Jane Roberts
@redjane67.bsky.social
Urban dwelling Canadian. 40 years working in IT and not done yet.
Still curious about my world. Passionate about sustainable living.
Looking for clues at the scene of the crime. She/her
Still curious about my world. Passionate about sustainable living.
Looking for clues at the scene of the crime. She/her
Pinned
Jane Roberts
@redjane67.bsky.social
· Feb 9
I'm gonna pin this for a while.
Doesn't surprise me in the least that Quebec will figure out the housing crisis before the rest of the provinces.
“Premier François Legault said the legislation will target quicker permits for priority projects of national importance. This could include nearly $200 billion worth of projects proposed by Hydro-Québec.”
"There is an urgent need to create quality jobs in Quebec,"
#Canada
#Québec
"There is an urgent need to create quality jobs in Quebec,"
#Canada
#Québec
Quebec tables bill to help speed up major projects, mirroring Ottawa, other provinces
QUÉBEC — Quebec tabled its own bill Tuesday to expedite large-scale projects in the province, one that would allow the province to amend some 30 laws to allow the realization of projects deemed of nat...
www.villagereport.ca
December 10, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Doesn't surprise me in the least that Quebec will figure out the housing crisis before the rest of the provinces.
I have 3 minutes to get my ass out of bed and get in front of the computer.
High school Jane really wanted to work with computers. She would be so disappointed with how banal it has become.
High school Jane really wanted to work with computers. She would be so disappointed with how banal it has become.
December 10, 2025 at 12:59 PM
I have 3 minutes to get my ass out of bed and get in front of the computer.
High school Jane really wanted to work with computers. She would be so disappointed with how banal it has become.
High school Jane really wanted to work with computers. She would be so disappointed with how banal it has become.
Sigh. I have a feeling i'm not gonna make it out to Milton this weekend.
Riding old streetcars out in the woods is actually as fun as it looks BTW.
www.facebook.com/share/r/1Cvs...
Riding old streetcars out in the woods is actually as fun as it looks BTW.
www.facebook.com/share/r/1Cvs...
Redirecting...
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December 10, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Sigh. I have a feeling i'm not gonna make it out to Milton this weekend.
Riding old streetcars out in the woods is actually as fun as it looks BTW.
www.facebook.com/share/r/1Cvs...
Riding old streetcars out in the woods is actually as fun as it looks BTW.
www.facebook.com/share/r/1Cvs...
Oh, Google. You are such a bundle of contradictions.
December 10, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Oh, Google. You are such a bundle of contradictions.
It helps to be a light sleeper. Then you can use your reaction skills. As a teen, at the first hacking noise I could jump out of bed and get the cat out the door before he puked.
The trick is making it into an emergency.
The trick is making it into an emergency.
As a reward I now get to go clean up cat vomit
December 9, 2025 at 3:37 PM
It helps to be a light sleeper. Then you can use your reaction skills. As a teen, at the first hacking noise I could jump out of bed and get the cat out the door before he puked.
The trick is making it into an emergency.
The trick is making it into an emergency.
Okay Bluesky. You want a birthday. Here's a birthday.
It's my Facebook birthday. Not my real one.
Do really think i'm gonna trust all these social media accounts with all my PII?
It's my Facebook birthday. Not my real one.
Do really think i'm gonna trust all these social media accounts with all my PII?
December 9, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Okay Bluesky. You want a birthday. Here's a birthday.
It's my Facebook birthday. Not my real one.
Do really think i'm gonna trust all these social media accounts with all my PII?
It's my Facebook birthday. Not my real one.
Do really think i'm gonna trust all these social media accounts with all my PII?
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Remember, some people will be spending Christmas alone this year. But there’s no need for them to gloat about it.
December 8, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Remember, some people will be spending Christmas alone this year. But there’s no need for them to gloat about it.
open.spotify.com/track/5f5wlk...
A good laugh. We all need it.
A good laugh. We all need it.
The 12 Days of Christmas
open.spotify.com
December 9, 2025 at 1:10 AM
open.spotify.com/track/5f5wlk...
A good laugh. We all need it.
A good laugh. We all need it.
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"...the MOU was the last straw for me because it was a deeply cynical document. It's not about climate change. It rolls back climate policies...and it puts things on the table that are anathema to addressing climate change. And so I couldn't look at myself in the mirror."
#CdnPoli
#CdnPoli
"I couldn't look at myself in the mirror", says climate scientist @simondonner.bsky.social, who is one of the two climate advisors that quit the federal government's Net-Zero Advisory Body.
Full interview: youtu.be/x1JYcA9srH4?...
Full interview: youtu.be/x1JYcA9srH4?...
December 9, 2025 at 12:24 AM
"...the MOU was the last straw for me because it was a deeply cynical document. It's not about climate change. It rolls back climate policies...and it puts things on the table that are anathema to addressing climate change. And so I couldn't look at myself in the mirror."
#CdnPoli
#CdnPoli
Not good news. Whatever the cause. Poverty? Too much screen time instead of human interaction? And what is the mental health state of parents who had to deal with infants born during lock down?
December 8, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Not good news. Whatever the cause. Poverty? Too much screen time instead of human interaction? And what is the mental health state of parents who had to deal with infants born during lock down?
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Bay Adelaide Centre tree. At location of the “Bay Adelaide Stump,” concrete elevator shaft relic of 1990s recession (“a monument to the Mulroney era,” Shawn Micallef, Globe & Mail, 2006). The grass is as fake as tree but wifi in foodcourt directly below works & is DIY “coworking space”. 10.5/10
December 8, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Bay Adelaide Centre tree. At location of the “Bay Adelaide Stump,” concrete elevator shaft relic of 1990s recession (“a monument to the Mulroney era,” Shawn Micallef, Globe & Mail, 2006). The grass is as fake as tree but wifi in foodcourt directly below works & is DIY “coworking space”. 10.5/10
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Royal Conservatory of Music tree. OG McMaster University building (1881) + KPMB addition (2009). Tree negotiates the palimpsest in between new & old with classical nods (candles) & all mod cons (lights). Modest Victorian skirt an echo of McMaster’s Baptist origins. 13/10
December 7, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Royal Conservatory of Music tree. OG McMaster University building (1881) + KPMB addition (2009). Tree negotiates the palimpsest in between new & old with classical nods (candles) & all mod cons (lights). Modest Victorian skirt an echo of McMaster’s Baptist origins. 13/10
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High Park Toronto public library branch free. Government tree division, Carnegie library category. So cozy it doesn’t need lights, just books & a step stool. Paper ornaments appropriate for library. No pulping here save for the fiction. 12/10
December 6, 2025 at 11:47 PM
High Park Toronto public library branch free. Government tree division, Carnegie library category. So cozy it doesn’t need lights, just books & a step stool. Paper ornaments appropriate for library. No pulping here save for the fiction. 12/10
In the inimitable words of Lt. Colombo "I'm over 40, and i've never heard of that"
It's not a thing in Southern Ontario houses that have to be draft proof enough to keep the pipes from freezing in winter. That also keeps the snakes out..apparently.
It's not a thing in Southern Ontario houses that have to be draft proof enough to keep the pipes from freezing in winter. That also keeps the snakes out..apparently.
Hey what’s the normal number of snakes that normal people find in their house every month? It’s at least one, right? Minimum of twelve snakes a year?
December 8, 2025 at 2:22 AM
In the inimitable words of Lt. Colombo "I'm over 40, and i've never heard of that"
It's not a thing in Southern Ontario houses that have to be draft proof enough to keep the pipes from freezing in winter. That also keeps the snakes out..apparently.
It's not a thing in Southern Ontario houses that have to be draft proof enough to keep the pipes from freezing in winter. That also keeps the snakes out..apparently.
Um, I'm no expert, but that sounds like bafflegab to me.
"Cost-causer framework" is the term used by Halifax Water to describe to council how they charge for water and related infrastructure.
That's a new term for the concept I've been floating around in my head vis a vis taxes.
That's a new term for the concept I've been floating around in my head vis a vis taxes.
Monday's ep is out now for subscribers. Don't worry, it's only this long because I've assigned some (optional) homework.
December 8, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Um, I'm no expert, but that sounds like bafflegab to me.
Fun fact. Back in the 90's the core batch program that processed all the individual insurance policies for a major Canadian insurance company had only one generic error message if anything went wrong. Every on-call programmer feared getting "Trouble in River City"
December 8, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Fun fact. Back in the 90's the core batch program that processed all the individual insurance policies for a major Canadian insurance company had only one generic error message if anything went wrong. Every on-call programmer feared getting "Trouble in River City"
Definitely more than six.
December 8, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Definitely more than six.
And of course
December 8, 2025 at 1:02 AM
And of course
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So many choices.
December 8, 2025 at 1:01 AM
So many choices.
Movie you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star (Wars or Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.
Easy.
Easy.
December 8, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Movie you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star (Wars or Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.
Easy.
Easy.
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Reminders, as public health officials warn of a very bad flu season:
🧵
* Washing hands is not a strategy for a respiratory virus. N95s, ventilation, air filtration -- especially in hospitals.
* We should have been cleaning indoor air with the same effort we put into cleaning drinking water.
1/
🧵
* Washing hands is not a strategy for a respiratory virus. N95s, ventilation, air filtration -- especially in hospitals.
* We should have been cleaning indoor air with the same effort we put into cleaning drinking water.
1/
December 7, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Reminders, as public health officials warn of a very bad flu season:
🧵
* Washing hands is not a strategy for a respiratory virus. N95s, ventilation, air filtration -- especially in hospitals.
* We should have been cleaning indoor air with the same effort we put into cleaning drinking water.
1/
🧵
* Washing hands is not a strategy for a respiratory virus. N95s, ventilation, air filtration -- especially in hospitals.
* We should have been cleaning indoor air with the same effort we put into cleaning drinking water.
1/
I masked for church this morning and for shopping yesterday and then went to the Christmas party in my building this aft unmasked to eat , drink and be sociable.
We shall see what we shall see.
I still remember Norwalk-ing thru a couple of Christmases when the kids were small. Do not recommend.
We shall see what we shall see.
I still remember Norwalk-ing thru a couple of Christmases when the kids were small. Do not recommend.
December 8, 2025 at 12:40 AM
I masked for church this morning and for shopping yesterday and then went to the Christmas party in my building this aft unmasked to eat , drink and be sociable.
We shall see what we shall see.
I still remember Norwalk-ing thru a couple of Christmases when the kids were small. Do not recommend.
We shall see what we shall see.
I still remember Norwalk-ing thru a couple of Christmases when the kids were small. Do not recommend.
No problem?
It doesn't seem like that now, but it HAS been 30 years and many things have changed.
The clerk (I bought 2 tee shirts and some mini-jam tarts) said, "Merry Christmas" to me, so I said, "Merry Christmas" back.
"No problem," he said.
The clerk (I bought 2 tee shirts and some mini-jam tarts) said, "Merry Christmas" to me, so I said, "Merry Christmas" back.
"No problem," he said.
December 8, 2025 at 12:30 AM
No problem?