it's lizzy

Burn it to the ground, salt the earth.

Data and Riker chilling in a trailer and blasting cigs

It’s the freakin weekend

Two of one hundred college drawings by Cindy Rehm as part of The Seers, a project using images largely sourced from historic books at the Internet Archive. The right featues a feather, a seated woman's bare back, a statue of a nude woman, and the Moon, all arranged over the features of a cat's face. The left depicts a statue of a nude woman, a vase, shells, and a dress.

Helen Louise Bailey scrapbook, 1920.

Enter a world of mystic cats and feminist histories 🐈✨

Internet Archive's latest #ArtistInResidence Cindy Rehm brings collections to life in THE SEERS, using archived works on women, mysticism, cats, and craft to create bold new #feministart.

Learn more ⤵️
blog.archive.org/2026/02/19/t...

the president is mad, i'm smoking a big slab of beef rib, all my work deadlines are on time, yeah what the hell. i declare an emergency Big Beer Friday

a windows 11 menu showing "convert to adobe pdf", "ask copilot", and 4 more options that take time to load

windows 11 update: for the first time in my life, simply right clicking a file has a load time. unreal

nobody says "AFAIK" or "YMMV" anymore. we must rediscover humility

If you don’t read old stuff you’ll never discover that people in the olden days had the same thoughts and feelings and dreams and anxieties you do, sometimes articulated differently, sometimes exactly the same way. You are never truly alone in anything and old writings are a neon sign telling you so

The most vital lesson of yesterday is that, together, we can win.

New 'elbows up' just dropped: Protecting our sovereignty by destroying our capacity to tell our country's history.

Ask any Canadian historian and they will tell you that things were already extremely dire at Library and Archives Canada. Not sure it will even be functional after this.

Winnipeg, this is your reading for the day! Follow the delegations against Councillor Duncan’s disastrous anti-protest bylaw below

Polite City, Loud Streets: Protesting in Calgary with Dr. Roberta Lexier | Hot Dogs & Hot Takes on History — The Confluence Debunk myths. Debate opinions. Eat hot dogs. Is Calgary really as politically quiet and conservative as its reputation suggests? Or has protest always been part of the city’s DNA — easier to overlook...

YYC folks: I’m giving a talk at the Confluence on Thursday evening about the history of protest in the city. Join me!

www.theconfluence.ca/events/hdht-...

Duncan blames us for misreading his draft bylaw, but since we (sadly) live in a colony bound by written laws, it’s his responsibility to make sure the bylaw says what he means. You can’t charge that we should “read the report”; the report ≠ the law!

But there’s no amending this, just abandon it

Mayor’s public safety policy file: status update. Don’t stand down speak-up Winnipeg about this & contact me with questions or concerns srollins@winnipeg.ca

very good explanation of why not to feed images into an image generator, especially when memorializing children after a devastating tragedy.

better not to use image generators at all.

Look at number 4. Look at him go.

Have the police considered the stupid fucking height of the vehicle in question

Winnipeg, MB. Just in my inbox via Councillor Duncan's office, so I thought I would post for those who've been following this issue, given timelines & delegations tomorrow.

Toddler dead after pedestrian collision in southwest Calgary | CBC News Calgary police say a toddler is dead after a collision in at the intersection of Horton Road S.W. and Hull Avenue S.W., just by Macleod Trail, on Sunday.

Road violence is a political choice. How much carnage will our leaders tolerate before they take drastic action? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

“The chaos that is unfolding south of us right now is a clear indicator that it’s coming our way and if we don’t put these things in place to stop that, it’s going to be your neighborhood next”

Is Duncan saying Winnipeg is banning actions similar to the Twin Cities resistance to ICE violence? WHY

Okay. This is very important. If you like to laugh, you have to go see NIRVANNA THE BAND THE SHOW THE MOVIE. I am floating

Poster for Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie

Man I am so glad my tax dollars paid for this

it simply is true

a winnipeg rapid transit bus and a pickup truck head-on collision that crumpled the hood of the truck. the bus banner says “SORRY”

a winnipeg transit bus hovering awkwardly behind a smashed up sedan. the bus is steadfastly avoiding eye contact but its banner reads “SORRY”

a winnipeg transit bus facing a cop car as if they are two people in a hallway who shifting the same direction so neither can pass. it’s awkward. the bus banner reads “SORRY”

a winnipeg transit bus slumping away, guiltily. the banner sign on the back reads “SORRY”

current favourite genre of photo: winnipeg bus looking sheepish

Canada must support Cuba "You cannot ‘live within the lie’ of mutual benefit through integration when integration becomes the source of your subordination.”

Mark Carney said that Canada is "considering" sending aid to Cuba.

Before COVID, one million Canadians visited Cuba every year. Their convertavle peso is pegged to the Canadian Dollar. I argue that we need to send fuel and supplies ASAP, regardless of Trump.

noraloreto.substack.com/p/canada-mus...

An photo of a table on the Mezzanine level of the UW Archives. On the table are boxes from a recent donation that are being prepared for the Rare Book Room.

Do you have a piece of UW or downtown Winnipeg history you want to preserve? Let us know at archives.uwinnipeg.ca!

We collect records from the University and its preceding colleges, community or activist groups in the Downtown and West End, as well as Indigenous organizations and individuals.

Five hours left!

A medieval illustration of a hedgehog with grapes skewered on its spines

It was believed in medieval times that hedgehogs had spikes so they could roll over fruit to carry home to their children, which is not true but is a really cute idea

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

more people should take the better call saul/wet hot american summer tv series approach to de-aging for flashbacks which is "maybe a wig i guess who cares"

The Tumbler Ridge shooting is already fuelling anti-trans hate in Canada | Xtra Magazine Bad actors on the right are leaping to connect the shooter’s trans identity to the violence

NEW from me today:

Tumbler Ridge is mourning a horrific loss. But how the shooter's identity is being talked about online, and the dangerous links being made to trans people at large, will have resounding and dangerous impacts in the months and weeks to come.

xtramagazine.com/power/tumble...