY?

"For the rest of the world to escape dictators' demands, they will have to accelerate their independence from American tech – not just Russian gas." @pluralistic https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/20/post-american-internet/#huawei-with-american-characteristics

Jays in the lead! #bluejays

What is known about the stolen Crown Jewels at the Louvre https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/louvre-art-heist-robbery-jewels-9.6945482 - - - Ce qui est connu au sujet des joyaux de la Couronne volés au Louvre // Article en anglais // #france #paris #louvre #crownjewels

😂 #cdnpoli https://theonion.com/katy-perry-releases-new-single-about-superiority-of-canadian-manufacturing/

I'm reading the Disc World series for the first time in my life and kind of kicking myself for not reading it when I was younger. It's a nice break from my usual diet of dour cyberpunk novels. Reading it in order you can see him kind of growing into a voice and that's really enjoyable […]

In other exciting home sysadmin news, I have a problem in the #rpi4 box I use as the router for the local WiFi network: periodically, some clients disassociate, and then can't reconnect. (I don't really know why.) The general solution is to restart #hostapd. But I don't want to do that manually […]

I confess to not understanding this matter. What I know about it is largely from listening to the #cbc #atissue panel's video on Friday. I think it's in reference to Mr. Trudeau's involvement with the SNC-Lavalin scandal, but in 2025, why would Mr. Poilievre be discussing that at all? Was this […]

Major upgrade today for #jellyfin. They are changing how their database is used, so the upgrade may run for hours. Note further that the upgrade requires the relevant partitions to have at least 2G free. On my #debian #rpi4, I had to increase the size of /tmp in order for the upgrade to proceed […]

Jeffrey Epstein’s Angry Emails to Billionaire Leon Black https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/business/jeffrey-epstein-leon-black.html #jeffreyepstein #nytimes

Terry Glavin: In a war of 1,000 defeats, the one clear winner is Qatar https://nationalpost.com/opinion/terry-glavin-in-a-war-of-a-1000-defeats-the-one-clear-winner-is-qatar?itm_source=opinion "Controversially, Trump had already agreed to accept the gift of a $400-million Boeing 747 luxury […]

#joshfreed: To keep Quebec secular, let’s change rue St-Hubert into chemin Barbecue https://nationalpost.com/opinion/columnists/freed-to-keep-quebec-secular-lets-change-rue-st-hubert-into-rue-barbecue-chicken/wcm/8f27f75b-541a-424e-a27a-0d47c7010ac9?itm_source=canada Secularism obviously wasn't […]

In defence of new 'ugly,' 'small' government-designed houses https://nationalpost.com/opinion/chris-selley-in-defence-of-those-ugly-small-government-designed-house-plans?itm_source=np-comment I haven't looked through the catalogue myself. The thing that bothered me most looking at images of […]

In "The world turned upside down" Searle related this conversation with Foucault about Derrida: 'Michel Foucault once characterized Derrida’s prose style to me as “obscurantisme terroriste.” The text is written so obscurely that you can’t figure out exactly what the thesis is (hence […]

Rob Shaw: Rustad is moving fast from conservative darling to ‘paranoid’ punchline https://www.readtheline.ca/p/rob-shaw-rustad-is-moving-fast-from Another week in BC politics... #bcpoli #thelineca

Tesla is sitting on nearly a billion dollars of unsold Cybertrucks. Now Elon's using the imaginary value of SpaceX and xAI to bail out Tesla... While asking Tesla investors for a blank check to "invest" in xAI. The entire empire is a giant scam. #teslatakedown www.dailykos.com/story/2025/1...

Cathy Young on nine dumb things people say about Antifa, from "there's no such thing" to "they're like Ike and Omaha Beach" to "they're a Democratic Party alter ego" to "it just means opposing fascism" and on through the very dumbest of all, "Antifa did Jan. 6".

Original elevator shafts for the. eaton’s store in Montreal. New cabins/doirs and you request your floor before entering. Serves not only the 9e restaurant but also the few office floors below.

#montreal #quebec

Mad Max rages against Father Time -- literally -- in high-octane Game 4 https://www.mlb.com/news/max-scherzer-john-schneider-mound-visit-alcs-game-4 #bluejays

Montréal snow dump one of the largest methane emitters according to a McGill study https://montreal.citynews.ca/2025/10/16/montreal-methane-emissions-study/ - - - Un dépôt à neige de Montréal un des plus gros émetteurs de méthane selon une étude de McGill […]

For those asking, here's a REALLY rough comparison of the Trump indictment and Bolton's. The biggest differences are: Bolton sent AND retained the docs, which resulted in Iran getting them Trump took marked docs Trump refused to give them back and lied about them

We'd see The Black Rock, whenever we drove across the bridge. During the Irish "Potato Famine," many thousands died of ship's fever (typhus) en route to Canada. 70,000 landed in Montreal (pop 50,000). More died in the "fever sheds" near the river. "A large […] [Original post on cosocial.ca]

So that's what the giant hole was. (Ottawa) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxFcNOmND00

"[T]he text of the document and the process that led to it are so controversial that they constitute a masterclass in how not to write a constitution. To be clear, every province has a constitution, composed of relevant clauses from the Constitution acts of 1867 and 1982, along with provincial […]

The first beta release of Mastodon 4.5.0 is ready for testing! Quote posts are finally here, as well as automated fetching of remote replies and a lot of other improvements. For server moderators, there is also a way to block registrations based on keywords appearing in usernames. Please test […]

A #bluejays team that has been wildly entertaining since May has two more guaranteed games for us. Can they dig out of an 0-2 hole? Who knows? It won't be easy and we'll find out soon. You can do the Chicken Little routine if you want, but I'm just gonna enjoy the ride. On a historical note […]

Antigone Journal (@AntigoneJournal): "POV: you're 17 or 18, you've carefully read Homer's Odyssey, and you're ready to show how complete your knowledge of Homer is. The bad news is that the exam also tests Greek and Latin literature, culture and history, is closed book, and needs sitting this […]

I listened over the weekend to #thelineca's most recent podcast, in which they discussed Alberta teacher's strike. The most enlightening part of the discussion was about the special-needs students. They pointed out that -- partially in response to court rulings, partially for ideological reasons […]

Rob Roberts (@itsrobroberts): "HMCS Oriole, the oldest ship in the Royal Canadian Navy, is heading for open seas this morning." | nitter https://nitter.net/itsrobroberts/status/1978065756790063212#m

Well, I've been posting a fair amount recently about judicial overreach and the value of parliamentary supremacy. There is of course another side to the story, in particular the individuals who've achieved justice or greater freedom through the courts. #cbc has recently started a podcast on the […]

"Under the Westminster system of responsible government inherited from Britain, it is Parliament, not the courts, that is chiefly responsible for reflecting upon, making, and changing the law. By contrast, the judiciary is tasked with resolving disputes in accordance with law. The advent of the […]

Is the problem with Macronism that it is insufficiently liberal? "In 2021, Macron signed a law that commits France to zero net land development by 2050 (and half by 2030), making it illegal to develop any land in France unless some existing city or village is demolished. His governments banned […]

"This tendency of elites to lose touch with the rest of society can be widely observed. One could see the underlying pathology on display in the wake of the Occupy movement, when a spate of articles began to appear, written by members of the top 1 percent, explaining that they weren’t all that […]

"Anyone who has spent time in left-wing activist spaces, for example, knows that Antifa is not really a movement, much less an organization. It’s just a general term adopted by young men who have a somewhat excessive appetite for violence, and yet don’t want to be mistaken for mere hooligans or […]

"Sixteen-year-old Reuben Nsemoh was playing soccer for his school in Gwinnett County, Georgia last month when he was kicked in the head and ended up in a #coma. Despite the severity of Reuben's brain injury, he regained consciousness after a few days. But what happened next came as a complete […]

Combining Science and Technology for Growth feat. Joel Mokyr https://www.thepodcastbrowser.com/combining-science-and-technology-for-growth-feat-joel-mokyr/ I realise that I've listened to at least one discussion of economic history with #joelmokyr, one of the new #nobel laureates. #nobelprize […]

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learn’d to dance, ’Tis not enough no harshness gives offense, The sound must seem an echo to the sense. -- from Alexander Pope, An Essay On Criticism

Expos documentary on Netflix is a whodunnit about the team's demise https://nationalpost.com/entertainment_life/movies/new-netflix-documentary-on-the-expos-is-a-whodunnit-about-the-demise-of-the-team/wcm/75906161-6e24-4c0a-8cd5-ae0fcc0ae5ca?itm_source=canada #Montréal #expos #baseball #mlb […]

Montreal finally gets Dutch-style protected pedestrian/bike intersections. https://video.canadiancivil.com/w/6gvGsJi8ctCxSfY7FnVQU7

https://observer.co.uk/news/columnists/article/the-wheels-have-come-off-musks-monstertruck >>For most companies, a fiasco such as the Cybertruck would result in the sacking of the chief executive.<< #ElonMusk #cybertruck #Tesla

Over two billion tonnes of iron ore have been mined from the Labrador Trough of Quebec and Labrador over the last 70 years. The paleo-Proterozoic sediments have been variably metamorphosed (you can see the bend in the southern part of the belt caused by the […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

La beauté de l’automne à Montréal. Ave Duluth (toujours zone piétonne!) à l’angle St-Hubert. #Montréal #pmr