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Photo shared by Christina Nguyen on December 04, 2025 tagging @naomi.marie__, @nathanmiller612, @rubyscher, @holaarepa, @birksg, @chefjholig, and @haihaimpls. May be an image of text that says 'AS SOME OF YOU MAY HAVE HEARD, I.C.E. PAID US A VISIT AT AREPA YESTERDAY. OUR GM NAOMI & TEAM MEMBERS FOLLOWED OUR ICE PROTOCOL PERFECTLY, THE AGENTS LEFT & NO ONE WAS DETAINED. tO WHOEVER NEEDS THIS: KNOW YOUR RIGHTS WHEN IT COMES TO I.C.E. (1/5)'. christinanguyenmpls 11h We had an ICE scare yesterday and even though we’re afraid of the repercussions of being vocal, we feel that it’s also important to inform people that this is right at our front door. ICE is not some far away boogeyman. They are here right now, spreading fear in our community. We’re so grateful to our entire staff and their bravery. They did the right things and couldn’t have dealt with this situation in a better way. We are grateful to our community activists that came to support us from @miracmn @litosonlake and Monarcha. We hope that if you find yourself in the same situation, that you find these resources helpful. Peace and take care of each other ❤️

Photo by Christina Nguyen on December 04, 2025. May be an image of text that says 'IF I.C.E. COMES TO YOUR RESTAURANT: UNLESS THE AGENTS HAVE A SIGNED JUDICIAL WARRANT, THEY CANNOT ENTER A PRIVATE AREA LIKE THE KITCHEN WITHOUT YOUR PERMISSION EVEN IF THEY LIE AND SAY THY DON'T NEED A WARRANT, STAND YOUR GROUND AND INSIST THAT YOU NEED PAPERWORK (2/5)'.

Photo by Christina Nguyen on December 04, 2025. May be an image of text that says 'IF I.C.E. COMES TO YOUR RESTAURANT: HAVE OTHER STAFF OR PEOPLE PRESENT RECORD THEM AND EVERYTHING THEY ARE SAYING. (PEOPLE DOING UNLAWFUL THINGS HATE BEING CAUGHT IN TH ACT) YOU HAVE THE RIGHT to REFUSE SERVICE & YOU CAN ASK M tO LEAVE YOUR PRIVATE PROPERTY IF THY DON'T HAVE A WARRANT. (3/5)'.

WE ARE HEARTBROKEN THAT OUR IMMIGRANT COMMUNITIES IN THE TWIN CITIES ARE BEING TARGETED AND TERRORIZED BY THE CURRENT ADMINISTRATION. THESE ARE REAL PEOPLE THAT ARE BEING USED AS POLITICAL PAWNS AND IT'S APPALLING. REGARDLESS OF THEIR LEGAL STATUS, THERE ARE SO MANY LATINOS & SOMALIANS WHO ARE AFRAID OF BEING DETAINED DUE TO MISTAKEN IDENTITY BECAUSE THEY KNOW THEY MIGHT NOT GET DUE PROCESS & A FAIR TRIAL. THEY WILL JUST END UP IN DETENTION CENTERS & A LEGAL PROCESS THAT HAS BEEN DESCRIBED AS A BLACK HOLE. WE STAND IN SUPPORT OF OUR IMMIGRANT COMMUNITY, WHO ARE THE BACKBONE OF THIS COUNTRY. WITHOUT IMMIGRANTS, AMERICA IS NOT THE SAME PLACE. STAY SAFE OUT THERE & TAKE CARE OF YOUR NEIGHBORS. LOVE, HOLA AREPA & HAI HAI (5/5)

ICE raided a James Beard award winning restaurant & because the chef/owner was prepared, left emptyhanded:

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Creative Constraints Workshop Series In a series of 90 minute Zoom sessions, explore how creative limits can reroute writing habits, silence the inner critic and open up new ways of making a poem. After a general introduction on constraints, special topics will include: The Cento (Dagne Forrest) Hermit Crab Poetry (Rayya Liebich) Erasure (Erin Bedford) & Poetic Forms (Jade Liu) first workshop: January 18, 2026 register or find out more at pinholepoetry.ca/events PINHOLE POETRY $15 per session or $50 for all 5

Creative Constraints Workshop Series
In a series of 90 minute Zoom sessions, explore how creative limits can reroute writing habits, silence the inner critic and open up new ways of making a poem.

register & find out more at pinholepoetry.ca/events

enjoy your snow day!

contractors next door blasting ABBA: Fernando.

it's that other half hour time zone by the grand banks.

excerpt from an article in the Guardian. The excerpt reads: "Anthropic’s chief scientist says AI autonomy could spark a beneficial ‘intelligence explosion’ – or be the moment humans lose control Robert Booth UK technology editor Tue 2 Dec 2025 12.37 GMT Humanity will have to decide by 2030 whether to take the “ultimate risk” of letting artificial intelligence systems train themselves to become more powerful, one of the world’s leading AI scientists has said. Jared Kaplan, the chief scientist and co-owner of the $180bn (£135bn) US startup Anthropic, said a choice was looming about how much autonomy the systems should be given to evolve. The move could trigger a beneficial “intelligence explosion” – or be the moment humans end up losing control. In an interview about the intensely competitive race to reach artificial general intelligence (AGI) – sometimes called superintelligence – Kaplan urged international governments and society to engage in what he called “the biggest decision”. Anthropic is part of a pack of frontier AI companies including OpenAI, Google DeepMind, xAI, Meta and Chinese rivals led by DeepSeek, racing for AI dominance. Its widely used AI assistant, Claude, has become particularly popular among business customers."

nothing to see here. nothing at all.

www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

iterations — storied selves I’m not one for outlines. I tend to write my way in (or, when sewing, stitch my way in). I’m also not one for pre-designed patterns. I want to find my own way through rather than follow a path estab...

Are you a pantser, or a plotter... and is there really that much difference between them?

In my latest blog post, I'm thinking about massaging texts and textiles and about the value of taking time to really think and dream.

www.storiedselves.ca/blog/iterati...

I am *wrecked* today! Clearly the last week was a busy one. All I want to do is sleep. But if I sleep now, I won't sleep tonight.

home again after a rich and full week away, and there is ontbijtkoek and chocoladehagel and beemsterkaas for breakfast.... which are all tastier than the overly-sweet day-old muffins my personal travel budget allowed for in St. John's.

I would say "next time," but.... (I do know that Joey is currently hanging somewhere at Memorial University Press, so if you are near there anytime they'd probably be fine with you playing then 😜

And here is a blog post about the launch, with more photos (and even some of the game show questions!)

www.storiedselves.ca/blog/launching

moose is much leaner than store bought beef. And moose chili is awesome.

screenshot of a tumblr post from user “wildmansters” The thing that really boils my potatoes about Al in general is that I have been a creative professional for over a decade now and the devil has ALWAYS been in the details. Big and small, I've had single-person businesses rip me to shreds over how their colors turned out on newsprint, and have worked with huge companies with THICK brand guidelines with every detail of their brand identity laid out and enforced with an iron fist. But I guess all of that stuff doesn't matter anymore? Who gives a fuck if this Al generated baby has six fingers, that mom-and-pop shop is still going to use it. That rug from Temu says Happy Thanksgivirg? Oh well haha it's just a silly funny thing now (nevermind that you never would have given a B-grade item from a craft show the same consideration). I don't actually care that the Al Coca-cola ad has a truck that changes size every scene, but I can't help but think about how, if it had been some poor underpaid artist, they would have been laughed out of the building. I don't really know how to put it in a succint way but it just feels all the more obvious how much more grace and flexibility has always been possible but never offered.

i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao

Do you know @curioushermit.bsky.social (who wrote that chapter)? You'd likely find a lot of things in common: she did and undergrad in folklore and gender studies and then went on and did Masters and PhD in gender studies!

With thanks to @acantle.bsky.social for the photo of us (@vickihallett.bsky.social, Angela, and me) wearing bow ties in honour of Joey Smallwood, and to Jen d'Eon for the bow ties Vicki and I were wearing. And of course, so many thanks to @memorialup.bsky.social for shepherding this book into being!

a long table with copies of Dear Mr. Smallwood stacked across it. Behind the table is a glass display case.

a photo of three smiling women wearing bow ties and glasses.

book launching and what a time we had! We wanted a kitchen party vibe, and I think we managed it! Such. Great. Energy. Thanks to all contributors (both writers/researchers & folks behind the scenes), all who celebrated with us, and all who wrote to Joey in the first place!

@memorialup.bsky.social

I had to bring three boxes for friends this time around, so didn't have room for more, or I could have brought you another box!

thanks for coming!

Heavily darned child's stocking recovered during recent excavation of the historic rubbish tip on which much of Copenhagen's Amalienborg neighborhood is built. Up close & personal, with fascinating conversations with the responsible archaeologists at the city's Archaeological Workshop this afternoon

red berries along a riddle fence

a narrow paved road with colourful houses crowded along the edges.

a set of rickety yellow fences and a path leading up to an equally rickety yellow building

a sign that reads The Battery, and below it another sign that reads City of St. John's with an arrow pointing to the right.

Today I breathed in the Outer Battery

hate it when that happens. I mean, great that it was good, but....

Right? An 'interview' with chatgpt on par with an interview with a real, live human, and written so that it seemed like the ai was there to confirm what the human - the *actual expert* - had said. I wrote the reporter and said citing fundamentally unreliable sources didn't even count as journalism.

Clearly I wasn't the only one who was irate about this.

as they should! But it shouldn't have been there in the first place....

Will look forward to meeting them!

Can you see Newfoundland from Cape Breton? Online photo sparks debate | CBC News An online photo has sparked a passionate debate about whether or not it's possible.

Dear Erin Pottie at CBC: you're asking AI a question as though it's an expert? And then putting that response on par with a human expert? And writing that into your story? Seriously? Not impressed by my national broadcaster.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

thanks!

Today's the day! Come celebrate with us: readings, games, prizes, refreshments, merriment.... and books!

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.