slightly diminish a book: The Time Traveler's Side Piece

It is a hell of a thing for Victoria to proudly tout Francis King Park as this wonderful accessible trail and to have zero transit and bike access to it.

I don't remember the first, but I will always cherish the memory of my father and checking out AVATAR because Sci-Fi+James Cameron, right? And then HOWLING at how utterly shit it was, to the annoyance of those around us. My dad in public is normally taciturn and sharing in that joy was a delight.

Also, trying to date and accumulating a ton of female friends instead of a partner is a good thing. Now you have a ton of friends!

Justin Ling on the lack of a Liberal BC pipeline advocate: "I'm told that Gregor Robertson joined a caucus call this week, basically made clear he was extremely unhappy with the final deal with Danielle Smith ... he was notoriously missing from a big LNG announcement on the West Coast."

You're probably wondering why I gathered you all here today (image contains minor spoilers for Subnautica 2)

All set to go for another year of balcony gardening thanks to the @victoria.ca Get Growing Program. May this be a bountiful harvest of beans, tomatoes and cucumbers! 🌱🍅🥒☀️ #yyj #VictoriaBC #gardening

Patiently waiting for couch uppies

The silence is conspicuous: virtually nobody in Toronto who can do anything about it, or running to be in a position to do so, is talking about the police despite the biggest scandals in the force's history of late. What's up with that? I dig into it in my @thestar.com column this weekend.

Discrimination in Canada, esp. at institutional levels, usually doesn't look like MAGA hats and slurs. It looks polite, civil, and simple enforcement of a "rule" that applies to a symbol for Palestine... and nothing else. Have a read and a listen to this interaction, via @yipengge.bsky.social:

Why are sausage rounds that much more delicious than regular breakfast sausage

Today is Nakba Day, when we commemorate the roughly 750,000 Palestinians who were forcibly displaced by Zionist militias during the 1948 Palestine War. Acknowledging the Nakba and making restitution is the precursor to building a better future for everyone living in the region.

When Macklemore is a serious contender for the Protest Voice of the Millennial Generation, things are pretty dire.

still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

Why is US media just blithely accepting the narrative that Trump's war in any way was about nuclear weapons

Keep getting notifications that everyone's sharing Instants Nobody sharing Sorcery or Enchantments

Hit an important milestone on my solar charging, according to the kids

You could light a drive-in movie theatre with the amount of projection going on here

APPLY MY PRETTIES @simonplittle.ca @marinacoladas.bsky.social @brishti.bsky.social

OMG this is such a great title and concept. Adding to the list.

I re-set all the Thucydides Traps on my Ship of Theseus so I'm unsure of anything any more

If we replace "exploration" with "exploitation" we get a bit closer to the ideology at play here.

Wildwood trailer drop! I loved Kubo and the Two Strings and am all-in for LAIKA's next film. In a world where silly gooses are trying to push anti-creativity, these folks are bursting with imagination, hard work, and an explosion of colour and wonder.

It really sucks that all this drama happened with Subnautica 2. It's probably the game I've been looking forward to the most in years. Will I end up getting it? I think so, on account of the ruling against Krafton. But it'll be important to enter it with the understanding that flaws are expected.

What a great time to build several huge, tremendously overpriced, worthless, water-guzzling monuments to a technology nobody is demanding

Shout out to the @winnipegsun.bsky.social I worked here as a photographer for 5 years and the best thing I ever did was leave. Using AI imagery for stories, what a fucking piece of shit newspaper.

Quick give the traitorous anti-science bigots everything they want for no fucking reason

www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/o... ^this is deeply embarrassing for a lot of reasons, but chief among them is the delusion that NATO would benefit from participating in any Trump military action. This leads to this hilarity, a dystopia where other countries extract fees or withhold resources. Imagine!

Lawd, I remember when people used to email me with crazy good offers for freelance projects. I lived solely off being a freelancer - with freelance graphic design and publicity services - for three years. Still doesn't seem real that I was able to be my own boss that long.

Replace this guy, and this guy only, with AI.

Emilie Nicolas on David Parker and Alberta separatist groups: "I think there's a tactical playbook here that is also being borrowed or imitated. And we need to look at the ways in which democracy south of the border is being eroded to be able to at least anticipate what moves could be done next."

Someone dear to me must replace their power wheelchair & while the Gov. is covering a portion they won’t cover all of it. I am matching all donations. We need to raise $5170. Will you be a total hottie & help raise the rest? DM me for e-transfer deets. Selfie for visibility. 🌷 please share.

Are these not the same guy AI is making me insane

Life Below isn't out yet but it's coming very soon — this is a great opportunity to put it on your Steam wishlist! I know this is a real labour of love and they teamed up with the amazing @rhi.bsky.social for the story — really looking forward to this one! store.steampowered.com/app/2932150/...

I have no idea who @premeemohamed.com @charliejane.bsky.social @elizmanderson.com @toomanyspectra.bsky.social are as humans in meat space but I'm definitely reading* their stuff all like "oh hey I know that person" *once i have money again or my library acquires/makes available their books

A member of a B.C. separatist group and one of the owners of a controversial ostrich farm are teaming up to start another ostrich operation on Vancouver Island. @megvera.bsky.social reports: thetyee.ca/News/2026/05...

Behind a paywall, but fucking arrest him, arrest them all. We are done with them all “Separatist leader accused of misusing Alberta electors list refuses to co-operate with investigators” www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber...

For the millionth time: listen to sex workers and trans people. They are your early warning for when a system is turning on its people.

Good lord.

When I was 5 (1991), I watched Dumbo (1941), Three Caballeros (1944), Cinderella (1950), the Rankin Bass Rudolph (1964), and Warner Bros. shorts like Duck Amuck (1953), Deduce, You Say! (1956) and Rabbit Fire (1951). To say these films formed my imagination and sense of humour is an understatement.

Every time I see a remake, sequel, or franchise film, I hear that line in SOMA where the character hooked into the run amok AI chokes out the words "it won't let me die...nothing is allowed to die."

We lost Douglas Adams 25 years ago today. This has made a lot of people very sad and has been widely regarded as a bad move.

Bonkers that someone this eminently qualified and skilled can't retain a position. We're losing so many.

There's so much horror in this, but forcing this man to write an apology letter to the deputy who arrested him, thereby giving the police a shield against litigation, and then proceeding with deportation anyway, might be the worst of it.

Dreamt last night that I got into a fistfight with Lois Lowry after I told her she "wrote that book, 'The Taker.'"

I should play Disco Elysium again

The Kim one looks like chocolate, and the Trump one looks like the gold wrapper the chocolate came in.