Here's @bikeottawa.bsky.social on Ontario Bill 60: "A Veto on a Safer, More Bikeable Ottawa" bikeottawa.ca/2025/10/30/o... #ottpoli #ottawa #ontario #ottbike

I'm glad someone is doing this. The government is making the streets mess safe and should be held responsible.

Ok, here's why it's "Free" www.canva.com/policies/pri... "We may analyze your activity, content, media uploads and related data in your account to provide and customize the Service, and to train our algorithms, models and AI products ..." You can turn it off in settings, supposedly. 😒

Hey Ontario! You've heard of the disastrous Ford bill to destroy tenant rights, but did you know that Omnibus Bill 60 would entirely wipe out the ability of cities to right-size their roads by reducing lanes _at all_, not even just for bike lanes? #onpoli #OttBike #ontario #ottawa

my favorite color, Dark Gary

We made a big mistake when we decided that governments should and could communicate with the public during disasters largely via corporate-owned algorithmic social media websites. We have to return to requiring governments to use truly *public* platforms designed for this use case that all can see.

so wild there are these threads of radiant beauty just coursing through all things, and not only do we get to witness this glow, we get to pluck the strings ourselves and travel to the future or past through art and creation. all you have to do is reach out and strum to connect with the infinite

Frederick Douglas gave his “What to the slave is the Fourth of July” speech at an event put on by the Rochester Women’s Anti-Slavery Sewing Society. Much love to everybody, past and present, keeping tiny community spaces alive while wondering “is there any use in this?”

'Ten messages for a man who thinks children should stay off the roads and stick to the park'. [From my Diagram Club newsletter. Subscribe for more like this: diagramclub.substack.com ]

A near-guilty pleasure of mine is little riddles in Ruby. Terse code is a break for me from thinking about how the world is a mess. skiles.blue/blog/ruby_tr...

3 cheers for fossil fuels 🫠

now available: From the Palestinian writer Shahd Alnaami, a collection of nonfiction and poetry about her experiences of the most recent years of the genocide in Gaza. Her writing immortalizes what has been lost with precision & grace. sheerspite.ca/product/the-... sheerspite.ca/product/the-...

Her: Why didn't you do the dishes? Me: Dishes are a distraction. We need to focus on the real issue, the vacuuming that I am also not doing.

For the last month I have had this perpetual conflict about whether to Post Things because I don't want trans people following me to panic but I really, really want cis people following me to know how much we legitimately have to panic about

To be clear: Protest organizers intentionally selected military veterans as safety volunteers, one spotted an armed protester (which is legal in Utah) and shot him, and ended up shooting/killing another protester + now the volunteer veteran is free, while the armed protester is booked for murder.

I do not want AI in Slack. I do not want AI in Google. I do not want AI on Facebook. I do not want AI in documents or spreadsheets. I do not want AI in Adobe Acrobat. I do not want AI in Zoom. I do not want AI on news sites. I do not want AI in the patient portal for my doctor's office. I do not wan

Time to close so many tabs: blog post complete, plus talk today at work. I wrote it to solve my own problem of regularly opening some legacy Rails app and needing to figure out what the heck is going on with the JS & CSS assets. cassey.dev/rails-fronte... #rails #RubyOnRails

I need everyone on Normal People internet to know that American Girl Doll Instagram is doing doll protests today. There are tiny t-shirts and signs. AND THEN I realized it's a joint protest with the Barbie ppl, where there are EVEN TINIER SIGNS.

Being cool is great but having somewhere to be cool in the future depends entirely on linking arms with some silly cringe right now

Americans are not into order & discipline. It does not appeal to them. They have a yearning for it, they'll read about Marie Kondo and think "I've gotta get my life together," but at the end of the day they want as many choices as humanly possible and they favor self-expression over all.

"it's not peaceful for people to be on the highway" -LA Mayor Karen Bass right now. This is what I mean when I say the word "peaceful" as applied to protesters is about prescribing placidity, not nonviolence. Calmly marching on a freeway is pretty inarguably nonviolent. " Peaceful" you can debate

If you have an unread copy of Let This Radicalize You lying around, this would be an excellent time to read Chapter 6: “Violence” in Social Movements. It's also a good time to share that chapter with others.

Unsolicited advice from me: just start a book club I started a book club with some random people I met in a bar. It is probably the best thing I've ever done. A decade later, it is the nearest thing I have to a child. cookblub.club

MAKE ZINES! poster by zine maker / artist Cort Hartle. Download the free high res version (PDF) to print at home: freight.cargo.site/m/W234787385... Printing and distribution encouraged by the artist, so please RT, print it, fly post it, flyer it & spread the word! #zine #zines #fanzine #fanzines

I have lost 
the F-18s 
that were on 
the Navy carrier and which 
you were probably 
saving 
for fighting Forgive me 
they were expensive
so slippery
and so loud

Similarly when you tell it that it is wrong, it's not correcting itself - it's generating text that is likely to follow after text that identifies a section of other text as wrong. It's not going back to do a better job, because that's not how any of the technology actually works.

I wrote about the physical books/print outs I am happy to have as part of my personal disaster & emergency preparedness resource collection, and how I find value in them in my non-emergency day-to-day. #preparedness

I think this is the first time I've lived walking distance from a grocery store and I'm out of my mind about it. I'll walk there several times a day. Oh did I forget to grab something? No big deal I'll simply Walk To The Store

sheer spite's spring lineup: a memoir about refugeeship, an anthology of daydreams, a collection of art zines on grief, and a politicized guide to surviving migraine in an ableist world. incredibly proud to get to help bring these into the world! sheerspite.ca/spring-zine-...

Man fallen london rips. I was sailing on a giant underground lake to dump unstable explosives in a hole for the admiralty and now all the booms have awakened a kaiju sea urchin that speaks in words that literally set the air on fire but my guy knows how to speak kaiju urchin and is like "bro chill"

Say it after me: Chat GPT is not a search engine. It does not scan the web for information, it just generates statistically likely sentences. You cannot use it a search engine, or as a substitute for searching. Now. Please never use an LLM for information searches ever again.

Like, I often wish we would ask ourselves whether anyone actually likes this phonified world. I don't. And we only got here because we tolerated it. Maybe we shouldn't.

You can search by your zip code.

by popular demand, I've unlocked this paid subscriber post so it's free for everyone ~ "Marathon" isn't a good metaphor, because marathons are a slog to be endured, and also, marathons end, whereas this is... interminable. But what if, hear me out,... www.shesabeast.co/its-not-a-ma...

One more rant before I go walk the dogs. 🧵 There is a certain Type of Guy (person, I guess technically, but almost always a guy). You ask this type of guy about politics & they'll tell you they're independent, an iconoclast, & that "both sides" are silly & blinkered & don't see the big picture.

Murderbot's pronouns are so it/its that the Japanese translator had to create an entirely new first-person pronoun for it: 弊機 (one among many amazing and interesting translation choices that I swear I'm going to write about one of these days).

Your ancestors were denied justice & human dignity. You very well may be denied justice & human dignity. I know… you already are. But we are intrinsically bound in this web of sorrow & celebration & radical joy. Go to karaoke. Dance. Kiss. Feel pleasure as protest.

3 year old’s takeaway from learning a new nursery song is that there is a food called Muffin Man, and after a weekend baking project with other mama where she made them, she now asks to eat a Muffin Man as a snack each day.

My kid calls this her clock. She will someday know that is not really what it is. For now, no one tell her.

I think the absolute death of empathy in the U.S. has been a huge factor in the rise of fascism, and nowhere is that more clear than in the behavior of drivers.

I don't care if llms can "replace me" - what an absurd question - I care about how the hype is already being weaponized by oligarchs to lay off tech workers & public servants, while decimating all US safety nets. Why are we acting like this is a hypothetical about what *the software* can do?

I know the main answer is “slurp, data good”, but is there actually any other reason every single app I install wants to do this now, with no apparent reason why it should?

I got an email my #Netlify account has been suspended due to nonpayment (credit card on file expired). They had sent an email about upcoming renewal of a domain I have there in December, but otherwise have not emailed about a current bill at all, let alone about an invalid payment method.

John meant this as an analogy but it's literally true. Today Trump's admin announced a massive fire sale on federal buildings. Headquarters of FBI, DOJ, the USDA, HUD, HHS, DOL, DOE, FAA, GSA, FTC, State, ACF, the VA. Office buildings in every state. Trump is making us homeless in our own country.

since we've had a lot of slow news days lately, free tip for any investigative journalist out there: my mom, sister, and I all independently had our tubs of Country Crock get moldy in the last couple weeks, and despite being lifelong Country Crock eaters, can't remember this ever happening before