It’s not our job to determine if God is big enough to handle our questions.

Hey, #hamont and #gta #gtha friends: consider yourselves invited to the April LitLive! Come take in some stellar Canadian writing (check out that lineup) and have a break from candy eggs, chocolate bunnies, and all that busy-busy Eastering! www.litlivereadings.com

Heard the following on a podcast a few days ago, and it's really stuck with me: the bible reassures us that God/Jesus/HS could not possibly love us any more than he already does, so why do we still spend so much time and resources trying to make him do just that?

Someone please explain to me how Boston Pizza actually gets to use the word “pizza” in its name. That is some crap dough/mozzarella/tomato sauce thing they have going on there.

Becoming increasingly powerless to stop the cringe and eye-twitch when I hear Americans say that the current admin's beliefs, actions, and words "don't reflect American values" because "American values" has lost all meaning and currency.

So a self-declared "Christian" nation is openly boasting about killing Iranians, military and civilian, "without mercy." This is simply a racist, hateful attack on image-bearers of Christ. No plan, no threat, no need—just white men getting their rocks off by killing and boasting about it. #iran

Save the date: on June 23, I'll be launching THE PEACE THIEVES in #hamont at the Staircase! More info to follow, but in the meantime, would you consider preordering to please my publisher & the algorithm (and me!)? Details: tinyurl.com/5bv7ddfv @thistledownpress.bsky.social #canlit #fiction

Three months until launch! I'm so excited that folks will finally get to read this labour of love, a tender tribute and scathing critique of Canada's troubled peacekeeping legacy. #canlit #fiction #novel

This one hits hard.

TFW someone responds to a current political and social issue with their version of "at least #CharlieKirk hasn't said a thing about it" is like...

I've lost count of how many God-fearing-righteousness-claiming pastors have included #FAFO in their spiritual messaging about how the Bible teaches us that rich white men should really run the world.

So. Sous-vide. Explain to me like I'm five how it's not the dumbest, most wasteful cooking method ever. Are people really so idiotic to think that "food grade" actually makes it safe to cook your food IN FREAKING PLASTIC?! #toxic #peakconsumptionculture #foreverchemicals

Hey, home foodie: you don't need to wear black nitrile gloves for cooking. Ever. You can just wash your f***ing hands. #wasteful

I got in shit once at my little church-fed high school for lazily writing “Xians” on the board rather than the longer version. Who knew that, decades later, I’d be proven right: Christ has been so excised from western Xianity that my teenaged slack/ennui inspired a more accurate version for today!

Could there be a more perfect item of clothing for right now...?

The #badbunny halftime show was spectacular. Barely understood a word and loved every passionate, symbolic minute. The exploding telephone pole section in particular had me out of my seat—that was a MAGA take-down done right.

No, he wasn't Liam, but let's be honest: he was Liam. #badbunny #fuckice #grammy

Almost every time I crack open scripture, I’m struck by how thoroughly far-right Christianity ignores or is utterly ignorant of basically the entire thing.

I was so excited to cheer on #teamcanada at the #milanocortina olympics, but man, the sound of the drones is unbelievably annoying.

“Confetti” is the perfect introvert’s anthem for right now, precisely holding the line between restraint and abandon. Masterpiece. youtu.be/3pKfuNBMQW8?... #turnitup

Milestone alert!!!! So excited to receive the ARC of The Peace Thieves (published by @thistledownpress.bsky.social) in the mail. Details and preorder info here: www.brentvans.com #canlit #novel #fiction

Peak 2026: having to explain what "no one is illegal on stolen land" means. #billieeilish #facepalm #fuckice www.reddit.com/r/popculture...

Peak 2026: having to explain what "no one is illegal on stolen land" means. #billieeilish #facepalm #fuckice www.reddit.com/r/popculture...

A GOP said what...? *blink blink*

No one likes to be reminded that they're a shitty human, but by this point, there's no defence for supporting/defending what's happening: in 2016, maybe you could shrug/hold your nose, but with what's known as fact in 2026, if you're still supporting an obvious monster, you're likely a monster, too.

Whoa. Who could've possibly predicted that a wealthy group of white, cis, straight, christo-religious, nationalist conservatives hyperfixated on violence, hatred, and intolerance would vote to keep Pepi le Pew as their Dear Leader? No one is more surprised than this guy! #everyone #canpoli #resist

So exciting!

And for anyone doubting ICE's white nationalists/far right/white supremacist/christo-fascist recruitment goals, I present the following sample of recruitment dogwhistling imagery. The parallels and intent are clear: they are building a #brownshirt army to terrorize Americans. #fuckice #resist

Despite all those chants of "God is bigger!", it doesn't feel like most Christians believe that he is. They're terrified of, well, everything, especially anything that doesn't look, walk, desire, and consume like they do, and clearly think they can do a better job of being God than God can.

Check that your furnace and water heater exhaust pipes are clear, y'all. Carbon monoxide is a killer. #hamont #toronto #snowmageddon

And for anyone doubting ICE's white nationalists/far right/white supremacist/christo-fascist recruitment goals, I present the following sample of recruitment dogwhistling imagery. The parallels and intent are clear: they are building a #brownshirt army to terrorize Americans. #fuckice #resist

Now watch: Wedding’s trial will be tried as a capital case, and he’ll bring the Canadian government into it to try and avoid the death penalty. #bonkers

I'm so excited for the June 16 launch of The Peace Thieves, a novel about peacekeeping, love, trauma, and the tragic legacies of civil war, with the stellar @thistledownpress.bsky.social! Preorders are live wherever you buy books (go local!), so plan for some great summer #fiction! #novel #canlit

📖ANNOUNCEMENT📖 Thistledown Press has three new titles coming your way in Spring 2026: a poetry collection from Chelsea Coupal, a literary mystery from Connie Gault, and a war fiction novel from @brentvans.com. Learn more and pre-order here: thistledownpress.com/2026/01/21/c...

Off. The. Rails. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qo2-...

On a related note, as of this morning, how much more does #pierrepollievre look like an intelligence-starved toddler? Yikes. #davos #elbowsup

Wow. Truth telling.

At what point did folks decide to cut Christ out of Christianity?

How would you caption this? Mine: Or, the main reason Christianity is eating itself alive. #captionthis #faith #christianity

Might be a good time to re-petition Unicode for an official grumpy turd emojiI. I can think of a thousand uses for one.

Part of me hopes this summer's #worldcup fizzles spectacularly, both as a finger in the Orange Felon's eye but also to send a wake-up call to #FIFA about courting corruption. I am not optimistic about either, naturally, because Money is the only true superpower these days.

Wait. Now it's raw chicken? Are you f'n kidding me?! I guess it's somewhat reassuring that the ones I've seen are all young and (so, so) stupid and probably haven't reproduced yet. #cantfixstupid #darwinawards #sompeopleshouldneverreproduce

I'm so glad that #MAGA heroes #ScottAdams and #CharlieKirk aren't alive to see all of this going down. Mostly I'm just glad that that we'll never have to hear their idiotic, hateful voices again.

#America, here is your sane, stable, and totally not unhinged president who is totally not bothered by all the pressure twice saying "Fuck you" and flipping off a protester: x.com/TonyD713/sta...

Seeing more MAGAites rooting for the #Iranian people. I am, too: the regime is as brutal as they come. But don't MAGAites know that even if the Islamist govt is overthrown, #Iran will still be 99.4% Muslim, which means those same MAGAites will still have to hate Iranians because, well, #MAGA?

Waiting for the administration to release his body cam video to "prove" that this was "justified" violence. #resist

If I'm heartened by anything in all this, it's that ICE can't operate in secret and are being opposed and exposed wherever they go. #resist

Abhorrent. The principle is called "disproportionate retaliation" and is a favourite tool of authoritarian regimes in quashing dissent and resistance. No, I'm not delusional: see section 458 of the Nuremberg Trial transcripts: avalon.law.yale.edu/imt/01-07-46... #fuckice #reneenicolegood #resist

Welcome to Minnesota, fuckers. Also this is super disturbing because the ICE agent's assault rifle appears to fire as he falls down. This was filmed by a friend near Chicago and Lake last night.

In these times, I can defs get behind a #giantkiller narrative, and this is very, very cool. Come on, #macclesfieldfc! #facup