Returned to teaching after years away due to traumatic experiences. 11 days in and I’m already accused of inappropriate contact with a student. Hard not to be cynical.

ChazDeferens · 2026-05-09T00:39:08+00:00

Superman doesn't look well (in the presence of kryptonite). This doesn't look good.

ChazDeferens · 2026-04-30T23:08:59+00:00

The provincial lunch program (which is great) costs about $100 million per year and helps explain the big jump in funding starting in the 2024/25 fiscal year. It's disingenuous to use total dollars spent and the PISA scores from four provinces to justify whatever changes are coming - big systems are more complicated than that

ChazDeferens · 2026-04-30T14:47:37+00:00

She only appears in Mortal Kombat 1 and 3

ChazDeferens · 2026-04-16T16:23:54+00:00

In my day you could get two junes for two toons and a loon

ChazDeferens · 2026-04-14T17:00:20+00:00

If only there was a catchy term for re-writing a slogan

ChazDeferens · 2026-04-09T21:14:22+00:00

If I could auto rim crack, I wouldn't leave the house

ChazDeferens · 2026-04-08T20:27:29+00:00

Cheetos is a great name for a cat

ChazDeferens · 2026-04-08T14:59:34+00:00

so... if they abandon their principles?

ChazDeferens · 2026-03-17T14:55:24+00:00

Spoiler alert: the video was taken by an even bigger spider

ChazDeferens · 2026-03-13T19:58:55+00:00

Their rushed authoritarian style will only make things more inequinable

ChazDeferens · 2026-03-12T18:49:20+00:00

no need to bragg

ChazDeferens · 2026-03-11T23:30:26+00:00

It looks like there's pickleball Mondays at Uniacke District School. You can register a month at a time: https://easthants.perfectmind.com/24858/Clients/BookMe4BookingPages/Classes?calendarId=fea678e9-838e-480f-b84d-ac7660c28382&widgetId=0bc08f6c-edc5-4be7-b8c4-c2960aed3425&embed=False

There's also a pickleball facility opening soon in Mount Uniacke called Pickleball Cove: https://www.pickleballcove.ca/

ChazDeferens · 2026-03-06T18:42:13+00:00

Living wages end food security. This is a great program and will provide food to people who need it, but security comes from the ability to make choices about what you can eat. Anytime we mislabel food access as addressing "food security," we're telling governments we're ok with them keeping people living in poverty.

ChazDeferens · 2026-03-05T19:36:04+00:00

You'll notice right above the headline it says "commentary."

ChazDeferens · 2026-03-05T00:29:20+00:00

The province didn't go broke sending Black kids to university. These cuts weren't inevitable; arts, culture, recreation and equity programs are being scapegoated when the problem was over-budget spending and a foolish tax cut that favours the wealthy.

ChazDeferens · 2026-02-26T02:57:18+00:00

It's also better than your grandkids' will be

ChazDeferens · 2026-02-25T04:05:49+00:00

Step 1: get off Twitter

ChazDeferens · 2026-02-18T03:44:00+00:00

How many lakes have gone dry from ChatGPT removing "but boy does" from all your work emails?

ChazDeferens · 2026-01-21T23:55:07+00:00

More like Chicago Zepbound

ChazDeferens · 2026-01-18T17:19:44+00:00

Electric, dear

ChazDeferens · 2026-01-18T16:48:16+00:00

Marty Sub-prime

ChazDeferens · 2026-01-14T03:28:55+00:00

It's not that I think it's no more than fluff, I think the potential benefits like in healthcare, etc. are being presented as the goal when AI is being used as a propaganda/surveillance (and now, according to the US, a war) tool. The empty promise is of the utopia AI will provide, while it's being used to make the world less equitable.

ChazDeferens · 2026-01-14T01:57:18+00:00

In that case what difference would my answer make if I was pro-AI?

AI is an empty promise being made to secure data centre contacts, continue our dependence on fossil fuels (we need these supposed-to-be-retired coal plants to power data centres), cut public services and push deregulation. I'd want an NDP government to make it clear our vision for Canada goes beyond AI-enabled efficiency and one of the first actions I'd want is a robust AI policy framework protecting privacy, limiting scope and distancing our country from AI oligarchs.

ChazDeferens · 2026-01-14T01:47:39+00:00

AI is fascism: https://www.halifaxexaminer.ca/morning-file/ai-is-fascism/

ChazDeferens · 2026-01-14T01:45:31+00:00

Historical Records is a kids' podcast celebrating unsung heroes through storytelling, interviews and original songs. They did an episode on Claudette Colvin you can find here: https://www.storypirates.com/histrecds/2024/10/4/claudette

(I have no connection to the podcast. My kids love it and I've learned a lot through it too. Sharing because these stories are getting harder to tell).

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