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True Grit remake Hell or High Water The Assassination of Jesse James by the coward Robert Ford Legends of the Fall Dead Man

As long as class society exists people will want to end it and people will fight to do so. You won’t be able to kill that drive permanently. Ever.

I’ve been in a little rut lately, so I’ve decided to volunteer to do social visits with the elderly and disabled. Hoping to make some new friends.

Perhaps we have the motive for AI integration wrong. What if it’s not for spam, but to purposefully deskill intelligences with a meat suit? To create a vast pool of desperate and very cheap low skill labour for our oligarchs.

The first story of Issue 12 will bring you to tears. It's a direct extrapolation of the current ICE raids into the near future.

It is time to revisit Sichuan peppercorns.

It always makes me smile cynically when someone uses the word “pandering” to describe a television program, as if the medium isn’t intrinsically pandering and has been that from the very beginning.

According to a FOI request initiated by journalists at The Narwhale, on a single day in September, an LNG facility in BC burned 1.7 million cubic metres of gas in a flaring incident. What. the. Hell. #globalwarming #airpollution

The person behind me in line at the grocery store only had two items: A huge bag of onions and a flat of eggs. The person in front of me at the smoke shop (a student, but better dressed than me) was haggling over the price of 1 gram. Times are tough.

Just submitted my manuscript to my favourite publisher. #WritingCommunity #poetry #poems #poetrycollection

I’m starting to detest Google Docs almost as much as Microsoft Word. They make writing so unpleasant with all the time they waste with stupid formatting adjustments. I would prefer to only ever use Pages, but ugh industry standards 😰. #WritingCommunity

How many films begin with helicopter shots of vehicles on remote roads? List ‘em here. I’ll start: Deliverance. #film

Not every poem we publish is science fiction. Some are straight anarchist or dystopian. So below we'll post the scifi poems which can be nominated for Rhysling. From Issue 9: 1) "The Rag Pickers of Asteroid 482" by @trevorcunning.bsky.social radonjournal.com/issue9/the-rag-pickers-of-asteroid-482

Just a reminder: I’m the poetry editor for KayTell Ink, a newish magazine that pays authors. We want your submissions! #WritingCommunity #poetry #poems #creativenonfiction #fiction #nonfiction #shortstories #writing #reading www.kaytellinkpublishing.com

GardaWorld, a Canada-based company, helps staff the notorious concentration camp Alligator Alcatraz.

I would avoid treating Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland) as property of Denmark where possible. The majority of Greenland's population are Inuit and the national feeling was already in favour of increased independence from Denmark; being threatened by the United States does not mean that has gone away

Some gentleman and scholar has been sending me translations of Tomas Transtromer poems in my inbox. Thanks!

We really got fully autonomous AI labs making viruses before software that properly distributes text from uploaded resumes. Reason # 1008 why rich people are assholes.

I joke about being a misanthrope, and I have some tendencies, but when push comes to shove, my socio-political beliefs stem from a deep love of humanity. I believe fascists are animated by a deep hatred of humanity in all its diverse glory.

Thank you Alison Ross for accepting my two collages for publication in Clockwise Cat! Here is a link to one of the best dada-inspired webzines: clockwisecat.com

People really think that China will “invade” Taiwan? People really know nothing about China aside from the systematically distorted NATO information about it do they?

Bela Tarr died. A real blow to art house cinema. Rest in peace.

ICYMI: BlazeVox published three of my favourite poems that I've written: static1.squarespace.com/static/66627... Thank you to Geoffrey Gatza! #poetry #writingcommunity #poem #poems

I love #beaches when people desert them. Sand + the force of waves = beauty. #photography #sand #LakeOntario #pattern #art #patreon. www.patreon.com/posts/secret...

I may criticize a lot, but I truly believe cities like #Toronto can be a model for a less ethnocentric society.

How did my email go from 9,000 messages to 16,000 overnight?!?! Oh, right! #AI #spam . Thanks for nothing tech bros.

I hope everyone has a feast season because feasts are the soul of pleasure. Festive, I meant festive.

Here are some things I did for fun on the Island during my residency. #art #collage #textandimage #photography #visualart #drawing www.patreon.com/posts/some-w...

Took this beautiful and mysterious image from Toronto Island, where the beaches offer up surprising winter treats. Yes, I know it’s not technically winter yet.

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Money scarcely trickles down; it rushes up like the ancient waterfall at Gibraltar. You know what does trickle down though? Domination. A dominated person will inevitably seek out someone even lower than them to dominate.

is finally listening to Pharoah Saunders’ Karma, and it’s awesome, until the vocals come in. The vocal trilling is nice. But the repetition of those words, ugh. They do a lot of damage to what I would otherwise consider a masterpiece.

The way lit mags use the verbs "must" and "have to" when they send rejections is so cringe. Why not "we have made our choices, and yours is not one of them?" It's more accurate and precise, and I'm emotionally mature enough to handle it.

is still furious at the CIA for ruining literature for decades. The movement of poetry into academia was the worst thing that has ever happened to it. For all the putative "free thought and discussion" in universities, there is an extremely depressing homogeneity of thought about poetry.

They should do speed-dating but instead of matching people romantically, it matches writers with editors.

When you buy too many groceries and have to lug them three kilometers. 😩

#puppers #woofers #sculpture just testing things out. #dogs #art

is on Toronto Island at Gibraltar Point Centre for the arts, finishing his poetry collection and starting a pair of horror short stories based on lighthouse folklore, one of which is based on the murder of the Gibraltar Point lighthousekeeper. The community here is absolutely charming!

It’s always jarring on social media when you frequently engage with someone, but they post something that may show you really don’t exist for them in the same way they exist for you.

When you relate a bit too much to a loathsome unreliable narrator in the tradition of Humbert Humbert 😟. The book is Sabbath's Theater by Philip Roth.

Is there anyone as mendacious as a petit bourgeois on a slow business day?

is profaning the sacred and sacralizing the profane.

My poetry manuscript is now with an editor. Now to pay some bills.

I'm starting to realize that NATO is the main obstacle to climate justice.

I tried to write a poem about a couple of situations in which I was a coward. It got too personal. It feels better to remember times when I was brave. Do any of us get through life unscathed?

Countries that have gained the most forests (by planting trees) from 2015-2025: 1. China (by far) 2. Russia 3. India 4. Turkey 5. Australia. Climate heroes give yourself a pat on the back except Russia whose war activities have mitigated these gains.

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