There’s a special place in hell for the deranged maniac who invented graphql.

Francois Legault and Pierre Poilievre are maybe the two politicians who took the longest to react to the Trump Tariff ordeal. Remember this is because deep down they are both Trump supporters as I’ve said before.

Poilievre’s reaction (or rather, carefully planned response which is why he took a full day to post) is the one most worth analyzing : he literally didn’t say anything new, just parroted what others said or what he read in the media, he’s not setting a different posture for the party ostensibly ahead in the polls. What he’s doing is clamouring again to reconvene parliament to “discuss measures to take”.

But don’t fool yourself: what he really wants is an opportunity to bring down the government at a time when unity and coordinated response are needed. And don’t think for a second Poilievre would respond in kind to Trump. He will likely step back, and give a lot of concessions (that’s what the free market is about, right? Just sell everything?).

https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/politique/2025-02-02/guerre-commerciale-avec-les-etats-unis/pierre-poilievre-reclame-le-rappel-du-parlement-pour-adopter-un-plan-d-urgence.php

Are you serious?!

This is what happens when you use a non-Impact-rated cheap tip with an impact driver on a really jammed screw.

Nobody was hurt in the process - but the screw remained in place, of course.

It’s OK if people are fed up with the liberals and want some change - but the only way I can fathom 52% supporting Poilievre is if they’re mistakenly thinking they’d be voting for a moderate conservative leader like Stephen Harper. Instead, Poilievre is a raging, dangerously radical right-wing extremist who will do immense damage to Canada’s culture, identity, economy and sovereignty. This is NOT the change you want, guys.

By his own admission and as he said himself : here

• Rude and foul mouthed
• Homophobe
• Climate change denier
• Anti-socialist; it’s okay to disagree with the ideology but wielding it like it’s a bad word is a classic conservative / right-wing scare tactic.
• Will literally sell the country and everything of value to the highest bidder (“unleash the free enterprise system”) - this has been tried elsewhere (see Mexico) and it’s incredibly damaging.
• Die-hard Xenophobe and anti-immigration and anti-multiculturalism
• Isolationist (pull Canada out of the UN ?)
• Anti women’s rights

Really this clown must NOT become our next prime minister.

I’m not planning on blogging anything else until next year.

Si escriben Misuri en vez de Missouri, Tenesi en vez de Tennessee, ¿por qué no ponen “Ayogua” en vez de Iowa, “Ojayo” en vez de Ohio, “Guáchinton” en vez de Washington, Milguóqui en vez de Milwaukee?

In preparation for being able to upload pictures to my blog and have them get processed and added to posts, I wanted a way to shrink photos. It’s likely my main source of pictures will be my phone and with ballooning megapixel counts those tend to be pretty hefty. I can delegate resizing to the server-side but I thought I might as well find a way to resize them device-side to save on bandwidth costs and prevent my tiny blog app from blowing up.

I found this guide on how to create a shortcut that’s available in the “Share” menu for photos, that resizes them to the desired size and saves the result to the photo album, with this I can resize photos to 800x600 (typically). I was able to reduce a file’s size from 4.5MB to 450KB in a moment. Quality is lower and detail is lost, for sure, but this is my personal blog that nobody cares about so I’m OK with it.

As Trump taunts Trudeau by calling him ‘governor’ of ‘a great state’, and Doug Ford crassly jokes “I’m sure not thinking of Justin Trudeau at midnight. So if he’s thinking of Justin at midnight, it’s probably a good relationship,”, it’s important to keep an eye on who the true enemies are. Conservatives will be conservatives, joking and taunting like middle-school bullies as seen above. You know who’s not joking? Pierre Poilievre. He’s the most conservative and fascist of all and is not telling jokes, instead using the incident to weaken and attack the current government. Just keep in mind that if he were in power, he’d be the first to fold to Trump’s demands.

Quebec Premier François Legault said Friday afternoon that he wants to ban praying in public and that he was considering using the notwithstanding clause to do so.

I find it incredibly worrisome that he continues to curtail basic human rights in the name of secularism. Secularism applies to state institutions (government offices, hospitals, schools) but does not in any way apply to individuals’ constitutionally protected freedoms in public spaces.

Legault is a power-crazed fascist, pure and simple - and he’s also a recalcitrant islamophobe because it’s entirely transparent whom he’s trying to target with these measures.

This asshat can’t be voted out of office soon enough - ideally before he does irreparable damage to Quebec’s inclusive multicultural society.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/religion-in-schools-new-law-quebec-1.7403485