Every time I need to make myself get up or do something I don't want to, I do Ranier Wolfcastle-as-Radioactiveman's UP AND AT THEM

You know i love my friend A very much because, for her birthday, I am voluntarily leaving the house after 9. On a weeknight. Between days of union meetings. To go to karaoke.

I've been thinking about that Klein and Ta-Nehisi Coates convo. Specifically, how Klein kept saying that Coate's pragmatism in positioning his work in line with those who came before him fighting for rights they knew were unlikely to come to fruition in their lifetimes was depressing /1

This is worrying and incredibly messed up

Good morning

Violent crime is more rare, shocking, headline-grabbing. We treat it as an intolerable aberration from the norm. And we should! But that suggests that road deaths and injuries are the norm and are therefore tolerable. No politician will say that out loud, but watch what they prioritize.

Kiss of the Fur Queen, Stay and Fight, Stranger Things Happen, Depression: A Public Feeling, Pigeon, The Break, Little Fish, Dare Me, Symposium, Edith Vane and the Hares of Crawley Hall, Melmoth

the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.

WCW: Sure, as I've said, I did eat the plums but Chotiner: The plums that I was saving for breakfast WCW: Which you were *probably* saving for breakfast Chotiner: I bet they were delicious, right WCW: You've got to understand I eat a lot of things from the icebox Chotiner: So sweet and so cold

This made me remember that when the one-two of cooked Google and genAI was first really hitting, I thought that themed webpage directory-style websites would come back in a new way and I'm so sad that hasn't happened. I guess it's just reddit.

I needed something easy and comforting for dinner and I had the world's most enormous cabbage in my fridge from CSA, and then I remembered this old Molly Wizenberg recipe, which is simple and perfect with some jasmine rice and a fried egg orangette.net/2009/01/the-...

I watched the public reaction to the police crackdown on the Gaza solidarity encampments pretty closely, and I do not believe 93% of baby boomers and 86% of Gen X-ers believe that violence in stopping speech is unacceptable

I don't think pointing out the fascists' 'hypocrisy' is a good use of time. It's not hypocrisy, it's hierarchy. They actually do believe that they have the right and obligation to dominate you because they are superior to you. They are using their power not being hypocritical.

Would prefer to avoid being sick for a week in September going forward--my work email is a disaster.

How to support Crips for eSIMs for Gaza, which is STILL sending eSIMs and has seen a big increase in requests due to the criminal situation in the north: 🔗 bit.ly/eSimsRUs USD : bit.ly/venmo4esims GBP : www.paypal.com/donate/?host... cc: @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social @sfdirewolf.bsky.social

This cold is taking forever to disperse, which is very annoying, but I did make this, which started as a little doodle that I just kept adding to.

We went to the sacred fire relatives are holding for Kerry and Egor. Fire keepers still need wood, medicine, and donations to support the feast at the end. Sacred fire is at 46 Grove St until 5:55 pm Thursday.

Seriously go to gazafunds.com and donate to whatever comes up you will literally be saving lives, find out about the mutual aid orgs wherever you are and give direct, if you’re on stolen land find local First Nations groups and pay the rent, MOVE THAT CASH

Really wish my body could have picked any other week to get sick enough that all I really have the energy to do is lie in bed and expose myself to toxic levels of Posting Madness

There are a lot of reasons multigenerational community is good, and one of them is the vicarious thrill when your friends' kid gets a Scholastic book orders flyer for the first time 😍

Gonna amend this, the Liberals pretend there's no problem with the US, except when they want to give the government more powers to invade the privacy of Canadians or hand out gifts to the private sector, then the US is suddenly a huge problem that demands immediate action.

#winnipeg has a municipal by-election coming up on Oct 25th in Elmwood-East Kildonan. I'm thrilled there is an amazing candidate running to be city councillor. @emmaewood.bsky.social is exactly what we need on City Council. I'm supporting her, I hope you will to. #wpgpoli www.emmadurandwood.ca

Came home last night craving a new Brandon Taylor novel, and wouldn't you know, he has one coming out in five weeks. And it's about a painter!

It turns out that protecting hate speech did not create the conditions to protect other kinds of speech; instead, it protected hate and allowed hate movements to take over all the institutions of that might have defended the rest of us.

Went for another tandem bike jaunt this morning, now sunning ourselves beside the local swimming hole

After two years of hunting for the perfect project bag, I found this Charley Harper print cutie at Fibre Fest.

This about sums up how I feel about New Transit

I CANNOT stand Winnipeg's trajectory right now. Hmm, people are acting out of more desperation? Let's increase security! Huh, people are taking even GREATER risks? More force! More security!

Did Winnipeg Transit used to go to the Exhibition grounds? I was sure it did, but looked up routes for this weekend and LOL NOPE

Saw this reposted by a number of people who do not understand 1) that "AI" can mean a whole host of things, including a bunch of things you had no objection to 5 years ago, and 2) Bayes rule

Is there a setting I'm not seeing to make reading a magazine on Libby for Abdroid not totally ridiculous and miserable?

I did a little colour study embroidery this past week to work on my long and short stitch and colour blending. Very fun; think I'll do more of these

First printing question of the season. Only 7000 more to go

See: the City of Winnipeg library workers who are forbidden to speak to the press about the state of their workplace when under-resourcing leads to repeated on-site crises

Hey everyone who signed the letter about increasing funding for research in Canada, you can fill in this consultation and write in "Double Tri-council funding to help secure Canadian Research Sovereignty" as an option under "other" for the first question...

If someone claims to be scared of the subway but isn’t scared of being in a car on the highway—which is exponentially more dangerous + deadly—they are not a serious person

Oooh. More or less, yes, this is how I feel. You can do sentiment analysis, but that doesn't get at veracity. LLMs have so many uses, but the "generative" of gen AI isn't yet able to take the leaps of understanding humans themselves struggle to understand or express.

This article, by Carleton PhD student Alexander Rudolph, should be on the front page of every Canadian newspaper. It highlights how the US can access all data on the government and military’s Microsoft servers, Canadian laws be damned. www.digitaljournal.com/tech-science...

The shuttering of community connections being a single sentence buried deep in the article is a travesty. There need to be very clear lines drawn between a line item in the budget and this man’s death.

The City has known for years that the library needs safer infrastructure on the 4th floor. They know Community Connections and safety hosts have a proven record of improved safety and deescalation. They are consciously withholding funding for adequate maintenance and staffing of the library.

You can perhaps see that partway through stitching, I started doing the stripes on top of the bed of split stitch colour instead of stitching them in as I went, and stitching this section of blue was particularly wonderful--the thread just glows.

some one offers u a bag if potato chips and there are no potato chips in the bag what kind of sicko does that

today in baby story time I read My Cat Looks Like My Dad & this one dad who looks like the dad in the story had a Look on his face the whole time. turns out he believes his cat does in fact look just like him.

Wrote a column thenarwhal.ca/seasonal-dep... and talked to CBC's Allie Jaynes www.cbc.ca/radio/frontb... about how wildfires, smoke, extreme heat and other effects of climate change are making summer a bummer, and why I'm trying to push past my sadness about it to tap into my anger, and love.

I don't understand how I have the manual dexterity to churn out French knots without a hoop stand or anything else to brace my hoop against, and yet the mechanics of using a hook needle threader completely defeats me

If it’s unethical for anyone to withhold their labour because a job is deemed essential; surely it’s at least as unethical for shareholders to profit from that essential industry.

The lovely bakery near me has the most baffling drink specials

This day felt 7000 years long, but a fistful of autumnal crewal threads were waiting for me in the mailbox.

I loved these 2023 episodes of @margaret.bsky.social 's podcast about Judi Bari and Earth First! It's more uplifting than you'd expect a podcast that features a car bomb to be and Margaret's conversation with @bishonentype.bsky.social about movement tactics is great www.iheart.com/podcast/1119...