Worth noting that there 15 other NIST time servers across two other locations (7 in Fort Collins, CO and 8 in Maryland) that are working perfectly fine and that even the affected servers remain accurate to within 0.0000046 seconds
source: tf.nist.gov/tf-cgi/serve...
Yikes!
Lumberjack song holds a special place in my heart after spending my summers at Haliburton Scout Reserve in the 1990s.
The four horsemen of internet service outages are DNS, BGP, the Greater American Cable Seeking Backhoe, and a fucked up config file getting propagated through the network, and the result is in: the fourth horseman is what got Cloudflare this time blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-...
Thanks for signalling, loud and clear, @maritstilesndp.bsky.social, that you do not care about the safety of school children and other vulnerable pedestrians.
Have not heard you speak a damn word about speed cameras since the first day Ford said he'd be banning them.
Doug Ford said he heard drivers were getting tickets for going just a few km/hr over the speed limit. Turns out, Toronto only tickets drivers going at least 11 km/hr above the limit. Same goes for other cities in the GTA www.thestar.com/news/gta/wha... #TOpoli #onpoli
I get a lot of stuff wrong but my early call on all of this was that it's simply wrong to engage in this as an argument over congestion policy. I said on the podcast that it is, instead, an argument over who has the right to public space — and the Premier has decided the allocation.
Chart titled "Big on Bloor: Daily counts of cyclists on Bloor St W, between Palmerston & Markham" showing 2025 counts trending well above 2024 and 2023.
Updated data from the city’s bike counter on Bloor West near Palmerston shows year-to-date bike ridership is up about 16% in 2025 versus 2024, despite some rough February weather. Record set on June 11 with nearly 7,500 bikes counted rolling by. datawrapper.dwcdn.net/XnXZq/1/
Yeah, yikes… the number of these that I played in their original incarnations.
“As Ontario Premier Doug Ford pushes ahead with his controversial plan to remove protected bike lanes on some of Toronto’s busiest streets, a new poll suggests the move is deeply unpopular with the public… 7 in 10 local residents support bike-lane construction.” Via @momentummag.bsky.social
Hoo boy: "..if ministers really do have only 9 weeks or 63 calendar days, that means finding between $1.15B and $2.75B in savings each day, again depending on the definition of program spending. That’s not just unlikely, that’s fucked in the head."
Four pictures of a wall thermometer in a classroom show temperatures of over 29°C at different times of the day.
These photos from my Grade 1/2 classroom last June are a reminder that Toronto schools don’t have air conditioning and these are the learning conditions many (most?) students will be in this week.
#FixOurSchools
Bar chart showing traffic counts on Bloor Street West in Toronto during the afternoon rush on Wednesday, June 11, 2025. For each hour from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m., the number of bikes and motor vehicles (cars, trucks, motorcycles) was recorded. At 4–5 p.m., there were 643 bikes and 849 motor vehicles. At 5–6 p.m., 930 bikes and 832 motor vehicles. At 6–7 p.m., 919 bikes and 909 motor vehicles. At 7–8 p.m., 726 bikes and 935 motor vehicles. Bike counts exceeded car counts from 5 to 7 p.m. The chart was created by Matt Elliott for City Hall Watcher using data from the Toronto Community Bikeways Coalition.
Cool study from @bikewaysto.bsky.social detailing a traffic count on Bloor Street taken on June 11 with a camera at 412 Bloor West. During the peak of the afternoon rush, bikes outnumbered cars.
I repeat: bikes outnumbered cars.
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a guy playing bagpipes to a penguin
TIL there was a Scottish National Antarctic Expedition and it produced this image
Said it before, I will say it again. Whatever the Premier says, this is not transportation policy. It's an dogmatic position on who has the right to use public space and how. www.thestar.com/politics/pro...
All application components require Local Admin or root to run, too? ‘Cause it’s just easier that way… 😬
Yep. TDSB, too. 🤬 Apparently there was an attempt to extort further money directly from the Toronto board: www.tdsb.on.ca/home/ctl/Det...
On one hand, it would help with staffing a broader and deeper set of skills for providing IT … something that must be difficult outside of the largest boards. On the other, I see the mess that the TDSB is in, in part because the Province has restricted their options. No easy solution.
Chris Hadfield. We took our space-obsessed kids to meet him at a few different events and he was nice and gracious.
We ran into him, walking in the park a couple years later and he was cool with spending a few minutes chatting with an 8 and a 10 year old… just a decent guy.
Thanks, @dancarlin.bsky.social, for calling out the BS on the whole Canada 51st State thing right off the top. It’s nice to see that some people down there recognize that it needs to stop.
This family will be telling this story for decades.
"So Sam was playing hide-and-seek, but ended up hiding so well it took an RCMP chopper to find him."
If you don’t mind paying an annual subscription, @1password.bsky.social is Canadian and I’ve been very happy with them for over 10 years.
From the front page of the Toronto Star: Andy Takagi with more on internal Ford government reports that contradict almost everything Ford & his transportation minister have told the public to justify the removal of Toronto bike lanes www.thestar.com/news/gta/for...
Ontario aware bike lane removals may not reduce congestion, could make people less safe: internal documents
Engineering report done for the province says collisions for all road users could increase by 54%
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
the war at home
Excited to share a personal project I've been working on. I've heard the best thing you can do for your country in tough times is use the skills you have.
So I hope you'll subscribe, share and listen to Elbows Up, a podcast about how, exactly, Canada can be strong and free. Forever.
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Why I love my 9-year old Honda. Only touch screen is the entertainment system and even there, there are physical secondaries for the key controls in the steering wheel.
All due respect to JMS, but there have been way too many B5 moments of like this of late…
Excerpt from a public letter Roald Dahl wrote encouraging people to vaccinate their children. Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything. “Are you feeling all right?” I asked her. “I feel all sleepy,” she said. In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead. The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was twenty-four years ago in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her. On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunized against measles. I was unable to do that for Olivia in 1962 because in those days a reliable measles vaccine had not been discovered. Today a good and safe vaccine is available to every family and all you have to do is to ask your doctor to administer it.
The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.