I can help but I’m not allowed to respond :(

I gotta subscribe to zipship

If you thought Carney was a good guy... #cdnpoli

Weekend wood whacking + bonus fungus

Hiker puts gear in hollow tree, can't find it again, spends a night in the rain, falls, loses shoes, tries to walk out of the woods barefoot.

This is the most harmful budget from a climate perspective since the Harper era. It's a complete abdication of climate responsibilities, and while at least $3 billion in climate funding gets cut, taxpayer supports for oil and gas are set to grow. Great breakdown @hadrianmk.bsky.social

Variations on a theme

Today: music.youtube.com/watch?v=DdSB...

I know where you went / but I don't know how you got there / Silver tongue hill, where you talk up / what I'd play down / I would speak up, but I wouldn't know / what to say

Hanging on

first trick-or-treaters have come and gone! #newwest

Hey #newwest, take a broomstick or shovel and go clear your street drainage grates! Every single one on my block was clogged. Bonus: it's really satisfying to watch a huge puddle vanish in seconds. Sluuuuurp

Let’s do the time warp again

After-work bike ride

Late for gym again. Vibe: youtu.be/zI3UfxyIdgs?...

You know, if people would stop acting all servile just because rich folks yell “notwithstanding”, we might get somewhere as a society.

Sitting in the car listening to the game on AM radio and it’s taking me way back

Love is the only motivating factor in the universe. "But Amanda, what about gravity?" You, a fool, ask. Wrong. It's all love. The planets love orbiting the sun. The stars love to take the form of galaxies. We love being on Earth and not suffocating in space. Come on, nerd, get with the program.

West End in the autumn rain.

Today's #poemsabout prompt is tricky. Might be a "read what other people write" kind of a Friday.

Cory Doctorow incoming!

Today’s vibe: music.youtube.com/watch?v=rSW-...

I can buy new books whenever I want and no one can stop me

Public library looking pretty. #newwest

“Backpropagated” Form and spore For #poemsabout #breakthemould @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk

Saw WOLF last night. Absolutely amazing. Two more nights. Go see it if you can! thecultch.com/event/wolf/

I believe I will skip the “intimate crab stick”

Mood

I worked until midnight building shelves and organizing the garage. I got halfway through it. Next up, lose the old furniture, donate the donation pile. Hoping to convert the four little-kid bikes into two bikes that actually fit my children. Also it appears I could run a ski rental shop.

It’s interesting to see how angry people get about AI MLK making butt jokes, or AI Tupac spouting gen-alpha slang. Raising the dead it ain’t, but it feels like we are being detached from history. For some of us, that matters.

First flakes of the year on the north shore! 😍❄️🌨️

Sunrise made the ships glow

Oooh! #newwest

Billy Idol cranked this morning

Good morning, #newwest! How’s your day looking?

Horsey afternoon

As the Carney government – backed by the billionaire class – force Canada Post into insolvency, the ranks of the precarious non-union Amazon workforce are growing The privatization of the public postal service directly benefits Amazon victoriabuzz.com/2025/10/amaz...

“Inarticulate” Just couldn’t get it out For #PoemsAbout #Mannequin @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk

It turns out the worst part of Bluesky is the Discover feed. Remove it and the noise goes away.

decorative gourd season!

Both kids sick again, round two. Why won’t @newwestschools.bsky.social actively disallow attendance while sick or symptomatic? So many disgustingly ill kids showing up day after day.

@pjnewwest.bsky.social Can we get these in Queen's Park?

A snippet from this morning's read

Skaha long weekend. Now back to work for a rest! 😅

If I'm safe, why am I circling? If I'm home, why do I pace the fence? Hús sem hvíslar: komdu, farðu.

Carrots!

Today's vibe

"Don't water dead flowers - they'll come back as weeds." Words to live by! 😆