Love is blind guy who's only ever read the alchemist: this journey is giving alchemist vibes

2 for 2 on unhinged opinion pieces in the Globe this weekend. Now here's me going pro-motherhood (see the last G&M piece I shared): "humans have never know how to love unconditionally" is an insane thing to say if you've ever had a child??? www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/1e3eb47...

Extremely weird column that holds up Israel as a pro-baby paradise, ignoring the fact that they are currently committing genocide, including mothers and babies... (gift link) www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/1e3eb47...

Valentine's Day past, 17 years to be exact

Found an additional graphic that gets even more of these quotes together. I've kept "I hate myself, I hate clover, and I hate bees" pinned above my desk since I first started studying evolutionary biology as an undergraduate. So relatable to get extremely frustrated with your study system.

3) an irrational fear of people who rent has long been an under-examined force in housing discussions in Edmonton. Coming from Ontario, I was shocked to perceive how rental was framed and portrayed here. On my block there are more than five kids living in housing their parents rent. It's NORMAL;

Quiet part out loud, in my neighbourhood

🧵 Good morning Edmonton. We're live from the council chambers where the Urban Planning Committee will debate reducing housing options. There are 60 speakers registered so there's a high chance this becomes two days. We'll be live posting so follow along to see how it goes!

New Brunswick, an east coast Canadian province of about 900,000 people, will no longer use billionaire Elon Musk’s social media platform X for routine government communications, its leader announced

Still reading so no verdict yet but let's just say, the publisher of this book mostly does trashy nonfiction, and their first foray into fiction last year is this book, and a hockey romance by Sean Avery, who also has abuse allegations

when someone at work tells me to just "put it in Notebook LLM"

If you saw a woman being cornered on the bus, would you step in? If you witnessed transphobia at your local coffee shop, would you know how to help? Let me teach you bystander intervention - for free! Sign up now and get automatic email reminders. Register: zoom.us/webinar/regi...

It was all fun and games till I saw the movie tie-in edition of Wuthering Heights

Great reading year continues: Northanger Abbey was much better than I remembered (last read in 2013) and I just finished dreamy, trippy Mother River by Can Xue

Alberta quislings yesterday were "technically asking the US for a loan to drag Alberta out of Canada isn't treason", so I guess Smith's dinner with the US ambassador last night was "technically" nothing to worry about, eh? Alberta's "great minds" are going to denial us into US captivity. #ableg

Hell yeah, as a people, we are extremely ready for another round of Infinite Jest Discourse.

Pornography: We'll know it when we see it, but somehow end up banning different books in different school boards

TFW your Prime Minister is a conservative banker who's significantly cutting the public service

Listening to some podcast hosts in the UK talk about how much they want to visit the US and I had to check the date (last week)

Tech execs don't know that normal people don't own so many jackets that they can't remember where they bought one of them That was a lot of negatives. Basically, this is rich people problems!

On Jan. 28, 1988, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that the abortion provision of the Criminal Code was unconstitutional and violated the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The R v Morgentaler case was a landmark ruling in Canada. This is the story. 🧵 1/12

Something important to understand about ICE thugs in the Twin Cities is that they're harassing innocent kids and parents at bus stops and schools every single day. Even after the Pretti shooting. It's terrorism.

Why does this always seem to happen rightward? Why wouldn’t they listen to Rev Left Radio or Guerrilla History or Millennials Are Killing Capitalism or Upstream to get out of their comfort zone? Because I promise you they are going to have their liberal views challenged by those shows.

"Amazon is owned by Jeff Bezos, a billionaire backer of the president," writes Neil Young. “The president's international policies and his support of ICE, make it impossible for me to ignore his actions.” He also announced that anyone in Greenland can access his entire catalog for free at his site.

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

I will avoid RTing the NYT article by a raging transphobe and just say: my kids are on the young end of Gen Z. They liked Harry Potter well enough when they were kids. Now they are into Death Grips and Nirvana. It's normal to grow out of stuff like this, millennials were the aberration.

You can't make up what goes on in Alberta politics. One of the wildest stories I have ever reported. thetyee.ca/News/2026/01...

It appears that this legend owns a little bookstore — and you can order books from him instead of Bezos. Link in next post.

I’m so proud of Minnesota. I understand why some people belittle protests as not enough, but I really think this shit matters. I saw a clip on Fox News and they had to admit thousands of people showed up. It’s not going to stop Trump, but it’s a signal to your neighbors that they’re not alone.

Canadians: that's -23 and I think there's a wind chill too. It's currently colder in MSP than it is in Edmonton. My sister is somewhere in this crowd and I'm proud of her!

Scariest part of this thread is that Stony Plain is not that rural, it's basically a suburb of Edmonton. They walk among us

National media covering MAGA event: "Look at this normal person who is mad" (10 seconds of googling shows they're chair of the local GOP) National media covering Twin Cities community members who have never been politically active but now stand watch outside a preschool: "Look at this activist"

Henry Tilney, the original performative male (Northanger Abbey, 1818)

a tale of 3 posts twitter: 0 likes, 0 shares threads: 0 likes, 0 shares bluesky: 149 likes, 45 shares to be clear i do not have accounts on twitter or threads bc they and their ceos are destroying civilization and i don't give a fuck whether bluesky is sustainable bc it's just a fucken app

With most psychedelic drugs, you never know what you're going to get. But this mysterious mushroom from China - without fail - causes users to hallucinate tiny people: crawling up walls, popping out from under furniture and marching under doors. www.bbc.com/future/artic...

New House of Commons petition to support gender affirming care in Canada. Sponsored by MP Leah Gazan www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

Jessica Baker was raped by Jacob Hoggard. She got a conviction, he's currently in prison and she says if she had to do it again, she wouldn't. And if a friend was raped, she'd tell her not to report. And this is a woman who by most definitions, "got justice." The system does not serve us.

Say what you will about having 50 versions of something in Word with names like v37_FINAL_olddonotuse_FINALSENT.doc, but at least you could trace back your changes... Fighting with a google doc that has so many resolved and deleted comments it freezes if I try to search through them...

www.buriedinprint.com/women-writin... via @buriedinprint.bsky.social

globalnews.ca/news/1162087... Anyone know what Carney is referring to here? "...applying the same standards to allies and rivals. When middle powers criticize economic intimidation from one direction but stay silent when it comes from another, we are keeping the sign in the window."

Parenting achievement unlocked: Got to explain to my teen how "chud" derives from the 1984 film C.H.U.D. [Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dwellers]

I saw this post. My eyes starting glazing over at the faux-folksy "Hey, so." When I saw "Charlie Kirk" I rapidly scrolled away because I am not interested whatsoever. I do not want to "sustain" whatever this is

More bookish witterings. Sorry, I just can't help myself.

I was having a rough day and seeing Matthew Tkachuk's smug grin while Trump bumbles through some kind of congratulatory speech for the Florida Panthers is NOT helping

It's wild that there's a crusade against health tools like masks, clean air, vaccines etc. when a serious case of influenza may lead to a 90-hour ER wait www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

was looking after a friend's toddler for a bit earlier and could feel a tantrum coming but wasn't sure what to do so in a panic I put on Feist's 1234 and you know what? it worked, tantrum averted, twee noughties indie will calm anyone down, this is my free advice to you

Um goodreads reviews are for readers, not authors, Ethan!!!