I'm still slowly, diligently making my way through Middlemarch and would like to announce that my opinions have changed and that while Fred is an idiot, he at least has a good heart. It's *Rosamond* who is the real problem here. She's the wooooooorst.

This is inconsequential in the grand scheme of things, but: I FINALLY BEAT CHRONOS FUCK YEAH. The funny thing is that I beat Typhon twice yesterday; it's possible to face-tank him if you have enough hp. In contrast, Chronos' attack patterns are much more fiddly, especially in phase 2. #Hades2

If you are a fan of #DeepSpaceNine and a certain Plain And Simple Tailor, I have some good news: "A Stitch in Time" is on sale for $1.99 on Kobo. It's Garak's memoir, written by the actor himself, based on his own notes to flesh out his character's background. I just bought a copy. #DS9

The most accurate recreation of DS9 I've seen.

I'm about to start playing #Hades2 in a few minutes. Fuuuuuuck yeah, mama needs her dopamine.

If you haven’t signed this please sign it. You need to verify your signature with an email address, but email aliases work just fine. Also every petition has an RSS feed. Please repost to spread the word. The lying is out of control. We have to stop it.

Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing. These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.

A threat to authoritarianism anywhere is a threat to authoritarianism everywhere

My copy of Honeyeater by Kathleen Jennings came in at the bookstore today, and holy shamoly, this book cover is even more stunning in person.

Life hack: 1. Walk past a picket line on your way to work 2. Call out to them, say that your husband is *also* part of a union, and tell them to keep on going 3. Listen to a responding chorus of cheers Holy fuck, what a HUGE endorphin rush!

The reason why older generations burnt the shit out of their meat and boiled the shit out of their vegetables, was your kid died if you didn't. Medium rare steaks and roasted Brussels sprouts are a side effect of an intact food safety infrastructure

what a terrible time to be sentient

My MS office 365 subscription is coming up for renewal, so here's a friendly reminder: you can switch from the new (more expensive) AI-laden version of Office! Log in to your account, go to the Cancel section, and there you can switch to the "Classic" version of the product and pay the old price.

Maybe if every single shot in your movie is a VFX shot then you just have to accept it's going to be really expensive.

We’re supposed to believe that our computer server deserves human rights, but our restaurant server does not. What a time to be (actually) alive.

Only a few days left to take this questionnaire and write in your own answers to let this Liberal government know that you don't actually want them to be a conservative government.

Hey @premeemohamed.com, I saw your book pop up in the wild on Reddit!

Yesterday I was feeling mopey about being a workaday drone and commuting and not being on vacation anymore, so I wrote about it. Please indulge me so I don't feel like I'm howling into the void. booksandtea.ca/2025/08/thin...

This is absolutely delightful! Lookit those little guys just hanging out in those cubby holes. Science at its best.

If the AI bubble really is bursting, please take this lesson from it: Nothing marketed to you this relentlessly is ever worth it. If it was, they wouldn’t need to beg you.

Hey @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social, have you seen this? www.biographic.com/unmasking-th...

Your regular reminder that University of Victoria, Canada, hosts the world’s largest Trans+ archives and they are all digital and online, and free for access worldwide. Trans rights are human rights. 🏳️‍⚧️ www.uvic.ca/transgendera...

I have just finished another chapter of Middlemarch - and yet again, it is abundantly clear that Fred Vincy is an idiot.

it appears that @bsky.app have suspended the account of @jessiegender because a trans person saying "I wish ill on JK Rowling" is against the rules, so let me say with my loud cis voice that I too wish ill on all perpetrators of hate speech against trans people reinstate Jessie, this is ridiculous

We had to take Sabrina to the vet this morning to get some teeth pulled. According to them, they were pretty far gone and almost popped out of her jaw. She's back home now and doped up on the Good Meds, but I can't help feeling weepy. My poor little baby with her horrible teeth!

I just found out that Jim Lovell (head astronaut of Apollo 13) died yesterday. I wonder what these final days must have been like for him, seeing the kneecapping of NASA because of Trump's horrendous policies. Imagine the cornerstone of your life and career being burnt down like that.

Every so often, an older, beloved SF/F story pops up in my mind and I think "why don't I read that again?" So I do. So here's a recommendation: check out "The Tale of the Golden Eagle" by @daviddlevine.com. It's bittersweet and kind. Here's BOTH audio and the full-text on Escape Pod.

Update: today was payday, so I succumbed to temptation. My Bandcamp profile is now like 80% KGLW.

Today's first-world problem: Now that King Gizzard is off Spotify, I want to buy their albums on Bandcamp. But...my cart is 17 albums long. That's ~$175 CAD! If I really had to cut some, I'd cut (maybe) Phantom Island and KG. But that means no "Aerodynamic" or "Intrasport", which are both killer.

Today was our last full day in Scotland and we are flying home tomorrow. So here's one last post about our trip, including the fact that we saw @misterabk.bsky.social and Ben Hart at the Fringe! booksandtea.ca/2025/08/trip...

We spent yesterday and today travelling all over Glasgow and saw ALL THE MUSEUMS. Here are the highlights:

I just wrote a new post catching up on the last 2 days of my Scotland trip: booksandtea.ca/2025/07/trip...

"Nobody, he said, caught him." This is the best Tom Lehrer story I've read so far.

Today in our Scotland trip, we visited Edinburgh and climbed Arthur's Seat. It was so beautiful! Here's what I saw: booksandtea.ca/2025/07/trip...

**URGENT** please take the time to complete this if you reside in Canada and share far and wide. DoNoHarmBC has made it really easy, but even if you have limited time/energy, at least focus on Ch#9 for healthcare. This is crucial and we need to GET LOUD!!! #CovidIsAirborne #MaskUp #SafeHealthCare 🖤🤘

Day 3 of our trip to Scotland is over, and whaddayaknow: I did *not* fall asleep while trying to recap things. booksandtea.ca/2025/07/trip...

My latest post, about our second day in Scotland, is live! (I tried to finish it last night, but sleep took precedence.) booksandtea.ca/2025/07/trip...

Heya! I'm on a trip to Scotland, and posting about it in real time! Might as well share everything myself rather than go through Facebook. Here's day 1: booksandtea.ca/2025/07/trip...

“Once people get a taste for humiliating, they will fight very hard to be able to keep doing it. Like an addiction, the competitively powerful will often put this urge above all else and behave in profoundly self-destructive ways to chase it.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-politi/

This is the thing that finally convinced me to renew my subscription to @thestar.com. It may not be perfect, but it's something.

If you think for one second that this decision has nothing to do with Trump, don’t worry, he will brag about it within the next 24 hours and disabuse you of that notion.

This feels like the smallest, stupidest drop in a very big bucket, but as a result of today's news in the US, I just cancelled my NYT Games subscription. Wordle and Spelling Bee may be fun, but they're just not worth giving money to the NYT.

All the bigots go get fucked

Start using it as an insult. “Use your brain. What are you, an ICE agent?”

Here are some options: * if someone says they’re an ICE agent laugh out loud and say that they must be really hard up for money * remind ICE agents regularly that people like them end up in jail afterwards

I'm already seeing centrists and leftists sniping at each other but the blame for this is 100% on the Republicans. This is what they do with power and it is imperative that we work together to keep them as far from it as possible, forever.

I try not to comment too frequently on US politics as an outsider but seeing this bill that cuts healthcare to give more money to billionaires and the secret police is gutting. Canada can end up the same. We are in a terrifying moment.

The entire Latino population in the U.S. is 65 million. She means all of us.

It has a very real chance of failing—and *even if it passes with changes* it still has to go BACK to the Senate to get voted on AGAIN. And it barely made it through the first time This thing is way more killable than you’d think and the longer we can drag out the process the more killable it gets

Not sure what's going on, but I've been getting a lot more bot followers than usual lately