wth Newfoundland?! Demanding the removal of any mention that the Innu have lived there for over 300 years? indiginews.com/news/innu-na...

Just finished Alison Bechdel's Spent.

Visually beautiful, but not good news. showyourstripes.info/l/northameri...

A long life well-lived, but still a great loss.

HEAD GROOM: and this is our quietest horse, the wild rover ME: why's he called that HEAD GROOM: because he no neighs never

Got a notification from a medieval copyright lawyer

If you live in the riding of Vancouver-Quilchena, you have a chance to get rid of your residential school-denying MLA! Elections BC approved the recall petition process, and proponents can collect signatures from May 21-July 20. #bcpoli www.recallbrodie.com

I was just reminded of this song from 1994. If you have ever not wanted to go to Toronto, please enjoy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOJe...

It's a nice day for a Light sweater It's a nice day for a CARDIGAN

I missed this from @phineas.bsky.social when it originally came out but it sure feels relevant at the moment. Also, you can buy this as a print from the artist here: www.inprnt.com/gallery/phin...

I just tried to "up dog" my seven year old nephew. "hey, do you have up dog?" Him: "Yeah!" And runs off to his room. He comes back with a toy: the dog from "Up". "it's the Up Dog" Damn he got me

Good thread from Dr. Snyder about possible events and how to respond to them. The final post is a link to his recent article which lays this out in more detail.

Avi Lewis won on the first ballot. Needed 35,466 votes to win, and had 39,734. #NDPLeadership

Lol at this button. (Could also be: "Vote for Seth's brother-in-law.")

"Wherever we go we celebrate the land that makes us refugees," as The Pogues sang.

Thank you to the NYT for this extraordinary image macro which I am saving for later use as a response image

Just finished this book! Can confirm.

Really helpful to see some policy options here via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

"It is worse than a secessionist agenda, it is an agenda to make Canada a dysfunctional confederacy of selfish, inward-looking, disaggregated provinces." Really appreciate MacFarlane's assessment of Danielle Smith's proposed referendum.

There's an online condolence book for Tumbler Ridge: news.gov.bc.ca/releases/202...

at @thenarwhal.ca, after countless serious (and unserious) conversations among our team about which bird would make the best boyfriend, we have finally produced an extremely scientific quiz to find your ideal nest-mate: projects.thenarwhal.ca/lovebirds-qu...

GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

Dear @levostregc.bsky.social, you once had a tweet back in The Other Place about WorldCat, and I loved it so much I printed it out and put it up in the library where I work, but that was a few years ago and the paper post is long gone. Do you remember what it was?

Got a new (to us) 13th century copy of the Bible at work today, with its own weird medieval guys.

Reminder to all our fellow boaters that it is illegal to dump Fraser Institute statistics into open water within three miles of shore.

Can't believe I missed Large Boulder the Size of a Small Boulder day!

More details on the Pattison group's business dealings with ICE. Time for a boycott! cheknews.ca/b-c-attorney...

Alex Pretti, a 37-year old nurse, was just murdered by ICE in Minneapolis. We must organize and build solidarity across borders to #AbolishICE. First up - BC billionaire Jim Pattison owns a US warehouse that will soon be turned into an ICE processing facility. Tell Eby to shut down the deal. #bcpoli

There is not a lot Canadians can do about ICE, but we can ask Parliament to investigate Canadian companies doing business with them, like Hootsuite. Call or email your MP - or contact the INDU House committee MPs. Will post link below. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

Yesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.

Appears this is also true for fascism.

"Oh my gosh, it was so nice to see you! Have a lovely day, fuck ICE!" "Oh you too hon! Stay safe in that traffic, fuck ICE!' - two older Minnesota ladies, bidding farewell after the protest

No more H-frame power lines in Vancouver's alleyways. I'm glad they did it for safety, but it does feel like a kind of aesthetic loss. www.bchydro.com/news/press_c...

A message for you all to carry through the year

A great horned owl called several times from the fir tree, then sailed over the roof like a wide-winged ghost.

A thread of some books I liked in 2025.

We don’t hear much about the West Pole, where Cowboy Santa lives. Probably because of all the people he’s shot

And Tiny Tim, who did not die, walked the earth among mortals for endless centuries, cursing the fate Scrooge had bestowed upon him.

Returning to my seasonal tradition of attempting to photograph the Henderson Rd Christmas tree from the window of a moving bus.

"Because if you believe literally all of these recent uses by Alberta, Ontario, and Quebec are justified - not legally valid, not ‘constitutional’, but morally or normative justified - the truth is you simply don’t care about minority rights."

Happy 76th Birthday, Tom Waits!

Swamping the drain.

“Have Yourself A Merriam Little Christmas” Merriam, a career-oriented lexicographer from the city, returns to her small town for the holidays and meets Webster, a ruggedly handsome librarian, who shows her the true DEFINITION of Christmas.

The media is of course focused on the drama, but most of us stayed with the speakers and the drummers at the Residential School Survivors Flag, creating a circle too strong for the residential school deniers to get through. Proud of #UVic today.

"I wouldn't call Mark Carney a small "c" conservative - he's a bigger "c" than Mulroney was." -Rob Ashton with the good lines at the NDP leadership debate. www.ndp.ca/debate?sourc...

Selkies.

Just read this wonderful passage from @walkerimagining.bsky.social's poem #LANDBACK "I want the land back, yes but even more I want the land to want me back each the other's missing piece our jigsaw edges fitting together in a long awaited embrace"

The Canadian Labour Congress is surveying workers in Canada about their experience of violence and harassment at work. You can add your voice here: canadianlabour.ca/respect-at-w...

American friends! I love your #NoKings signs and costumes! Keep 'em coming.

Last October we visited Malaspina Castle in Fosdinovo, Italy. Today we went to the Malaspina Galleries on Gabriola Island. Only one of these sites has a fake ghost.