idea to rebrand the entire TTC system as a giant immersive Kafka-themed escape room

If you have some extra funds to spare please consider supporting some really great folks in Cuba with relief and recovery efforts. Cuba’s especially struggling now because the US blockade makes it so hard to get relief supplies in. scmcanada.org/donate/

I encountered the oft-repeated thing today in a piece by Kate Marvel about how the same water we drink also quenched the thirst of dinosaurs and nourished the earliest forms of life. It got me thinking about the conservation of mass and energy, concepts central to metabolism, which also imply how...

The Alchemy Lecture 2025 Sound—at the Interregnum Glen Coulthard Canisia Lubrin Madeleine Thien Immanuel Wilkins Date: October 30, 2025 Time: 5 - 8 p.m. (Reception: 5 - 6 p.m.) Venue: Tribute Communities Recital Hall, CIBC Lobby (Location) YorkU Event type: Hybrid – in person and online

Looking forward to this. Will be speaking on the Social Movements and Decolonization Roundtable at 10:20am about organizing with the Student Christian Movement. It will be moderated by Ariel Siagan (who is doing really interesting research on Christians for National Liberation in the Philippines).

An excellent blog post on the Association of Canadian Archivists blog by Isa Carlin on Filipino activist archives in Canada. Organizing with ICHRP and other related Filipino activist groups was extremely formative for me. They are among the most organized folks I've met: archivists.ca/Blog/13488329

DuckDuckGo was mentioned in a 4S panel on practices of refusal this morning and I remember using it a lot once, but reverting back to google because I could always review my own search history to revisit lines of thoughts I was having or find things I couldn't remember the words for but knew when...

There's been a lot of celebration of Oscar Peterson at 100. Almost every week I sit just steps away from where Peterson was laid to rest. I was surprised to learn recently that one of his favourite jazz pianists was Teddy Wilson. These are some mentions of Wilson in Peterson's autobiography...

Why did nobody tell me Thomas Sankara was in a jazz band called Tout-à-Coup: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tout-%C...

pretty wild there are people out there making synthetic cells that can metabolize and reproduce: www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....

Recently quit spotify over the Helsing thing, but found out about the Naxos Music Library app that's free with a Toronto Public Library account. You can download music for offline listening. Lots of other great resources available for free via TPL: www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/books-video-...

I attended this really great talk today online. Prof. Leddy describes the affects of the sulphuric acid plant run by Noranda Mines on Serpent River FN and Indigenous resistance against it. I was just at the Noranda Earth Science Library ytd at UofT for dissertation research wondering abt its name.

Excited to be teaching this summer! The course is online, meeting Mondays and Wednesdays for 6 weeks starting July 14. It's a new course, looking at degrowth and liberation theology, the topic of the book I'm writing with @mattbernico.bsky.social. Info and register: www.icscanada.edu/summer-courses

(1) last month of being stuck at my desk marking papers vs (2) the past year as a whole

I feel like whittling down writing to meet word counts is one of the most difficult and time-consuming things for me. Yet I also feel it often improves the quality of my excessively tangential style of writing, and also helps me rethink what is most essential about my argument.

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Dionne Brand said in an interview at the Toronto Library that "the Napoleonic Wars... are really colonial wars about who owns Sri Lanka, who owns Barbados, who owns Tobago, et cetera." brickmag.com/unseen-scrip... Could anyone suggest a good anticolonial or radical history of the Napoleonic Wars?

Joy for days! I was so happy and honored to give a lecture and workshop research in the @tru-uoft.bsky.social. Meeting and engaging with Dr. Murphy was as joyous as it was intellectually generative. Toronto owes me not a single thing. Thank you dearly for the invitation.

I’m thrilled and honored to be in Toronto to give this lecture. I hope to see you there.

I also would love to read a monograph by a radical historian or STS scholar on this (if anyone knows someone who studies American military science laboratories lmk): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_...

Leading up to Burns Day, want to share all his poetry on watermills I can find. But first to motivate it, a paper on the influence of Burns on radical Chinese writers and revolutionaries: doi.org/10.3366/burn...

In the recording of Glenn Gould's 1957 visit to the Soviet Union, after performing Ernst Krenek (accused of working communist ideas in his first opera), Gould says the principles of atonality are at least 500 years old dating to the Flemish School, notably Josquin des Prez youtu.be/75Ra_TvDbXU?...

Check out this 'celebrity chemist' trading card of Liebig and his students, put out by Oxo: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Li...

Has anyone studied the social metabolism of Whoville?