Single Spined Lizard from Beyond the North Wind

Hapo, she/they, Canada Side blog for personal and political stuff and more general reblogs. main: @allbeendonebefore

[shiverandqueeef]

how measurements work in canada (ie/ badly)

[the-quotable-alberta-hansard]

April 21, 2026

Mr. Nenshi: Let’s go back to Susan Samson. She tells a story of how the UCP commissioners completely did a one-eighty. They completely flipped, changed their minds long after the public hearings were done, and came up with these maps. Within two or three weeks, she says, they can produce an entire set of maps for the entire province. You tell me where that came from. Premier, where did it come from?

Ms Smith: Mr. Speaker, the members opposite should take our AI academy because then they’d learn how to use the marvels of modern technology as well so that they can develop their own maps. There is no complexity in using technology to develop maps.

...

Mr. Nenshi: I think the Premier just admitted that staff in her office used AI to try and gerrymander the maps.

[the-quotable-alberta-hansard]

April 16, 2026

Mr. Schow: I said: why does the Member for Edmonton-Highlands-Norwood jettison Barrhead for the flashy, fancy, bougie life of the big city of Edmonton?

[estro-boi]

we gotta get back to torrent distribution, i just watched someone eat eight grand in bandwidth charges because they ran a direct-download piracy site with local file hosting through cloudflare. torrents were invented literally for this exact reason

[estro-boi]

torrents work like this

i have a file or folder on my pc that i want to share with other people. let's call it gayshit.mp3

unfortunately gayshit.mp3 is 750mb and im not paying for discord nitro so i need another way to send it

i put it into qbittorrent and it makes a torrent file. this is essentially a very small file that points to gayshit.mp3 so other computers can find it. kinda like a treasure map

i send this tiny file to my friend, who loads it into qbittorrent. their computer takes a moment to find mine over the vast expanse of cyberspace and then (as long as my pc is running and the file is still where it should be), it gets copied from my hard drive to theirs

this is the cool part: if somebody else loads that tiny file, they can download it from both of us. if i'm offline but my friend is on, the third person can still get it. this also means that if two people have separate halves of the file, they can download the other half from each other. as long as some combination of people have the pieces between them, they can all have the whole thing.

crucially this does not require a server!!! you can just upload the file to a few people and as long as they keep it, it's still accessible. as long as somebody, somewhere is still connected, it's available forever. the only way it goes away is if everybody disconnects from it.

please learn to torrent

[macleod]

How to Use Torrents (with Pictures) - wikiHow

An expert guide to get started using torrentsTorrents are one of the most popular forms of file sharing on the internet, accounting for over

always use qbittorrent, do not use bitorrent or utorrent.

[darlingofdots]

the european academic experience of being on a bus in random part of a random city when your phone suddenly connects to a shitty wifi signal for roughly three minutes because you passed by a random university building

[jerreeeeeee]

not every mutual fits neatly into an archetypal medievalism but there are some mutuals that im like yeah addressing you as “my liege” would come strangely naturally

[jerreeeeeee]

what mutual is prev

my liege lord

my loyal knight

my wise wizard

my evil advisor

my brother in arms

my lady muse

my wild mermaid friend

my fellow alchemist

my dashing rapscallion

my monstrous foe

Remaining time: 2 days 14 hours

[darth-memes]

HAPPY REVENGE OF THE 5TH!!!!

[stealingpotatoes]

I’ve been scrolling through your blog and have gained the Jedi fallen order/survivor brain rot again. May go replay both games again brb. Love your comics and your art they bring me much joy.

i've been replaying jfo too (in other news water is wet) and yeah it's going great i'm definitely not yelling anything at my ps5

[sergeifyodorov]

I don't read as much fic as I used to but one "tell" for non Canadians writing us, besides the etransfer, is the units you use to describe us measuring something. I hate to tell you this but The Chart is real and it's completely subconscious. Please abide

[demotu-writes]

ETA the chart (or at least a version of it):

ETA2: we do use inches/miles in poetic ways ("he was lost in thought/miles away" or "his lips were a bare inch away").

Also, the length of a dick is in inches for SURE.

[spiribia]

why does sequential art require you to make multiple images? does anybody understand this?

[atmosphere-af]

[allthecanadianpolitics]

US political operatives built a surveillance app for Alberta separatists, a coordinated attack to destabilise Canada.

The Centurion Project's voter surveillance tool was built by US political operatives with direct ties to the Trump regime

The data on 2.9 million Albertans was loaded onto an app built with US funding, shaped by US political strategists, and deployed by a Canadian separatist organizer who spent nearly two years cultivating US partners before launching the Centurion Project. The question is not whether there is a US connection to what lawyers have called potentially the most significant privacy breach in Canadian history. The question is how deep the operation goes, who in the Trump orbit knew about it, and how far are they willing to take it. On the night of 29 April 2026, David Parker stood in front of supporters at the Edmonton Oilfield Technical Society and unveiled the Centurion Project app, describing the technology as the same tool that "helped Trump win Michigan." Minutes after Parker finished speaking, an Elections Alberta investigator arrived with Edmonton police officers to inform organisers they were under investigation for improperly accessing and using the province's list of electors. Parker had already loaded the names, addresses, and voter identification numbers of every judge, every lawyer, every politician, every domestic abuse victim, every First Nations chief, every journalist, every senator, and every elections investigator in the province onto that app. Former premier Jason Kenney, on learning his home address had been shown to meeting participants, retained legal counsel and said he had previously received threats from people involved with the separatist, anti-vaccine, and far-right movements in Alberta. The database was accessible to anyone with the link, with no identity verification required.

Read more.

Tagging: @newsfromstolenland @abpoli

[tertain-the-original]

Continuing my bird tarot deck, some of these are from asks so they might seem familiar haha.

Honestly though I’m kind of trying to make sure that the birds truly line up with the cards I put them on. I might change Strength… but for now here’s the Goose defending their babies.

[cigaradd]

B'Elanna sketch

[megacarapa]

ok so this is another long shot but a few years ago there was a twitter post (in japanese i think?) that had measurememts for how to make this book stand thing out of cardboard that you could use to double up books and use up more space on shelves

back then i made a bunch of these but by now i lost the pic and dont know how to find the original post anymore

if it comes down to it i can just take one apart and get the measurements from there but i would be very grateful if anyone happens to have the original post or something similar??

[megacarapa]

don't mind how long it's been since i made this post, anyway i realized that i don't even need to take one apart to get the measurements when i can literally just unfold it and refold it /FACEPALM

so anyway here is the diagram for anyone else who is interested!!

this requires pretty big carboard pieces, if you have a really big box or something you can make it from one piece, but if you don't, you can also just make each of the pieces individually and then tape them together

and then in the end you put it together like this!!

and then when you make a bunch you can put them all next to each other and stack your books like crazy

EVERYONE START GETTING MORE USE OUT OF YOUR SPACE NOW!!!!

[the-quotable-alberta-hansard]

April 14, 2026

Mr. Nicolaides: The historical context of education in this country is one of partnership. It is a partnership between school and the family, but somewhere along the way that partnership has become unbalanced and strained. The school system has in some cases begun to assert a level of moral and ideological authority that belongs properly to the family. Bill 25 is a recalibration of that partnership. It asserts that, indeed, while schools have a legitimate role in setting academic standards and ensuring safety of students, they do not have a mandate to shape the private beliefs and values of the next generation. That is a responsibility that must remain with parents.

[sosuperawesome]

Vintage Saturn Ceiling Light // RoyalArtDecolighting

[the-big-mood]

Hey, did you know archive.org has a bunch of free 90s shows you can stream?

The problem is finding them, since no one's organized them all in one place with covers and episode info. I'm trying to fix that with my new website.

It's in BETA right now, and all the content was just added today, so I've barely scratched the surface of what's out there.

Let me know what you think and what kind of shows/movies you want to see!

http://90sKid.com

[the-big-mood]

We now have a Watch Party with chat feature now live HERE

You can create a live tv channel with our existing library. The channel is time syned so whoever is watching with you will share the moment!

It also works with youtube links and archive.org links.