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Found a baby songbird? Here's a newly updated chart!

submitted 19 days ago • 49 comments

Do you like birds? My new book THE BIRDING DICTIONARY is out today wherever you buy books! This little book is deeply silly and full of love, and I hope you'll laugh and maybe enjoy an obscure fact or two.

submitted 35 days ago • 32 comments

If you're about to use an LLM to send me an email: stop. Just take whatever you were putting in the prompt, and send me that instead. I would much rather read your informal point form notes than wade through LLM generated slop.

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

Certain partisans have been citing Canada's performance on per capita GDP as evidence of a supposed 'lost decade' and economic mismanagement. In @irpp.org's Policy Options, I deconstruct this arbitrary and misleading statistic, in two parts. #cdnecon #cdnpoli. /2

submitted 50 days ago • 3 comments

I should've said something about this sooner, but...well, I didn't know it was public! But I have a book coming out soon: www.cbc.ca/books/zeroed... #comicsky

submitted 69 days ago • 16 comments

Hey! A little news from me! I'm back to talking about games (video and otherwise), twice a month, on a new podcast I'm hosting with the crew from @friends-table.bsky.social!

submitted 70 days ago • 49 comments

Entrepreneurial mystery book lovers in Toronto! The owner Toronto's mystery bookstore, SLEUTH OF BAKER STREET, is retiring. He is looking for someone interested in taking over the bookshop, gave me permission to post publicly about this. sleuthofbakerstreet.ca #Toronto #IndieBookstores

submitted 93 days ago • 3 comments

I took a very long drive for some round birds. These are Willow Ptarmigans up in Quebec, aka Awebo birds. I love them so much.

submitted 115 days ago • 83 comments

Apropos of a co-panelist's remarks today: If you're asking how do we get people to trust this technology, you're asking the wrong question. Should be: How do we build technology that is trustworthy & sufficiently transparent so people can make informed decisions abt when to trust it.

submitted 137 days ago • 4 comments

I did a VERY brief playtest of this and the central mechanic is the absolute coolest thing I've ever seen in a game ever and I think about it basically constantly

submitted 141 days ago • 2 comments

It’s Budget Launch day at city hall, and — surprise! — the presentation has been posted early. Staff are proposing a 5.4% residential prop tax increase to support the $18.8 billion operating budget + another 1.5% increase for the City Building Levy. www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis... (PDF)

submitted 148 days ago • 5 comments

6 hours under martial law: a drunk scene report from Seoul www.theverge.com/24312920/mar...

submitted 189 days ago • 259 comments

I'm at the National Assembly building. The army is here. And I just saw two soldiers in fatigues getting pushed around by belligerent ajusshis. and they looked legit scared.

submitted 189 days ago • 210 comments

The closure of the Ontario Science Centre, Alison Motluk writes, was a murder. Then devastated staff were given four months to dispose of the body. A former Science Centre employee takes readers inside the final days of a beloved institution. thelocal.to/ontario-scie...

submitted 198 days ago • 9 comments

💡 Tip: You can set your website as your username on Bluesky! This is one form of self-verification, and we especially encourage official organizations and brands to do this! Examples include @npr.org @react.dev @duolingobrasil.com.br. Here's our guide for how to do this:

submitted 207 days ago • 1513 comments

Happy 20rh anniversary to all the Bloodlines fans and everyone on the Troika team!

submitted 206 days ago • 4 comments

check out this podcast my pals and i do about genre literature! most recently i have been making us read a now semi-obscure but groundbreaking early 90s trilogy about gay wizards dealing with family dysfunction and domestic abuse, which is somehow both weirder and more affirming than it sounds

submitted 214 days ago • 5 comments

Ontario citizens, you can leave a comment on the upcoming bike lane act here: https://ero.ontario.ca/notice/019-9266 (h/t @hank)

submitted 230 days ago • 0 comments

spacing.ca/toronto/2024...

submitted 287 days ago • 0 comments

Inspiring animals I have seen. Thank you Patrons for your support: www.patreon.com/birdandmoon

submitted 295 days ago • 20 comments

Hey, do me a favour - if you like me and my work, just click ‘wishlist’ on this bad boy which I am writing, and I will thank you via psychic good vibes store.steampowered.com/app/2857810/...

submitted 327 days ago • 10 comments

The Science Centre report says the roof is only in danger of collapse under heavy snow load and could be fully repaired for $13mn. A govt spending $1bn to get beer into stores a year early won't spend a pittance to give kids a safe educational space. Their priorities seem a tad skewed to me

submitted 354 days ago • 6 comments

Newsletter: Tech's hyper-growth era is ending. Almost every major web platform has seen traffic declines since 2021, and the industry is getting desperate as it realizes there aren't any massive new markets left- and generative AI isn't the next big thing. www.wheresyoured.at/rotcombubble/

submitted 372 days ago • 21 comments

PSA: If you live anywhere near this blob and it’s not cloudy, tonight is a good night to go outside and look up www.swpc.noaa.gov/communities/...

submitted 396 days ago • 89 comments

In honor of Bluesky getting gifs, here are gifs of birds and what the birds are actually doing. This is a woodcock (yes, that's the real name) and it's probably bobbing to attract worms to the surface so it can eat them.

submitted 407 days ago • 31 comments

Hey look I’m doing a thing youtu.be/L5YO9nmojo4?...

submitted 419 days ago • 18 comments

I spent a long time experimenting with AI before finally writing about it in depth. It can be pretty useful — but is it worth it? www.citationneeded.news/ai-isnt-usel...

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I lost my dad a little over a month ago. It's been therapeutic to make comics about the loss. I'll be back to normal funny bird things soon. #loss #grief #sad #death

submitted 449 days ago • 152 comments