Five and a half years in, I just caught myself getting excited to see the handsome man friend in sweaters again. He wears the hell out of a sweater. Knives Out-level sweater game on this man.

I wrote this blog about how feeling like a killjoy whenever I talk about GenAI. refusinggenai.wordpress.com/2025/10/09/o...

The way Ookwemin Minising is bouncing back as soon as the colonizing dirt is scraped off feels like the kind of metaphor that gets so big it becomes reality. I hope it does. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

I’ll never understand why some runs suck and some are phenomenal. I was up from 1am-3am writing something up for work. Almost went back to bed at 6. Instead, got the springiest, happiest jog in. Hard, glittery stars and a still blue heron hunting by the light of a big, big moon.

In a world where this could happen, it would be really, really funny if all the American jurisdictions that are tired of being fucked around could apply to join Canada so they can have, like, paid air traffic controllers and no national guard in the city. "Unprecedented opportunity," and all.

I think anyone who can remember 20 years back knows that Tony Blair is in absolutely no goddamn way the answer to peace in the Middle East.

My kid just observed that we are closer to 2050 than 2000 - the worst violence Gen Alpha has yet inflicted on Millennials, probably. Sharing is caring. You’re welcome.

We've hit the point in the year where I do still need to mow the lawn, and I absolutely *intend* to mow the lawn, but every time other house/kid stuff is done enough for me to attack it, it's fucking dark.

If any glaciers have recently calved, it was me, that was my hot flash

Speed cameras are arguably the most democratic kind of traffic enforcement. Rich? White? Other emergency services?You do the thing, you get the ticket. Super interesting that this is the one kind of crime enforcement Doug Ford's gang aren't cool with, hmmm.

Today, in "you can't buy class" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I can't stop laughing at this: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Today, while I was issuing a notice of trespass, the guy asked if I would be his mommy. Then, when it became clear that I meant it, he needed to go, he called me a whore. And, like, sir, is that any way to speak to your mother? Make tracks. Yeesh.

10/10 accidental cultural parody of America, using an episode of “Celebrity Family Feud” to fill in after a former-reality tv dictator kicks a late-night star off air for slighting his minions.

Athabasca's model has been extractive and gross forever, as any public librarian who's ever agreed to proctor exams knows well. Looks like things are drawing to their logical conclusions, over there: thetyee.ca/News/2025/09...

Handsome man friend has officially been around in a librarian’s life long enough that when I say “I had a very police-y day!” but send no distress signals, he knows not to panic and just get on with evening plans 🤣 Cops occurred, cops were handled, bring carbs or something.

Bang-on analysis on the global shift in power that was already well underway before Trump, and that is thriving on the spoils of his power-hungry thrashing and petty demands of fealty. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

1995: “We have the internet! Who needs libraries?! Anyone can access information and make sense of it, no problem!” 2025: *gestures broadly with a droll expression, hands over beer* “It’s probably fine. They obviously did their research.”

I've had a think, and the internet was a bad idea. But fuck it, hit me again.

The downside of having a very productive work week is that at the end of every day I emerge to a world where all the rhetoric about everything has been escalated exponentially by some fascistic fucker or other since morning. Well done Brazil, though.

Chilling stuff: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... If only everyone enforcing respect for Kirk's life extended that dignity elsewhere. Forcing the world to speak respectfully about a man who himself frequently flirted at the edges of hate speaks volumes about their values, human and intellectual.

Just popping in quick to say that, if you’re near where I am, it’s a gorgeous day to be offline. It’s a hard world, these days. Let yourself enjoy your little corner if it’s good; you deserve and probably need the break, to keep fighting the good fight.

One of the things I think about pretty often is the length of the shadow this slide into authoritarianism will have on American academia. Who knows how long it'll take to rebuild trust in the institutions who chose to obey in advance. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

Hark! Pleasant diversions! www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Gulf of Small Dick Energy, Department of I'll Fucking Fight You

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Today the NYT recommended some $650 USD pajama pants for stylish travel, and I was already cry-laughing. But I went back to the page to laugh some more, and THEY HAVE A BUSTLE. A BUSTLE. collinastrada.com/products/cra...

Israel committing genocide in Gaza, world’s top scholars on the crime say

More of these kinds of pieces: www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i... I've found myself fixing my spare room in case the in-laws need a non-US base. Those moments, I'm something like excited, or maybe relieved, because I can't imagine how else I'll see them, and I worry for them. Strange days.

This is the wildest story I’ve read in *some time*: The community’s founders are, “a classically trained French horn player who has livestreamed his own sex videos, and a former jazz pianist arrested but not charged for attempted murder in Ecuador.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/r...

This is mix tape cat. Mtc is one of my most treasured belongings, obtained from a vintage store in Guelph circa 2002. No one but me ever loved mtc. Except! The handsome man loved mtc as much as me, first visit. It was a good omen. Find someone who loves your weird bits. It’s a good life.

This is the sanest, most clear-eyed thing I've read about Trump's economic posturing I've read to date. Yes. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Metro Morning is TennisWatch, today. Holy smokes.

I don't get the confusion about the Gen Z stare. Didn't we all learn how to do it in 2020 when people were being obtuse about masks, race, drag queens, vaccines, and all manner of things? It shuts down idiocy. Don't want it? Don't be an idiot. Got it? Reflect. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/s...

It’s been something else, watching G7 leaders inch toward the twin realizations that deals with the US are worse than useless, and Israel is intent on genocide. Getting to be no doubt for those two emperors to benefit from, where the clothes are concerned. www.ctvnews.ca/world/trumps...

Would you pay $13,000 to roll this boulder up a hill? Sisyphus thinks this path out of punishment could be revolutionary.

“Instead of dozens of struggling nonprofits all receiving arbitrary grants and subsidies, we could adequately fund a public workforce to provide the needed services directly.” SING IT FROM THE ROOFTOPS & key point abt how lack of progress on core aspects of quality of life has bred toxic cynicism

Here goes pea-sized hail in Stratford

Hey, that hockey verdict, eh? Well. If you are down today, I am thinking of you, you're doing great, be gentle with yourself today. And anyone who isn't gentle with you today can get into the sea. You can help them there. I'll be your alibi.

Okay, millennials. Remember how we used to hiss about the boomers choosing policies that led to the 2008 collapse? Things are worse for young people now. We've been voting for ages. This is on us now, too, and it's coming for our kids unless we choose different. www.thestar.com/news/gta/hes...

As Canada braces for another intense wildfire season, Greg Verkaik is digging into how drying peatlands are fuelling deep-burning fires. His fieldwork is providing critical insight in a warming world. More: brighterworld.mcmaster.ca/articles/fie... #Wildfires #Peatlands #McMasterExperts

"I want to be clear – what is being done to Palestinians in Gaza is barbaric and entirely preventable. I cannot believe we have come to a point where the world is watching as the people of Gaza are forced to endure starvation and gunfire, all while food and medical aid sits across the border"

The political value of LLMs is in how they are used to gaslight us. A CEO pays you less because they insist they can just as well replace you with AI. A politician roles out AI urgent care to “make healthcare accessible”. Meanwhile the wealthy will always have access to the real thing.

Between this and C-5, it does feel quite a bit like the global management class has organized into an international lobbying group who'll happily kill us all to have one more yacht. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Nothing to see here. Just me, trying (and failing) to be an adult about this mushroom turgidly rising from my garden.

The Emperor of Gladness is flawless! And depressing! And flawlessly depressing! Also pretty funny even in the sad parts. But, WOW-SAD.

I love the way robins sound like they get all tipsy and laugh themselves to sleep each night.

I was today years old when I figured out you can totally just use sturdy, forked sticks to hold up your tomatoes instead of buying cages.