If you like yelling about misuse of the passive voice, THIS IS IT.

I cited actual Kirk quotes where he calls Black women less intelligent, demonizes me for being Muslim, & dehumanizes LGBTQ people—& his supporters are upset at me for “speaking evil of the dead.”

If quoting him is “speaking evil” maybe ask yourself why you followed someone who believed evil things.

New Mexico's economy is a fraction of the size of New York City's.

If they can enact universal childcare — and relieve working families of a crushing cost burden — surely we can too.

It's just a question of political will.

no, I don’t believe anyone should be gunned down

however

there is a level of privilege in being able to praise him as a “family man”

you know who else are / were family men and women and children? All the marginalized people he wished harm on & railed against

sorry not sorry

I said something last week that is more broadly applicable today:

Calling for empathy is not neutral or apolitical when only one group of people have been socialized and brutalized into having empathy.

At some point, the white community is going to have to do something about the high rates of crime in white neighborhoods.

Hey @octranspo.com, which stop does the 105 St-Laurent depart from at Hurdman?

Signage says "B" but I have seen more than one today stopping at "D" and opening their doors. Easy way for riders to get mixed up and miss the bus!

Haha! Just catching up on @smashingsecurity.com (ep 432, which aired on my 32nd birthday!) and the intro cut to Thom Langford made me laugh out loud because I thought *the thing* before he said it.

Who knew mnemonic could be so funny?

I was overjoyed that Dave Bittner said THE THING for Pick of the Week on the most recent episode of @smashingsecurity.com.

That's a critical instruction we can't forget!

Parents shouldn't need to shell out this kind of money for their children to access public transit.

Kids often can't walk or bike alone, the commute times are ridiculous, but it may be their only way to get to school, and they have fewer school route options.

An 11-year-old will be charged the same thing as me, an adult with a full-time job, for a month of transit access?

And you KNOW most of their trips are to school and back. A required destination.

The youth pass was already too expensive; children should be able to afford to take the bus.

Transit agencies: DBO.

(Don’t. Be. #Ottawa.)

I really hope that whoever is responsible for helping @grahamcluley.com shepherd in the new era of Smashing Security upholds Carole's habit of saying Picks of the Week better not be security-related.
That's my one demand 😂

This (as usual) is a great episode.

I'm glad I've followed @smashingsecurity.com from the very beginning & if you don't want to be sad, start at episode 1 and enjoy almost a decade of informative content and laughs.

Carole & @grahamcluley.com are worth the hundreds of hours of listens, I promise!

There is no "cheer" in my cheerio this week 😭 time to back through the Pick of the Week archive to sort myself out

Do we need to be able to make right turns on red lights? Does it matter?

Montreal has "no right on red" and the world didn't implode, so it must be doable.

We have talked about how gambling has been mainstreamed. I want to add something about how auctions have infected so many consumer interactions. It is probably because white tech bros’ second sons got into sneaker culture but it’s now everything. Sign up for “a chance” to buy a coffee or a shirt

@smashingsecurity.com I just got my Patreon newsletter for this week's ep.
EXCUSE ME WHAT 😯

I gotta say I find a lot of AI discourse around higher ed very confusing. "if ChatGPT can write your essays is college even worth it?" did people think math teachers were assigning problem sets because *they* couldn't figure out the answers?

Why are no headlines focusing on the unconstitutional and dictatorial nature of this action?

The most IMPORTANT lesson you can TEACH a young child is HOW to keep their bodies & souls SAFE from predators! These books will help you navigate those difficult discussions 💚

decades-long manhunt finally ends

#100 to contribute to the campaign, woohoo 🥳

I keep recommending this pod to folks, so I put some money where my mouth is to keep the fun going!

Excited for S4 and for a script twin to put up on my wall next to my @greaterpodston.bsky.social script.

I’m sure it’s been commented upon but everything takes me so much more time to accomplish now than it did even seven years ago.

The information ecosystem has been sufficiently trashed to the point that every basic task of writing and publishing takes twice as long to complete. And I’m PRIVILEGED.