Soooo... we, as humans, are currently actively lying about the environmental damage we have caused on earth and ignoring possible solutions while simultaneously being excited to try and drill on the moon in the near future? What is wrong with us as a species? So much damage. So little care.

I missed this from @phineas.bsky.social when it originally came out but it sure feels relevant at the moment. Also, you can buy this as a print from the artist here: www.inprnt.com/gallery/phin...

A news article about PEI getting a passport printer so ppl won't have to wait 10 days is, to me, another shining example of providing a privilege to a group of people who already have privilege, while the rest of us can't afford the privilege of safe housing or groceries or gas or socks.

men can’t understand what it’s like for women to see story after story after story of women being victims of sexual violence in a culture where it’s routine; what it’s like to live in a world that is fundamentally hostile to our existence. it’s a wonder we leave the fucking house, let alone thrive.

But now that the people YOU elected are hurting your household, this isn't what you voted for. If you swallow enough hate, it grows like a cancer and eats the host. You voted for your own demise, and you will have to sit with it until the end.

"We didn't vote for thi-" You did. You just didn't expect it to boomerang back and bite you in your face. You were okay with the transphobia, homophobia, and racism. You were okay with throwing the disabled and elderly under the bus.

Apropos of nothing, it's fascinating how religious extremists of every stripe only ever insist that the harmful stuff has to be taken literally. No one ever says "I am a literalist for my Holy Text. I COMMAND WE FEED THE POOR IMMEDIATELY!"

Spend time with people who play Leonard Cohen CDs before noon.

6 years and 3 days without cigarettes, and last night I was smoking in my dreams.

To everyone out there, especially on #TDOV. You get to define yourself. Let's move beyond binaries.

Federal NDP seems to have a good leader who wants more people to join the party. Is there a chance PEI NDP will take notice and also attempt to invite new members? If I felt strongly enough about a party that I was a member, even when they were defunct or close to it, I'd encourage others to join.

Noise-cancelling headphones, but for cancelling all the noise and static in my head.

music is not apolitical

Found the joints. (Still not cool.)

Lost my joints and then lost my cool. 🤡

*Bob Dylan Voice* 🎵 OH THE HEIGHTS THEY ARE A-WUTHERIN 🎵

I'm determined to be better at finishing books I started reading between yesterday and about a million years ago.

The most popular premier in Canada not counting the 3 territories or PEI.

I wonder if there will ever be a PEI "women's group" that doesn't give thank-you flowers like a default of "all women want to be given flowers and we never need to re-asses this notion or wonder if it applies to these specific women" which feels like it came straight from the patriarchy.

A question you have to ask yourself if you’re going to approach politics as a responsible adult is whether your goal is to improve material conditions and achieve changes that reduce human suffering, or whether it is to look really cool in front of your friends online.These are not compatible aims.

I'm holding the library in my lap, so I'd do good to remember that the next time I hate the internet for not being helpful.

"Nation-building! Something, something, Canada Strong!" Employment and Social Development: ❌ 1,500 jobs Health Canada: ❌ 942 jobs Environment and Climate Change Canada: ❌ 837 jobs Statistics Canada: ❌ 700+ jobs Canada Food Inspection Agency: ❌ 542 jobs #CdnPoli

Imagine being overwhelmed by a flower

potholes? you mean road turbulence? ?

Note to self: High pain causes high heart rates, which causes high anxiety, so stop looking at the world because you are not able to ingest anything right now. (Try to remember this for longer than 12 hours. I understand if you can't, but will be annoyed about re-re-re-learning this.) #NEISvoid

PEI govt, that can barely manage to accomplish anything for the working class in a timely fashion, has decided to take more time off their "work" because someone died. None of the living people have any needs left since the population dropped by 1 and Mitchell & McFarlane want a day off? Entitled.

Huge news! Utterly thrilled to announced that my latest stand up special Late Bloomer will be on Netflix worldwide* on April 1st. Beyond thrilled. Please tell your friends, family, neighbours, dogs and cats that like laughing. Horses? Horses. Everyone. *Except UK and Ireland - news coming soon

I think about this a lot. Arguably, an unhealthy amount. But, arguably, by being priced out of basic life necessities, I'm already unhealthy. So a giant middle finger to all wealthy oppressors and the pretending-to-be-wealthy who willingly assist. Genocide is bad. War is bad. Capitalism is bad.

If you want me to be sad when you die, don't be an entitled, harmful oppressor while you're alive. #EasyPeasy

I can't live in a city cause I'm gonna pull a neck muscle craning and gawking out the window at the neighbors who need 47,921 attempts to park. Every time. Its assigned parking. Dimensions don't change. I can't look away. Like, I recognize the sound of their vehicle approaching. This is unhealthy.

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

This is a cruel world full of overwhelming sounds that we are expected to pretend are not chipping away at our sanity with every tap-tap-tap.

Canada has seen 30 femicides already this year.

Remember that you are more likely to become disabled than not. You can be disabled by illness, injury, climate disasters, war, police brutality, unmitigated pandemics, lack of access to healthcare, etc. Disability justice is for us all, and it’s foundational to all other forms of justice.

Constantly being bullied by my own nervous system.

You’re allowed to go mad in March. It’s a whole thing.

I've searched the internet (unsuccessfully) so many times for a crochet pattern for an old-timey curling sweater with a shawl collar. I'm consistently annoyed with what technology has actually provided for (and/or highlighted about) societies.

Lottie Fitzgerald, 28, is doing all the requisite therapeutic work to build her confidence, but is constantly undermined by a horrid cackling morality-OCD gremlin lurking in the shadows of her grubby little soul.

I laughed so hard reading this! Oh no! I was here as a tourist, then moved here with zero due diligence. There is winter here! It is rural here! Everyone knows everyone! You can't get a doctor! ...yeah, most of these things can be learned about PEI in one general joke about the fucking east coast.

'Big Doom Profit', by second poetry collection, is available on my website. fenmtaylor.ca/shop-1/big-d... Written over 2 years early in the COVID pandemic, it is distilled rage at how white supremacy took advantage of the pandemic, and how disabled folk were abandoned in the name of individualism.

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Learned a new word from Jeffrey Martin today, so yeah, there's a million reasons I love when musicians let me subscribe to their emails.

You know the best way to kill AI? Don't use it. Don't buy it. Don't share it. Don't give the people who use it your labour or your money.

Acronyms are driving me!! Not everyone in the world is in your industry. If you use an acronym to refer to your business name, at some point in your social medias, you should have the full name. Today I specifically mean whatever CAMH is, whose bio reads "official CAMH" as if that describes it.

Yes, but I think it is capitalism, not just America.

I'd like the "industry" to open up opportunities for some backwater towns to gain sudden notoriety. "There's a dispensary in Fountain City that is on a campsite that allows skinny dipping and they also have an outdoor bowling alley? Road trip!"

Why the fuck is there no wind, no weather, no storm, but also, no fucking power. Fuck corporations that use basic life needs (such as electricity, food, housing) to turn a profit while providing the shittiest version of these services for the most fucking money. Capitalism kills.