More brave journalists is excellent news! In many rural and northern Canadian communities, CBC is the only media, functioning as a supportive, sometimes life-saving, communication hub.

Coming soon: Ontario Power Generation 72.6% INCREASE in electricity billing, to build more nuclear plants. Tell Doug Ford (PC), provincial NDP and Liberals to use our finite fossil fuels to build smarter low-cost solar/wind/water power &storage: cleanairalliance.org/huge-nuclear-rate-increase

The best at-home exercise bike is a snowblower/lawnmower

The company who does this will win ‘vehicles’ Wanted to buy in Canada: a <$20k no-internet manual-transmission button/dial controls hybrid (EV/gas for range) ‘truck’ the same size as my first-run ‘classic’ HondaFit, with real handles and keys. We could retool the Stellantis/Jeep factory

The US forced the rest of the world to adopt DMCA laws to avoid tariffs. Tariffs arrived anyway! So, new plan for 2026: Legalize jailbreaking! Repeal anticircumvention laws Bill C-11 (Canada), Article 6 (EU), Article 114 (Mexico), &c. No more throw-away society: Make big$$ by FIXING tech!

In 2026, I’d like to see each day’s top 3 news stories be about the good, kind, clever, healthy things people are doing for each other, in a variety of communities worldwide.

Picture of staff who operate my Bluesky account

Last night’s bake—sourdough cinnamon raisin bread! Bread rises better as the moon waxes 🌝

Merry Happy Chrismakkah Solstice 12 Days Holidays! 🎄✨🕎🎁🔥🕯️

Christmas wish: A 5th season of Acting Good, with crossover/callbacks like Agnes Bittern (Tina Keeper) planning to ‘adopt-a-niece’ Willie Jack (Paulina Alexis) from Reservation Dogs

Hurry up and relax.

Breakfast of Champignons (bilingual joke, probably channeling Robin Williams) (Tap photo to read alt text for more detailed nonsense)

New for 2026: Start a moveable BYOBook Club in your area! Once a month, gather at a different local café, and tell members about what you’ve been reading: books, magazines, blogs, instruction manuals, back of the cereal box. Didn’t read? Tell about movies, music, podcasts, travel &c.

Utopias of elect Elders become elite Dictators. It was ever thus. It’s always bland, boring, and brittle. The antidote to killing women, poor, and brown people: joyful Resistance and Festival Rules! Use chaos as cover while we repair and replace broken systems. m.youtube.com/watch?v=sn7a...

To go with Festival Rules for surviving and thriving under fascism, here are Singing Revolution techniques! singingrevolution.com/about/history/

Canada did this too, and looks to be creating conditions for illegal incarceration again (Bill C9, if the feds decide that you speaking for Palestine is an ‘offence’, for example)

Canadian women wait up to 8x longer than men for life-saving surgeries; Doctors are paid LESS to operate on women. Who do you think is going to do the ‘FREE WORK’ (millions of dollars’ worth of unpaid/volunteer/caregiving) done by women whose lives are being cut short?! www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

If a data centre wants to build in your area, make it also build one of these en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukuoka...

Same 😆

Wanted to buy in Canada: a no-internet manual-transmission hybrid ‘truck’ the same size as my first-run ‘classic’ HondaFit. We could retool the Stellantis/Jeep factory

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Life tip: If a spray bottle doesn't work and still has liquid in it, stick your finger over the nozzle and pump it a few times and it'll create a vacuum and start working again.

The rain has stopped so banana smiles for our donkeys today thank you M&S Devizes for donations @marksandspencer.bsky.social

When you're cleaning our your cupboards and find that old sea otter you thought you'd lost years ago.

MrDog is essential educational reading material in these trying times

Bluesky suspended Sarah Kendzior today for no reason whatsoever. She just shared excerpts of her articles, which were as always incisive and not offensive at all. Hey @pfrazee.com this is super not OK. I know her- we've interacted a fair bit via chats and her work is essential.

Wanted to buy in Canada: a no-internet manual-transmission hybrid ‘truck’ the same size as my first-run ‘classic’ HondaFit. We could retool the Stellantis/Jeep factory

Max the little Havanese just came into my office, did a downward dog stretch, farted, and left. Happy Wednesday, Blooskai!

Free the Internet of Things: cancel anticircumvention laws! Trump/Xi/Elon can shut down any tech (John Deere tractors, solar panels, cars) in any country in the world. The only reason we can’t jailbreak devices is because we agreed we wouldn’t. Repeal the laws that stop our RIGHT TO REPAIR !

How about we take the bazillions earmarked for war toys and instead use it to fully fund UBI, co-op housing, assisted-living communities, libraries, women’s sports, free museums and theatres, country-wide free transit, true universal health and dental, free college/trade school/university?!

Boo! Sorry. (Canadian Halloween)

PM Carney could do the funniest thing: *build Canadian-owned east-west power grid *nationalize resources (water, oil, minerals) *build affordable housing (esp. cities & FN reserves) *create national transit (to increase tourism) *improve CanadaPost services (incl. bank accounts to cash cheques)

Let the US Admin stew in their ouroboros of news while we build a wall around them. When they hit ‘the button’ (we disconnected) to complete Armageddon, hustle them all into the ballroom/bunker where they can enjoy their hallucinations. Weld the door shut, and we can get on with rebuilding.

They're not building a ballroom, not for $350 million. They're building a bunker in preparation for endless global warfare, as 3C of global warming threatens to halve the global GDP and kill billions. Vance wants it, too. www.the-sentinel-intelligence.net/its-not-a-ba...

Somewhere, there is a middle-aged woman* who could punch a few buttons to accelerate LLM enshittification and blow up the bubble machine, AFTER redistributing the billionaires’ bazillions equitably to every ding-dang person on the planet. She can hide at my house. *middle-aged women are invisible

Go and find Charlie Chaplin’s speech as ‘Adenoid Hynkel’ in the final 10 minutes of The Great Dictator (1940). It is the speech the whole world needs right now! #TCM #ClassicMovies

Suggested rename: Canadian Charter of Rights and RESPONSIBILITIES Each decision must be responsible to all, including the Land, Air, and Water. You have the rights— use them responsibly!

Next step after NoKings NoTyrants: Festival Rules for governing society—seems to be working! *Participation and play •Self-expression *Immediacy *Communal effort *Radical inclusion, all ages •Gifting/sharing •Decommodification •Self- and inter-reliance *Civic responsibility •Leave No Trace

Anyone else have a visceral barf response to Ai footage? Lesser similar response to green screen footage, data centre robocall voices.

It’s Patch Adams’ time to shine! He’s the anti-RFKjr. I’d love to see Patch address the People, help everyone help each other build a new heart-centred (science based!) medical system that makes the old system obsolete.

Cultural appropriation time! Visibly older ladies need to adopt ICE’s neck-mask habit: misogyny will simultaneously make neck gaiters uncool for men while making senior women seem badass. Someone somewhere must’ve modified a vest to read ‘NOT nICE’, right?!

A dream: Rugged violent ‘screw you I got mine’ Ol’ White Fellas (incl. women and POC who buy in) live inside a giant walled garden where they can watch FauxNews, play War and TradWife, die in homesteading accidents, diseases running rampant. 1/

Listen here, Mr. Economy, endless growth is cancer that kills its host. ‘Chemo’ for fossil fuel addiction, endless growth, moremoremore is: 1. healthier stewardship of resources, for seven generations 2. balanced, ‘just enough’ of good-quality, long-lasting, repairable everything

How about we take the bazillions earmarked for war toys and instead use it to fund UBI, co-op housing, libraries, women’s sports, free museums and theatres, true universal health and dental, country-wide transit, assisted-living communities, free trade school/college/university?!

CEO Doug Ettinger is a vulture capitalist killing Canada Post. Yay! He bought EV delivery vans (to replace Ford gas POS trucks) but NO charging stations. Boo! He diverted $880 million in public funds to Purolator (privatized parcel service) to starve the post office. 1/

The war games equipment makers and the infrastructure equipment makers are owned by the same corporations: the bomb-it/build-it money-making cycle never ends, like cancer on the earth. Regular (not oligarch) people are obstructions in this money machine, so we can be literal monkey wrenches 😆🔧

If I had a flag, I’d send it out to be cleaned 😆 rather than fly it half-mast for a he-man woman-hating racist.

Save the free world: Build a Hogeweyk-style Dementia Village, complete with White House, in-house FauxNews, ‘staffed’ by early-onset dementia/wet-brain patients (‘Aides’ are well-paid Support Workers), a ring road for Secret Service rides, and a helicopter that never takes off to yell in front of…

Osmotic power plant: brilliant solution for First Nations who need both fresh water AND power! #Water #FirstNations #Canada #MotherEarth