me, every spring: i'm going to get so much work done this summer! weather: nope

so tired of generational thinking. it's like it wasn't enough that people are divided into nation-states. we have to turn generations into nations too

"Thanks to AI we can finally automate the stuff teachers do and have them focus on what really matters, filling out compliance paperwork"

CBC is about to do a story about AI in education - about the "positive potential and lingering concerns." i bet it's gonna be an administrator's wet dream

This is the weird things that subset a white men ponder all damn day unprompted.

the ridiculous humidity (it's adding 14 degrees to the base temp) plus the constant noise of window fans and the smallness of the room is starting to make me feel like i'm stuck in some terrible submarine

move to Ontario only if you want to spend your summers feeling like the air is secreting some sort of sticky air mucous

A lot of people in the US feel that as long as they can go on minding their daily lives of work and consumption that fascism has not arrived, but COVID, global warming, and Gaza has demonstrated that is precisely this desire to go on as if nothing is happening that drives contemporary fascism.

if you hated Abundance and now you’re looking for something new to hate, may i recommend Stuck by Yoni Appelbaum

i'm okay with not being good at success. but what if i'm not even good at failure

i would like to thank all the people who wrote blog posts grappling with Henri Lefebvre, because they all do a better job of relating this weirdo than published academic works

too bad how, for five pandemic years, people have received expert-level training in how to fabricate a sense of normal as their world deteriorates

never go into politics. legacy media will find some questionable essay you wrote in grade 6 and try to ruin your life

the pandemic never ending and our near-total elision of it have been so demoralizing and demotivating. nothing ever improves on that front, and there's no sign it ever will. something about it makes me feel like i'm constantly dropping into inertia and it's harder and harder to climb out

are you a vegetarian if you have no dietary morals but accidentally stopped eating meat for a year out of sheer laziness

books like Abundance and Stuck leave the impression that anyone who opposes new buildings is some racist HOA conservationist. this is convenient for supply-side libs, because it villainizes, by extension, anyone who stands in the way of "progress," including tenants fighting against demoviction

[close reading] ha! i see what you did there

it's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism, sure, but it's also pretty easy to imagine the United States sinking, Atlantis-style, into the sea

good evening to everyone except the sociopaths who designed the Arm & Hammer baking soda box

Don't worry i am just having a slow, shudderingly violent aneurysm after seeing that *my own university library* is now pushing students to use AI for "brainstorming" & "writing models." They should "be cautious," though, if as individuals they "are concerned about plagiarism."

i should be able to consume irresponsible amounts of caffeine and suffer no adverse effects

We are drowning in tech created by men who are either afraid of women, despise us, resent us, or some combination of all of it. Fuck their sauceless, wack ass "optimization"

reminds me of those cases of children kept locked away from the world by their abusive guardians, in a state of deprivation so extreme they never truly developed language use

Why do universities hate grad students? Why do they despise the idea of grad students being able to pay rent? Do they think that if grad students can eat a healthy diet they'll do worse research? This is a single-digit percentage of Harvard's budget, but clearly this will solve all the problems.

every Netflix production looks like it’s set in a Walmart produce aisle with Walmart lighting

i would probably get more done if i didn't spend so much time wondering what i should do next / what's the best order in which to proceed

the character in Manhattan Transfer who wants to get to "the center of things" is now a scroller and a poster

Canadian history shows that “nation-building” projects require state capacity – and therefore an expansion of the public service, not its contraction. The révolution tranquille is only one of several cases. In other words: You need to “bring the state back in”. www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/artic...

when i mention to people that i have insomnia, they offer advice on how to resolve it and then i have to be like, no thank you, i enjoy the insomnia, in fact my whole identity is grounded in insomnia, it's my gravity, without it i would just float away

write down the ideas you have while falling asleep. "i'll remember it!" no you won't. and then you'll spend days trying to figure out what it was

i love how i get more random aggressive replies on this website than on twitter

i wonder if menswear guy likes the part in deleuze's leibniz book about the baroque and fabric folds

i bet mark carney sleeps in a suit and tie

for something that’s supposed to be festive, fireworks in the distance sure do sound ominous

i turned on the CBC broadcast of the Canada Day celebrations and now i'm more full of loathing for this country than ever

thank god i have a phone to blame now for my lifelong state of distraction

imagine being this stupid

But Kneecap..

I think part why we're seeing an infestation of scientific racism right now is that the obsession with value, metrics, and rankings has bled from business culture into popular culture and everyday life.

“The Trump administration has, for the first time ever, built a searchable national citizenship data system.” What could possibly go wrong? www.npr.org/2025/06/29/n...

sometimes i feel like i’ve only ever been a pair of eyes, watching and watching, and waiting for the rest of me to grow in

Dear all, Helen passed away at 13:21 local time. Helen would not have wanted us to be sad for a long time. All they wanted was to be remembered. They looked forward to being rid of pain and to being at rest. Helen took great comfort in you, their friends and readers. pt. 1/2

whyyyyyyyy is the air quality in ottawa still at a 10. it has improved a bit in montreal and toronto. even fort mcmurray isn't as bad as here. i hate this place. it's such a hole

i keep wandering into the kitchen and looking in the refrigerator like i'm going to find the deeply repressed memories in there and finally resolve my complexes and be a new man

People who are mad at faculty for resorting to blue books are welcome to spend hundreds of hours per year dealing with plagiarism, as I did last year. I'll go back to research projects when one of them volunteers to meet with cheaters, write dishonesty reports, attend hearings, etc., in my stead.

i see people are mad at profs for turning to "blue book" exams but really you should direct your anger at administrators who have treated AI in higher ed as a fait-accompli even while being its architects

the air in Ottawa becoming unbreathable right after the “nation-building projects” first ministers’ meeting seems truly symbolic. (on top of sucking really hard for anyone who lives here and doesn’t have money for a house with an hvac system)

drowning my sorrows with a carton of chocolate milk

maybe the wildfire smoke rolling into the US rearranged their brain cells, causing the feud