the Bob Dylan Patreon, where he uses AI to do "imagine Rudolph Valentino sending a letter to Mark Twain, I think it would go a little something like this" like a standup comic in the 1980s, is $7.50 CAD a month in case you were wondering if its a grift.

I think we should shovel everything, all this dumb shit, into a pit and set it on fire because what are we fucking doing here.

just once i want video to pivot to me

It's been a hot second since I've told you to read Niko's book, soooo, I'm telling you to read Niko's book

if you think age verification for social media is about protecting children I also have three magic beans i'm willing to part with for a bargain

next month, on April 18, we're showing Any Other Way: the Jackie Shane Story at @hotdocs.bsky.social for my monthly music doc series, Jukedocs and i think you should come see it. 🎟️ 🔗 is.gd/Nh6QT6

Thrilled to be asked to host the first of this lovely series of free shows at the Burdock!

NICOLE DREW THESE SHE DREW THEM

This is by far the craziest and coolest thing we’ve ever gotten to do on the show. I’m really happy we did it and extremely proud of us. I’ll have more to say and share later!

what made me trans was 90s deodorant commercials that said they were strong enough for a man but made for a woman

cautiously optimistic about a new leader of the NDP, I look forward to someone being the first in the new regime to realize that “send out a thousand annoying newsletters” every day is not an effective comms strategy

Glad bigger outlets are writing this kind of thing, but holy hell are the comments a wild ride. Suddenly everyone pretends that boycotting media empires doesn’t achieve anything, when a few months ago people were sure proud of doing it to get Jimmy Kimmel back on TV.

they should give a genius grant to whoever came up with the idea of diet coke but the cans are just little guys

Apologies to interested parties, was trying to get a newsletter up this morning, but my health has been not at its best the last bunch of days, and its going to be a day late.

Herculine by Grace Byron Best book by a trans woman that I read last year was Niko Stratis’ The Dad Rock That Made me a Woman (Alison Rumfitt’s Tell Me I’m Worthless for fiction).

put on clothes and left the house to record a little CBC thing that will air in early April. Big day for lil ole me

I'm gonna write a list instead: Woodworking by Emily St James The Dad Rock That Made Me A Woman by Niko Stratis All The Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders And for graphic novels: The Witch Boy by Lee Knox Ostertag Nimona by ND Stevenson (Late to the party) A Guest in the House by E.M. Carroll

I performed most of my upcoming album on CBC with a full live band. I even managed to fit a costume change in there. You can watch the whole thing here.

Gentle reminder that for all us writers and aficionados of literature grapple with the mysteries of language, this is the best thing anyone has ever written.

the simple fix is that we demarcate a new generation every time one of the The Beatles dies.

We doing a lot of heavy lifting here

I’ve been a journalist for 27 years. I’ve reported major stories about mass surveillance, torture, war, the military-industrial complex, police black sites, etc. But this is the most important story I’ve ever had the horror/honor to work on. For it is a story about the current phase of a genocide.

wild that even with all the technology we have available, chicken dipping sauce innovation has stayed where it was in the late 1990s.

Might be the greatest opening paragraph of anything ever.

Hey GTA! @thenarwhal.ca is hiring a BIPOC reporting fellow to help us explain how Ontario government policy affects people's actual, everyday lives. More info here, drop questions in the chat if you have them. thenarwhal.ca/ontario-repo...

Very funny to me to have written last week about how I will drink coffee no matter how bad it hurts, only to this week learn it might be one of the sources of some health stuff I’ve been dealing w lately, because nothing gold can stay. I stand by wanting something that hurts a little.

I was listening to In the Aeroplane Over the Sea I’m sorry I know and I thought that if you skip “[untitled]” you didn’t earn “Two-Headed Boy Pt. 2” because in my day we suffered differently about things that didn’t matter.

This'll have virtually no effect on trans women, who already weren't competing in the Olympics (in the more than 20 years in which trans women could participate in the Olympics, a grand total of... 1 actually made a team. She came in dead last in her event). However.... apnews.com/article/ioc-...

don't forget to leave a hot dog out on the counter tonight, or baseball won't leave you any presents

i think sometimes cis people truly have a hard time understanding that jk rowling is a living person actively using her wealth to fund the international assault on trans lives. she’s not some Complicated Author we can have a spirited debate about separating from the art with!!!!!

30th anniversary of Call The Doctor today, their last record on Chainsaw, and the one just before Janet joined the band. A record I have never loved all of, but have deeply loved parts of. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDnV...

you gotta separate the art (McRib) from the artist (the body of Ronald McDonald)

I have great news youtu.be/ayAjwXFEtdc

you stan a bigot, you buy a side eye

If "you don't understand, it was important to me in my childhood" was a good reason to keep tired IP around we would have a lot more Samurai Pizza Cats content.

just know that if you engage with harry potter in any form i'm judging you

Drop 3 recs for the #transrightsreadathon ! The Dawnhounds by @understatesmen.bsky.social The Voice of Wild Places by @noahhawthorne.bsky.social The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman by @nikostratis.com

i got you

because I will always be the "I have a skilled trades/labour background, not an education" person, I will tell you that a big part of becoming skilled in anything is trying, failing, and being willing to try again despite how much it hurt. That's key labour, and without it, it's all an illusion

Seeing people say AI is a tool that helps "working class people become writers" and its such bullshit. The process of learning and skill sharpening is labour, and its telling that there is work to be glamorized (being perceived as a Writer) and labour beneath people (learning to write)

But they were all deceived for a 5th loco was made

That Mountain Goats chapter alone ❤️‍🩹... Can't recommend this book enough. Found myself listening to each song before I read each chapter so I made this handy playlist. music.apple.com/us/playlist/...

never has this world seen more dumb and invasive tech

I'm 43 years old. I use my laptop to buy my phone. I use my phone to buy a smaller phone. I use that smaller phone to buy two smaller phones, and each of them buys two smaller phones each. They earn $42,000 a month working from the comfort of their own home.

In my latest newsletter I wrote about how AI messes with the generous readers (per @emilyhughes.bsky.social) who are the lifeblood of the business. I also covered two excellent debut novels. www.themarisreview.com/the-maris-re...

we can hear our neighbours through our shared wall, and they've been spending the last few years watching classic American sitcoms, so multiple times a day now I hear one or both of them singing along to the theme song from The Nanny and I think life is beautiful in weird little accidental ways

I am on Team Lola fwiw, because Lola is a banger & celebrates its protagonist & subject of affection. Specifically the version recorded by The Raincoats. They didn't modify the pronouns and it made an already queer song that much more luscious in its provocations.

logged onto Threads, saw a post where someone posted at Reese's that their ads gives the peanut allergy community anxiety and then tells them Do Better without a shred of irony and I take back what I said about social media being dumb and bad

if you live in Toronto, we're showing the Peaches documentary this week for my series of music docs at HotDocs. I think you should come ! boxoffice.hotdocs.ca/websales/pag...

I made a list of all the trans books on my radar for the year :) and also recommended a new album and shared a photo of my cat :)