Holiday baking, therapy, and a sleep study this evening - so wish me luck with All That

Entranced by the concept of doing an escape room with Stephen Sondheim, Mia Farrow, and Bernadette Peters

Preparing to book my next trip to Winnipeg and the smaller-than-normal price difference between economy and the fancy-people fare has me tempted...

oooh the scabby phase of a new tattoo is so annoying!!

that's a wrap on folio for the year! i'm taking a break from releasing episodes to catch up on transcripts & the like. see you again early-ish next year 🪀 in 2025 i tracked 304 hours of editing across 44 main feed episodes & 4 bonus episodes. here are some silly charts about the main feed

this december is a great month to do a big back up your hard drive because it's the last year ending in a multiple of five for a while and it looks really good on your labeling/filename conventions. an opportunity like this might not ever happen again. you might be waiting another four or five years

bill c12 is canada's worst anti-migrant bill in DECADES has been passed in the house of commons and is now in the senate (final stages before becoming law) please email senators! migrantrights.ca/actionslist/... sc from link and from @harshawalia.bsky.social #stopbillc12

The advantage of taking a fake weekend the last couple days is I now have the energy to spend a big chunk of my REAL weekend on a virtual academic conference thing I'm interested in.

ehehehe

my optometrist sent me a happy birthday email which is a little random but a nice gesture i suppose

:) I am gonna get a tattoo today I think

birthday in an hour, give or take. but now...sleep

I love consumer reports...highly encourage people to check whether their local library has a subscription

Since I was playing it earlier today, just a reminder that King of the Castle by @tributarygames.bsky.social is theeee best "party with friends" video game I know AND it is on a very big sale right now

It’s so crazy that after a couple hundred Picross puzzles you can kinda start eyeballing from just the numbers like you’re looking at the Matrix code

i forgot that this past february marked a decade since the release of susanne sundfør’s “Ten Love Songs”, which is an all-timer album. that’s one love song per year!

Well! That was certainly a very interesting GPF

merrily we roll along on the big screen was a good time

🚨 KISS-ERA CRJ LIP SYNC ON CANADA'S DRAG RACE 🚨

say whatever else you will about ice dance this year, thank god they only decided to do this RD theme AFTER ice dance men became allowed to be gay, i think that's making the whole thing much more tolerable

Watching the ice dance before work this morning, we will see whether it energizes me or DRAINS ME UTTERLY

Against AI: Critical Refusal in the Library muse.jhu.edu/article/968497

“'Librarians out in our branches are seeing a lot of young people who are really excited by these collections,' Langlais told 404 Media. 'Folks who are coming in just for the games are picking up program flyers and coming back for something like that.'"

feeling notably insane again this fine monday evening. not too common in recent years to have multiple bad brain days within only a couple of weeks, so here's hoping it isn't any kind of harbinger of anything

Well it's been a good run but I guess it's time to turn on the heat in my apartment

Time to write a cover letter...the agonies are once again upon me

Hearing @carberry.deals and @notquitereal.bsky.social talk about old weird fromsoft games on Side Story was very exciting because it is the closest I've been to anyone I follow being aware of my favourite B-/C+ game from the early 2000s, Lost Kingdoms II

My friend Luiz, a talented game designer, is itchfunding colored art and layout (by me!) for his game Melody of a Never-ending Summer! MoNS is a bit like if Pokemon met Harvest Moon or Stardew Valley. Check it out and support here: luiz-paulo-ferraz.itch.io/mons

Back in 2011, the crew over at @singlesjukebox.bsky.social reviewed what we thought was a new Ke$ha single and a bunch of us really loved it (myself included) but then it turned out it was just a leak and was never released…

Hey y'all! I know motivation can be a struggle when it comes to chores, which is why I'm thrilled to share my FOOLPROOF, ONE-STEP lifehack for getting inspired to sweep those floors until they shine! You won't believe how easy it is! All you have to do is drop a mason jar

hi i have a form for you to fill out. it holds a question i have that NEEDS an answer. the question is: what is the best side dish? you know, like you would have with a roast dinner. or at thanksgiving. or alongside a beef wellington.... tally.so/r/dWWMQy

Hello Bluesky I'm back after a day at work with no social media on my phone, time to find out how much patience I have for backreading when it's not something I can do in bits and pieces throughout the day

afternoon karaoke, evening soup hang with friends, followed by hot tub...excellent sunday. also more places should do daytime karaoke

the reason i was doing this is because i have a new one! it’s this! it’s e-ink and deliberately hostile to social media, meaning i’ll be on here less — if we talk, i’m happy to provide other means of contact

Going through all the photos that have accrued on my phone over the last four or five years...unspeakably tedious

the BIGGER question is whether i’m a “check scruff at the d.r.p.p.” faggot and that one remains tbd

figured i’d take a swing at being a “drag race premiere party” faggot, see how it suits me

Really excellent point that often gets lost in the (deserved) mockery. These things are not neutral arbiters of truth. They are easily manipulated extensions of the ideology of their creators. The attempt to shove them into every conceivable knowledge space is an explicitly political project.

annoyed at the world but the vintage sweatee i got last weekend is bringing me inner peace

anyway that was a lovely couple of days and it’s so good to be in a space full of other 2S people, but my brain IS insisting that it should now be the weekend and i AM annoyed that tomorrow is, in fact, thursday

nvm after i posted this a very kind friend let me lurk in their dark hotel room for several hours while they were doing event stuff, and now i think i’ll be able to push through until my originally-planned departure time

realis sentences are a mechanic that quietly wormed into my broader TTRPG vocabulary before i consciously noticed. i've found myself phrasing things differently when i conceptualise & interact with other games, which gives me new angles of exploration. it's special & exciting when a game does that!

well, leaving the CBRC two-spirit symposium early and scurrying back to ottawa because of a nasty migraine. but a super cool event for the parts i was able to be present for

In case anyone is wondering what McGrath means by accounting fiction: TPA makes a "profit" only if you don't include its capital budget and ignore that the maintenance and resurfacing for on-street parking is paid for by Transportation Services.

montreal…hello

As Langdon Winner put so well 40 years ago, don't fall into the trap of accepting "RISK" as a good framework for these conversations. Business interests love framing their violence in terms of "risks & rewards" bc as a society, we love to heroize & reward risk-takers. Talk instead about "HAZARD."

#MyGO #sd.MyGO i spent way too long making this so you all get to see it too

anyway i am feeling VERY endeared to kevin aymoz this weekend

i need to pack for two nights in montreal but i just got home after like twelve hours not in my apartment and i'm feeling lazyyyy

The duality of winning your first gp title #GPFigure #SkateAmerica