zines represent a way of distributing information outside of billionaire- controlled digital platforms: of course they want to criminalize zine-making

watched minority report last night because i wanted to be depressed. wow that movie sucks

hey! you should come out RIGHT NOW to the Glebe Community Centre for the Ottawa small press book fair! until 5pm! / @bookhugpress.bsky.social @pressassembly.bsky.social

new poetry from me and @anotherdavidcurrie.bsky.social about stand-up and sit-coms and crouch-gags chapbook available now from above/ground press

A pair of 14-year-old boys in #Edmonton have been charged for allegedly using artificial intelligence to create child exploitation images of their classmates. #Canada “You will be held responsible, regardless of your age,” she said. “These are serious crimes.” www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

"Over the last year, we have watched the Carney government weaken, delay and repeal Canada's key climate policies without identifying credible alternatives to make up the gap, all while doubling down on a future powered by fossil fuels": #Canada #CDNPoli #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #NoPipelines

livejournal obviously, & also this one tiny period in 2013-14 where we used to all listen in to dave currie’s radio show and then live-comment on it from either facebook or twitter

people love to call it "unemployed behaviour" when people are chronically online and always picking fights, failing to realize that nothing makes you more available and more annoying on social media than having a desk job

collage season is officially over for the year (the fan is on again in the living room)

amercia's peaked

Obviously, this is great to see, but it isn’t a surprise. The fascists were able to go on their racist rampage not because their community broadly wanted it, but because a small minority called “police” allowed it.

The Great Vancouver Island Land Grab exhibit aims to educate #cdnhist #bchist #VILandGrab @thediscourse.ca thediscourse.ca/vancouver-is...

good fucking lord it’s “excuse to remind you that Spike Lee’s Summer of Sam is lowkey an underrated masterpiece” hot outside in NYC right now

my old coworkers & i called ourselves The Evertons for years because someone in the group chat once misspelled “everyone”

Happy group chats day

Broken record here, but so many of these uses start with “how can we get people to use a chatbot” rather than “how do we solve a problem” or “how do we fill a need.” The “problem” according to the companies is that people aren’t using chatbots enough.

The Factory Reading Series pre-small press book fair reading, June 19: Bebenek, carisse, Currie, MARTIN + Saklikar, / @russellcarisse.bsky.social @nightwoodeditions.bsky.social @reneesarojini.bsky.social @bookhugpress.bsky.social ; abovegroundpress.substack.com/p/the-factor...

Fascists in Belfast set fire to buildings with people inside them. People of colour left work early to stay indoors. This is being actively encouraged by the world’s richest man whose openly pro-white nationalist platform X is still used by the UK government www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

People use "lipstick on a pig" as an insult as if Miss Piggy isn't God's cuntiest solider

yes & it’s different for every retail job except the health food store because they of course did not allow music

it has come to my attention that busytown is anti pig

Thinking about why women might not want to use a product that has forced itself into every software interface to confidently shout things that are wrong

lit opened for no doubt at my very first concert ever, at molson amphitheatre quite literally in the year 2000

They stole the internet’s knowledge and all the work that went into it and they want to sell it back to us for a fee. What a business model.

COPE spoke out against the anti-democratic firing of Victoria's School Board trustees when it happened in 2025. We welcome the reinstatement of these elected local representatives. It's a clear lesson in why police must stay out of politics.

disregard | verb | to pay no attention to : treat as unworthy of regard or notice

i think that before putting in a data centre everyone involved should have to drink down one of those aoc mason jars, maybe two, before their yes vote counts

I just think it would be better for everyone if the people who make adhesive for maxi pads and the people who make adhesive for bookstore price stickers switched jobs

Sometimes I get very vexed when people whine about uses of the passive voice that aren’t uses of the passive voice. This is a use of the passive voice.

Lol

If you're in the Vancouver area, you can oppose the latest proposal for data centers in Mount Pleasant. It takes under a minute to let the city know you're against these projects. Spread the word :) www.shapeyourcity.ca/111-e-5

This council: life saving overdose prevention? Nah. Life saving cooling kits? Nah. Food delivery robots flooding our sidewalks? Oh heck yeah dude

News release: @guyfelicella.bsky.social returning proclamation awarded to him by Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim after Sim and ABC councillors’ move to block downtown OPS. “Not worth the paper it’s printed on.”

Even whales aren't safe from being hit by inanimate vehicles in the passive voice

An Edmonton city councillor says he and his team are helping a woman facing intimate partner violence relocate with her children after her address was leaked in an alleged privacy breach by a separatist group.

Gen Z has rediscovered the Flintstones & is realizing how dystopian the America of today is compared to 2 million years ago "Watching The Flintstones... has solidified my belief that I would have likely been happier working in a quarry as a brontosaurus operator."

A class at my kids’ school put up little statements about the good they want to do in the world and I was over the moon about this one - then I learned they meant to say “teach people in jail” which is also good!

One tiny thing you can do to resist the scourge of dead/fake “third places” is to not spend your money anywhere that doesn’t have a public bathroom. Recognize these are hostile businesses showing up to your neighborhood to squeeze it for cash and give nothing of value back.

love the goth girls at the vape store who compliment my greasy bangs. way better than that other vape store

Fantastic, amazing thread about Combahee River Collective. 🧵

NOT ENOUGH RESTAURANTS FAIL WITHIN A YEAR

The Doug Ford gov't has passed its 2026 budget bill, which officially removes Ontario's right to know. How he governs, why decisions get made—we'll never know. The same bill consolidates conservation authorities. That's your democracy & your drinking water being impacted #onpoli

as a proud member of the jimmy fallon hate club since SNL, watching him on the tonite show (this last decade especially) has been a true horror “It is a performance of joy so excessive, so desperate, that it reveals the void it attempts to cover.”

"Fallon is the court jester of the Anthropocene, a figure who invites us to watch celebrities play parlor games on stage while the air outside the studio begins to smell of tear gas and smoke." Holy shit, this is 🔥 writing and analysis.

AI is never going to break your heart and most of these dunce geniuses aren’t human enough to even understand why that’s something you should want.

archeologists finding a mummy in Egypt that was buried with papyrus in its abdomen as part of the mummification process that turned out to be a part of the Iliad is such a magnificent piece of information to learn

“get a real job” “why won’t you pay for my airplane 😭”

I just keep thinking about this. Ford loves to pound people to shit and strut across their political bodies. All the name calling. The Lefties. Socialists. Cyclists. Gravy eaters. But he whines like a high maintenance nepo when something doesn't go his way. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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