Steve Hadden

March
Tom Thomson
1916

Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, and Harry Shearer in A Mighty Wind (2003)

Tonight’s movie selection is “A Mighty Wind” (2003). A reminder that this, too, is Spinal Tap

I'm not entirely sure how they did it, but they've completely cleared the streets around my office in Midtown #NYC.

They paid a lot of people good wages to do the job effectively, thank you for coming to my socialism talk

Image of a walkable, local coffee shop in a walkable neighbourhood, with the caption “Walkable Neighbourhoods aren’t scary, they’re convenient.” With the logo Urban Truth Collective” at the bottom. @urbantruth.bsky.social

Walkable neighbourhoods aren’t scary, they’re convenient.

#UrbanTruth

The Canoodling Bears Revel In The Alpenglow
Jason Carter ~ Cree
2024

Support For Allowing More Chinese Electric Vehicles Into The Canadian Market:

18-34 Year Olds:
🟢 Support: 58%
⚫️ Oppose: 23%

35-54 Year Olds:
🟢 Support: 56%
⚫️ Oppose: 26%

55+ Year Olds:
🟢 Support: 67%
⚫️ Oppose: 20%

Leger / Feb 2, 2026

Curling in the Back Lane
Terry Annany
n.d.

'A Big F*ck You to Big Tech': New Jersey Residents Defeat AI Data Center | Common Dreams "It's time to build communities, not data centers," said one local activist.

New Brunswick, NJ just canceled plans for a colossal AI data center after massive pushback from the community.

That's a huge win for people power.

AI data centers are sucking up communities’ utilities AND draining state resources — while enriching Big Tech CEOs.

OMG, it’s the cat bus!

Follow up to the article from this morning. In which I argue how Cory Doctorow was right in his article: https://tante.cc/2026/02/20/on-alliances/

RP2040 Powers A MIDI-Controlled Soundboard Hackaday Article

RP2040 Powers A MIDI-Controlled Soundboard

Cheap Writing Deck Eschews Distractions Hackaday Article

Cheap Writing Deck Eschews Distractions

Map of Canada with the province of Ontario highlighted. Text that reads "Recent data shows 59% of Ontario students and their families have difficulty paying tuition fees. Canadian average: 48%"

Ontario is lowering OSAP so students only receive 25% of funding through grants.

48% of Canadian students report struggling with the cost of tuition. In Ontario, that number jumps to 59%.

Federal grants are also on the chopping block.

Student support should be increasing, not decreasing.

“Make bad game? Fired. Make good game? Fired. Make incredibly successful game? Believe it or not, also fired.” Original source of meme is from Parks and Recreation.

the video game industry is a mess

You probably know that I'm involved w/ the Cathedral Village Arts Festival. Well… we found out just now that someone on facebook is using this piece of junk AI-generated poster to scam potential vendors out of money.

That eyesore is not us. You can only register for a booth through cvaf.ca

"Part of the reason I made a hard leftwing turn was because I was burned by my own techno-optimism. I am part of a generation that believed it could change the world, and then was taught a harsh lesson about money and power."

The Left Doesn't Hate Technology, We Hate Being Exploited

New Tool Makes 3D Printed PCBs, Fast Hackaday Article

New Tool Makes 3D Printed PCBs, Fast

“Be impressed!!!” It’s weird how much you care. What’s impressive is solar panels!! Harness the sun’s power??? What am I? A wizard?????

Like carbon capture, SMRs, the GTH & Spudco, a data centre is a giant, overpriced failure-in-waiting. Of course we're going to get in on the ground floor.

Olympic highlight in this house.

photo of a hard taco from taco bell with a shell made from doritos. the shell-shaped wrapper says "Taco Bell: TACO on the inside. Doritos on the outside."

of COURSE there's a technology the left is excited about

YouTube video by APTN News International Indigenous Tourism holds conference to promote Indigenous tourism globally | APTN News

Keith Henry, the CEO of Indigenous Tourism Association of Canada, speaks on the International Indigenous Tourism Conference being held in Edmonton this week and how they want to discuss ways to further promote Indigenous tourism on a global scale.

This local Wolfdog joined an Olympic ski event and triggered the finish-line camera. This is Nazgul. He snuck into a cross-country skiing sprint this morning and raced the homestretch with some competitors before being escorted home. 14/10 someone get him a medal

In a fitting piece of news: Regina's Globe Theatre has announced it is extending its run of Frozen through to March 15.

“Is there a technology the left is excited about?”

Yeah man, it’s called anything that can be useful and make my bills go down instead of a thing that can’t do anything without my help and doubles my electricity bill

“Is there a technology the left is excited about?”

High-speed rail! MRNA vaccines! New cancer treatments! Solar and wind energy collection! Better and longer-range EVs! That wood that's harder than steel! New apples! Fibermaxxing! Buldak Swicy ramen! Muppets! Muppets are too a technology, shut up!

china bad because of state surveillance

america good because of corporate surveillance that also gets wielded by the state

People talk about this stuff in terms of how much it'll suck for gaming and I hate to inform you how many MRI machines, X-Rays, all sorts of other vital machinery are just a Windows IoT Edition PC in a beige plastic box with a big magnet/accelerator/whatever attached.

I can’t believe you lefty Luddites hate tech so much that you embrace mRNA vaccines, heat pumps, electric bikes, hybrid work, renewable power (and awesome advancements in storage), space telescopes, and hot/cold running water but reject the planet destroying plagiarism enrich the worst people bots!

YouTube video by IGN Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu - Official Trailer #2 (2026) Pedro Pascal, Sigourney Weaver

Everything about the new The Mandalorian and Grogu trailer screams "This will be a fun, almost Indiana Jones-like adventure." I hope that's exactly what it turns out to be: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMoT...