Island Mel

As a Canadian I find this spot on.

Ex publisher here. Most of us want to publish the books we love and authors we like working with, but the business no longer allows us to. I ran a press trying to do that. I published authors who were good but not savvy on social, and I lost my shirt. So now I publish zero authors.

Canadian here: it's all a little too terrifying to laugh. Many of your neighbours to the North are watching in frustration, wondering when you are going to hit the tipping point down there and do something to end this disturbing chapter.

Woah. So tone deaf.

Saw it as a small child, and I still get nervous if there are too many crows around.

I got you beat. Went out to buy mouse traps.

A great book for those trying to understand why harm reduction & safe supply are needed. @garthmullins.bsky.social uses story and experience to make a compelling case. And it's a pleasure to read. Which is weird given the topic, but true nonetheless.

Yes. This.

A Fresh Opportunity to Get Elections Right | The Tyee BC has launched a special committee on electoral reform. Twenty years ago, the BC Citizens’ Assembly made a bold recommendation.

Electoral reform is so desperately needed. This is good news. thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

You forgot you had a basement? That's wild!

Anything but IPA!

That's awesome!

This makes so much more sense than policing language. Thanks for sharing.

Yes! My mental health requires hikes. It's maintenance of the system.

I'm in a cafe, and two women wearing gumboots and shorts just walked in.
It's a sign that I'm exactly where I should be in the world.

If this means deepening our commitment to oil, I'm not in favour.

And about time! The en-dash is the least understood punctuation mark.

Thanks for honoring him. John Prine was in the soundtrack of my childhood, and knowledge of his music has always been a way to identify kindred spirits. Losing him in 2020 was awful.

I hope this is a sign that we are all done with the pendulum swing to the right.

Cheese sweats will do him in.

Here on the West Coast there is little overlap between the convoy crowd & elbows up folk. Convoy crowd seems to welcome a Trump takeover. So the comparison doesn't work.

I do have one more library I can try. I'm in Canada - we have the same thing. I just haven't set up mu secondary library.

I have a 24-week wait! It may be a while...

Ooo...looks good. Just put a copy on hold at the library.

Stunning!

Yes. The only fix for the housing crisis is more low cost housing.

I'd thought the takedown was a rare case of the market weeding out bad actors. And I still do, but I think the class warfare idea in this piece makes a lot of sense.

It's worth a visit. It's a quick stop on the way to San Josef Bay.

Did you know the island monkey trees are all said to be the children of a tree near the north tip of the island in Ronning Garden? It's a garden starte by, I think, Finnish seller at the turn of the 20th century. It's near Holberg.

What some of us liked about the Liberal party is they sometimes gave a crap about equality. This is not furthering any kind equality. Stop pandering to the right.