Heidi

G: Si tu as un migraine?

Me: Je souffre?

G: Non…

Me: Je souffre à la pénombre ?

G: Que fais-tu contre la grippe?

Me: Je n'ai pas eu la grippe depuis plusieurs années. Je me fais vacciner chaque novembre.

G: G : Non, réponds à la question!!

Moi : C'est ma vraie réponse!!

G: Quand tu casses ton bras, qu’est-ce que tu fais?

Me: Je vais aller au clinique urgent?

G: Non!! Tu dois aller au hôpital!!

Me: N'en fais pas un drame. Ce n'est pas si mal.

In my defense, I’ve never actually broken a bone nor been around anyone who has.

The biggest thing we’ve learned from this module of French class is that my responses for how to treat basic maladies are insane.

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work.

"No, you don't need a dashboard"

Weeknote 4 (Feb 2 - 8) This is going to be a short one1 because I’m a bit under the weather and I should be studying for my French class test on Wednesday.

#Weeknote 4 is posted. This week: a perfect month, making friends internationally, and sharing a tool for generating a stakeholder map.

Read here: heidi2o.cc/weeknote_4

How dare the internet upset me this early in the morning by showing me the minions routine that can’t be performed at the Olympics because of a copyright claim

Weeknote 3 (Jan 26-Feb 1) It’s been a fever dream of a week where Hudson William gave Mark Carney his Team Canada fleece1, it was declared Shane Hollander Day2 in Ottawa, and I was stranded downtown for 2 hours because the tra...

#Weeknote 3 now up a bit late because it needed a bit more time to write. This week: Heated Rivalry, brain stuff, and what do we owe to each other? heidi2o.cc/weeknote_3

Do you think Shane Hollander's dad got a letter last week to let him know that his position at Treasury Board of Canada is being eliminated? #heatedrivalry #Ottawa

Do you think Shane Hollander's dad is celebrating Shane Hollander day by participating in transit hell to buy overpriced tiny sandwiches to help "save downtown" for businesses that close before 5pm who keep going on the news to say how much they hate him and his coworkers? #heatedrivalry #Ottawa

ok I went to uottawa and never played hockey

That's right I am Shane Hollander's dad

having to argue about this shit when your job is on the line is incredibly fucking stressful if you actually do know what you’re doing, and one of the biggest unexamined risks of AI is how many legit experts and pros will just decide that the fight isn’t worth having

Just a small bean contemplating RTO5 and the meaninglessness of our existence while sitting at Queen St fare for an hour and counting as the Line 1 is running with only 1 train car and 14 have been alternatingly cancelled or delayed 30-60 minutes or too full to get on and Uber is X3 surging

📣 Our introduction to structural causal models in science studies is now published:
doi.org/10.1162/QSS....

@tklebel.bsky.social and I tried to make our introduction as accessible as possible. We illustrate the theory by three case studies based on a simulated model of Open Science. 🧵(1/6)

Weeknote 2 (Jan. 18-25, 2026) My brain has been fairly creatively fulfilled and challenged lately. The team I get to work with is really coming together.

Weeknote 2: planning for #GovActionCafe2026, the state of conferences, and being creative again heidi2o.cc/weeknote_2

The Discourse is a Distributed Denial-of-Service Attack In September 2016, the security journalist Brian Krebs had his website knocked offline by a botnet called Mirai. Hundreds of thousands of compromised devices, mostly cheap webcams and DVRs manufacture...

"Can you imagine a Socratic dialogue with 50,000 likes?"

This is excellent. We've driven out epistemology and driven ourselves mad.

It was the greatest movie of all time if the greatest movie of all time is also incredibly boring and full of alien lizard guys.

Zan and I watched The Great Wall (2016) today.

It is a movie.

Weeknote 1 (Jan 12-17) Is it too early to say “what a year” yet? It’s felt like a heckuva year these first few weeks of January.

Will I keep up with writing #Weeknotes this year? No idea, but here's one. Reflecting on my first week back after vacation (great team, bummer times), progress in French training, and participating as a mentor in the FYN's Career Bootcamp Speed Mentoring sessions: heidi2o.cc/weeknote_1

As usual @ukgovcamp.com looked like so much fun and I wish I could fly over one of these year or finally get around to starting a GC version.

Black and white tattoo of two standing cats in togas based on Plato and Aristotle in the School of Athens painting. Plato is a long hair Siberian tabby and Aristotle is an orange short hair tabby.

The fabric detail on the School of Athens kitties though 🤌

It’s the Up and Down Dress pattern by Eunji Jang

A rolled up pant leg showing a calf with two cats in Greek togas one with a paw pointing up and one with a paw gesturing down

School of Athens cats are happening today 😸

A maroon hand knitted dress with deep pleats

I finally bound off on the skirt and joining it to the top 😭 still have finishing to do but it’s the first thing I’ve finished #knitting in months

2025 In Review For me, 2025 was a year in transition.

Finally had time to replace my Substack! Just uploaded the 2025 year in review: heidi2o.cc/review_2025 It took so long because I've been writing this post for weeks, it got a bit more dark and vulnerable than I expected.

a popup from thomaswc.com: "You win!!"

I finally finished this .... with 1690 mistakes 🫣 this was fun and also lost me 1.5 days

YouTube video by Rad Six mois pour apprendre le français | Documentaire | Rad

It's very exciting to finally know enough French to be able to watch interesting things instead of only doing homework. This was a pretty wonderful watch, I loved getting to know everyone in this class 😭 www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKHK...