Kate Gregory

The Montreal Canadiens are playing the Minnesota Wild in Minneapolis tonight. The players have been recommended to stay in/eat at the hotel, take the team bus to the arena, and carry passports.

Perhaps we shouldn't be hosting the World Cup and the Olympics...

Reminding people there are useful features on Bluesky like "Hide post for me" which can help if people are sharing something you don't want to see or keep seeing. (Can be like playing whack a mole if there are different people sharing different posts with the same content, but it does help.)

It's going to be a long fucking week for people who know anything about the Bronze age, or have the ability to look at a map.

The Bronze Age Mediterranean was famously highly interconnected. Helen having Egyptian or Ethiopian ancestors is way more plausible than Northern European!Odysseus.

"Maybe the city's full" says the man living in a 2.7 million dollar house on Palmerston, while sipping $170 scotch after defeating a multiplex proposal across the street.
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Email with the subject line "Kate, last week your posts reached 6 people" that continues enthusiastically to let me know my posts made an impact and my audience showed up.

New candidate for counter-productive email: (as far as I can recall I didn't make any posts, so this is very good performance, but still) 9/8

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Let’s meet up here. Please spread the word on this chance to be part of one of the most exciting things to happen in Toronto in decades.

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I once again need to mute a picture -- but you can't. People I follow, why are you putting it in front of me over and over again?

We’ve created the self-regarding allegedly erudite child-molesting monsters from Vladimir Nabokov’s novel “Don’t Create The Self-Regarding Allegedly Erudite Child-Molesting Monster”

reddit post

hmmm... "signal issue"

GO Train derailment

GO Train derailment

crews working on tracks

UNION STATION - SIGNAL ISSUE

GO Train derailed at Union Station.

GO says "signal issues" at Union.

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Global News is still fighting the good fight against the Ford government's lack of transparency. This is why we now know about this.

#OnPoli

Pump this directly into my veins:

A top GOP official in Texas says, "It looks like we f***ed ourselves with our gerrymandering. We watered down all the red districts to steal as many blue ones as possible and now the electorate hates us and our turnout is collapsing."

May this not be just a fluke.

Flu season (yellow) is winding down in Canada after a really difficult December/early January. RSV (red) is now rising later in the season, while COVID (blue) remains relatively flat, possibly picking up in the spring.

A print featuring a row of winter trees behind and reflected in a large puddle in a flooded green field

'Lakeside Puddles' linocut created by printmaker Alexandra Buckle #WomensArt

While January 2026 was a cold one in most of Ontario and Southern Quebec, warmer temperatures dominated elsewhere. Baffin Island and Ellesmere Island had their warmest January on record, with up to 11.4° above normal for Iqaluit - improving last year's record by more than a degree!

an orange cat is sitting in the sink amidst dirty coffee mugs, looking disappointed

If you guys don’t wash your cups, we’re going to have to have another meeting about it and last time that meeting did NOT have snacks

Tate’s Bake Shop Workers Allegedly Threatened With Deportation Due to Unionization Efforts Plus, NYC restaurateurs eagerly look forward to next boost of federal aid — and more intel

A friend recently bought me these Tiny Tates Gluten Free cookies and they're pretty delicious. I googled them to see where I could buy more but instead this popped up.

Gross. Evil.

I'll find another sweet treat.

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Louise, an archaeologist and digital creator (who's here at @louisearchaeology.bsky.social), contacted the British Museum and asked them what had happened on social media. (I think it was on Instagram.) "Instead of responding, they unfollowed me".

A sailing boat sales on a calm sea at dusk. The sunset reflects in the water with an orangey glow and mountains are dark in the background.

Today is Candlemas - which is a beautiful name. A chance to celebrate 'the return of light'

Artist: Roger Hall

A rare pink winter rose in Oregon, behind a fence. Beauty and pain.

"Hope does not mean saying this is not bad, and it does not mean saying that we can defeat it. It just means saying we will keep showing up. That we will not give up. ...we do not know how it will unfold, and neither do those we oppose."

From @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social's Meditations in an Emergency

Groundhog Moon
Roy Henry Vickers ~ Haida, Heiltsuk, Tsimshian
2005

Folks, I hate to break it to you, but if you think incontinence signals incompetence? That's ableism. It just is. No ifs. No buts.

And the social shame and other forms used to discipline this is one the first expressions of the shit (hah) Foucault was on about.

cops: knock knock

me: do you have a warrant

cops: ma'am we'd like to finish the joke

me: judge who

With all the *gestures around wildly* going on, I thought I’d re-up my gear recommendation for a hot protest where there’s likely to be gas deployed. This kit aims to solve two problems:

1. Stop the gas from settling on the skin of your face, head, and neck

2. Be cheap enough to throw away after

A looseleaf sheet of paper with the following writing: “Reminders. 1. You could spend forever working on this book and it would still not be perfect. 2. You will not please everyone and those people who aren’t pleased will probably never be pleased no matter what you do with this manuscript. 3. There are people who will read this work with interest. Write for those people. 4. You invested a lot of time in this work and it deserves to be read; the story deserves to be told. 5. You can finish a first draft of this manuscript. 6. The reviewers will ask for changes so you will have to revisit it anyway. So it is okay if it is not written as tightly as you would like.”

I just found this list of affirmations I wrote while trying to finish my book manuscript. I thought I’d post it for anyone working on any writing that they feel nervous about putting into the world. You can (and should) do it! #amwriting