increasingly convinced the average southern ontarian's morning routine involves drinking a cup of gasoline with a small plate of hot asphalt crumble

Earlier this week, @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social flagged one of the most common (and dangerous) myths about U.S. immigration: the belief that anyone can become a citizen if they just "wait in line."

For millions of our neighbors stuck in our broken immigration system, that line doesn't exist 🧵

“Am I Latino?” - A Canadian’s Identity Crisis After Living in Argentina [EN] YouTube video by More Than Tequila

Because I apparently forgot to post it here, I did a podcast talking about my cultural identity, Argentina, and the Latino community in Toronto: youtu.be/G2NHJt5PaHM?...

Between Vance lecturing the Pope about theology and Poilievre telling Carney he's bad at economics, it's been a great week for confident men.

Some people have made AI their entire personality, and some people have made hating AI their entire personality, and guys, I'm exhausted.

If you're not writing with footnotes, you're doing it wrong.

So cool and what an interesting time it must have been to be in Argentina.

I will be presenting a fuller 15 minute presentation on the topic for the Latin American Studies Undergraduate Research Day on April 14th and am genuinely so excited to keep developing this project.

I'm hesitant to share my project website with more info because it is *very much* a work in progress (website design is a fun new skill I need to learn...) but I will anyways: memoryargentina.wixsite.com/preservation...

The author stands beside a large academic research poster in a formal hall with wood floors and oil portrait paintings on the wall. The poster is titled "Comparing the Memorial Sites of Argentina's Last Dic[tatorship]: A Conversation Between Preservation and Memorialization" by Diego Rupolo. It features sections on "Preservation of Place" and "Focus on Me[morialization]," with photographs of sites including ESMA in Buenos Aires, El Pozo in Rosario, and La Perla in Córdoba, alongside a map of Argentina and text discussing clandestine detention centers from the 1976–1983 dictatorship. The person is wearing a black button-up shirt, dark jeans, and black shoes, with purple-framed glasses.

**Alt text:** Academic research poster titled "Comparing the Memorial Sites of Argentina's Last Dictatorship: A Conversation Between Preservation and Memorialization" by Diego Rupolo. The poster is divided into two main columns against a yellow central background. The left column, "Preservation of Place," profiles four former clandestine detention centers converted into memorial sites: ESMA (Navy School) in Buenos Aires, the Investigations Brigade in Tucumán, "El Pozo" Space for Memory in Rosario, and "La Perla" Space for Memory and Promotion of Human Rights in Córdoba — each with photographs of the buildings and bullet-point descriptions of their history and current status. The center section contains introductory text explaining the project's focus on ~762 clandestine detention centers from Argentina's 1976–1983 dictatorship, a comparative argument about spatial versus non-spatial memorialization, and a map of Argentina showing the geographic distribution of detention sites across five zones. The right column, "Focus on Memorialization," profiles three non-spatial memorial institutions: Parque de la Memoria in Buenos Aires, the Museum of Art and Memory in La Plata, and the International Museum for Democracy in Rosario — each with photographs and descriptions. A QR code in the bottom right links to additional content. Red arrows connect some site entries to their locations on the map.

This week I presented my poster presentation comparing Argentine memorial sites for Victoria College's Undergraduate Research Day.

My presentation received honourable mentions in three award categories (always a bridesmaid, never a bride!) which was a cool surprise I didn't expect at all.

My reflective personal essay on Mambo Italiano, the queer Italian-Canadian film, has now been published on the blog for the Queer Italian Canadian Artists Project I originally wrote it for: www.qic-artists.com/post/reflect...

Today is the 50th anniversary of Argentina's last dictatorship.

I have three research projects I'm working on right now related to that era and yet almost missed that this huge milestone was coming up.

It's amazing to see all the marches, demonstrations, and artwork coming out of Argentina today.

This makes me happy, thank you!

Valentina is a good and classic not that spicy hot sauce.

El Yucateco Green Habanero is their slightly less spicy one. Still spicier than Tapatío or Cholula but packs a lot of flavour in a few drops.

One aspect I'm excited to read about is someone who apparently worked for the The Body Politic in Toronto but at one point was in Argentina, and left during the 1976- dictatorship there.

Honestly I may have got a detail or two wrong there, but it's in the book and I'm going to look for it!

A hand holds up a book titled Gay Print Culture: A Transnational History of North America by Juan Carlos Mezo González in front of a brutalist concrete and glass building. The book cover features a collage-style design with a young man in a casual shirt set against tropical foliage, overlaid with excerpts of printed text in pink and blue tones.

An author wearing glasses and a dark blazer sits at a round light wood table, signing a copy of Gay Print Culture with a pen. On the table are a white water bottle, a second copy of the book facing upright, and a bouquet of knitted flowers wrapped in clear cellophane with a white ribbon bow.

Academic book releases can be so fun because they can be on niche topics you're very interested in like comparative gay print culture in Canada, Mexico, and the U.S.

Was great to go to this book launch and see the release from a former TA of mine, Juan Carlos Mezo Gonzalez. Excited to read it.

This should be an incredible embarrassment to someone in charge in Toronto, and maybe part of the problem is the public doesn’t know who

I hate when I run for a streetcar and then it sits in the station for 10 minutes.

And then my out-of-shape body has to sit there panting like an idiot.

Ideas and language that were absolutely fringe even five years ago are now things people say without even being totally clear what they mean. The memetic warfare stuff worked

The number of people I’ve seen in comments on Instagram insisting that the Michigan synagogue attack was a “false flag” makes me just absolutely despair on about five different levels personally and professionally

Have a lover caress you the way the Canadian establishment caresses John Tory.

I'm not as concerned about this because I'm confident they're WRONG and need to know. Also, we need to bring back shame.

But my go to is to just say "Hi! We're in a library!" I've also had success with "Are you aware you're in a library?" I'm working up to "Do you hear anyone else around you?"

Nobody is here at Robarts at 7am to hear your clearly recreational phone conversation. And on the quiet floor?! I don't even feel the need to be that polite about it.

It brings me such joy to shame loud people in libraries.

On the subway and there's someone clipping their nails and another person eating directly from a giant block of cheddar cheese. The TTC is a trip.

The hidden ICE blueprint that should horrify every American | Will Bunch An internal Department of Homeland Security document shows how ICE plans to cram thousands of detained human beings inside a Georgia warehouse.

What's more shocking than ICE's plan to cram as many 8,500 humans into massive, soul-crushing warehouses?

Seeing the actual DHS floor plan that echoes slavery ships and history's worst gulags with no rec space but a gun range for guards

My new column on the camps www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...

Once in a while I post things here and on Threads to gauge engagement on both platforms.

This tweet has over 2800 likes and almost 100 reposts on there (and accounting) and has 2 likes here.

Not saying it's particularly interesting or deserves all that attention, but the disparity is something.

Broadcasters are *really* trying to rehabilitate Gretzky's image, but for what it's worth the Scotiabank Arena crowd here in Toronto has loudly booed each time he's been on screen at the watch party.

Ski mountaineering is one of the stupidest sports I've ever seen.

I absolutely love it.

But then it starts and you're like WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!