Made a phone cozy for my partner for when she's trying to limit screen time. Tons of room for improvement, but I learned a lot drafting a pattern for the first time, and my stitching is starting to get tidier. Inspired (as always) by Vivat Virtute.

"White Mineral Desolation, unvarying and chill." [Mason & Dixon]

Got some leather working tools and made the jankiest glasses case I've seen in my life.

Remember this propaganda video next time someone tells you bodycams exist for the sake of police accountability.

This was a terrible situation and I can empathize with people's fears, but I genuinely don't understand how anyone thinks SROs would have prevented this.

The numbers in here are hilarious. Do you use AI on the job? Execs: 87% Managers: 57% Workers: 27% Planned investment by 2030: $5T "Necessary" annual revenue to justify that spend: $650B Current annual revenue: $50B

Imagine arguing that parking is more important than housing when there's an encampment literally a few meters away.

There are many more bad tech products to avoid. But I keep coming back to @hypervisible.blacksky.app and David Golumbia’s concept of luxury surveillance. We need to really think about the surveillance tech we’re adopting — and certainly that we’re pushing on others. disconnect.blog/a-tech-criti...

This is a really lovely profile

I enjoyed listening this morning then immediately logging on to see Sapiens on the bookshelf behind the instructor for a required PD course 🙃

I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed. Here are the words she left behind: www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...

It strikes me that both cars and AI are technologies which have their place but are dominant to the point that they make society worse and people begin to resent them. Both in the name of profit and a distorted sense of personal convenience.

"95 per cent of generative AI initiatives produced zero return." But huge volumes of hype. This is #BigData, not intelligence www.ft.com/content/fca4...

Today at 3:30

Lol brutal "One formative influence was Watson’s making his one and only important scientific discovery when he was only 25."

This is a really beautiful story. I happened to spot Tim on his bike this morning out in the (relative) boonies and wondered where he was heading on such a blustery day!

If you’re wondering whether we still need these changes, a driver hit Rob’s ghost bike THIS MORNING

New pricing options mean that in many situations peg city car coop is both cheaper and more reliable than winnipeg transit. Which is great, but really shouldn't be the case.

Timeline cleanse: look at these carrots! The novelty still hasn't worn off that you can put seeds in the ground, wait a while, then go outside with a headlamp in November and pull food out of the ground.

Ok this is great actually. Libraries for the win!

A man. A rant in 12 parts. This week has been rough. In less than 5 days, I’ve had three incidents involving men and I want to share them with you. 1/12 @ianmccausland.bsky.social

Most weird behaviour is not dangerous!

Increasingly fragile??

I wish Colbert wouldn't frame "the coming ai revolution" as inevitable, but this is the right energy to bring to the conversation

I think about this are lot re: workplaces as well. People in charge tend to be those who got a business degree or whatever because their career aspiration was to be in charge. The best bosses I've had have been women who ended up in leadership because they're competent and were asked to move up.

Within a few blocks of Ellice saw four police officers standing by bus stops and four transit enforcement officers. Some $500k plus in annual salaries. Watched them turn away someone over a $3 fare. Noticed it’s gameday for Jets.

Harvesting seeds for next year and it really does feel like a life hack as opposed to the basis of human civilization

This issue of Jr. Jays Magazine from 1994 might have been what taught me about the concept of ancestry and the continuity from historical to contemporary Indigenous people. Friends who I vaguely understood to be Indigenous had been wholly unrelated in my mind to the stereotypes in picture books.

Hey look, Israel broke the cease-fire, twice, in two different ways, within 24 hours - again.

The documentary I made with Miss Major 10 years ago is on Vimeo on Demand. If you want to spend some time with her on screen tonight and learn some abolitionist trans history while you're at it, it's free to rent with the code "shinebright" vimeo.com/ondemand/major

Pynchon back on screen is a treat (despite leo)

This is bad and annoying. Hypercapitalist tech bro response to the climate crisis.

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

This is really one of those two red button meme situations where I want to be annoyed at both right wing grifters and a traffic violation system that prioritizes profit over safety

A reminder that Gaza (2023-2025) is the deadliest place for Journalists in history 👇

Intensely jealous to have missed these shows, but also grateful and reassured that they happened. "All this to say, things can be low key and fun and important, even as the world at large seems so fucked up."

$575 million. Or, community connections funding to the year 2961 AD

"I have no regrets at all" Irish comedian Tadhg Hickey sends a message from the Global Sumud Flotilla.

Cool and good

Sweet relief, two months on. No thanks to the absentee landlord we tracked down six weeks ago who swore it wasn't coming from his house.

Exactly, how much did the RCMP cost per person last year? Why are they not making a profit? Or the Canadian military, stop talking about the Canada Post as a for profit entity, it is a national service. Also let it expand into banking and financial services (as a co-op) and other sectors (grocery?)

“It makes me nervous when people stand right by the edge on a busy road" This feels like some pretty egregious victim blaming from Janice Lukes. Whenever a pedestrian is killed it's immediately "were they jaywalking?" No? Well maybe they shouldn't have been standing there, at the bus stop.

Shoutout to the guy at the farmers' market a street over playing The Hip covers while I work late.

I don't know why this is getting more coverage, especially without comment from anyone except the property owner. The story is he destroyed a forest and tore down buildings that were damaged after he abandoned them.

i have to say, as a trans journalist who has covered the "trans debate" for about a decade now, there is no daylight between how the trump administration and conservatives lie about tylenol and autism and how they've lied about youth trans care.

I know three things about Harry Styles: 1. He sings Watermelon Sugar 2. He's a fan of Haruomi Hosono 3. He's now run a sub 3 marathon Based on these facts, one can only respect the man

Public comms on vaccine availability in #Manitoba is definitely lacking this year, but appointments in various pharmacy online platforms are starting to pop up. Some out there for shoppers, too.

On this very rainy weekend in Winnipeg, I’m thinking about how great it would be for our storm sewers, cyclists and pedestrians if we had bioswales throughout the city to absorb the water.

Remember when Matt Wiebe promised "These new (officers) will reduce demands on police resources and will significantly improve (the) ability to stop dangerous people from hurting Manitobans"? Spending on criminalization only leads to more spending on criminalization.

this is the kind of thing that makes you feel something needs to be done about the notwithstanding clause