The only thing it feels worthwhile for me to say right now is pay attention to whether your feelings & the information you’re absorbing are paralyzing you or prompting you to meaningful action, whatever that is. Paralysis helps no one but the enemy.
I love, absolutely love, this new short from Cara, on how the Scarborough committee of adjustment is rejecting perfectly legal housing projects due to vibes. Toronto's housing crisis in a nutshell.
Thank you, that’s all helpful! I wouldn’t have thought about the dog being able to get in/out on their own.
Pet owners and especially folks with service dogs, do you have any suggestions for things to think about when purchasing a vehicle?
#dogs #serviceDogs
Some rough numbers:
Arts contributes about $131B to Canada's GDP on roughly $1B in subsidies
Oil & Gas contributes about $200B on roughly $30B in subsidies
Arts supports about 1.1 million jobs in Canada
Oil & Gas supports about 900K jobs in Canada
Also, the arts just makes our lives better.
Baffled by transphobes insisting that the name on your birth certificate is Your True Name Forever when it was common in my grandparents' generation to just...pick a name you like and use that, nbd. I literally found out both of my grandma's birth certificate first names FROM THEIR OBITUARIES.
Allergy Misinformation Across Social Media Platforms www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... by @sabivm.bsky.social et al.
"Allergy misinformation achieves high engagement with limited public correction..."
31%: natural cure promotion
24%: IgG testing endorsement
18%: medication fearmongering
Not sure who recommended The Many Lives of Mama Love but thank you. It’s a beautiful book and the author does a great job narrating the audiobook. I shed many tears as I listened to the last few chapters this morning. #booksky
Watching commentators still refusing to see the white nationalism of this administration and arguingTrump is targeting Atlanta, Philadelphia and Detroit because they are blue cities is just, it’s got to be intentional at this point. There are a ton of blue cities. These are majority Black cities.
All my reads are up on Storygraph. It would be fun to connect with other folks with similar reading tastes! app.thestorygraph.com/profile/... I love learning about how people live through non-fiction and historical fiction. I have a soft spot for quirky, intelligent protagonists like Flavia De Luce.
The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise by Dan Gemeinhart. I read this book and then encouraged both my littles to read it. It’s beautiful and funny and a great story of grief and love.
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The space we’re in by Katya Balen (middle reader, hard cover). Read this book with my littlest. It was devastating but beautiful. I loved how it invited the reader along for the growth of the young protagonist.
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Saffiyah’s War by Hiba Noor Khan (historical fiction, audio). This is a young readers book but I learned a lot. It was a recommendation from someone on mastodon and it is excellent.
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I read quite a few young reader gems this year, too. First up: A Kind of Spark by Elle McNicoll (audio). I loved this book and it was a great piece about advocacy.
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Life’s Work: A Moral Argument for Choice by Willie Parker. This is an important read regarding abortion and I learned so much reading it.
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Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankel (audio). I’m not sure how I hadn’t read this before, but I can see how it has moved so many people. Difficult but important read.
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Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates. Also a challenging read and I reread sections. It’s an excellent memoir.
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One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad. Excellent, challenging book.
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Evicted: poverty and profit in the American city by Matthew Desmond was also an excellent read.
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Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America by Michael Harriot (audio). Super informative, funny, and great narration. I learned a lot.
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There Is No Place For Us by Brian Goldstone. Exceptional work of anthropology and honestly required reading.
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Looking at non-fiction: I never thought about it that way by Monica Guzmàn (audio). Excellent read for the current times. Encouraged me to look for ways to learn more about where differing views came from.
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The Story of Us by Catherine Hernandez (audio). This book covers a lot of ground as it follows the life of a Filipino worker in Hong Kong and Canada. A good book for broadening perspectives.
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Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese (audio). I had to stop this one partway because I had to return it to the library, which was so sad, but thankfully I had it back a month later. I find his writing and weaving of stories masterful.
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Looking For Jane by Heather Marshall (audio). I read quite a number of books that included storylines of young women sent to homes for pregnant unwed girls in the 60s-70s. This one was particularly good.
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The Postcard by Anne Berest (audio). Difficult but wonderful historical fiction.
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A Place For Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza (fiction, audio). Really compelling read. I randomly ended up listening to this in parallel with reading the hard copy of There Is No Place For Us, which was an interesting pairing.
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The House in the Cerulean Sea by T. J. Klune (audio). I absolutely loved this book. The narration is also fabulous. This book made me feel so hopeful that I immediately bought the book when I finished reading it just to try to thank the author. Somewhere Beyond the Sea (sequel) is also wonderful.
Sharing some of my book highlights from 2025. I finished 112 this year (98 audio/14 hard copy), which is the easily most since childhood. It was a good year! Here a few stand outs: #booksky
