A Feathered Friend @SomeEgrets@awoo.space

I am encouraged that a lot of these speakers know, and are stating up front, this is a bullshit Ford admin policy informed by bigots, with political motivation to enable hateful speakers.

Specifically called out cops, too. Called out the role of rigid, inflexible law+policy being twisted and used as a bad-faith tool. Specifically calling for the document to have provisions to update and change with new situations that may not have been foreseen.

Oh! Got a heated speaker from NYC specifically calling out G*vin McIn*es involvement with Ford, specifically calling out those groups as hate groups and killers, saying this can't be a shield to support that.

Oh, now we've got a P*terson stan specifically repeating his talking points re: not using words like "diversity" and "inclusiveness"

Another student chiming in in defense of P*terson and specifically trying to defend hosted speakers that challenge the validity gender identity (fuck off)

Also chimed in that we all know where this provincial policy comes from, and that P*terson was a significant voice during consultations and there's political bias here

Cheers for the sociology rep who called out the "no loud protests" thing as effectively silencing the protestors and removing disruptive protests as a historically significant and established tool.

Student TA rep came in with "we don't want to be penalised if we mark down students who submit beliefs under 'free speech' in contexts where it's demonstrably false (ex. climate denial in a science course, creationism in biology)"

Our uni had to draft a "freedom of expression policy" per the Ford admin, and I'm really disheartened that our union rep basically weighed in on "peaceful protests of problematic speakers is fine as long as it doesn't inconvenience anyone"

(They don't want people being loud)

Does anyone else pronounce the TWEWY acronym? Like "Teh-weew-ey" or something?

@ArrBianca visit scenic Innsmouth!

Got my cat some painkillers.

Turns out it's harder to get a cat to take a pill a day than to give him an injection.

Apparently the entire province is out, which is probably why I can't even get my ISP's support to connect.

(Which, like, fair - an entire province calling at once is probably not a reasonable load to design for)

The "last mile" works - just not anything after that.

Package I'm excited to pick up arrives? Post office closed.

Have to work from home to meet deadlines? Internet is out.

Would like to occasionally have a nice thing? Monthly cat maintenance up by $200

Can I please just have... anything today? One little thing.

... on the other hand, sometimes I forget which parts I've already cleaned while I'm showering, so.

Let's just say that I have a pet theory about the "Never does homework" part of "Never does homework, but gets good grades anyway"

But like, I really hesitate to claim that I have it because I've never tried to get diagnosed, and I don't want to make that kind of false claim.

The day before, automated a type of diagnostic that might help us diagnose some intermittent hardware problems. I actually haven't worked on the Friday thing at all.

It's boring, and all the other little things caught my interest instead. I stayed up until 3am on one of them.

I'm honestly not sure if this applies to me. I don't know if it's worth the hassle to find out.

But like, I'm sitting here tweeting instead of doing the thing with a Friday deadline. And earlier today, I fixed a networking problem. Yesterday, photometry bugs.

I've seen so many people from gifted programs end up diagnosed with ADHD (or report, since adult diagnosis is apparently a nightmare), that sometimes I wonder if we just took an entire generation and told them "your illness makes you special" and then refused to help them at all

It's that time of year when the most common bird ID is "falling leaf"