Happy Yule to those who celebrate. We'll make it through this darkest night.

Yesterday was World AIDS Day, so I was thinking about Roy Thorsen, my one friend who died of it, in 1995. He was an older gay man who gave us gay kids a safe space in his own home when our homes weren't. Miss you.

I was diagnosed with #HIV in 1998, when I was 30.
Many of my friends had died of AIDS. I did not expect to live to 50.
I’m 58 now.
HIV treatment works.
Treatment also makes it impossible for me to pass HIV on during sex.
Ensure HIV treatment for all.
End HIV stigma.
#WorldAIDSDay

If François Legault and Danielle Smith are going to keep pressing the "ignore constitution" button like lonely rats with the morphine water, maybe we could require they press an actual button, with a mild electroshock. They're not as smart as rats, but negative reinforcement might work eventually.

Failed attempt at a human being, Danielle Smith, took a break from blocking the climate transition and shredding Alberta's health and education systems to press the "ignore constitution" button this week, and make friends of mine second-class citizens in their own country...

Happy Samhain to those who celebrate it, and happy Halloween to those who don't!

It's always strange, encountering what feels like a modern way of thinking in writing that's centuries old. Like Shakespeare explaining so-bad-it's-good entertainment in Love's Labour Lost.

We voted yesterday in the municipal election that the whole world watches with bated breath. Sorry, world. You'll have to wait until November 2nd to know who won in Brossard, Quebec...and New York too, I suppose.

Disappointed there's not Transition Brossard or Projet Brossard for the Quebec municipal elections. I guess I'm stuck with Ensemble Brossard, since Vision's platform seems to be, "Burn the forests, grow the streets, make Brossard Mordor to Montreal's Minas Tirith."

Happy Mabon to those who celebrate it!

Even more disturbing in the same month that the Liberals invited Project 2025's founder to talk to the Liberal caucus behind closed doors. As much as I disliked Carney and didn't vote for him, even I didn't expect him to steer his party (and the country) toward fascism.

So did Carney stand up for Canada or did "Dr. Roberts" blow off the Liberal cabinet meeting?
The "Dr." is a vicious enemy of democracy, the rule of law, women's rights.
We have yet to see the PM declare that Canada vigorously opposes such dark actors.

thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...

The husband and I had not gotten to La Ronde in our nearly 13 years together, so I can cross "ride a Ferris Wheel with the love of my life" off my bucket list.

Somehow, despite being a gay literature geek and having read five biographies of Oscar Wilde, I never got around to reading The Picture of Dorian Gray. Correcting that now, but I was not expecting it to turn into Breaking Bad. Where do you get a polyethylene tub in Victorian London?

Finished Soulstar by CL Polk this week, and still sitting with it. It's a satisfying end to their marvellous Georgian high fantasy trilogy, but Witchmark is still the closest of that series to my heart.
#booksky #CLPolk

Happy Litha to those who celebrate it, and happy first day of summer in the north to those who don't.

An image I made for any brave time travellers wanting to set up Pride events in 14th-century England. Hugging hyenas were a medieval symbol of homosexuality, and the text is as close to "we're here, we're queer, get used to it" as I can get in medieval English.
#2SLGBTQhistory #queerhistory

Welp, guess this will be my first post on BlueSky. Facebook locked my account for (non-existent) "suspicious activity," but promised to let me back on if I send them a "video selfie" to train their generative AI....er, "confirm my identity."

I'd rather lose my Facebook than that, so here I am!