A slightly round orange cat plopped down in the middle of the kitchen floor, very much in fact, in the way

Here’s a Very Orange Boy who was not in the way at all, nope, definitely not

Haven’t read Harkaway, thanks for the rec!

Plus in no particular order: Premee Mohamed, Seanan McGuire, Peter S. Beagle, Travis Baldree, Becky Chambers, Ann Leckie, John Scalzi, Fonda Lee, Vajra Chandrasekera, Randall Munroe, Sarah Gailey, Bo Bolander, Max Gladstone, Scott Lynch, most anyone repped by DongWon Song really

I don't make the rules, I just follow them.

(Bonus: if you read the thread as well, you'll get to see someone watching this clip for the first time.)

Tim Houston's government lies again:

see?
here's the thing. A lot of people are like, the earth is fucked, it's beyond salvation, it's hit the tipping point, but time and time again we see that if we just fucking fixed the problem, it rebounds so incredibly fast. Imagine what could be done if people actually cared

If you're going to shovel, do it now, I'd say. It's starting to change over.

Or build a snowman, because this snow is perfect right now.

Or lay in a supply of snowballs and wait for Andy Fillmore to come to your community and talk to people about the budget.

You do you.

Damn right

*extremely casual voice, studying nails* My Nebula and World Fantasy award-winning novella with American micropress @neonhemlock.bsky.social tops out at 76 pages!

He did strike me as a very “I can’t be having with this” sort of person.

ReBoot Season 1 Episode 1 - The Tearing (HD) YouTube video by Mainframe Studios

FYI Mainframe is starting to air the restored HD versions of the original Reboot series on YouTube.

youtu.be/inKdUICLmXY

Possibly he doesn’t know how to spell “eloquent motherfucker who wounded my sad, shriveled little soul with his words”

Rally up! He really is trying to break our communities so he can frack, mine, deforest the f out of this place. He’s working fast , so must we!

Two pie charts labelled "School travel models before/after free transit pass." The first pie chart shows that after the pass was implemented that 33.7% of students took transit, while the second shows that before the pass it was only 11.5%

Education Minister Brendan Maguire speaking at a podium. Quote: "It's a 20% increase in usership. That's what it is."

Education Minister Brendan Maguire at a podium. Quote from journalist (off-camera): "It's a 200% increase, Minister."

Education Minister Brendan Maguire at a podium. Quote: "Um, yes, sorry, I'm not the best at numbers."

Nova Scotia's Education Minister, folks. Not exactly making the grade.

For paid options, 1password is good and isn’t ridiculously expensive.

Proton Pass is good if you’d also find value in their secure email, cloud storage and VPN.

KeePass is very good and completely free, but does take more effort to set up and use.

Hmm. 944 maybe? E30 3 series, if you don’t count when we got it here?

Awww 🥰

Reminder, Andy pushed for and got an extra staffing budget for his office so he could continue to do landlord propaganda to the older Facebook poisoned and pay a potentially compromised chief of staff to hire a consultant to write his speeches for him at multiple times going rate.

But food? Nah.

You want to know there is a better way than the currently proposed budget cuts? Read this excellent article, point for point. Thank you @joanbaxter.bsky.social for this very detailed outline of what could be done differently.

Buckling Rogers?

Clear failure of the manufacturer to anticipate and design for exposure to goat juice. 1 star

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Folks, I'm actually feeling pretty good about this province right now 😍

You want embarrassing? The story of the current N.S. Art’s cuts as they relate to a major internationally growing cash cow is being featured in the newspaper whose primary audience is CEOs, executive VPs and decision makers.

This is embarrassing on a scale the the proponents did not predict.

At tonight's African Nova Scotian Heritage Month Gala at the Halifax Convention Centre Tim Houston was LOUDLY and justly BOOOOED.

🎥: @seblabelle.bsky.social

#Halifax #HaliSky #NovaScotia

Separated Bike Lanes Means Safer Streets, Study Says — Streetsblog USA Cities that build protected lanes for cyclists end up with safer roads for people on bikes and people in cars and on foot, a new study of 12 large metropolises revealed Wednesday.

Never forget, a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users.

ALL ROAD USERS.

What about painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all.

For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them.

Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org

Why should any of us believe in the economic vision of a Tim Houston Nova Scotia government that had a historic, anomalous surplus and went RalphBucks with it.

NS followers, if you haven’t called and written your MLA and the Premier about this horrifying budget yet, please make it a priority today. And plan to attend the big demo next Wednesday!

Highly recommend all Nova Scotians read this article by @timbousquet.bsky.social @halifaxexaminer.ca for a clear-eyed analysis of what’s happening here. Link in next post.

We should do a loonie drive by the bridges