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Wrote a piece on the imperative of having copies.

Toronto driver not sure where to park after city removes bike lanes

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Oooo it's out on Radio Canada.

Today I discovered a very underviewed sex work history channel that has been posting clips of French sex worker activists around the famous 1975 church occupations. I knew some trans women were involved but never saw video footage, and thought you all might enjoy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVa3...

My hosting service got an abuse report about my profile of ex-trans activist Aaron Kimberly, objecting to my coverage of Kimberly's past activity like being a Genspect advisor, "inappropriate and unwanted behaviour,” etc. So I gathered all the receipts: www.transgendermap.com/issues/topic...

I love 22 minutes.

"A zine for homo dykes and punks and their friends." When Tom Jennings started Homocore in 1989, he put an ad in the much larger Maximum RocknRoll in hopes of reaching readers interested in a queer punk zine: archive.org/details/mrr_...

I went to the Evil Dead musical last night. It was a blast. I'm of the opinion that the musical is superior to the movie its based off of. 🩸

The list is even stupider than expected.

My library is now guarded by a fern. Please say hello.

An Ottawa driver driving in the bicycle lane. He wasn't turning right either, not that it would have made it better.

Heated Rivalry cost $3 million per episode, about $18 million in total. It was the biggest show on TV last year. This whole endeavour will cost around 3+ Heated Rivalries. But instead, Doug is cutting funding to everything else, including universities, to fund roads being torn up.

Ottawa book launch this weekend, I'm looking forward to it! I'll be chatting friendship & community-building with Adrienne Row-Smith, @alexisshotwell.bsky.social, and.... you? 🥺👉🏻👈🏻

I'm so excited to have these atlases in my hands. One day paper maps will go the way of the typewriter: cherished because they are tactile/legit better in some regards, but extinct in favour of "free" ad-delivering always-connected services that sell your data.

Thank goodness.

Ce soir, le référendum albertain.

Chantal Hébert nailed it when she defined the Alberta sovereignty movement as not being "for" anything.

This should be getting more attention than it is. This is what AI is actually being used for: Amazon uses AI surveillance to monitor union risk in UK warehouses - tech giant collects ‘hundreds of data points’ for ‘union-busting’ AI model tinyurl.com/5dnmdhtr

Hey Canada, the CBC just shared this documentary for free:

The path to getting good at something is being bad at something.

Via Ferrata in Mont Tremblant.

New art on my wall. Bytowne photograph by Caleb Ficner. Elgin Street Diner photograph by Curtis Perry.

It's striking how Dem leadership jump through hoops to avoid confronting the source of the manufactured panics - be it the 50% tariffs on Canada or trans people. How insulated by wealth must you be to think parroting Republicans in 2026 is the way to go.

Remember that trans sex worker I found last week that was interviewed by the Telegram? I found the photos.

Today's rant.

Watched Red Rooms tonight, one of the best québécois horror films I've ever seen, and up there with Miasma / Balthazar as the best horror movie I've seen this year.

Made some pea soup today, using this recipe.

Spent hours in the hospital today with a friend who has decided on palliative care. Somewhere there was a transition for pals; from passing away from suicide and abrupt causes, to natural ones. And this kinda puts a lens on how finite our time is, and how important it is to appreciate the good.

Dans ma tête à matin.

Your regular reminder that my daughter Alice’s death wasn’t counted in Appleby’s report, despite her meeting all the criteria. And when I emailed the Tavistock adult GIC to inform them they could take Alice off the waitlist, because she’d died by suicide, they never replied. It’s a disgrace.

Port Elmsley Drive-in.

Almonte, Ontario.

It has often been said that the Body Politic, the Canadian gay newspaper of record for over a decade, was birthed when the leftist newspaper Guerilla censored the coverage of the We Demand protest in August 1971. It turns out, there's a bit more. Here's that story.

Notable that the joint statement, while offering rhetoric support, is completely silent on any measures to help the #ICC. Hopefully that is coming. These states are not powerless. The EU, UK and Canada all have the ability to invoke measures to block the impact of U.S. sanctions.

US imposes sanctions on the international criminal court (ICC), hours after former judge Navi Pillay wins Nobel peace prize - live

Here's an interesting trans history in Toronto find! A Toronto Telegram article from August 1970 with trans sex worker Lily St. Clair! Previously a female impersonator, she is described as having bottom surgery 8 months prior to the article. She performed at the Westover Hotel at 212 Dundas St E.

As someone who loves paper maps, and who abhors the AI generated map slop that's filling up online retailers, I am so relieved that MapArt's bankruptcy wasn't the end of its catalog.

ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...