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dc native transplanted to toronto. librarian : BFYA, Alex, Walter, Stonewall, Printz. transmasculine genderqueer f@ggot. father, foodie, Jew. they/he
If something isn't done, the Big Boondoggle Bill is going to kill college music education in this country.
Darcy James Argue@darcyjamesargue.com · 8h agoAs the academic year kicks off, I want to highlight an important issue that many folks, including some of my colleagues, are not aware of: the new earnings test imposed by the U.S. Department of Education as part of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
the war for leshp is back on, lads
Robson Fletcher@robsonfletcher.com · 8h agoI don't know if anyone outside of Canada has been following the saga of the island that appeared then disappeared but there has been a big development. It has re-appeared. And that's the top story on CBC News right now: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
the principal at my older son’s new high school is PISSED about the new provincial mandates about attendance and exams.
...I object to City Council speaker Julie Menin manipulatively calling the show one more injury to a Jewish community that is "already reeling." The Jews I know are not reeling. We're vigilant about antisemitism, but we also get that the terrible thing happening right now is not happening to us. >
enough about getting a k-word pass, someone who has clearly never interacted with a Deaf person is trying to convince people that hearie is a slur.
I would have changed that to 60-70 year life, but still, good meme.
re: everyone yelling about Google Maps - Maps just ingests the official data source for each country, which is GNIS in this case, and most other online maps will follow for American users nobody at Google is making an active decision to go in and change names in Maps directly
Colin McMillen@mcmillen.dev · 4d ago[taps the sign] According to USGS GNIS "Per Secretarial Order 3453, Lake Ontario has been renamed to Lake America. The basemaps for GNIS are in the process of being updated." So Google (& Apple, OpenStreetMap, & everyone else who ingests GNIS) will start calling it Lake America within a few weeks.
For my Canadian Blueskyers, here’s the link to the petition to expel: www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
Petition e-7531 - Petitions
ourcommons.ca
Charles Rusnell@charlesrusnell.bsky.social · 5d agoThe U.S. ambassador to Canada reposted this
why would you add something that made more high pitched noises to a toddler? brought to you by squeak shoes in the pediatrician’s waiting room.
I remember learning in kindergarten that HOMES was a useful acronym for remembering the five great lakes. A bit on the nose to change it to SHAME, isn't it?
was doing well pacing myself with food at the CNE, but now the kids want to leave already and i didn’t get to try the brie-stuffed fried oreos.
Think about Miss Piggy. She lost a best friend and now an ex-lover in matter of 24 hours.
surprising that, in the behavioral health intake list of things that cause conflicts between children and parents, food was never mentioned.
scholastic should use some of its harry potter money to sue the shit out of the whole white house communications team.
PatriotTakes 🇺🇸@patriottakes.bsky.social · last wk.A real post from the White House turns The Magic School Bus into “The Magic Deportation Bus.” MAGA ruins everything.
puts the wonky pitching machine we were dealing with this weekend into perspective.
Texas Dillo@dillo.media · last wk.dudes will always find a way to rock
Ansel Adams on assignment for IBM - one of my favourite shots. Not the usual landscape but the skill of a woman weaving magnetic core memory. The beat up nails captures total “woman in STEM” vibes.
eavesdropping on the sports anime my younger son is watching and hearing gems like “he was injured using his signature face block” and “when i graduate middle school, i’m moving to brazil, the kingdom of soccer!”
Best plural forms ranked: 1) internal (tours de force, culs-de-sac) 2) ending in -i (magi) 3) is to es (oases) 4) suppletive (people) 5) vowel changes (geese) 6) f to ves (thieves) 7) adding en (oxen) 8) no change (moose) 9) adding es, ies (boxes, babies) 10) adding s
Just no. Not gonna debate you bro. Here’s a bibliography. Please retire to your corner to read it and/or rant. That’s none of my business and I won’t pretend otherwise.
wild to come back to canada from the usa just as things are falling apart between them.
Every prestigious institution attracts grifters for the same reason that banks attract bank robbers and granaries attract sparrows. Sometimes they get in despite everyone's best efforts and sometimes there are catastrophic failures of due diligence.
Corn and tomatoes are both like … it’s easy to forget how good the good version is, because the only-okay versions are ubiquitous.
say what you will about the myriad valid concerns with current LLMs but I personally will never get over the fact that Aaron Swartz was prosecuted to his literal death for downloading JSTOR and then a decade later, they downloaded & ingested the entire world and our IP laws just went ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
By the way, this is how wealthy aristocrat Henry Cyril Paget enjoyed dressing
what's funny about this is that monks were perfectly delighted with the printing press, the myth that the late medieval church resisted printing is false, you can actually embellish printed books and people did, illuminators and scribes are not the same people, and simon should read more.
Simon Evans@sevans.bsky.social · 2w agoAcademic BlueSky is becoming an echo chamber about AI. Like a monastery chuckling about how the printing press can’t embellish a letter with gold leaf.
