On my list of least favourite euphemisms: "fibre" when you mean TREES

Good morning! It's #sunrise season. #yyj #photography

Planet Earth Poetry's 30 for 30 fundraiser link- please share and help keep Western Canada's longest running poetry series going for another 30 years (or more!)! 💟📕 gofund.me/4ceb9c262 @zoeidadickinson.bsky.social @byallmeanswrite.bsky.social

We must have been impacted by a rolling strike or something because we got no mail for a few weeks and then this week I received not one but TWO fine publications with my poetry between the covers. 🥳 That feeling, when I find my name in the table of contents, never gets old!

Even though I'm Jewish (culturally and ethnically, not religiously) I LOVE Christmas and holiday fairs and the festive season. I am SO. EXCITED. that Victoria's Poet Laureate @byallmeanswrite.bsky.social has created this Winter Poetry Fair!!! I didn't even know this was missing from my life!!

Yesterday's pre-sunrise pic. #sunrise #photography #yyj

The reluctant model. #dogs

This week's Great British Bake Off #technicalbake - orange cardamom steamed puddings! Very tasty, although I had almost none of the required equipment. Yum ☺️ #baking #gbbo

refuse to hustle, to be hurried, to be rushed, to decide, coerced, to be persuaded against your gut feelings—will be snail, morning slug on window, slow spider, dream sloth covered in moss, pregnant and uncomfortable pause, delay, the biggest and slowest breath in and out. it can all wait, darling.

Sunrise I forgot to post from earlier this week. #sunrise #photography

This week's Great British Bake Off #technicalbake - raspberry souffles! My first time making souffles. I shouldn't have put the tuile cookies on top - it caused the souffles to start sinking immediately! Otherwise, I'd call this a fairly successful bake. #baking #gbbo

Hotshot Peasant Has Window

Mori from @bluejo.bsky.social 's Among Others remains in my top ten of fictional characters I wish were my friends in real life.

Two good things happened yesterday. 1. Nash, the Russell Books shipper, came back from her vacation (I missed her so much!) and 2. She brought in the first batch of Russell Books stickers, which she designed right before she left!!! Featuring the cutest bookstore dog in the world.

an Indigenous Peoples Day reminder that borders are bullshit and every Indigenous person from across the Americas deserves to be in the US more than every person of European origin fuck borders, fuck ICE, land back.

Nobody's more shocked than me that this week's Great British Bake Off #technicalbake turned out basically exactly the way it was supposed to! I was EXTREMELY skeptical about this one, but it's actually quite tasty. My first time making hot water crust - I like it!

I really liked this book. It articulates things I've sensed and struggled to understand about how the world has changed in the last few years.

this week during prime day sales take a moment and think about what you need, how quickly you need it, and where you might be able to get it in your community! It’s surprisingly easy to boycott the crummiest company on earth and there’s no shortage of great reasons to try start trying

I forgot to post last week's #technicalbake - a not entirely successful white chocolate mango and passionfruit tart. Here you go. #baking #gbbo

A reminder that this exists too. #sunrise #ocean #peace

Poem.

This week's @britishbakeoff technical bake! Gotta say it's a bit underwhelming. Yellow cake, plain icing. Vanilla custard. At least now I know where sprinkles come from! #baking #technicalbake

This is just what I wanted. Bioregional storytelling that centers Indigenous knowledge and boosts ideas rooted in place and ecosystems. magiccanoe.wpengine.com

Yes ♥️

Can't wait! ✨

I'm so thrilled to have a poem in this very cool science/art/poetry magazine, Consilience! www.consilience-journal.com/issue-22

This week's @britishbakeoff.bsky.social #technicalbake - doughnuts! Delish. Time consuming. The whole apartment smells like oil and the kitchen is a disaster, but they turned out light and fluffy and crispy.

Abbie Richards (tofology on TikTok and abbiesr on IG) has been doing the damn thing since lockdown at least, and I am very proud to be one of her mutuals, she’s brilliant

It's the last day of our fundraising campaign, and we're still shy of our goal of adding 100 new recurring members. Any amount is the right amount! Come hang out and become a bioGraphic Insider

Smoky sunrise. #beach #sunrise #photography

Happy 4th birthday, Duke! ❤️ We love you, little guy.

TODAY!!!!!!!!!!! Don't miss our September Launch at Supermarket. 💫 #CanLit #TOevents #booklaunch

Great British Bake Off technical - biscuit week! Ok so I miscalculated how quickly the chocolate would set... Also some broke when I tried to take them out of the mold. So I ended up with one hobnob that looks the way it's supposed to! They all taste pretty good though. #gbbo #technicalbake

Eating last week's technical while watching this week's signature #bakeoffgoals #gbbo

A William Carlos Williams snack #thisisjusttosay

Got contacts yesterday and looked myself in the face without glasses for the first time in 20 years. Quite surreal! Then I promptly lost my glasses in the cab on the way home 🤦‍♀️ and I can't pick them up until the company's office opens on Mon.

First #gbbo technical bake complete! I actually ended up with nine (slightly wobbly but perfectly respectable) fondant fancies. Holy moly though that is a LOT of sugar! You're really not going to want more than one unless you're a five year old.

Sappho didn’t write tiny poems with giant leaps. They were torn. Everybody, mostly men, Swinburne, for example, has been filling her holes ever since. She said…well, actually, you can say Sappho said anything. She says about two words and then everyone, the world, jumps in. Eileen Myles, Inferno

When a magazine rejects your poems because they "could benefit from another round of revision" but they're already about to be published as part of your forthcoming book ☺️

Uh, yeah. cheknews.ca/victoria-ran...

You know what sucks? Sneezing when you have a migraine.

Down the rabbit hole trying to figure out wtf "fondant icing sugar" is for this week's #gbbo technical bake... starting this season strong with a headscratcher UK ingredient! It seems to be icing sugar mixed with gelatin and/or inverted sugar? Not something I can buy in Canada as far as I can tell.

Smoky morning. #yyj #wildfire #smoke #photography

Complain about the price of books all you want, they are actually kinda wildly cheap these days. Like, a latte is often $8 or so, a sandwich, $17, yet we're upset about a book that will provide somewhere between two hours and a lifetime of entertainment and stimulation costing $23?

"If the web only produced things I could imagine myself, it would have failed." -- loving this memoir by Tim Berners-Lee... The hopeful beginnings of the web! libro.fm/audiobooks/9...

What could be better than watching a bunch of people bake stuff together and receive lovely compliments (and/or scathing takedowns) on their cakes from two elderly british folks? I know that all is emphatically NOT right with the world but just for this moment... All is right. #gbbo

It's officially Bake Off season!!!!! I bake along with the technical bake every week so brace for lots of baking pics. #baking #gbbo

Sending 🫶 #photography #beach #driftwood #yyj

Light and shadow. #sky #cloudwatching #photography