Julienne Danvers (WE WANT TRAINS!! 🚂)

Looking forward to the enraging day that I am sure will come soon where the “serving size” is larger than the actual package of food itself.

At first I was hopping mad about shrinkflation but in addition, I’m now curious: how far will they take it??? Cardboard boxes that hold a single cracker? Giant tetrapacks that hold a single tablespoon of juice? Nutritional labels that have so little food they just say “zero” across the board?

My “congratulations I survived this round of mass layoffs” present to myself arrived 💕 #selfcare

An Indigenous approach shows how changing the clocks for daylight saving time runs counter to human nature – and nature itself While the rest of nature rises and slumbers to lunar and solar cycles, humans work and sleep to the resetting of their artificial clocks.

"It is that time again. Time to wonder: Why do we turn the clocks forward and backward twice a year" #cdnpoli #nbpoli

The fact that the public sector AND private sector are laying people off en masse feels ominous & is giving me intense anxiety about my economic security

This chills me to the bone because I don’t want any AI company - and particularly not Google - to have access to mass consumer health data. One wonders if “curing cancer” is a facade for “stealing everyone’s health data”…

The ultimate mansplain!

Promotional image for Gander Social with a mock up of a phone with Gander social media feed featured. Text: Meet Gander. The social media you want, built for Canada.

Beta testing for this new Gander Social platform is starting soon. I’m intrigued but there’s no point in trying if all the other cool kids aren’t using it.

Sooooooo vibe check. How do we feel about this?

Screenshot from Facebook: Group name: Save Lorneville Author: Calista Kossatz Text: Wonder how they came up with this little quip Post from The Onion: What To Know About Data Centers Q: How long does it take to build a new data center? A: Approximately one closed-door city council vote.

TFW @theonion.com hits a liiiiiiiittle too close to home 😬

100 years ago rich people built shit like libraries & monuments with beautiful architecture (*they were still evil, I know)

Today, rich people will destroy literally anything to make a quick buck. Companies, gorgeous old buildings, mom & pop business, laws & policies… literally nothing is sacred

screenshot of an email from CBC Morning Brief with a notification box stating "It looks like this message is in latin"

that's a new one....

Genuinely wondering if I should book budget day off work as self care

I heard recently that too much can be bad for the enamel on your teeth…??

someone needs to ask mark carney why, if canada is the “most european of non-european nations,” all of our peers can offer pharmacare as part of their universal healthcare systems but canada still can’t after all these years?

So are we going to actually support younger people in this country or are we once again asking younger people to shoulder the burden of cuts and enjoy the broken promises of the ladder-pullers.

This is rhetorical, I already know the answer.

mark carney taking the time to shit on canada post during his big pre-budget speech was disgusting.

he acts like it’s the responsible choice to gut an essential institution at the very moment he can’t stop talking about nation-building projects. that’s what canada post is and could continue to be!

Integrity commissioner clears housing minister’s relationship with non-profit | CBC News Integrity commissioner Charles Murray said he looked at financial details and spoke with David Hickey, the minister responsible for housing, before determining that his relationship with a non-profit ...

I can’t think of any reason why it would be a conflict of interest for the housing minister to be the landlord for an organization that provides housing, can you? 🙄

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

It’s 4pm! Time for my daily scream into a pillow.

a man in a suit is playing a violin while another man plays a double bass ALT: a man in a suit is playing a violin while another man plays a double bass

I feel like as a society we’re collectively living through that scene in the titanic where the ship is sinking but the violinists are still playing

The fun thing is that this is provable in the near future & I can’t wait to gloat, with screenshots 💅

Very, very many & expensive video game GPUs that have a very, very short shelf life!!

Screenshot from CBC: "One of the great things about building in Canada, and in colder climates, is that we can just use free air cooling from outside air temperatures. The company said its data centres will only draw municipal water when outside temperatures are above 29.4 C or when indoor humidity levels drop below five per cent. Microsoft has made similar promises elsewhere. The company built a data centre in the northwestern Netherlands despite opposition from local farmers, promising it would only need between 12 and 20 million litres of water annually. Dutch media later revealed the data centre was consuming more than four times that - as locals were being asked to limit their own water use.

CBC reporting from literally yesterday that this is a claim the industry has *actually made*, and also, it’s a lie.

www.cbc.ca/news/ai-data...

Did you listen to his podcast episode on Lorneville? No word of a lie, he claimed that data centres in Canada don’t need expensive cooling solutions & aren’t water intensive because…… we live in Canada so they can just open the windows.

Yes, he said that. Without irony.

Sources for screenshots:

brentharris4sj.ca/op-eds/lorne...

pluralistic.net/2025/10/16/p...

Screenshot from brentharris4sj.ca: Header: PASSIONATE. COMMITTED. “…expected to carry a larger share of the country's industrial weight. We are already seeing the payoff of the strategy council set in motion two years ago: two major companies have submitted letters of intent. One proposes a $1 billion data centre employing 150+ people long-term, and over 700+ during construction. The other is advanced manufacturing processing facility of similar scale. These are transformative opportunities-not just for the tax base, but for…”

Screenshot: “The Al bubble companies are scams. They've spend most of a trillion dollars in capital expenditures, and by their own (very cooked and dishonest) numbers, they are *grossing* a total of $45b/year, industry-wide. At $45b/year (an inflated number, remember!) it's going to take them a *long* time to recoup the hundreds of billions of dollars they've spent so far. But they don't have a long time: the massive GPUs that power Al's "foundation models" and cost six- or seven-figures *each* burn out remarkably quickly. The companies that buy these GPUs claim they'll last five years (and depreciate them over that schedule); however, this is accounting fraud, because in reality, these GPUs have a duty-cycle that's more like *two to three years*. And when the companies run their GPUs *really* hard, they burn out in just *54 days*”

Screenshot: “To recoup their existing and announced investments, Al companies will have to bring in *$2 trillion*, more than the combined revenue of Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Apple, Nvidia and Meta. And they have to bring in that $2 trillion before all those GPUs burn out...which is, again, about 2-3 years. Or sometimes just 54 days.”

Our city councillors in SJ are so dumb they think that the AI bubble will go on forever & that “data centres” will create stable long term jobs (instead of one guy working remotely to keep the servers running).

And that’s if the AI bubble doesn’t pop before the data centre even gets built!

We do have the power to stop this...

Wanted to respond to some of the arguments put forward against the idea postal banking.

The Carney #AusterityBudget came to my workplace today. Currently experiencing survivor’s guilt that I survived the layoff.

Thanks Carney!!!!!!

Lack of imagination, vision, & political will by city council 🙃

The privatization crisis at Canada Post Canada Post is under attack. Political favouritism, privatized delivery, and precarious subcontracting are putting workers and public service at risk. From Intelcom’s exploitative practices to the gov...

Defending Canada Post is not only about protecting good jobs; it’s about preserving one of the last nationwide infrastructures capable of countering corporate monopoly and serving people where they live.