So much sympathy as someone who is extremely bad at sleeping. I hope you remember soon, or are able to work out a new method from first principles.

*squints* The actual NHS advice is just "tips for people who might be unused to talking to less-fluent/L2 English speakers", yes?

The Onion is such a balm in These Times, I just subscribed for a year without even noticing that it would get me this amazing tote (I do not need more totes)

Supporters renew call to return Macdonald statue to Kingston park Queen’s University students, conservative organizers, and a historian push for a return of the Sir John A. Macdonald statue to City Park.

The proximate cause of these comments, for anyone interested. Sir JAM (as he was known in my hs notes) lived *very briefly* in Kingston, while it was *very briefly* the capital, and his name is all over stuff in town. www.thewhig.com/news/support...

For the non-Canadians: first prime minister of Canada, notable political actions include confederation (ok), the transcontinental railway (ok), the anti-immigration Chinese head tax (bad), executing Louis Riel (bad), and creating the residential school system (genocidally bad)

Love to see conservatives up in arms about Sir John A. Macdonald statue removals. Nobody is "owed" public monuments, but somehow I find people getting ginned up about a guy famous in history for drinking hard liquor literally in parliament particularly 🙄

Ah yes, a journal designed to be started only on April 1 or September 1 (the only dates when 3 months = 91 days)

“Without an image of tomorrow, one is trapped by blind history, economics and politics beyond our control. … Only by having clear and vital images of the many alternatives, good and bad, of where one can go, will we have any control over the way we may actually get there…”

— Samuel Delany

Don't be shy to take on a little two-week side project. These five months will be the most precious three years of your academic journey.

For actual or hypothetical route planning purposes, I just use Google Maps but there is also a trip planner on the TTC website that seems to include non-TTC (GO, UP Express) services.

The maps on this TTC page might also be relevant, the "complete system map" in particular. Note that "light rail" lines are neither GO trains nor streetcars, more like a surface subway line. www.ttc.ca/routes-and-s...

From the gotransit community on Reddit: GO Regional Transit Diagram (PDF link in body text) Explore this post and more from the gotransit community

I think the PDF at the top of this Reddit thread is what you're looking for? "Regional trains" are GO trains, with the possible exception of a few stations marked "VIA" (not sure how those work). Streetcar and bus lines not included. www.reddit.com/r/gotransit/...

I mean, it probably wouldn't hurt? Since we're definitely in a "throw it all at the wall and see what sticks" era

hi if you’re canadian and you hate the horrible LED headlights that are way too bright you have until april 20th (blaze it) to complain to transport canada about it in this survey

Facebook post by Ella Minnope. 3 August 2020. "Stop asking 'Who wears the pants in the relationship?' and start asking 'Which one of you is the feral raccoon and which one of you is the little old lady with a can of tuna trying to coax a weird ugly gray cat into her house?"

I think my marriage is 🦝4🦝

I am definitely the feral raccoon in my marriage, alas.

FOLKS!!!!

@naomialderman.bsky.social has bought Zombies, Run!

Yes, the old app a bunch of us used to all exercise together to and do our mini events is back in her hands!

Small thing, though. The banks apparently were empty 👀

So there's a couple of things to do to help out (mini thread)

Listening to audiobooks, I find myself very keenly aware of authors that don't use logophoric reflexives in PPs, where I definitely expect them ("she put it down beside her(self)"). Terry Pratchett, for example, never does.

Oh I also somehow didn't say more than half a sentence about the mysteries of reflexive licensing, and didn't launch into anything about the distribution of logophoric reflexives in English fiction! This was an accomplishment.

Tangents I did NOT successfully restrain myself from: closest conjunct agreement and the doubly-filled COMP filter (which one of my students doesn't have!).

Sometimes I have to almost physically restrain myself from going on Yet Another Tangent in class. Today it was about the resumption strategy for obviating relative clause islands (an island effect I only kind of have).

And actually there is already a classification system that does this! E-bikes are all designated Class 1/2/3, but laws and regulations then ignore those classes.

Yup, electric scooters and e-bikes get ridden very irresponsibly. My view is that there should be a cut off between things that boost human effort (ie pedal-assist motors) and anything that operates via a throttle.

I ride a Class 1 e-bike, which basically means a motor provides magical extra gears for going uphill. The university where I work already had a rule that you couldn't use the motor on campus, but as of today all e-bikes are totally banned from campus.

Feeling very salty today about irresponsible electric "bicycle" riders (throttle-controlled electric mopeds) ruining things for e-bike riders more generally.

I don't know if mileage rates were set when cars got fewer miles per gallon or what, but in my experience they're usually like 3x the actual cost of gas, and I don't know about you but my car isn't depreciating in value *that* fast.

If you are ever in a position to get reimbursed for travel, then FYI driving your own car but not keeping receipts and just charging the "mileage rate" is by far the best deal. Feels like a grift.

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Remember, if our solution to homelessness doesn’t start with more housing, we don’t really want to solve homelessness.

#UrbanTruth

Also called a rep, psyching myself up to call others this evening.

My contribution to the "this is meaningless, but what else can we do" sweepstakes today is that I had to create a linguistics assignment and made it about Farsi.