The plan: make doctors municipal employees instead of freelancers. Pay them salaries, give them benefits (including pensions), and take over their administration duties. They hope this will be a revenue-neutral endeavour.

okay AI controversy aside, just talking as a nerd for a second: this is such a cool paper

Publishers and librarians do sometimes disagree -- but not on this. "Book bans do not protect children. They restrict opportunities for learning, stigmatize marginalized communities, and undermine the professional judgment of educators and teacher-librarians." 📚

There are still signs all over my family doctor's office saying masks are mandatory, and they still sell the blue masks for a buck apiece, but whenever I go, I'm almost always the only masked person there.

Finding out way after the fact that I had such a reputation as a "good kid" that some people who barely knew me told their parents they were dating me, so those parents would calm down and let them go to things. I'm usually happy that lies about me rarely get back to me, but this one's funny.

Anyone complaining about my delineations should decide they are not in fact a self and so no email need be sent to correct me. COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/suffer... PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm... STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com

You know what we faculty should be “leveraging” to develop lecture content? Our PhDs and other degrees, our years of learning and experience, our specialized research and knowledge and other things that make us irreplaceable by some LLM.

Battle doomscrolling by posting five small pleasures in life: 1. Bursts of creative inspiration. 2. The sudden release of cartilage popping. 3. Tight, mutually enjoyed hugs. 4. Shared laughter at a joyful surprise. 5. When a plan comes together.

For years I have had readers demand--and yes, seriously, DEMAND!--that I release audiobooks. But audiobooks do not just magically happen. For this to be a thing, there MUST be an audience there. *points again to: buy the first two and follow the KS*

It’s always one or the other.

My body has two warning signals: back pain or upset stomach. Tired? Sick? Heightened emotions? Hot? Cold? Temporal paradox? Hungry? Thirsty? Full? Stressed? Timmy fell down a well? The only alert I get to any of these problems has, for years, been back pain or upset stomach.

“But I find that Thibault cancels out Capo Ferro. Don't you?” “Unless the enemy has studied his Agrippa...which I have!” Spotted today @ransomcenter.bsky.social: Camillo Agrippa’s #fencing manual, Trattato di scienza d’arme (1568). search.lib.utexas.edu/permalink/01... #PrincessBride #booksky 🗃️📜

If one of the rooms in your house seems to be slowly pulling away from the rest of your house, what kind of expert do you need? A general contractor? A foundation specialist? An exorcist?

When the province will pay for post-exposure rabies shots, but not pre-exposure ones, you don't have a preventative healthcare system. In related news, we think we know how the bats are getting in the house.

The old saying goes: "When life gives you lemons, make whiskey sours." (I may be misremembering the specifics here) But here's a fun question. DID life give us lemons, or did we MAKE THEM ourselves? Because lemons are HYBRIDS. If you plant a lemon seed, what grows might not even be a lemon.

Ebook monopolies are killing libraries. I don't know if there's a Canadian equivalent to this group, but something needs to change.

ANSWER: 0 (yes, ZERO!) This is a result of an analysis done by a student in my grad seminar, using a large dataset (N=307,313). What this result might mean: Nobody's personality is truly "average," and people's personality profiles (at least Big 5) might be more "jagged" than we think. (🧵 1/5)

Sea Level xkcd.com/3135/

Today is the day authors are learning how many of their publishers straight up blew off registering copyright and I feel like that deserves a class action suit of its own if it costs everyone their settlement money from the Anthropic suit... 😒🤬

You get money from a book you published on a date you can't predict. it will be a sum you can't predict. you will never know if the ranch is saved or not. Everyone makes interest off your royalties before you do, and you're probably not making *any* interest at all And you don't have dental.

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I'd know what to buy if they were interested in fiction. I just don't read a lot of non-fiction.

Breaking: Scott Moe says deficit will be much higher than forecasted because he has not been collecting the revenue that the province is owed by his business friends/political contributors. globalnews.ca/news/1135059...

Prophecies (and high knowledge characters) are a common pain point for a lot of players and GMs. Come explore methods performers, would-be prophets, and charlatans have used for centuries to create convincing insights and predictions. thoughtpunks.com/mas... #TTRPG #Blog

Looking to buy a teenager a non-fiction book. Anyone read anything recently they'd recommend as interesting, informative, AND from a credible source? Canadian subject matter a desirable bonus.

Also, if you pay attention to Mancinelli's Concrete Reduction Motion, the intent is pretty obvious. Sure, there's mention of impact on GHG emissions. But also: • space for snow • free up parking • [car] traffic safety • reduce need to clear sidewalks (b/c they don't exist) #yqrcc /6

Their memorials are history. Ours are political. Because as always, there are two sexualities - straight, and political. Two genders - male, and political. Two religions - Christian, and political. Two races - white, and political.

An important reminder that the state is not the final authority. People, in solidarity, *have real power.*

"The Canada Industrial Relations Board has declared the strike by the company’s 10,000 flight attendants illegal and has ordered the union’s leadership to direct its members to return to work." the board whose chairperson was .. a 'senior counsel' for Air Canada for seven goddamn years. ghouls!

Predicament xkcd.com/3130/

Bat number 4 found today. I got my second rabies shot (of 3), yesterday, just in case. Did you know bat exclusion can only be done during May or September, in Saskatchewan? www.saskatchewan.ca/residents/en...

TLDR? SSRIs work better than the placebo effect, but not for the reasons first assumed.

Learning more about bats and their protected status in SK since finding three where I did not want them to be.

The library water fountain is for drinking and refilling water bottles only. Please do not bathe, wash dishes, wash pets, attach a hose to it, attempt to cross it with your army to prove a political point, use it for spells, play any aquatic sports, or any other uses beyond intention.

Vaccines illuminate how capitalism fails to value the reproduction of life beyond its capacity to generate profit. They also reveal that people—scientists, healthcare workers, communities, etc.—do not operate simply as cogs within a market to be optimized for capital accumulation.

I know how big Canada is. I've lived here almost 50 years. But I'm considering a vacation in Newfoundland, and thought I'd see St. John's and L’Anse aux Meadows. 11 hour drive apart. I did not think any of the maritime provinces were that big.

The Sask Govt is paying more for the private contracted services outside transportation that STC used to provide. It's higher than STCs yearly losses including transportation. I have yet to hear a single useless Sask Party MLA talk about the money they are losing.

Five adorable Victorian fashion accessories to go with your child’s measles

At a superhero one-shot LARP, years ago, one of the characters available was a protester without any powers. For a laugh, I took the role. Showed up wearing a large sign that said, "What's so super about you?" Characters with superpowers approached me to find out what my deal was.

Are there not fully Canadian data storage options?

It helps to form the picture if you know that St. Denis was purported to wander the streets of Paris for several miles after his decapitation, preaching to people as he walked, from a head held in his hands. This is peak Denny's behavior.

This one's a little too relatable. 😅

Got the core rulebook of the new Discworld ttrpg. I've only skimmed it, so far, but I'm enjoying it.

A reminder that when Becky needed to help a co-worker get into English classes that were actually affordable to lower income immigrants, it was the library that facilitated that. Libraries do so much more than you think they do. They are essential community builders.

www.tumblr.com/gammija/7858... finally, a good explanation of how evolution really works.

If you're also feeling salty that 5% of our GDP is going to defence and as a result, the Ministry of Women and Gender Equality's budget is being slashed, you should contact your MP and give them hell. But you should also participate in the pre-budget consultation! Link here :

pleased to announce that the McLaughlin Lab will be investing in bird-based backups for our bird genome sequences, we really think this is going to...take off (*sad trombone noise*)

Side effects include: nausea, dry mouth, frostbite, sporadic levitation, gelatinous mould, animal magnetism, bioluminescence, unproportional growth spurts, and draconic halitosis.

Hello, I'm a librarian in a film. I am obsessed with order and silence, have a sensual relationship with books, and am one makeover away from being a romantic interest. In contemporary or futuristic settings, I am increasingly likely to be replaced with a search engine or AI.