Tim Runtz

A man. A rant in 12 parts. This week has been rough. In less than 5 days, I’ve had three incidents involving men and I want to share them with you. 1/12 @ianmccausland.bsky.social

Of course it's a LinkedIn post

I'm not saying life is too easy, and it's super privileged to even have the option of comfort.

But I think weirdness gets conflated with danger in a way that leads to violence and criminalization, and it feels like part of that stems from a refusal to experience anything harmless but uncomfortable

One thing I've been learning is that you minimize discomfort by practicing. Practice running hard at the end of workouts. Practice periods of focus amid distractions. Practice exposure to harmless weird people on the bus.

I've been thinking about discomfort a lot lately, and to be sure there's far too much of it in the world, but for many affluent and otherwise privileged folks, we've lost the ability to sit with discomfort, and that often manifests as anxiety, which can be expressed as xenophobia.

Most weird behaviour is not dangerous!

Increasingly fragile??

I wish Colbert wouldn't frame "the coming ai revolution" as inevitable, but this is the right energy to bring to the conversation

I think about this are lot re: workplaces as well. People in charge tend to be those who got a business degree or whatever because their career aspiration was to be in charge.

The best bosses I've had have been women who ended up in leadership because they're competent and were asked to move up.

Within a few blocks of Ellice saw four police officers standing by bus stops and four transit enforcement officers. Some $500k plus in annual salaries. Watched them turn away someone over a $3 fare.
Noticed it’s gameday for Jets.

Harvesting seeds for next year and it really does feel like a life hack as opposed to the basis of human civilization

Maybe things are a bit better now, but my elementary/high school education was purely pre-contact and sanitized colonial history, plus the occasional discussion of current affairs, but almost zero consideration of how we got from there to here. They were completely separate topics.

An illustrated jr jays Magazine cover featuring ostensibly traditionally dressed Indigenous people and some people approaching them in a time machine wearing a baseball cap.

This issue of Jr. Jays Magazine from 1994 might have been what taught me about the concept of ancestry and the continuity from historical to contemporary Indigenous people.

Friends who I vaguely understood to be Indigenous had been wholly unrelated in my mind to the stereotypes in picture books.

It's hardly the most egregious part of the story, but it seems relevant that the IIU report doesn't name the vehicle model. It's likely that the shift to SUVs has both reduced visibility and encouraged cops to drive off road. Even if they didn't break any laws, this death was far from inevitable.

Hey look, Israel broke the cease-fire, twice, in two different ways, within 24 hours - again.

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Pynchon back on screen is a treat (despite leo)

Montreal startup plans $200M carbon-capture facility in southwestern Manitoba | CBC News A carbon-capture start-up plans to build a commercial carbon-removal facility in southwestern Manitoba at a cost of $200 million.

This is bad and annoying. Hypercapitalist tech bro response to the climate crisis.

zeldawilliams 20m From Create Mode •• Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want. To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough, , just so other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it. Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

Steve Magness also has some great videos on this. Super practical advice, and usually preceded by 15 minutes of context and physiology that even those of us without a sports science or coaching background can follow.

This is really one of those two red button meme situations where I want to be annoyed at both right wing grifters and a traffic violation system that prioritizes profit over safety

An image graph showing the amount of deaths at each war

A reminder that Gaza (2023-2025) is the deadliest place for Journalists in history 👇

Intensely jealous to have missed these shows, but also grateful and reassured that they happened.

"All this to say, things can be low key and fun and important, even as the world at large seems so fucked up."

Begin construction on widening Kenaston, new St. James bridge by 2027: city report | CBC News The City of Winnipeg is preparing to move forward with the expansion of Kenaston Boulevard and replacement of the St. James Bridge, while a new value-for-money study has found the net return on the pr...

$575 million. Or, community connections funding to the year 2961 AD

"I have no regrets at all"

Irish comedian Tadhg Hickey sends a message from the Global Sumud Flotilla.

Cool and good

Sweet relief, two months on. No thanks to the absentee landlord we tracked down six weeks ago who swore it wasn't coming from his house.

Exactly, how much did the RCMP cost per person last year? Why are they not making a profit? Or the Canadian military, stop talking about the Canada Post as a for profit entity, it is a national service. Also let it expand into banking and financial services (as a co-op) and other sectors (grocery?)

‘Frustrating, shocking and sudden’: family desperate for details after mother killed in crash A week after Omotayo Samuel-Pepple was killed in a crash on Abinojii Mikanah, her family says they are still in the dark about how it happened.

“It makes me nervous when people stand right by the edge on a busy road"

This feels like some pretty egregious victim blaming from Janice Lukes.

Whenever a pedestrian is killed it's immediately "were they jaywalking?" No? Well maybe they shouldn't have been standing there, at the bus stop.

Shoutout to the guy at the farmers' market a street over playing The Hip covers while I work late.