What if I change my name to Micycle, long for Mike obvs; what if I just try being a Micycle next year. I feel like I could talk myself into this by Dec 31.

Toronto is so funny because city councillors will say “save my beloved local parking lot!!” and then city councillors will make up images of people looking happy in the parking lot to stop density in their ward, and that guy will get re-elected for 12 more terms. This has happened twice in 5 years!

Got new glasses and Adam says I look like David Cronenberg,

A friend recently said “peace by any means necessary” though referring to taking antidepressants and anti anxiety meds; and I agree, in any time and especially in this time. Peace by any means necessary, keep that brain away from despair.

I think a lot about that professor with a poster of Rasputin and a beard down to his knees

I am furious, my bedtime is in SHAMBLES; at least one Dodger motored through that other guy, at least we have that

I hope it’s another walk, that would be great

We’re watching some American feed because SportsNet is too unreliable and I’m just furious during this emotionally fraught time. I do not care about baseball, I care about the Dodgers losing!!!!

Omg who else just had their sportsnet app crash

Scrap scrap scrap!!!!

Instead of the Tylenol 3s prescription I’m normally given after surgery, I ended up with hydromorphone. A total shockeroo which seems fairly excessive for the situation, plus I’m already autistic so I’m okay with acetaminophen

I would have quit every single job in Slow Horses within 45 minutes of starting, I am sure of that much. The worst coworkers, shit working conditions, obviously I don’t care about England especially not to risk my life for it.

Vladimir Lenin circa 1917

Toronto upped funding for libraries and I’m super emotional about this! A rare feeling of civic pride!

Taking care of my friend’s asthmatic cat (Cat) while he’s gone, even though S knew I was going camping for the first three days; literally panicked about the cat the whole time. Cat cat is fine! Cats do not need us but they need our hands to give them inhalers and ear scratches periodically!!

I gave my best dresses to my friend Emily and we are both thrilled

The middle class isn’t a tax bracket; the middle class is term used to divide the working class. Moreover, middle income tax cuts were a cover to reduce government spending (Canada Post, VIA, underfunding and forcing across the board Department cuts); these impacts > the individual tax gains

Brutal truth attack from Adam who said that clean indoor tap water would have been my ancestors’ dream and here I am drinking coconut water. We need to aim beyond our ancestors’ dreams!!!

Well don't I feel stupid

I like my name and I’ve had it for as long as I can remember and I don’t have any nicknames and the idea of changing my name, no matter how incongruous it gets over time, feels offputting. Plus, I’m grateful I didn’t change my name in my 20s because then I would be named Bowie or Tzvi, no question

At the first part of my autism assessment two weeks ago, the assessor asked me something and I answered sincerely and she responded with “oh that was a joke”, so I told her that I hate jokes. I now suspect this was the actual test and it was not totally surprising to get the diagnosis this morning

Shout out to my doctor who said the government requires her to say I have a diagnosis of gender dysphoria to access affirming care but she doesn’t believe that there is anything medically wrong with me, so she’s saying it because that’s the wording on the form but don’t pathologise wanting to live

Kneecap is not the story. Genocide in Gaza is.

Chrystia Freeland participating in the standing ovation is so on brand for her; I guess it tracks for the other Liberals too but memorializing a dead Nazi is a little less surprising from some people

The bigger news is that I traded a bunch of mint from my balcony with a neighbour who grew too many beets, a delicious and community-building trade

I keep thinking about this because I feel like when people say "canary in a coal mine" these days it's more a shrug/grief/more life lost. BUT THE MINERS LISTENED TO THE CANARY'S WARNING AND ALSO SAVED IT FROM HARM.

Once again, living a life as the only person in the hospital waiting room in a mask. Due to Toronto Western renovations, the Urology, TB and Infectious Diseases clinics all share a waiting room, like wtf has happened to people’s brains, even the nurses are maskless!?!?

Thinking about bi icon Peacemaker, as played by juiced up John Cena, his daddy issues and destructive coping techniques, literally hiding in his closet during an orgy. Incredible representation.

I wish her ill!! I hope she has a runny nose dripping down her throat forever and her shoes are uncomfortable and she smells every fart in her vicinity, with the smell lingering, and most of all I hope she knows what an absolute loser she is for becoming so obsessed with strangers’ bodies.

So proud of CUPE members and massive solidarity in the fight to get paid!! Stay strong and fight to win!!! Genuinely thrilling to see labour fighting back against their employers and the shitty government meddling

So no one told ME life was gonna be this way

A shoutout to my grandma, she turned 100 years old yesterday, and I whatsapped her via my uncle’s phone while on a quieter side street in Amsterdam, sang 🎶happy birthday🎶. She promised not to die until I get home, which is very kind.

If your 🇩🇪train is even a little late, Deutsche Bahn prints a permission slip to get on other trains, like I just hopped a train to Frankfurt-aM to switch to Köln rather than wait 30 mins for my late original train, and I think this adorable. VIA just lets us wait for hours, miss our connections, etc

The city I step in is not the city I stand in

Incredible work, @cycletoronto.bsky.social and fellow workers! What’s the word on the College street bike lanes?? Turns out our SUV-passenger premier doesn’t have the enshrined right not to see bike lanes on his occasional commute to work after all.

Navigating the tricky task of buying drugs when I’m already on drugs, working at an advanced level because I realized after that I had my earbuds in the full time

Adam’s reaction to the hulk hogan news, which I shared while proposing a cucumber-gochujang side dish

Look it’s vulnerable for me to admit my middle-agedness but I’ve been listening to Kae Tempest’s new album on repeat for weeks, I’m someone who liked a few of his songs but never full albums, he’s changed and I’ve changed and I’m uncomfortable but the heart/ears wants what the heart/ears wants

Sometimes I think reflecting on one’s identity is a task for younger people, that it’s unseemly not to know myself at this age. But I learnt that Judith Butler, a professional gender-thinker, didn’t announce their they/them pronouns until age 64; identity shifts and our vocabs expand and that’s life

Reuniting with a bunch of friends soon in Germany. I’m so so excited plus also thrilled that my friends are so excited, like my friend Stewart just messaged me that he’s booked a room in the same hotel in Cologne because why not assume we want to spend all of our time together (and I do!!!)

The Manitoba wildfire smoke is blocking the sun and breaking the heat, so climate change is really in charge on multiple levels at this point

In the waiting room at Princess Margaret, aka the cancer hospital, waiting for my follow up imaging. I’m the only person wearing a mask including workers, this is fucked up. If there was ever a place for mandatory masking, I mean come ON

The EU fined Del Monte 14.7m€ in 2013 for fixing the price of bananas. Del Monte [and United Fruit] ran death squads in their central and South America plantations for decades. Etc etc, Fuck Del Monte. It’s at least a lil funny that capitalism has eaten Del Monte, though.

I am terrible with faces but I wholeheartedly believe that Hangman Adam Page looks exactly like Gordon Lightfoot, I am not fact checking myself

Of all the sentences I’ve read which have frozen my guts

The nicest scam/spam message I have ever received

Texting pals a gender reveal for myself, it’s been fun, I’m very glad I get to share this update.

Like many people I had my first mammogram a few days ago; like many people who have their first mammogram, I was contacted shortly after for further screening because of some questionable results. Except that I was initially so excited by maybe getting surgery that I have had to Realise Things.

Sent a text which included “bring your own booze or wooze” and then had to follow up that I assumed we were all calling weed drinks wooze, and did not mention that I made up wooze while writing the text

You could not pay me to care whether ICE agents feel about themselves or their daily reign of terror. It’s the same when I hear that the RCMP morale is down. That’s a good start! You racist, violent ghouls SHOULD feel bad about yourselves and your job!! You can always quit!!!