Anyhow, for friends who haven't blocked me yet, I'm pretty excited about going to this play set in Vancouver's Hogan Alley! tickets.artsclub.com/2025-2026/me...

Very amused to see notices about being blocked by people who apparently are aligned with my politics and interests. Not sure why it's happening but ... whatever?

It's jaw-dropping to see how many of these stories revolve around health care. (Shaking my head knowing there are folks here in Canada who want more privatisation here too.)

"I promise, after this quick initial setup, you’ll think: 'I can’t believe I used to poop the old-fashioned way.' Yes, you do need to enable two-factor authentication, or else your toilet lid won’t unlock." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/wev...

Unfortunately I know the answer to this one.

Something I never thought I would ever say: someone in my household has been waiting on hold to talk with the CRA, and their hold music is actually GOOD, in that lying back in a planetarium kind of way, looking up at the dome. Extremely soothing.

My favorite Sam Neil fact will always be that he designed a future Australian flag that replaces the union jack with the aboriginal flag for Event Horizon and insisted the film use it.

I was wondering if there was anyone who worked for the Vancouver Public Library on here. As one does. So I searched VPL. Which, it turns out, is not short for Vancouver Public Library when one is online.

This article is definitely worth a read.

Great news -- this book is a treasure!

📌Barack Obama was targeted 11 times in assassination attempts during this two terms. I bet you don't remember any of them because they were handled through proper channels, professionally, and he isn't a whiny bitch.

Here's the real conspiracy: Too many people are forced into car-dependent lives, with more health harms, more crashes, more noise, more air pollution, more social isolation — and less space for everything good our streets should be giving us. buff.ly/EkbQBlk

Reminder to self: listening to a favourite music playlist* on the way to work instead of exposing yourself to more news is a much better start to the day. *Ethically sourced: music I own, or from Bandcamp. (That part helps too.)

Political divide on climate policies is linked to a measurable gap in factual knowledge www.psypost.org/research-lin... "Partisan differences in climate attitudes are associated with knowledge." Sum: right-leaning individuals know less about the facts.

That feeling when you see a librarian colleague saying "According to AI"....

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"When you ask people if their support for #ClimateAction goes up or down if linked with tackling #inequality, increasing income transfers to lower income people, raising taxes for the wealthy & corporations, job guarantees etc, the support for bold climate action goes through the goddamn roof."

I’m so glad to see old and good friends at our local library conference, but maybe the very best thing is learning about the bright new young library workers doing exciting work with so much energy and vision. This gives me hope. #BCLA2026

This is indeed a despicable piece, filled with errors of fact, but this one stood out to me since comics are my beat: Maia Kobabe’s “Gender Queer” does not depict any such thing and the assertion that it does, after years of litigating and relitigating every panel in the book, is frankly libelous.

Reserved and polite, Ms. James remained steadfast in her decision.... (She made a point of asking that readers obtain a library card and support their local library.) ...“in all my years of working in public libraries, I’d never experienced such scrutiny or pressure.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/u...

This Earth Day, SFU highlights how universities can close the gap between ambition and action by turning climate commitments into meaningful, lasting impact. 🌎

Extremism experts I spoke to said white nationalists are attracted to Western separatist movements because of the intense anti-immigration sentiment expressed in these movements. (For instance, the Alberta Prosperity Project wants to deport up to 100,000 people). thetyee.ca/News/2026/04...

Up until a few days ago, Curtis Stone - an off-grid farming influencer -was a moderator for a B.C. separatist group's Facebook page. He's openly talked about his enthusiasm for listening to Hitler speeches, "love" of antisemitism, and says he's a white nationalist. thetyee.ca/News/2026/04...

"I don't see the terror in the world as helping my stories. I see my stories as helping, even if it's just me, to deal with the terror." —Susan Steinberg "People ask me if I drew pictures to escape reality. I didn't. I drew pictures so I could stay." –Lynda Barry

#1 A RECORD surge in solar halted the rise of global fossil generation last year 🚫💨 Unpack the full story of the global power sector in 2025 👇 🧵1/11 ember-energy.org/lat...

This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying

Will the Government give a response that at least pretends to be concerned about the #environment? #hoc #GPC #EarthDay2026 #OilSpill

See this extract bsky.app/profile/dier...

There is a branch of "AI literacy" that fortunately doesn't buy into the inevitability: www.ru.nl/en/research/...

FInally, the good news we've been waiting for.

Today I saw some very incorrect claims and false equivalences about book bans and challenges. In case you're seeing this nonsense too, here are some sources: From the American Library Association (ALA): - a list of the top most challenged books in the US by year: www.ala.org/advocacy/bbo...

When it comes to spreading disinformation, dark money buys a lot of repetition, because repetition works. Repetition works. Repetition works. Repetition works. (Did we mention that repetition works?) #UrbanTruth

this is one of the most interesting things I've read about AI. Ben Affleck just sold his AI startup to Netflix for $600m. it's based on his analysis - as someone who's worked in movies for decades - of what AI is *actually useful for*. which is eg: adjusting film lighting. archive.ph/OLsfn

This is not good.

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show me the forbidden notifications... i am ready

Meanwhile there is a moral panic about *library books*

Oh: A 2022 study found that children in households that used voice commands with tools like Siri and Alexa became curt when speaking with humans, often calling out “Hey, do X” and expecting obedience, especially from anyone whose voice resembled the default-female electronic voices.

this company is scraping and reposting anonymous support group Zoom meetings. Please be careful if you're using Zoom webinars for anything remotely sensitive www.404media.co/webinartv-se...

This is how you sell taxes!

Small things that annoy me: Invitations or ads for events that give the date but not the day of the week. Too many good books to read, not enough time. (Okay, this one is actually not small.)

One of the first rules I try to live by is really "try not to make things worse."

There is too darn much shameless 'regurgitating scaremongering nonsense' these days, and while I fear the regurgitators are too "committed to their current level of understanding" to listen, bravo to this charity for trying.

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Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto https://theonion.com/man-who-threw-molotov-cocktail-at-sam-altmans-home-claims-he-was-following-chatgpt-recipe-for-risotto/

“Universities are about engaging deeply with the subject matter. The goal of academic training is not to solve problems as efficiently and quickly as possible, but to develop skills for identifying & dealing with novel problems, which have never been solved before.” openletter.earth/open-letter-...