Darren of 🇨🇦

Ugh day shift.

You should be using alt text.

Okay so I'm not really keeping up with the idea...

I've been very... Depressed lately. It's the world, really. But I'm going to try to crawl back to social media here.

Gotta stay connected! Ha. Haha. :/

Just left First Tuesday Muse, presented some poetry. I'll post one to @alttextpoetry.bsky.social later!

Quebec Premier François Legault Reacts to U.S. Tariffs Quebec Premier François Legault reacts to U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to place 25% tariffs on Canadian products entering the United States. (no interpretation)

For my Quebec friends. Legault will be speaking soon regarding tariff's
www.cpac.ca/headline-pol...

This time it's for all of us - Team Canada! Let's go!!

Omg get me out of work...!

Oh I already posted it in the OG thread...!

OMG man, ED too?? We'll have to fight over her. (Hahahaa, no we won't!)

I didn't see this before I went about finding it and copying the ALT text in.

It's such a beautiful poem. One of the first ones I ever decided to own! (Memorized!)

The Darkling Thrush by Thomas Hardy I leant upon a coppice gate When Frost was spectre-grey, And Winter's dregs made desolate The weakening eye of day. The tangled vine-stems scored the sky Like strings of broken lyres, And all mankind that haunted nigh Had sought their household fires. The land's sharp features seemed to be The Century's corpse outleant, His crypt the cloudy canopy, The wind his death-lament. The ancient pulse of germ and birth Was shrunken hard and dry, And every spirit upon earth Seemed fervourless as I. At once a voice arose among The bleak twigs overhead In a full-hearted evensong Of joy illimited; An aged thrush, frail, gaunt, and small, In blast-beruffled plume, Had chosen thus to fling his soul Upon the growing gloom. So little cause for carolings Of such ecstatic sound Was written on terrestrial things Afar or nigh around, That I could think there trembled through His happy good-night air Some blessed Hope, whereof he knew And I was unaware

This immediately brought to mind one of absolutely favourite poems. 'The Darkling Thrush', by Thomas Hardy.

I just posted a fresh new poem over at @alttextpoetry.bsky.social - go check out 'A Tarnishing of Silver'! #poem #poetrysky #poetsofBluesky

AI is bad for the environment, and the problem is bigger than energy consumption When asked to suggest solutions for environmental challenges, chatbots reflected biases. This could have harmful effects on how we understand and communicate climate change.

AI is bad for the environment, and the problem is bigger than energy consumption
theconversation.com/ai-is-bad-fo...

I'm going to try to publish a poem before the day is done, over at @alttextpoetry.bsky.social

It's a melancholy little piece about a Facebook unfriending.

Yeah, I know FB sucks... Ha! Anyway, I'll post later. Check it!

War is peace
Freedom is slavery
Ignorance is strength.

I really don't want to work today. But I will. And immediately afterward I will have a power nap!!

Ohpleaseohpleaseohplease....!

Well that's a bedtime. A little early, but feels so right... :) Goodnight!

20 years of Pierre Poilievre is enough.

I don't want to work in the morning. But at least I have a good partner.

I'm the kind of guy that rescues silverfish from the tub.

This will tell you all you need to know about my politics.

Again, this won't be a 'boom and blam' assualt. No weapon protects - or deters - trade wars.

They're just a nasty anti-human liability.

Oh I realize they've won the White House. I meant takeover Canada.

It is, definitely the more likely. But I still think there is a LONG way from here to there, and the real threat isn't from 'boom blam' conflict, but far more insidious and economic ones.

If the fascists win, it won't be by military action: nukes would be useless.

Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent.

Opportunities are everywhere.

Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉

Some giant inflatable nukes ought to do the job without the risk unaliving everything... And this admin will totally buy it.

Presto! Problem solved.

I don't see any point in protecting the sovereignty of *any* nation if it might make the whole planet unlivable.

Nuclear weapons are a total affront to biological life. They are antithesis to humanity.

That's it. That's all.