@floralashes.bsky.social a friend asked me today if there are any non-male references to God in the Torah or related literature. I figured you might know.

Just seems weird to me that Jimmy Kimmel might be seen as the new Lenny Bruce. Just blows my already weird brain.

This should not be said of anyone. Not even Charlie Kirk.

Sometimes it's nice to remember that even Marcus Aurelius was like "you don't have to comment on everything bro"

They had kids, too.

davidwaltnertoewstoews.substack.com/p/poetry-as-... Singing Roosters, Dead Pigs, & Water Poetry

From Israeli journalist Yuval Abraham: Happening now: Israeli army raiding the house of Oscar winner Basel Adra after Israeli settlers attacked his village earlier and beat up his family member. Soldiers could try to abduct Basel into one of Israel's prisons which are effectively torture sites

Reposting this b/c it's awesome (although Abiy Ahmed being involved definitely muddies the divide between fascism and good things) bsky.app/profile/itis...

Thanks Matt. Nice to know that, having put a lot of work into a scholarly paper, referencing points made, it might prove actually useful. So many papers get lost in the academic shuffle. It's an incentive to pay attention and do one's best on tasks that may seem "academic" in the narrow sense.

They have kept me company and safe since 1968. The Buddha jumped into my backpack in Kolkata and the serpent befriended me in Chiang Mai.

Am figuring out how to use my Blue Mic and putting all my oral performances and readings on my Substack. My other news will still be on my website. davidwaltnertoewstoews.substack.com

#earlyeuropianhistory Is Frisia or Friesia the correct spelling.

#earlyeuropianhistory Is Frisia or Friesia the correct spelling.

Where are all the nice white Christian families who go to Guatemala to buy orphans. Are they averse to pre-owned children? Do they have to be new?

A good reminder…to re assess the neocolonial version of “development.” Whose voices count? www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

In ‘Katabasis,’ R.F. Kuang Takes Readers to Hell www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/b...

50 years ago. My mood today. www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6cf...

Why doesn’t Zelensky call a national election for all areas claimed on condition that there are European (and if they want, Russian) observers at every polling station

My favourite pillow to have in my lap and prop a book on for reading

A victory for public health and cyclists! www.cpha.ca/cpha-applaud...

I can chat with an AI Jesus and an AI Buddha. Why not an AI Mohammed?

“Once again the animals were conscious of a vague uneasiness... All the animals remembered passing such resolutions: or at least they thought that they remembered it." George Orwell, Animal Farm www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Seeing US headlines, I am compelled to read again Ed O’Loughin’s 2021 novel “This Eden.” It’s all there.

By the Nazi playbook "Canada’s defence attaché in Israel was briefed last year by a prominent Israeli academic who has publicly compared Palestinians to cockroaches, said “Palestinian culture is terrorism” and claimed there will never be a Palestinian state because Palestinians are “too repulsive.”

Spirit Bear scanning River in Great Bear Rainforest. Photo by my friend & colleague Barry Stemshorn. Presented to me at my OC investiture by Barry & my other friend, Enid Stiles.

Mennonite version davidwaltnertoews.wordpress.com/2025/07/03/t...

davidwaltnertoews.wordpress.com/2025/07/02/l... Wynn-Williams’ Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed , and Lost Idealism is a scary, hilarious, poignant, cringe-worthy, witty, tragic, deftly-told memoir about a whip-smart woman inside Zuckerberg's disorienting Facebook bubble

A reason I voted for Trudeau in 1970 .”In 1970, then-prime minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau paddled the Nahanni River. His transformational journey through the foaming river as it zig-zags through the towering Mackenzie Mountains inspired him to champion its protection. www.bbc.com/travel/artic...