« Queen Spark » fills my heart with ill-gotten joy.

The 2005 CBC Massey Lectures, "Race Against Time" | CBC Radio "I have spent the last four years watching people die." With these wrenching words, diplomat and humanitarian Stephen Lewis opens his 2005 Massey Lectures. Lewis's determination to bear witness to the...

For the youths, who might not know what a lion of an orator he was:

www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/...

Four years since Russia’s full scale invasion of Ukraine. Ukrainians’ resilience continues to amaze me. Hoping against despair that this horrific war ends soon and with a free, democratic and territorially integral Ukraine. Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇦
#IStandWithUkraine

There’s not a lot to be excited about in the world rn, but my first 24h on the beta version of @gandersocial.bsky.social have been a delight.

REMEMBER: All the "Don't use em-dashes" "don't use rule of three" advice because it makes your writing "look like AI" is because they stole actual writers work, and their "predict the next thing" stuff just simulates what WE FUCKING DO. Keep writing well. Use every style and trick you have. Fuck AI.

I will riot if Armstrong is closed to bikes.

Just don’t slip on the pavers.

TARIFF WAR. NORTH AMERICAN RECIPROCITY President Threatens Canada --Saturday Journal, 24 Mar 1910

1910

This is an excellent analogy, because my recollection from grade school is that the pen on the right looks fun and exciting, and then you play with it for a few minutes and realize it's not actually useful for anything and in fact makes some tasks more cumbersome, and never think about it again.

What a fucking time to be alive.

Typique. 🤦‍♀️

Picture of people and a heat pump and a kid's face in a heat pump poster HINTONBURG HEAT PUMP AND HOT CHOCOLATE TOUR Tour a Hintonburg heatpump or two while your kids slide around in the snow and sip on some hot chocolate and snacks! SUNDAY JAN 18TH 2-4 pm Near Hintonburg Park Locations available closer to date Register: VISITAHEATPUMP.CA HEAT PUMP FOR OUR KIDS OTTAWA GATINEAU

Heat pumps and hot chocolate - that's as good a combo as PB&J!

Check out this event on Sunday in Ottawa's Hintonburg neighbourhood. Making heat pumps simple

visitaheatpump.ca/tours/Sxi832...

@christaggart.bsky.social @eugeniewaters.bsky.social @electrify613.bsky.social
#OttEvents #OttClimate

Remember when we only heard about Greenland, like, once a year?

I miss those times.

I finished my book. There are meant to be two more in the series that have not yet been written/released. This feeling is why I usually only watch shows that are complete. 😕 The George R R Martin Effect. 🙄

Happy birthday, Vicky! My present to you is to let you know they sell Red River at Produce Depot now. 😉

😂

Did the illicit fentanyl trade experience a supply shock? A synthesis of government and social media data suggests a disruption, possibly tied to events in China

US fentanyl deaths ⬇️ > 40% in the past 2 years. Why?

Many hypotheses but few explain very sudden drop

New paper @science.org suggests part of the story could be reduced access to precursor chemicals

More to be done but article & appendix are important contributions
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

“What a time to be alive.”?

a close up of a man 's face with a serious expression on his face . ALT: a close up of a man 's face with a serious expression on his face .

It’s truly a WILD time to have two degrees in international relations and be working on federal illegal drug policy.

Dammit.

Why the fuck is cooking no longer part of the middle school/early high school curriculum in this mfing province?! Sure, parents teaching kids to cook when everyone’s already hangry for dinner is a greatttt idea.

In which Dry January becomes Dryish January* in our house

*subject to operational requirements

THE WEEKEND IS SUPPOSED TO BE FOR RESTING AND DISASSOCIATING!

Chat, I'm seriously starting to question the credibility of the FIFA Peace Prize.

What a time to be alive.

I thought we weren’t doing regime change anymore

Throwback to a failed attempt at passport photos for my then 3-year-old, who struggled to follow all of the instructions simultaneously. Top left is severe annoyance, top right is forced optimism, bottom right is skeptical judgment, and bottom left is shocked disappointment.

The many moods of 2025.

On Bro Politics I will never forget the time my mother warned me not to refer to myself as a feminist. It was the mid-eighties, during my first or second year of university, and I was home for a visit. She did so in ...

Excellent round up of the state of Canadian politics, courtesy of @offhandremarks.bsky.social:

miss-vickys-offhand-remarks.ghost.io/on-bro-polit...

How I’m walking out of 2025