And so it begins... everyone who is about to be offered a job should ask for DOUBLE, then join a union. 🙂

WATCH THE FULL VIDEO HERE: youtu.be/jATL3Zx1kZI?...

Yippee! Congrats @premeemohamed.com !

Feeling the love for Bafana Bafana today. An excellent game from both teams and a deserved win for Canada.🇿🇦🇨🇦 #fifaworldcup #bafanabafana

Kind of scary that this guy clearly wants to be president, and seems to think he has a chance.

Never a bad day to quietly participate in a subtle work of achieving socialist utopia via careful attention to the craft of producing useful beauty in the world

This whole thread just an absolute joy...

Early morning joy in South Africa! Now it’s us and Canada on Sunday!

Reminder: perhaps the easiest & cheapest way to tell Bezos to fuck off is by linking to Bookshop or (even better) an indie bookstore WHENEVER you talk about a book online. W/o a link people will just google it & that will lead to Amazon. W a link you can send a sale to a good business

Last day of circus fest was a wet one. Outdoor performance on #happybeerstreetyeg had us all cheering and laughing and soaked through. After celebratory beer and pizza, we're home to a sump pump that's given up on this bullshit... #yeg #climatedisaster

This weekend I am volunteering at the Alberta Circus Festival and it's been a blast so far. My hot #parentingtip of the week is to let your kids run away (for the weekend) and join the circus. They'll learn to juggle, stiltwalk, clown, soar, laugh, wonder and love. #yeg #circusarts

Imagine being such a loser that the only way you can be anything interesting is to be the "richest man who ever lived"? Like, okay my guy, but do you have any thoughts on joy, or slime mold, or the awesome new book by @chanda.blacksky.app , or is it all just a mess of "me, me, me" in your head?

Yesterday I finished a crochet project for the first time ever (it's a shawl, I'm delighted), finished reading a fun book, made a batch of tart bases to go in the freezer and did some general tidying. Being unemployed does suck, but all this extra time is fun some days.

Explain your @ - my name is Sam - I used to be SamtheBookseller, but I lost my job. At heart, I'm still a bookseller, but currently I'm just a pwrson who stays at home, crafting, moving the furniture around, and looking for a job. - Don't know whatjob I'll fins, so for now I'm unlabelled.

This year's @womensprize.bsky.social winner is a super-easy read with a heart of gold. Give it to your mom, your sister-in-law, your book club buddies. I read this book in about six hours.

There are no ethical trillionaires.

BRB just falling in love with a bee.

Call me a luddite but I kind of prefer the old version of the Devil who used to put a murrain on crops and command his demon dogs to terrorise church congregations to the new one who insists on having an app for everything and gets rich by designing clever ways of capitalising on people's fatigue.

They came at Dolly. We ride at dawn.

#yeg microsurfacing seems a fine idea but it's like these guys never heard of a plank. Just "nope you have to walk 2 blocks opposite direction to your destination in order to cross the street". Just put a plank down, guys.

The perfect way to make sure parents don't know anything about what their kid is doing online...

I'm pleased to be working with a great team for #lawnsummernightsyeg in June. Social, fun, outdoors, and for a good cause... #cfcanada #cysticfibrosis #lawnbowls #yeg www.lawnsummernights.com

This is exactly it. The work is the point.

The Lammermuirs are one of Scotland’s most treasured rural landscapes. This morning, @benjaminmyers76.bsky.social wrote to us with news of plans to build an industrial data centre on them. Help 66 locals defeat a $2 billion project by signing the petition: www.caughtbytheriver.net/2026/06/save...

Look, I already thought #wabkinew was wonderful, but "I reject the idea that we have to be slaves to surveillance capitalism in order to participate in the modern economy" is just fabulous. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Apropos of the great talk by Michel Durand-Wood I attended this week... Thanks to @michaeljanz.bsky.social and team for another inspiring event! #youllpayforthisbook #citybudget #infill #yeg

I am utterly delighted by this gorgeous reference work. #grammarofspice #recipebook #booksky #bookdesign

Is it... is it snowing in #yeg? On June 2? Only just, but it does appear to be very lightly snowing.

I love this so much. www.theurbanist.org/33-bookstore...

Could not be more thrilled than to discover that the incredible @helenwalne.bsky.social has the cover of Time. Her underwater photography is sensational, and her writing is just wonderful. Check out the accompanying article. time.com/article/2026...

I think people should be very, very careful when leaning ChatGPT or any bot for help navigating relationship issues or any other interpersonal conflict/crisis: futurism.com/chatgpt-marr... futurism.com/artificial-i...

They're still following the same playbook, and they're still getting away with it.

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Book party! Live in Edmonton with @emmaewood.bsky.social @nicoleroach.bsky.social www.michaeljanz.ca/june3rdbookl...

What we need to survive: Funded and accessible education Independent bookstores and presses Removing the class of landlords Co-op housing Gender-affirming health care Indigenous sovereignty Deep ecologies Non-human species kinship Accessible neighborhoods Arts and creativity over profit

I want to say I have never seen anything as overhyped as LLMs, but I’m old enough to remember NFTs.

I GET LOGGED OUT. BUT I LOG IN AGAIN

A general reminder: you don't *have* to use Substack. While I get that it's easy and convenient, realize there are alternatives that (1) give you more control and (2) don't regularly fund and promote neo-Nazis. Continuing to use Substack for your newsletter is a choice. You can make a different one

Among hard-core Alberta separatists, the level of contempt for courts and hate for Indigenous people is palpable following yesterday's ruling. This is going to be an ugly summer. Reasonable Albertans will need to stand up for the constitution and treaties. Staying silent is being complicit.+

still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

I see my home country 🇿🇦 on this list, beating out 🇨🇦, but it doesn't reflect the huge issues with electricity delivery which leave VERY many people dependent on paraffin etc. Plus, much of the electricity in SA is coal dependent. Do these numbers mean much without those kinds of details?

“What place can art have in such a system? How much can people care about Art who will put up with the products of such a system?” -William Morris, ‘Art and the People’

Wealth is what Nature gives us and what a reasonable man can make out of the gifts of Nature for his reasonable use. The sunlight, the fresh air, the unspoiled face of the earth, food, raiment and housing necessary and decent -William Morris

Remember, not density OR trees. Density AND trees. Better cities are climate action. #UrbanTruth

I'm *quite* the introvert, and having some issues with anxiety and depression at present, which makes it doubly exciting that I left the house this evening to attend #greendrinksyeg at Earth's Refillery, AND talked to people, AND had a lovely time. Great talks by the Permaculture Guild folks. 🙂

This is peak masculinity. #davidattenborough #sirdavid #rolemodel

Sorry, I'm an immigrant, so I need some help here... Are you saying this is not, in fact, simply a badly written satire? This is, in theory, an actual "news article"? #gobsmacked #alberta #bikelanes

My god. What have we done.

Next 2 weeks we will see 35/40C EVERY DAY in Southern Africa. Northern Mozambique and Southern Malawi might attack the record of the highest temperature ever recorded in May in the whole Southern Hemisphere. But Brazil might record similar temperatures for the next 10 days.

Big thank you to @michaeljanz.bsky.social (and team) for the great talk by Mikael Colville-Andersen last night. Been talking about it all day. #urbanism #carsaretheproblem Loved his take on "15 minute cities" just being "actual cities".