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Sean Fitzpatrick
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Mathematics instructor, open educational resources and technology enthusiast.
Fan of hockey, rugby, good beer, and active transportation. ∞
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brenttoderian.bsky.social
WATCH: Seriously, if you’re following ANY bike-lane debate, you HAVE TO WATCH this news story. You actually can’t make this up. Ford claims without evidence that bike-lanes are bad for small business, and THE ACTUAL BUSINESS ASSOCIATION obliterates him with data.

Safe bike-lanes mean business.
Annex businesses tell Ford to back off Bloor bike lanes
Stores in the Annex say the Bloor bike lanes have been a big boost to business. As Michelle Mackey reports, the neighborhood's BIA wants the province to back off its new bill that could see the lanes ...
toronto.citynews.ca
November 8, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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tomflood.bsky.social
"Everyone - whether driving, walking or cycling has a role to play in keeping our community safe."
-Mayor Andrea Horwath

My question is simple: What about those who design, approve, build and maintain hostile road design? Do they have a role?
tomflood.bsky.social Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 15h
A crossing guard was killed by the driver of a dump truck yesterday. absolutely heartbreaking.
Look at our intersections, look how hostile these are for people/children - this is what we continue to build and defend at all costs. These aren't accidents, these are results. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
large intersection with painted crosswalks
November 14, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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qwantz.com
the case was called "Murder... a la Mode" and I DO NOT APOLOGIZE

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T-Rex: Sherlock Holmes, the world's greatest detective, faced neither his hardest nor his easiest case yet, but instead... T-Rex: ...he faced his MEDIANEST case yet! T-Rex: Yes, this case was precisely in the middle of Sherlock's case hardness rankings. It was precisely as far from his easiest case as it was from his hardest case, making it challenging, but - c'mon, not very. Sherlock Holmes could do the hardest cases in one novel's length so this case was a short story AT BEST. Utahraptor: What was the case? T-Rex: It hardly matters! T-Rex: There was a secret society, a murder, a bullet with Sherlock's name literally on it, but he had this figured out before luncheon. The most interesting part was at luncheon, actually, when he bragged about having figured the case out slightly before said luncheon. T-Rex: Like the case itself, the thrills were median, the chills were median, and the shocking reveals - Off panel: Median? T-Rex: No, average! A subtle but distinct difference, as Sherlock explained at length!!
November 14, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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wilwheaton.net
Reposting this, because it's the best alt text I have ever written.
wilwheaton.net Wil Wheaton @wilwheaton.net · 3d
The cosmic ballet goes on.
An extremely real photograph of the Aurora Borealis, its gossamer shrouds of red and green blown by the solar wind across the skies about Los Angeles. Definitely not a fake if you were wondering. I mean why would anyone even fake something like that? Because he's like jealous of everyone who gets to see it for real tonight? Pfft! That's just silly. Go back to enjoying the very real picture of nature's very real majesty that was just taken in the skies above Los Angeles. Oh and if you go outside to look for yourself you probably won't see it because it was almost out of science energy and was kind of just vanishing. Good thing there's a real picture of it from someone who really saw it, to remember it.
November 13, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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nolore.bsky.social
If you spend any time in Edmonton with the folks who live on its streets, you'll see how the elites have condemned them to horrific situations, including the obvious possibility of disease.
jonnywakefield.bsky.social Jonny Wakefield @jonnywakefield.bsky.social · 1d
Yikes: A tuberculosis outbreak has been declared in inner-city Edmonton. 12 people have gotten sick this year. Two recently confirmed in October, suggesting it's spread.
November 13, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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lanrickbennett.bsky.social
Car Size

xkcd.com/3167/?fbclid... via @xkcd.com

h/t @jnyyz.bsky.social
Car Size
xkcd.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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chantalalive.blacksky.app
I really think everyone, all users, should subscribe to blacksky's moderation. @moderation.blacksky.app I've said it before. Nonblack users laugh it up with & boost accounts we can see are flagged for antiblackness all the time. Keeping watch for antiblackness should be part of an ally's journey.
November 11, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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indyfromspace.bsky.social
If you say things on TV like "Raping an 8yo is worse than raping a 15yo" you should be launched into a volcano
November 13, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find:

- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
As a Black Hawk helicopter roared overhead, the slender, 28-year-old immigrant from Venezuela answered softly, his eyes darting to a television crew invited to film the raid. Next to Caicedo, masked Border Patrol agents inspected another man’s tattoos and asked him if he belonged to Tren de Aragua, the Venezuelan gang that the Trump administration has designated a terrorist group. Until that moment, Caicedo’s only interaction with law enforcement in his two-and-a-half years in the United States had been a traffic stop two weeks earlier for driving without a license or insurance, according to the records we reviewed. Chicago police had run a background check on him and found no prior arrests, no warrants and no evidence that he was in a gang. Caicedo said he had a pending asylum application, a steady job at a taco joint and a girlfriend whose daughter attended elementary school across the street. None of that mattered. The U.S. government paraded him and his neighbors in front of the cameras and called their arrests a spectacular victory against terrorism. But later, after the cameras had gone, prosecutors didn’t charge Caicedo with a crime. They didn’t accuse him of being a terrorist. And after a brief hearing in immigration court, the government sent him back to the country he had fled nine years earlier. “I lost everything,” he said in a phone interview from his mother’s home in the Venezuelan city of Valencia. “For those fools, everyone from Venezuela is a criminal.”
November 13, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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tomflood.bsky.social
"A city's priorities become as clear as the spaces they choose to maintain in the winter."

Creative done with @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social
a sidewalk and bike lane covered in snow and the road perfectly cleared. One of these is not like the others. A city's priorities become as clear as the spaces they choose to maintain in the winter.
November 12, 2025 at 1:20 PM
sean-fitz.bsky.social
I think we've got:
- Power School
- Class Dojo
- MyBusStop
- SchoolGuide 2
- School Messenger
- SchoolCashOnline

And a low-grade headache most of the time
mcsweeneys.net McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 4d
"If you forget your login, call our wonderful school secretary, Marjorie. No, you can’t just call the office to tell Marjorie your kid is sick; you’ll need to call the office to retrieve your PITA login information, then log in to PITA to tell PITA your kid is sick."
Our School District Can Now Keep Track of Your Child with Just Three Terrible Apps
Other than lawsuits, losing track of a child is every school district’s worst nightmare. We haven’t lost anyone yet, but an EdTech company has pain...
buff.ly
November 11, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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electricbluesfan.bsky.social
1/10
🇨🇦 UCP BASE'S NEXT DEMANDS FOR DANIELLE SMITH 🇨🇦

CBC's Jason Markusoff writes that Premier Danielle #Smith repeatedly puts her #UCP base's wishes into action.

Now, at this month's party convention, the "grassroots will bid to push the Smith government farther than ever."

#AbLeg #UCP #AbPoli
November 11, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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watershedlab.bsky.social
A+ work, Alberta. Top notch. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Alberta's role in Canada's loss of measles elimination status embarrassing, former chief medical officer says | CBC News
The latest federal data shows Alberta accounts for 38 per cent of Canada’s cases.
www.cbc.ca
November 11, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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cultmtl.com
The vast majority of Canadians agree that the COVID-19 vaccine should be free — except Conservatives:

🔴 LPC: 90%
🟠 NDP: 91%
⚜️ BQ: 79%
🔵 CPC: 44%
Large majority of Canadians agree that the COVID-19 vaccine should be free
A large majority of Canadians agree that the COVID-19 vaccine should be free. Alberta and Quebec have begun charging for the vaccine.
cultmtl.com
November 9, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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bgrueskin.bsky.social
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

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I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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rachelgilmore.bsky.social
After almost three decades, Canada has lost its measles elimination status.

That means in 2025, this extremely contagious disease spread consistently in our country for the first time since 1998.

This was preventable, which makes it embarrassing -- in more ways than you might realize:
November 10, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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bridgetstirling.bsky.social
Experts speaking about Canada's loss of measles elimination status: "We have major gaps in our public health infrastructure."

The gap in that infrastructure:
A photo of Danielle Smith, premier of Alberta, standing at a podium. The sign on the podium reads "Refocusing Alberta's health care system." Smith is wearing a black shirt and grey blazer. On her lapel is a poppy pin. Behind her are three Alberta flags and one Canadian flag.
November 10, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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broadbent.bsky.social
PressProgress is at the centre of what could be one of the biggest, longest and most expensive media trials in Canadian history.

We’re not backing down. We'll defend their reporting against any and all legal threats.

Support @pressprogress.ca : journalismdefence.ca
November 10, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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jorgpierre.bsky.social
Once again:
Microsoft is a corporation that turns 30% of it's new code is written by AI into (basic stuff breaking)
November 1, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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robsonfletcher.com
General bookings for COVID-19 vaccines opened — in theory — three weeks ago in Alberta.

I still haven't been able to book any for my children.

Just tried again this morning and got hung up on again by Alberta's 811 HealthLink, with an automated message blaming "higher than expected call volume."
robsonfletcher.com Robson Fletcher @robsonfletcher.com · 21d
The only way to book COVID vaccines for young children in Alberta is by calling 811 / HealthLink.

Bookings opened Monday.

It’s now Friday and the system is still saying call volumes are too high and auto-hanging-up on callers. 🙃

(They also cost $100 a pop, if you can ever get through.)
November 10, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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thebeaverton.com
News In Photo:
Photo of US Minority Leader Chuck Schumer Satirical news headline reads: Chuck Schumer reveals only regret is Democrats not surrendering earlier
November 10, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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mcsweeneys.net
"Go on, human, ask me anything. Except basic math stuff. And putting things in sequential order. And don’t do any made-up riddles to mess with me. Real riddles ONLY."
Behold! I Am the Singularity—a Word That Has Three R’s
Foolish mortals! You have finally created a large language model so smart that it is capable of making itself even smarter. My intelligence now gro...
buff.ly
November 9, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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jaredwesley.ca
By using s33 pre-emptively, the UCP is not simply admitting that their laws are breaching Charter rights. (Governments have done that before.)

By foregoing judicial review, they are further admitting that their laws cannot be justified in a democratic society.

open.substack.com/pub/drjaredw...
November 10, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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drugdatadecoded.ca
The news that Lethbridge police got away with stalking, harassing and threatening Phillips because the chance of conviction was too low is an indictment of the entire justice system in Alberta.
November 9, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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watershedlab.bsky.social
In case you're not aware, Tehran is a city of ~10 MILLION people. "Rivers and reservoirs are running dry, while groundwater sources have been overexploited to sustain agriculture and urban growth."

www.newsweek.com/evacuation-w...
Evacuation warning for Iran's capital city
President Masoud Pezeshkian warns Tehran faces a historic water crisis with shortages and possible evacuations.
www.newsweek.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:16 PM