Court
@hicourt.bsky.social
High school computer science teacher interested in alternative grading #EduSky
Rookie cargo e-biker, hobby seamstress, & veteran soccer player, keen to live a life marked by compassion. Views are my own.
Rookie cargo e-biker, hobby seamstress, & veteran soccer player, keen to live a life marked by compassion. Views are my own.
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BREAKING: After an appeals court denied Trump's effort to withhold SNAP funds for hungry families, the President is appealing YET AGAIN all the way to the Supreme Court.
It is stunning the lengths Donald Trump will go to in order to force children and seniors to go hungry.
It is stunning the lengths Donald Trump will go to in order to force children and seniors to go hungry.
November 8, 2025 at 12:08 AM
BREAKING: After an appeals court denied Trump's effort to withhold SNAP funds for hungry families, the President is appealing YET AGAIN all the way to the Supreme Court.
It is stunning the lengths Donald Trump will go to in order to force children and seniors to go hungry.
It is stunning the lengths Donald Trump will go to in order to force children and seniors to go hungry.
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yes. by design.
The rich have shamed poor people into silence to such an extent that almost no one knows how absolutely crushing it is to be poor in this country.
November 8, 2025 at 12:49 AM
yes. by design.
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That Lansdowne transit upgrades were not part of the LRT-centric transit vision or implementation is a tell.
At best this is the least damaging compromise vs. doing nothing and effectively abandoning Lansdowne to rot.
At best this is the least damaging compromise vs. doing nothing and effectively abandoning Lansdowne to rot.
November 7, 2025 at 11:37 PM
That Lansdowne transit upgrades were not part of the LRT-centric transit vision or implementation is a tell.
At best this is the least damaging compromise vs. doing nothing and effectively abandoning Lansdowne to rot.
At best this is the least damaging compromise vs. doing nothing and effectively abandoning Lansdowne to rot.
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At the end of the day I'm not sure how much difference it makes. But it is striking to put out a budget that axes a luxury tax on yachts and adds a co-pay for refugee claimants accessing drugs and dental care.
November 4, 2025 at 10:57 PM
At the end of the day I'm not sure how much difference it makes. But it is striking to put out a budget that axes a luxury tax on yachts and adds a co-pay for refugee claimants accessing drugs and dental care.
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Thanks, I hate it
The Province of Ontario is ending the use of automated speed enforcement cameras.
The change will take effect November 14.
Any infractions incurred prior to the repeal will still be processed and vehicle owners will be required to pay the fine.
Find out more: https://bit.ly/4oqIOCS
The change will take effect November 14.
Any infractions incurred prior to the repeal will still be processed and vehicle owners will be required to pay the fine.
Find out more: https://bit.ly/4oqIOCS
November 4, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Thanks, I hate it
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Not much point in following @teenvogue.com anymore I guess.
November 3, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Not much point in following @teenvogue.com anymore I guess.
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I am starting a class action lawsuit against whoever invented baseball.
I am never putting my entire identity into a baseball team ever again.
November 2, 2025 at 3:43 AM
I am starting a class action lawsuit against whoever invented baseball.
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We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.
November 1, 2025 at 12:31 AM
We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.
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Thanks to everyone who came to our office to donate blood and join the bone marrow registry this Halloween!
We gave away over 100 hot dogs, 15 pounds of candy, signed up 50 people for the bone marrow registry, and collected 28 units of blood —which is more blood than in three people’s bodies!
We gave away over 100 hot dogs, 15 pounds of candy, signed up 50 people for the bone marrow registry, and collected 28 units of blood —which is more blood than in three people’s bodies!
October 31, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Thanks to everyone who came to our office to donate blood and join the bone marrow registry this Halloween!
We gave away over 100 hot dogs, 15 pounds of candy, signed up 50 people for the bone marrow registry, and collected 28 units of blood —which is more blood than in three people’s bodies!
We gave away over 100 hot dogs, 15 pounds of candy, signed up 50 people for the bone marrow registry, and collected 28 units of blood —which is more blood than in three people’s bodies!
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Before the moon rises and the pumpkins begin to glow, #OttCity’s waste collection trucks will vanish from the roads by 6 pm today, October 31.
If your leaf and yard waste collection is missed, it will be collected on November 1.
Have a wickedly good Halloween!
If your leaf and yard waste collection is missed, it will be collected on November 1.
Have a wickedly good Halloween!
October 31, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Before the moon rises and the pumpkins begin to glow, #OttCity’s waste collection trucks will vanish from the roads by 6 pm today, October 31.
If your leaf and yard waste collection is missed, it will be collected on November 1.
Have a wickedly good Halloween!
If your leaf and yard waste collection is missed, it will be collected on November 1.
Have a wickedly good Halloween!
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Hard to overstate the lifeline this ruling offers in the face of Trump's calculated cruelty.
It will not only keep tens of millions—half of them kids—fed this month, but will also prevent the evictions and shutoffs that would have resulted from families being forced to pay for food out of pocket.
It will not only keep tens of millions—half of them kids—fed this month, but will also prevent the evictions and shutoffs that would have resulted from families being forced to pay for food out of pocket.
October 31, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Hard to overstate the lifeline this ruling offers in the face of Trump's calculated cruelty.
It will not only keep tens of millions—half of them kids—fed this month, but will also prevent the evictions and shutoffs that would have resulted from families being forced to pay for food out of pocket.
It will not only keep tens of millions—half of them kids—fed this month, but will also prevent the evictions and shutoffs that would have resulted from families being forced to pay for food out of pocket.
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I just don’t think we’re freaking out enough about this SNAP cut. I have spent my whole career working with people who rely on SNAP for food. People who work multiple jobs. Who have kids. What do you think happens when 1/8th of the population can’t buy food anymore? Everything is going to collapse.
October 30, 2025 at 11:20 PM
I just don’t think we’re freaking out enough about this SNAP cut. I have spent my whole career working with people who rely on SNAP for food. People who work multiple jobs. Who have kids. What do you think happens when 1/8th of the population can’t buy food anymore? Everything is going to collapse.
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Sorry I refuse to entertain the complete non-existent world where white people don’t know that countless cultures, including some of their own but certainly diasporic racialized ones, call their mom’s cousin’s friend’s sister they grew up with “cousin” and call close women elders “aunt/auntie”
October 28, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Sorry I refuse to entertain the complete non-existent world where white people don’t know that countless cultures, including some of their own but certainly diasporic racialized ones, call their mom’s cousin’s friend’s sister they grew up with “cousin” and call close women elders “aunt/auntie”
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You know who the real freeloaders in this country are? Not people who rely on SNAP, but corporations whose business model depends on wages so low that taxpayers have to feed their workers.
October 27, 2025 at 1:05 AM
You know who the real freeloaders in this country are? Not people who rely on SNAP, but corporations whose business model depends on wages so low that taxpayers have to feed their workers.
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SNAP isn't about "people who don't work." It's about people who don't get paid enough to live.
Of the 40 or so million people who rely on food stamps:
* Two-thirds are children, seniors, or disabled
* Most working-age adults who receive SNAP are employed—but in jobs that pay poverty wages
Of the 40 or so million people who rely on food stamps:
* Two-thirds are children, seniors, or disabled
* Most working-age adults who receive SNAP are employed—but in jobs that pay poverty wages
October 27, 2025 at 12:48 AM
SNAP isn't about "people who don't work." It's about people who don't get paid enough to live.
Of the 40 or so million people who rely on food stamps:
* Two-thirds are children, seniors, or disabled
* Most working-age adults who receive SNAP are employed—but in jobs that pay poverty wages
Of the 40 or so million people who rely on food stamps:
* Two-thirds are children, seniors, or disabled
* Most working-age adults who receive SNAP are employed—but in jobs that pay poverty wages
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With millions at risk of losing SNAP in the coming days, a reminder: hunger doesn't happen in isolation. When food assistance disappears, families use rent money to eat. Then come evictions and homelessness.
Housing, food, healthcare—it's all connected. Cut one thread and the whole thing unravels.
Housing, food, healthcare—it's all connected. Cut one thread and the whole thing unravels.
October 24, 2025 at 12:26 PM
With millions at risk of losing SNAP in the coming days, a reminder: hunger doesn't happen in isolation. When food assistance disappears, families use rent money to eat. Then come evictions and homelessness.
Housing, food, healthcare—it's all connected. Cut one thread and the whole thing unravels.
Housing, food, healthcare—it's all connected. Cut one thread and the whole thing unravels.
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We have sent out a letter to the premier of Ontario, Doug Ford, opposing his plan to remove speed cameras, which have been shown to overwhelmingly increase safety on our roads.
Thanks @hansonthebike.bsky.social for putting the letter together, and @pbickerton.bsky.social for the great graphics!
Thanks @hansonthebike.bsky.social for putting the letter together, and @pbickerton.bsky.social for the great graphics!
October 23, 2025 at 12:05 AM
We have sent out a letter to the premier of Ontario, Doug Ford, opposing his plan to remove speed cameras, which have been shown to overwhelmingly increase safety on our roads.
Thanks @hansonthebike.bsky.social for putting the letter together, and @pbickerton.bsky.social for the great graphics!
Thanks @hansonthebike.bsky.social for putting the letter together, and @pbickerton.bsky.social for the great graphics!
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Homelessness in this province will #TRIPLE...
"Last year, research... revealed a staggering statistic: more than 80,000 people in #Ontario are without #housing, a number expected to surge to 300,000 by 2035 without #intervention."
www.thespec.com/opinion/cont...
"Last year, research... revealed a staggering statistic: more than 80,000 people in #Ontario are without #housing, a number expected to surge to 300,000 by 2035 without #intervention."
www.thespec.com/opinion/cont...
Homelessness ends with housing: A call for solutions to Ontario’s homelessness crisis
The province needs leadership, not divisive politics that leaves people behind.
www.thespec.com
October 22, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Homelessness in this province will #TRIPLE...
"Last year, research... revealed a staggering statistic: more than 80,000 people in #Ontario are without #housing, a number expected to surge to 300,000 by 2035 without #intervention."
www.thespec.com/opinion/cont...
"Last year, research... revealed a staggering statistic: more than 80,000 people in #Ontario are without #housing, a number expected to surge to 300,000 by 2035 without #intervention."
www.thespec.com/opinion/cont...
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So many of our dreams for the future are tied up with housing.
Right now, @mark-carney.bsky.social has a chance to make sure all of us have a place to call home — one that meets our needs, and that allows us to stay in our communities.
Sign now for #HomesForAll 👉 leadnow.ca/parliamentar...
Right now, @mark-carney.bsky.social has a chance to make sure all of us have a place to call home — one that meets our needs, and that allows us to stay in our communities.
Sign now for #HomesForAll 👉 leadnow.ca/parliamentar...
October 23, 2025 at 12:29 AM
So many of our dreams for the future are tied up with housing.
Right now, @mark-carney.bsky.social has a chance to make sure all of us have a place to call home — one that meets our needs, and that allows us to stay in our communities.
Sign now for #HomesForAll 👉 leadnow.ca/parliamentar...
Right now, @mark-carney.bsky.social has a chance to make sure all of us have a place to call home — one that meets our needs, and that allows us to stay in our communities.
Sign now for #HomesForAll 👉 leadnow.ca/parliamentar...
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I have never, ever understood the appeal of internet connected appliances, and every time I see a story like this I'm more and more convinced I'm right in avoiding them as much as is possible.
The AWS outage bricked people's $2,700 smartbeds, leaving them in a reclining position or with the heat up. People were unable to use them, basically. A GitHub repo exists that lets people operate their beds without reliance on the normal infrastructure
www.404media.co/the-aws-outa...
www.404media.co/the-aws-outa...
The AWS Outage Bricked People’s $2,700 Smartbeds
When Amazon Web Services went offline, people lost control of their cloud-connected smart beds, getting stuck in reclined positions or roasting with the heat turned all the way up.
www.404media.co
October 22, 2025 at 7:43 PM
I have never, ever understood the appeal of internet connected appliances, and every time I see a story like this I'm more and more convinced I'm right in avoiding them as much as is possible.
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Local legislator displays the importance of kerning
October 22, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Local legislator displays the importance of kerning
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Thank you Councillors @seandevine9.bsky.social @lainejohnson.bsky.social
@Tim Tierney
@tkavanaghbayward.bsky.social
@rawlson.bsky.social
@stephanieplante.bsky.social
for coming out to save our speed cameras and keep school zones safe.
We know our fight will not end here.
@Tim Tierney
@tkavanaghbayward.bsky.social
@rawlson.bsky.social
@stephanieplante.bsky.social
for coming out to save our speed cameras and keep school zones safe.
We know our fight will not end here.
October 20, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Thank you Councillors @seandevine9.bsky.social @lainejohnson.bsky.social
@Tim Tierney
@tkavanaghbayward.bsky.social
@rawlson.bsky.social
@stephanieplante.bsky.social
for coming out to save our speed cameras and keep school zones safe.
We know our fight will not end here.
@Tim Tierney
@tkavanaghbayward.bsky.social
@rawlson.bsky.social
@stephanieplante.bsky.social
for coming out to save our speed cameras and keep school zones safe.
We know our fight will not end here.
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America is being run by people whose social media presence would see them getting fired from a part time job stacking shelves.
If you worked at Aldi and posted a video of you pouring shit all over Aldi customers, you wouldn't work at Aldi.
If you worked at Aldi and posted a video of you pouring shit all over Aldi customers, you wouldn't work at Aldi.
October 19, 2025 at 12:30 PM
America is being run by people whose social media presence would see them getting fired from a part time job stacking shelves.
If you worked at Aldi and posted a video of you pouring shit all over Aldi customers, you wouldn't work at Aldi.
If you worked at Aldi and posted a video of you pouring shit all over Aldi customers, you wouldn't work at Aldi.
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And the danger of that wealth is amplified by the power we've allllowed it to buy.
Power to influence elections.
Power to mold institutions.
Power to move markets.
Power to manipulate media.
Power to punish anyone who tries to challenge or question their power.
Power to influence elections.
Power to mold institutions.
Power to move markets.
Power to manipulate media.
Power to punish anyone who tries to challenge or question their power.
The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.
The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.
Read that back.
When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.
The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.
Read that back.
When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.
October 14, 2025 at 10:05 AM
And the danger of that wealth is amplified by the power we've allllowed it to buy.
Power to influence elections.
Power to mold institutions.
Power to move markets.
Power to manipulate media.
Power to punish anyone who tries to challenge or question their power.
Power to influence elections.
Power to mold institutions.
Power to move markets.
Power to manipulate media.
Power to punish anyone who tries to challenge or question their power.
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I worked out that the $120M it cost to widen 4km of Strandherd Rd would have covered a $5000 e-bike for every household in Barrhaven. That would surely have a more positive impact on traffic.
October 10, 2025 at 1:29 PM
I worked out that the $120M it cost to widen 4km of Strandherd Rd would have covered a $5000 e-bike for every household in Barrhaven. That would surely have a more positive impact on traffic.