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Bibliophile. Reader. Dad. “How are you so burnt when you’re barely on fire”
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It's funny being remote and hating your job and saying things like "I gotta get out of this place" but the place is like your house

submitted 23 hours ago • 25 comments

My trivia team needs a substitute tonight. If you wanna come and play trivia with us I'll buy you one (1) beer, hit me up in messages

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Went with my kid to see Dr. Strangelove which has somehow become a documentary.

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

Cyclops is the most boring Xman and every time I see him topping a hero’s list I’m like, why. Why. Give me a mutant Canadian or devilish looking German any day.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Maybe I just don’t remember it but I don’t think there was ever a corresponding trend of articles about conservative parents cutting off their gay kids, which was a thing that absolutely happened en masse in the 90s and aughts as gay culture mainstreamed

submitted 3 days ago • 16 comments

Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

submitted 4 days ago • 1307 comments

Alberta gets head start on life as a U.S. state by banning books (Podcast)

submitted 5 days ago • 26 comments

We're turning 53 tomorrow, May 29th! Join us in-store and online for 15% off used books, and 10% off all new books! We'll have cookies, too. 👀 (in-store only, sadly. Web cookies are inedible).

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments

SO much worse than regular jail. I mean, the poutine alone…

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Why did no one tell me that library cards are so op in Canada, like, I went to get one today and I have access to like 11 different apps to browse books, magazines, songs, movies, comics, manga, audiobooks, language learning apps and I even have fucking LinkedIn learning for free?????

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

#FundraiserPerk This beautiful art print CLAW OF THE CONCILIATOR by Don Maitz could hang on your wall. Grab it today. Donate at igg.me/at/locusmag2025 or through our bio!

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Two of these targeted books are two famous and highly acclaimed graphic novels: Fun Home, by Alison Bechdel; Blankets, by Craig Thompson. We do not need this kind of bigotry in Canada. Both are appropriate for high school readers. Someone call the CBDLF.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

How can anyone eat more than 1 large pancake?

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

A few years ago someone told to me that men aren’t taught to be men, they’re just taught to be terrified of being thought womanly, and that this demonization of “things women are or do” is just blunt misogyny, which is also behind homophobia and transphobia, and they were 100% right.

submitted 10 days ago • 49 comments

Everyone is reporting that X is down. But 3D artists know that X is not down, it is right. -Y is usually down. Though in 3DSMax it is -Z.

submitted 11 days ago • 24 comments

UN Declaration of human rights Article 9 No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

www.reddit.com/r/pics/s/VKq...

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Science Fiction is when you call it Terra, Fantasy is when you call it Gaia

submitted 62 days ago • 43 comments