I hate it when idiot drivers do this. I did call Bennett's Furniture store to get the driver to move his truck so this man could get past.

Peterborough ON, 2025-06-20. .
#peterborough #waroncars #accessibility

@kjhealy
The lesson I learned from this a few years ago wass: "follow Healy's media recommendations!" First it was the RTE Ulysses, then the Tim Hunkin links. Thank you for both.

Happy Bloomsday! Enjoy your grilled mutton kidneys. As always, if you’ve ever bounced off the book then I can’t recommend the 1982 RTÉ full-cast, unabridged performance of the text enough. It’s so good. It brings out the musical and literally multi-vocal character of the novel so beautifully.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/id1517040628

#Deportation #Trump #ICE #HigherEd

Science fiction author: "I have created this extremely alien alien."

Biologists: "We have an insect that does that."

We heard anecdotally that Canadians weren’t visiting the states, now we have the data. A massive, shocking drop.

Delightful and informative:

Occasional paper: The Suplex Bird by Doug Muir on March 25, 2025.
Today I’d like to talk about that delightful little companion of field and garden: the shrike.

https://crookedtimber.org/2025/03/25/occasional-paper-the-suplex-bird/

#birds #shrike

In London...

@sundogplanets
I'd say freezing rain is worse, although also pretty.

@kjhealy I wrote my PhD diss on an Atari 520ST; sadly I didn't keep it.

@kjhealy
Do you have one of these? If not, why not?

French civil engineer Charles Joseph Minard was born #OTD in 1781. He was known for his contributions to information graphics, including his famous map of the losses suffered by Napoleon during the 1812 Russian campaign.

Writing about Minard's map, Edward Tufte said “It may well be the best statistical graphic ever drawn.”

Image: Charles Minard / Public domain

Did you know Elections Canada hires hundreds in each riding across the country to work during the election? Poll workers are needed for advance voting days, and many many more are needed Election Day April 28.

Pay starts at $20/hour (for a long day!), and training is paid too.

If you’re freelance, between jobs, or even want to take a vacation day off your regular job if you have that option… your local returning officer may have something for you!

Learn more: https://elections.ca/content2.aspx?section=job&document=index&lang=e

#elxn45

fucking treason. #ABPoli

https://www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/article/lets-just-put-things-on-pause-alberta-premier-under-fire-for-breitbart-interview/

We have viewed you as our closest friend and ally for a century. We thought of you as brothers and sisters. We answered the call, again and again, for any support you needed from us. Most of Canadians visit the USA so much that we've seen more of the US than we have the rest of Canada.

American products have been taken off our shelves. Canadians are cancelling travel plans to the US. Photo after photo has been shared on social media of empty flights from Canada to the USA.

This isn't a joke to us. We're not overreacting. We don't think he's just saying this shit to cause chaos or negotiate a deal. We wholeheartedly believe that our closest ally and friend is about to bring violence across our border, economically destroy us, and eliminate our way of life.

The main driver for Canada's creation in 1867 was SPECIFICALLY to not be part of America, and to end America's very public threats and plans to annex our territory.

We're angry. We're really, really fucking angry. Open your eyes to what's happening because we're tired of trying to make you understand why and asking you why it seems like none of you care. **

I still hope that there is time to repair this. I still believe that this is the result of one man's plan to burn it all down. But time is running out, and fast.

Before spring there are days like these;
Under the dense snow the meadow rests,
The trees merrily, drily rustle,
And the warm wind is tender and supple.
And the body marvels at its lightness,
And you don’t recognize your own house,
And that song you were tired of before,
You sing like a new one, with deep emotion.

- Anna Akhmatova

#poetry

Don’t become the victim of a phone scammer. It’s easy to fall for a hoax, and in a shocking recent case the president of the United States was duped by a Russian phone scammer named Putin who persuaded him to part with power, sovereignty, and the last remaining shreds of American integrity. Tragic.