AI as a handmaiden of fascism is not beating the rap

“Hummingbird speed karate chops on the one o’clock” is going to be a poster, no context, on my office wall to test compatibility of colleagues. @michaelhobbes.bsky.social @notalawyer.bsky.social @yrfatfriend.bsky.social

What’s your social media age? I am throwing sheep years old. A bit older than Talk Like A Pirate years old.

Poetry quote of the day from Tiffany Morris: Somewhere in the sky Time is evaporating In[to] hissing stars. #perspective

Hey here’s a thought: if you are a world leader, STOP PRODUCING STUPID SHITTY AI SLOP. The world is going to hell and this is how you are wasting our precious water resources? It’s demonic.

Being super interested in the fringes of pop culture beyond one’s own generation can lead one to listening to a podcast discussing with great gravity “taking Skibiti Toilet to the next level”. Every sentence in this podcast is exponentially damaging brain cells.

Coffee shop portable A-frame sign: PROTEIN LATTE! Sign over the counter: PROTEIN LATTE! Barista: yeah, we don’t have the protein milk. Siggghhhh

Paul Janz. Leslie Spit Treeo. Chalk Circle. The Spoons.

What CanCon would you rather hear than Bryan Adams? (Or Corey Hart, Kim Mitchell, Tom Cochrane) —What is underplayed and due for discovery? #noBAinMay

Paul Janz

Dear every radio station in Halifax: I hereby challenge you make May a month without Bryan Adams. There are lots of forgotten Can con gems you can substitute. Brought to you by the two radio stations currently playing the SAME 🤬 Bryan Adams song at the same time. #NoBAMay #passiton

Me ‘n’ hubs have our own love language: Let’s reorganize this (shelf/closet/room)! Wanna go for a walk? Tea? I made your eggs for tomorrow. Wanna have a fire? Let’s watch some Star Trek.

So. Jesus dies 2000 or so years ago, martyred for telling folks to stop trying to amass wealth and power and instead to embrace loving each other. And today people who say they are his followers are (checks notes) pumping up a fascist wannabe emperor.

Jamming on the bus to Fireball like it’s still the early Trudeau / late Obama years.

Someday Matt Leck, Ryan Broderick, Michael Hobbes, Aubrey Gordon and Jamie Loftus are all going to be on a podcast together and I will crush so hard I explode into unicorn confetti.

May your life be full of woodcock dances. How can I get woodcocks in my yard? Can I raise them like chickens? Just a lil promenade of woodcocks?

A community takes housing into its own hands in Upper Hammonds Plains www.saltwire.com/nova-scotia/...

I have come to realize that I am physically incapable of paying with my phone without saying “BOOP” aloud. So I guess that’s part of my brand now. Yup.

I just backed Athena's Playground: A Space for Creators and Learners on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/ath...

I need a ukulele. I feel a song forming in my creative centre. It will be called “Yucky Snow”. 🎶 it’s spring but I still gotta build a fire Winter’s not going, gone over the wire Why does this weather gotta suck so.. Stinky, sucky, fuck it’s yucky, yucky snow. ❄️

The best time to have invested in renewables, walkable cities and transit to avoid the oil crisis shock was twenty years ago. The second best time is today.

Some of the best things about Canada have come from the NDP. We are better off as a country with a strong NDP. Can we please please have some form of proportional representation. I don't want the cons to win elections and I don't want left wing parties to dissappear.

Just learned the new portmanteau phygital and I am now wondering how many headline writers have used “From fidget spinners to phygital spaces” in a story about Gen Z.

isn’t the production designer from Frankenstein from Nova Scotia?? DID WE JUST WIN AN OSCAR???? #oscars #rachelreidsawardsarecoming

The CNN red carpet interview folks have a random question bowl and so far they have argued with every answer anyone’s given which is certainly a choice. #oscars

It’s too sunny. The power went out. Like for real. Our power just went out. wtf.

Public service announcement: the reason we don’t have enough good quality journalism is because people think it should be free and it’s much easier to produce bad journalism and not charge for it. If you want good journalism, pay for it and give credit. Including for photos.

Incredibly clear statement of our state of things re transportation and climate change. 📌

“the electric car is here to save the car industry, not the planet” - that deserves to be shared more widely. 📍

That moment when you’re listening to the 80s play on the radio and a Doug and the Slugs song comes on and after 40 plus years of singing along you suddenly realize it’s a song about murder. 😳🔫🐌

What is one of your ultimate comfort movies?

It’s landlords paying for this campaign, right?

It makes sense the sailing event is still funded. It seems like this govt believes that highest and best tourism is offering leisure to very very wealthy folks. (See also: golf courses). This leisure must conform to stuff rich people do. Bagpipes need not apply.

No Pippi Longstocking hardcore stans, I see. I am judging you all.

Minister of AI’s key messages: 1. I know Sam Altman! 2. We are thinking of the children because we care. 3. INNOVATION! 4. Did I mention Sam Altman? Yeah. We’re buds.

Anyone else out there still say to themselves every once in a while, “pretty little Chillilug, I don’t want to get bug.” Anyone else remember this? And why it’s so important that you say bug and not big?

With the attack on arts and heritage overall, and this “birthplace of hockey” recurring argument, we are overlooking a really nice tourism opportunity for Nova Scotia as a whole. What about a Hockey History Tour?

He was hired to fight for Wales's future generations. Does Canada need a job like that? For the last three years, Derek Walker has been advocating for the rights of Wales's youngest generations — and generations still to come. As Canadian youth grap... #cbc #cbc-top-stories #Canada

What I don’t want tax $$ spent on: harassing Mi’kmaq retailers based on spurious claims. Chasing natural gas, a transitional fuel that no one has been able yet to make a business case for. What I do want tax $ spent on: ECE and equity initiatives. Climate adaptation. What are yours?

Remember folks, a peaceful, predictable, stable world doesn’t make money for the stock market cowboys.

There is no first or last. We are all just travelling together on this planet. I don’t know where you’re going. You don’t know where I’m going. My guy, we are colleagues on this journey, not competitors. Me, to the car who won’t let me into the right lane.

PSA: in the new Wuthering Heights, watch for Isabella because while everyone else is in a romance movie, Allison Oliver is on the best episode of Saturday Night Live. This character is EVERYTHING.

Is something going on with the Indigo site and app or is it just me? Had to reset my password twice because it wouldn’t let me in, do 2FA, then the app was blank, now the website is giving me search results but they all click thru to Page Not Found. Guys, this is why Amazon is winning. Damn them.

Count on some extra posting over the next while, folks, as I recover from being separated from my perfect beautiful grandbabies. Apparently I have a “job” and “husband” and “life” that requires me to be present.

If you’re hoping for something to happen with really long odds, it may help —at least, it helps me—to remember that there were not one but two songs about car washes that made it onto the charts. This post is sponsored by the Jim Croce song that is echoing in my head for no reason right now.

DYK that Heritage Day this year honours Senator Joseph Willie Comeau and Nova Scotia’s Acadian heritage? Because I didn’t. I had to look it up this morning. #vivelacadie

RIP Eddie Carver. Songs and books will continue to be written about you.

I know a PEI family having a crisis. One parent has a long time mental health history with addiction challenges. The other has just come through a major cancer scare. Their trans child acted on suicidal thoughts and was sent home from the hospital ***same day.*** WHY. 1/2