On the UBC campus just now I saw an RCMP vehicle and two cars pulled over at the side of the road. The officer emerged from his vehicle in full dress uniform. You don’t see that every day!

Finally able to do my exercising with weights after barely moving all week due to illness. It went surprisingly well, other than some coughing fits caused by the deeper breathing. I don’t seem to have lost any strength or flexibility as I feared I might.

Still sick and lying on the couch bored and going stir crazy, but my darling child phoned me for an hour-long chat and that has cheered me up considerably 😊

my glass coffin company “remains to be seen” is not doing as well as i thought it would.

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FUCKING HELL GET IN www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Cute for the afternoon slump: a cup of tea and some Tim Tams

The fastest route to full-on misanthropy is communal apartment laundry

The river I see from my window changes colour depending on weather conditions. Today it looks green. Other times it’s blueish, silver, or gunmetal grey.

Thinking a lot today about how much of that disablism comes from people who identify as progressives and fail to understand how disablism, eugenics, and larger histories of oppression are deeply tied to one another. That includes, BTW, disabled people who fail to engage with overlapping oppressions.

the worst part is we actually made good progress on a lot of the right lessons (given congressional resource constraints) and then it all got blown to hell by the worst people you know

This might be the greatest split-screen ever broadcast. They’ll play this in museums in future. (🎥 LCI 🇫🇷)

Not feeling great about the prospect of a Liberal majority tbh

While the Iran War serves as cover, Israel is carpet bombing entire neighborhoods in Beirut, a 5,000 year old city of 2.4 million people. Israel’s bombing campaigns have already displaced close to a million people in Lebanon.

I wanna be best friends with Roisin Conaty

I just found out that in Scotland they deep fry pizza slices in batter 😳 Maybe my ancestors were right to leave.

CASABLANCA may be the most correctly rated movie of all time

What’s something you have never done, that makes you an extreme outlier in North American society? Me — I have never been to Costco.

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Get his ass, king.

Someone said they carry a Ziploc bag full of confetti with them at all times so they can celebrate when it happens.

Huh, it’s snowing ❄️

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the 1981 film MEPHISTO, directed by István Szabó and starring Klaus Maria Brandauer. It’s about an actor who makes a Faustian bargain with the Nazi party during WWII in order to continue performing, while other actors protest the regime or go into exile. 1/2

“Difficult people in your life might make you age faster, study suggests” You think???

As usual, the time change has completely wiped me out. Glad we won’t be doing this any more!

In general, media people are a bad fit for public office but this is a big exception.

Looking at old censuses is depressing because you see people renting an entire house on one salary for a family with 5 kids for $21/mo in 1931. And father’s occupation is “labourer - railroad”. If the inflation calculator I used is correct, that’s equivalent to about $422/mo CAD today.

Last night I dreamed I spent an evening wandering around Vancouver with Chris Fleming, and at one point we bumped into Helen Mirren and had a brief chat with her.

#InternationalWomensDay2026 What would the world be without women? What would punk be without women? ❤️ For me, there's no other music genre that offers such a wide variety of personalities and voices. #womenofpunk #punkrockhistory

I get yelled at for saying this but for many hundreds of years people went to university not to get diplomas or be employable but because immersion in the humanities was considered foundational to a good life, and school must return to its original purpose: the joy of learning.

I appear to be sick again just one week after recovering from previous illness. To whom do I complain?

This is wildly common in chronic illness because doctors are taught to cure and not treat. So they’re not flexible or imaginative and if it doesn’t work the way they were taught or expect they can’t just mark it in their win column so it’s not worth their time and now you’re making them work

Love is in the air at Edinburgh zoo. Pebbling marks the start of the breeding season for Gentoo penguins. Kids at Edinburgh Children's Hospital Charity painted pebbles for the penguins to choose from and present to their mates.

there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for

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“My Sims are eating salad in the hallway” is not a sentence I ever expected to hear.

Attending a Powwow, which I’ve never done before, so I’m excited.

I’m working on a song. It’s a soulful tune about a guy named Barrett who had shoulder length hair then got a buzz cut. It’s called “The Last of Barrett’s Private Ears”.

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Perks of working from home: your partner brings you French toast and coffee for breakfast 🧇 ☕️ (I’m the one who made the French toast and my partner is the lucky guy)

“Tomorrow,” said Toad, “I can just take life easy.” Toad went back to bed.

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Some photos from a recent #DailyWalk

#DailyWalk Langara to Arbutus

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This is a profound continental divide. Canadians overwhelmingly view other Canadians, even those unlike them, as being good people. Americans, more than any other country, view their neighbours and fellow citizens as bad people. Anti-Americanism flourishes in the United States

Last night I had a dream that there was a wolf outside my door trying to get in. I was struggling to hold the door shut while its toothy snout kept getting in between the door and frame. If this were a script and I were an editor, I’d reject it for the symbolism being way too trite and obvious.

White Spot Pirate Paks mentioned in this episode of #Allegiance. That is some very local content!

Remember when we had a Prime Minister who kept us out of the Iraq War?

“'Fairchild TV News has not received any statement in Cantonese and/or Mandarin from Mayor Ken Sim, despite Sim stating he would do so yesterday,' said Albert Tsui, with Fairchild TV News." From @isabellazavarise.bsky.social: www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...