Meg AK

What I love so much about the Poulin jersey is it's strictly for *us*, it needs no explanation to the average Canadian sports fan but Fox is gonna need a two-paragraph explanation where they pronounce her name wrong. Vladdy just organically understands the moment.

I’ve done this to people before 😂 Happy Blue Jays Playing the Opening Game of the World Series!

We should treat the things built with our parents’ tax dollars as our true birthright, but we do not. And it is impoverishing to our lives.

the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.

Canada Post workers walking off the job after government demands reforms | CBC News The union representing Canada's postal workers has called for a cross-country strike in the wake of the federal government announcing major reforms to Canada Post.

It’s absolutely right that workers walk off the job in response to the government taking a chainsaw to Canada Post.

If we lose the unique national infrastructure the postal service has, it will never be rebuilt. We should be using it to expand services to the public, not nickel and diming it.

Another thing I'd like to add is that as a longtime victim of stalking, I have been sending all my mail to a PO Box since 2005. I live in a city of 1 million people and have a street address, but I'm not even on the voter registry in order to keep myself safe.

No more PO Boxes would be a huge loss.

I am begging Canadians to understand that Canada Post, like public transit, should not be a business - it's a service.

Canada Post is a lifeline for rural, remote and Northern communities and overall, we need to re-evaluate why people think they "need" random shit delivered ASAP.

Solidarity with the postal workers.

The proposed cuts - the mere idea of eliminating the century-old foundational idea of "getting mail at your home", all because Canada Post doesn't "turn a profit like a business" - should be embarrassing for us as a country

Me: DAGGERbound? Oh my, are we getting a continuation of the Swordheart books?

*goes to look up the synopsis*

Me: ...

Me: ........

Me: LEARNED EDMUND WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING HERE? WOOOO!

*instabuys*

“Stay angry, little Meg,” Mrs Whatsit whispered. “You will need all your anger now.”

"Okay I get that," Meg whispered back, "but I've been angry for over a decade straight and my arteries are basically solid carbon fiber at this point. Do I ever get a freakin' break?"

once again I will remind people that the structure of unions and labor relations we have in this country was a compromise because the alternative involved firebombing the houses of the executives

The Canadian government's had their bluff completely called.

"You are ORDERED to arbitration." No thanks.

"Go back to work by NOON or ELSE." Nah we're good.

"Your strike is now ILLEGAL." Okay arrest every Air Canada flight attendant, that'll be great optics AND help the planes take off again.

Air Canada flight attendants’ union head defies back-to-work order: ‘If it means jail, so be it.’ CUPE union president Mark Hancock refused to obey Ottawa orders. “If Air Canada thinks flights will be operating this afternoon, they’re sorely mistaken,” he said as picketing continues.

Update from after the noon deadline: the flight attendants' union have told the government "fuck it we ball"

The public overwhelmingly sides with the union workers, and overwhelmingly - like, just as a constant, throughout Canadian history - does not like Air Canada. Even just for basic, naked politics reasons, you'd think the Liberal government would understand not to hitch their wagon to the latter

I get that sometimes the garbage can't pile up forever or ERs need nurses, and some strikes need intervention. Air Canada's a private company with 44% market share & stock mostly held by foreign investors.

Air Canada's *not an essential service* and the Canadian government has no right to intervene

Government Shuts Down Air Canada Strike That Grounded Hundreds of Flights A walkout by flight attendants ended after about 12 hours with the imposition of binding arbitration. But getting travel back to normal will take days.

Fuck that! Not loving this ugly precedent of the Liberal government injecting themselves into labour issues to side with corporations.

Flight attendants are striking for extremely reasonable demands. Did you know they don't get paid UNTIL takeoff time? All the boarding and prep they do for FREE.

Feels like everyone melting down about the NS restrictions forgot how terrifying the 2023 wildfire season was awfully fast

Being in tech and having a single modicum of critical thinking is just screaming "this isn't what LLMs are designed for" over and over as people shove a bunch of word predictors into critical decision making processes because some glorified used car salesmen told them it would fix all their problems

Ughhhh, I’m so sorry

I was on a tour with a tasting menu dinner. I’m allergic to coconut, and expected it would be a bother. The chef knew in advance and not only did he accommodate, he came over time tell me that he was genuinely delighted with the challenge of reinterpreting dishes without a main ingredient.

I’ve muted the hockey game in favour of the Halifax Tides game commentary. I couldn’t deal anymore.

Uh oh.

Can you have multiple screens?

The thing I didn’t know I needed most in the world right now.

You don’t have to give up because people tell you too.

You have everything you need within yourself and the people who believe in you.

@quincemountain.bsky.social you are an amazing human. Thank you so much.

Pause.

Soften your shoulders.
Take a deep breath.
Unclench your jaw.

Try your best to be well, okay. 🫂

remember the good old days when the horrors at least took a break for the weekend?

Thinking of you, and sending you love 💕

old Soviet joke for our times:

Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to.

Guy says: “looking for an obituary.”

Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.”

Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”

everyone replying to this post needs to log the fuck off and touch grass. Machine learning was a part of T&S for decades before you ever heard the term "generative AI". If you've ever complained about "all the bots on Bluesky, they should do something", the "something" you're asking for is ML.

A grey, half-knit sweater back sits in the foreground. There is a stage in the background. There is a woman in an orange sweater in between the two

Another night out of the house, different knitting.

I’m trying out Flashes in Beta, which mean having more photos. I’m trying to decide if I want to create a separate account for it.

A half-knit blue and gray sock and a half-knit green blanket square sit on a project bag. The background is a blurry gymnasium.

I’m going to be out of the house for probably three hours… two projects should be enough, right?