please appreciate this perfect sweater I got at a great vintage place yesterday

He's making a list, He's nailing it high, Indulgences, No longer apply, Martin Luther's coming to town

"My body was a collection of shapes. It wasn’t worth losing myself over." I've shared this more than once before but I just re-read it and it's still so good. electricliterature.com/a-perfect-bo...

the Ottawa Charge logo is just "Andrew Mangiapane draws the Flames logo"

I've been living in Ontario for 19 years but someone clocked my prairie accent tonight, omfg. Feels good. This girl is from Pil country and don't you forget it

Two things in one... I wrote about the 2025 Blue Jays after their excruciating World Series loss ruheedewji.com/2025/11/06/f... And I played a pretty decent sax solo among other things survivalclub.bandcamp.com/track/maybe-...

I really liked this and I especially love the illustration of squatting giant books. "I feel like lifting reminds you that you have a body, but also that there are other parts of yourself that aren’t up for judgment right now."

went into this very skeptical of this lady and obviously seeing the replies to this piece, but i feel like everyone should read the whole thing. her story is complex and i feel like getting death threats for this is... insane. here's a gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/s...

Shared a bunch of good links (and some commentary) at the bottom of this post: www.inthemargins.ca/end-of-2025

cannot fucking believe we have returned to a time when everyone just says "I have to work off that meal" or "I'll be good and not eat the dessert teehee" all the time. what the fuck is this. I didn't live through the 2000s for this!!!!!!

cursed timeline

I usually make at least one of these tiny mitten ornaments a year and they are delightful every time

found this album on the Bandcamp best-of-the-year lists and it is A VIBE iesounds.bandcamp.com/album/revers...

my feelings about ORMs are increasingly "but this would be so much easier to read as a SQL query"

almost forgot to post the funniest christmas song there is. you need it, we all need it titusandronicus.bandcamp.com/album/drumme...

Yellow-Red-Blue, by Wassily Kandinsky, 1925 (detail, rotated), 📸 by @riogiancarlo.bsky.social

Could a person with depression do this?! (grimly goes about activities of daily living)

I can't wait to festively die in this pit on Saturday

Every year I like to share this version of "Silver Bells" I helped make (you can hear me playing saxophones & singing gang vocals). It's sad and wistful and messy and joyful all at the same time, the way the holidays tend to be. cedarstriprocketship.bandcamp.com/track/silver...

D minor, the saddest of all keys. 💔

working on my ear training, offended that this thing writes dominant 7th chords as e.g. "B Dom 7th" like what is that. get out of here. that's a B7

it also is my most popular which is hilarious because it truly is so fuckin dumb

experimentally thought about game 7 a little bit to see how that wound was doing and, hmm, nope. no thank you

oMG teh Bleu JAy r ruinig bAsebaLD

Every generation will reinvent <table> formatted webpages, the peak of civilization

Sheer Spite's US store, started after it stopped being feasible to ship to the US from Canada, is coming along well! Tell a US-american you know who likes zines? Also all these are available at wholesale rates if you know a store you'd like to see them stocked :) sheerspite.bigcartel.com

I’m a single issue voter and my issue is that those busses that bend in the middle should make accordion noises

Merry Christmas to me.

need a word for the specific exhilaration of finding and describing a bug. I feel invincible. (software bug, not like, "what's this thing in my pantry". I have a word for that and it's "aaaaaaaaaaaaa")

I really like writing and fixing software, but is the cognitive dissonance of genAI going to force me out of the industry before they stop hiring me for being an old lady? seems likely!

I am thrilled to see that bref decided to include the territories this year

sorry this is cracking me up. i get it but things are dark in these seo trenches

went axe throwing for the first time in like a decade. it turns out that learning to lift weights and take cues is... really helpful for not sucking at axe throwing!

"Torono" 😍

also, fun fact: the part where there's like 4 of me at once is labeled "(Saxophonophony)" on the lyric sheet

still not complete, there's a lot of December left, but this is the most normal my show list has been since 2019. still a little short but ... we are so back github.com/ruhee/show-a...

learning chord progressions for what will 100% be the best gig of the year (christmas singalong at a dear friend's house for a gaggle of small children)

I can’t believe a technical solution to a complex social problem didn’t work. Ah well, nevertheless

always surprised when I'm the only one in a mask at a diy punk show... like what!!!

French braiding my hair is a better shoulder endurance exercise than anything else

my boyfriend didn't even care about baseball 3 years ago and now he's coming home from errands with this

Well I guess I need a Dylan Cease jersey youtu.be/Rxll_CqFXvE?...

ME: they shouldn't be able to say 'your order has shipped' when they've just created a label. That's not shipped. ISAAC CHOTINER: so, you've never claimed to have a task underway when you've merely opened the file? ME: that's not- CHOTINER: in this Teams message to your boss, you said-

Every year I like to share this version of "Silver Bells" I helped make (you can hear me playing saxophones & singing gang vocals). It's sad and wistful and messy and joyful all at the same time, the way the holidays tend to be. cedarstriprocketship.bandcamp.com/track/silver...

Or perhaps the Subway Ghosts (Brooklyn), whose EP you can even get on vinyl now!! thesubwayghosts.bandcamp.com/album/underg...