Vivienne

This downplays things.

Biden increased the debt by 20%, from the start to end of his term

Trumps first term saw a 40% increase over the same time span

Of J Michael Bailey? Who also has spent a good chunk of his career trying to disprove bisexuality exists? While also taking a pretty ace-phobic stance on how orientation works? And whose most famous book breaches informed consent?

I’m not seeing that comparison

The fact Hirschfeld isn’t the first point both says a lot about the poet and is a real disservice to people’s pop understanding of the history.

Dune has remained on my shelf and probably will until after I finish my thesis… at least.

Fun with following authors: is this a book being written or a book being read… Who can say?

That's… an 800 page book. Roughly 8 MA theses or 4 PhD dissertations… And it's just over *half* the median author income (including part-time authors)—and poverty wages at that.

Yikes

I did get a poutine on our way out. But it was the bagels we b-lined it for after realizing we had time to go into the city.

Our last international trip involved a 24 hour layover in Montreal (unplanned) and a week in London. In January.

I do not blame you

Toronto is about as far north as the north coast of Spain. Further south than all of Washington and half of Oregon.

And yet Toronto claims to be "the north"

I once sat in a presentation in which a younger gen x guy told the mostly gen x & boomer crowd about how the wisdom saying millennials wanted to live downtown was wrong. His argument rested entirely on the fact that we don't… but didn't look at why.

As if econ & structural barriers weren't an issue

YouTube video by Ray Delahanty | CityNerd Edmonton: Come for the Mall, Stay for the Urbanism

I am really disappointed I couldn't make it to see his talk, but I love this video about my city from @nerd4cities.bsky.social

It amazes me how many people talk about Edmonton like we have no urban amenities when we consistently perform above much larger cities.

#yeg

youtu.be/vlAVDMBGxKY?...

Yeah, basically you take the output from the pre-amp and treat it like a microphone. I haven’t done it, so that’s the extent of my knowledge.

One of the most frustrating parts of buying vinyl records is not (always) getting a download code… and a turntable from the 80s so I can't exactly rip it without a lot of adapters

I definitely fall more in the fantasy side of things, but… the fact there’s no le Guin, let alone classics like Shelley, Verne, and Wells tells me all I need to know. And nothing on the more utopian side?

I consider it a massive failure of the algorithm that nothing alerted my trans indie/alt/folk self to #rainbowkittensurprise. For shame! Zuck clocked me almost a year before I did, but Spotify (since cancelled) couldn't connect me with a band that hits like everything about me?

#efmf was great

Explainer: What's a weak mayor — and why could it matter for the 2025 election? Few Albertans will approach the ballot box this October intending to elect a weak mayor, but that's exactly what they will get.

More and more I think how we balance and allocate the power of elected officials does not reflect the public's assumptions. That can be good and bad, but it is definitely something to remember when talking about—and critiquing—public leaders.

edmonton.taproot.news/news/2025/08...

In other news, one of the algorithms just asked if I'm Jewish. Way to be subtle with the tracking…

Unfortunately. Which feels like an accessibility issue tbh… Thanks for the focus and the layout options IG but I should still be able to navigate.

Screenshot of Sefaria showing the icon for full screen or whatever it’s supposed to be. And something about Job I didn’t pay attention.

Sometimes it’s taking a moment to pop up, I’ve had to scroll a bit to get it to pop up…

Oh weird! On Sefaria, there’s a little page icon next to the address bar. Clicking on that gives a more focused reading experience—and the bar disappears when you scroll.

Why? Dunno. Not a web design girl 🤷🏻‍♀️

A screen shot from my iPhones Firefox browser, showing the bar at the top disappear. It happens to be Florence Ashley’s website.

Exhibit A:

Firefox

That should probably include single manufacturers contracting out to a bunch of different brands, a la the glasses industry. And I would be remise if I didn’t include owning a union and non-union shop with both submitting bids…

Don’t make me reflect on the wisdom of bullet journaling and how often I do exactly this…

It’s playing in Edmonton 🤷🏻‍♀️

Wait, we’re getting something Vancouver isn’t? What is this

Was that… in doubt? It’s pretty similar to the early-2010s vibe I remember, but easier to find content from people you’re not following.

Not me, making notes for the game I DM…

Though none of them have high charisma, I don’t know how well editing the paper would go

It seems to me like the beginnings of nerd culture was being able to reference Star Trek, Tolkein, Sherlock Holmes (the first cons and fan fics), and like… Wagner in casual conversation. Though I'm sure that hits a question of "when did this start?" pretty quickly 🤔

Commander is my preferred format; I don't want to follow the release cycle. It's so out of hand now… but I get to play cards from the early 00s alongside brand new ones. Even if that card I've had since I was 11 sucks there's a certain joy in it

You mean I can't just write my thesis OR absorb everything ever on the topic without ever writing?

Well then