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Father | Settler | Lawyer working for Indigenous peoples | beard grower | soccer coach | I don’t make the rules, I just interpret them | posts, not legal advice | Halisky
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“The same care they use for every show” involved inviting noted liars Kevin O’Leary and David Frum on the show, and fact checking pretty much nothing they said.

submitted 7 hours ago • 1 comment

Wrote about the making of snowhfx.danp.net, my Halifax sidewalk snow clearing map, the data needed (both open and scraped), and bits about making the map faster. Links to source included, including the #golang programs that bring the data together!

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

Love our walkable, barrier-free downtown.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Huh. The “keep politics out of sports” crowd are suspiciously quiet about this one. www.nhl.com/news/trump-c...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Absolutely wild that they called an early election because they “needed a stronger mandate”, and then proceeded to implement a bunch of sweeping, self-serving l, anti-democratic changes that they absolutely did not campaign on.

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

“We don’t make nice with fascists” shouldn’t be a particularly controversial political position, Micheál.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

They will just keep moving all the bad apples from one barrel to another until all the apples rot.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

"Houston did not campaign on these changes. None of this was in his election platform. Not one word of this was uttered from the steps of the blue bus, in the PCs’ Facebook or TV ads, at rallies or press conferences. It’s the biggest electoral bait-and-switch con in Nova Scotia’s electoral history."

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Did they seriously say the Trojan war was the greatest war in human history?

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

What the hell am I doing drinking in Port Moody? (Again)

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Boston fans: you will be judged by how you respond to Trump tonight. Govern yourselves accordingly.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Being opposed to children’s literacy is a hell of a political position, but here we are. www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

AI is theft.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Imagine being rich enough to do anything you want and choosing to take food and medicine from starving children to give yourself even more money.

submitted 5 days ago • 1924 comments

Airbnb is a terrible business, and here’s one more reason not to use them.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

My good man, first of all. No. Second , do you really think if Canada becomes the 51st there will actually be free elections? Lol. Like do you think Poland got to vote after Hitler invaded?

submitted 6 days ago • 17 comments

Americans trying to argue the Super Bowl is bigger than the World Cup final. Mate, the Eurovision final is bigger than the Super Bowl.

submitted 6 days ago • 6 comments

"I called it ethnic cleansing. But when I saw the images of starving babies in Gaza I had to upgrade my language." By Art Spiegelman (Maus) and Joe Sacco www.theguardian.com/world/pictur...

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submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

This couple are giving off big StFX energy.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Empathy is going to work a lot better with disillusioned voters than “I told you so”.

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

(pointing to punisher logo on policeman's shirt while being arrested stealing baby shoes from Ross) thats fucking awesome . I love dead pool

submitted 7 days ago • 34 comments

HRM roads and sidewalks this morning:

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment