This is what people don’t understand about apologies 👇🏼

Me: My friend disappeared completely from social media. I can't tell whether she's alive or dead Them: You could call her..? Me: Them: Me: I guess I'll never know

“let’s get our base violently hopped up on conspiracies about the Epstein files, which we appear in thousands of times” was maybe not the best idea in retrospect

Great article today on the Ottawa Citizen featuring the RFC Train Tracker and @bettertransitottawa.ca's Bus Cancellation Tracker. Just goes to show that involved citizens can help make a difference, especially when backed by quantifiable data and facts. ottawacitizen.com/news/citizen...

Win or lose, I just want everyone to know I don't care what the Orange Idiot thinks about the result.

Hockey fans watching the gold medal game in Toronto loudly booing Gretzky whenever he appears on screen is very pleasing to me.

I'm gonna need Jordan Binnington to stay in his fucking net.

This is fun are we having fun /dies

Tom Wilson, I will stop actively disliking you if you end a Tkachuk. I will actively like you if you end both.

This is such a good list. I'm amp'd.

"Obituary pirates" is such a good name for these grifters. There is still time to sign the petition to rein in these predatory companies: it closes for signatures on February 26 at 4:52 pm. Sign and share: www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

This lawsuit seems appalling to me, honestly. I feel for people whose student experience was lousy due to Covid but that's not the fault of universities. "I wanted in-person study." I'm sure you did. Nobody gets what they want in a global pandemic

Kurt Vonnegut stop being so applicable to all time periods of American life, you can’t do that Kurt Vonnegut, your insights are too evergreen Kurt Vonnegut

Juraj Slafkovsky is so popular in Slovakia 🇸🇰 that teachers have to ask students to do projects about other known people 😅 "Homework - project on A4 paper - description of any significant person from Košice - please choose someone other than J. Slafkovský."

A nice reminder that when business owners in the Glebe are whining and ripping their hair out over parking on one of the most congested roads in the City, they have no goddamned clue how people get to their stores. We need bus lanes om Bank *to help get more people to their businesses*.

Today, I stood shoulder to shoulder with students from across Ontario to demand the repeal of Ford’s OSAP cuts. This is about more than policy - it’s about whether young people can afford to build a future in this province. We won’t let this government price a generation out of their dreams.

Gretzky on CBC pretending he isn't a traitorous prick is a terrible omen for this game

I've made this point before but it remains striking how much of the conservative movement in Alberta is driven by the idea that the constitution should be a buffet where you get to load up your plate with the parts you want and leave out the rest.

I looked up recently what the success rate for LLMs tuned for doing accounting is because that’s an ideal use case and it was like below 70% which is super unacceptable, like if your accountant fucked up that much you’d go to prison.

It's not an accident that the most genuinely exciting and meaningful technological developments from the past few decades have not been incorporated into our cultural mythology of what counts as "tech innovation." That mythos is purely reserved for the products coming from Silicon Valley...

This man gets it.

fucking your computer is the future. if you're not fucking your computer right now you're gonna miss the revolution. fucking your computer is going to change everything

We are very frustrated that this is continually being delayed over and over again. People who want to sign up to delegate have to set aside time to be able to do so, constantly pushing things back makes things harder for the people trying to make their communities better.

I think we have a new winner.

Great thread here. Only thing I can add is that it's the combination of studios being so risk adverse they just recycle IP and the general populace approaching Idiocracy territory, and that's who studios are trying to appeal to, that is driving all of this.

Seeing as how the head the Glebe BIA had an aneurism when it was suggested that parking may not be as important as effective transit, I can only assume some business oriented councilor is slow-walking this. Given the state of our transit, we need every easy project we can get to speed buses up.

The agenda for February's Public Works and Infrastructure Committee is up and still no Bank Street bus lanes. It was supposed to be on the agenda for this meeting, but has been delayed yet again. This "pilot project" has been in the works for over 4 years, and is now over a year behind schedule.

Today, we're launching a campaign to push back hard on Doug Ford's OSAP cuts.    Join us. Take an action. SaveOSAP.ca.   More to come.

The constant condescension about ai is another aspect of it that makes me hate it more. The assumption is you can only be against it because you don't understand it like I do. No man. I don't like voluntarily making every human enterprise dependent on a tech run by a tiny group of financial maniacs

Wednesday

A prominent Bluesky elder already hosts Jeopardy

When I was in Grade 4, an elderly extended family member asked me about ‘violent Somalian gangs’ at my elementary school based on things she heard on Lowell Green’s radio show I was like “ma’am, I don’t know what your radio is telling you, but we just play pogs and talk about Power Rangers here”

The government waited too long to allow VIA Rail to order new long distance equipment. Now we must speed up delivery while ensuring its design is both a suitable successor to the heritage fleet and dome cars, plus resilient in Canadian conditions, including blizzards on the Churchill route.

This is the mayor of Ottawa honouring an overt racist. Check out how many replies have been hidden from all the Canadians disgusted by this bigot.

Mr. Mayor, friend or no, he had some serious history with claiming that Ottawa has no place for multiculturalism. Many of your constituents have been targeted by Green over the years, and he stood against everything that makes Canada something to be proud of. No half mast for racists, please.

If aliens had visited Earth and the US government knew about it there's a 100% chance Trump would have talked about it by now. Ergo, no aliens.

"Dear Lord, may your loving hand guide Homer to the mattress, square and true. Okay."

We can say no to things.

At 9:18, 3rd period of the Finland-Switzerland women's ice hockey QF game, the ice crew came to clean the ice during a pause What follows is the funniest use of the slo-mo alternate angle tech I've seen them use during these Olympics of one of the crew members falling

same energy

lol this is gonna burst so fucking hard

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

"Okay, don't panic. Remember what the instructor said." "If you ever get into trouble all you need to do is..." "Feels like I'm wearing nothing at all! Nothing at all. Nothing at all." "Stupid, sexy Flanders!"

ban camera glasses the same way schools are belatedly restricting smartphones. need glasses for school? then don’t buy ones with cameras

Our directors from Ontario and Quebec are travelling to Ottawa to meet with MPs, and both trains are running late due to freight problems. VIA Rail needs investment and regulatory support to operate its existing service effectively, and ensure the long term future of these routes alongside Alto.

sigh

I wasn’t allowed to “roam freely” in the 90s, in that I had to tell my parents where I was going and who I was going to be with and when I was going to be home, but it is true that I could, say, go to a park with my friends without adult supervision.

Plans to invade Greenland have just been cancelled after this