For folkx unaware, there is a new e-petition to help save Alberta from itself by an Albertan and all Cdns can sign: www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

How a Janet Jackson song crashed laptops for 9 years In 2001, Microsoft support employees made a shocking discovery: Janet Jackson's hit, "Rhythm Nation," could cause laptops to crash. New details have now come to light showing what was done about it.

God I love stories like this.

'Rhythm Nation' used to crash hard drives.

If you're anywhere in Canada & think that Smith's attempt to gerrymander Alberta's ridings doesn't effect you, think again
If Canadians let Smith get away with this, then Moe, Ford, any premier or prime minister can manipulate the ridings to hang onto power
It must be stopped
#cdnpoli 🇨🇦 #ableg

Watching hockey with hubby and just saw the incredibly lame anti-NDP attack ad.

Clearly the CPC and UCP think ad time on Sportsnet during playoffs is worth the spend. So do the federal Liberals. Where are the ads from the left to counter that messaging?

“The Elbows Up for Climate campaign launched today with an open letter signed by more than 100 mayors and councillors from coast to coast to coast, urging all party leaders to advance Canada’s economic and climate security through five bold, and achievable actions.”

#ClimateAction #ClimateCrisis

Hey friends in labour unions, I know there's a general strike planned for the US on May 1st - has anyone seen information about solidarity actions in Canada? If there are (glances sidelong at calendar) shouldn't we be getting the word out?

At what point does the obvious foreign political interference here get flagged as a national threat and dealt with accordingly?

Friends! LOOK!

It's so pretty!

Looks pretty good, eh?

Friends! LOOK!

Japan reveals new name for 40C-and-hotter days after blistering summer The term - kokushobi - translates to "cruelly hot", "brutally hot" or "severely hot", and comes after Japan's hottest summer on record.

bbc.com/news/article... Ordinarily I would be celebrating learning a new word. #kokushobi

Misread "running" as "ruining".

A bonus of spending five days away at a textile arts retreat: being so blissfully out of touch with current events that I get to experience hubby explaining several memes to me during date night.

Dang, this is magnificent.

This story is a microcosm of what the UCP has become under Premier Danielle Smith's regime. @matthewblack.ca deserves the public's thanks for pursuing records that the UCP govt had absolutely no legal reason to withhold. Evidence of Smith's growing authoritarianism is on full display here.

Urban Truth Collective and the Fight to Fix Misinformation About Bike Lanes, Traffic, and City Living.
momentummag.com/urban-truth-...

Me to 3yo: What do you want for your birthday party theme?

3yo: “Poopoo & peepee theme! We can get apple juice for the pee, so a skeleton pees and you drink the skeleton pee but it’s okay because it’s juice”

Me: ..K I was thinking like “dinosaurs” but let’s put a pin in “piss fountain of the dead”

Journalist plans to create new archive of residential school survivor stories — before it's too late | CBC News A new project from award-winning journalist Connie Walker aims to create an archive of testimonies of abuse at residential schools before the accounts are destroyed in September 2027.

an incredibly important project by Connie Walker — most Canadians don't know that the government has an archive of 38,000 residential school survivor testimonies, which are slated to be destroyed next year www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...

The version of this post on another platform I'm beta-testing got multiple replies talking down to me, as if that's acceptable discourse. I'm down for nuanced conversation, but that doesn't start with "it's here, get used to it" from total strangers. Be normal on Al Gore's Internet challenge 2026.

This is so boneheaded. Guess now we all get to inundate our MPs with Nobody Wants This Stop Forcing It Down Our Throats letters full of links to news stories and research showing why it's a terrible idea.

One last point: When governments talk about "age verification," they also mean "identity verification"

So even if you're 55 years old, you will be virtually carded and all your social media activity will be linked to your identity. That means no online anonymity and raises privacy issues for adults

I just subscribed to this labeller. It looks like a good one to have. I always set labellers to "warn" rather than "hide" so I have more choices.

Good followup coverage on a much-hyped and still-promising #solarpunk IRL project. Need to fund repairs to irrigation, maybe in a targeted way to keep $ from being reallocated?

Screenshot from Merlin bird call ID app, for a 26:43min recording started 11:24am on April 11th 2026: blue jay, black-billed magpie, house sparrow, bohemian waxwing, american crow, american robin, purple finch (flagged yellow), house finch, dark-eyed junco, (not shown offscreen) California gull (flagged yellow).

11:24am today, first time for Dark-Eyed Junco and Bohemian Waxwing! It's also IDing purple finches and California gulls, which are unlikely (at least at this time of year). #TenMinMerlin

Edmonton has only one source of water: The North Sask.

Danielle Smith will sell us down the river, for coal. Thankfully we have people like @corblund.bsky.social and @waternotcoalab.bsky.social putting in the time, effort and money to keep our headwaters safe, for generations.

It's time to sign.

4,000 more wells are added to Alberta’s orphan well list | The Narwhal Even before the addition, the estimated total costs to properly seal and reclaim orphan oil and gas sites in Alberta was more than $1B

More than 4,000 additional wells are being transferred to the Orphan Well Association — nearly doubling the total the association has to safely seal and clean up.

It's "the largest single transfer in history."

Here's what it all means. thenarwhal.ca/alberta-orph...

Drink more cider:

Opinion | NASA Flew by the Moon, but Behind the Scenes, Its Science Is a Chaotic Mess

Former NASA climate scientist, now Senior Scientist at Project Drawdown, Dr. Kate Marvel, has a fantastic piece in the New York Times today.

This is a must-read if you care about science, the planet, and the future.

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/o...