ottawa transit do NOT fuck this up for me
anyway i'm off on a weekend adventure
allisonrussell.bandcamp.com/track/montreal
new allison russell three-track? hell yeah allisonrussell.bandcamp.com/album/rainbows
Perhaps time to mention Manitoba Métis Federation invested in an AI startup that claims to be able to identify weapons in surveillance video. How many other Indigenous governments are getting caught up in AI startups that have potential to falsely indict folks? nationtalk.ca/story/manito...
ANNOUNCING: This Should Be A Game! 🎲
A new podcast 🎙️ about that moment where you're watching something & go...this should be a game! On it, hosts @posatahchips.gaygothvibes.online & @jessfrom.online work with guests to design games based a movie 📼
Releasing Monday 3/16, our 1st episode will be...
i'm taking friday off work and going to montreal for the weekend so i predict tomorrow will be agonizing
BUT
i am supposed to be receiving my tax return 🥰
we'll see what they say! but it's an idea i've had for a while, nodding at a joanna newsom song i like a lot. so i want to wrestle it into something workable
sent an email about a potential new tattoo...we shall see
![A screenshot of a substack post:
Wright: I mean, what I’ve found valuable is, if there’s something I just know nothing about — I mean, like, theories about why Rome fell or something — I find it a much more efficient way to just get a sense for the landscape, because, you know, it’s like having an actual expert that you can interrogate, and—
Bender [like Hanna, shaking her head vigorously]: No, no, there’s no expert there, and you’re not getting a sense of the landscape.
Wright: I don’t know — it’s closer than any other option I have. I definitely can’t summon—
Bender: Oh, go to the library! Talk to a librarian!
Wright: Yeah, but it’s so much slower! It’s so much slower!
Bender: Oh dear, you have to go out in the world and talk to people, like, you’re missing out on so much there, and on top of that you’re getting a fake view of a fake landscape.
This is such a striking and revealing exchange.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:m4fvxlyv4gqpugzszzp4cjxf/bafkreidpg3hbiuwdutekccpiimit6ap73nwd4x4dqwdlcao2hrppttniui)
He finds it objectionable that Emily told the podcast host to... go to a library to get more verifiable information about the fall of Rome?
i DO look forward to using this knowledge to be annoying in arguments with quebec people
this is honestly REALLY working for me
the kind of people who care about whether someone is old-stock quebecois would not like my family because they had the temerity to LEAVE quebec and ultimately marry a bunch of indigenous people in manitoba. but technically, there we are
Got bored and started comparing the french parts of my family tree to the filles du roi and let me tell you a lot of those gals are in there
This is not what I normally do with my hair and it's not something I did deliberately today but honestly I'm not opposed, it's kind of fun and kicky. Ignore the chaos on the table behind me thank you
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with good reason!!
Pair this with the TPL hosting workshops like this after getting a 2.7 million dollar grant from Google to spread this shit through public institutions.
particularly crucial fact right now as office workers are fighting for telework rights - they're a win for everyone but particularly for people juggling child or elder-care responsibilities, who are disproportionately likely to be women
been steeped in union stuff this whole past year but these last couple weeks in particular, so this IWD i am thinking about how a substantial majority of the community & labour organizers i know are women. they're at the core of public sector unionism and i think a lot of people overlook that
two years since the show i vocal directed and the last time i was an actual credited performer was three months before that...too long!
i gotta do something theatre-y soon it's been way too long
intermission and i am having a lot of fun! thte cast is great and it turns out a lot of the songs that never hit for me on the cast album work better with actual staging behind them
i'm not sure i've ever actually been into this theatre but i WAS supposed to be the Narrator in Into the Woods here...in March 2020
at the theatre for a student production of 9 to 5, should be a fun night
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oh wow this is like the most evil possible lesson to take from alysa's success, impressive
genuinely one of my favourite reporting genres is "extremely deep dive into extremely niche question"
yeah 100% - anything where a piece of imagery seemed important or where there was a lengthy in-game text passage i didn't want to lose, into the screenshots it went
join the library tech clubbbb by some miracle it is one of the programs algonquin did NOT cut
libraries do get pretty good deals on most things because of economies of scale - the glaring, and evil, exception is with ebooks
