I’m glad the Spurs are getting into the paint after settling for 3s in the second quarter, and I’m glad they’re getting the calls they should be getting, but this is shaping up to be a looooong quarter.

hey everyone wanna see what a manufactured hate campaign is shaped like???

If you get an email like this, don’t trust it unless you get confirmation from the other VPs, Lawrence Random and Stanley House

HATING AI IS GOOD! I have believed this. It’s good to have beliefs. To believe in the human brain and its worth. To work to preserve our dignity as a creative species.

Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison The Known World, Edward P. Jones Beloved, Toni Morrison

I played a word game today where my final option came down to bough or cough, and it should be illegal for those two words to be pronounced so differently.

I loved this book. I’ve been excited about it ever since I read Kevin Moffett’s excellent short story “Bears Among the Living” last summer, and it did not disappoint.

The Spurs are a delight to watch, and obviously that starts with Wemby doing otherworldly things, but Dylan Harper is sneakily becoming my favourite. Future superstar with incredible “swaggy little brother” aura

Thanks A Lot, Universe, my first middle grade book, came out five years ago today. I’m still moved every time I get a note or even a piece of fan art from a young reader. It’s one of the coolest things ever to be responsible for a kid’s favourite book, and I don’t take it lightly.

The best thing about coming home from a road trip is obviously sleeping in your own bed, but the second-best thing is the first sip of a good cup of tea from your favourite mug.

This event was so great. Today was even more fun than yesterday. The discourse around kidlit isn’t particularly encouraging these days, so it’s refreshing to spend time with actual kids who love books. Reality is different than the noise.

Very fun Day 1 of the MASC Young Authors and Illustrators Festival at the Canadian Museum of Science Technology in Ottawa. Talking about writing with keen, creative kids is one of my favourite things to do.

May this be true for all of us

Star Wars is fine but this meme speaks to me on a deeper level

Top 15 TV shows, gut instincts only: Friday Night Lights The Good Place Andor Avatar TLA Atlanta Reservation Dogs Derry Girls Slow Horses Parks and Recreation Gravity Falls Pushing Daisies Battlestar Galactica The Pitt ER The Simpsons

What a shot by RJ to win it. The first round of the playoffs has been wild.

Monster second quarter from the Raptors. Scottie Barnes is a big-game player.

These scams are insidious and annoying, but I find some dark humour in the fact that scammers are going to such elaborate lengths to target authors, of all people. I think they are wildly overestimating how much money most of us are making from our books.

Mary’s books are extremely good!

The Raptors and Cavaliers *combined* for 74 points in the first half of a brickfest in Game 4. Tonight the Raptors have 74 by themselves in the first half. That series is so bizarre it feels like anything could happen.

tremendous L for the weirdo freaks who tried and failed to get Americans to treat Canadians as our enemies before deciding they were more interested in starting wars with other countries

I saw a boy who was maybe 11 or 12 catch a fish in Shubie Park today and he got so hyped and yelled “HOLY CRAP LET’S GO” and a bunch of older guys stopped to admire his accomplishment. It was the most wholesome little moment.

My 16-year-old has kept two unopened cans of Beetlejuice-themed haunted apple Fanta from Halloween 2024, for posterity. This is the most cursed beverage I’ve ever tasted and it’s not close.

I’m not sold on blanket bans for youth as the best solution to the social media problem, but credit to Manitoba for acknowledging that AI chatbots are just as harmful or worse. I haven’t seen any other jurisdiction formally make that connection, even though the evidence is clear.

I’m honoured that The Vanished Ones is nominated for the 2027 Northern Lights Award from the Manitoba Young Readers Choice Awards.

I appreciate this piece on Story. Yesterday I talked to about 100 junior high kids in a “readers rumble” contest. At one point I asked them to raise their hands if they read a book on the reading list that they didn’t like. After some nervous giggles, they all raised their hands. “Good!” I said.

This is my equivalent of the “Tom Holland doing ‘Umbrella’ video. Anytime Black Thought spitting fire for ten minutes shows up in the timeline I’m absolutely going to watch it again

Trying to get into the new season of For All Mankind but I’m not sure how much more I can take of Ed Baldwin, one of the most obnoxious characters in television history

People who suddenly feel like their transphobic “jokes” and “fairness in sports” takes are a bad look while the government forcibly detransitions people don’t get to say “oh that’s not what I meant!” You did mean it! People told you what it meant and you did it anyways!

I don’t think a blanket social media ban for anyone under 16 is the best approach, and once again I am baffled by people who can fret about the internet’s effect on kids with one breath and cheerlead for AI with the next

Perfect

I watched episode 7 of The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins on the exercise bike this morning and there are a couple of parkour sight gags that have made me chuckle all day whenever I think about them. Daniel Radcliffe is great at physical comedy and really giving 100% on that show.

Victor’s last dribble before he dunks this is literally on the logo.

This is so great.

Estonia the only nation living in the real world on this issue.

Shrinking season 3 is one of the best seasons of a comedy I've seen in a while. Jessica Williams and Harrison Ford deserve awards.

After an exhausting week to end an exhausting month, I took the afternoon off and had one of the best naps I’ve ever had in my life. A top-5 all-timer, at least. A good nap is a beautiful thing.

“A grand human waste for no other reason than the waste itself” Oh buddy thats a more apt description of ai slop than ive ever heard look at you actually producing a phrase of value and without robo daddy

the process is part of the work. it’s not supposed to be easy. the effort creates good work. i can’t believe this needs to be explained to people who call themselves journalists.

If you grow up Black in Nova Scotia, you get used to older Black folks asking, “Who are your parents?” My cousin and I dropped this question on a high school kid at pickup ball last night and I realized, “This is an official threshold. We have become The Uncles.”

I accompanied S to Costco (I don’t like going to Costco) and she sent me to the fancy dip aisle to pick myself out one (1) treat. I’m fully aware this is a motivational tactic we used on the children when they were small but I’m OK with that. I can fully be bought with smoked Gouda dip.

Re: my last reposts “Do not put money in the pocket of a woman who has sworn publicly to use it to disenfranchise vulnerable populations” is the smallest ask imaginable. It’s not oxygen, it’s not food. It’s television. You can do without. There are thousands of other shows for you to watch.

Thinking about existential crisis that is AI and all of the technological progress that has brought us to now, from harnessing fire, inventing the wheel, to all we take for granted today. And it's just... the culmination of human technological progress cannot be the outsourcing of thought itself.

This is the disconnect that baffles me. I can't understand how some of the same people who insist that teens should be restricted from social media think it's not only fine but essential to give them full access to a different technology with clear, demonstrated dangers.

Canadians: you have until April 20th to participate in this federal survey about car headlights and night-time visibility!

I believe that if you love writing, you can call yourself a writer whether you’re published or not. The only rule is you have to love it enough to embrace the struggle and work through the hard parts. If you’re using AI, you don’t love it enough, and you’re not a writer.

I think about this a lot.

One of those weird weather weeks where I haven’t worn the same coat two days in a row.

This is it. I get why people don’t like the time change, but I’ll take a couple days of feeling off over never seeing daylight before 8:30 am in the winter or having the sun waking me up before 5 am in the summer.