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your government mandated CanCon. I like cities, stories, and flat-faced dogs. Sometimes I talk academic integrity. Sometimes I help with @terrorcamp.bsky.social. T'karonto. (she/they)
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CH OM Henry Moore, Working Model for Three Piece No. 3: Vertebrae, 1968
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1124959
January 17, 2026 at 1:00 PM
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Holy hell, what an obituary
Renfrew Christie Dies at 76; Sabotaged Racist Regime’s Nuclear Program
www.nytimes.com
January 15, 2026 at 4:57 PM
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Quite frankly, it’s outrageous that Mark Carney is cutting Statistics Canada. If he was Stephen Harper or Pierre Poilievre, I feel like this would be getting a lot more backlash.

Carney of all people should know the importance of high-quality data and information about the country.
Statistics Canada to cut 850 jobs in 'dark time' for public service, union says
Federal statistics agency entered its workforce adjustment period Monday, sending notices to thousands of employees.
ottawacitizen.com
January 15, 2026 at 12:35 AM
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“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...”

A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today.

lithub.com/renee-nicole...
Renee Nicole Good, murdered by ICE, was a prize-winning poet. Here’s that poem.
Renee Nicole Good, 37, mother to a six-year-old boy, was murdered earlier today by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, a few blocks from her home. According to the Minnesota Star Tribune: [An ICE agent] s…
lithub.com
January 8, 2026 at 3:54 AM
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no one wants to hire me. because my whimsy is a liability
January 5, 2026 at 2:03 AM
2026 is about embracing my role as a Tastemaker.
your taste has always been exquisite
January 1, 2026 at 11:02 PM
My only 2026 resolution is to lean into how pretentious I am. Why yes, I do believe myself to have impeachable taste, and I will be smug about it.
January 1, 2026 at 10:54 PM
2025 was the first since 2019 that wasn't Very Bad. In fact, it was frequently great. Grateful for friends, for an excellent partner, for art.
January 1, 2026 at 1:29 AM
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A soft, small, hopeful thing.
January 27, 2025 at 11:12 PM
My last book of the year. Flesh, by David Szalay. Bought this pre-Booker nomination (and eventual win) but only got around to it this week. Spare and circular. Dialogue that felt both natural and absurdist at once. I tore through it. It's excellent.
December 31, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Going to start asking men who play hockey "Oh cool - because of Heated Rivalry?"
December 27, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/12/22/a... Wonderful writeup in the Ancillary Review's 2025 Notable Books -- you can always rely on them to have some of the most thoughtful criticism in the field.
December 22, 2025 at 6:04 PM
As anyone watching this space has been saying for some time: Grammarly is a cheating machine. Might as well sell the enterprise to Chegg.
It is not "attribution and sourcing" to generate post-hoc citations that have not been read and did not inform the student's writing. Those should be regarded as fraudulent: artifacts testifying to human actions and thought that did not occur.
www.theverge.com/news/760508/...
December 21, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Question for Christmas celebrators: does your family do stockings, and if they do, do they individually wrap the contents?
December 20, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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December 13, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Been reading a lot of books lately, but none are delivering me the emotional experience I crave: feeling entirely unmoored from my own body.
December 12, 2025 at 9:19 PM
What a pleasure to moderate this conversation. Takeaways: joy, naivety/approaching your work like an amateur, integrity - all sit at the foundation of creative work that lasts in a world designed to make it seem disposable.
December 7, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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"A French Bulldog" (1880) by French artist, AUGUST VIMAR (1851-1916).
Oil on canvas
24.5 x 19 cm

#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
December 2, 2025 at 11:27 AM
I just finished listening to Sarah Wynn-Williams' Careless People, which was fascinating but largely frustrating, because most of the people exhibiting some on the work workplace behaviour you've ever seen will experience no meaningful consequence their whole lives.
December 5, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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Nice! Moss Park gets some love!
The Toronto Public Library has purchased the old WE Charity headquarters at Queen & Parliament to convert into a new branch: blogs.tpl.ca/news-release...
December 3, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Anyway. There's still good stuff about the Internet. At @terrorcamp.bsky.social on Sunday, I'll be chatting with Edward Berger (The Terror, Conclave, All Quiet on the Western Front) & Florian Hofmeister (The Terror, Tár, True Detective). Have questions, check out the link in my last Re-post.
December 3, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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📣 Terror Campers, get your questions in!

There’s not long left to ask your burning questions to our incredible line-up of keynote speakers, so don’t miss your chance! 🤩

Ask Anders Bache: t.co/DRiK1nvMAl

Ask Edward Berger and Florian Hoffmeister: t.co/w9EoY0P830
December 3, 2025 at 2:40 PM
A decade ago, I was entirely (and without irony) addicted to Twitter. I met my friends there. A lot of my social life ran through there. I thought it was a transformative tool. I was a Certified Poster. Now using any social media platform, even this one, leaves me with gnawing unease.
December 3, 2025 at 2:37 PM