hey does anyone have any hot tips for how to stop being incandescently enraged to the point where it’s not productive or healthy

The Wampanoag would like a word

Given #YQR City Council's whole... budget nightmare every year, I decided to do what any sane book club leader does. Read more about it!

Life with a velcro cat: tiptoing around because you just put the baby to sleep and you don't want to wake them. Do I flush the toilet? Will that be too noisy and make her investigate? I've finally had time to do some work Pictured, the baby in question:

Happy 13th birthday to the most essential artwork of the current era, @kcg.bsky.social ‘s “This is fine,” to all those who celebrate.

The Queen City Improvement Bureau is back from holidays and we're joined in the subbasement by Pat Book. We look back on 2025. Find it lacking. Do better 2026. Or there'll be trouble. #yqrcc queencityib.com/podcasts/202...

"Each act, each occasion, is worse than the last, but only a little worse. You wait for the next and the next. You wait for one great shocking occasion, thinking that others, when such a shock comes, will join with you in resisting somehow" press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago...

"I do not want to be the angel of any home; I want for myself what I want for other women - absolute equality. After that is secured then men and women can take turns at being angels." FUCK YES Agnes Macphail is amazing! My current favorite Canadian

I have now read enough urban literature to be authoritative when I say that Urbanists, particularly white male Urbanists, have this weird "if we all just returned to our ancient roots" theme that is sailing perilously close to colonial racism. Get off the MAGA and touch some grass guys, damn.

America is always like “ok but the NEXT regime change will work,” like when I “cut out carbs” briefly every January.

Want to learn something new in the new year? Check out these deep-dive books from 2025 — nonfiction that will lead you to fresh discoveries about big tech, true crime and the ground beneath our feet. n.pr/4pnz2kx

1. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts? Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from. Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!

It's almost like taxes pay for things. Regina is rumbling to have something similar happen, if we can't catch up on our maintenance.

NEW POST While cities across North America struggle with housing shortages, Edmonton is proving that zoning reform works. In 2025, for the first time in history, the number of homes permitted in 5-8 unit rowhomes surpassed detached homes. 🧵 #yeg #yegcc #yimby www.jacobdawang.com/blog/2026/zb...

One of the most lopsided results you'll ever see in a poll, from our weekend Washington Post poll www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

Local cops are just another arm of the feds.

The first business day of January and my sleep schedule is so effffffffffffed.

The wisdom of Mr. Rogers is eternal:

This is my deepest take if you want to cut the NYT cooking cord.

I'm finally giving up on Kindle books and moving to Kobo (while maintaining a better downloaded library) and there are 11 books I have yet to be able to crack, out of the 300 or so I've owned since 2011. Could I sail the seven seas for them? Sure. But most of me just wants to rub it in Amazon's face

i don't want to wake up to any news bigger than "raccoon breaks into a liquor store, gets drunk" anymore

Could be an interesting Jane's Walk?

Prediction for 2026: Mayor announces that we will be getting a baseball stadium and it will be built by "private investors". All we have to do is hand over the Yards. And I actually have reason to believe this may already be happening behind the scenes. Check this moment from budget day 5 #yqrcc

I get a lot of crazy looks when I say self-driving cars are designed for lawbreaking. But it’s 100% true.

As a child, I never understood why people found English class boring. And now, hearing people's takes on the Stranger Things finale, I understand that they never learned media analysis. Should have paid more attention guys.

Jan 1: this is the year of new Me Jan 12: [eating shredded cheese directly from the bag] new years resolutions are a bourgeois construct for disciplining bodies into productive units for capital

Jon makes fun of me because I read a lot of romance novels but absolutely refuse to watch Heated Rivalry (real life romance adaptations give me the ick 🤷‍♀️) But as I'm reading Heated Rivalry I'm really wondering how they adapted it because it's 90% sex scenes

I hope 2026 is kind to us all

We heard you liked countdowns, so we're bringing you a new one: Desert Bus for Hope 2026, our 20th voyage, will be launching on October 23rd, 2026. #db2026 More information to follow.

My face after staying up till 1am to watch all 5 Pirates of the Caribbean movies in a row Happy New Year! 🎉

Here’s to 2026

Let's go, ol' lem!

2. Speak at City Hall in support of something good for your city, rather than just going to oppose things. And before you oppose something (such as well-designed density, new housing choices, or affordable housing), think carefully about who it’s meant to help, and put yourself in their place.

When the clock strikes midnight on January 1, creative works from 1930 & sound recordings from 1925 will enter the public domain in the US, like: 💄 Dizzy Dishes, first Betty Boop cartoon 🕵️♀️ First 4 Nancy Drew novels 🚂 The Little Engine That Could 🎩 Morocco 🍑 Georgia on My Mind and many more! 🧵👇

it’s all i’ve got

Outlook for the new year ...

Made a lemon pig diagram 🍋🐷 #lemonpig

He is Coming

It’s dangerous out there! Take this! #happynewyear #lemonpig

The original Betty Boop, the first four Nancy Drew books and Greta Garbo's first talkie are among the many works from 1930 that will be free to use, share and remake starting on Jan. 1.

Fireworks at the Ryogoku Bridge, by Utagawa Hiroshige, 1858: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/utagawa-hiroshige-last-great-master-of-ukiyo-e #fireworks #NewYearsEve

“It’s time to change the framework we use to assess the value of public transit, so it factors in health and social benefits that come from greater equity, reduced sedentary behaviour and less air pollution.” “We simply can't have and create sustainable, healthy communities without transit.”

Bringing my 2025 energy straight into 2026

Falalala la la la

A happy Valentine's Day to all that celebrate 😂