Shauna

"Looking into a mirror that makes you insane" is the sort of story that has been told in countless iterations for centuries and yet here he were

*Aughts movie announcer voice*

In the glow. Of the beaver moon. An unholy alliance forms, to topple a despotic toupee, and the vaguely man-shaped object festering beneath it.

Man was not expecting Canada *and* Mamdani.

ARRRRRRRGH!!!!

I... am pretty sure David Frum just tried to say Mamdani said that all our problems are Israel's fault, on Metro Morning? Did I hear that wrong?

I am thinking I must have... I can't imagine David Common would have just let that stand. Though at this point, we know what plays like that are worth.

Public good is cool again. Eat shit, Reaganomics.

Please tell me the NDP is taking notes. Please.

I really don’t understand why it’s so hard for certain people to understand that Mamdani is doing so well because he is advocating for more than “keep Trump from taking the few good and/or semi-decent things that remain” and is articulating a real vision for how to make New York better.

We are complicated. And that is okay.

And people *all over the world* can rhyme off Mandani's key campaign planks. It's amazing.

I think this house is now required to have candy-powered laundry. The logic’s unassailable.

Me: Okay, time to learn laundry. Like you promised.
11yo: I need a bribe. Candy.
Me: You do not. No one gives me candy when I do laundry.
11yo: There’s candy. You don’t even need to ask permission. That’s a you-problem. My terms are candy for laundry.

Touché, little fucker. Touché.

It’s my turn to clean the staff room at work today and it’s a damn good thing. I’m useless for anything else. Too excited about too many things.

You cannot put the Jays, Halloween and the new Florence and the Machine album release on the same day. I will simply explode.

If Jays pull this off, there’s definitely going to be a movie about this season. The characters are just too good.

I sincerely hope this is the workers just absolutely fucking with him. It's going to be the rebuilt-Flanders'-house of ballrooms. Happy entertaining, shithead.

Nothing will ever add up, because this guy is just a geyser of shit spraying through an interdimensional portal that somehow is always creating more shit. He's tapped into the higgs boson of shit. Like it was some kind of lost force none of us were correctly accounting for.

Reagan worship is always a bad idea, and the ad falls in that category. But it is not "what killed the talks." Trump, not wanting a deal, killed the talks.

Trump was going to blow up trade talks no matter what. He knew about the ad Monday. Deals kept happening all week. Carney came out with some details, and Trump sold him out with literally anything he had, because he doesn't want a deal. He wants vassal states.

Stop trying to have a deal. Move on.

It is so cute and quaint, and the sweetest way to get to know neighbours. I hope it never stops.

Something I will never get over about librarianing in a fairly small town: when people get their overdue notices, they just scoot over and return their books. But, like, TO MY HOUSE. 🤣

Juncos are here! Perfect fall day, now that their little round butts are bouncing around the feeders.

The work on the Gardiner being done *this* early feels a bit… what part did they forget to do?

RIP to D’Angelo. He brought the highly skilled playful raunch back to R&B after a few years of sappy sentimentality. No one did it like him before or since.

Libraries Can’t Get Their Loaned Books Back Because of Trump’s Tariffs Libraries have shared their collections internationally for decades. Trump’s tariffs are throwing that system into chaos and can ‘hinder academic progress.’

Trump's second term has been a nightmare for research and data management in so many ways. One small, unsung impact? His tariffs are stopping inter-library loans from moving internationally: www.404media.co/libraries-ca...

Five and a half years in, I just caught myself getting excited to see the handsome man friend in sweaters again.

He wears the hell out of a sweater. Knives Out-level sweater game on this man.

On Being a GenAI Killjoy Maggie Fernandes, University of Arkansas Photo by Maksim Romashkin on Pexels.com At a recent teaching talk about GenAI refusal, an audience member asked Megan, Jen, and me this question: how d…

I wrote this blog about how feeling like a killjoy whenever I talk about GenAI.
refusinggenai.wordpress.com/2025/10/09/o...

“Traditional knowledge really has a story of today and the future, but it also connects us to the past. So when the first plants started reviving themselves, we realized something much bigger and more interconnected was unfolding.”

Creatures buried in soil for over a century burst back to life in Toronto waterfront A project to restore coastal wetland leads to astonishing discoveries of a host of life: seeds and plant scraps, as well as water fleas, worms, larvae and plankton

The way Ookwemin Minising is bouncing back as soon as the colonizing dirt is scraped off feels like the kind of metaphor that gets so big it becomes reality. I hope it does.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

I’ll never understand why some runs suck and some are phenomenal. I was up from 1am-3am writing something up for work. Almost went back to bed at 6.

Instead, got the springiest, happiest jog in. Hard, glittery stars and a still blue heron hunting by the light of a big, big moon.