Ludovic Chabant @ludovic@chabant.social

Once more it’s time for a rhubarb pie!

That’s interesting… Vancouver Car-Free Day is turning into Car-Free Month. https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/events-and-entertainment/vancouvers-car-free-day-is-turning-into-car-free-month-3870208

Seems like a great way to support LetsEncrypt (which I use for all my websites): donate and AgileBits matches your donation! https://blog.1password.com/supporting-lets-encrypt/

We are almost done binge-watching the MCU movies with the 12yo, and after Infinity War I told him I would give him the full experience by waiting one year before showing Endgame…. He… was not amused 😝

I hadn’t seen this nice “making of” documentary before… if you love “Who Framed Roger Rabbit” even a 10th of how I love it, you’ll get a kick of some of those production anecdotes: https://youtu.be/ty4xkdBbnOk

I found a local producer who makes a delightful rhubarb jam. I’m happy.

LOL so we’re making it harder to get a loan instead of, you know, building more homes? https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/stress-test-mortgage-real-estate-1.6046758?cmp=rss

“We have politicians that are trying to please everybody and are making totally counter-productive policy decisions”. https://www.nationalobserver.com/2021/06/01/news/canadas-climate-record-worst-g7-countries

“Why a Japanese delicacy grows near old B.C. internment camp” https://www.nationalobserver.com/2021/06/02/news/why-japanese-delicacy-grows-near-old-bc-internment-camp

At first I was, like, “this isn’t so bad", and then I realized it was 20min long https://boingboing.net/2021/06/01/844964.html

Overheard at home: “I know what it means to ‘calm down’, but what does it mean to ‘calm up’?”

Nice to see Hannah John-Kamen still kicking ass out there! Killjoys was thoroughly fun to watch. https://gizmodo.com/hannah-john-kamen-is-red-sonja-and-yes-perfect-casting-1846830183

Oooh yes please. And more. https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/vancouver-news/city-approves-motion-to-make-commercial-drive-pedestrian-first-3819955

I love this chocolate’s backstory

This is way overdue for Canada, and there are a lot of obvious next steps to take https://www.nationalobserver.com/2021/05/14/news/canada-just-listed-plastic-toxic-now-what

We are never as good as we think we are ☹️ https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/vancouver-news/vancouver-named-anti-asian-hate-crime-capital-of-north-america-3763561

“I grew up a Black girl in Alberta without ever hearing of Amber Valley. How does history go missing?” https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/bop-pov-whitewashing-prairies-1.5880367

This is a laudable move from Epicurious but frankly all of these initiatives, all of our personal choices to reduce or eliminate meat, they’re not going to accomplish much. Only government regulation will. https://www.epicurious.com/expert-advice/why-epicurious-left-beef-behind-article

Go hummingbirds! Fuck you Trans-Mountain! https://www.nationalobserver.com/2021/04/27/news/hummingbirds-temporary-halt-trans-mountain-stop-work-order

Yep that’s pretty much how I rationalize my purchases too http://www.dorktower.com/2021/04/23/consumer-price-complex-dork-tower-23-04-21/