at the bar with a fellow former hamiltonian at the next table & every time he says “oskee wee wee” we chime in with “oskee waa waa”
(as one does)
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at the bar with a fellow former hamiltonian at the next table & every time he says “oskee wee wee” we chime in with “oskee waa waa”
(as one does)
when i finally get around to burning my canadaland shirt it’s going to be a real good day
image of event poster: collage style background. black text on white backing reads: “a square house press presents: GRUB STREET reading series : featuring Masha Zhaksybek / Lee Groen / + open mic! / april 3, 6-8 pm at the vault five bucks/PWYC
the next GRUB STREET reading series is coming up april 3rd at the vault #nanaimo! open mic following featured readers Lee Groen + Masha Zhaksybek.
+ chapbooks and zines available for purchase, door prizes for open mic readers. bring your notebook!
it's because no human actor could possibly have the sex appeal of the cartoon fox isn't it
best to simply admit defeat
The words "VERSeFest - Wednesday, March 25 - 7:00pm - Arts Court Black Box Studio - Gwen Aube, D.A. Lockhart, Claudia Coutu Radmore" appear in black text against a gradient background that shades from orange to yellow. The text is accompanied by photos of the three poets mentioned in the text.
The words "VERSeFest 2026 - March 24-30 - A World of Poetry in Ottawa - Check out the lineup and get your tickets here" appear in black text above a black QR code that can be used to get you to the VERSeFest 2026 website. The background, again, shades from orange to yellow.
VERSeFest Presents/présente :
Claudia Coutu Radmore, DA Lockhard, Gwen Aube
Wednesday, March 25 - 7:00pm
Black Box Studio
Mercredi, le 25 mars - 19h00
Studio Black Box
$15 ($25 for both March 25 shows)
15 $ (25 $ pour les deux spectacles du 25 mars)
www.verseottawa.ca/en/event/wed...
not to alarm anyone but the cherry blossoms are cherry blossoming
📢 AWARD NEWS
Congrats to Ben Ladouceur & Shani Mootoo! I Remember Lights is a finalist for the 2025 Foreword INDIES Award for LGBTQ+ Fiction, and Starry Starry Night is a finalist for the 2025 Foreword INDIES Award for Multicultural Fiction! 🎉
Learn more:
www.forewordreviews.com/awards/final...
Tonight, two of the white nationalists I reported on in this piece showed up to attempt to intimidate me on a private night out at a small music venue.
I’ll have more to say tomorrow. I’m safe.
They also didn’t pay cover 🖕
It's just one image from this particular X account, which often makes disturbing, grotesque images of other left-wing politicians but really has a focus on Orr.
Sim has denied this was the image he saw - but he also refused to explain how it differed. thetyee.ca/News/2026/03...
me asking my husband “is that going to be chocolatey enough” every three seconds while watching him make me a milkshake while i sit here and do nothing
post a tree you have photographed
the two phases of writing: (1) writing and (2) wandering aimlessly like an unmoored ghost and complaining about not writing
Photo of a newspaper clipping: “holidays in war time. Theres no need to use your car, gasoline, or rubber to reach Qualicum Beach. Come by train and enjoy the warm sands, golfing, and hiking”
I love this 1940s ad for a holiday at Qualicum Beach. With war time restrictions on gas, rubber, metals, etc, staying on the Island and taking the train was a great option.
Anyway, we don’t have a train anymore.
cons of permanent DST: losing the annual excuse to stay up an hour later on a saturday night, losing the intense relief i feel when the clock goes back and the sun returns to the start of my day, personally my body “gets up with the sun”
pros: time is fake anyway, ppl have a tiny joy to cling to
Everyone should read Wild Faith by @swordsjew.bsky.social for more about this worldview. There are people actively hoping for the “end of the world”.
you don’t spend much money in the morning, you go for a jog or journal or do yoga or sleep in. might as well do it in the dark.
businesses must be happy with permanent DST. now you might stop and spend some money, buy after-work drinks, do some shopping if it’s still light out, instead of going straight home
six small collage trading cards, featuring recurring images of vintage curtains, brick, cities, technology, butterflies, and women. colours are largely blues greens and oranges.
it’s trading card day at collage club 🐒
big things on the way from yr favourite nanaimo chapbook makers!
ok time to listen to some phil ochs then walk down to the bar to talk about poetry
it’s also all related. the men who traffic children with impunity are the same ones who start wars, bomb schools, support genocide, ignore laws, shirk taxes, beat their wives and children, and steal every dollar they can from the people. it’s all an expression of the same belief: no one else matters
State media in Iran says the death toll from a strike on a girls' elementary school in the southern Iranian town of Minab continues to rise, with at least 85 people now known to be dead.
www.cbc.ca/news/world/l...
To be entirely clear: every "AI" company should have bright red ethical lines against things like genocide and weapons systems and surveillance and consent violations and shepherding an encroaching fascism, and those lines should be placed way earlier than anthropic and openAI's seem to be.
Worth noting that on a different website, multiple ABC Vancouver officials follow accounts that post constantly about how Sean Orr is a terrible human being and make all sorts of unproven claims, including one account that creates AI videos of Orr doing all sorts of illegal or evil acts
First they came for the…scouts?
TV entertainer and inexplicably Secretary of Defense/War/whatevs Pete Hegseth: “The Department of War has officially put Scouting America on notice.
“It’s time to get back to basics, and DoW is leading the charge.”
He really wants his Hitler Youth.
8. He closed by saying that he wished Scouting America would return to not allowing girls in the program. “Ideally, I believe the Boy Scouts should go back to being the Boy Scouts, as originally founded, a group that develops boys into men. Maybe someday.”
1. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has announced that under a new deal with Scouting America, formerly Boy Scouts of America, trans scouts will be forcibly outed and segregated from peers of their gender.
The policy is the latest cruel capitulation.
www.erininthemorning.com/p/secdef-heg...
because if there’s one thing I know about men, it’s that they crave full-time child-rearing responsibilities without even getting to have sex first
