Donna Fox

Hey drivers: honking at geese just makes them honk back. It does not make them move faster, they are petty and vindictive and will sit in the street twice as long just to piss you off.

Anyway keep it up it’s hilarious.

Still stuck on this today. The mayor told a story about being inexcusably gullible to excuse previous questionable behaviour so bad as to be potentially legally actionable.

His excuse for his lack of critical judgement was a previous lack of critical judgement.

That's bad for a leader!

One bit of good news in a sea of postponements by the city of Vancouver is this:

"Staff have conclusively determined that under the Vancouver Charter, Bitcoin is not an allowable investment asset for the City, and therefore recommends that this work be concluded"

Look, I don’t even like Sean Orr that much. I voted for him with nose held and have felt mostly meh about his performance as councillor. Better than many, but he’s no Lucy.

But he should sure as fuck be suing Ken Sim for defamation. What an absolute crock.

That’s not an apology. An apology would be saying, equivocally, that what he said was untrue, not that it wasn’t verified. He’s leaving a football field width of wiggle room for “well I don’t know for SURE but this is what I was told.” It still doesn’t stop people from thinking it’s real.

This isn’t just a mistake an apology to @seanorr.bsky.social can fix. This is opens up the city to huge liability.

What other decisions has Ken Sim made that we now need to question the source and reliability of them?

I’m gonna need a referral of some sort here. Haha.

Honestly they could make it pitch dark at 10am all year round and I’d still prefer it over changing times twice a year.

"Zero means zero" (car free days)

Global News’ Ben Mulroney Shared a Video of Airstrikes. The Footage is Actually from a Video Game. The host of Global News’ West Block gets lost in a misinformation-driven fog of war as American and Israeli forces strike Iran

Global News’ Ben Mulroney shared a bideo of airstrikes. The footage is actually from a video game.

The host of Global News’ The West Block gets lost in a misinformation-driven fog of war as American and Israeli forces strike Iran

Yeah that was the exact discussion I had with Dan. The good stuff goes viral and it turns out that’s the only good stuff. Welp.

Ok Connor Storrie is knocking it out of the park performing-wise, but SNL is just… not funny … at all? This is cringy af.

It’s 26 degrees in my bedroom. Not entirely sure why we put the air conditioner into storage this year at all.

Wow, what a terrible headline. He didn’t “apologize 18 times,” he said 18 times that he’d already apologized (which, given his behaviour so far, is clearly a claim that should be verified before it’s reported).

Atta boy. 😹

Yessss! It may have only been for 3 months, but I’m still a 70s baby dammit.

People are still surprised I’m as old as I am, presumably because I’m super immature, but I delight in being older. Except for the sore back and the perimenopause and the need for reading glasses.

I do, but that’s still a subset of gen-x, so I’ll claim both.

Mostly because I enjoy teasing my elder-millennial spouse for being into older women. Cougar power.

Babysaur: ok boomer
Me: I’M GEN-X!!

Guess I’ll go watch Heated Rivalry again.

Canadians travelling to the US advised to not fucking do that OTTAWA - Canadians thinking of planning a trip to the United States are being advised by the Government of Canada to perhaps consider going anywhere else on the entire fucking planet for their summer ...

Canadians travelling to the US advised to not fucking do that

At the current projection, he’ll be in grade 11. To be honest, I’ll be surprised if my hypothetical grandkids would be able to go to it.

I work for a complicated bureaucratic overly political gov’t adjacent company. I get it. Things move slow. But even the glacial pace at my workplace is speedy as hell in comparison.

Anyway, build the damn school already. It’s too late for us, but my neighbours deserve better.

Ok I’m done now.

I’m disheartened. It’s too late for us, and I still have hope that it will FINALLY be built.

But honestly I’ve heard promises for nearly 11 years. At this point, I won’t believe a damn thing til I see shovels in the ground.

So thank goodness for my in-laws, but the fact that we needed our senior, mobility challenged grandparents to step in when one of the reasons we moved here was because there was a promised school…

This is bullshit.

But my spouse (who cannot drive) cannot spend nearly two hours a day taking our kid to and from school. We could make it work when we split it, he did dropoff and I did pickup.

If the school was at the end of our street, my spouse who works from home could handle all of it. It would take 5 min.

The only reason I could stop working my absolutely ridiculous hours, advance my career and take a promotion to my current job was because my amazing in-laws came from Saskatchewan and moved in next door. My wonderful FIL does the school run on his mobility scooter every day.

But we were spending far, far too much time transporting our kid to and from school.

The NDP stood outside my livingroom window promising to fund the school in late 2020. My kid was in grade 1 then.

He’s halfway through grade 6 now. He won’t go to the new school.

We got super lucky. Four days before the school year started, we got our preferred choice program, French immersion at a school where the location worked better for my spouse to be able to get our kid to school. He could do dropoff, I could do pickup, we made it work.

My spouse is visually impaired and does not have a drivers license. I regularly started work at 3:30am. We did not want to spend our life on the bus, and anyway transit to our catchment school took the same time as walking.

When it was time to register my kid for kindergarten, I was there on day one, knowing full well that we didn’t WANT to go to our catchment school. We’re a car free family, that was one of the reasons we moved where we did. I was a shift worker, so my hours were crazy, and location was huge for us.