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Silicon Valley’s alliance with Donald Trump was a mask off moment and showed the world we can’t depend on US tech companies. For the past few months, I’ve been trying to get off US tech and I put together a guide so you find alternatives too. I hope you find it helpful!

This is such an underrated gag

You there, boy! What day is it!

That whole subreddit of falcons: “i can’t hear shit, anybody else.”

[after seeing the gyre posted to r/gyrefires] yeah you're gonna want to call a structural engineer, that centre cannot hold

Got tickets to Weird Al in August, first time seeing him since 1996.

loss scrying

Just emailed the minister, in addition to emailing my own MP yesterday. Pebbles, ripples, etc.

In 2024, I rose in Senate QP to ask why the Govt of Canada was still using X for official communications. Today, they are still there. What exactly will it take to break the spell?

This is how they played The First of Us

do you guys hear that bell tolling? wonder who it’s for. it’s so loud lmao

human artists, use only one piece to convince people to follow you!! 🌱🧡

One of the lessons I learned from Rwanda as a kid is that all people need is to hear something over and over (via the radio then, the internet now), and you can make people believe and do anything. Anything.

> It is too strategically important for the US to leave it vulnerable

rare to see an american politician speak in these terms and it rocks

Mid-forties and I finally got my first credit card fraud? A charge to my old card that should've already been frozen, according to my bank. Good shit! (a large charge posted from a vacation rental company that isn't VRBO, shall we say)

It's the 40th anniversary of Labyrinth, and my book on Labyrinth and queer childhood is available for pre-order from @ecwpress.bsky.social! #labyrinth #80s #davidbowie ecwpress.com/products/its...

new all time reaction image just dropped

Seeing more and more about passkeys and after a quick search, oh, okay, they're just per-site private-public key pairs, okay.

Can't make this up, but I ordered a book on The Replacements but it arrived damaged so now I'm getting, naturally, a replacement.

Cinnamon Scrote Crunch

It's a small thing, a nothing, but I wrote my MP last night, asking her to reconsider the use of Twitter/X given this, and how the platform doesn't align with Canadian values. I don't expect a reply, but it's something.

This is the sort of technology I get excited about now: a Google Maps-overlaid catalog of the city's tree inventory. data.winnipeg.ca/Parks/Tree-I...

Folks, @womensaidireland.bsky.social have closed their X account on principle. Follow them here, give them some real engagement to acknowledge both the rightness of that decision, but also of letting go of high follower numbers (even if the algorithm meant that no longer signified actual reach).

Daily bunny no.3194 makes a perfect pancake

You're telling me these pills release time?

he drinks a whisky drink he drinks a whisky drink he drinks a whisky drink he drinks a whisky drink he sings the songs that remind him of whisky he really only cares about whisky

up up down down left right left right B A start

the world you live in in 20 years is built today

What a beautiful letter. It caused me to think about my first and the answer came immediately: the Oka Crisis when I was 13. It destroyed the narratives I was taught and I didn't have anything to replace them with. Waneek Horn-Miller was about my age when she was bayonetted by a Canadian soldier.

Interviewer Savannah Crabb talks with Canadian poet Kayla Czaga about her poetry collection Midway, a favourite here at the Woodlot! Thank you to both Savannah and Kayla for allowing The Woodlot to host your discussion. tinyurl.com/5n96mj6d

I understand why some people don’t like Bluesky, and why some people still use Twitter/X but ultimately you gotta leave the site that is churning out unprecedented amounts of free, customized CSAM for its users. You gotta stop using Twitter now, guys. Sorry. It’s time.

thinking about how long leftists were blamed for making twitter inhospitable for MPs who are refusing point blank to leave now it's full of nazis and child porn

The joy of someone sending you a submission that immediately makes you send an acceptance.

waiting for the "uh-oh" notification in 2026

Name your top ten guitar players. Mine: Julian Bream Jimi Hendrix Francisco Tarrega Roland Dyens Roy Buchanan Andres Segovia Edith Pageaud Miguel Llobet Bonnie Raitt Luke Doucet

Logged on, saw the discourse, logging off, see you tomorrow

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When you're in a Sweet Beautiful Angel contest and your opponent is MooMoo

And done! Gratified that there is a little space to spare. 😶 These are all mine. C updated her shelves yesterday (she has about as many books by volume, but mostly reads novels, so had much less to sort through).

One of my own for #smallpoemsunday. Did I rediscover this while reshelving a couple thousand items? Yes Published in post ghost press' Heart mini-anthology a number of years ago

Expedition 1/2

They’re back!!

Had a dream last night I was walking through an underground arcade and stopped to play a four-player, four-net NBA Jam-style game in which each player controlled two Charles Barkleys. The dream told me it was Charles Barkley's NBA Challenge.

Help, help, it's the consequences of my actions (we finally installed the new bookshelves and now have several years of new books to reshelve).