“We should want to take advantage of the post office’s unique, nationwide infrastructure to provide more and better services to Canadians instead of dismantling something that we may never be able to rebuild.” @parismarx.com

I posted a showtune on my FB (The Plan from Death Becomes Her, it’s delightful) and someone I know from art school who I haven’t seen in at least 10-15 years is lecturing me about glorifying violence. Why are the most annoying, out of pocket comments from the people you have the weakest links to?

That push pull between being excited to travel for an exhibition (being glamorous, giving a talk, seeing pals, having tix to see a pal’s concert, staying in a hotel in my former hometown, getting vegan chickun biryani from my old spot) and knowing that I *will* get a fibro flare from the flight.

Solidarity with Canada Post workers!

Now that I’m a aging weird punk, it seems *so* bizarre how over-the-top angry my parents were about my style as a young person. Maybe I’m missing something because I don’t have kids, but it seems unfathomable how many people my age I knew who had parents flip their shit over hair cuts and colours.

All of this. It makes zero sense to expect public goods to generate profit.

Canada Post “lost” 1 billion dollars last year? How about, “it cost Canadians 1 billion dollars to have a national postal service” which works out to costing about $25 a year per person (population of Canada in 2024 = 40 million). Seems like a pretty reasonable cost to me.

I have a new interview with the Liminal Currents podcast. It's pretty long but the second half is an long discussion of Nazi-Satanism. www.buzzsprout.com/2442448/epis...

I swear I’m the most tired person who has ever lived and it’s not great. I feel so deeply, deeply exhausted. #NEISVoid

Carney in a nutshell. Though, he is arguably being much more destructive to civil society than Harper was. I’m *very* worried about where this takes us as a country.

Tapping the 'Public Services shouldn't be expected to make a profit' sign until my fingers bleed.

Don’t forget to sign and share www.change.org/p/stop-blues...

I can’t help but think of the journalist on here a while back who called cyclists smug and then freaked out at the pushback each time I read of another cyclist dying due to driver negligence and unsafe infrastructure.

My latest column for the Chronicle of Higher Ed is now live. It's an argument for including AI-critical voices in campus conversations and policymaking workgroups, and I'm proud to get this dissenting piece into the mainstream genAI/higher ed discourse. Please read and share if you're so inclined 🙂

There are a few times when you read something and really think 'YESSSS! THIS IS IT!' I felt that when I first read the principles of disability justice, and I feel that about this. Brilliant. Everyone involved in #MutualAid should read it, ESPECIALLY everyone white.

I wrote about the dangerous fantasy of the civility framework in political discourse. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...

Mark Carney keeps talking about “decarbonized oil.” Today he admitted that’s bullshit. At the Council on Foreign Relations, he started saying BC’s new LNG project was “zero carbon,” before adding a key caveat: “before the Scope 3 obviously.” That’s where the bulk of the emissions come from.

I’m shocked 1 in 3 find this whiny little fascist likeable.

Disability justice means naming and actively combatting scapegoating, dehumanizing rhetoric, and ableism. Disabled people deserve to thrive in joy and dignity.

You know, I’m *really* surprised that the insurance industry isn’t pushing back on the anti-vax nonesense. Especially as we learn more about post-viral illnesses. It would seem lowered vacine uptake would be extremely expensive.

A friendly reminder that Fragrantica is a maga site and that you can enable your perfume addiction at Basenotes or Parfumo instead and not be enriching bigots. #PerfumeSky

This is really good and gets at the heart of the public ‘free speech warriors’ intents, what they see as a natural hierarchy that shan’t *ever* be disrupted with critique.

My newest article for @ricochetmedia.bsky.social, on how the Liberals and Conservatives applauded a far-right hatemonger ricochet.media/justice/far-...

I see people posting that getting involved in community and making art help us survive the awfulness and I do agree. Strongly. I just want to add that making nice food also helps. Feeling a nice lil’ happiness boost after making and eating some soup.

Almost inevitably, a white liberal pundit who finds a way to “hear out” or “find commonalities” with white supremacists eventually starts saying depraved shit. I need to understand why that’s not the last strike for white people that it is for Black political observers.

Please give us another $50,000,000,000 so we can build coal & gas plants so we can lie to you more, suckers.

Humanities Commons is great, and j hope the mass exodus from Academia dot Edu lets us all reconnect there!

Reminder that September is National library card month, so you should totally go get a library card! Yes, they have books, but many also have dvds, cds, video games, game systems, hot spots, streaming services, ebooks, audio books, park passes, museum passes, and more! Maybe it's time for a visit!

This right here.

Good stuff from Aaron Short & @mollycrabapple.bsky.social

Important news:

Other #NEISVoid folks will get how heartbreaking and frustrating normal test results are.

“We will fight like hell to defend your rights. Every day.” Full statement from @naheednenshi.bsky.social below 👇 www.albertandpcaucus.ca/news/post/st...

In Canada, proposed cuts of 15% across the federal government would have a dramatic effect on already globally decimated research & science. Join Canada's research & science community and tell PM Mark Carney to preserve the funding promised in 2024. Send a letter: win.newmode.net/canadianasso...

I’d love to see these people subjected to *intense* scrutiny.

Someone who doesn’t follow me and who I have never interacted with asked me if they would like a podcast I mentioned.

We don’t gotta ever hand it to Karl Rove but this vividly illustrates how far the right has fallen into fascism that KARL ROVE is trying to be the voice of reason.

I’ve seen a lot of people on here wondering how folks have time to listen to podcasts, it makes it very clear that they don’t have 40-80 houseplants that require constant tinkering. Or sauerkraut to make. I listened to a whole hour on Himmler today turning a 5 pound cabbage into sauerkraut.

Well this is *extremely* messed up.

No matter where I live, the closest neighbour is always a chain-smoking man with a (very loud) chronic cough. It’s a disgusting soundtrack I’ve lived with for over 20 years. It does not seem fun to be hacking away all the time but these guys all love to smoke.

Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing. These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.

My take: it was hardly just that it challenged norms. To accept that handwashing was necessary meant accepting that prior to that they'd all been spreading disease and killing patients. The challenge was to their very identities.

For the second year in a row, I’ve been tempted by a local caterer offering heat and est vegan thanksgiving meals. Until I see the candied yams on the menu. Surely, the most vile dish ever invented. Just thinking about them grosses me out.

Its not just that folks are sad and tired right now, the cost of living is also super high and space and supplies are very expensive.

None of these suggested ‘fixes’ fix brain fog. This is super insulting and minimizes a symptom that is extremely debilitating to live with. Complete journalistic irresponsibility.

cant believe that this is the first-ever time that liberalism has been ill-equipped to stand up to fascism. crazy stuff that nobody could have predicted

I recall a wise person saying that the reason the tech bros had so much confidence in AI wasn't that they understood tech so well, it was that they understood humans so little. I keep thinking about that.

I should be sleeping, instead I’m wondering why the heck I never thought to use jarred tom yum soup base to make hot pot until this very moment.

1. The blue jay who comes to our feeders and screams at the magpies. 2. The rose bush I bought on a whim that has been blooming nonstop since May. 3. Tropical cacti. 4. Going to distant neighborhoods for marketplace finds and getting a treat on the way. 5. Yesterday’s perfume on a sweater.