Dana Bath

This is the first baseball game I've watched in 35-40 years and, as a Canadian, I'm having a good time.

Snow season is also snuggly season.

One of my cats (the one pictured in my avatar) has a perfectly adequate purr, but the other...his purr is the world's best purr, like an earthquake only snugglier. And even better? His snores. His snores are like grumpy little questions. "znnnzzn? ZNNNZZN?" TLDR: cat noises.

When people want something genuine, they (used to) refer to getting "the real McCoy." (I have no idea what people are saying today. Lol)

It turns out the phrase originated with people who needed a reliable steam engine. And the guy who made that phrase real was Elijah McCoy.

Book cover: Spinning by Tillie Walden. Library edition. Cartoon girls in figure skating costumes; pastel palette.

I've been reading a lot of Tillie Walden lately. So far, this one is my favourite. I also bought her Tarot deck; it's so pretty! 💡📚 💙📚

I'm listening to this now and it is riveting, but yes, very tough.

YouTube video by CBC News Trudeau: Canada will retaliate with 25% tariffs on $155B of U.S. goods

Here's the speech if you haven't heard it. 13 minutes of your time. Share it with your American friends and neighbours, because they won't see it otherwise. Circulate it in Mexico and Denmark, France and the UK, Panama and Germany, Poland and Estonia, and especially -- especially -- Ukraine.

Started listening to this yesterday and so far I'm captivated. A personal account of the Trad Wife experience under Christian patriarchy. 💙📚 💡📚

Go Ask Alice Part 1 with Carmen Maria Machado

Was haunted by this book through most of my adolescence. @yourewrongabout.bsky.social has a great podcast series revealing why it's not nonfiction after all: open.spotify.com/episode/67Tr...

My students are reading Lynda Barry's essay "The Sanctuary of School." Yesterday I passed around One Hundred Demons so they would know more about her genius. I reread some of it on the metro home. Twenty years on, it remains one of my greatest inspirations. 💙📚

Giving respite and reflection is also helping. Your Bluesky questions give people time to pause, to think, to remember what they are fighting for.

Japanese has a verb tense for talking about other people's realities. Instead of "Jan is happy," one has to say, "Jan appears to be/says she is happy," because we can't know anyone else's truth, only what they show/say about this truth. I think about this when I'm making assumptions about others.

I feel like I could've written Polly Barton's memoir of living/working in Japan if I were a lot smarter, better at Japanese, and knowledgeable about philosophy. That is: I couldn't have written it at all, but it resonates eerily with my experience. It is also full of profound reflections. 💙📚 💡📚

It does sound very altruistic, doesn't it? His motivations turn out to be pretty complex, though. It's interesting.

I am very much enjoying this weird little memoir. Man who rents himself out to "just be there" for strangers answers some questions. 💙📚

If you see this, post a fictional artist or band that you would love to see live. www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5cg...

I was about to finish my BA and leave town for good. My two best dorm friends and I were studying in the common room when the biggest thunderstorm of the year hit. We abandoned our books and ran out to the parking lot to dance in the downpour.

Take a screenshot of this GIF, and whichever new word you land on is YOUR word for 2025.

May the odds be ever in your favor.