Tim Querengesser

Perhaps worst part about enshittification is that you can understand it intellectually but that understanding does not limit the shitty feeling enshittification creates when you encounter it.

Cool cool

We can plant a house.
We can build a tree.

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Me: "That sure took guts, buddy."
Son: "What's guts mean?"
Me: "It means you were brave, you had courage."
Son, looking in mirror at stomach: "My guts are getting brave!"

My most unpopular take, and I have a kid: I like daylight savings time changes.

US submarine sank Iranian warship off Sri Lanka’s coast, Hegseth says Defence secretary confirms strike on Iris Dena in first US attack on Iranian forces outside Middle East during conflict

A U.S. submarine torpedoed and sank an Iranian ship.

This hasn't happened since the 1940s and the Second World War.

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We live in a bubble in North America. The U.S. is the world's largest oil producer. Canada is fourth. The rest of the world (Europe, Asia) will feel what's happening far more than us. And that will likely, yet again, push them to accelerate shifting away from a dependence on volatile energy sources.

Sigh.

If you watch Rogue One right after, it’s basically the continuation of the story except everyone is somehow nine years younger.

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I don't regret watching Andor. I'd put my boyhood love of Star Wars to rest a few movies ago, as I found them to be more interested in offering "content" (barf) for demanding fans, not deep storytelling.

Andor was good. Very good. So now I'm back in the Star Wars camp. And what a time for that!

Legend has it that when the city installs a new stop sign at this intersection, there’s either six more weeks of winter or it’s just a Tuesday and let’s not fix the underlying issues.

Truckification: How Our Cities Are Becoming Work Camps And Why No One Knows How To Stop It

#pretendbookpitches

It's kind of wild how driving the speed limit feels like an act of resistance against car culture

Some EV hype stands up.

Have Alberta’s finances gone off the rails?

"It turns out that policy choices, not external factors, are largely to blame."

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Truer today

Lousy smarch weather.

Have never worked from the Campus Saint-Jean library before but why not?

I chose a strange time to binge Andor season two is all I can report.

Velodrooooooooome

✅Checks news
✅Feels like living somewhere in the woods

this is what they said it would be like under socialism

City council limits itself to four key strategic priorities for term Mayor says council will focus on economic development, growth management, quality services and safety over other issues

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“Do we want to make sure we are seeing businesses quickly able to start up? If we do, do we have the staff so that permits can be done quickly and a business can start up in one month instead of six? I think we’ve used a lot of words over the years...”

A sentence I heard on the radio yesterday:

"Traffic congestion is impacting motorists ..."

Hopefully you see the issue. Affect is effective!

5 ways Alberta’s 2026 budget could impact you | CBC News Prepare for life to get more expensive if you rent a car or stay somewhere overnight in Alberta — and for taxes to go up on the home you’re currently living in, too.

It's okay to say affect. Just try it.

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Snow squalls

Netflix Backs Out of Bid for Warner Bros., Paving Way for an Ellison Takeover

The richest man owns X.

The second and third richest men control Google.

The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post.

And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros.

See the problem here?

Anthropic Takes a Stand The company is refusing to bow to the Pentagon’s demands.

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People are always like what’s something you miss from the past and one of mine is antitrust laws