The Food Professor has defected

📚 🍁 We are pleased to announce a collaboration with [email protected] 👹 Two new children and YA poetry books called Fantastic Slam, a connected series of poems about an epic “rap battle” between eight legendary creatures of the world’s northwest #Canada #bigfoot #interactivefiction #CanLit

🌚 🌜 I'm over the moon thrilled by the reception of a project my partner and I had been secretly working on for months. Today, it is NUMBER 1 on #Amazon's Humourous Poetry for Children releases. www.amazon.ca/Fantastic-Sl...

💐This thread is for my friend, Violet Elva Derouin (nee Thomson) 1935 - 2026 who we lost this month. 🪻Violet was meticulous. Violet was an artist. Her artistry was in everything she did. 🌷Her magic was in making a home. Making a meal. Baking. Crocheting. Making you feel important.

🎲💥📀#OperationCanCon 80s is now in one of the best, and biggest #games store in #Toronto @hairytarantula.bsky.social 💿Love physical media shopping? Love #Canadian #music? Love the 80s? 🍁Operation CanCon is a solo and party game essential for #CanadaDay. #Never51 hairyt.com/products/ope...

🍁Dive into the interactive world of Operation CanCon, where your mission is to collect Canadian music on the #YongeStreet in the 1980s. Travel back in time to SAVE Canada. #CDNpoli #Toronto #CanadaDay #gamebook #interactivefiction #CYOA

Buy the world's MOST #Canadian #CYOA #gamebook and physical media music shopping simulator today! www.amazon.ca/stores/Derek...

Want the perfect gift for #CanadaDay? 🍁Dive into the interactive world of Operation CanCon #gamebook, where your mission is to collect Canadian music on the #YongeStreet in the 1980s. Travel back in time to SAVE Canada. #CDNpoli #Toronto #CanadaDay #gamebook #interactivefiction #CYOA

Clearest audio of Trump being booed at MSG in NYC for the NBA Finals between the Knicks and Spurs:

🎊🎈Wooot! I am so proud of my partner ‪@schraner71‬ and his publishing imprint ‪@LockdownLudonaut‬ for this incredible overview from the awesome ‪@KWHgames‬ 🎲Want to make your own #heist #gamebook? Check out this great overview. youtu.be/Xz87dDoBTz4?...

"Remote work doesn't work for everyone." Yeah, it only works for... #Onlinelearning #RemoteWork youtube.com/shorts/8Kb9H...

A little story requested by a viewer about how I got rid of my Northern working-class accent and how IMPOSSIBLE English pronunciation can be... By reciting "The Chaos" an impossible, maddening poem... #HigherEd #ESL #postsecondary #AcademicSky youtu.be/tRn3O6uGHeo

🍁My partner wrote a #gamebook about music shopping on #Toronto's #Yonge Street in the 1980s called #OperationCanCon and it is pretty much my favourite thing in the world. #Cdnpoli #Canada #interactivefiction youtu.be/1acB7sd1uJM?...

🍁#InternationalStudents are essential to #Canada. 👍🏼They are a net positive in every way. #OnPoli #HigherEd #AcademicSky youtu.be/o6l3WvwbiNg?...

I know I can't afford to get a #chronicillness so I insist on #remotework youtube.com/shorts/RRRUB...

One of the reasons I insist on #remotework is that I know I will never be able to #retire. #HigherEd #AcademicSky #OnPoli youtube.com/shorts/LDkoW...

Online learning prepares #students for the future of work. #HighEd #AcademicSky youtube.com/shorts/zGqLP...

I've been working remotely since the 1990s and this is how #corporate #Canada works... The fact that #universities and #colleges aren't preparing students for this work style is bizarre to me. #HigherEd #AcademicSky #OnPoli youtube.com/shorts/pTu19...

Again for context: a majority of Canadians (& Albertans) want strong climate policy and renewables, even if they have just felt the need to self silence due to spin. "In fact 70% of the public [& a majority of Albertans] would feel pride if Canada were to become a renewable energy superpower, vs...

🧮🍎#Internationalstudents are GREAT for #Canada and just plain GREAT... #CdnPoli #OnPoli #HigherEd #AcademicSky youtube.com/shorts/lP9sP...

📚🔖Today I am talking about #internationalstudents to #Canada and how deeply I feel for them. I talk about my own struggles in #undergrad and how I worked to get rid of a regional accent that I found changed the way folks treated me. youtube.com/shorts/LKzC-...

The only brief respite for me as a student AND instructor in #Ontario #postsecondary was remote learning. It helped when I was too broke to even commute to classes, which is an experience shared by a lot of students and instructors. #AcademicSky #OnPoli #universities youtube.com/shorts/vJPg5...

Like a lot of #postsecondary instructors in #Ontario, I am out of work. I don't think I can accurately describe to you how bleak things are for #students and #teachers right now in #Ontario. I share my own experiences as a student AND a teacher. #OnPoli #AcademicSky youtube.com/shorts/Hzud1...

I'm hearing from so many students who are struggling to make ends meet right now. Many are working multiple jobs to survive, or they are accessing courses from their places of work. As a low-income, first-gen university student myself, I deeply sympathize with their struggles. I lived them.

I think he should try to get paid from the slush fund Blanche and Trump have established. He's the perfect example of a victim weaponized government.

I keep telling y’all, he’s never leaving. The symbolism here is crazy work! A glowing golden shield protecting the White House like a king’s palace. Satellites, missiles, crosses, heavenly light from the sky, all centered around one man who sees himself as the seat of devine power.

Your tax dollars. Their riot. Their payday. Trump’s $1.776B fund is open for business — and the Proud Boys leader who got 22 years for seditious conspiracy is already doing the math. Share this everywhere!

Ebola outbreaks are always concerning. Ebola outbreaks while the US pulls back from the global health community, guts staffing and funding, and has unfilled leadership positions in most health agencies are terrifying 😳😳😳

Maybe you know you’re the most crime-committing president *ever* when you have to get your Supreme Court to give you immunity for committing crimes and then you have to get your IRS to give you immunity for committing fraud.

Trump sends a doctor to Greenland with Jeff Landry to “help with healthcare problems.” My country, Denmark, is returning the favor. 👏👏👏 We are officially sending our top psychiatrists to D.C. to treat the administration's urgent mental health issues.

As Louisiana Gov Jeff Landry (R-LA) arrives in Nuuk in his new position as Trump's Reichsstatthalter in Greenland, Louisiana is ranked # 50 among the 50 states in economic performance, but # 1 among the 50 states in illiteracy. It's vastly outperformed by Greenland in every respect.

Every ICE agent is the worst person to ever live www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

I had a discussion with a senior leader at a university I used to work for. The senior leader confessed to me, off the record, she didn't feel safe working there because of air quality concerns ["everyone is getting sick" she said]

🏦 🦢 ⛵ Sometimes, the abject and breathtaking stupidity and the illiteracy (aliteracy?) of the folks in the #MAGA #Trumpist movement take my breath away. #ChristopherNolan #representationmatters

💽🎵Hey #CanadaSky, buy our #gamebook about saving #Canada by buying physical media of glorious #CanadianMusic #never51 #cdnpoli www.amazon.ca/dp/B0F6Z4W71...

Trump did not reach a settlement with the government. There was no case to settle. He has not created a slush fund. He has colluded with Todd Blanche to steal money from the US Treasury. This is not a “deal.” This is a crime for which Trump & Blanche must be prosecuted. It ia a crime.

🙃I wrote this a while ago but was too nervous to post it. It feels like the right time now... Precarity & the Postsecondary Instructor: How Precarity Creates the Necessary Conditions for Economic Exploitation, Harassment and Career Attrition in Canadian Academia open.substack.com/pub/drtanyap...

Thanks for this! I left a program after struggling with so much groupwork and scant covid mitigations. The only accommodations offered were extra time on tests and carrying my books! Passing required being in the room. I wrote a bit about it here: apuffofabsurdity.blogspot.com/2023/12/the-...

NOBODY PANIC!!! SOMEONE IS CURRENTLY READING MY BOOK!!!! #booksky #books #Kindleunlimited #thriller #suspense #romance #novels #geopolitical #mythological #darkromance #women #contemporary #fiction #fantasy #crime #amazon #sifi #sff #readingcommunity #writingcommunity #author #readers #indie

📌 💔 I remember the 42 students who have died at #TorontoMetropolitanUniversity since 2021. They were my classmates and colleagues. 🖼️ I care about these young people. I think about them all the time. Some of them were my friends.

I was proud to speak out on behalf of #disabled #instructors and #students in this piece by the #Walrus. #Ontario schools are leaving students, staff with #disabilities behind. I paid a huge cost for speaking out. I'd do it again #OnPoli #postsecondary #AcademicSky thewalrus.ca/how-universi...

Hi everyone, I know I've been quiet lately and more active on #LinkedIn. I've been struggling to keep my head above water. My partner, I both lost our jobs in #postsecondary. If I've ever been helpful to you, please consider buying my partner's fantastic gamebooks www.amazon.ca/stores/Derek...

The completion of our #Break heist #gamebook series calls for a list of some of the world's most notorious heists. There's the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Theft in 1990. Thieves dressed as police officers stole 13 pieces of art (including Rembrandt, Vermeer) valued over $500 million in Boston.

🔐 Some plans were made to be broken... 🦝 Claw your way from low-level operative to master strategist in The Break System, a solo heist adventure. Scout, negotiate, infiltrate, and (hopefully) escape! Every decision shapes your experience. #interactivefiction #CYOA #gamebook

🗓️ 23 years ago last week, I met a guy at an Ottawa-based #tech company. He was quiet. He took notes. And I soon discovered ...he was BRILLIANT.

FYI if you have a Spotify membership, Indivisible is asking people to cancel until they stop running ICE recruitment ads. Instructions on how to do it here: www.youtube.com/shorts/TKp7c...

working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"

Down for some creepy chills in a #Halloween #heist set in #Canada? You are in luck! www.amazon.ca/Fall-Affair-...