ONCE AGAIN LOUDER FOR THOSE IN THE BACK ✊🏻

Because I don’t know if I’ve ever heard it summarized better.

⬇️⬇️⬇️ THIS ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Also as someone who participated in the protest, the way they describe it is laughable. Yes there was noise. Yes someone was tapping one of the windows in time with our chanting. But the idea that a small bunch of peaceful protesters was such a scary threat is…telling.

Bell’s AI Data Centre approved by council amidst chaotic protest | Globalnews.ca Stopping and starting several times - councilors were often drowned out by protesters chanting outside, banging on windows, and honking horns.

“Bell’s rezoning application for the project site was approved in 21 days. Approval for the development agreement took 19 days…Formal construction will likely begin in early May.”

YOU CANNOT TELL ME THIS IS NORMAL.

Omg I checked the rankings section on the site and the top person has sent over 42K cards‽‽ How does that even happen?

This Is Just To Say

I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update

and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize

Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying

it’s a great day for transphobes to eat shit

Oh, this sounds interesting! I have a few penpals I connected with in a fb group, but I may try this out too.

RM of Sherwood council approves Bell Canada AI data centre near Regina | CBC News The seven-member council for a rural municipality near Regina — only three of whom were elected to their positions — has approved a development agreement for Bell Canada's planned 300-megawatt AI data...

Well those newly-appointed councillors did exactly what they were paid to do. Congratulations, Scotty.

“Once we realized that the big ‘public meetings’ about the data center were propaganda sessions, we held our own events to expose the disinformation and present the truth and discuss next action steps…

Make resistance to the data center part of local culture.”

really good suggestions here:

AGATHA CHRISTIE (an inveterate traveler) taking Tea on a balcony in Baghdad — Iraq in the 1950’s.

The left is cheering for leaders they don’t really believe in It is strange to see progressive voters rooting so wholeheartedly for Prime Minister Mark Carney and Hungary's Péter Magyar, leaders who, let’s face it, lean pretty heavily to the right.

www.nationalobserver.com/2026/04/20/o...

“In the future, there is such a thing as money. But there’s no such thing as *your* money. All the money is *our* money.”

You know an RM council meeting is legit when they lock journalists and observers out. Just saying.

Sask. rural municipality's council to vote on Bell Canada AI data centre | CBC News The seven-member council for the Rural Municipality of Sherwood is expected to vote on adopting a development agreement for Bell Canada's planned 300MW AI data centre Monday evening. Most council memb...

If you want a primer on how rushed and corrupt the timeline for the Regina AI data centre is, well, here you go:

A digital illustration of two japanese lesbians flirting in a queer underground bar in the 80s. One of them wears a blue jacket, the other a suit, while in the background there's liquor and a multitude of little stickers and illustrations of lesbian and queer marks.

The full illustration I did for @taplingzines.bsky.social "We've Always Been Here"

The zine depicts queer couples throughout cultures and history and I had the honours of portraying a Japanese lesbian couple in an underground bar during the 80s✨

#queer #lesbians #illustration

💯

I must have missed you too. To be fair I was facing into the wind, and spent a lot of time ducking behind my sign to protect my face, lol. Where were you standing?

Worrye not about 'being productive,' for thou art not a product. Thou art a star daunsinge yn a hopeful skye. A signal blinking across centuryes and worldes. Thou art a song performid just once and perfectlye.

Your daily affirmation:
Be as bold as you need to be. Be as wild as you want to be. And be as weird as you possibly can be.

Worth noting as the rural municipality south of Regina is about to become the home of the largest data centre in Canada.

A bright yellow protest sign reading “Humans Raging Against This Machine”

Sigh.

So how was your morning?

Living in small-town southern AB in the mid-90s, I thought Lethbridge was a pretty cool place.

Driving through mid-aughts, with more life experience, I thought that had been a perception/context error.

Was I wrong? Were they always cool? Did they get cool again? Because this is pretty lit.

Hadn’t been clothes shopping for a dog’s age, so bit the bullet.

ME: This is kinda cute…
CARE INSTRUCTIONS: Hand wash, lay flat to dry in shade, do not leave in direct sunlight, do not dry clean.
ME: This is not a shirt, it’s a mogwai.

The problem of selective feminism: Why we need more than wellbeing interventions to prevent misogyny and gender-based violence By Steve Roberts, Stephanie Wescott & Karen Whybro

"When the focus settles on healing boys’ pain, instead of centering consequences for the underlying beliefs that both benefit men and boys and drive gendered violence, the centre of gravity shifts. Attention is drawn away from how harm is structured and distributed."

This essay really nails it.

5. ALL OF THE ABOVE

A cup with latte art depicting an elaborate leaf.

Super pretty Chocolate Latte from CozyHaus yesterday. I love this place and was happy to see it busy with an afterschool crowd!

I…can’t even tell what I’m looking at, here. Is it even food?

Having to drive hither and yon all day in a massive snowstorm is JUST. NOT. ON.