See you guys in two weeks!

accidentally referred to an Ent as "Neckbeard" yesterday

Most science-fictioney place ever.

flexing on the children in the aquarium gift store by being able to buy any plushie I want with my own money

love me some overgrown Tokyo buildings www.tokyotimes.org/recently-fou...

"We live in an age of narrowly targeted advertising," they tell me, just before I see an add for harvesters and tractors. I live in a condo.

I’m at $150/$800 Im panicking because I spent all my money at his last appointment and he NEEDS this procedure. Please share. Please. He’s my family.

One of the best pieces I've read about the state of the industry. Absolutely spectacular stuff and aiming at a problem we *desperately* need to solve (and which is, thankfully, an easy problem to solve... if the industry simply puts its muscle to it)

Anteater

One more link for you: while Chandler was fighting extradition from Canada to the U.S., he had to surrender his passport, stay in B.C., and report to a parole officer. He went on vacation to Mexico via a chartered jet.

If you want to know more about Mark Chandler – including the time he rented a furnished mansion in Vancouver, from which the furniture and a grand piano vanished – you can check out the links the story above.

Reminder that after receiverships and accusations of selling some condo units to two, three, and in one case four separate would-be buyers, Mark Chandler has never been charged with a crime in Canada.

BEYOND LOCAL: Oilers 50/50 raffle has paid $81M to company owned by hockey group over 4 years, documents reveal

The worst thing about male pattern baldness is that now that I'm finally brave enough to try a mohawk, there's not enough hair left to support it.

My favourite story in the paper this coming week, by my colleague Saman!

Miniature horse Miss Vickie brings joy to patients at Langley Hospice.

List of things Canadians will be smuggling into US soon: • Game consoles • Tylenol • Ozempic • IKEA furniture That last one's going to be a challenge.

Happy Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov Saves the World Day, everybody. 42 years ago today, Lt. Col. Petrov prevented an accidental nuclear war. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanisl...

repeating the phrase "full books" as I slam my head against my desk until I pass out

Reminder that after receiverships and accusations of selling some condo units to two, three, and in one case four separate would-be buyers, Mark Chandler has never been charged with a crime in Canada.

New article by me on the very impressive new megaraptoran Joaquinraptor (title typo not mine!) ... www.discoverwildlife.com/dinosaurs/jo... #dinosaurs #fossils #theropods

Someone came on here to tell me a while back that all of science fiction was a fascist, colonialist project, and I don't know, guys – if you buy the idea that Heinlein is all there is to SF, but you got that idea FROM THE LEFT, you got rolled, okay?

I covered the auction of a whole dinosaur park worth of statues and animatronics once – they had a sauropod set up in the parking lot at the auction house, where they normally had boats and cars for the police auctions!

Welp. Feel like that was predictable.

I have this already it's called having weirdo friends that send me links, book recs, shows, memes, music, movies. We talk abt places we want to go and share info and laugh about it. It's better than a curated list cuz we get to talk about it. Finding something and knowing who would like it is love

Like seemingly every journalist in B.C., I got a copy of the internal report and have reported some details here. The B.C. Conservatives continue to struggle with internal strife after mashing together far-right and centre-right elements prior to last year's election. thetyee.ca/News/2025/09...

Finally got back to having a regular gaming group about a year ago, and it's the first time I've made new friends outside of work in… an alarmingly long time. Roll dice, pretend to be an elf or a cyborg or a Regency fop! It's fun!

My latest for the Surrey Citizen shows how extremism has taken over support for some farmers. surreycitizen.com/surrey-compa...

Taking this with a grain of salt, but interesting stuff:

List three things you can talk about for three hours with no prep: 1. Dinosaurs and extinct animals 2. Science fiction novels/stories 3. Urban planning and development in Metro Vancouver

Okay, that's a fairly big deal.

I keep saying this, but if cellular agriculture breaks through (fingers crossed) it's not going to be in stuff like printing steaks from scratch. It'll be invisible, replacing egg and milk proteins in shelf-stable foods from the middle grocery aisles.

From 1969 to 2008 John Margolies photographed the eccentric roadside architecture and ephemera of the US. @librarycongress bought the lot, a total of 11,710 colour slides, and lifted all copyright restrictions on them. Here's our highlights: publicdomainreview.org/collection/j...

A police vehicle collided with a civilian driver while responding to a crime in progress, RCMP say.

Broadcaster and environmentalist David Suzuki is coming to Langley for an event to include a Q&A and book signing.

Meanwhile, in British Columbia, they've finally rounded up the gangster who had a highly organized escape from jail while he was being tried for murder.

Holy crap!

Meanwhile, in my town:

In the essay-in-progress, had to briefly discuss the Sad/Rabid Puppy battles, and their claimed anti-literary intent. Politics aside, I'm struck by how sci-fi/fantasy had to defend itself from people who insisted it could only be written at a sixth-grade reading level, forever.

DOUBLE PELICAN DIVE AFTER SUNSET!!!! wooooo! What a way to end the week! time to sleep and prepare for the horrors and joys of the next one 🪶

BC Conservative MLA Elenore Sturko says she was ousted from the party not because she tried to organize other MLAs to oppose leader John Rustad, but because she continued to voice concerns about an explosive internal report that detailed "manufactured memberships." #bcpoli thetyee.ca/News/2025/09...

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

We are going to have to kill the idea of recovered memories every 5 years for the rest of my life, aren't we? Everyone should at least know that 'recovered memory' was popularized by a nonsense book that sparked the decade-long Satanic Panic.

THIS IS TONIGHT Free, virtual, make a cup of tea and put on your jammies! Be there or be a rectangular thing -- and keep an eye out for our SPECIAL GUEST STAR! (Not me, I'm on the poster.)

Meanwhile, in my town:

Meanwhile, in my town (fun news edition)!

Not that I necessarily agree with or abide by the Ten Rules, obvs. But he was such a good writer.

Good to see this.

*I blame pseudoscience-fiction as written by bestselling esoteric occultist cranks www.academia.edu/49281728/The...