David Ross

I have no idea if prayer works or not but I do say one every time I see the air ambulance fly over because even if it doesn’t do any good, I’m positive it will do no harm.

Some very very shady shit happening in NS re: the Everwind data centre breaking ground with no public consultation, and then this.

And last but not least, she taught a desperate and needy nation how to kick a field goal

Halifax Examiner reporters thrown out of EverWind data centre announcement in Point Tupper By @joanbaxter.bsky.social and @dartjenhen.bsky.social

“Fan-based downforce" is also how to describe Tesla's stock price.

Absolutely sailed through the first four rounds of MapTap, only to have Antarctica of all places pop my balloon. www.maptap.gg October 15 100🎯 99🔥 100🎯 98🔥 65🙃 Final score: 888

I swear our Jack Russell spends 50% of his waking existence with exactly one thought in his head, and that thought is “will my tongue fit there?”

The best advice I ever got about driving was from my dad, who said that sometimes the posted speed limit is probably a little bit too low and sometimes it is far too high, and what separates a good driver from a bad driver is that they can recognize the difference and react appropriately.

"Congrats to the woman who succeeded in spite of us. We're proud to have been one of the many sexist barriers in her academic career."

UPEI Medical Home to adopt model of care that was in use at our family physician’s clinic in Ottawa 25 years ago and continues to be today. I wonder if it will work?

Any state’s right to peace and security ends when they’re bombing and murdering every single one of their neighbouring countries.

Parti Québécois finally finds minority it likes

It will never cease to amaze me that even though the FIA has 75 years of history to draw on and probably the most comprehensive rule book of any sport, so much of their decision making boils down to “Uh oh! What the hell do we do now?”

The tell is in the title: fraternity

Classic republican, can’t tell if someone is the wrong age to try to pick up

Reading "Life After Cars" and was blown away by this fact. A light rail station being added to a rural area in Japan reduced health care costs in that community to the tune of $600 per person per year!! 🤯

So in the end, he says we’re building “a Canada that works.” My question is: a Canada that works for who, and at whose expense?

Further evidence for my crank theory that chud men are cooking their brains with steroids.

The story of our age: amoral tech company releases a new technology that has few benefits, and lots of downsides. Governments that have been compromised or bought off by tech bros fail to protect the public by simply banning it. The cost of policing this nonsense falls on the rest of society.

Wishing @kehlee.bsky.social an average birthday. Why not something more superlative? Well why should a friend spend their birthday of all days labouring under the weight of other people’s potentially unreasonable expectations? That said, if you manage to clear that bar I’ll be happy for you 😉

Just think of all the talent, time, and treasure that has gone into producing nonsense — NFTs, Bitcoin, “prediction markets”, fast fashion, data brokers, most social media, and a good fraction of AI “solutions” — that could have been used to make the world better instead… What a lost opportunity.

These photos of Mitch Tweel at the Charlottetown heritage awards, failing as usual to understand the assignment, are just too funny. For all of Philip Brown’s flaws as mayor, at least he seems to genuinely enjoy the job. www.facebook.com/share/p/1Dfz...

One interesting thing nobody talks about is, to a dog, you're the service animal.

As I was standing by this gas pump filling up my truck with six dollar gas I couldn’t help but think that this was a small price to pay so that every child wanting to play sports in elementary school has to submit to mandatory genital inspections

LinkedIn: Pierre Poilievre is popular in your network Me: Fuck. Looks like I gotta get me a new network.

Oh look, the MP for Niagara West-Glanbrook is complicit in in a multi-day PR stunt which he is naming after himself and calling an “inquiry” despite the lack of any parliamentary motion to that effect. There are certain benefits to no longer living there.

Taking the dogs out for a walk since there’s a break in the weather. It’s been making me a little stir crazy, but not “take my ride on mower out for a drive behind the Stratford Sobeys” levels of stir crazy. No implements on it. He plainly wasn’t cutting anything. 🤷

Back 2 School! The Reality of road safety campaigns. Developed with @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social

“The people don’t seem to be buying in to the neoliberalism thing any more” “Well, have we tried force feeding even more of it down their throats?”

I just had to bid farewell to our old Wetskins rain jacket. What kind of world are we living in when you cannot get a nylon rain jacket that will last as few as 30 years?

The s/w developer in me loves discovering bugs and configuration errors in the wild. This morning’s was the automated prescription refill system at my pharmacy suggesting that I could stop in to pick up my refill 2 hours before they will be open today.

"If economists wished to study the horse, they wouldn’t go and look at horses. They'd sit in their studies and say to themselves, 'What would I do if I were a horse?'" -Ely Devons

Jim Henson’s classic variety sketch comedy series ‘The Muppet Show’ premiered in the UK on the ITV Network on this day fifty years ago (September 5, 1976) 📺 🎭 🎶

TRIVIA: Kermit the Frog and Waldorf are the only characters to appear in all 120 episodes of ‘The Muppet Show’. (IMDB) 🖤

George Russell is surely Formula 1's living, breathing, walking, talking embodiment of Ken Dryden's #7 in the epilogue to The Game.

They’re called shallots, but they’re relatively small. Shouldn’t they be called shallittles?

Every so often I get a reminder of the passage of time. I just walked past the row of lockers assigned to the DVM class of 2030. If my math maths, most of them hadn't started kindergarten on my first day of employment here 17 years ago (and I had 15 years in the workforce then!)

Why on earth is Irving here to fill my propane tank at 4:40 am?

Our Jack Russell likes to nap in the sun. He just plunked himself down on his right side on our deck in front of the BBQ and proceeded to alternately wiggle his nose, eyebrows, and ears for about 90 seconds, like a golfer waggling his club before a swing.

I do like how sometimes sitting on a problem for a bit gives a solution that is both simpler and better than the idea that I first had. I like to call this “procrastination pays off”

Is executive order what you do when you lack the ability for executive functioning?

we ask everyone outside of the car to be safe so that drivers can be dangerous - this is the entirety of our approach to road safety.