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Light is the left hand of darkness
and darkness the right hand of light.
Two are one, life and death,
lying together like lovers in kemmer,
like hands joined together,
like the end and the way.
Writing is thinking.
We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.
a sign that says defend nova scotia books along with lots of books by nova scotian authors
conservative government keep your hands off our books challenge
Yeah. And then I also have seasons of “now I should buckle down and do a little more self-publishing”
And thanks for running it. I’ve often appreciated your thoughts about tech ethics and have rediscovered your blog at least four times.
thank god
A golden retriever stands on a mossy stump. She bites into a crispy dog treat held by a pale white hand. Second growth forest stands behind her.
The golden retriever stands proudly atop a giant mossy cedar stump in the woods. Much younger trees stand around her, amid fallen logs.
CHOMP! Zappa eats a treat on our favourite sitting stump
A small, delicate orange rose in full bloom.
Bill Reid's "The Raven and the First Men," a large wood sculpture in the Haida style. It depicts a raven standing on a clam shell, out of which several people appear to be struggling to emerge.
The Canadian Rose Society has developed a series of rose varieties that are hardy across Canada. This is the Bill Reid rose, named for the celebrated Haida artist from British Columbia. I'll add a photo of Reid's famed sculpture, "The Raven and the First Men."
In 2026, colleges must teach students that this is not the end of the world. We must teach hope. Current undergraduates can barely remember a time before the threats of climate change and authoritarianism loomed to catastrophic scale. Since 2010, the future depicted in TV, books, and games has been dystopian or apocalyptic, so for our current students the end of the world feels more familiar and realistic than a future with hope. Now we are asking them to choose majors and life paths when the desirability, indeed the very existence, of whole sectors of employment are in question, due to the overwhelming promises of LLMs and machine learning. As young people hear daily that vocation after vocation may vanish into automation’s maw, and that democracy, liberty, land, sea, and sky are all in jeopardy, despair is growing. Despair is very emotionally tempting. It means freedom from the responsibility to shape the future. This is a terrifying turning point, but many generations before us have faced such turning points, and met them. We can offer our students perspective. Only a few dozen institutions on Earth are more than 900 years old, and the vast majority are universities. The university system is not a house of straw to buckle in this storm: We are the rocks that have sheltered the knowledge, hope, and truth through tumults which have toppled kingdoms while classrooms endured. We can endure this, and be a guiding light through it, but only by recentering, by teaching citizens, not workers; power, not PowerPoint; aspiration, not apocalypse. Despair is how we lose. The classroom is where we battle it. All other battles flow from here. Ada Palmer is an associate professor of history at the University of Chicago.
This, from Ada Palmer as part of The Chronicle's survey of 11 scholars on the future of higher ed, is what I needed to end the week.
Wow I did not expect to learn about disabled branches of the third reich - yeeeesh
Justice sure took a long while…
apnews.com/article/henr...
Haida Heritage Centre & Haida Gwaii Museum at Kay Llnagaay: All Islands' Art Show May 1- June 26, 2026: Call for (local) Artists - Art drop off April 17th & 18th at Haida Gwaii Museum Ocean Gallery; Entry fee $15; scan QR code for entry form; Hosted by Haida Gwaii Arts Council and Haida Gwaii Museum. Sk'aadawung Nora-Jane Edenshaw: Strong mind. Young hands. Emerging Voice (young weaver exhibition): March 7-April 4; Free exhibition held in Haida Heritage Centre Welcome House; Hosted by Haida Gwaii Museum. 7IDANSUU JAMES HART 'A Monumental Practice' book signing & Celebration; 4-7pm April 25, 2026 at Haida Heritage Centre; Free event; Hosted by Haida Gwaii Museum and Audain Art Museum. The Weaving of aay aay Closing Ceremonies 2-5pm March 28 Haida Heritage Centre; featuring the weaving of aay aay film short screening and book launch, and a weaving talk by Kuujuuhl Evelyn Vanderhoop; Free event; Hosted by Haida Gwaii Museum. Support local Artists, Writers and Makers: Gina DaahlGahl Naay The Trading House: Shop in house Tues-Sat 10am-5pm (closed stat holidays); Shop online 24/7: www.haidagwaiimuseumgiftshop.ca. Cultural Tours + Programs: pricing and booking online at: haidaheritagecentre.com Spring Hours: Tuesday-Saturday 10am-5pm (closed stat holidays)
Happenings for Mar-April at Haida Gwaii Museum & Haida Heritage Centre!
A miniature diorama showing what looks at first like a surgical scene but instead of patients, it's dumplings that are being stuffed by a surgeon in blue scrubs.
The world is a dark and dreary place these days, so here’s something to cheer you up: a miniature diorama by Japanese artist, Tanaka Tatsuya.
Ooh! My new essay is up on Strange Horizons!
Deliberately provocative title 😈
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
Congratulations! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
hiii, we're shutting down this fundraiser for Trent Ernst & Tumbler Ridgelines today. If you'd like to support him, feel free to donate before 11 pm ET. After that, you can support him directly through his website Patreon! Love to see Canadian media supporting each other!
Ashley Fairbanks @ziibiing.com launched Stand With Minnesota standwithminnesota.com, a mutual aid repository supporting residents under ICE's siege, in early Jan. in the weeks since, it's facilitated covering people's rents and flown folks detained back home from Texas.
she can help you do it, too.
The Beginning Comes After the End Notes on a World of Change by Rebecca Solnit Rebecca Solnit offers a thrilling account of the sheer breadth and scale of social, political, scientific, and cultural change over the past three quarters of a century. In this sequel to her enduring bestseller Hope in the Dark, Solnit surveys a world that has changed dramatically since the year 1960. Despite the forces seeking to turn back the clock on history, change is not a possibility; it is an inevitability. The changes amount to nothing less than dismantling an old civilization and building a new one, whose newness is often the return of the old ways and wisdoms. In this rising worldview, interconnection is a core idea and value. But because the transformation is obscured within a longer arc of history, its scale is seldom recognized. While the white nationalist and authoritarian backlash drives individualism and isolation, this new world embraces antiracism, feminism, a more expansive understanding of gender, environmental thinking, scientific breakthroughs, and Indigenous and non-Western ideas, pointing toward a more interconnected, relational world.
I wrote a book! It's trickling out, already in some bookstores. And I'm doing a bunch of events for it (see below). More info on book in alt text.
I haven't been able to hold down a traditional full-time on-site job since 2015.
Since 2015, I've:
⚡ Published 23 novels/novellas
⚡ Worked on five games that were critical and commercial hits
⚡ Worked on two unreleased titles
All because I've been able to work on a disability-friendly schedule
👋🏻 40-yr-old man here. I haven’t read le carré, but really enjoyed this spy caper and brought it into the bookshop. The queer factor is low but it’s very silly and fun www.penguin.co.uk/books/471282...
“It is with considerable difficulty that I remember the original era of my being.”
Me too, Frankenstein’s monster, me too. #maryshelley
Here’s an example of a local newsroom actually informing the public about AI (the role of journalism) versus the blatant AI boosterism we’re seeing many other newsrooms engage in to the detriment of the entire profession
Just cloned Stand With Minnesota for another state.
I am so excited someone finally took me up on the offer. I even made them a little logo and redid the site in their colors.
Franzi Schimmer captured this Grizzly bear in Brooks Falls, Alaska just floating along, tippy-tapping down the river, browsing the salmon.
Prior to hibernation, up to 40% of a bear's body mass is fat, which is less dense than water (~0.9 g/cm^2), so the murder-monster is also a floaty-boaty.
Credit: Fabrice Coffrini / AFP / Getty Brazil's Lucas Pinheiro Braathen, center, winner of an alpine ski, men's giant slalom race, jumps in celebration on the podium flanked by second placed Switzerland's Marco Odermatt, left, and third placed Switzerland's Loic Meillard, at the 2026 Winter Olympics.(AP)
What a great photo of Brazilian alpine skier Lucas Pinheiro Braathen, the first South American to ever win a medal at the Winter Olympic Games.
Today @thesicktimes.org: Shielding Cournoyer reviews the book "Invisible Illness."
"Though Mendenhall accurately acknowledges the harm of psychologizing illness, her thesis does exactly that." thesicktimes.org/2026/02/13/i...
Grateful for Cournoyer’s review 🙏🏻 @thesicktimes.org
“Unexamined are the politics involved in authorities betting on patients performing free labor as the solution to their suffering, rather than betting on healthy people investing time, energy, and money into repurposing or developing medication.”
