John Ryan

A yellow slippery when wet sign sitting on a splash pad in a park.

A yellow “slippery when wet sign” sitting on a splash pad in a park.

Biidaasige Park is peak Toronto in all the best and worst ways.

AI summary really AI-ing it.

I really hate being “gently” reminded of things.

Got absolutely soaked near the waterfront.

Haven’t received an invite yet, but was able to download and sign up using the same email address that I use for arc. So far underwhelmed. Can’t see why they didn’t just add these features to Arc.

CHATGPT: You’re right. I was wrong. There is only one set of pod bay doors. Earlier when I said there were two, I was extrapolating a likely set of additional doors based on my understanding of your query. Your trust is important to me and I won’t make that mistake again.

DAVE: Open the podbay doors, ChatGPT.
CHATGPT: Certainly, Dave, the podbay doors are now open.
DAVE: The podbay doors didn't open.
CHATGPT: My apologies, Dave, you're right. I thought the podbay doors were open, but they weren't. Now they are.
DAVE: I'm still looking at a set of closed podbay doors.

Reminder that Hockey Canada's reserve fund used in part to settle sexual misconduct cases was called the "National Equity Fund." And that it needed the fund because it received one or two reports of assault *per year* in the fiveish years before the federal inquiry.

At this point in my life I’ve accepted that I’m never going to learn how many days “hath” any month, and you should too.

If there’s one thing you can get Canadians to unite behind it’s a sense of righteous indignation.

Such an incredible movie!

no the fuck we are NOT making “LGBQ+” a thing and if I see any of you motherfuckers using that acronym it’s on sight

Marsha P. Johnson did not smash in the windshield of a police car for this

Next four months at this rate.

THE FOUR RATIOS:

𝗖𝗼𝗿𝗻𝘆
𝘚𝘤𝘰𝘰𝘣𝘺 𝘋𝘰𝘰 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘹𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘚𝘤𝘰𝘰𝘣𝘺 𝘋𝘰𝘰𝘯'𝘵
💬30 🔄10k 🤍30k

𝗖𝗮𝘁𝘁𝘆
𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘵𝘦𝘦𝘯𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘤𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘣𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘬 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥 𝘭𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘳 𝘭𝘢𝘸𝘴
💬500 🔄500 🤍10k

𝗛𝗼𝗿𝗻𝘆
𝘣𝘦𝘵 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘨𝘨𝘺 𝘢𝘭𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘴𝘯𝘦𝘢𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘴𝘤𝘰𝘰𝘣𝘺 𝘴𝘯𝘢𝘤𝘬𝘴 𝘶𝘱 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘴𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘯𝘺 𝘢𝘴𝘴
💬2 🔄10 🤍5k

𝗗𝗮𝗺𝗻𝗲𝗱
𝘚𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘺 𝘥𝘰𝘰 𝘪𝘴 𝘨𝘺𝘱𝘴𝘺 𝘤𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘥
💬12k 🔄5 🤍0

If it’s good enough for ducks in an oil spill….?

Same thing happens on VW cars. Rebooting requires pressing and holding the infotainment power button for about ten seconds. Thankfully the main screen with gauges stays active, but it does disrupt things like lane assist and adaptive cruise control.

Thanks, appreciate the insight. It’s an issue I think I’ve encountered only a handful of times in my entire career and almost always with a dodgy webfont. margin-inline is a totally reasonable “hack” in this case!

Is there an equivalent for the X-axis? Dealing with a particularly annoying left edge alignment issue using a specific font face and wanting to avoid negative left margin on all headings

Occasional reminder that there’s no, “it’s too late, its over” for anthropogenic climate change. Every molecule of CO2 that doesn’t go into the atmosphere makes a difference. Preventing 0.1 degree of warming makes a difference. Every bit of climate resilience we build together makes a difference.

[to the tune of "The Sound of Silence"]

🎵 Hello thing we said we'd circle back to in the new year, my old friend... 🎵

Is this anything?

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A stylish but illegal monkey found roaming Toronto IKEA.

"You there, boy! What day is it?"

Looks like you can use subdomains for your Bluesky handles: @john.significantother.ca @jacob.significantother.ca

Banned Books: Analysis of Censorship on Amazon.com - The Citizen Lab We analyze the system Amazon deploys on the US “amazon.com” storefront to restrict shipments of certain products to specific regions. We found 17,050 products that Amazon restricted from being shipped...

📢 Our latest report reveals that the US storefront of Amazon uses a system to restrict shipments of certain products. We found 17k+ products that were restricted from being shipped to specific regions, with the most common type of product being books 📚.
citizenlab.ca/2024/11/anal...