James H McLaren @JamesHMcLaren@qoto.org

Today is a wonderful day in #Alberta ...

It's baby-name-data day! 🥳

The province just released info on all the names given to babies born in 2022.

I built a little web app for those who *really* want to nerd out on baby-name trends over the past 42 years:

🔗 : https://robsonfletcher.pythonanywhere.com/

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I love this image about #books and #libraries — and silly policies about restricting books to a kid's supposed #reading level. Shared with permission.

(You can buy this group's work at https://topatoco.com/collections/unshelved.)

This meme came to me in a dream and made me laugh way harder than it probably should've.

CW eye contact

Banning ideas and authors is not a ‘culture war’ – it’s fascism

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/13/african-american-studies-republican-ban-florida

GOP is bragging they hit a new record for Black GOP members of the House. Out of 223 GOP members of the House how many are Black? Four. Yep, just four. Zero are Black woman. The GOP Black outreach program will now shut down because that is enough for them.

Can we please settle this debate already? There is no labor shortage. There is a living wage shortage, a hazard pay shortage, a child care shortage, a paid sick leave shortage, and a health care shortage.

@JamesHMcLaren @bergsbites

#Toronto #JohnTory #Resignation #poll

🤦​ Phone poll happening this evening in #Toronto: "Do you feel John Tory is making the right decision by resigning as mayor of Toronto, or should he remain in office?"

#Milquetoast #Resignation #StrongMayor

i don't like to follow popular trends for instance instead of saying "the bee's knees" i say "the fellas patellas." hmu boysss

According to Greek Mythology, Chiron was a half-human, half-horse doctor.

This made him the Centaur for Disease Control.

@Trapd
One of the only corps actually named in this story, Canadian Natural Resources Ltd, received $100M in federal public funding for oil well cleanup.
I guess that wasn't enough because CNRL is one of the companies slated to receive even more in DaniSmith's plan to have the people of Alberta also pay to clean up old oil&gas wells that the oil&gas companies are already legally obligated to clean up.
CNRL gross profits in 2021: $15.4B
And they have a tax haven subsidiary in Delaware.

Why do I bother buying avocados again? 😭

I wonder what wealthy suburbanite Toronto will elect now to ignore the city's problems and attack the city's most vulnerable.

#TOPoli #OnPoli

Multibillion-dollar oil corporations in Alberta will have $100 million of their royalty payments forgiven to compensate them for cleaning up old wells they’re already legally obligated to clean up.

Shout out to paid-lobbyist-turned-premier Danielle! #ABpoli

https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2023/02/10/Danielle-Smith-Gift-Oil-Companies/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_content=021023-m&utm_campaign=editorial

The Enterprise had shockingly bad UI. I would 100% blow the ship up accidentally while trying to program a burrito in the replicator.

The comparisons keep getting better, lol.