memento mori (hot girl edition)

Have you tried Pachinko, by Min Jin Lee? I'm nearly done Middlemarch (George Eliot) and have really enjoyed it. A final recommendation: The Colony of Unrequited Dreams (Wayne Johnston) - though this last one may be hard to find outside of Canada.

This got a genuine Edna-Krabappel-style bark laugh from me. Of course!

Blue and white embroidery of a whale on the collar of a blue shirt.

Do I experience a bolt of existential dread every time I interact with a single use plastic? Yes. But mending things I own staves it off a little bit.

I know about it and I was thinking about it as I was making this post. I also remember you and my brother bonding over the concept of cans of ginger ale in Toronto and your enthusiastic reception of P explaining cans were superior b/c "they get cold in the middle."

I'm sick and if I don't have a cold ginger ale in an aluminum can within the next hour I will perish.

Have you seen BBC Ghosts? Sitcom, would not describe it as "whizzy", smart but also goofy.

I hit 60k words this morning on the book, doubling the length it was in its original form. I don't know if it'll ever really be finished, but at least it's still alive.

Please text me about this I need to know.

Wow, it's almost like two decades of building condos no reasonable person could happily live in had consequences.

As someone who has been inside multiple residences (institutional and community based) for adults with developmental disabilities - yes, there are.

(God, I hate this weirdo.)

My review of Arctic Circles and Imperial Knowledge: The Franklin Family, Indigenous Intermediaries, and the Politics of Truth was published in JACNZS. Highly recommend this book for #Franklin history and #polarexploration history fans!
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Part of me is furious I haven't leaned into derangement enough to write something like it. But mostly I'm feeling lucky I get to read it. Boy howdy. It's SO good.

The cover of the book Sky Daddy by Kate Folk, which features bright red text and an airplane against a blue sky.

I'm 30 pages into this book and it's already my favourite thing I've read this year. More books should be about women in love with inanimate objects.

The Differences Between a Divorcée and a Divorced Woman When I go out to brunch, I’m a divorcée. When I eat my second post-breakfast snack, I’m divorced. - - -The divorcée in me buys the houseplants. The...

The divorcée joined a book club.

The divorced woman joined a coven.
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Canadian actor Graham Greene dies at 73 Canadian actor Graham Greene, who broke through with memorable roles across several genres, has died at age 73.

The actor, who was born in Ohsweken in Ontario and is from the Six Nations Reserve, starred in a steady stream of film, television and theatre projects from the late 1970s onward.

Mary if you marry Fred Vincy I stg....

Notes from a Regicide Check out Notes from a Regicide - <p>“Few capture the grubbiness of intimacy — and the starchy scent of home — as well as Fellman does in his depiction of his characters’ trans family. Magnificent, he...

A reminder that the Notes from a Regicide ebook is still on sale for three bucks from Bookshop. Kindle edition is the same (and it seems Amazon has named it one of their Best Books of the Year So Far). They don't sell hardbacks at "fuck around and find out" prices, but!

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Love 2 drop my keys down the elevator shaft at 5pm the Friday before a long weekend.

Monday is approaching. Presenting at Terror Camp is on my life highlights reel - an incredible community of scholarship, fandom, and frequent goofiness. If you're thinking about submitting an abstract, just do it!

Screenshot of NYT article “A study published in the Lancet Gastroenterology and Hepatology found that after just three months of using an A.I. tool designed to help spot precancerous growths during colonoscopies, doctors were significantly worse at finding the growths on their own. This is the first evidence that relying on A.I. tools might erode a doctor's ability to perform fundamental skills without the technology, a phenomenon known as "deskilling."”

There are no shortcuts in this life. Destroy all the robots.

Now we have a name for an increasingly common phenomenon for people who rely on AI: “deskilling”

Windows Notepad, the native simple text editor, now has formatting options and a Copilot button.

Look what they did to Notepad. Shut the fuck up. This is Notepad. You are not welcome here. Oh yeah "Let me use Copilot for Notepad". "I'm going to sign into my account for Notepad". What the fuck are you talking about. It's Notepad.

Little Italy (College from Spadina to Ossington), Roncesvales, there's good stuff happening in the East end on Gerrard. Tons of medium sized vibrant neighbourhoods.

I'm rapidly chasing 40, make what would be considered a very decent salary in almost any part of the world, and I'm actively considering moving into a shared apartment so I'm not living paycheque to paycheque. 2025!

I have been a skeptic of Nova Scotia's South Shore my whole life ("It can't be that good!") and I have been proven the fool. It is indeed That Good.

I'm only halfway through Middlemarch but: Mary Garth is really a character for all time.

The White House is taking new steps to undermine every international student at our universities.

It has approved a new rule restricting student visas to 4 years max. That's not long enough for PhD students, or about half of undergrads, to finish their degree.

Likely to enter force within days.

My foster dog has a mystery leg injury and so I've been advised to take him out in a stroller and it looks even more silly than I thought it would. He loves it though.

Obsessed with this. Miss you both loads.

yeah, from a left wing perspective, I am troubled by a technology that represents a massive campaign of extraction that immiserates everyone who actually makes anything, enriches a handful of fascists with more money than satan, and uses untold volumes of natural resources. this is "reactionary"

Replacing caffeine with listening to the Mull River Shuffle every day before work.