🇨🇦 Shani Komulainen 🍁

very clever! open a milk carton to cut up fish to not have it leak into your cutting board.

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What this great thread highlights is *norms*. Rules only stop actors from doing things when the rules are enforceable by an authority with the power to stop you. Norms, on the other hand, are what stop you from doing shit on your own volition, because you believe in the principles undergirding them.

Idiocy masking as expertise #CdnPoli style

This Nike commercial X Serena Williams still hits the spot, 8 years after it was released.

The Desire for Terror And the defense of democracy

Disturbing to read .... but you should. Snyder, "The Desire for Terror"
#abpoli #cdnpoli
open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

48 Hours in Montreal With an Airline Pilot

I nearly ended up in this article. A friend was visiting from out of town. My husband and friend picked me up from work and on the way home we showed her Leonard Cohen’s grave. The photojournalist was taking pics, but she chose one with visible kisses (not ours). www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/t...

thunderous clouds being dramatic

🚨 It looks like the UK government is gearing up to upend copyright law in favour of AI companies, legalising the theft of their work.

This is despite creatives' huge protests, and despite previous proposals being roundly rejected by the public.

Please spread the word.

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How great! ... and has been happening in Montreal over the last decade. More greenery, traffic-calming features. Cleaning up alleys, planting greenery, creating social spaces for the neighborhood in them. I appreciate it a lot.

Mumps.

(In case you were habituating to reports of measles; gotta change it up.)

A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator YouTube video by Forbrukerrådet - Norwegian Consumer Council

It's a calling!
youtu.be/T4Upf_B9RLQ?...

This Friday The SPOKE AND WORD WITH COUN. VICTORIA FLORES Ep. 4 Friday March 6 4:30pm RPL Join us for an in-person conversation between Bike Regina and a local bike enthusiast and generally interesting person.

#YQRbike tomorrow!

#YQR

TODAY
"A live recording of Bike Regina's "Spoke and Word" podcast - today, 4:30-5:30 pm at the Central Branch Library

Join Victoria Flores, Ward 6 City Councillor and Communications Manager at the Regina Open Door Society, for an engaging conversation about bikes and community." #YQR #Regina

Poster in green red and blue of a female face and flowing text

Bonnie MacLean, US artist known for her 1960s and 70s classic posters using an iconic psychedelic art style to promote the concerts of rock bands and other well known performers #womensart

Small ceramic sculpture of a white figure sitting cross legged with a daffodil for a head against a white background

Carolyn Clayton, UK Ceramic artist known for her figurative sculptures #womensart #Spring #FridayFeeling

*They should have to have a cage-fight against I.C.E. for the funds. 🙃

They should have to fight a cage with I.C.E

A young mantled howler monkeying hanging from its tail with its arms spread wide. It’s a tiny young male monkey exploring the trees not far from its mom.

A young mantled howler hanging from its tail with a small flower in its mouth.

A young Mantled Howler monkeying around in a tree 🐒
#mammals #monkeys

For a [Professor] Who Used AI to Write a Paper

🙏✊ #NewsPhotography #Canada #Photography

Dense fog advisory today. My favorite.
Grant Park, South Milwaukee Lake front.

#photography #photosofbluesky #photosky📷 #lakemichigan #milwaukee #mke #fog #densefog

I'm thinking it's not too worrisome considering she's an idiot... she won't have shock troops to deploy, will she?

Reflections of skeletons: looking at an inner world

Puddle

#photography #photo #photographer #art #nature #landscapephotography #naturephotography #landscape #thephotohour #naturelovers #beautiful #eastcoastkin #illustration #ThePhotoHour #scape #blackandwhitephotography #classicmono

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekIforInteriors

LINES

#photography #Classicmono #EastCoastKin

The use of #AI in news WITHOUT human editors overseeing the results is problematic. A minor example, from the Washington Post app, can't be human-error, can it? Article about DHS listed under 'Climate' makes me wonder what else is being missed. Thoughts? @wapotechguild.bsky.social

Stop framing deepfake harassment of women as a social problem - It's a cybersecurity problem Non-consensual deepfake abuse of women is not just online harassment but cybercrime, demanding full threat intelligence and security action.

Smart piece from @megansquire.bsky.social arguing that the proliferation of AI “deepfake” nude images should not be thought of just as a social/cultural issue, but as a cybersecurity threat. The production of this stuff plugs into a world that’s often criminal.

securitybrief.news/story/stop-f...

Imagine flirting with the risk of a rogue element of a failed state ending up in control of one side of the Strait of Hormuz, especially after what the Houthis have done to the Red Sea and the approach to the Suez Canal for the past few years.

‘We say no to war’: Spain pushes back against Trump’s threats Spanish PM insists he won’t bow to U.S. commercial pressure as he leads international opposition to the strikes against Tehran.

YES, to NO!!!

www.politico.eu/article/pedr...

The Prime Minister of Spain, Pedro Sanchez Pérez-Castején © i.3h-Q@ on Facebook: The world, Europe, and Spain have faced this critical moment before. In 2003, a few irresponsible leaders dragged us into an illegal war in the Middle East that brought nothing but insecurity and pain. Our response then must be our response now: NO to violations of international law. NO to the illusion that we ca solve the world's problems with bombs. NO to repeating the mistakes of the past. NO TO WAR.

From the Prime Minister of Spain
on Facebook...
Why can't t Canada, the UK & more say something equivalent??!