Jesus christ, Joyce

Do people still think our current economic and political system is a civilized one? Disabled and homeless, Sudbury senior lives in a broken tent share.google/3mggMCGIyI5c...

I don't delete my bad posts because why should I suffer alone.

Half the people in this deeply cursed province couldn't even be bothered to vote. There is no hope.

I feel completely dismissed and invisible. The system in place has failed to care for or even acknowledge me and many others. It’s unfair and there should be stronger advocacy and support. Who else is going to do this advocacy though? People are wrapped up in their jobs and families.

I think the other problem is that many people are in DEEP poverty but are doing things to mask how dire the conditions actually are out of shame. Someone may APPEAR to be scraping by but they just aren’t. I wish I had more to offer but most days I feel like I’m floundering myself.

Had a really nice meal tonight and as is increasingly the case, I think about those who do not have this. Who are being deprived of food in 2025. What are we doing here, as human beings? We’ve lost the plot.

This is absolutely true. I don't know about other countries, but public health experts here minimized this the same way they did COVID. It is as if they think their job is to keep the public calm rather than to inform them.

Hang on, when did reading become so performative?

I didn’t think a book first published in 1934 would be such a page-turner but I’m already over halfway through. Silly me. I believe Carson was younger than me when she wrote this. Astonishing.

I've listened to the new Florence+ the Machine album at least three times per day for the last ten days. I can now confidently declare all other music is cancelled, also my plans for this evening are cancelled I have to go listen to it again bye.

lol she got his ass and he knows it

The first snow of the year has begun. Give me all your snowstorm novella recs, please.

Mark Carney was talking about attracting foreign investment to Canada and listed reasons Canada is a good place to invest. A reporter pointed out that the U.S. has those things, too. What sets Canada apart? Carney responded, "Well, we have rule of law."

New on the blog today, I've written about CROOKED CROSS by Sally Carson. A brilliant, terrifying novel about the rise of Nazism, the falling apart of a country’s codes of decency & the moral fortitude required to oppose persecution. Frighteningly timely. 💙📚 jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/11/09/c...

As the owner of an independent bookstore, I must ask all of y'all to do the opposite of this forever and ever, amen.

People love to tell disabled folks to “take responsibility”. Take responsibility for what exactly? For being sick? For not getting better? For needing social supports? What they really mean is “we don’t want OUR taxes helping YOU survive”

Good literary translation requires understanding (language, culture, genre--on both sides of the translation) and an ability to write well. "AI" can't do that. There are no shortcuts. Treat your work and foreign language readers with the respect they deserve. You won't fool anyone with this.

SNAP is supposed to be restored today due to a judge's order. This is great news, but we should probably talk about the mental anguish people who rely on SNAP (disabled and so many others) have had to go through all because of greed and the overabundance of wealth. That's gross af.

Poverty and disability often go together Most people have no idea how fast their life can change One accident or illness is all it takes Losing your health can quickly wipe out your finances, your contingencies and your support network It’s why we need robust social supports.

ICE vs sandwich guy is so funny I hate it. I cant even write a joke about it. Oh ICE agent hit by sandwich and left for bread? Dont be ridiculous this is stupid

Starting Elizabeth Taylor’s A View of the Harbour.

This just in: DEER

So thrilled to find this locally. I’ve known about Persephone Books for years but didn’t know how to access their titles in Canada. Thanks to @radzpandit.bsky.social for writing about this book on her blog!

As promised, a better picture of tonight's moon.

we're still shipping all over Canada for only $5 and we now have a tugboat to help us spread the word! how do we do it? that's really none of your business

Took the cats out for a walk with my brother and accidentally created a 90s Britpop album cover

Billy-Ray Belcourt: “How do I live in the world if I don’t love it? Many days I’m hysterical.”

Went to the bookstore not knowing what I was going to get and found Cassidy McFadzean’s poetry collection, the latest from my fave Billy-Ray Belcourt, and something on sale called a book advent calendar that I’m going to open next month.

I'm 66. I've been a lot of places and seen a lot of the world. I've got more questions than answers. But I know this to be a stone-cold fact: anyone with the means to feed hungry children and chooses not to has failed at being human. There's no justification. None.

All of these collections have been transformative.

Earlier this year, I met a Croatian journalist who was in the US doing a piece on America’s politics and I asked her what surprised her. And she said, “What you all call the far left is just being normal.”

Weasels in the Attic by Hiromi Oyamada translated by David Boyd I picked this up at a book swap on Sunday and read it the same day. Three scenes interconnecting infertility/pregnancy, fish breeding, and a weasel infestation. Trust me, somehow it works beautifully.

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Percy Bysshe Shelley: So pleased my wife's novel is remembered in so grand a manner as this, what is it called, photoplay? I wonder how I fare in this world of the morrow? (Opens BlueSky) What the f

this little fool really makes my day

This is my medical marijuana that i need for being a bitch.

This represents an intersection of my interests and mine alone but how did Mexican surrealist Remedios Varo create the perfect cover image for the short stories of Edogawa Ranpo

calling the crisis hotline should just connect you with another depressed person so you can bounce ideas off each other

Ordered this in despair after I looked up Toronto Florence + the Machine tickets and one in the nosebleeds at Scotiabank Arena was over $300. NOPE.

Using my SAD light tonight, staring down the tunnel of another long dark winter and wondering what else I can do to help myself through it.

I need to figure out what is causing the frequent nausea and vomiting. This wait is agonizing. 😩

Someone on goodreads described this collection as “horrors of mundane despair” and I agree. Themes of animality and escape. Suspenseful, psychologically acute, and uncanny, I loved these stories.

"Is this my discovery—a bare, formless thing with no purpose or connection to anyone? I am only myself. Nothing is more terrifying."

I’m 35, approaching middle age, but still not that old, and recently the world has become absolutely incomprehensible to me. We are living in a surreal time.

So I ordered this book and got an email from the seller a little while ago saying it got lost en route 😭

reboot/remake 'sleepy hollow' but no johnny depp and make it aggressively lesbian instead. gonna speak this into existence if we're gonna still be trapped in the era of reboots/remakes

I re-read this fantastic book of flash fiction in October and realized it’s been 10 years since it was published. I also recalled hosting Helen for a reading from it ages ago at Tattooed Mom in Philly. Which is all to say —Happy 10-year Book Birthday to @helenmcclory.bsky.social 🎉

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