Postcard-writing.

Don't bring a knife to a gunfight. Bring it to a film, to live music, to the theater. Take it for hikes in the woods. Teach it to swim. Make time to laugh together. It's up to you to break the cycle.

There are around 50 unique potato varieties grown for chips in the U.S. right now. Efforts to improve those varieties are constant. The National Chip Program evaluates around 225 new potato varieties each year and selects 100 for further trials: apnews.com/article/pota...

Magnolia in the front yard is blooming. Makes me happy.

benches, buses, and bathrooms. they should be everywhere

I’ve been a @showuptoronto.ca subscriber for aaaages, and I’d recommend it to just about anyone. Even if you’re not in Toronto! I think Jenny’s writing is invaluable for activists and organizers, regardless of where you find yourselves showing up.

Spent an hour this morning catching up with a friend I hadn’t seen in years, and it was invigorating and refreshing and just a wonderful way to start the day.

Becoming automatons: https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/automation-conformity

No amount of AI literacy can protect us because the problem isn’t knowledge, or how to use the system, it’s that the system exists in a culture that has been radically structured around white supremacy and patriarchy and your precious autocomplete incorporates it into its operations.

It has been ten years since Prince passed away. I wrote a little something on his passing ten years ago (www.inthemargins.ca/prince-thoug...), and on the first anniversary of his death, I wrote about Prince, and my cat Cleo: www.inthemargins.ca/cleo-prince

This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying

👏 Canada 👏 Post 👏 is 👏 a 👏 public 👏 service 👏 Nothing proves how capitalism has brain rotted everyone than thinking the post office, hospitals, public transit, libraries, etc. need to turn a profit to be worthwhile.

Yeah, the same people who think Canada is gonna win a ground game if we go to war with the US is acting like it's Canada Post that's tanking our economy. It's so profoundly irrational, it's hard to even engage in good faith debating.

Tomorrow marks 10 years since Prince passed. For the first time, I gathered nearly two decadesq of my writing, podcasts, talks & more into one curated resource, including playlists, rarities, a review of every video he ever made, and collaborations I did with his estate. anildash.com/2026/04/20/p...

If you see this, quote with a picture of you in glasses.

A friend told me over a decade ago that "any technology created before someone is 35 is fun & exciting and any technology created after that age is frightening and evil" and that has absolutely been proven true for me, but also most of the technologies created in the last 10 years really suck!

🥭 It’s Indian mango season! 🥭 Managed to get myself some cases of alphonso, kesar, and badami mangoes. Very excited. (Next challenge: consuming multiple cases of mangoes that will all be ripe in a few days.)

Here's Seth Klein arguing that instead of cutting gas taxes, Canada should institute a windfall tax on oil and gas companies. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Apart from easing congestion, scaled back the return to the office mandates at Fed and Prov levels could really "help people at the pump". alas..

What do you wish "social media"/the social parts of the internet could be, in your life? Like, what is the *good* thing you wish we had?

It’s fairly telling of the order of things that Canada almost immediately defaulted to the government taking a financial hit to provide gas price relief, without paying for it through a windfall tax even being floated as a serious possibility.

Gather, my friends, and you shall learn the esoteric history of fridge magnets, and how they function as tacky little references for human memory:

Gas tax breaks are bandaids at best. Real solution is to help low & middle-income Cdns get off fossil fuels. Invest in solar, heat pumps, batteries, EVs. Tackle barriers, offer real incentives & fund w/ windfall tax on Big Oil (who are laughing all the way to the bank). Cleaner, cheaper, healthier.

Living in the perceptual world of the wealthy and the material world of a regular person is stressful. It is *meant* to make you feel like you’re falling behind even if you’re not. That’s how demand is induced. This is just one element but I think economists miss it (among other things).

if you wanna keep your job, don't be a fucking creep. it's really that simple.

This is a sentiment you hear a lot from now-elderly people who grew up without a lot of material comforts. Their perceptual and material worlds were pretty well aligned! Now we basically all live in the perceptual world of the wealthy. It’s hard to imagine anyone not knowing what they don’t have.

Eliminating libraries in prisons is a disaster, completely shortsighted. Libraries are a lifeline for incarcerated people who want to learn and grow, and have few other options.

Mixing some cocktails and wondering: is it Negronis Sbagliato, or Negroni Sbagliatos?

Splashdown! Vehicle is stable and upright. “A perfect bulls-eye splash for Integrity and its four astronauts!” #Artemis

That was amazing and inspiring. #Artemis

“Our purpose as humans is to find joy in lifting each other up by creating solutions together instead of destroying, and when you see it from out here it doesn’t change it, it just absolutely reaffirms that.” Jeremy Hansen: www.theguardian.com/science/live... #Artemis

The City of London should publicly explain why a symbol widely understood as divisive and exclusionary is being worn by staff tasked with supporting vulnerable community members. #HatePropaganda #LdnOnt

few slogans make me more viscerally angry than scotiabank's "you're richer than you think" no I'm not, you fuckers, I'll fight you

Sad to hear about this. I spent so many evenings when I was younger enjoying shows at the planetarium and it ignited my love for space and science. I know it had been closed for two decades, but wish it could have been restored instead of demolished. toronto.citynews.ca/2026/04/08/m...

i need to return more purposefully to volunteering. i did a lot more pre-pandemic and it is time to rebuild that muscle

You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.

But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?

Your regular reminder that dehumanizing the people who are dehumanizing others isn’t how we’re gonna get to liberation. We have to live into the world we want to create.

I don't know how anyone else feels about this, but to me, sharing a screenshot of chatbot output to make a point of some kind is an excellent way to undermine any credibility that might otherwise be granted to you in the context of whatever you're trying to say.

A rumination on cookbooks and a large collection of good links from around the web to check out: www.inthemargins.ca/collection-o...

I made a little Instagram reel about this image because it’s just so frickin’ cool

In #LdnOnt the poor old LTC is a favourite punching bag. Turns out, as this article shows, they run a pretty tight ship but are underfunded by parsimonious Councils (who also like kicking LTC around). Read more: strongtownslondon.com/articles/far...

www.microsoft.com/en-us/micros... is it good to build an entire economy and software infrastructure on this

So every three months I post a little list of some interesting things I’ve learned (with sources) over that period of time. Here’s the most recent one, posted today: www.inthemargins.ca/til-2026-q1

Played with the ReplaceByClawd tool, and it told me I can’t totally be replaced because “He can explain digital government and rewrite your culture deck, but the trust he’s built with public servants and misfits still refuses to serialize cleanly.” I feel seen — this captures my life’s work so well.

Had this same experience with an acquaintance this weekend. She’s on Instagram and Facebook a lot, but still hasn’t come across any news about Rowling and her transphobia. (Different media environment, I guess.) She was horrified when I told her.

The police are overfunded almost everywhere and some level of defunding would be sane fiscal management, not radical leftism

Transport Canada is doing a survey on the pervasiveness of overly-bright headlights when you’re driving at night. (These new bright headlights are so unsafe!) If you have thoughts, please fill out this short survey: tc.canada.ca/en/corporate...

Public spaces are in desperate need of not only physical, but civic and relational repair.