winter sky at five the day folds up without saying where it put the light #haiku

Today, we remember the fourteen young women whose lives were stolen at Polytechnique Montréal 36 years ago. Their names are a solemn reminder of the devastating toll of gender-based violence — and the responsibility that comes with our remembrance.

Blame Tim Allen: An entire generation of people really seems to think Santa Claus is spelled Santa Clause.

This is such a good point in an excellent thread. #disability #accommodations #UniversalDesign

@jeopardyofficial.bsky.social Jeopardy! was so cool last night! Winner Ron Lalonde is the identical twin of 2022 13-day champ and Tournament of Champions contestant Ray Lalonde. Bonus: they're Canadian! 🇨🇦

Last night I googled a show I was watching to try & get more details about the plot of the last episode of season 1. AI assistant told me all about the SECOND-last episode & then added this touch: that the main character found some encrypted codes that solved the murder of Gh*slaine M*xwell. 🤦‍♀️

This is the only energy I am bringing into the holiday season.

I named my fists So Sweet and So Cold, because I used them to break the lock on the icebox so I could eat the plums you were probably saving for breakfast

On this day in 1874, Lucy Maud Montgomery was born. She wrote 20 novels, 530 short stories, 500 poems and 30 essays. Her most famous book was Anne of Green Gables, which has sold 50 million copies in 36 languages. She died in 1942 and is considered a Canadian icon.

This is just to say I have binned the condiments that were in the back of the fridge and which we could not possibly have been saving for any discernible purpose I ask no forgiveness They were antique so cold and so impossibly past their use-by dates.

Wait!!! Travis Kelce's girlfriend is a professional singer??!?!?

My latest post: "So. Tired. Or, stumbling into Advent like an exhausted zombie." jeannieprinsen.substack.com/p/so-tired

If you've never read this one, do -- it's so worth your time! The way the drama plays out is hilarious. 🍚🧵

Watching season 3 of a show last night–and bear with me, because I am annoyed! In a s1 episode, the main character asks another character how her husband is, but (on purpose?) gets the name wrong: "How's Desmond?" "You mean Derek." Then later in s1 the second character tells the first, "Derek & I

When they say Trump calling a reporter "piggy" is "just being honest," they are revealing a key feature of the reactionary mind: it believes, at a deep brainstem level, that *everyone* is awful & selfish & ugly on the inside. Everyone just suppresses it out of fear of social disapproval. Not Trump!

Various group-philosophical pessimisms will have you believing that universalism is impossible, not worth striving for. That if you don't oppress, you will inevitably be a victim. I refuse. We are best protected by democracy, by the rule of law, by human and civil rights.

And did he even say "Thank you"?

Rejoice with me, for I have slept from 10pm until after 5am with only 1 wakeup by his nibs. (And he is still asleep! ❤️) I feel like an actual human being this morning rather than a dazed zombie. May it continue – for him and us. 🙏 To those struggling with poor sleep: I see you. It's brutal.

This Is Just To Say I have desired the plums I have desired desiring the plums I have desired desire This amounted to a test of my self- mastery Forgive me I understood this just as I came to understand how the sweet cold plums fit within what I thought I understood of my soul

Our son's sleep has been disrupted the last few nights (probably due to a new medication – we're trying to adjust dosage times to see if that helps). I feel like I've been thrust back to the newborn baby days – that stunned, blurry feeling. I've probably slept 7 hours total in the past 2 nights. 😫

The emergency brake on this train says "FINE FOR MISUSE" so I guess it's okay if you want to mess with it

A reminder that the crises routinely treated as separate—housing, food, climate, healthcare, electricity—are anything but. This moment in America makes it glaringly clear: each feeds the other, driven by the same rapacious, profit-maximizing forces.

Repost with an iconic fictional band.

Just finished Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy – I could not go to bed last night until I'd read the final few pages. What a beautiful, gripping novel.

Very important thread. #Bullying #AntiBullyingWeek

I have a new post up this week: "The world offers itself to your imagination." * It's about a walk in the forest, an encounter at a coffee shop, and the realization that grace can reach us wherever we are. *words from Mary Oliver's "Wild Geese" jeannieprinsen.substack.com/p/the-world-...

I started the day by having the end of my housecoat sash fall into the (unflushed) toilet, so I think I'm winning!

"Speaker Johnson, it looks as though the president is currently stabbing you with a knife. Do you have any comment?" "Well, look, this is the first I'm hearing about it. As you know, I've been really busy not doing my job, so I just don't know enough about this alleged stabbing to make a comment."

This morning I heard a young staff member at my son's program say "Now THAT wasn't on my bingo list" 😊

For me the centralizing question of the faith in this moment is ... "When did we see you?" hungry (SNAP) thirsty (our environment is suffering) a stranger (we have abandoned our neighbors) naked (we have exploited the resources to the wealthy) sick (no healthcare) in prison AND ... not help you?

Never take seriously those who ridicule low income people for having a smartphone or laptop. “If they’re so poor how did they buy an iPhone???” Because they’re trying to escape poverty, not the 1700s, genius. If you think basic tech access is luxury, survive a month without it.

Blue Jays Cody Houle ~ Anishinaabe 2025

2nd set of trick-or-treaters I made a successful Rumi ID. The quick cramming session paid off. #KPopDemonHunters

BRB gotta go familiarize myself with the precise appearance of the KPop Demon Hunters so I don't make any embarrassing mistakes tonight

#Breaking: King Charles III will evict Prince Andrew from his royal residence and strip his titles, palace says

Now Ozymandias was from the Himalayas, where a cold wind howls and blows. Why he left his home in the peaks to roam 'round the sands, God only knows. His statue fell down, the desert's boundless and completely bare; Though it's still scrawled on his pedestal that "ye Mighty should despair!"

You do not have to be a colossal Wreck. You do not have to stand vast and trunkless in the desert, your visage shattered. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about despair, ye Mighty...

Start with mine 🤣 then be sure to go down the rabbit hole and read all of them. I think? it started with plums in the icebox, but I'm not certain. #Ozymandias

The sun did not shine. It was too wet to play. And the lone, level sands Stretched far, far away.

Every day, I become more convinced that populists are more lazy than crazy. Pluralism requires a lot of work. Building consensus, working with divergent interests, working with checks and balances. Populists skip all that, ginning up fear, fake majorities, and a shallow sense of the public good.

This is very well said. "There are real differences between the sort of #autism I have and so-called Asperger Syndrome. But it does not help us at all to impose a hierarchy of lower and higher functioning."

I have a poem published this week in Painted Pebble Lit Mag: "Seasons in the Sun." Definitely a bittersweet one. paintedpebblelit.com/j-prinsen-se...

if you're black and 14, you're a man. if you're white and 40, you're just a kid

A Brief History of Let’s Bring Back The Good Old Days 🧵

It broke my heart to write this poem, and I would give it back if I could reverse my brother's death or my mom's diagnosis. But it doesn't work like that. So I'm trying to open my hands to the joy of having a poem in @thenation.com. Thank you, Kaveh Akbar, et al. www.thenation.com/article/cult...

#Breaking: Four workers critically injured after explosion at North York condo construction site. In total seven people have been taken to hospital. Four were sent to a trauma centre with critical injuries, according to paramedics, while three others were hospitalized with minor injuries.

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand: Accidentally spelled public "pubic."

Wordle.... 😠

🚒🚔🚑 Serious collision with rollover, 3300 block of Battersea road. Roadway closed, expect prolonged closure.

DOCTOR: have you been having too much seasonal coffee and treats ME: what who me DOCTOR: because you have a