The Testaments off to a strong start

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A typographic carnival.

So far, you are 3 for 3 in my books.

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We are trapped in The Onion and we can’t get out

I’m a regular stockist at my local little library, yes.

Why LLMs Ruin Everything Reading, Writing: feat. Matt Goodwin, Alex Preston and the Bookpocalypse

I wrote on AI trashing literary life, and spoke to Alex Preston about the NYT book review scandal

Getting your ſteps in.

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Oof. One strap lock broken. But they make great coffee tables?

Perfect. No notes. Somebody get these guys their own show.

overlooking a series of circular water filled tanks of a sewage treatment plant at night. lights line a long brick building on the horizon as a blue-black sky is stark behind a veil of thin puffy clouds in the distance.

good night, sewers.
good night, streams.
good night, operations and maintenance teams.
good night, settling tanks.
good night, stream banks.
good night, engineers, scientists, crews, managers, inspectors, analysts too.
a good night for us means serving with care.

good night, sewers, everywhere.

Is Southern Ontario technically a peninsula?

... jesus christ we live in such an age of miracles

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A picture of a stopwatch that shows 8 minutes and 7 seconds

One fun thing to do at AWP is to start a timer at the beginning of the Q&A section and stop it the first time someone has “more of a comment than a question”

If you’ve ever watched Matt onstage reading from one of his books, you’ll know he is one of the best at this. Worth the Saturday afternoon.

No notes.

Fantastic!

Same.

I regret viewing that game as a referendum on whether there is any justice in this world.

This is the way.

Or even a Franco-Ontarian accent? 😁

What is it with film adaptations of classic novels and rogue punctuation. (See: Emma., 2020.)

And you know how I feel about Wednesdays…

Nan Goldin Speaks Out on Art Gallery of Ontario’s Halted Acquisition “It’s chilling that this censorship plays out especially regarding Palestine, the great exception to free speech,” Goldin told Hyperallergic.

“I feel that anyone who uses the conflation of antisemitism and anti-Zionism at this point is repeating Israel’s propaganda as a way of deflecting from what the world has witnessed for the last two and a half years — this genocide.” –Nan Goldin

Nooo! How can this be possible?

I’ve always imagined it divided like this:

Yonge to Don River=downtown east

Yonge to Bathurst=downtown west

Because there are noticeable differences east v west of Yonge.

This is an excellent analogy, because my recollection from grade school is that the pen on the right looks fun and exciting, and then you play with it for a few minutes and realize it's not actually useful for anything and in fact makes some tasks more cumbersome, and never think about it again.

To be fair, he doesn’t mention the wind chill temp.

BWAHAHAHA