A picture of a rather dilapidated copy of "The picture of Dorian Gray" There is visible water damage to the cover and the plastic cover is yellowing. Obviously, not evident from the picture but there is a truly foul musty smell emanating from it!

Last week, a gentleman returned this rather dilapidated copy of this famous book to us after 50 years. He had found it in his attic!
Presumably this means there is a pristine copy somewhere in our libraries....

Today is the anniversary of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Happy Day, too, of
the poetic form Tanka
to you and you and
all those who need a little
more space to finish a thought.

AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is far more worrying LLMs-gone-rogue dominated coverage, but had nothing to do with the targeting. Instead, it was choices made by human beings, over many years, that gave us this atrocity

AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is far more worrying

Conservative Party Stands On Guard - What The Actual News?

34 years a lawyer. I cannot, in good conscience, support/follow/amplify anyone who doesn't support the rule of law, including international law. Without it, we are on the menu, left to rely on whatever support we can cobble together.

Congratulations to What I Know About You, from Éric Chacour and translated from the French by Pablo Strauss, on making the Dublin Literary Award Longlist! 🌟

Learn more about What I Know About You: chbooks.com/Books/W/What...

Bruce Fanjoy’s petition to require all federal party leaders to have top secret security clearance has reached 36,000.

We can do better. Sign here:

www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

Stitching up the fields ahead of a squall.

Today on GET LIT it's Sadiqa de Meijer talking about her collection of essays, In The Field.

1230pm on 93.3 / cfmu.ca or on pods or here: tinyurl.com/462kdnzb

@sadiqademeijer.bsky.social @palimpsestpress.bsky.social

A photograph I took quite early on New Year's Day, 2019, while walking on the Isle of Purpeck, not long before I did a tweet using it, and the same caption. I imagine it won't have as much impact here, since loads of people have since reused it, and the phrase is now more widely known. It is still very very true, though. Lots of things are solved by walking. Although not everything, obviously.

Solvitur ambulando is my favourite Latin phrase. It means "it is solved by walking".

Studying history and reading novels both get us out of our own heads, the first by helping us to imagine different worlds, and the second by prompting us to inhabit different subjectivities.

Those who do neither are forever imprisoned in the here, the now, and the self.

Happy Thanksgiving. Alice's Restaurant is almost 60 years old but the message about resisting authority en masse is just as relevant today. 😘

A Wealth of Reading · Blog Post · 49th Shelf A recommended reading list by the author of the book of sentences (University of Calgary Press). 

in which i offer recommendations for 49th Shelf: new/recent titles by Anna Swanson, Qurat Dar, Isabella Wang, Melanie Dennis Unrau, Gillian Sze, Jumoke Verissimo, Hajer Mirwali + Sadiqa de Meijer, / @49thshelf.bsky.social @talonbooks.bsky.social @gooselane.bsky.social ;
49thshelf.com/Blog/2025/11...

The sweatshirt is Fabulous! I already bought the Book for all the family, but can I but the sweater?

Thank you for this-- such thoughtful answers. And your son plays beautifully, btw.

HARDER BETTER FASTER STRONGER IDEAL MAN YouTube video by Greg Floyd

In our recent documentary, we asked people from different communities to define the ideal man.

The answers are enlightening... 👇

HARDER BETTER FASTER STRONGER - THE IDEAL MAN youtu.be/5I2RH02vHEk?...

PS, my son, Adam, playing cello.

Backlist Mondays: The Western Alienation Merit Badge by Nancy Jo Cullen. Shortlisted for the ReLit Award for novels, A smart book dripping in Calgarian history, Merit Badge is dramatic queer coming of age set against the backdrop of the National Energy Program.

This is the funniest thing I've seen in weeks!

Ok, I work for small charity and all I’m hearing these days is how AI is unavoidable; get on board or get run over. I believe in meaningful work for humans. Is it possible to resist adoption of AI at your company? Anybody doing it? How?

Strangely, Friends by @kdubin.bsky.social is on @mcnallyrobinson.com's Best Sellers list this week! Learn more about the book: btlbooks.com/book/a-histo...

Painting of a busy bouquet of flowers on a surface with different blossoms one above the other against a black background

Rachel Ruysch (1664 – 1750), still-life painter from the Northern Netherlands who specialized in flowers, achieving international fame in her lifetime #WomensArt

Malta: In Memory of Daphne. Media reform public consultations must lead to National Action Plan  — PEN International | Promoting Literature & Defending Freedom of Expression Worldwide 15 October 2025: On the eve of the anniversary of the murder of Maltese investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, press freedom and journalists’ groups are calling on the national authorities...

#Malta: In memory of Daphne Caruana Galizia, press freedom and journalists’ groups call on authorities to adopt a National Action Plan on Media Freedom and Journalist Safety.

Read more ⬇️

www.pen-international.org/news/malta-i...

Monochrome photograph featuring a close-up of a large ancient living tree in a flat landscape with other trees in the distance, the tree has many branches forming a rounded flat canopy viewed from underneath

'Heart of the Dragon, Socotra, Yemen' by photographer Beth Moon on her fourteen-year quest to photograph ancient trees of the United States, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa #WomensArt

My colleagues & I have taken a huge gamble to set up @thenerve.news We’re trying to build a new independent publication from the ground up. Social media is our only distribution for now.

Sharing this article in your networks would make a huge difference. Thank you! 🙏🙏🙏

CC: @penmena.bsky.social

Two words.
Alex Navalny.
Eventually this is where we'll find out whether SCOTUS is completely corrupted or not.

Women, if your body’s changed after childbirth…

… you made a whole person. Possibly more than one. You MADE A WHOLE HUMAN BEING.

That’s amazing. That’s astonishing. Of course you’ve been changed by that. It’s RIGHT that you’ve been changed by that. Ignore anyone who says otherwise.

'Vicious compliance': Alberta premier decries Edmonton Public Schools' banned book list | CBC News Alberta Premier Danielle Smith slammed the Edmonton Public School Board Friday morning for its banned book list, which features more than 200 titles.

What is happening in #Alberta the first — and largest — book ban of its kind in Canada.

"What the government of Alberta is doing here is book banning. It is literary censorship and we should use those words," Ira Wells told CBC.

Read more: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

CBC headline of a story by Cat Tunney reads: Project 2025 mastermind invited to speak at Carney's cabinet meeting PMO says Heritage Foundation president knows the Trump administration's playbook

HAHAHAHA UHHHH WHAT THE EVERLOVING FUCK??????