Christine
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Christine
@neluuna.bsky.social
· Jan 5
Hey what if we brought NSPower back under public control ☺️ Just as a little treat.
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District 8 has had a rough go. Halifax explosion, "urban renewal" highways, Africville, and now suffering dilapidated community centers so suburbanites can have free parking.
According to the city's model, D8 generates something like a $45m surplus annually.
On a 30 year annualization, the long-waited Needham Centre would be ~$1.6M per year.
Or: North End Halifax is completely capable of just buying itself nice things without anyone else being involved.
On a 30 year annualization, the long-waited Needham Centre would be ~$1.6M per year.
Or: North End Halifax is completely capable of just buying itself nice things without anyone else being involved.
"The project was included in the 2024/25 Capital Budget and is proposed for design work in 2026/27 and completion in 2029/30 at an estimated cost of $46.8M."
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November 22, 2025 at 5:29 PM
District 8 has had a rough go. Halifax explosion, "urban renewal" highways, Africville, and now suffering dilapidated community centers so suburbanites can have free parking.
You ever see someone familiar on here and think “huh, why don’t I follow them?” so you follow them. And inside of 24 hours you’re reminded that you *used* to follow them and unfollowed them a long time ago because they’re an insufferable lib.
November 22, 2025 at 12:51 AM
You ever see someone familiar on here and think “huh, why don’t I follow them?” so you follow them. And inside of 24 hours you’re reminded that you *used* to follow them and unfollowed them a long time ago because they’re an insufferable lib.
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Its weird that immigration started supposedly ruining our living standards right around the time the Harper government fucked our housing market.
November 21, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Its weird that immigration started supposedly ruining our living standards right around the time the Harper government fucked our housing market.
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Toronto has to raise property taxes.. But guess what? They just opened another CITY run nonprofit daycare and it only costs &22/day (and is gorgeous). I’d rather you raise my taxes and start acting like a real city with real services..
A statement from the office of Mayor Andy Fillmore regarding the 2026-2027 #budget.
“Affordability is the top concern for everyone right now. Our job at City Hall must be to reduce the property tax burden on residents as much as possible." /1
“Affordability is the top concern for everyone right now. Our job at City Hall must be to reduce the property tax burden on residents as much as possible." /1
November 20, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Toronto has to raise property taxes.. But guess what? They just opened another CITY run nonprofit daycare and it only costs &22/day (and is gorgeous). I’d rather you raise my taxes and start acting like a real city with real services..
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You're attempting to crowd surf but horribly misjudge the distance, landing crumpled on the floor? Problematic stage gap.
The sweater you’re knitting is supposed to be 10 stitches to an inch, but you’re only getting 7? Problematic gauge gap.
Angry person yelling at chill person who is responding by being calm, which makes the angry person even more mad? Problematic rage gap.
November 20, 2025 at 1:48 AM
You're attempting to crowd surf but horribly misjudge the distance, landing crumpled on the floor? Problematic stage gap.
Oh good!
TLDR staff's answer: If we have an emergency this year we are absolutely, totally, completely, fiscally fucked.
November 19, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Oh good!
Canadian kitchen sink options piss me off.
You can only have one or *maybe* two of:
- deep bowl
- double bowl
- integrated drain board
- faucet hole in the sink form
You can only have one or *maybe* two of:
- deep bowl
- double bowl
- integrated drain board
- faucet hole in the sink form
November 19, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Canadian kitchen sink options piss me off.
You can only have one or *maybe* two of:
- deep bowl
- double bowl
- integrated drain board
- faucet hole in the sink form
You can only have one or *maybe* two of:
- deep bowl
- double bowl
- integrated drain board
- faucet hole in the sink form
Big recommend. It’s great to hear Doctorow’s enshittification theory and Zitron’s rot economy theory bouncing off one another. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/b...
Cory Doctorow and Ed Zitron on Enshittification and the Rot Economy
Podcast Episode · Better Offline · 2025-11-12 · 58m
podcasts.apple.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Big recommend. It’s great to hear Doctorow’s enshittification theory and Zitron’s rot economy theory bouncing off one another. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/b...
I’m glad this is being said in council but this isn’t even 101 level shit 😭
Staff are saying density is putting more tax payers in a place and that would also decrease the cost to service the density. So that's a good way to do it (see centre plan the city's best fiscal sustainability policy in recent years)
November 19, 2025 at 3:36 PM
I’m glad this is being said in council but this isn’t even 101 level shit 😭
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A message to progressive parties everywhere. If you want to get young people to actually go out and vote in urban areas, run younger candidates who promise a less car-centric city where rent is affordable.
24-year old climate activist Karoline Lindgaard, the mayoral candidate for Alternativet, moved into a parking space set up to look like a student apartment during the campaign in order to draw attention to how much space is given over for vehicle storage in a city where students cannot afford rent
November 18, 2025 at 1:52 PM
A message to progressive parties everywhere. If you want to get young people to actually go out and vote in urban areas, run younger candidates who promise a less car-centric city where rent is affordable.
Hot take: if you want people to sort their waste into 6 different bags, allow them to drop said bags off to a walking distance neighbourhood bin 7 days a week as they fill them so they don’t have to hold onto them for 2 weeks or longer.
See: Netherlands
See: Netherlands
That’s such bullshit.
I don’t understand why so many materials need to be separated. We don’t have the space to sort the existing requirements in our small home as it is, let alone the time to haul things to a depot.
I don’t understand why so many materials need to be separated. We don’t have the space to sort the existing requirements in our small home as it is, let alone the time to haul things to a depot.
November 17, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Hot take: if you want people to sort their waste into 6 different bags, allow them to drop said bags off to a walking distance neighbourhood bin 7 days a week as they fill them so they don’t have to hold onto them for 2 weeks or longer.
See: Netherlands
See: Netherlands
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If you were running for public office which of your tweets/skeets would be the one to tank your candidacy?
November 17, 2025 at 8:04 PM
If you were running for public office which of your tweets/skeets would be the one to tank your candidacy?
TIL they’ve had to sort out an awful lot of things from my blue bag that I assumed were already being recycled. Glad to see these additions.
On Dec. 1, provincial regulations for Extended Producer Responsibility will come into effect across Nova Scotia. The municipality will continue to provide curbside recycling collection following the existing collection schedule. Learn more: www.halifax.ca/home/news/pr...
November 17, 2025 at 7:48 PM
TIL they’ve had to sort out an awful lot of things from my blue bag that I assumed were already being recycled. Glad to see these additions.
My kids’ school doesn’t qualify because it’s a neighbourhood school and most kids walk or bus. But the parents who do drive sure do love to idle along the sidewalk, poisoning the families who walk.
What's the worst school pickup/drop off location in the city?
November 17, 2025 at 4:45 PM
My kids’ school doesn’t qualify because it’s a neighbourhood school and most kids walk or bus. But the parents who do drive sure do love to idle along the sidewalk, poisoning the families who walk.
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Life cycle of autistic special interests
November 17, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Life cycle of autistic special interests
Anyone else’s phone autocorrect “he “ to “Heather”? I’m so sick of this keyboard. I miss old tech sometimes.
November 17, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Anyone else’s phone autocorrect “he “ to “Heather”? I’m so sick of this keyboard. I miss old tech sometimes.
I couldn’t even identify all the AI slop. My 14 year old pointed it out over and over.
Local holiday craft fair:
AI images
All cricut items
Dropshipper
MLM
Actually handmade items
3D printing
AI images
All cricut items
Dropshipper
MLM
Actually handmade items
3D printing
November 15, 2025 at 10:07 PM
I couldn’t even identify all the AI slop. My 14 year old pointed it out over and over.
Local holiday craft fair:
AI images
All cricut items
Dropshipper
MLM
Actually handmade items
3D printing
AI images
All cricut items
Dropshipper
MLM
Actually handmade items
3D printing
November 15, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Local holiday craft fair:
AI images
All cricut items
Dropshipper
MLM
Actually handmade items
3D printing
AI images
All cricut items
Dropshipper
MLM
Actually handmade items
3D printing
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dear god
November 15, 2025 at 8:17 AM
dear god
There should be an upper income limit. With the reappropriation of their funds, the greedy fucks should also receive a throat punch for every dollar reappropriated.
I feel like that would immediately solve about half the world’s problems.
I feel like that would immediately solve about half the world’s problems.
November 15, 2025 at 4:13 AM
There should be an upper income limit. With the reappropriation of their funds, the greedy fucks should also receive a throat punch for every dollar reappropriated.
I feel like that would immediately solve about half the world’s problems.
I feel like that would immediately solve about half the world’s problems.
That one season of TNG on Netflix that doesn’t autoplay the next episode because it pauses at the end of the language credits. Thank you. I’ve memorized the Turkish voice actors’ names. 😡
November 15, 2025 at 4:09 AM
That one season of TNG on Netflix that doesn’t autoplay the next episode because it pauses at the end of the language credits. Thank you. I’ve memorized the Turkish voice actors’ names. 😡
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Guys don't worry according to our city's road safety strategy the swinging maces (advances in car safety technology) make roads safer.
![4-panel vertical comic. (1) 100 Years Ago [two people standing next to bicycle with small car nearby] PERSON 1: It’s too dangerous riding a bike with these cars around. I should get a car, too. (2) 50 Years Ago [two people between smaller car and bigger car] PERSON 2 with short hair: Small cars are less safe in collisions with larger vehicles, so I should get a bigger one. (3) Today [two people between big car and even bigger car] PERSON 1: Everyone has huge SUVs now. If I don’t get the biggest one, I’m putting my family at risk. (4) Soon [two people next to large armored car with spiked clubs attached] PERSON 2: If I don’t install more whirling spike clubs, I’ll be destroyed by all the other drivers who...](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreiby6can6k76yzfmv2czxs4pu2l7zie7bqbrpswi7h3ifmiadkuqvu@jpeg)
November 14, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Guys don't worry according to our city's road safety strategy the swinging maces (advances in car safety technology) make roads safer.
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“Of the contractual increases the municipality is facing, the largest is tied to the cost of policing under the RCMP contract”
Can’t wait til we get to watch them propose cutting spending on libraries or food programs or affordable forms of transportation in order to pay for more cops. 🙃
Can’t wait til we get to watch them propose cutting spending on libraries or food programs or affordable forms of transportation in order to pay for more cops. 🙃
Halifax property tax bills projected to increase by 10.5 per cent
www.saltwire.com/nova-scotia/...
www.saltwire.com/nova-scotia/...
Halifax property tax bills projected to increase by 10.5 per cent
Budget direction drafted by city staff shows a $88.9 million increase
www.saltwire.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:05 PM
“Of the contractual increases the municipality is facing, the largest is tied to the cost of policing under the RCMP contract”
Can’t wait til we get to watch them propose cutting spending on libraries or food programs or affordable forms of transportation in order to pay for more cops. 🙃
Can’t wait til we get to watch them propose cutting spending on libraries or food programs or affordable forms of transportation in order to pay for more cops. 🙃
Whatever is in retrograde can get fucked. My right ankle and left thumb are out of commission. 😭
Fuck insurance companies, man.
Praying we don’t need to gut half our house. Please send dry wood thoughts 😭
November 14, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Whatever is in retrograde can get fucked. My right ankle and left thumb are out of commission. 😭