Just about ten years ago, my awesome partner and a group of friends organized a party to celebrate my transition, and something like 200 people showed up. Every trans person deserves to be celebrated that way! Thanks to @lidsville.bsky.social and @jonathanmiddleton.ca and many others

Don Quixote promised Denmark to Sancho Panza. #oldmenwhohatewindmills

I confess I feel the same about AI as I felt about the ‘Information Superhighway’ in the 90s

Much appreciation to @cbcstephenquinn.bsky.social for your interview about Vancouver’s budget this morning.

Bookstores, not Amazon. Proud of my US colleagues.

Expressing my disappointment that I didn’t see any costumes yesterday incorporating the Baseball Furies from the 1979 movie The Warriors and either the #bluejays or #dodgers uniforms. Seems an obvious opportunity missed.

Buying a double scoop ice cream cone on a hot day is effectively buying an embarrassing event in your near future.

I think I accidentally invented "gazpacho congee" this evening. #heatwavemeals

First bit of press! Thank you @georgiastraight.bsky.social www.straight.com/arts/vancouv...

Nor do we, granddaughter. Nor do we. #futuredystopia

I do not care if Canada post is ever profitable. It is a public service, everyone owns it. That’s valuable in and of itself. We don’t ask the emergency room or public schools to turn a profit. We ask them to be accessible for everyone to use.

Oh no, not the AI industry, an eleventybillion-dollar sector that employs fives of people

This is going to sound “revolutionary”, but perhaps the way around the financial woes of the @canadapostcorp.bsky.social #Canadapost is to undo Mulroney-era changes requiring it to operate as a business, and once again treat it as the govt service it ought to be.

The only thing I worry about if Pierre Poilievre gets kicked out as the Conservative leader, is who’s going to tell us that bees make honey? Or wait, is it flies that make honey and bees consume it? See, I’m already getting confused.

Ford government guts Endangered Species Act, slashes wildlife protections in Ontario ecojustice.ca/news/ford-go...

Someone has been teaching my creativity some bounds and I would like them to knock it off.

Brian Eno: Statement On Arrests At A Quaker Meeting House www.stopwar.org.uk/article/bria...

Criminalizing Dissent: Greenpeace Ordered to Pay $667M to Dakota Access Pipeline Firm over Protests

Anyone on Pixelfed?

Some people seem very unnerved when you let them know what they said was normal. Like “what you just said is a perfectly normal thing to say” or “this conversation is quite normal.” Instead of feeling congratulated, they feel like something is wrong. Very odd.

This #poilievre isn’t MAGA routine is totally adorable. Like 5 year olds pretending to snore to signal they’re asleep. Aw, little buddies. We see you, but good efforts.

Just think of all that money the Manitoba Conservatives spent on billboards dissuading a search of the Prairie Green Landfill in an effort to prove their own moral bankruptcy.

Fascism, by its very nature, is obsessed with cultural control. The MAGA movement’s newfound interest in the arts prefigures an even more ominous turn.

Amazon-produced 007 movie pits Bond against fulfillment center workers who want to unionize

Remember when it was home taping that was killing music, and not Spotify?

I think about this video a lot -- more so these days, perhaps, with our federal election looming and prospects of a tory govt. Some echos of our southern neighbours too. youtu.be/Uhgv85m852Q?...

Our applications for #VancouverArtBookFair 2025 are now open! Apply now through to March 23, 2025 (though just once, please) www.vancouverartbookfair.com

New fear unlocked:exploding paper straws

superannuated is superannuated.

Mars clearly visible again, as well as Jupiter. #redplanet

Just putting this here. No reason.

In honour of Fillip’s 20th Anniv celebration on Saturday, January 25, here are a few images from its early days! My original design sketch, which was later refined and implemented by Jeff Khonsary; pics from the launch of Fillip 1; a talk we gave at the Henry Art Gallery

SURPRISE!!

(2/2 cont... ) Please have your facts at the ready, and remind him that he should be aware of these discussions if he wants to be PM. Also would be good time to flag that he's a career politician, with nearly no outside experience but that he should know or be aware of these things. #press

Can I make a request to any members of the #press that are interviewing the leader of the Conservative Party? Next time he plays dumb with a hostile rhetorical question like "well I don't know of other genders than men and women, do you?" or "Who says I sounds like Trump?" 1/2 (cont..)

Mars is showing noticeably pink in the Vancouver night sky right now. Look east.

Happy birthday Arthur.

Cautious optimism. I need a word a lot stronger than cautious.

Today's sourdough.

Pip Day, the newly hired director of the Ellen gallery was fired over her solidarity with Palestine. This goes against any definition of academic freedom. Make some noise. 🍉

It’s not uncanny. It’s entirely canny.

There is no A in Science

I think someone misheard me the other day, and now my whole diem is carpeted.

So I have one physics joke of medium quality ready with hopes that one day I’ll be invited to do stand up at convention.

You’d think more vampires would be environmentalists.