Hockey isn’t our national culture. Cars are.

when you just do whatever you want your whole life without any awareness whatsoever about how you affect & interact with the world around you because it’s never had to be important to you. this is what you get i’ll never understand why ppl want people like that to be in charge of anything

BIRD WHO IS TRYING TO DIE: i missed my window

A map of all instances where a driver has hit a pedestrian in Vancouver in the past 5 years. The largest circle on this map (Main & Hastings) represents 37 crashes. Source: ICBC

Community isn’t something you show up to consume. It requires you to contribute, collaborate, and commit-create. If you want community, you have to be community. #craftivism

Elon introduces feature on twitter that allows anyone to see where the account is located. All the far right and pro Israel meme accounts turn out to not be based in the US. Elon shuts down the feature

officially on vacation until next thursday between now & then: a little trip over to van, a pup show, & spending three whole days with one of my ultimate top 8s (a friend visiting from ottawa)

help

Pretty basic humanity stuff.

please tell me this is a joke and they are not really doing this again over a bunch of sick birds

TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that? We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to

THIS WEEKEND! CELEBRATING THIRTY-ONE YEARS OF THE OTTAWA SMALL PRESS BOOK FAIR! TOMORROW: smallpressbookfair.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-... TONIGHT! The Factory Reading Series pre-small press book fair reading, Stuart Ross, Liam Burke + Amanda Earl, smallpressalmanac.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...

Absolutely cannot wait to bust down the doors for a drink made by a company whose unionized workers are on strike in a store that doesn’t want to hire minorities anymore.

if this drink sounds good to you, i encourage you to try to make it yourself at home - it will taste better, you’ll probably learn something new and perhaps gain a new hobby/passion, and you won’t have to go to target or starbucks - everyone but the racist execs and union busters win

what perfect album came out the year you turned 16?

Ahem

The reason why most women my age couldn't care less if Bill Clinton goes down with the ship is that we were teens & young women when the Anita Hill and Monica Lewinsky scandals happened. It's rotten to the core. All the way down. Your "lost" era is not ours.

me, three beers, and track seven from “the pros & cons of hitchhiking” by roger waters

Ottawa Small Press Fair in one week, featuring new @triptyc.bsky.social comics, CanLit Cards and a lot of zines and chapbooks

dystopian ass weather report

My new working definition for asap.

“The government is allowed to post real death threats on social media but you’re not allowed to post sarcastic death threats on social media” is actually a pretty apt distillation of power and violence

our tax dollars are a slush fund for the wealthy & those aligned to our fascist regime - none of our taxes goes for ANYTHING benefitting the people. epstein was a piece of shit. all of his closest friends are pieces of shit. and all of his closest pieces of shit friends head every corner of govt.

Starbucks knows what we want! We demand a contract that raises pay, increases hours, addresses understaffing, and resolves hundreds of unfair labor practices. Until then, you’ll see us on the picket line! ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽 #NoContractNoCoffee

#Breaking: Toronto will allow new corner stores in residential neighbourhoods

Lots of folks captioning aurora photos like "for a few minutes we didn't think about politics" guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

do we just have to plainly state the horrifying fucking thing so men understand the incredibly obvious why

What the Epstein files show is the *solidarity* of many men-across class, race, religion, profession & party affiliation-in the global political project of keeping the boot on women's necks. People have no problem understanding class solidarity among the rich. Why can't they see gender solidarity?

surprising to me still that it’s not considered discrimination to deny bathroom facilities to people on the basis of age, but you can in fact refuse to provide them for infants and toddlers and even — apparently — claw them back too

elf on the shelf is like 82% responsible for my decision not to have kids

Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far. So much work remains to be done.

living dangerously this week (have a 7-day express loan checked out from the library, due back saturday, and i haven’t even started it yet)

What a great day for finding out that a lot of things people thought were conspiracies are actually backed up by emails that are like hey pedo, let us pedo together in pedoland on the second day of the pedo month

My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far

or emails you can claim you didn’t write yourself

Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.

i really truly wish any of the epstein furore was caused by a genuine concern for cruelty for teenage girls, for exploited kids. it would be a different country if it was, of course, but the discourse is sometimes jarring

these epstein emails are pretty damning. i sure hope that we haven't spent the last couple years in a cultural backslide where men are seemingly allowed to openly and gleefully fantasize about dominating young women without any threat of reproach

turned 40 yesterday & took advantage of the birthday lunch discount at carlos o’bryans, where we saw a little otter playing on the docks. 10/10

dalton & i started a little poetry press + distro! we’re hosting our first reading series and open mic in january (details to come) 🐒 follow us! bsky.app/profile/asqu...

Executives at my local public library are cutting jobs and devaluing librarians and other staff, and this book display reflects that 🔥 lol #librarysky (zoom in or check alt text for titles)

if u were followed by a little acct with a house for a pfp today, now you know why!

hamilton spotted 👀 (keenur tag)

dalton & i started a little poetry press + distro! we’re hosting our first reading series and open mic in january (details to come) 🐒 follow us! bsky.app/profile/asqu...

went into town yesterday to do a bit of early birthday shopping & is it too obvious i’m turning 40 because i bought two CDs and a thrifted northern reflections cardigan

results from collage club last week we’re all making artist trading cards for the next few months & will have a swap event in the spring 🧡

I read this and immediately thought “well that would actually be awesome because then Marty can go back to the 90s where he probably had a really awesome time as a teenager” and then I was like oh wait his PARENTS would have been teenagers in the 90s and then I just sat here for like 45 minutes

i think about this all the time