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Interested in poetry, screenwriting. Some unrelated day job. Edmonton, Canada
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Everybody knows that the boat is leaking Everybody knows that the captain lied Everybody got this broken feeling Like their father or their dog just died Everybody knows the fight was fixed The poor stay poor, the rich get rich That's how it goes Everybody knows ~Leonard Cohen Portrait Igor Postash

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

The letter to the Times opposing the government's plans to change copyright law is worth reading. "There is no moral or economic argument for stealing our copyright. Taking it away will devastate the industry and steal the future of the next generation." www.thetimes.com/comment/lett...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

this Adrienne Rich poem from the @yalereview.bsky.social archives sucker punched me this am

submitted 7 days ago • 6 comments

“Poetry is never about dominance. Poetry is powerful but it cannot ever aspire to dominate anyone. It means making a connection.” -- June Jordan

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

So, @acoyne often lets hysteria get the better of him, but not here👇🏻. Every last syllable is on the mark. 🍁🙄🍁

submitted 12 days ago • 28 comments

Remember to back up your Kindle library if you have one before Amazon shuts this feature off. After the 26th you'll be totally at their mercy. Also remember to stop buying books at Amazon. www.theverge.com/news/612898/...

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

globalnews.ca/news/1101459...

submitted 12 days ago • 30 comments

Incredible.

submitted 12 days ago • 80 comments

That our biggest newspaper chain is foreign owned was probably never a good idea. But as we face an erratic US president it becomes more urgent to ask: If Postmedia needed to choose between what’s good for its American owners and what’s good for Canada, what would they choose? How would we know?

submitted 14 days ago • 52 comments

The grief and anger I feel over the Tulsi Gabbard confirmation. Ukrainians and Syrians are some of the most vulnerable to her Kremlin disinformation. Gabbard is to foreign policy what RFK Jr. is to healthcare.

submitted 14 days ago • 17 comments

Reminder that this is happening today.

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

This is a great article about what it will take to get ready for a future with more fire. Also: get ready for a lot more smoke. Free version here: climateinstitute.ca/jasper-los-a...

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

NEW: NOAA employees were ordered to give an engineer from Elon Musk's DOGE task force access to all of the agency's Google sites by the end of business Wednesday. Nothing in the engineer's background suggests any special expertise relevant to his new role.

submitted 21 days ago • 61 comments

Kim’s work at albertaworker.ca is some of the best labour commentary out there. Give him a follow

submitted 22 days ago • 2 comments

if you told a senior engineer at any company in the world that you had given an intern read/write access to their codebase they would have a stroke

submitted 22 days ago • 4 comments

“Why is Elon’s coup not on the front page of the New York Times???” idk, probably because the NYT is a puzzle game app that happens to also release articles about how trans people aren’t real but are also somehow a menace. It’s like asking why there isn’t a sonnet printed on your toilet paper

submitted 23 days ago • 42 comments

I'm kind of surprised that in light of the anti-trans policymaking in the US, Canadian politicians AFAIK haven't yet done the reminder that happened w/abortion: Canada doesn't extradite those charged with crimes (say, trans clinical care) to countries where the thing isn't a crime in Canada.

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

Saw this over at the bad place, and it made me laugh.😂

submitted 28 days ago • 569 comments

This by Dan Savage is I think important to keep top of mind. It speaks to the point I made earlier that bad news is never the only news.

submitted 30 days ago • 57 comments

Alberta Medical Association statement regarding the report of the Alberta COVID-19 Pandemic Data Review Task Force

submitted 30 days ago • 9 comments

This morning's quick reminder: generative AI is a natural resource-guzzling plagiarism machine that exploits creatives to enrich tech bros. Do not use it to create art or writing. Do not conduct "fun" experiments with it to show us how awful it is. There is no ethical use for AI. Let it die.

submitted 33 days ago • 25 comments

When a single billionaire can accumulate more money in 10 seconds than their employees make in one year, while workers struggle to meet the basic cost of rent and medicine, then yes, every billionaire really is a policy failure. Read our op-ed here ⤵️

submitted 34 days ago • 414 comments

Elon Musk's X has suspended Mark Carney For PM So much for free speech ...

submitted 36 days ago • 232 comments

Hey everyone! Sign a pegition to send Danielle Smith a message that Albertans want an election called? www.change.org/p/urge-premi...

submitted 37 days ago • 13 comments

To share, please go grab an e-reader friendly PDF of any issue of Stanchion Magazine for free with code LIGHT. Inside each you'll find short fiction, poetry, photography & more. I recommend issues 10, 13 or 15 to start: www.stanchionzine.com/product-page... www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

Lots of reporting suggested that, this time around, Trump and his lawyers would avoid the sloppy legal work that plagued his first administration so they’d fare better in the courts. I see no evidence of that in this round of executive orders. This is poor, slipshod work obviously assisted by AI.

submitted 36 days ago • 202 comments