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.

[enjoying a brief period of fallow]

Celebrating the work of our trans and queer contributors today and every day! Check out a few pieces from our archive we hope stay with you beyond the blog. buff.ly/554vznz

Ok folks, let’s take a few lessons from Asia: when on a train platform, please stand to the sides of the doors to allow passengers to disembark first. Thanks, from your slightly grouchy older sibling.

Me with my pa and my spiritual icon

Stardew Valley concert was so damn good. I don’t even play and the music was wonderful.

“Her latest work, The Unravelling of Ou, fuses them all—a novel that grips the reader like a hand around the throat of a secret.” —Wayne Ng, Ottawa Review of Books www.ottawareviewofbooks.com/single-post/... The Unravelling of Ou (Palimpsest Press, 2/15/26) is available for preorder.

Aaaaand a good % of my social skills have gone entirely kaput since 2020 🤦🏻

i wish i had enough money to buy up vacant lots and turn them into mini forests/parks. it would make this late capitalist hellscape a little more bearable.

You know what I love? The ephemerality of poetry chapbooks. On that note: paperbillpress.wordpress.com

Been eating way too many butter croissants.

We are thrilled to announce the finalists for the 2025 Lampman Award, recognizing outstanding poetry from brilliant Ottawa-based poets: Emily Austin's “Gay Girl Prayers,” Manahil Bandukwala's “Heliotropia,” and AJ Dolman's “Crazy/Mad.” Stay tuned for details about the winner announcement this fall!

I eat better when hubs is around.

Public service announcement: ONTARIO SFF WRITERS PLEASE REMEMBER TO APPLY FOR THE OAC RECOMMENDER GRANT AUGUR IS A RECOMMENDER WE WANT TO RECOMMEND SFF WRITERS GET GRANTS /end

so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining

The in laws built a shed with hubby today. I finalized and issued a decision, took care of the pup, wrote/sent a ton of emails, and made food. ✌️

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What if, for one week, you experienced your daily life without relying on a car? How might it change your perspective on the way our community moves? Join the challenge Sept 29-Oct 5. Experience life without driving. Share your stories.👇 #WeekWithoutDriving #OttCity bikeottawa.ca/2025/09/04/j...

CanLit Cards, coming to a vending machine near you* *Ottawa's east end

It’s me.

my second deal of 2025 is HERE!! and if you need to catch up on what @ehjchang.bsky.social has written... maybe check out their first collection, Blood Belies, or the new chapbook they just dropped with above/ground press titled The Moleskin Coat!! abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2025/07/new-...

☀️ my newest chap, “the moleskin coat”, is now out with above/ground press ~ it looks at 20 months of learning the riichi mahjong variant, braiding intimate memories with specific yaku in the hopes of memorizing the latter. $6 (+shipping) ~ visit robmclennan.blogspot.com to place your order 🀄️

hey everyone! ive had a couple of dozen folk telling me they're going to this event on thursday, but only 5 tickets have sold, which is prompting the venue to talk about cancelling; if you are planning to go, could you please pre-purchase your ticket? thanks! robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-...

OTTAWA FRIENDS: come out to Red Bird Live next Thurs, Aug 7 @ 7pm and celebrate the launch of my newest chapbook with me! This little number investigates memory through the lens of powerful mahjong hands ✌️🀄️ Event: www.showpass.com/the-above-gr... Chap: abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2025/07/new-...

yeeeeee baybee 🀄️ ✌️

Canadian Poets Series #8 : Ellen Chang-Richardson / @ehjchang.bsky.social @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social ; peripetyandortronies.blogspot.com/2025/07/cana...

Germany gave people €1,200/month no strings attached. They kept working, slept better, switched to better jobs, and even gave more to others. Turns out, when people aren’t drowning, they swim further. #UBI doesn’t kill ambition, it frees it.

Anyone else fluctuate wildly between “I need to conserve money” and “heck it, I could die tmrw” …? 🙋🏻

the above/ground press 32nd anniversary reading/launch/party! August 7 at RedBird, robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-...

just stumbled across this lovely little review of my debut @ricepapermag.bsky.social -- thank you, Alex, for your attention and your words ricepapermagazine.ca/2025/02/abse...

ONTARIANS - sign now. add your voice to the call to repeal Bill 5: ontariondp.ca/repeal-bill-...

Climate change and urban sprawl are blurring the lines between bear country and our front yards. Does Ontario have a problem with black bears — or people? thenarwhal.ca/ontario-blac...

cannot sleep

Environmental and cultural impacts of a road to the Ring of Fire, as well as recommendations to mitigate harm, are outlined in an assessment that's years in the making — as the Ontario government pushes to speed up critical mineral development. VIA @meyer.bsky.social thenarwhal.ca/ontario-ring...

12 or 20 (second series) questions with Ellen Chang-Richardson / @ehjchang.bsky.social @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/05/12-o...

AI-generated/supported misinformation is giving me a fucking migraine.

new gender neutral greeting just dropped