I’ve never used the word shadenfreude more than I have this morning alone.

It’s election night in Canada. It’s uncomfortably close. The only thing we know for sure is whoever wins will have super annoying victory walk-up music.

It feels impossible to make sense of the horrific attack at the Lapu Lapu Day Block Party in Vancouver. A heavy sadness for all impacted. An immense relief for those that were physically unharmed — though they/we still carry the ambiguous burden of proximity.

My favourite elections PSA, courtesy of the incomparable RFlex 🗳️🗳️🗳️

Attn: Early-career musicians and arts workers in Toronto!

The Venus Festival Mentorship Program is BACK! Apply for an opportunity to connect and learn from:
• Alaska B
• @backxwash.bsky.social
• Lido Pimienta
• @suzianalog.bsky.social
• Marie-Laure Saidani (Mutek)
✍🏽
venusfest.net/Mentorship-2...

#booksky
#libraryhumor

So so so happy and proud (and smitten!) to see that Maddee Ritter’s Songs of Love & Death is officially Juno nominated! Affectionately recorded, mixed and produced by my darling David Plowman at Patchwork Studios — and the first ever release on Best Breakfast Records 🥞☕️

I’ve listened to this segment 2x. Jesse Wente paints a zoomed out picture of Canada’s cultural identity (incl. how we engage with it as a product) in relation to belonging. Not a news flash: expansionist threats are not new for Indigenous people. www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

s/o to the person who chose this picture of Dougie

Tariffs making me feel all tri-partisan right now. Ethical non-monogamy — but for taxes.

Normalize being nice.

Jaden wearing the castle from The Friendly Giant. I am here for it.

Started my self-taught bass journey with a P-bass a few years ago — and now happily scaling down (but modding up!) to a Mustang.