"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

AI is bad for a lot of reasons, but what's currently annoying me is how bad it's made the internet for research. Want a summary of the most basic common knowledge on a topic? Great! Want anything more? You'll have to wade knee deep in swill before giving up and paying for access or opening a book.

Portishead's performance of "Roads" from Brian Eno's Together for Palestine concert.

Respectfully disagree: 1) in fact it is unusual for a democracy w/ this level of GDP to turn authoritarian & so quickly; 2) the weakness of both institutions (congress & courts) and individuals (Schumer etc) is shocking. Would take less than 10 people in congress or 2 SC justices to stop all this.

Defined loosely enough that protests against genocide could be restricted, but antivax protests are fine (which the Freep uses as an example regardless)

Drunk driver was to blame. Infrastructure enabled it.

Habanero harvest has begun 🔥 Also gladly accepting ideas for several pounds of cherry tomatoes

They truly are nation building projects in the sense that our nation is built on imposing extraction while branding it as progressive

My partner saw a driver back out of their driveway into a teenage cyclist on Wellington this morning, who was presumably on their way to school. I get that accidents happen, but this sort of thing should be an automatic license suspension. There's no excuse.

Neighbour by Neighbour festival today at Lord Roberts cc! Always a fantastic day: lordrobertscc.ca/events/neigh...

Finding a therapist has always been hard, but now you also have to ask whether they "auto-generate patient assessments and treatment plans with the click of a button."

#BREAKING | Chinese runner You Biao raised the Palestinian flag at the finish line of the “OCC” UTMB marathon, covering his mouth in protest against silence over the Gaza massacres.

Really feels like there are some details missing from this story. Man clearcuts abandoned property to expose "the things that are lurking in the woods" but has no plans to do anything else with the property?

Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it

Imagine if the RCMP were reported on like this. Where's the breathless concern about the National Highway System's quarterly financials?

With alt text.

This week's album on repeat, because sometimes harmony is nice.

just catching up on some of the Millennium Library. This is a really great piece from John Sampson Fellows. A shattering piece. And, once again, the City of Winnipeg fails. Rather than improving things, they simply shut it down more. #winnipeg #wpgpoli www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/anal...

We need everyone back in the office because we want the serendipitous magic that only happens when you let humans get creative together and also we're replacing all of you with an AI machine that can only do things that it's seen done before

Still chirping. Starting to tune it out like distant traffic, until I leave home long enough for the earballs to reset.

The shuttering of community connections being a single sentence buried deep in the article is a travesty. There need to be very clear lines drawn between a line item in the budget and this man’s death.

All of the lessons that The Biggest Loser taught—from disordered eating to ruthless self talk—all of that came because we culturally thought it was beneficial & entertaining to abuse fat people. Anti-fat bigotry was the spoonful of sugar that helped the medicine go down. It was a feature, not a bug.

By their own calculation

Love to see James Dobson trending

A suggestion: buy some farmers market tomatoes and eat them with (fresh) garlic, olive oil and salt. It's a short season! Don't forget to remember what really fresh food tastes like.

It's fascinating how often nuance and complexity get weaponized in defence of the status quo. Many things are shades of grey, but genocide isn't one of them.

Edward natural and the magnetic zeros

Things are mostly bleak, but I grabbed a coffee at cmu today and saw a trans rights are human rights poster, and things can change a hell of a lot in 10 or 15 years.

An almost comical image selection from cbc here

Bought some perogis at the farmers market after two decades of eating the cheapest, driest, most freezer-burned ones from super store, and I remember now why people like these things.

'National Post' publishes pro-genocide propaganda while posing as a newspaper

In a targeted strike on a media tent. Oh my God.

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

This is an interesting option. Momentum limits instead of speed limits for non-commercial traffic. This pairs well with my longstanding thought that moving violation fines should be indexed to the value of the vehicle.

This is an interesting concept, but what a baffling decision to end the live blog at 12:30 pm as if nothing happened in Nagasaki that day after the Americans landed.

Cops in this country literally get a medal from the king just for making it 20 years (cadet training included) without any "serious disciplinary action."