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*cracks knuckles* okay so you know how the media has a problem with taking snippets of scientific studies out of context and writing articles which mislead the public? now imagine a computer program is doing that when you ask it questions about scientific literature but also it makes stuff up.
Well worth the money. Years later we are dogless, but still have that cover in the trunk of our hatchback where it now protects against damage from groceries and other random loads.
It was one meant specifically for protecting cars from dog fur and claws so it was wonderfully strong.
When we had our dog who was part lab/part something that sheds like a thing that can't keep hair on it's body at all, we got a removable car seat cover for the back. It came out easy enough when needed, was much simpler to keep clean, and provided extra protection in general.
CTV National News: Celebrated Canadian First Nations actor Graham Greene dead at 73 - Canadian First Nations actor Graham Greene best known for his role in ‘Dances with Wolves’, has died at the age of 73, in Stratford, Ont.
I will never understand why more people aren't disgusted by the rightwing's obsession with children's genitals. It's creepy. It's weird. It's disturbing. It's the kind of political stance that should make a party anathema to any voter who isn't pro-pedophilia.
It's the early 19th Century and Mr Charles Dillon has presented this view of York to the Lord Mayor of York. It looks at first glance like a fairly ordinary study of our fair City...until you look a little closer. Join us for an in depth look. 🧐🧵
Ok but hear me out, what if we taxed the fuck out of really rich people
If you need someone to test batches from both processes and give you a comparison so you can evaluate if one results in a better pickle... 🤣
Expect to have to deal more and more with this, my fellow historians. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Dog bites man headline. Since 2020 we have literally added a virus that most people now get once or twice per year. Add in that it also often comes with a post-viral condition. Why is it never mentioned that **of course** people are taking more sick days? Most predictable thing ever.
I want to say it was something with fortune in the name... but I don't recall clearly (and who knows, different places may have had different names).
RFK Jr: "We need to stop trusting the experts... Trusting the experts is not a feature of science or democracy, it's a feature of religion and totalitarianism." Note: There is a type of disinformation where criticism is flipped back at critics, leading to increased public confusion.
Lol!!
what a fucking stupid time to be a person who cares about other people
When will Doug Ford drop Crown Royal from LCBO shelves?
Da fuq.
Uh oh. Dare I ask?
"WGBH, the bellwether public TV station in Boston, has laid off the 13 people who worked on the history series “American Experience” and announced that no new documentaries will be produced for the show until further notice." 🗃️ www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/a...
I’m actually gonna get out of my replies and use this story to highlight something that I haven’t for a while: the complete lack of transparency and communication from our public agencies in B.C./Canada. So here’s a thread
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Um, she said, in her polite Canadian way.
Canada doesn't need this because grown Canadian adults with children have *scads* of already free parental control toggles built straight into every one of the ISPs Canadians can use, assuming they're smarter than a sprouted potato who can drive And iOS and Android have them built in be smarter.
Only a few days left to take this questionnaire and write in your own answers to let this Liberal government know that you don't actually want them to be a conservative government.
JFC
Hah yeah, I was having fun. Although I won't buy buttertart with raisin. 😁
Chapmans is usually such a good Canadian company. I am crushed. 🥲
Americans from some states may know of the great divide over whether chili has beans or not. Well, that's all genteel and neighborly compared to the Canadian divide over whether butter tarts have raisins or not. Only hockey rivalries get more acrimonious up here.
I am usually a "eat things however you like" kind of person, but the flavour and texture of raisins in a properly barely-set buttertart filling is so wrong I really do not understand the pro-raisin stance at all. Then again, it has been a while since I have had a buttertart with a proper filling.
The number of people who go on about the extreme heat as if it is so nice to have a bit of sun is wild. "People pay to visit tropical climates but we can have it here for free." Yeah, except Southern Ontario isn't designed to be tropical and this will not end well.
For something that is literally throwing up a flare, it is remarkable how useless bylaws about it are impossible to enforce. Which reminds me, I have to leave the house closed up next weekend if I don't want to wake up to panic attacks from explosions because people will inevitably ignore the law.
Hey so just fyi, if you're abandoning trans rights you're abandoning all civil rights At that point what the fuck is the point of the democracy you're willing to sacrifice trans people for This actually isn't hard at all, quit making it pretend hard because you finally feel scared too
Missing person in Waterloo ON. Unfortunately, the police didn't include a photo. David, Male, age 84. Last seen on August 22nd, 2025 at 3:00 p.m. in the area of Chesapeake Drive area, Waterloo. 5'7" slim build. More details in link #WaterlooRegion #MissingPerson evb.gg/n#42eeerifiyj
I have had their ice cream, I usually get there at the wrong time for a meal. I hope it was good!
GPS is very currently in use, if you have a modern cell phone it has GPS!
Are you as excited as we are about the #KWKnittersFair2025? Get involved, help out for a couple of hours, and get into the event for free, & enter a special door prize draw just for volunteers! Fill out the form here to sign up: www.kwkg.ca/fair/volunte...
Waterloo is in The Beaverton! We've arrived! www.thebeaverton.com/2025/08/lead...
In case you haven't seen this: "Are you out of your damn mind?"
So here's the thing Bluesky..... for a site that swears up and down it's better than Twitter, you're falling into the same bullshit as Twitter.
I didn't word that well, but I kind of doubt they'd go for either.
I am constantly saying this at work. The video is a great high level overview, but I am not going to do play/rewind/pause while doing complex interaction with the interface because that's not useful.
There was an article recently saying it was mostly mem over 60 in favour of this. Of so, maybe men over 60 should be volunteering for whatever they can do to help the country. Although I bet the response to that would be 🦗🦗🦗
Regrettable? Seriously?
In case anyone's confused, yes, slavery was bad.
This is the third such incident to be uncovered in two months. We are going to be spending billions on the Canadian military - they need to go beyond words of outrage and demonstrate that they are taking steps to address this. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Hugs.
Don't forget to reserve your vaccination today if you live in Alberta. Because the UCP hate you.
You do seem sorta familiar... 🤭
Great piece in the Globe today about the Air Canada strike
Good Morning! Do the Little Free Libraries in your area have banned books in them? Your assignment this week is to find out & if not make sure they do! (As always bonus points if the books are by living authors from communities being targeted by book banners!)
It still blows my mind that flight attendants only get paid for their time in the air. Any other job on Earth, you get paid from when your shift starts, to when it ends. That's just how things work. I can't believe this is considered debatable in 2025.
Good gods, yes.
I should've posted a guillotine pin to remind you what you wanted to order before August 29th.
""Canadians have already sacrificed a lot in this uncertain economy…" Apparently Hajdu thinks Air Canada staff aren't also Canadians who have sacrificed a lot… and that sacrifice includes countless hours of unpaid labour that Air Canada benefits directly from.
I didn't realize flight attendants were vital workers! Maybe they should be paid a living wage then!
“The Liberals are violating our Charter rights to take job action and give Air Canada exactly what they want — hours and hours of unpaid labour from underpaid flight attendants, while the company pulls in sky-high profits and extraordinary executive compensation”
it appears that @bsky.app have suspended the account of @jessiegender because a trans person saying "I wish ill on JK Rowling" is against the rules, so let me say with my loud cis voice that I too wish ill on all perpetrators of hate speech against trans people reinstate Jessie, this is ridiculous
If you missed me on CBC, talking about community care on public transit - here is the clip. www.cbc.ca/listen/live-... And if you want to learn effective bystander intervention with me, sign up for my next webinar! Sept 4, noon-1pm EST It's free! Registration link: zoom.us/webinar/regi...
All I can think of is the digestive issues that are going to ensue.
During Covid, this was true. Since Covid, even more true. It’s a reflexive selfishness, a rejection of the social compact, of shared community and purpose, of citizenry, and often of reality.
If they manage to pass this, they will use it to ban all sex education and anything that acknowledges that LGBTQ+ people exist.
Make better choices, make better sales. Also, fight facism.
That server is a sex predator. Demanding to see someone's chest while preventing them from leaving the situation is a sex crime, and we need to talk about it as such.
I find when people refer to the days things were better, it turns out they were 7 at the time and what was better was that they had no idea of half of what was going on, and weren't responsible for anything in the other half.
For the billionth time, it’s not the tariffs, it’s the takeover threat.
the intensity of my anger at those who would criminalize the homeless — a population literally created by the greed and callousness of the ruling class — is very hard to contain. it was you who dismantled the safety net. if you don’t like the results, put it back
A teeny-tiny #19thc pot of rouge (ca. 1879, according to the database). I suspect that the woman on the top is an actress, but does anyone recognize her? Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, New York. Gift of Miner W. Tuttle. N0096.1953. 🗃️🪡 www.facebook.com/fenimoreartm...
Heads up in London, Ontario: these two dogs need a home!
A story that haunts me over 30 years since I read it is the man who named all 10 of his sons after himself in the hopes that 1 would live to adulthood and carry it on. This was the reality of child mortality before the modern medicines that some people want stopped.
I studied Victorian Britain in university, and the proof of the good of vaccines is in the dramatic drop in deaths after vaccines for common diseases started rolling out. The mortality rate amongst children before that was really high. Now it's dropped so much we forgot it could ever be high.
"The work is by far the best available evidence on the question of the safety of aluminum in vaccines, said Adam Finn, a childhood vaccination expert in the UK and pediatrician at the University of Bristol, who was not involved in the study." #standupforscience
Another food column listen later catchup! This time, it's my adventures at the Elmira Produce Auction Cooperative, for Food Day Canada. So much fun with this one www.cbc.ca/listen/live-... #Food #FoodSky #FoodDayCanada #WaterlooRegion #WellingtonCounty
Me on Jira this morning, halfway through an hour long investigation, and I get logged out because "you haven't used it in a while". 🙄
The absolute depravity of this from a Canadian national newspaper. I am basically speechless with rage.
Waterloo Region & area's Fire Danger index rating for Monday is "extreme". 🔥 Fire Danger is a relative index of how easy it is to ignite vegetation, how difficult a fire may be to control, and how much damage a fire may do. cwfis.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/maps/fw
Even if there isn't a ban. Don't be a dumbass who costs someone their home. No fireworks until this breaks. No fires. Hose down the area before a BBQ. No fires. Don't smoke over parched landscaping, don't throw matches or butts on the ground. No fires. Shouldn't have to tell you people this stuff.
Hugs.
I enjoy the recruiters hitting me up for jobs that have absolutely nothing to do with my profile.
I am so sorry for your loss.
It's been a week.
Yes I know I said we wemt to Milton today. We got more bad news and Drew took me there as a distraction. Otherwise we are teying to be hyperlocal atm.
Farmers have it tough atm. A market we like in Ayr closed, a farmer who sells at Cambridge market has teamed up with an out of town farmer to provide year round produce. I feel bad we have been too hectic to really buy a lot of local this year. We are trying to make it up a bit now.
Sugar pears? Guelph? We went to Milton today and didn't see them, but I would go to Guelph for sugar pears. Haven't seen them in yonks.
Oh that sucks.
I admire Mo Salah's restraint. "Farewell". Really? Suleiman al-Obeid was killed by the IDF as he was queuing for food in Gaza. Say it, you cowards.
Obviously vaccines are the problem. /sarcasm
In case you missed the news: 529 Garage is a bike registration program that can assist with the recovery of stolen bikes. And the WRPS is now in partnership with them, boosting it's effectiveness in our region. Register your bike for free at project529.com
This is so wrong. These items should belong to Canadians. They're our history.
Fire ban in effect starting today (Aug 8) at 4pm 🔥 The fire ban is due to drought conditions, and an increased risk of fire ignition. During the ban, outdoor fires for the purpose of cooking will not be permitted. The ban will remain until we see significant rainfall. Learn more: bit.ly/41sN2Am
"The somatic energy of over fifteen thousand Chinese workers fuelled the construction and success of the railway. The Chinese experience was defined by racism, illness, starvation, and death." - Elizabeth Gorsalitz niche-canada.org/2023/05/30/y... #cdnhist #energyhistory #envhist #chinesehistory
Wild case of ChatGPT almost killing a guy by telling him to substitute sodium bromine for table salt (sodium chloride) #medsky www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/...
The White House has undertaken initiatives to crack down on immigration, suppress speech, and curtail US public health efforts. These online tools are tracking the rapidly changing US landscape. Get details:
This is called parenting. “Dads do better!”👇
Thank you. Today is super rough. I keep expecting him to walk around a corner.
It looks like an industrial bed warmer. Pretty sure I am wrong though.
Thank you.
Goodbye, buddy. From the streets of Toronto to being the biggest snugglebutt ever, you were one unique cat. We will miss you, Toby.
I hope your knee feels better soon. The pesto looks lovely though. What is the green?
I hope your knee heals soon, but the pesto looks lovely. What greens are you using?