You could be reading North Continent Ribbon(!) or And What Can We Offer You Tonight(!) instead of just gently writhing in illness on the sofa or whatever else it is we’re doing.

Mos Def - The Ecstatic

there's a change-in being staged at Vancouver City Hall next week, coinciding with the vote on a proposed budget that may see change tables removed from city facilities to "save money" www.instagram.com/p/DRNu5kYksgu/

At COP30 Canada just got awarded the fossil of the day — first time since 2014 (the harper years). Clear sign of how Carney’s pro fossil fuel agenda and backsliding on climate policy is being noticed internationally.

Aesop Rock?

I usually share a new Palestinian account every day but today I am going to do a thread of people I’ve already verified impacted by the recent flooding in Gaza. If you can help any of these families- many who lost everything again- please do. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/14/m...

Wistfully reading this in Vancouver…

Good morning. It’s budget day. I’m going to try and live skeet the proceedings so speakers know where we are at. First is staff presentation. 91 slides.

Volunteering has taken me to a Christmas craft fair today, and I was not at all prepared for this sudden immersion into the cold fluids of the holiday season. The lights, the songs, etc. it’s all quite a lot!

Hold on, friends! It's going to get spooky! To celebrate 10k followers, I'm answering your questions about Palestinian folklore here in this mega thread.

Have successfully eaten the ramen but further progress will have to wait until the cat moves.

Distressing that we have years of Mark Carney still to go in Canada. “Conservative, just with less smirking rudeness than Poilievre,” is a pretty bleak pitch for the future here.

🧵 The federal budget, according to @avilewis.ca "represents a massive redistribution of public resources away from people and services that people rely on, and the public sector, and a clear political choice to funnel wealth upward...

But on the plus side, new Armand Hammer!

"What should poor people be allowed to eat?" seems to be a burning question for those who aren't poor, have never been poor, and can afford to eat what they like, but want to keep poor people from eating anything that tastes really good. "No fresh meat," said Iowa, a few years ago.

#yvr It is beyond maddening that the vpd gets to trot out their little letter to Santa Claus budgets time after time, leaving everyone else to make cuts.

The most Sunday-ish Sunday of recent memory.

A long wait for spring training baseball, but then not so long as usual… so that’s something.

But I only corrected the bedside clock a month ago…

I really think the Jays win the World Series if IKF takes a better lead off of third base when he got thrown out by Rojas. Leads! The small things matter so much.

Ernesto! The new record holder.

That slow-motion Ernesto slide was a bringer of joy.

I hope that no relievers were injured on the run-in.

Oh the sweetness of a post-ibb homer. So good.

If Ohtani gets extra time to warm up, Jays should get a courtesy runner for Bo.

No anthems in sports (except boxing) imo

If the baseball gods allow the dodgers to win this, I will, in protest, refuse to watch baseball again until February.

re: Glasnow

Well on the plus side, more baseball.

May Higgins lose his acl in a comedic tumble from the car.

Lost opportunity yesterday for Rufus Wainwright to replace the World Series anthem with another Leonard Cohen cover. The Partisan? The Traitor? Joan of Arc?

These shelves at my parents’ house are not “earthquake ready” so much as they are waiting in gleeful anticipation of an earthquake that will let them really kick off.

If we were all dying of thirst in a desert, and three assholes were hoarding more freshwater than they could drink in 15 million lifetimes, we wouldn’t applaud their work ethic or ingenious gaming of the system. We’d take back our fucking water. No more billionaires.

Behold... the 2025 face pumpkin! Inspired by many things, but first and foremost I went back to my jack o' lantern roots with an archaeology reference. The Undine / Vodena Vila sculpture from Lepensk Vir, from 6300 - 5900 BCE.

Levels of Cautious Optimism are rising!

#catsky Resting up for the baseball and apparently also celebrating national cat day.

I would like to be more clear on why I invoked the name William Donnegan in my last post about Sonya Massey and her murderer being convicted 🧵

NYC fam, pls get to the polls. Stop Cuomo.

The baseball. So good.

The intentional balk - the most exciting play in sports.

Nice to see that the intentional walk is making a lot of new friends and fans.

Little. I fear this is the end.

Jays look like they could keep this up for a good 8-10 more innings without scoring again.

I have decided that at this stage of the game I am willing to accept LA’s surrender.

Thinking of the outfielder who chased a ball off into the distance, never to return. Perhaps something like that could work here.

I had been feeling cold and down, but my heart has been warmed by my cat, Alejandro Kirk, and the image of Kevin Gausman lustily sniffing a baseball.

#booksky So the library was bountiful today.

I am once again looking at you, Vancouver.

No anthems, flags, army, etc. (more cats)

One day, everyone… But again, it’s certainly not about Netanyahu alone.