Feels worth keeping around, in my humble opinion.

(202) 224-3121 is the capitol switchboard for connecting to any senate or house office; even if you've never called; even though the lot of them are useless. no abominable war crimes, no war, no.

Tonight’s theme: forgotten favourites. Albums you love but haven’t spun in a while. I’m thinking of bringing Adam Torres’ Pearls to Swine or maybe some Yo La Tengo. What would you bring?

Tonight is one of my favourite new rituals: my local record shop (Doom City Records) hosts a Listening Party on the first Friday of every month. You bring an album, enjoy some snacks and good chats, listen to each other’s favourite LPs, and generally have a great time. Physical media + community=❤️

In celebration of CiTR's FM anniversary today, I share my newest college radio field trip report. The campus and community radio station at University of British Columbia is full of personality, fun artifacts, and "is in fact a Nadwuar cult."

In high school, I was organizing an event for Human Rights Day and my mom (who is always pretty dialed in to these things) suggested I invite Stephen Lewis, who lived in the same city. Having no clue who he was (UN Special Advisor on Africa!) I invited him and he came. He spoke to us as equals…

Canada and the world have lost a passionate and gifted humanitarian. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Typo of the day: “uncludes”.

Amazing essay. "What this war exposes, then, is a failure not only of strategy but of literacy. Literature & history, at their most serious, train precisely the faculties these leaders lack: the capacity to grant that other minds are not transparent to us, and are governed by purposes not our own."

Picked up some new “hidden mother” tintypes at an antique store. Beware #3, though: once you see her, you’ll never stop seeing her.

Tfw you are looking for someone to sharpen something for you

big naturals are what i call my non ai assisted publications

Any Dublin based media tech nerds of my acquaintance happen to have a VHS player/recorder they could lend me for a bit?

A fascinating programme for radiophiles and audiophiles everywhere: ‘Into the Ether’ Archive on 4, BBC Radio 4, Saturday 8pm Produced by Eleanor McDowall for @fallingtreeprod.bsky.social

Separate the martial art from the martial artist.

I'm a bitch / I'm a lover / Beowulf killed Grendel's mother

Gen Z missed out on the peak of burning bonfires stacked high with pallets at the muddy dead end of a logging road or, better yet, a gravel pit. It matters more than you think

Over 15,000 civilian sites have been destroyed in Iran and 1444 people killed 30% of whom are children

a nintendo repair shop called switches get stitches

Love to get emails from my fans

For fun, a Jurassic technology conundrum: five wires, and the numbers on the buttons are probably old room numbers, hard wired into the wall, building from mid-1960s. Any ideas what it used to do?

It’s not exactly that I regret going to a gig on a Sunday night before getting up at 5:30 for a work trip, it’s that I now live in a regret-adjacent space. In the penumbra of regret if you will

When Whitman says, “this is no book, who touches this, touches a man,” he's mystifying. Because: it’s literally a book! The fields I work in—book history, sociology of literature, structuralism—study how thought is mediated by language & materiality therepublicofletters.substack.com/p/an-intervi...

As Patrick's Day approaches, hard to resist this poster for 'Pageant of St Patrick' for An Tóstal in 1955, designed by Beatrice Esther Orpen. (National Gallery of Ireland)

Rewatching The Americans as an escape to a simpler, more reasonable time in global geopolitics

I wish my dog had a phone I could call him on.

NEWS: The Trump administration confirmed it bombed a girl’s school in Iran. It's one of the most devastating military errors in decades. Trump lied about it. Pete Hegseth gutted the office preventing civilian casualties. 175 are dead. Most were kids. Hegseth should be fired.

I'm one of many professors quoted in this report from Alice Speri. I really appreciate The Guardian taking an angle which has basically eluded every other major outlet.

Actual screen grab from a workplace AI workshop. Looking forward to my important role making “Wod edits” and other “human adjustments”.

1 week from today! I’ll be at the Toronto Public Library w/ Tiffany Watt Smith Come on out and hang, why dontcha? tpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/events/69...

The danger to my job from AI isn't that AI can do my job, it's that my job is made even more precarious by the way AI is shaping ideas of the value of work. It can't do my job, but it can be part of convincing people (incorrectly) that my job isn't necessary.

I think this is about the temperature but honestly it works for decades as well

I don’t think people who haven’t met Lauren understand, this is one of the kindest people in Oxford, the University was *lucky* to employ her and we aren’t friends really, I’ve just seen and heard of her being generous and genuine for twenty years straight

if we’re fomenting rage against First Nations because people are being given two years notice to vacate their expiring leaseholds on reserve land then we’ve kind of lost the plot

This is the story btw (this report is fine, but is being decontextualized and amplified on X). It's reserve land, the 50 year lease is expiring, the Nation has previously warned they may not renew, they are now giving 2 years notice and waiving pad fees until then cheknews.ca/residents-at...

I have a poster of this map framed on the wall and I can stare at it for hours. So much history in that soil.

Heard someone say “dramastically” (dramatically + drastically) on the radio yesterday and folks I think we should try to make that a thing. Objectively great word.

Spent the morning exploring a place I hadn’t visited in maybe 25 years—Fort Rodd Hill National Historic Site. A weird day to be touring an old gun battery with loads of artillery guns pointing out to sea. But at least Fisgard Lighthouse was looking fine in the sun today.

Sup chat this is Slouching Towards Bethlehem with your boy The Rough Beast, and it looks like today’s stream could be a big one, as some of you might’ve already seen there are rumors going around social media that the hour has come round at last, so we’re gonna get right into it

Lorraine Schneider, 1967

Nothing but profound sadness and rage today. Hoping against hope that this brutal day isn’t the start of much worse things for all of us.

Would watch

A bit of local good news: The Vancouver Island Marmot’s wild population has increased from a low of 30 individuals in 2003 to over 400. Also, this article taught me the fun word “hibernacula”, in case you’re ever looking for a word to rhyme with Dracula. www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts...

Horrible echoes of the so-called “Starlight Tours” that killed Neil Stonechild and others in Saskatchewan in the 1970s-1990s. State murder of marginalized people. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saskato...

Law & Lit folks (and others): where can I go read more about the outdated legal phrase "To all of whom these presents shall come, Greetings"?

Partway through watching “I’m Still Here” (Salles, 2024) and it’s great but also I keep expecting Joaquin Phoenix or Bob Dylan to show up at some point and start arguing about who is where.

5 authors by whom I’ve read at least 5 books (parent of young children edition): Chris Haughton Julia Donaldson Sandra Boynton (oh god, so many) Tracey Wise Eric Carle

Malapropism of the day: temporal rainforest.

Q: Is there a technology that “the left” is excited about? A: