Sam

I'm active on mastodon: @[email protected]

Working with data, writing code in scala, kinda okay at stuff some of the time
she/her.

[Sam @sam_spills]

Hot take after an annoying day: I don't have to be grateful for my job. I'm compensated at the rate necessary for the company to hire good people to do good work. In exchange, I do good work.

That's it. That's the relationship.

[David J. Doorey🇨🇦 💙 @TheLawofWork]

These two stories the same day in the @TorontoStar provide a great snapshot of the state of political economy in Canada today.

Which political parties have platforms that would check runaway executive compensation and reduce child poverty?

Good place to start!

[Ryan / Sloshy sometimes @LiquidSloshalot]

NEW BLOG: Women Belong In Tech

My first post in ~3 years. It's a long one. Inspired by some recent events.

https://t.co/6jgWsranKH

[Tabatha Southey 🇨🇦 @TabathaSouthey]

It’s really weird to see everyone in Toronto tweeting about the same thing and it not be that our mayor has fucked up.
#Thundersnow

[typelevel.scala @typelevel]

Typelevel will be participating in Google Summer of Code 2023 🥳 Read more about the proposed projects in the latest blog post
https://t.co/AHLbQ8gXq8

[How-Sen @HowSenChong]

The Gardiner Expressway has approx 210,000 people on it each weekday. City is planning to spend $2 billion to save those people 3 minutes drive time.

TTC has 1.9 million daily users. City is planning to cut TTC service and increase wait times by 3-5 minutes.

[James McLeod @jamespmcleod]

what's the opposite of doomscrolling, cuz I'm doing it

[Nora Loreto @NoLore]

WASPy, puritan Toronto: your policies can leave a body count into the hundreds but you bone out of marriage you best resign.

[Limericking @Limericking]

A scandal ends Tory’s career,
Which lasted for many a year:
He worked with his staff
On Rogers’ behalf—
Or was it Toronto’s? (Unclear)

[Toronto Star @TorontoStar]

#Breaking: Ontario developers who benefitted from Ford government decisions on Greenbelt and MZOs dined with the premier at his daughter’s wedding https://t.co/TvnhdcRynX

[mozilla firefox advocate @vinceWN]

some of y'all didn't write a dictée in one of these and it shows

[Colin D'Mello | Global News @ColinDMello]

This, of course, comes as the Ford government faces questions about whether developers were given a heads up about the Greenbelt plan — which the government denies.

https://t.co/kqNywfSuaE

[Marco Rogers @polotek]

I'm very familiar with the kind of interpersonal tension Kierra describes. I can't stand that kind of work environment. Where people have conflicting incentives, and they have to push and cajole each other to try to get things done together. It shouldn't have to be that way.

[Gru @Gruesomebrat]

"We don't want homeless people on the TTC, so we're going to pay $1.7m/mo for 80 cops to patrol the TTC; we can't open 24/7 warm spaces to give people somewhere to go besides the TTC because we don't have enough staff" is a problem with an easy solution.

[Sam @sam_spills]

@ahidalgosre I'm getting strong Mary Poppins vibes but it's not quite right. I think Chicken Holiday might be the platonic ideal of a 1960s font

[Allison Smith @QueensParkToday]

NEW: Hospital staffing shortages have trickled down to the ambulance offload process. At least two GTA hospitals are now using PSWs to monitor patients who arrive on a stretcher, rather than nurses.

PSWs are not trained to provide medical attention.
https://t.co/XsVAJynrgE

[Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East @CJPME]

WAR CRIME IMMINENT: In the coming days, Israel's far-right gov't is preparing to forcibly expel 1,000+ Palestinians from 14 villages in #MasaferYatta in the occupied West Bank. Forcible transfer is a war crime. Will @melaniejoly speak out? #SaveMasaferYatta