It is a nice time for the garden right now. This is lettuce ("tennis ball" variety, it's called), and carrot tops for the ones I'm using for seed this year. They are a nice purple one I am blanking on the name right now. #gardensky

Hey #caturday, How do you think I did here? This windowsill is for cats! xoxoxoxoxo Short Stack

Improv on Sesame Street. 😁 youtube.com/shorts/IRBsk...

Cherry blossoms are out

Another way to put it is... if you don't use AI platforms because you have a moral objection to them, but you publish your words on Substack, you haven't really thought about this stuff.

Most autistic people, despite everything, actually like being autistic. Not all, of course. But most of us. And I don’t just mean ‘making peace with it’. I mean: it's bound up with who we are. A thread 🧵 1/11 (refs at the end) #Autism #ActuallyAutistic #Neurodivergent

Holy crap, they're out! Over 50 pages all properly laid out on getting and receiving notes in improv. You can get a discount if you grab them together, and an additional discount will be in the ImprovUpdate.com newsletter the next two weeks.

Excellent important study/work.

Working on some new projects and certifications around neurodivergence. And here's a frame from some b-roll taken above my house. Not too shabby! They say you need a hook, gonna rely on Vancouver Island being pretty instead 😂

If "you look," "you seem," or "you feel" are the only ways you can start a line, you'll stop asking questions and start adding information. New partner and solo exercises on this week's Your Improv Brain. NEW EP at improvupdate.com/improvbrain

"Don't ask questions in improv" is one of those rules you hear early on. You can break it, but you have to learn how first. New episode on when questions work, when they don't, and a much easier approach for the top of your scene. NEW EPISODE at improvupdate.com/improvbrain

New Your Improv Brain episode. This one is about why questions at the top of your scene can stall things and what to do instead. I also talk about why making assumptions about other people's characters felt genuinely weird to me when I started improv. Find episode at improvupdate.com/improvbrain

A good explanation of what's very tough for many of us. So sorry this is FB www.facebook.com/reel/1366997... Example: I couldn't believe it when I first learned that people *didn't* connect through shared stories to empathize. (Jen from the future: this is long, sigh)

Every big company is going to do this in the coming months, because there are age verification laws being considered in several Western countries Research age verification laws in your region (it's S-209 in Canada) and call your reps to tell them you're deeply against this shit

New series on Your Improv Brain starting now. I'm covering the top of the scene, initiations, and base reality over the next few episodes. This first one is about ditching exposition and starting your scenes with momentum. Partner and solo exercises included. Find at improvupdate.com/improvbrain

If you're standing at the top of your improv scene trying to explain who everyone is and why you're all there, you've already lost the audience. New episode on how to skip all that and start in the middle. NEW EPISODE! improvupdate.com/improvbrain

Taken tonight looking towards mt arrowsmith at sunset on #VancouverIsland. Super panoramic at 14,000px wide :) I don't know how this will look in a feed 😂

I was today years old when I saw The Littlest Hobo win a bronze at the Olympics. #GoCanada #LondonFTW

If they didn't include the pup's name in the official standings, then there was a horrible mistake. Hims sprinted cross country. Hims not get recognized?

So I read Sam Altman acquired the OpenClaw guy? Funtimes :/

Study finds a disconnect between brain activity and feelings in lonely people

This GOOD BOY ran onto the course during the Women’s Cross-Country Skiing Team Sprint event, crossing the finish line and being automatically recorded by OMEGA’s photofinish camera 😆

Your Improv Brain is back. New episode out now on the top of the scene and why backstory is killing your scene starts. Two exercises in this one, including a solo version you can practise on your own. Podcast or YouTube video. improvupdate.com/improvbrain

Pretty darn wild story (link to part one near the top). feels like this is when the already broken internet truly starts busting to pieces... theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-...

I've thought about this guy and the model buses all week after reading this. Really cool story and RIP man from Leeds. www.bbc.com/news/article...

The BCCDC is surveying the public on our experience of the wastewater dashboard. Even though they've left hardly any room for suggestions, it is still an opportunity to voice our discontent w/ the state of wastewater surveillance in "BC", so please use it. ubc.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Hello everyone! I'm going into year seven of isolation. It started on Feb 21, 2020. I haven't socially (in person) seen a "friend" since that day. In fact the last "friend" I spoke to in person turned out to be an anti-vax, anti-mask convoy supporter. Surprise! Fun.

Happy to have gotten an invite - looking good, Gander! If any of yall did too, unlikely but maybe, find me at username jen!

The most famous of us all, by far, and it makes 1000% sense why :)

Autistic people often process information differently, and grief is no exception. Here are tips for navigatin...

Black autistic women live at the intersection of racism and ableism. We don’t lack courage to unmask we lack safety. And that truth needs to be said out loud.

feds have arrested jamael lundy alongside journalists georgia fort and don lemon for the protest at a st. paul church led by an ICE agent lundy is currently running for state senate district 65 in minnesota. his wife is anika bowie, a st. paul city councilmember www.jlundyforsd65.com

Are you subscribing to a CANADIAN that has a paid newsletter on Substack? Are they opposed to fascism? Did you know you are helping fund a FASCIST American company? Understand your options here: jen.codeberg.page/leave-substa... And let them know you're unsubscribing until they migrate. #elbowsup

I left 2 tickets to the movie on my windshield for someone to take, and when I came back there were 4… 😬

Man who wouldn’t wear mask to protect people fine wearing mask to shoot them

There’s no such thing as mild Covid, even if the acute stage of infection felt mild or asymptomatic Every Covid infection leaves damage. A heart attack or stroke in waiting 🫀🧠 Vaccine doesn’t prevent infection, it might prevent Long Covid and keep you out of hospital. N95 is your best protection 😷

“Epidemiological studies have begun to show a concerning trend: individuals with a history of COVID-19 infection are at an elevated risk for developing diabetes, often within months of recovery...” This has actually been known for years, but I’m glad to see more attention on it.

Victor Manuel Diaz, 36, was abducted in Minneapolis. He died in ICE’s El Paso detention camp 8 days later on Jan 14. ICE calls it suicide. They didn’t send his body to the El Paso County ME who just classified another “suicide” at that camp a homicide. They sent him to an army medical center.

As seen on r/nursing Alex Pretti's coworkers taking a moment of silence to honor him

I think about Elijah McClain a lot. How he was a sweet, lovely young soul who used to play the violin for stray cats. How brutally his young life ended and how the State sent riot police to interrupt the violin vigil in his name. The cruelty was always the point.

Hasta ahora, 9 personas asesinadas por ICE:

COVID is vascular not a cold!

Gently. Quietly. Secretly. That no one talks about. That nobody has told you. Survey says?

If we're calling for not giving $$$ to Hootsuite because of ICE (totally agree), but you have a paid substack in yer profile... please be aware they are on the list too. Why? Here you go. Let's do the hard work. Migration is possible and doable, and we'll support the move.

Do you want a clean resource to send to your favourite writer about why today is a GREAT day to stop funding fascists? Here's one that includes why and how: jen.codeberg.page/leave-substa...

Drop the names of any Canadian companies you’ve seen working with ICE in the comments. I’m aware of Gardaworld, Roshel, Hootsuite. Would love to gather any and all other names.

The reason why you don’t know how to process what is happening is because you found it permissible when you were under the illusion it could only happen to other people.

No World Cup. No Olympics.