Kim Moir
kmoir.bsky.social
Kim Moir
@kmoir.bsky.social
Cat herder, mentor, cyclist, team 🍍 🍕
Moir rhymes with lawyer
she/her
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Painted cycle lanes are the non-smoking sections of today's urban landscape.

Both recognize a problem and the harms it causes, but are designed without the will or imagination required to implement a real solution.
December 27, 2025 at 9:00 AM
My cats have strong Boxing Day vibes
December 27, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing a text, writing an email, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing since the dawn of time.
December 23, 2025 at 8:24 PM
I was at Farm Boy today and the mall Santa came in after his shift to buy groceries. The kids in the store were entranced! Santa had a real very bushy white beard. Really looked the part.
December 21, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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This speech by Hannah Gadsby is my Roman Empire.

We cannot let any men, even Good Men™️draw a line in the sand of what is and is not misogyny because the line always ends up just slightly ahead of them.
Hannah Gadsby Full Speech: "The Good Men" & Misogyny | Women in Entertainment
YouTube video by The Hollywood Reporter
youtu.be
December 21, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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annual holiday reminder, female cardinals are brown so any time you see two red cardinals snuggling on a branch, they are boyfriends
December 18, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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I keep hearing that charities in Ottawa are struggling with fewer donations, but I have not heard anyone suggest that maybe it’s because thousands of public servants are waiting to hear if they’ll lose their jobs in the New Year – imminent unemployment makes people cautious about spending money.
December 20, 2025 at 1:18 AM
I made moon mist cookies. Classic Nova Scotia ice cream flavour. chatelaine.com/recipe/desse...
December 18, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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Genuine question: Why's the reaction of many politicians to AI 'it's transformational, we must go faster, we can dismiss concerns over energy, copyright, job losses', yet the reaction to a clean tech transition that's more advanced and has less overt downsides is 'steady now, we need to slow down'.
December 15, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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The coming years are going to reveal a lot more waste on 'AI' like this by our governments, to the tune of 10s of billions squandered on appalling nonsense, all to make rich Tech Bros richer.
The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) paid $18 million for a chatbot named Charlie, which the auditor general reported gave her team the wrong answer 66% of the time.

The chatbot's responses were found to be brief and lacking context, with only 2 out of 6 questions answered accurately.
The CRA spent $18M on 'Charlie,' a new tax information chatbot that is wrong most of the time
The Canada Revenue Agency paid $18 million for a chatbot the auditor general says give her team the wrong answer 66 per cent of the time.
nationalpost.com
December 13, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Appalling. But then add this to the list of consultants paid hundreds of millions for P3 and other advice that is consistently proven wrong #Deloitte #KMPG etc; we need to get to back to reality and spend money smartly, in the public interest.
The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) paid $18 million for a chatbot named Charlie, which the auditor general reported gave her team the wrong answer 66% of the time.

The chatbot's responses were found to be brief and lacking context, with only 2 out of 6 questions answered accurately.
The CRA spent $18M on 'Charlie,' a new tax information chatbot that is wrong most of the time
The Canada Revenue Agency paid $18 million for a chatbot the auditor general says give her team the wrong answer 66 per cent of the time.
nationalpost.com
December 13, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Really looking forward to reading Pick a Colour. How to pronounce knife is an extraordinary collection of short stories.
Souvankham Thammavongsa is a woman wholly uninterested in shrinking.

The Walrus associate editor Ariella Garmaise sits down with the two-time Giller Prize winner to talk about ambition, self-possession, and why she refuses to perform humility for anyone: thewalrus.ca/souvankham-thamm...
December 12, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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Do I love that Pierre Poilievre is bleeding members? Heck yes.

Do I hate that the Liberals are so conservative that it's enticing Conservatives to join them? Heck yes.
Another MP leaves Conservatives, crosses floor to Liberals | CBC News
Ontario MP Michael Ma announced Thursday that he is leaving the Conservative Caucus and joining the Liberals.
www.cbc.ca
December 11, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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What were Ford’s thoughts about work from home etc?
It's a good thing provinces don't have any responsibilities in Canada's system of government.
December 11, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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MINNEAPOLIS: “All I did was step outside as a Somali American citizen, and I got chased by a masked person, assaulted, kidnapped. It was inhumane. If this is what’s happening to a 🇺🇸 citizen on camera, imagine what could happen to your loved ones.”
December 11, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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Original photograph was a depiction of construction workers—blue collar people who built New York City but were rarely acknowledged & were certainly underpaid—while this one is a depiction of well-known billionaires whose AI empires are built on stealing the intellectual property of everyone else.
This...looks terrible? Is the magazine making some point about what AI still can't do, because otherwise, I don't get why you'd go out with something that looks like it was put together with safety scissors and Elmer's Glue.
December 11, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Stealworkers
December 11, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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Today is Human Rights Day. What a cruel and ghoulish thing to do.
Alberta invokes notwithstanding clause to pass bill affecting transgender citizens
Laws include policing names and pronouns in school and banning transgender girls from participating in amateur female sports
www.theglobeandmail.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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Exactly- use your library!
"There are no more free public spaces!"

Your library is right there.

"I can't afford to subscribe to every media outlet!"

Your library is right there.

"I have to subscribe to corporate streaming or else I can't watch movies or play video games!"

Your library is right there.
And! Your public library most likely offers access to the major newspapers. You can just login & check out the day's stories (or past ones) for free.
December 9, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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Say it louder for the people in the back: “Cops are not social workers. We can’t arrest our way out of this crisis.”
December 9, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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Grateful to Catherine Boucher (@bearswim.bsky.social) and the Dalhousie Community Association for standing up for evidence-based policy when it comes to addiction, homelessness and crime rates — in Chinatown and across Ottawa.
December 9, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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Got a lil fired up 🤪
Rachel Gilmore on the anti-DEI movement: "I think that to attack these notions is a dog whistle to the worst elements of society that are seeing a slide towards a more fascistic world. And every politician who engages in that should be ashamed of themselves."
December 8, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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Terribly stupid idea that will satisfy faux-populist urges to dunk on public servants while simultaneously making the lives of public servants and the service itself so much worse.

Goofy stuff.
December 8, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Remember, tech employees, we just have to do more with less.
Mark Zuckerberg’s gamble on the "Metaverse" has lost his company more than $77 billion.
December 5, 2025 at 4:21 PM