Devin 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈

The level of vigilance required for a pedestrian not to be hit in a marked crosswalk when it's their turn to cross is too damn high. The number of times I've been almost hit while a driver turns right and then they get mad at ME for daring to cross the road when I'm instructed to.

Spoiler alert, "soon" is doing some intergalactic heavy lifting here...

I do not like AI in Slack I do not like AI on Mac I do not like AI in Zoom I don’t want AI in my room I do not want ChatGPT — please stop, AI, and leave me be! I don’t want AI here, or there; I don’t want AI anywhere! (… okay, okay — had to Seuss it, sorry 😇)

Isaac Asimov on, "If God is Dead, Everything is Permitted?"

Its wild to me that in 2025 PlayStation still doesn't support Bluetooth audio devices. Say what you want about Nintendo's in-touch-ness, at least I can use any Bluetooth headphones I want with my switch. Not so on my $600+ PS5

The Bay's untimely demise reminds me of this absolute banger mourning Zellars' death

It's such a pleasure to live in such a beautiful place ❤️ #yeg

These days when the UCP resorts to everything from book banning to coal mining, it's so so important that we have meaningful, respectful conversations with the more conservative folks in our lives. It's hard not to be outraged by the outrageous, but we can't defeat this government alone.

Hi funicular friends! Just a warning we are headed into a funicular-free week as it will be down for annual, routine maintenance June 9 - 15. Plan your routes accordingly! #YEGFunicularStatus

Why the "big beautiful bill" is the single ugliest bill you can imagine... https://robertreich.substack.com/p/why-the-one-big-beautiful-bill-is

My copy of @danmanganmusic.com 's Natural Light, ironically very close to a source of artificial light.

My piece for the Totoro Zine! It was a pleasure to design and make something about the hardworking Tatsuo Kusakabe (aka: Dad) #totoro #crossstitch

Sometimes wonderful, truly magical moments happen on public transit in Edmonton, like when a guy came onto the LRT a few weeks ago and just started playing his accordion 🪗 🚈

An interesting disparity between car travel and bike travel is the quality of map data. Google maps can be absolutely wild about what it marks as a bike lane and what kind of lane it thinks it is. Makes planning a first-time route much more of a research chore than it is for driving somewhere new.

Can we stop legitimizing this separation talk? Most Albertans, even the Conservative ones, want nothing to do with separation. The treaties also make the whole idea a non-starter, something a lot of the speculative news coverage seems to miss. It's given way too much time, thought, and attention.

I am VERY preemptively prepared!

The situation with political bots on TikTok is so ridiculous that I think the only advisable thing to do is ignore/block/report accounts spreading misinformation there I understand the desire to comment and try to debunk false claims, but it's exactly what they want: more engagement & attention

Let it just sit for a minute that the United States of America, at the direction of its president, imposed tariffs on basically the entire world and those tariffs were pseudo-randomly generated by ChatGPT... Oh and those tariffs include uninhabited islands too...

Well it is a day that ends in "y" so 😂

I feel like we don't give enough credit to the mad lads that do crazy amounts of work to keep old tech alive. Like you can just hop on an online game of Mario Kart Wii in the year 2025 like it's no big deal, check the weather, the news, hell you can even order a goddamn dominos pizza from your Wii!

Aw nuts I'm gonna have to buy a PS5 aren't I?

I genuinely can't recommend this song enough! @danmanganmusic.com is a spectacular Canadian artist and you should definitely check him (and this new single) out!

This is a reminder to watch out for misleading "Canadian Product" labelling Companies operating here have plenty to gain from pretending a little and playing word games to get away with it Skip was "made here" originally, but hasn't been Canadian for almost a decade. Those roots are gone today.

Serious delays on the LRT right now due to technical problems, at least for the Capital line #yeg

Fire near 118th Ave and 95th St this morning #yeg

HP Smart? Let me tell ya, there ain't nothing "Smart" about it lol

Just finished playing SOMA a couple days ago and... Oh my god. That ending is life-changing, scar you for life, levels of emotionally devastating. It is just so well executed. 10/10, no notes.

Then there's the other end of the spectrum like we can see with Starbucks, bundling a channel you might want off (Promotions) with one that you wouldn't want off (Order Status). That way if you want to still receive the useful notifications, you're forced into accepting the advertising ones too...

Piracy is okay if its an EA game ✨💫🎉 E A SPORTS, ITS IN THE DLC

I've noticed more and more progressives in Canada posting crappy ai art memes. Like dude, I don't disagree but you're not making a great case with the crusty ai generated Canada flags with crusty ai generated crap behind them. It would be better with no imagery than this slop.

I wish Google would step it up and push android devs to be even a little more responsible with Notification Channels. Snapchat is the worst offender, channels with vague names, with duplicate names, multiple channels seemingly for the same thing... This is so unintelligible that it's pointless

I'm gonna kinda miss the cell service deadzone on the Edmonton LRT. Not that this isn't good, the safety improvement alone is worth it, but there's something peaceful about a few moments on the train where you don't have to/can't be connected to the rest of the world. And nobody on speaker phone 😂

"President known for lies and exaggerating, lies and exaggerates again"

The fact of the matter is that our schools can't operate without EAs. They deserve a wage that reflects that importance and allows them to live. This bribe to substitute teachers being as high as it is proves that. They know the value EAs provide.

The Americans are ALREADY back on TikTok They couldn't give us ONE day of peace

Don't think for a second that because Danielle Smith is a traitorous hack that the rest of us here in Alberta agree with her. She only let 4,633 UCP members vote in her leadership review, Jason Kenney called her base "lunatics". She barely represents her own party let alone our whole province.

So many Albertans (including many in our government) like to brag about how we "make more money" than the other provinces. If we are indeed all so rich and so special, why do we spend THE LEAST per student on education? Why is it that we have the LOWEST minimum wage in the country?

I'm sorry, kindergarteners?? What exactly is the value in performing standardized tests at the kindergarten level?

Who's gonna tell the anti-EV folks that gas powered cars can lose up to a 3rd of their fuel efficiency in cold temperatures too? It's somewhat worse for EVs sure, but don't pretend like ICE vehicles aren't impacted significantly too. and you can't refine gasoline at your house ⛽

HARD TIMES AT THE FTFF

I do think it's silly though that the city has spent millions of dollars maintaining a building they intended to demolish. I understand it takes time to plan, especially with asbestos involved, but it's been closed since 2017 and the city hasn't committed any money to the demo project until now.

With the city finally committing some funds to the demolition of Rexall Place, I've heard a few folks upset they aren't reusing it for something else. Unfortunately, the costs to rehabilitate it into something new are much higher than tearing it down and building something from scratch.

Hot take: nobody REALLY likes snapchat, we all just keep on using it because "everyone else uses it." It is a platform surviving on social pressure alone lol

Canada Post, now advertising for Loblaws inside MyMail... FFS

I've had to unfollow a few people over on Threads recently because of their insistence that "the US Election was rigged and will be overturned any day now!!" Influenced? Maybe. Rigged? Come on now. You're no better than the maga folks that cried rigged in 2020.

Canada is not currently governed by a "coalition" government, we are governed by a Minority government. The NDP had a formal deal to support the Liberal government until recently, but they were never actually part of that government or the cabinet.

I swear some of the generic announcements on the LRT in Edmonton sound EXACTLY like the generic announcer voice from the beginning of Portal 2, particularly the "Your Attention Please: This train will be delayed momentarily..." one! Am I crazy or am I crazy?

Am I the only one that finds it alarming how warm it is? Like is it nice to not be freezing in -40°C in the morning, sure, but its also fuckin weird that its December 27th and the temperature is going above 0°C in Edmonton.