JenLei @jenlei.bsky.social · 30/08/2026I regret to inform fellow 🇨🇦 that from outside of Canada, Waze has capitulated to the tyranny of the US leader and changed the hydronym on their app. As of the time of this post Google Maps continues to name the lake correctly on theirs. 200
JenLei @jenlei.bsky.social · 28/08/2026I leave the continent for 2 weeks… I just kinda expected all the geography to stay samesies while I was away. This is So. Dumb. 000
Reposted by JenLeiLibrary Bear 📚 @adklibrarybear.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Hell yes we are. My people 🙏🫡🥰📚 techcrunch.com/2026/07/25/l...techcrunch.comLibrarians are hosting viral 'Avoiding AI' workshops for people who are fed up with Big Tech | TechCrunchAt libraries around the country, "Avoiding AI" workshops have elicited unprecedented demand. 312656
JenLei @jenlei.bsky.social · 09/07/2026I mean…I’m only 1 episode in but there does seem to be an overt message about self-reliance being not nearly as important as neighbourliness and building community. I like it. 010
JenLei @jenlei.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Anticipating the new adaptation of Little House on the Prairie. I reread those novels until the covers fell off. I’ve gained a more nuanced perspective on them as an adult (obvi) & am hopeful this new adaption will do a bit of an “Anne With an E” by engaging with wider representation & communities. 000
JenLei @jenlei.bsky.social · 10/06/2026I have, at best, 1 more full day of sitting on floors & doing squats & kneeling as I do inventory. My body is making it very obvious that I am older than I was when I started this job. 😣 000
Reposted by JenLeiE.K. Johnston @ekjohnston.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Right now, RIGHT now, you have to start differentiating between generative AI (garbage), and analytic/assistive AI (useful). Generative AI is, at best, a scam. And right now, it's actively preventing us from developing USEFUL technologies. @mark-carney.bsky.social 1246
Reposted by JenLeiIsaac Callan @isaaccallan.bsky.social · 03/06/2026NEW: Ontario’s major teaching unions have served notice to the Ford government to begin bargaining new agreements for more than 255,000 educators across the province. #OnPoli globalnews.ca/news/1188869...globalnews.caOntario’s teaching unions serve bargaining notice to kick off contract talks | Globalnews.caThe notices mean the province will now need to prepare to enter potentially bruising talks with the unions within the next 15 days. 063
Reposted by JenLeiKaren Autio @karenautio.bsky.social · 01/06/2026It's #NationalAccessAbilityWeek (May 31-June 6) & in Canada, June is National Spina Bifida Awareness Month. The inspiration for my disability-inclusive picture books comes from my daughter who was born with #SpinaBifida. Build a Strong, Accessible Canada! @laura-jane-watson.bsky.social #NAAW2026 173
JenLei @jenlei.bsky.social · 27/05/2026Tis the season for end-of-year library inventory. GameTime! : How many unrecovered Easter eggs will I will find as I go through the shelves? Will share results before June 26th. (To be clear: these are not edible eggs. They are flat laminated cutouts of colourful eggs.) #librarylife 100
JenLei @jenlei.bsky.social · 26/05/2026I am now in possession of this book from my public library. The Discourse™️ -as I understand it- was primarily about a hyperbolic statistic that I have not yet reached/ located in the text. Am enjoying the footnotes and asides so far. 100
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JenLei @jenlei.bsky.social · 23/04/2026Called the MPP’s office to object to changes to FOI Already emailed the premier’s office about this weeks ago and as always, because I don’t agree with them: no response. 120
JenLei @jenlei.bsky.social · 22/04/2026*sigh* Truly pondering whether to add a disclaimer to every written document/statement/etc declining utterly for it to be fed to, engaged with, or analyzed by any and all AI in perpetuity, forever and ever. Would it do any good whatsoever? 000
JenLei @jenlei.bsky.social · 21/04/2026Having just finished watching season 1: Starfleet Academy is pretty great 030
JenLei @jenlei.bsky.social · 14/04/2026Finished our BlueSpruce voting for another year and the first choice at both my schools was The Great Dinosaur Sleepover by Linda Bailey, illustrated by Joe Bluhm. 020
JenLei @jenlei.bsky.social · 07/04/2026Making the emotional support pasta I first attempted on election night 2016 when The Horrors™️ began. 000
Reposted by JenLeiCanadian School Library @cdnschoollibrary.bsky.social · 07/04/2026Help Canadian School Libraries is seeking to find out more about the state of school libraries and their budgets in Canada. Read more and participate here: journal.canadianschoollibraries.ca/canadian-sch... #TLSky 054
Reposted by JenLeiThe Weather Network @weathernetwork.bsky.social · 07/04/2026Transport Canada has invited Canadians to participate in a survey about the brightness of car headlights on Canadian roads, and whether or not people feel they pose a safety risk. ow.ly/G6SQ50YEE0Pow.lyTransport Canada wants to know: Are headlights too bright? - The Weather NetworkTransport Canada has invited Canadians to [participate in a survey](https://tc.canada.ca/en/corporate-services/consultations/canadian-experience-vehicle-headlights-glare-night) about the brightness of car headlights on Canadian roads, and whether or not people feel they pose a safety risk. 02010
JenLei @jenlei.bsky.social · 05/04/2026This skill is IMPORTANT. We routinely talk about this with “scary books” where I work and how the best judge of what you can handle (once you’ve moved into independent reading) is YOU and if something gives you an ick or nightmares or makes you uncomfortable: stop reading it. 072
JenLei @jenlei.bsky.social · 03/04/2026As someone who reads the tiny printed matter of publishing info on the back of the cover page this whole booktok discourse about not reading prologues and epilogues is completely bewildering to me. 100
JenLei @jenlei.bsky.social · 11/03/2026Once again, I have disillusioned a child by not rising to the not-so-surreptitious sniggering over a book title. Student: This book has a bad word. Me: *looks* *is nonplussed* It’s a book about a whale named Moby Dick. That’s the title. Student: *confounded* 000
JenLei @jenlei.bsky.social · 05/03/2026Absolutely bewildered by the Minister of Education’s various declarations that things are happening that need to not happen when, when despite more than 20 years working in education, I’ve never seen these things universally happen. See: - “bring back prom” - “paper report cards” 110
JenLei @jenlei.bsky.social · 05/03/2026Have spent the week reading a story about poutine to students. I desperately need to order poutine tomorrow. 000
JenLei @jenlei.bsky.social · 13/02/2026Deeply curious about the new Wuthering Heights adaptation because over the course of many years and many tries, friendly AND scholarly discussions: The Brontes Are Not For Me ™️ I know this. And yet… 000
JenLei @jenlei.bsky.social · 08/02/2026Sunshine has confused me into Spring Cleaning mode. I know it is not yet Spring, and yet: curtains down and laundered, bathroom scrubbed, dusting achieved, cupboards reorganized. And it’s just past noon! 000
JenLei @jenlei.bsky.social · 15/01/2026All schools here are CLOSED. NO buses are running anywhere. The world may be on 🔥 but here we are enveloped by ❄️ 010
JenLei @jenlei.bsky.social · 01/01/2026Seems promising? (Do not, under any circumstances—Anyone—offer a reason why it might not be.) 010
JenLei @jenlei.bsky.social · 31/12/2025Watching the Mr. Dressup doc on CBCGem before it disappears and this was an A+++ choice in my part 000
JenLei @jenlei.bsky.social · 30/12/2025For the first time in (I would guess) a decade, I am not going to set a reading goal for 2026. I’m tired of quantifying. I’m tired of trying to meet and surpass arbitrary expectations. I will continue to log what I read, but I will—perhaps—read more organically for myself. 100
Reposted by JenLeiBrittlestar @brittlestar.com · 23/12/2025Phenomenal story Merry Christmas, indeed! 🎄ctvnews.caOttawa lottery winner making sure neighbours don’t go hungryAfter winning $70 million, an Ottawa woman is doing as much as possible to make sure families in her community don’t go without. CTV’s Leah Larocque reports. 923960
JenLei @jenlei.bsky.social · 23/12/2025🎄Merry Christmas!🎄 Wishing you and yours peace, comfort and contentment over the next few days. Disconnecting from *All Of This* for the holiday. 010
JenLei @jenlei.bsky.social · 23/12/2025Every once in a very blue moon the fact that 🇨🇦 media is not always simulcast comes in very handy. Very handy indeed. Nicely done GlobalTVmedia.tenor.coma man in a red uniform is riding a horse with the words peace out below himAlt: a man in a red Canadian Mountie uniform is riding a horse. He salutes and the words “peace out” appear below him 010
JenLei @jenlei.bsky.social · 21/12/2025I am not enjoying One Battle After Another. Am I missing something? 20 minutes in and I’m ready to turn it off and walk away. 200
JenLei @jenlei.bsky.social · 19/12/2025🎄🎄🎄CHRISTMAS VACATION!!!! 🎄🎄🎄media.tenor.coma gingerbread man is holding a candy cane in the snow and saying `` last day for teachers christmas break ! ''ALT: a gingerbread man is holding a candy cane in the snow and saying `` last day for teachers christmas break ! '' 120
