If you're a gardener and this resonates with you, you belong in our free regenerative gardening community at LearnDirt.com 🌱

The Factory Reading Series pre-small press book fair reading, June 19: Bebenek, carisse, Currie, MARTIN + Saklikar, / @russellcarisse.bsky.social @nightwoodeditions.bsky.social @reneesarojini.bsky.social @bookhugpress.bsky.social ; abovegroundpress.substack.com/p/the-factor...

Happy Wednesday.

Pooping without a bidet is criminal.

Not to poet-post, but one of the problems of the internet is that it's fuelled a culture in which people "love poetry" but never actually pay for it - consuming fragments posted online instead of immersing themselves in full collections - then being surprised when poets ask to be paid for their work

In my boba era

I see transness as very natural & human. For all of history there have been people whose gender expression was other than the standard assigned to their bodies when they were born. So many cultures accepted them & gave them an important place before white supremacy.

I'll be in North Bay this Saturday to read and talk at a fundraiser for the Canadian Ecology Centre, which was hit hard by a windstorm last year. If you're in the area, please come out and support the CEC and stories about the land! www.baytoday.ca/more-local/c...

Heck.

Who up? Who else feeling a profound emptiness in the wake of fearing the imminent detonation of a nuclear weapon in their lifetime?

I’m getting a little sick of the most disgusting & craven humans among us being on top of the world as figures we have to focus on for our survival.

It was a poetry filled week 💕 and my RMT had her work cut out for her today 😂 anyone else hold stress and exhaustion in their hips?

It’s a poetry filled night 💕 first: celebrating the launch of @jgodley-doctorpoet.bsky.social’s “How the Black Panthers Fell From the Sky” ~ now: listening to #OliviaDean on the 20 ~ next: @versefestottawa.bsky.social x @arcpoetry.bsky.social

folio : Forty-five Ottawa poets : ed. rob mclennan, , via periodicities: a journal of poetry and poetics, / @mreid.bsky.social @margolapierre.bsky.social @ajdolman.bsky.social @ehjchang.bsky.social @francesboyle19.bsky.social @versefest-ottawa.bsky.social ; robmclennan.substack.com/p/folio-fort...

Ryuichi Sakamoto’s async the only thing keeping me calm.

Hnnnnnggghhhhhhh . . period: day one

Whether performing classical repertoire or newly commissioned works, EMIC captivates audiences with their expressive range and technical brilliance. 🎻

In this NBN episode, I have a wonderful conversation with author KJ Aiello about their book, The Monster and the Mirror: Mental Illness, Magic, and the Stories We Tell (ECW Press, 2024). newbooksnetwork.com/the-monster-... @kjaiello.bsky.social @ecwpress.bsky.social @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social

The fact that bodies with uteri still get up, go out into the world, and deal with the shit we have to deal with, all while experiencing debilitating pain, tells me we should run the world. #fuckmisogyny

Ramadan Kareem and happy new year (not to be confused with Gregorian new year)! 🏇May the year of the fire horse bring energy in the form of rebellion and revolution. 🔥 🧧 Send us 红包 so we can keep our eSIMs topped up and begin sending new ones again. 🤳🏼 bit.ly/eSimsRUs #ConnectingGaza

Fire Elmo GIF has been living in my head rent free since the Year of the Fire Horse began.

Coming this Saturday: SEEDS FESTIVAL! MA|DE is very happy to be reading at this literary extravaganza put on by Draft Reading Series! We'll be reading on Saturday February 21 from 11am-12:30pm EST on Zoom with writers @fmolavi.bsky.social @ehjchang.bsky.social @storiedselves.bsky.social & more!

All these little men in power. Are their parents proud of them? 😒

WATCH: Seriously, if you’re following ANY bike-lane debate, you HAVE TO WATCH this news story. You actually can’t make this up. Ford claims without evidence that bike-lanes are bad for small business, and THE ACTUAL BUSINESS ASSOCIATION obliterates him with data. Safe bike-lanes mean business.

I don’t want AI. I want old growth forests, coral reefs, biodiversity, tundra, taiga, rainforests, prairies, marshes, peatlands. I want clean water, air, and a future habitable for those that come after me.

You want to order everyone back to the office? Fucking fund and support a transit system that can sustain this.

Happy original air date of Beverly's ghost sex candle episode "Sub Rosa", for those that celebrate 🕯️

Registration for the Capital Riichi Open is now open! You can find a link to the registration page through our website: capitalriichiclub.carrd.co#tournament Interested in visiting Canada's capital region and riichi mahjong? Join our event, we'd love to have you! 🀄

German scientists issue a stark climate warning: “Most people alive today will suffer the fury of a hothouse planet. We’ve created an emergency that threatens all of humankind.” davidsuzuki.org/story/german...

Congrats from the 𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝑐𝑜𝑛 team to CNF editor, art history maestro, and 13-time Best Dressed at an Editorial Meeting recipient Ellen Chang-Richardson on the recent publication of their poetry chapbook 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑀𝑜𝑙𝑒𝑠𝑘𝑖𝑛 𝐶𝑜𝑎𝑡 (above/ground press)! Link to order 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑀𝑜𝑙𝑒𝑠𝑘𝑖𝑛 𝐶𝑜𝑎𝑡 at linktr.ee/longconmag

Ate too much salami.

Thank you, subconscious, for consistently giving me the most beautiful, hyperreal, multicoloured dreams.

Ottawa literary, storytelling, spoken word & nonfiction groups holding events during Black History Month in February, please let me know so i can add your events to the Bywords.ca calendar. thanks!

It finally happened. Someone asked me where the poetry section was in the library!

Some days, I look at the snow in Ottawa and I’m not quite sure why I live here. This is one of those days.

doctor: watch your sugars and fats me: but my cheese 🧀

asked my six year old niece what was wrong with phones and she said "people keep looking at them and don't listen to you" then asked "so what would you do about it" and she said "feed the phones to crocodiles" so her platform has my full support

Re-reading THE DARK FOREST (Cixin Liu). Talk about uncanny discomfort.

It’s going to be a ride 😆

This is objectively hilarious.

I have forgotten how to twattle.

2025 MUSIC LIST TIME Not feeling much for intros this year, so let’s just dive in, shall we?

ten years ago, I never would have thought I could make and bake a pecan butter tart pie from scratch, pastry and all. yet here I am. yay.

Bill 60 vote on Monday. Send your letter via Horizon Ottawa website today! #ottawa #onpoli#BikeTooter www.horizonottawa.ca/back_off_ford

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Kineticist.com - “An IFPA event became a major controversy last weekend after a venue manager forcibly removed a trans woman from the women’s restroom and the TD allowed the event to proceed without interruption. The IFPA’s response has created more controversy.” Sign this petition: c.org/cLfRwttGvf

Kastanjemanden is so damned good. Already waiting at the edge of my seat for the second season

if the lake is big enough to have waves like the sea maybe you should leave it alone

Please my beloveds. Dose yourselves with jazz & stews. Fight the gloom.