An entire album of just beautiful smart historically rooted analytical catchy tunes (but linking a few more videos below for those among us who love a lil video clip) carsieblanton.bandcamp.com/album/the-re...

"...the first of the beautiful month of May, when all nature has aroused from its long winter sleep, when birds are singing, flowers bursting and fields and forests are taking on their beautiful verdure…" May First, by Lucy E. Parsons (1906) historyiswhat.noblogs.org/post/2026/05...

"While Labour Day began in the US, when workers protested for an eight-hour workday in the 1880s, the US does not count May Day as a public holiday."

My friend who would say this to me is now our next door neighbor in the urban cottage court we both moved into

You say spiraling, I say twirling, twirling, TWIRLING towards freedom 🍃

My book, Crackdown, is a finalist for the BC and Yukon Book Prize (Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize). There are four other finalists. We'll find out who wins in the fall. bcyukonbookprizes.com/2026/04/14/a...

Godspeed this summer to all our [young, underfunded, etc] beloved Ontario parks employees 🍻

"Dumbing down the public isn’t just the product of the tech industry. For decades, right-wing political movements have pushed to defund education, leading to declining literacy in the US, while thought-provoking literature and culture has been slowly replaced by entertainment driven by spectacle."

This is outrageous! By giving his government the power to appoint ALL regional chairs across Ontario, Premier Ford is effectively seizing control of regional governments. School boards. Killing FOIs. And now, regional councils. Ford is dismantling our democracy. www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti...

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre recently became the first Canadian political leader to appear on the “Joe Rogan Experience” podcast. Did he spread harmful disinformation that could be detrimental to Canadians? Experts checked. #canpoli

ai will be defeated one anti-ai girlfriend at a time

Check out my conversation with Tanille Johnston, one of the five candidates running to be NDP leader! I'm really impressed by Tanille and I think that it's too bad that money didn't flood into her campaign like it did into Avi's. shows.acast.com/sandy-and-no...

Join us on March 16 to learn about MOVE history & a local curriculum project. Explore how the government’s willingness to bomb schoolchildren, whether in Iran today or in the Philadelphia neighborhood of MOVE decades ago, reveals patterns of state violence. ⬇️ www.zinnedproject.org/news/on-a-mo...

Had a 10 am workshop this morning so I set my alarm for 7:28 as normal. Woke up, gotta do things, no snooze! Looked at my phone a few minutes later and it said 8:44

This is a megathread of all my March events! Hope this inspires ya near/far, and please share locally if ya see somethin interesting 😇 #Kitchener #Waterloo #Hamilton #WatReg #HamOnt and I really don't know how to tag Toronto without drowning

Learned a lot, loved this conversation!

Today I finally feel compelled to read this bad boy

Shoutout to Spectrum WR's queer multi-sport drop in [& Aliyah for reminding me of it today], "the gym class you wish you had when you were younger" -- I think they'd appreciate the analysis in this episode ourspectrum.com/recreation-and-sports/

We went from the "peacekeeping nation" to the "defense industrial strategy nation" creating 150,000 military jobs and pretending it's an investment in our collective future? Like maybe it's just a more honest name but come onnnnnn there are 13 canadians who want this & they're politicians.

This weekend: mending event Next weekend: clothing swap and also a lil mending fun. But as @rosewoodstitches.bsky.social so aptly put it, the clothing swap will be BUSY so come out this weekend for more of my attention & a nice relaxing repair session:):):) #Kitchener #WatReg #VisibleMending

"Numerous studies have shown that not taking appropriate action is more expensive than investing in housing when you consider the costs associated with increased health care, incarceration, emergency shelters as well as femicides and familicides." doreenn.substack.com/p/ogp-mpp-ai...

The expression is (apparently) "underwater basket weaving", Ford and can a medical degree do THIS? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Upcoming visible mending workshop on Sunday Feb 22, $25/pwyw at Kwartzlab Makerspace #WatReg #VisibleMending #Mending worthmending.com/22

Repair cafe is coming up again, Feb 19!! RSVP for free at Eventbrite. I'm also hosting twooooo back to back mending workshops at Kwartzlab on Feb 22, you can sign up ($25) at worthmending.com/22

Listening now & sharing in case others find this interesting tooooooo :):)

Canadians horrified by what ICE is doing should realize the RCMP uses the same tactics domestically against Indigenous people and yet barely anyone speaks up. Journalists have been arrested just for trying to cover it

Went on a bit of a willow weaving bender.

Visible mending is silly because I could for sure fix this hole right now and no one would know it even existed... Or I could wait til it's out of control and do something cool with the repair 😌😂

Given everything happening right now, I updated this article with options for weather apps, web forms, and translation services — along with some tweaks to existing categories. I hope it helps your transition off US tech!

I try to remind myself "post stuff on bluesky like how you'd post on Instagram stories" but the reality is that I'm an Instagram baby and I love photos and don't know what to say in words but

Working smarter this year by combining my Repair Cafe & my Mending Night to one monthly event! It's tonight and it's snowing madly, but it's next month too, so check it out and make a note next time you got something broken! kwartzlab.eventbrite.com has all the info & free RSVP.

Additionally, it seems that the $200 million for the Plan to End Chronic Homelessness (PECH) is over 6 years. Shantz only compared that investment to one year of police spending. www.cambridgetoday.ca/local-news/p...

34 was the year my hands finally started saying they're tired. Need to figure out how to care for them better. For now, mending by machine instead of just a needle and thread. Picking a strategy that's a little easier on the hands 👐🏻

I love buying stuff from Bandcamp and supporting the artists. There a great Bandcamp app so you can listen to your library, check out stuff you haven’t bought yet, make playlists, download stuff for when you’re offline. It’s great! Fuck Spotify.

Me five years ago: I wonder if I'm going to be a luddite about any new technology someday. Me now: SMASH THE DATACENTERS.

Darling helper, though I'm sure you could have figured it out all on your own heheheh 💘

Feel free to fight me or send your own Bandcamp recs xox

No offense but Latterman breaking up is probably the best thing that ever happened to American punk music rvivr.bandcamp.com/album/the-be... This album continues to rip 💘

"is there a doctor on this plane???" But it's my neighbour asking for antique furniture hardware 💘

I am always so disappointed to click on a blog post and then there are no pictures, when it's very clearly a visual thing I am looking for. Endless examples, but currently searching for symmetrical knitting increases and decreases and why don't you have pictures of what they look like on your blog??

Can't listen to @skatunenetwork.bsky.social new album (which I picked up at their show after MISSING THEM PLAY) without being overcome with rage over Toronto traffic. GIVE US A TRAINNNN THE PEOPLE WANT FUNCTIONAL PUBLIC TRANSIT HOLY SHIT

Around three years ago I reached out in the #WatReg Birds FB Group asking if anyone wanted to start a queer birding club. The response was great and now we have an awesome, thriving #queer #birding community in KW. Biweekly trips with no less than a dozen attendees. Community carpool. Great vibes.

Ruined my own day being sad about my stolen suitcase but hey what are the hashtags that give me a slice of a chance anyone nearby might see this and keep an eye out? #Kitchener #DTKitchener #WatReg #DTKLove ? My apologies to the petty thieves that we've failed you so, you deserve better <3

all this chatter about Hank Green/SciShow & knitting reminds me that sometimes even saying the wrong thing is important if it gets a conversation going :)

Me whenever I see a large Canadian city creating new pedestrian street infrastructure

At the Red Raccoon event last weekend, Priya let me ramble for way too long with my ideas for how to fix this knee... and then, even more impressively, fixed it!!! Woooo 🦝🪡❤️

Red Raccoon Bike Rescue as explained by David Ziegler for CBC KW! A really lovely interview 😍🦝 about the community bike repair project my friends started!!! eeeeeeeeeee

was out mending in the park on Saturday! in the good company of bike repairs 🚲 🦝 🪡 also big congratulations to red raccoon bike rescue who were celebrating their Trillium Foundation "GROW" grant the same day, sweet to see our lovely mpp @aislinnclancy.bsky.social out to support this big milestone ❤️

Look at that! First time using my loom from @worthmending.com and I had these wonderful results. Thanks to the recommendation from @yarnharlot.bsky.social #visiblemending

Final count stopped at 160 "queer as in"s and embroidery didn't work out so I tried sublimation printing. Here they are!!!!! I love them ❤️‍🔥🙂‍↔️