Ah, nova scotia. The sky is blue, its pouring rain, the birds are chirping, interrupted by thunder and lightning

It's Pride Month Retweet to scare a homophobe/transphobe ❤️

For the 3rd time in 3 years HRM (or Halifax water?) is doing a "temporary" repair on the storm drain in front of my house. The last one took the 1x2 sink hole and turned it into a 6x10 divot stretching across the street, about 4" deep. I wonder what today's disaster will look like?

It's funny how the media/people always demand that Liberals "cooperate" and listen, and compromise, and consider that not everyone voted liberal, OH MY GOD A SCANDAL!!! Meanwhile when Cons win they straight up say "fuck you" and investigate you if you talk to loud, just ignore that $50M I took

"This ruling means that homelessness is a protected ground. [..] If upheld, this decision could mean that anti-camping bylaws, police sweeps of encampments, denial of services when people experiencing homelessness have nowhere else to go, are now far more open to legal challenge." Great news!

There is a looming oil crisis. There is a deal to reach a future deal. However Trump is too distracted by a UFC fight to go to his son's wedding or deal with the crisis.

So, @edzitron.com ate his Wheatties this morning

What I saw at today's #SECU meeting on Bill C-22 Lawful Access: (1) The main cheerleader of the lawful access (the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police) wants to bypass encryption, and they appreciate that the Bill will do this.

Nextdoor: renters don't pay property taxes, shouldn't get to vote on them. Me: homeowners don't pay for new housing, shouldn't have a say in zoning decisions.

just tried it, and now I have to update humanity's entire calendar

Ummm... this has been the Liberal/Conservative government cycle for at least 40 years now. Unfortunately we reward cons for breaking and punish liberals for fixing, so they haven't been able to fix things as fast as cons break them.

Half of business owners on this Toronto street estimated that more than 25% of their customers arrived by car. In fact, it was 4%. And the % of customers who who walked or cycled? 72%. Retailers routinely overestimate the # of “car customers.” Via @carltonreid.com www.forbes.com/sites/carlto...

The entire history of the conservative movement is rich white people watching democracy in action and the culture moving forward and being like “that’s not fair.”

Perhaps we need to think differently. Do we value quality of life for the average/median person, or do we value corporate profits for the 0.01% billionaires. Which is a better measure of a country.

Basically every single historic urban neighbourhood that people look at as popular, desirable, heritage, and nostalgic is illegal to build now. those places that people love ARE the missing middle that we can't build anymore of.

Cubans are starving and have gone weeks without electricity and clean water due to Trump's blockade of any oil reaching the island. Here's why we aren't covering this.

I set a similar assignment for my Philosophy of Mind and AI undergraduate students. The vast majority conclude that LLMs are unsuitable for academic writing, and realise that they can do a lot better themselves, which is a real eye-opener for some. 👀

We need to repeat the truth for the same reason liars repeat their lies. #UrbanTruth #Repetition

Trump is exempting himself, his family, and their companies from ever paying taxes ever again He's giving himself a $10B personal payout from the IRS (maybe to pay off his Russian debts) I bet the next step is criminal immunity from all past and future crimes Then maybe he will step down?

I'll admit AI is useful when tech companies admit the only reason it's useful is because they destroyed the infrastructure of the internet to make that utility possible.

Someone share this with Houston. Be gentle though, the shock might trigger a heart attack.

If Pierre Poilievre was doing this, there’d be widespread yelling but it’s Mark Carney so 🤷🏼‍♂️ Again, having regions of Canada without clean drinking water for people is *a national embarrassment* 😡

NEW: The Trump regime is suspending a key defence accord despite Mark Carney repeatedly bowing to the Americans on military spending and the war on Iran. No amount of capitulation will ever satisfy the Americans. www.readthemaple.com/u-s-pauses-d...

Cyclists may be familiar with Schroedinger's cyclist. But I'd suggest also Schroedinger's public transport: simultaneously too slow and restrictive for car-users to take, while also perfectly fine and therefore not in need of any funding for improvement or expansion, or reallocation to bus lanes.

Carney’s new energy approach favours jobs of the past not the future rabble.ca/politics/can...

This will be a Canadian long weekend—known as the 24th of May or the May Two-Four Weekend. It’s intended to mark Queen Victoria’s birthday. Careful observers may note that the actual 24th day of May occurs not this weekend but next. We don’t talk about this. Or why Victoria’ birthday is a thing.

The #SCC has ruled 6-3 to create a new tort of intimate partner violence, as existing torts don’t capture the coercive control aspects sufficiently.

Almost as much tax revenue as all of Fall River combined..... Thankfully Hendsbee's district subsidizes Barrington Street, without that I don't know how we would get by. 🙃

Did Fillmore write this????

Smiths lane is that of a 4 year old child. "give me give me give me, but I want all the toys, waaahhhh, I don't want to share"

They are so small minded that things like this are always a tell on themselves. They had billionaires and foreign funding backing them.... therefore the only way they could have lost is if the First Nations had more backing than them.

ugh. I coffeed the coffee, I pushed the pushies, why is my coffee not coffeeing

Carney announces environment to be eliminated as cost-cutting measure

Catering to the right and to Alberta has never worked. They never acknowledge the good, in fact they get even angrier and demand more. Its never worked before. But this time will be different.

I'm drinking a Starbucks coffee. Its still bad. I'm sure the fancy drinks loaded with sugar hide it, but their caffeine base is not good.

Also if a pundit sees anything on the Internet they don't like that thing becomes the position of "the left" regardless of what rando was the source. Republicans are enacting Jim Crow 2.0 and hanging with Nazis but calling them on it is inappropriate.

John Kenneth Galbraith on conservatism. funny dude wist.info/galbraith-jo...

True, but just TRY to get something like this past the GOP.

Quick, Smith needs to go rewrite the law, for the 5th time, to ensure the separatist group, who she doesnt support, can do their worst to drive seperation, which she also doesn't support.

We lost Douglas Adams 25 years ago today. This has made a lot of people very sad and has been widely regarded as a bad move.

They (semi) illegally spent $1.6 billion without thought. Hardly surprising the cuts are ideological without thought or science too.

Me: Where'd you put that file? OneDrive: Fuck you that's where

'Tiny homes' project for veterans in #Winnipeg moving ahead after 4-year delay Homes for Heroes Foundation says 25 homes for veterans in need will open in Transcona this year www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

I'm an old now, so I remember a time when not every damn thing was a commodity that required profit. After Reagan & Thatcher, entire generations were trained on this shit. Young people are smart and clever and can see through the BS, but I wish they had the historical memory.

The comments, read the comments. I may be on the hot sauce side. So far the only transplants I have for my garden are all hot peppers to give them a head start. lol

(Relative) truth in advertising and news reporting

The 70% of wildlife and wildlife habitat we have lost

If we actually want to appreciate moms, we should be providing free childcare, healthcare, and guaranteed income for stay-at-home parents to put more money in families’ pockets and ensure no SAHP is reliant on a partner for their economic security. Idk I think that’s better than 15% off a vacuum.

If you want help you can't get it. But if some religious bigoted white man doesn't like who you are.... you can get forced treatment.

Researchers from the Canadian Digital Media Network, DisinfoWatch and the Global Centre for Democratic Resilience warn that activity they’ve tracked is threatening Canadians’ ability “to make political decision freely, without foreign coercion or manipulation.” 🇨🇦 @jenstden.bsky.social reports.