Someone actually did a study a while back that showed the most effective way to get women out of TERF groups wasn’t people trying to change their minds, it was them getting literally any benign hobby, like learning other languages or taking up needlework

Seriously. I'm so very glad that my partner has been radicalized into DIY Solar - more people should try it. It's so cool - like imagine, letting all that sun go to waste, when you could be powering your house with it instead??? So much hotter than being a racist chud.

I got an ARC notification recently and reading the book synopsis made my pupils dilate. I hope it lives up to what my body apparently expects. With literary solar punk - anything can happen.

My beloved little weirdo book Wearing The Lion is out in paperback today! Happy day to one irate Auntie Hera and one himbo Heracles. I hope y'all like found family!

Happy Pride Month. If you're a gay man, please remember your power. People often think that gay men are innately fashionable, which means if you wear some stupid shit for long enough, straight people, including homophobes, will copy you and then you can laugh at them.

5/ There's an official petition to withdraw C-22, sponsored by NDP MP @jennykwan.bsky.social. More than 2,600 Canadians have signed. We need more. Add your name and ask others to do the same while it's still at committee: www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

My kid is so great. A+++ Big Fan.

my favourite coding errors all involve a single misplaced/missing comma.

Bird Facts

Air conditioning is unapologetically a good thing because it helps people not die. And one good thing about air conditioning is that it largely needs to run during the day when solar power is at its maximum: it can and should align with clean energy goals.

Calling it now. It's gonna be the...

"Perhaps prison would have persisted this way forever. Perhaps our granite hearts and iron wills would have never crumbled. Perhaps the prison mentality, that we be cold and heartless, would have endured. Perhaps. But then there were kittens."

“In 2021, Friesen was one of the Saskatoon COVID-19 patients transferred to an Ontario hospital for care during the pandemic…Friesen had been diagnosed with dementia and ALS in recent years. At the time of his death, he was hospitalized with his third bout of pneumonia” That's SO patriot.

IT'S TOMORROW!!!

An autistic billionaire’s neurotype is not the reason he’s an absolute piece of shit, it has been revealed.

Want to improve grip strength whilst successfully evading would be predators? Consider perching in the eaves

Because “Reduce your Carbon Footprint”, while still a worthwhile effort, was essentially an astroturfed advertising campaign by BP to have individuals reduce their personal emissions through lifestyle choices while the oil industry continued to expand fossil fuel extraction infinitives.

Danielle Smith is angling to be Canada's Nigel Farage. I break down years of her absurd fantasies about an independent Alberta, and the role she played in whipping up separatist fever. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...

It's frustrating because electric cars can theoretically be absolutely any form factor. Not limited by drivetrain or engine etc. but they keep making them look like 2000s KDE icons

I bought a BLÅHAJ, and I could pretend it was entirely for our kid - but it's also for me and my hammock. My house hammock was missing a shark and now it's not. (the kid does enjoy the giant shark though - more than I expected.)

I have to convince my neighbors to buy another ~50 native plants before I leave for Connecticut on June 5th (doing a mural in Willimantic!!!). I’m worried they’ll die while I’m gone if they don’t get into bigger pots. If you’re a Philly person and want to plant any of these species, get at me!

Tomorrow I will quiz The Youth on bird related topics. I also created a related very niche add on for wow that posts a random bird fact every time someone wipes in a raid. You're welcome/I'm sorry.

looks like another consequence of carney’s cuts

the hungry observatory

"Why do you post inane things in such dire times?" Milord, what am I fighting for if not the freedom to relish in the silly?

Fake nice is my least favourite kind of "nice." I prefer kindness that is genuine, even if it's also rude.

But here's the thing for my fellow #writers that I beg you to hold lovingly in your hands & take into your heart: People want your works. They want authentic human-made stories that move them, make them cry & laugh, comfort/challenge them. THEY DO. They want it even more now, in the age of AI

I feel as though the book I’m reading will eventually be devastating and yet here I plod on.

Peacock Spider (genus Maratus), a group of tiny Australian jumping spiders famous for their vibrant colours and elaborate courtship dances to attract its mate. They are very tiny in size only between 2-5 millimetres ( the size of a pea)

There are lots of points I can think of where paths diverged and changed the course of my life, but it’s hard to see a bigger impact than the time I decided to pay a quick lil visit to Toronto.

Sometimes I feel like this goose.

Day dreaming about being so wealthy that I could say to my favourite indie authour - please work on your book and not at the job you hate. Here are several bags of money, a cottage, and a grocery delivery service. Been reading too many books about earls I think 🙃

UPDATE! I’m in the model

too soon

American medical association delenda est. Folks don’t like to hear it but the physician lobby is way more responsible for US healthcare system pathology than a lot of other actors.

To everyone reading this: Here’s hoping your day is filled with people who uplift you and make the ordinary feel a little bit magical.

Love this for them #subnautica #videogames #gaming

@bskyplays.bsky.social zork!

New from me: Five years ago, I criticized a San Francisco TV reporter for getting her facts wrong. Ever since, she and her allies have alleged that I was part of a conspiracy to end her career. That narrative just got a boost with her new book, which is being promoted by some powerful tech people.

“Fascism was on the rise and he didn’t like that” is the best line so far

The Trumpsonian.

I think my bird nerds are gonna love this.

You can become disabled in an instant. People think those of us who are sick did “something” to deserve it. We didn’t. The just world fallacy is a lie. It just takes one illness, accident or stroke of bad luck to forever change your life. Disability is not a moral failing.

Thin people feeling insulted isn't what's wrong with the BMI. The problem with the BMI is that it's designed around white men's bodies. The problem with the BMI is that it ISN'T A CLINICAL TOOL, it's a statistical one. The problem with the BMI is its use to exclude fat people from health care.

Reminder: "doom and gloom was single most effective strategy for driving social media shares. It was also worst for motivating real-world action...People exposed to catastrophic framing were less likely to change their behaviour than those who read nothing at all. " www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Happy to have my kid into Angine de Poitrine, and whatever other weird shit I decide to listen to. It got me so curious about whether music taste is nature vs nurture. Tritones baby, why do we love them? (www.nature.com/articles/s41...)

"These slides are not going to make themselves" I say as gemini offers to "enhance my slides" every single moment of every day. Click the x? Nah, you might not have meant that. I'll be back, then you'll see.

TMX corp knows the private sector won't buy their pipeline, so they're now trying pretend it's strategic to keep it government owned, as a "sovereign" pipeline. Let that be a warning for anyone who still thinks the private sector will build a brand new pipeline. www.thestar.com/business/tra...