Now you don't have to go out to see the new Wuthering Heights, when there are bits of a far superior musical starring Cliff Richards as HEATHCLIFF. You're welcome. www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4pM...

Art will always be political. Artist or not, it's part of humanity's conversation, and resistance to oppression, with the world.

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A powerful statement about madness as method.

The anxiety attack of seeing tasting stations at a grocery store. If I make eye contact, I have to try the thing. If I try the thing, the small talk, and trying not to get too invested to buy the thing.

2nd poke completed.

#LetterboxdFriday #Last4Watched

28 Years Later: The *Bone* Temple A+++

One of my fave diners, Patrician Grill, is closing after 73 years of business. A well deserved retirement. www.torontotoday.ca/local/food-d...

I didn't make an awkward joke during my two hour work meeting. 3rd coffee has been so earned.

Back to work, but still high from good things.

There is new snow and a sparrow building a nest(eeeeee!) on the balcony.

Sometimes I knock on my son's door and say, "HEEEEEEY!" I pause. He says, "MOM stop." I say, " SHENNNNNNN YUUUUUN!"

My #PLR cheque arrived today! Thank you to Canadian readers, libraries and librarians. publiclendingright.ca

Hero.

I haven't seen the movie yet, but have read the book and seen the many great iterations of it on film. IF IT MAKES MORE PEOPLE READ, I'M HERE FOR IT. "wuthering heights" Yes it's about awful people, (and that cover ugh), but *gestures at the world* what of it? Snobs.

My body is really feeling this fog. At least kiddo and I got to see these swans on the icy lake.

Happy Year of the Horse

Every man I know has always posited a life off grid. As if it solves everything. But it is impossible. First, it is a life only the privileged can consider. Very Nietzschean. And frankly, I'd rather want to help my society by being aware and participating in it.

This is the interview Donald Trump didn’t want you to see. His FCC refused to air my interview with Stephen Colbert. Trump is worried we’re about to flip Texas.

I only recently saw TITICUT FOLLIES (doc on the State Prison for the Criminally Insane at Bridgewater, Massachusetts), having only seen EX-LIBRIS, Wiseman's doc on the NYC library before that. What an unique eye and heart he had. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuAG...

I will reiterate for the record that your trauma is yours to hold & label as you please. I also fully support publication bans & don't think we *need* more survivor stories to end rape culture. But I think Gisèle deserves the world & the fact that she's happily in love & finding joy is beautiful.

I hate, hate, H A T E when people say "I'm not a victim. I'm a survivor." (Read "The Cult of True Victimhood" for all my thoughts on that) But I do think there is tremendous power in saying "This happened to me. It was awful. It was not my fault. But I won't let them steal more years from me."

Some Spaniards are mad that their flag wasn't at the Superbowl. Some Argentinians mad because their flag was at the Superbowl. Spaniards are not Latinos. Argentina is not in Europe.

5 months sober. In good, bad, apocalypse times it hasn't been easy. Frankly, it's harder on the good times. But I'm still fucking here.

Re-read. I can't count the amount of times books & the library have saved my life. When I first read this as a library find, I was a confused teen, knew little about punk. The story itself, fascinating, McLaren, a bit of an ass. I connected with the disenfranchised spirit of a nation in another land

Banned Books and the Librarians Caught in the Political Battle | Full Documentary #librarians are braver than law firms, universities, and corporations -- warriors for curiosity, learning, and access to information youtu.be/ywQOCY-qDzE?... via @YouTube #library

Dinner: Raisin bread grilled cheese (smoked gouda with added pear slices) sandwich.

❤️❤️❤️https://youtu.be/uGVhQd9L_NY?si=H355YzbdxxIEQOhl

Soon time to pick up kiddo from her monthly weekend respite program. She has made me promise Valentine's Day treats. Grateful for programs like this because I know I get a break from our almost 24/7 lives together, but kiddo needs a break from ma too. ❤️ omg I miss her. #awetism #SpecialNeedsAdults

Valentine's Dat at Casa Lona Hugh tea and Andrew Callaghan (Channel 5) variety show. ❤️

Date night of stickering the places he, I, and the kids have been so far on a giant map. Colours alotted to each of us.

newly posted at @periodicities.bsky.social : Jacqueline Valencia @jacquelinevalencia.ca : Two poems periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2026/02/jacq...

Doing the CISA certification for work now that there are new rules. I have the expertise, just not the years. Thought I'd put this out there for those interested in cybersecurity. www.isaca.org/about-us/new...

this is the way

What better way to say "I love you" than with the Chicago Manual of Style

#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched

Richard Crouse's review of WUTHERING HEIGHTS richardcrouse.ca/wuthering-he...

Fried plantain chips with mango salsa. #ApocalypseSnacks

There are viral calls to mass institutionalize trans people. Major media outlets are running salacious articles with headlines like this "Are cross-sex drugs driving trans shooters to kill?" It's a feeding frenzy using this shooting as an excuse to go after trans people even harder. It's sickening.

Another film recommended to me set in London was Antonioni's BLOWUP. Some of these settings I'll get to see. I love travel through film and books, but when you can pinpoint things, it's like a pilgrimage. Anyways, here's my old analysis on BLOWUP. thesegirlsonfilm.wordpress.com/2018/07/06/o...

Melt. #Toronto

Nation of Hawai’i’s mission is to maintain and preserve the sophisticated religion, language and culture of the Native Hawaiian people, who prior to the overthrow, lived in a highly organized, self-sufficient, subsistent social system based on Communal Land Tenure (pre-mahele) www.nationofhawaii.org

"Right now the focus should be on supporting the community in mourning, not weaponizing this event as hate against a vulnerable group at large." expert reporting from the great @melwoods.me

Dreamed I was 16 again. Friend was telling me she was going clubbing afterschool. Friday. Backpack heavy, so I went home, unpacked my bag on the kitchen table. A wave of familiar happy hit as I saw my weekend: a stack of books & vhs tapes. Woke up, saw fresh snow on the balcony. It's Wednesday

www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en... #Cuba #Canada 4537 signatures so far as of this post

Post a banger not in English "Oye latino, oye hermano, oye amigo...No te dejes confundir Busca el fondo y su razón Recuerda se ven las caras Pero nunca el corazón" youtu.be/nxescwmQD4E?...

Today is a blessed day. Just one work meeting and it was 5 minutes.

That was a quick read...for me. Now unto London: a biography by Peter Ackroyd in audio form.

Had a long discussion in class yesterday about how it’s not that kids don’t get confused about, say, trans people—but kids are confused about so many things all the time that they’re pretty comfortable with being confused and only having partial answers.