DOJ files complaint against Washington over Potomac sewage spill | AP News https://apnews.com/article/potomac-river-sewage-leak-washington-345cf68d19670892408d1fffdf3cefe5

So cool!

Finland opens longest pedestrian, tram bridge https://newatlas.com/architecture/finland-helsinki-pedestrian-bridge-kruunuvuori/

Amnesty International concerned Canada is 'rolling back' support for Indigenous rights https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/amnesty-report-human-rights-9.7170749

Our efforts to halt global forest loss aren’t working: new research https://theconversation.com/our-efforts-to-halt-global-forest-loss-arent-working-new-research-280368

OMG Christmas arriving in April ... is this for real? THE ONION NOW OWNS INFOWARS??!?!?!!

As Ben Werdmuller noted, the only thing better than this would have been InfoWars never existing in the first place, but this is the next damn best thing ever.

https://theonion.info/

After more than two decades, Alberta Water Council prepares to shut down, citing funding cuts https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-water-council-jay-white-provincial-budget-9.7170305

Swinney turns down Trump invitation to White House state banquet https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c78rg2y2vn5o

Well said!

Hungary Must Arrest Visiting Leaders Sought by ICC, Magyar Says
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-20/hungary-must-arrest-visiting-leaders-sought-by-icc-magyar-says

https://archive.ph/VWruS

Clean energy generation exceeded rise in global electricity demand in 2025 https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/21/clean-energy-generation-exceeded-rise-global-electricity-demand-2025

Cloud capacity is infinite. Until it isn’t.

https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/04/17/users_complain_of_uk_azure/

RE: https://mastodon.social/@skry/116440276106844179

For those of us of a certain age, seeing those four letters “weev” causes our blood pressure to spike. Evidence, were any more needed, that Thiel is nazi-adjacent scum.

"She’s alleged to have been drinking during the workday from a 'stash' of alcohol in her office, arranging official trips for herself that were extended vacations, taking subordinates to an Oregon strip club while on one such trip, showing no interest in the work of the department, and having an affair with a member of her security team."

Familiar themes!

Goodbye and Good Riddance, Madam Secretary of Labor
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/goodbye-and-good-riddance-madam-secretary

https://archive.ph/yqlg7

Should we have an #ActivityPub #API hackathon at Dweb Berlin?

so, how's that thing in the middle east going would you say

If someone on a work videocall appeared drunk, would you intervene?

#EvanPoll #poll

GenX early adopters (represent) were the first people to have this, and now it's so ubiquitous I don't think anyone even recognizes there was a time that it Wasn't, but - BBS, IRC, SMS, Matrix, Discord, Whateversapp, Telegram, Signal, who cares about the tech layer, it doesn't matter - I'm convinced the invention of The Group Chat is _the_ most important new thing in social communication in the last century.

A conversation that goes on unbothered by time and distance is a miracle.

@gnomon

"BTCV" (to the tune of YMCA)

#VolunteeringASongOrPoem
#hashtaggames

🎶"So give a little bit
Give a little bit of your time to me"🎶

#VolunteeringASongOrPoem
#hashtaggames
#noeffort

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9JOut9yh5g

RE: https://mstdn.ca/@davidakin/116439506925613804

Not directed at David at all, but I hate headlines like this. Why should Canada Post be profitable? It's a government service.

That's like saying the roads should be profitable, or garbage pickup.

Lloyd Axworthy: “The political map is reshaping: a governing party pulled toward corporate and security priorities; an opposition rooted in populist conservatism; a weakened New Democratic Party struggling to matter.”
#canpoli

https://thewalrus.ca/carneys-liberals-are-governing-like-conservatives-just-more-politely/