Cleo the cat at 2 months old. Gray and black tabby kitten in an empty bookshelf looking up to the corner of the frame
Cleo at 7 years old. Grey-brown and black tabby fully grown cat sitting on a cat tree near the window looking outside
Anyways, this little furball turns ten years old today, so we’re going to celebrate her with lots of treats.
No amount of AI literacy can protect us because the problem isn’t knowledge, or how to use the system, it’s that the system exists in a culture that has been radically structured around white supremacy and patriarchy and your precious autocomplete incorporates it into its operations.
It has been ten years since Prince passed away. I wrote a little something on his passing ten years ago (www.inthemargins.ca/prince-thoug...), and on the first anniversary of his death, I wrote about Prince, and my cat Cleo: www.inthemargins.ca/cleo-prince
This Is Just To Say
I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update
and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize
Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying
👏 Canada 👏 Post 👏 is 👏 a 👏 public 👏 service 👏
Nothing proves how capitalism has brain rotted everyone than thinking the post office, hospitals, public transit, libraries, etc. need to turn a profit to be worthwhile.
Not only is their Nashville hot fried chicken sandwich divine, but their banana pudding is pretty good too!
My hottest, most scorching airport take is:
arrive as early as you want, no one can task you when you’re there. Responsibility doesn’t exist.
Oh, there’s an ask from work? WiFi is down. You’re boarding. You’re disembarking.
Airport is suspended animation. There are no rules, you survive / enjoy.
Yeah, the same people who think Canada is gonna win a ground game if we go to war with the US is acting like it's Canada Post that's tanking our economy.
It's so profoundly irrational, it's hard to even engage in good faith debating.
Tomorrow marks 10 years since Prince passed. For the first time, I gathered nearly two decadesq of my writing, podcasts, talks & more into one curated resource, including playlists, rarities, a review of every video he ever made, and collaborations I did with his estate. anildash.com/2026/04/20/p...
If you see this, quote with a picture of you in glasses.
A friend told me over a decade ago that "any technology created before someone is 35 is fun & exciting and any technology created after that age is frightening and evil" and that has absolutely been proven true for me, but also most of the technologies created in the last 10 years really suck!
Case of unripe Alphonso mangoes encased in styrofoam mesh next to box lid of said mangoes
Case of unripe Alphonso mangoes in styrofoam mesh casings, all arranged neatly in three rows
Two unripe, bordering on green, badami mangoes
Alphonso mango cut open into little squares being held by a hand
🥭 It’s Indian mango season! 🥭
Managed to get myself some cases of alphonso, kesar, and badami mangoes. Very excited.
(Next challenge: consuming multiple cases of mangoes that will all be ripe in a few days.)
Here's Seth Klein arguing that instead of cutting gas taxes, Canada should institute a windfall tax on oil and gas companies. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Apart from easing congestion, scaled back the return to the office mandates at Fed and Prov levels could really "help people at the pump".
alas..
What do you wish "social media"/the social parts of the internet could be, in your life? Like, what is the *good* thing you wish we had?
It’s fairly telling of the order of things that Canada almost immediately defaulted to the government taking a financial hit to provide gas price relief, without paying for it through a windfall tax even being floated as a serious possibility.
Gather, my friends, and you shall learn the esoteric history of fridge magnets, and how they function as tacky little references for human memory:
Gas tax breaks are bandaids at best. Real solution is to help low & middle-income Cdns get off fossil fuels. Invest in solar, heat pumps, batteries, EVs. Tackle barriers, offer real incentives & fund w/ windfall tax on Big Oil (who are laughing all the way to the bank). Cleaner, cheaper, healthier.
Living in the perceptual world of the wealthy and the material world of a regular person is stressful. It is *meant* to make you feel like you’re falling behind even if you’re not. That’s how demand is induced. This is just one element but I think economists miss it (among other things).
if you wanna keep your job, don't be a fucking creep. it's really that simple.
This is a sentiment you hear a lot from now-elderly people who grew up without a lot of material comforts. Their perceptual and material worlds were pretty well aligned! Now we basically all live in the perceptual world of the wealthy. It’s hard to imagine anyone not knowing what they don’t have.
Eliminating libraries in prisons is a disaster, completely shortsighted. Libraries are a lifeline for incarcerated people who want to learn and grow, and have few other options.
Hahaha. She actually answered me on Mastodon. :)
Mixing some cocktails and wondering: is it Negronis Sbagliato, or Negroni Sbagliatos?
The capsule splashing down onto the water with the three red and white parachutes above it
Splashdown! Vehicle is stable and upright. “A perfect bulls-eye splash for Integrity and its four astronauts!” #Artemis
That was amazing and inspiring. #Artemis
“Our purpose as humans is to find joy in lifting each other up by creating solutions together instead of destroying, and when you see it from out here it doesn’t change it, it just absolutely reaffirms that.” Jeremy Hansen: www.theguardian.com/science/live... #Artemis
The City of London should publicly explain why a symbol widely understood as divisive and exclusionary is being worn by staff tasked with supporting vulnerable community members.
#HatePropaganda #LdnOnt
few slogans make me more viscerally angry than scotiabank's "you're richer than you think" no I'm not, you fuckers, I'll fight you
Sad to hear about this. I spent so many evenings when I was younger enjoying shows at the planetarium and it ignited my love for space and science. I know it had been closed for two decades, but wish it could have been restored instead of demolished. toronto.citynews.ca/2026/04/08/m...