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NS followers, if you haven’t called and written your MLA and the Premier about this horrifying budget yet, please make it a priority today. And plan to attend the big demo next Wednesday!

Highly recommend all Nova Scotians read this article by @timbousquet.bsky.social @halifaxexaminer.ca for a clear-eyed analysis of what’s happening here. Link in next post.

We should do a loonie drive by the bridges

OUR QUEEEEEEEEEN

Nova Scotia Cut Arts Funding by 32%. Speak Up. $14M slashed. 72 programs gutted. 14,000 culture jobs at risk. Send your MLA a message in 60 seconds.

Arts & culture funding in Nova Scotia just got absolutely gutted by our Provincial Government.

Send a letter to your MLA. ESPECIALLY if you live outside the HRM, OH MY GOSH PLEASE DO THIS. Your voices disproportionately matter here.

Protect arts funding in Nova Scotia. halifamous.ca/speak-up

When Feed Nova Scotia is speaking up to say this NS provincial budget will “strip away community services and leave those living in poverty further behind”, someone sure as hell better be listening.

Every Nova Scotian who is living with food insecurity represents a political failure.

2025/26 student transit pass Halifax

The student bus passes offer GR 7-12 kids independence and shapes their lifelong transportation habits. ❤️🚍

NS gov plans to withdraw financial support ($1.2M) for this program in the next fiscal year. You can contact the education minister & premier with your thoughts.

Suzanne is doing a huge public service with these articles!

Argyle Street Year-Round Pedestrianization Evaluating the potential permanent pedestrianization of Argyle Street between Prince Street and Blowers Street.

Public survey, please share your thoughts.

engagehalifax.ca/argyle-stree...

Advocacy group expresses concerns about Nova Scotia Health chatbot - Halifax Examiner Protect Our Province Nova Scotia (PoPNS) said members are concerned about use of artificial intelligence (AI) to deliver health information, propensity for large language model (LLM) chatbots to “hall...

"'If I go into the hospital and I’m the doctor’s second appointment of the day, I wouldn’t expect to be getting different answers about how a virus spreads than the first appointment of the day,' Gannon said."

Our Statement on Nova Scotia Health's AI chatbot "Nova" can be found at www.popns.org

Guitar duel!

An early morning image of a sidewalk on a main street in my neighbourhood which is snow covered. To the right of the image is a massive dirty snowbank comprising snow plowed from the street. In the distance a person waits in the street for a bus because the bus stop is unplowed and there is no access to the bus directly from the sidewalk. It is dark with the distant glow of street lights.

A snowy morning in Halifax. Streets in my neighbourhood were well plowed when I went out with the dog but sidewalks were a disaster & uncleared at 6am in West End. Drivers - expect people walking/standing in the street & give space #hfxws

JFC.

A few days ago, a friend asked me to make a FB group for our friend circle planning a tea party.

I made the group and invited six people.

SIX PEOPLE. It's for a tea party, at someone's house.

... wait for it ... (AI slop post 1/ ?)

It’s not the trial - I have premium and Olympics coverage gets ads regardless

Wow. I will no longer in good conscience be able to call my ThinkPad’s trackpoint a mouse nipple. The title has passed to a new champion.

This is absolutely heroic tbh, incredible work, succinct & precise

Humble Book Bundle: Best of Humble Bundle: Terry Pratchett's Discworld by HarperCollins Encore 2026 Experience Sir Terry Practchett’s beloved Discworld series! Get 35+ books covering all corners of this comic fantasy universe and help support Room to Read!

have you ever read one of my Discworld QOTDs and thought, hey, I should really get around to reading those books?

good news! the full series is back on Humble Bundle - it’s Kobo but it’s pretty easily to transfer those to your preferred e-reader

you won’t regret it

I dare you to read this and not be moved to donate. Fart on, my guy. Fart on.

Koschei the Deathless but in Soviet Russia to the backdrop of Stalingrad is worth your time folks. Get this.

This sounds delightful and I await the opportunity to exchange monies for the eventual published form of the dying-earth-moby-squid tale

In SNAKE-EATER by bestselling author @tkingfisher.com, a young woman seeking a fresh start is confronted by ancient gods, malevolent supernatural forces, and eccentric neighbours in an isolated desert town. 🐍

Out now! https://tinyurl.com/sdamfpkf

*flip, flip, flip*

Solar flares.

Re-Open Ubisoft Halifax now! On January 7, the Ubisoft Halifax studio was shut down and all 71 workers lost their jobs. This happened only three weeks after 61 of those workers became unionized members of CWA Canada. Ubisoft ha...

Some really good people and good friends of mine were fucked over by Ubisoft, and left to suffer by an inactive govt continuing to ignore labour laws.

Please consider filling this out. Keep it clean. Keep it legal. Keep it potent.

actionnetwork.org/letters/re-o...

Association of Canadian Archivists - Documentary Heritage Communities Program (DHCP) Funding Cut - ACA Call to Action ORG description

If you care about archives and preserving Canadian history, please write your MP and the Minister of Canadian Identity and Heritage, Marc Miller. Templates are available on the Association of Canadian Archivists website to make this easy for you:

#archives #library 📚

archivists.ca/Latest-News-...

I saw a comparison of Logseq and Joplin the other day, been meaning to try them both out. Paperless looks interesting - will have to add it to the list

/insert sidecar joke here

This is a great graphic novel and you should buy it!

Hm. Looks like it should work as you expect at least according to docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/... :

“When attached to a policy object, this governor causes the highest frequency, within the scaling_max_freq policy limit, to be requested for that policy.“

Haven’t ever played with it myself though

Co-signed!