Adam Waldron-Blain

Fascinated by the idea of a “bike route” presented here that is not a road or any other piece of visible infrastructure but nonetheless a real and concrete preexisting thing

I deleted a post yesterday because a few folks were concerned about "Reform is less transphobic than Labour" being press narrativization, and I did not want to make a definitive statement based on noncommittal waffling.

Today, Labour is calling Reform "Woke" pejoratively.

It is very common to see people promoting ai with texts that are as long as the final product needs to be! I’ve seen loads of prompts for rejection letters and meeting updates where this is the case. People are incredibly nervous about writing and needing an authority to make their writing “good”

it seems like microsoft's email servers have just blacklisted apples icloud datacentre ip addresses so i can't email anyone with a hotmail account, really good

it's not that there's no foot traffic because people feel unsafe, people feel unsafe because there's no foot traffic. and why would there be, businesses are far apart from each other and separated by huge overbuilt roads with too much parking

the thing about ai replacing writers is that computers can’t have ideas

ive been reading the reporting about the closing of @rollingtales.bsky.social and ppl not feeling safe etc, but the way the stories are written sound like the reporters also don't walk around downtown, because they don't mention how the streetscape on 106 street is dead and hostile

The SRY test was used for all athletes at the 1996 Summer Olympics. Prior to the 1996 Games, intersex Brazilian judoka Edinanci Silva had surgery to allow her to continue in women's sport - going on to compete at four Olympics 1 - while Philippine sprint hopeful Nancy Navalta was tested and ruled intersex, beir y removed from her delegation for the Games. 1261 There were eight (unknown) female athletes competing in 1996 who were discovered to have an intersex condition upon testing. All had full or partial androgen insensitivity, and all were allowed to compete. 113118) In 1999, the IOC abolished the universal testing so as to protect the dignity of athletes who do not already know they have these conditions. 11[31|18]

Which is why the Olympics stopped teating this way after 1996. But hey, go ahead and make the same mistakes again, I guess. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_ver...

emotionally supporting someone is part of being in a relationship and if you don't want to do it you shouldnt be in one. that "you dont owe anyone anything" shit is a recipe for total alienation. but all of that is different than being someone's ONLY emotional support

Right on reds are the most dangerous thing for pedestrians and drivers. They should all be made illegal.

Pedestrians should have one moment in the light cycle for people to cross in any direction with no cars in the intersection (a scramble intersection). It works like a dream in Quebec City.

Edmonton transit peace officers gave over three million dollars worth of trespass tickets to people with no fixed address in 2024. That’s 90% of all the trespass tickets they gave, and 51% of all tickets of any kind they gave to anyone.

cbc.ca/news/canada/ed…

#yeg #yegcc

every time you see "parents' rights" finish it in your mind with 'to abuse their children' because that's ALWAYS what it's about, whether it's sex education, homeschooling, gentle parenting, gay flags in schools, whatever. it's the desire to exert an outsized level of control over their children

Apart from that, “This thing I’m doing serves no purpose of any kind” is a hell of a “justification”.

There are real instances of organized sexual predation in our world, often involving religious institutions, tons of money, and powerful men shielded from consequences. The whole point of QAnon (and the satanic panic, and “white slavery” etc etc) is to distract from that real abuse!

Sure would be nice if the back door of the library was open so I could enter from the lovely new plaza they built while the front street is all under construction!

and hotmail is ip-blocking the icloud email server so people aren't getting my emails, great functionality

oh i see they have decided i have to give them more data-scraping permissions, and the error message is a tiny one only displayed for a few seconds while they popup asking me to create a zoom email for some reason

zoom i have connected a calendar on three separate occasions, please stop gaslighting me

congrats you've invented a more compelling plot about androids than the writers of picard

lol square does not allow you change the locations items are sold at in bulk, great web site

when i defend someone it's because i'm principled. when you do it it's because you are a member of an incestuous clique

Extreme wealth is incompatible with the rule of law.

If your wealth allows you to drag out bogus court cases and make your critics pay outrageous legal fees to keep going, there is not a real justice system.

10 years later, documents shed new light on EPS steroid scandal

NEW: New documents provide previously unknown information on the scale and impact of the EPS steroid scandal, in which interim chief Warren Driechel was implicated.

www.theprogressreport.ca/10_years_lat...

the writing has unfortunately been on the wall since backpage. first they came for hookers because it's easy to get people worked up over "trafficking", then they started encroaching on everything else they don't like online

I know that one. Hopefully I’ll fit in intriguecon again this fall too but my ability to make that happen has been up and down the last couple years.

I know a game you can try in town if u want to see it. More formally the bigger the table gets. We do level one night at the black dog the first Monday of the month 😎

“subtweet” is not a useful moral category

Gita is making an analogy of themself to the character in this video to suggest that they are exhausted by having to repeat that they are trans all day, not calling you white. Or at least that’s my reading idk!