False spring is the worst season in Ottawa.

Can anyone recommend a good pirate IPTV service so I can cut all my American streaming services.

Don't even @ me about legality - inter arma enim silent leges.

Deeply disappointed that there's no Liberal leadership candidate who is willing to stand up and say NO to clankers, NO to the AI automaton menace, and NO to Cyberstan sympathizers.

Canada Is Taking Trump Seriously and Personally Sometimes sporting events really are bigger than the game itself.

Ken Dryden is always worth a read. He nails it again with this piece in the Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

Ruby Dhalla learns on CBC's Power & Politics she's been disqualified | Power & Politics YouTube video by CBC News

This is honestly one of the best bits of television in a while.

Sometimes hard to tell if it *is* a bit.

youtu.be/vfyzGYZ12Sg?...

Least surprising news of the year.

She's in great shape. Highly recommend the Beer Garten Lobster Rolls next door, dog friendly patio.

Challenge accepted apparently.

www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2B8smhy/

Thoughts and prayers tonight for the parked cars, trees, and street level fixtures of downtown Philadelphia.

They better start greasing the traffic poles in Philly tonight. Gonna be wild.

We're going to need to build our way out of this problem.

While we're standing up our BlueSky Platform:

Import Substitution Destabilization.

Very, very right.

Whole Foods Workers Win First-Ever Union, Defying Amazon (Updated) Workers in Philadelphia say they’re tired of being treated like robots.

Whole Foods workers in Philadelphia just accomplished something huge: they overcame Amazon's union-busting tactics and voted to form the store's first union in over four decades.

Remember that we can always find hope in the labor movement.

Ontario passes bill allowing bike paths that lead to walls with tunnels painted on them TORONTO - Premier Doug Ford's government successfully passed a bill today allowing municipalities to create bike paths throughout the province so long as they lead to a wall with the image of a tunnel...

Ontario passes bill allowing bike paths that lead to walls with tunnels painted on them

Accurate

John Turner and Brian Mulroney during the 1984 Canadian Federal Election Debate. YouTube video by TheBoyInPurple

Turner was right.

youtu.be/MzgVGjvVmqc?...

Doors, and frames, are expensive. If you need to shim the frame plumb and mess up, it can get messy quick. Hire a pro.

Screenshot of text, all but the first two words of which are in pink hyperlink lettering: IN MARCH, automobile, coal, and soybean supply chains were minimally disrupted when a container ship slammed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge, killing six. Amidst speculation about the royal family fueled by the release of several Photoshopped images, the Marchioness of Cholmondeley issued a denial that the Chinese antiques seen in her home the background of older photographs were looted from China in the 19th century. Bloomberg issued a correction after mistakenly reporting that "Slorg burnt Slerf." Andrew Tate was arrested in Romania after streamer Adin Ross accidentally revealed his plans to flee the country on stream. The "music-rights investment company" Hipgnosis, which owns the rights to songs by Red Hot Chili Peppers and Shakira, slashed the value of its portfolio by 26 percent. First Horizon Bank announced it was rolling out a new system that would detect when stressed-out call-center workers were close to a breakdown and show them a "montage of vacation and family photos set to music, with inspirational quotes floated at the top."

Among the many, many virtues of Max Read's always excellent The Year in Weird and Stupid Futures feature is how it carries on the part of the Gawker Voice that so many people experienced as scabrous snark but which was just stating things clearly and plainly
maxread.substack.com/p/2024-the-y...

me going into 2025, vs starting 2024

Invasive 'murder hornets' are wiped out in the US, officials say The world’s largest hornet has been declared eradicated in the U.S. The invasive northern giant hornet is also known as the “murder hornet” for its dangerous sting and its ability to slaughter a honey...

Fantastic work Helldivers!

Printing this out and framing it for posterity.

I felt a great disturbance across Github, as if millions of lines of code suddenly cried out in terror...

The New Year is a magical place where things you don't want to deal with can be deferred, and problems you don't want to deal with can be sent, to be solved by future you and future colleagues. Cheers to the New Year - the cause of and solution to all of December's challenges.

Book please?

This remains to be the dumbest internet fight of the last decade.

That would require effort but yes.

-Professional Reply Guy

If you think i'm dumb enough to point my DNS to this new hellsite for verification you've got another thing coming. It's hard enough getting corporate DNS control/ record updates when i'm getting paid.