The line "The caller thought I would edit that to make him sound like a lunatic, but I didn't edit it at all." deserves all the journalism awards.
#skpoli
#saskatchewan
Breaking my silence briefly to say that
@U2
’s Songs Of Surrender collection is beautiful. I feel like I’m walking down a Dublin street and get to hear the music coming from a second floor studio window left open. The Edge’s love letter to Bono’s vocals over the years.
#U2SOS
Harassment, threatening physical violence, assumption that Weekes would be blindly biased to the SaskParty, and the general arrogance of the officials in the SaskParty. You can say it’s about losing a nomination, but it’s pretty obvious it’s more than that.
#skpoli
#saskatchewan
A friend has had to lock her account due to threats of violence and harm, all because she’s vocal about supporting the vaccine and wearing a mask. What a stupid world we’ve created.
#covid19sk
It’s supposed to go from -40C to +4C in 2 days here in Saskatoon. I’m not an engineer but I feel like that’s a lot of stress on roads, buildings, and the humans.
For a gov’t that cared so much about children when it came to pronouns, they seem fine with funding a school that seems to show such little regard for children’s mental and physical well being.
#legacyofabuse
🚨Breaking: Parent of a 7 year old autistic child @ Legacy Christian Academy has filed a police complaint and Ministry of Education complaint against a female staff member at Legacy. The alleged assault took place Thursday, May 18, 2024.
#legacyofabuse
The government using a basketball tournament that's not part of the curriculum as a bargaining chip against the teachers shows just how low they're willing to go in their spiteful fight with teachers.
The basketball is in your court Moe & Cockrill.
#isupportstf
#skpoli
#sasked
Today, Education Minister Jeremy Cockrill called on the STF to call off its job action this Thursday and Friday so Hoopla can go ahead.
Don’t take this away from the kids.
Let them play.
When you’ve got a family of 5, sometimes as the dad I have to make the hard choices. Like eating the last 2 cinnamon buns before anyone is awake to prevent a war.
@alphauterus
Introverts barely got a day or two of solitude before the extroverts came banging on the virtual door with Zoom calls and Google Hangouts. 😆
I’ve never had a desire to formally support a political party in any way, until watching how the
@saskparty
and
@PremierScottMoe
treated the teachers through their negotiations, and now how the Sask Party is trying to twist a health care worker’s experience.
#skpoli
#saskatchewan
Canada is so Canada sometimes that you have to jump out of a perfectly fine aircraft onto a ship swaying on the Atlantic Ocean to lift someone back into the perfectly fine aircraft to fly to perfectly fine land to get emergency medical treatment.
🇨🇦
I heard a Kansas City tiktoker I follow say this about the shooting there, and it resonates as strongly with what's happening in
#skpoli
with the Sask Party's leadership here in Saskatchewan:
"I'm so tired of living under the tyranny of our nation's dumbest people."
People in leadership doing shady shit will always deflect by criticizing the way you point out their shady shit. "You should have talked about it sooner." "You shouldn't be so emotional." "You..." "You..."
Defensive deflection and no accountability for their actions.
#skpoli
If
@U2
’s marketing folks were paying attention, they’d bundle up the BBC special as a digital download for subscribers as an apology for the
#u2eiTour
ticket débâcle.
Welp we’ve got the COVID in our house. We all tested negative yesterday, but one of the kids (half vax’d) woke up with a fever and tested positive today.
Here we go…
Now that Apple has announced the Vision Pro, can
@U2
just ship a version of their
@SphereVegas
show we can all watch while sitting on our couch instead of having to spend $5,000USD to listen to some drunk dude yell at them "Play Beautiful Day again!"
#U2Sphere
"One piece of advice is to not get stuck in a cycle of tutorials and never actually build anything and just keep doing tutorials." -
@ASpittel
on
@LadybugPodcast
season 3 (coming next week).
/me quietly closes 20 tabs of tutorials 😅
Happy Pride month, y’all!
If you aren’t familiar with Pride, it is simply a declaration and celebration of the dignity, equality, and brilliance of LGBTQ+ folks.
In the church world, celebrating Pride can be controversial, but I really don’t think it should be. Declaring the
Do I start new projects based on an idea I’ve thought about for 10 minutes?
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A week that’s felt like a month. Today we bury my father-in-law. He lived a life always in search of the next great adventure, and could fix all the things my own dad couldn’t. We thought we had another 15+ years of curious questions, storytelling, and fun. RIP Derek
If you want to watch / read Randy Weekes, Speaker of the Legislative Assembly's, speech, I've got his 10m remarks here. I'll keep it up until someone tells me I shouldn't? I didn't see anything about not redistributing the video.
#skpoli
#saskatchewan
If I was the mayor of Saskatoon, I’d cancel all unnecessary activities today and ask everyone to please shovel their sidewalks. I hate that we have icy, unsafe roads and sidewalks, and our response is to white knuckle drive to school and work because “we’re tough.”
People in leadership doing shady shit will always deflect by criticizing the way you point out their shady shit. "You should have talked about it sooner." "You shouldn't be so emotional." "You..." "You..."
Defensive deflection and no accountability for their actions.
#skpoli
Attending a funeral for my Aunt Irene in Manitoba this evening via Zoom. I’m so thankful for the technology to allow us to gather in spite of COVID-19. I’m so angry at people who couldn’t just wear a mask and keep their distance that have kept us in this place.
It seems in Saskatchewan that church goers and hockey parents feel the most persecuted by having to minimize or stop their activities to help us deal with
#COVID19SK
. Imagine the joy of dealing with church going hockey parents. 😆
@PremierScottMoe
It doesn't appear to have subtitles or closed captioning? For a video where
@jeremycockrill
is clearly reading off a teleprompter, it should be easy enough to provide the transcript on twitter?
Thank you
@saskparty
for introducing me to
@carolynstrom
. I’m glad to see someone who’s willing to speak their experience and truth about what’s going on in our province, not just hand wave any criticisms away and pretend it’s all amazing.
#skpoli
#saskatchewan
If you’re taking the COVID-19 seriously already (washing your hands, social distancing, not going out in public, etc.), you don’t need to keep watching all the videos and reading tweets about how bad it is. You’re doing your part. Unplug. Mute. Help your neighbours + friends.
@tammyrobert
@hinz_tamara
Saskatchewan: “You can’t compare us to New Zealand, it’s an island. Of course they can do a lock down!"
Also Saskatchewan: “Regina is basically an island and we’ll lock it down there and the imaginary moat around Regina will prevent COVID from spreading any further.”
@Krista_B_85
It’s bonkers. Imagine thinking that it’s somehow the teacher or school’s fault that you’ve eroded your own child’s trust that they wouldn’t tell you about a name / pronoun change, but would tell their teacher.
Who wants to pull a Last Week Tonight with John Oliver and try setting up an unregulated, obviously fake school just to see how easy it is to get funding from the SaskParty?
#skpoli
The cheapest way to deliver K-12 education is to:
1.) make parents pay for a portion themselves (QIS)
2.) allow unregulated, non-certified, uneducated people to be teachers.
Both things are now acceptable under the Sask Party.
Earlier today I was editing
@LadybugPodcast
and
@EmmaBostian
said "rubber ducking" in reference to programming. I'd never heard of this phrase. The next podcast I pick up to edit is
@CodePen
Radio and what, dear reader, do you think is their topic?
RUBBER *mother* DUCKING
I'm not smart enough to figure out hashtags but I think
#U2T0925
means I'm supposed to post a pic of a fav shirt in honour of
@U2
's 44th birthday. For (hopefully) obvious reasons, this faded one is my fav.
#U244
All the Apple rumor sites are too scared to predict the obvious happening tomorrow: On the 5 year anniversary of
@u2
dropping their Songs of Innocence album, Tim Cook has convinced them to come back and do it all again for Songs of Ascent.
Kid getting teased / bullied at school. Surprise surprise it’s by the hockey kids. Again. All that confidence and teamwork sure works wonders off the ice.
@iluvsmooches
@tammyrobert
@PremierScottMoe
💯 I’m still so furious that he tried to imply health care workers aren’t combatting misinformation. Literally every doc I’ve talked to has stories of trying to convince people to get the vaccine - social media or IRL. 😡
If you’re not going to be at
#U2eiTour
’s opener in Tulsa on Wednesday night, why not join the
@atU2
podcast live stream and we can surf the streams together. Sign up here to be notified
@MIALaker9
@tammyrobert
What the heck dude?
a) It's lunch time, not dinner.
b) It's 2020, not 1983.
c) Why would a dad, coach, and manager teach kids that kind of crap about women, regardless of what decade it is?
I went to get milk. That’s all I needed to get. I also bought cans of Pepsi, chips & dip, raisin bread, cream, yummy yoghurt, and buttermilk.
And I forgot the milk.
U2 has now issued enough remixes of “Love is Bigger” so that everyone in North America gets their own remix. As new children are born, they too are given their own special remix.
Flight attendant: Is there a doctor onboard?
Dad: *nudging me* that should've been you
Me: Not now Dad
Dad: Not asking for a Podcast Editor to help, are they?
Me: Dad, there's a medical emergency happening right now
Dad: Go and see if “there’s too much echo“ helps.
@cassidoo
It was always explained to us as "the brain forces you to forget because otherwise nobody would ever do that again and our speciies would've died out" 😆