Count Melancholia

Modern Life.

Ding ding fucking ding.

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The privatization of education. A class action lawsuit suit to stop them might work.

Can Geo Story of the Day: Unstable clay from an ancient sea has kept development away from Ottawa’s Green’s Creek, leaving a refuge for 150 bird species, foxes and fishers. 🌿 Read more 👉 https://bit.ly/4jHR4Pk

I adore the Canadian sense of humour. This is superb ⤵️

Perspective

This is MAGNIFICENT. Almost Shakespearean. "The Book of Faces", hahahah

I was listening to the news this morning and heard Smith suggest that there would be another referendum in 2027 about stuff like bike lanes, etc Did anyone else hear this? F*ck me, as long as the UCP are in power we are going to waste all Alberta's money on culture war crap #ableg #abpoli

Alberta is such an embarrassment.

Mark Carney on abolishing the Indian Act: "The federal government will start a process with First Nations, with provinces to review options for it. And it's a process. It's not a process with a fixed conclusion, but it's a process to evolve from there."

I hope he lives long enough to go to jail.

@gammacounter.bsky.social Don't look at this if you are having lunch 😬 arstechnica.com/health/2026/...

In America you can call everyone from Somalia “low IQ” and imply that every Muslim is a terrorist and the media will just shrug its shoulders, but come after the decor of the Cheesecake Factory and they will come for you.

Anyone out in the Pacific North-West heard anything about this?

Sources are telling me that there will be an RAF airdrop of gerkins over British cities as Andy Burnham’s relief effort mounts

You go into a store these days and there's a whole aisle full of plastic/nylon/acrylic/polyester Hallowe'en stuff. These things are made from fossil fuel stock. Would it not be more fun (and better for life) if the costumes, decorations and treats were simpler and homemade?

Mick Jagger with a beard. That is all.

@annebillson.bsky.social Honouring David McCallum www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/2666940...

This is insane: "severe collisions involving pedestrians increase by 73% during the evening rush hour once the clocks go back".

It's just struck me how old fashioned I sound in this column. I am asking for intelligent debate on a complex moral issue. That just doesn't happen anymore. Silly me.

Meanwhile in Glasgow, Scotland:

Turned off "beta", because the notifications interface they are testing is a big headache. BSky has no edit function, there's no character recognition function in the ALT box (both of which Mastodon has) and instead of adding these things that everyone wants, they dick around with the UI/UX. Arggh.

This thread: spot-on.

Cloudy moon looking like it put on a Groucho mask to sneak by.

On my life, my lord, a bubble.

The crassness of the people who are administrating universities in the current era is nauseating. They should be custodians, but many of them have been hired specifically to destroy what has been built up over centuries.

Awe.

Perfect.

So much to say about Brazil, not least of which is the role that Erika Hilton, a Black trans leader and most voted woman politician in Brazil, played in mobilizing folks for Lula. She was behind the critical, concrete, economic promise of shorter work-week. theprint.in/feature/erik...

Election Officials Warn That Ballots Tied To Stray Cat Unlikely To Arrive In Time https://theonion.com/election-officials-warn-that-ballots-tied-to-stray-cat-unlikely-to-arrive-in-time/

It’s not the biggest problem with this idea but it’s dumb all around.

this might rank as one of the most important outcomes of the night if it happens. would give dems the ability to begin to make north carolina a democracy

cyberpunk thriller where a team is hired to kill an AI CEO decades after his death

I don't think I ever watched an episode of Star Trek (science fiction isn't my thing), but I thought casting a Russian while the Cold War was still raging, to make the point that humans would get along better in the future, was a lovely touch.

Canadian stock market outperforming U.S. for second consecutive year

Backlash to data centers might very well be the biggest issue in the midterms, with nearly 70 percent of Americans opposing them. Is it any wonder why?

The very start of the upcoming Neuromancer streaming series. Four people, discussing things