Laura on a Lark

I loved this book 💙 You've captured it perfectly: threatening, comforting, prescient

And delightfully emotive for a book with robots as the main characters

The sad faces of a silver medal 😢

At least it was a nice goal

So, the cat’s a hockey fan, then 😂

The Czechs are getting physical (I’m assuming you’re watching the men’s game), but Olympic refs tend to cut things off before they develop into real fights

From what I’ve seen, not really. Or, at least, far less frequently than in NHL games

Oooooo 😃

A lot of the world’s problems could be solved if people could just admit they were wrong, accept new information, and change their mind.

Prepping a 60-min restorative yoga class takes ~5x longer than planning a 2-hour session

Your rheumatologist has clearly never shared a room with a cat 😹

What the actual…

There’s a subset of people living in Alberta who stress absolute fuck nuts

Watched ‘New Year’s Eve’ from Gary Marshall. Contender for the worst film ever? or, at least, biggest waste of a packed ensemble cast

And all it’s done is reignite my love of Zac Efron 🫣

Sigh. If bus timing seems too good to be true… it probably is

Now onto transportation plan B! (and thankfully meeting an understanding friend)

My niece has the same hair type as her dad (my brother) and me - wavy/curly and thick. Her mom (my sister-in-law) has fine, super straight strands

My brother is far more adept with their daughter’s hair than his wife… who struggles like dads in hair product commercials 😝

Catholic Vice President Vance takes to social media to justify killing of Renee Good After the tragic shooting of Renee Good at the hands of ICE, the Catholic vice president of the United States took to social media to justify the killing.

Whoa. Catholics wanna make it clear where they stand: "Vance’s twisted and wrongheaded view of Christianity has been repudiated by two popes. His Catholicism seems to be little more than a political prop, a tool only for his career ambitions and desire for power."

www.ncronline.org/opinion/ncr-...

I got through 98 books in 2025 (and DNFed 8 more). @thestorygraph.com tells me that’s 32,888 pages, but who really knows given how much I change the font size

In 2026, I’m gonna attempt to DNF more often

Yikes 😮 Hope there's good restorative sleep in your near future

Howdy 🤠

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#Canada #CDNPoli

Safe… but wondering why the fuck anyone lives in northern Alberta 😂

My partner is in northern Alberta 🥶 He’s very glad his mom’s neighbour has a snow blower and is willing to share

Rather than leading with the data that “asylum seekers are more likely to be young men and young men are more likely to commit crime”, the Guardian chose to waffle and play the just asking questions game 😤

Ugh

It’s an unfortunately shitty bike, but the scenery is excellent

And I’m keeping up knee rehab 💯

What did you think? It wasn’t what I’d expected from the two Knives Out films

Copenhagen at Christmas is pretty magical. Of course, we need the decorations and hygge to sparkle our way through the greyness, short days, and forgetting what the sun actually looks like

#DanishWinter #Copenhagen #KøbenhavnsRådhus #CopenhagenCityHall

I’m gonna see if I can find the strength to ignore both the FIFA World Cup and Eurovision this year 😬

Abortion Rights in Canada are Under Attack Forced-birth groups are testing their strategy

"Abortion is about bodily autonomy, and the person who is pregnant must have more rights than the fetus; otherwise, being pregnant strips you of personhood."

@drjengunter.bsky.social nailing the importance of NOT legislating abortion

open.substack.com/pub/vajenda/...

#abpoli #alberta

The art of creative disruption how one tiny change can transform not just how we do something but how we feel about it

It's Friday. The world is a scary place.

I'm gonna follow my friend Kate's advice: "Lie [down] and simply breathe. In, out, in out."

Kate's talking about disrupting behaviour patterns to increase creativity here, but her advice feels global

katepainediscoveringmusic.substack.com/p/the-art-of...

My face was the exemplar of happy surprise when I clicked on the last link in Roxane’s list 😃 Such a wonderful collision of worlds!

The Kid Is All Right: In Defense of Picky Eating On learning to accept your child's discriminating tastes, even when it hurts.

Bloody delighted to see a piece from a favourite writer (& fellow Canadian) recommended by another of my favourite (although not Canadian) writers

@irinadumitrescu.bsky.social's defense of picky eaters in @roxanegay.bsky.social's Nov 3 Audacious Roundup

www.seriouseats.com/the-kid-is-a...