Infinite respect from this Canadian to a truly impressive American, Cory Booker. 🇨🇦👏❤️

It's surreal that a world leader has to use language we normally reserve for a misbehaving toddler: "We know you're usually a good boy, Donald, and so smart! But right now we're worried that you're making everyone a little sad, so maybe we can try doing things differently?" — Justin Trudeau 🇨🇦

This.

For my fellow British Columbians.

"Rattles and Thorns" — My latest flash fiction story. Desert-bleak and crime-themed, it's about terrible things and the dark allure of loneliness and the temptation of escape.

The photo is mine, taken near Keremeos in BC. (Yes, we have deserts too.)

I've not felt this degree of national unity since we collectively said goodbye to Gord Downie. 🇨🇦

"The biggest wallet pays for the most blinding lights."
— Timothy Snyder

The world is random, but sometimes it feels almost malevolent. The word "irony" barely covers it. 😢

“A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It is a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity.”
― Jimmy Carter

Homeboy stopped the wrong lady

(H/T @agirlhasnopres.bsky.social )

Excerpt from my latest flash piece. "Listening and watching, Latrant thought how each of these men had a void in his head that clashed and clamored like a ceaseless howl. Each an echoing vacancy, self-loathing disguised as righteous entitlement...

I open my Bluesky feed and it is full of really cool people saying really smart things and being really passionate about really interesting stuff.

I like this version of social media, and the world.

Thanks, folks.

Māori MPs briefly suspended the Aotearoa parliament’s attempts to reinterpret their founding treaty in the most bad ass use of the Haka I’ve ever seen.

I swear, if you don't think she's a bona fide genius, you have another think/thing coming. 😆📚

Nothing but a shot of this evening's interesting sky.

This is my first post on Bluesky, but I don't want it to be a harmful one, so here's a content warning: If you don't like fictional depictions of animal suffering, don't read this account of a dream I had last night.

The dream itself is symbolic and probably self-expanatory. It also shook me up.