gentle reminder that the national theatre is streaming the importance of being earnest in about 50 minutes! (yes that performance where ncuti gatwa wears a gorgeous pink gown) ✨️🏳️‍🌈 youtu.be/obX-HGs-PS8?...

Overheard from a random pedestrian, after a car blared its horn in traffic: "Honk louder!"

This is very random, but it is very important to me that more people know about this:

Listening to a podcast about medieval maps (and eels!), knitting a red Norwegian-style hat. Am feeling settled for the first time in days.

I’m enjoying the hell out of this. It’s like it was made for me.

Things I've said today: "Oh good, it's only squirrels."

Someone just called me, waiting eleven rings, to tell me that the Federal Reserve Bank is going to give me $5.4 million dollars and a new Toyota, the colour of my choice. *Eleven rings* from a bank that neither exists in my country nor gives out free anything. I despair of the world.

I finally started to make some lists to organize all the lovely and brilliant people I follow and to make it easier to find certain kinds of content (scholars, editors, journalists, shitposters, etc.) So many of you are on multiple lists, require a new list, or are hard to sort. Well done (sob).

"Love fears with a primal fear but walks on." Such a poem. Such a reader. Such a reason.

Hockey Canada ordered to pay nation’s therapy bills

After the third thing falling on my head today, it’s clear that household entropy and I need to have a little talk.

After today’s meteorological shenanigans, which included a few inches of snow along with what a co-worker described as “sideways glass-shard rain” like you would find on a Neptunian moon, we are getting thunder. Sun, then fog, was yesterday. We have received all our weather shipments at once.

Jesse Jackson adapted his “I am Somebody” speech many times, never more memorably than this moving 1971 Sesame Street appearance. RIP. youtu.be/iTB1h18bHlY

I can hear both rain and ice clattering against my bedroom window this morning. Eventually, I will need coffee and to do paid work, but right now my bed is warm and soft and I don’t wanna get up.

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

NEW from me today: Tumbler Ridge is mourning a horrific loss. But how the shooter's identity is being talked about online, and the dangerous links being made to trans people at large, will have resounding and dangerous impacts in the months and weeks to come. xtramagazine.com/power/tumble...

I feel very called out. youtu.be/W0mTIZ19YAI?...

We have home Internet again after 12 days: just as I was getting used to going to sleep at a reasonable time of night and not doomscrolling half the day. It was a bit shocking how much of my brain is normally filled with internet.

Me: Why do my feet hurt? Is it my boots? What am I doing wrong? (*Checking my step counter*) Me: Ah; doing 10,000 steps by accident is what I did wrong.

Pokémon #SuperBowl commercial to celebrate the franchise’s 30th anniversary:

Eadweard Muybridge: Animal Locomotion: An Electro-Photographic Investigation of Consecutive Phases of Animal Movement 1872-1885

Day 9 without home internet. I am getting a significant amount of reading and other work done. Enraging for so many reasons.

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

I asked my older son to pick up some baking powder at the bulk store for me. He brought me 1.7 kg of baking powder. “A little more expensive than I expected, but still funny,” he said. It *was* funny; definitely ridiculous. And I won’t need baking powder again for another 5 years.

It’s actually pretty easy to beat Isaac Chotiner if you know what to do (wait until he completes his third attack sequence, roll behind him, use Flame Dart until you’re out of mana, hide under the gargoyle head until his Rage Wing Spin finishes, stun him with a Sylvan Dagger, equip the Thallslayer w

Friends, we're thrilled to announce #Comics4Liam to encourage artists to draw pictures for Liam Conejo Ramos and share links to help Liam's family and other immigrants persecuted by ICE! Check out comics4liam.com and please do feel free to pitch in! Images by the great @trungles.com!

Days in a row spilling food on my shirt at breakfast: 3

Recent experiences have reminded me, forcefully, of the importance of personal networks (close and weak ties, both) during periods of long illness, regardless of ultimate outcome. This story does as well, in a powerful way.

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

At least 50 cm of snow has fallen in my neighbourhood today, and it’s not done yet. We have three extra kids staying at our house tonight, because snowstorms don’t stop Magic games from happening, but they do stop players from going home afterwards. I think I have enough storm chips.

This gave me chills. Respect.

Defenceless under the night Our world in stupor lies; Yet, dotted everywhere, Ironic points of light Flash out wherever the Just Exchange their messages: May I, composed like them Of Eros and of dust, Beleaguered by the same Negation and despair, Show an affirming flame. — W.H. Auden, Sept. 1, 1939

Not to sound irreverent, rather, holding onto faith and hope in our fellow average human... Any other PTerry fans that can't stop thinking about The Glorious People's Republic of Treacle Mine Road?

My local bookshop understands their audience.

Friends, I’d like to show @ucalgary.bsky.social that @bsky.app is where the cool kids hang out and that they should start posting here more and less/none at TheBadPlace™️. Show them some love by reskeeting this 100000000x. 🧪

Smooth current hurries Slick glass ripples skim the stones Speed without tumult (Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles)

Found the script for *Casablanca* online, and have been reading it in little bits over the course of the morning. Honestly, it's keeping me sane. Even the script is glorious.

Jesus Christ.

some thoughts amidst burn out + grief, but keep at it. #iceoutnyc #iceoutmpls #iceoutcomics

Just a headline spanning the page above the fold of a business-focused national newspaper, all five columns, no image. No biggie. No worries. Fine, fine, everything is fine.

Very weird to be reminded many people think the worth of social media is how large their engagement numbers are when for me worth is measured in how much nonsense I can post at friends or to the void and how funny/entertaining/informative other people's posts are.

No new pictures. Where are you at mentally?

the knitters too. this is the top pattern on ravelry right now

I felt like making some art last night/today and could have made something beautiful and/or meaningful but I made this instead. It's a Barbie Yaga Malibu Dream Hut. No regrets. Can't defeat fascism without joy.

This whole thread brings joy. This cat is as smug as the cat who tricked my husband, who has severe cat allergies, into feeding him on the back porch every day with salmon that had been warmed up in the microwave for exactly 7 seconds.

Holy hell, what an obituary

If the US could not invade Greenland and invoke a NATO reponse, putting my country at war with its closest neighbour, that would be great, thanks. Signed, A Very Stressed Canadian

No words to describe this beauty.

we’re in the vet’s office waiting room and they just called for Agamemnon. we all looked at the Great Dane but it turns out Agamemnon is an orange kitten in a backpack that makes him look like an astronaut cheese puff

this is the funniest thing i’ve ever read. isaac chotiner interviews a resident of the town from the lottery. archiveofourown.org/works/73396436