Anyone else using Fable to track books and reading lists? Is so feel free to add me!
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Every bookstore and non-school library in Alberta just got their list of books to prominently display, thanks to the Government of Alberta.

Every book club knows what books to read and discuss for the next 100 months.

My hope is the Streisand Effect will be in full swing in my province.

I was wondering what happened to Sloth after Goonies. But I see he’s now the host of the Charlie Kirk Show.

🤦‍♂️

If the Minister of Justice is counseling the Chief Electoral Officer to disregard the law, it makes you wonder what kind of advice he's offering the premier and the rest of government.

Predictably, the move is sowing further distrust in the democratic system, including elections and courts.

Low key, low energy mayoral race starts to take shape in Edmonton Who's on first in the race to replace Amarjeet Sohi? It's hard to tell.

Low key, low energy mayoral race starts to take shape in Edmonton. Who's on first in the race to replace Amarjeet Sohi? It's hard to tell.

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Globe and Mail reporter targeted by online campaign, photographed surreptitiously in public settings An anonymous X account posted photos of Alberta reporter Carrie Tait and described her movements as she reported on a health authority controversy

Hi, yes, g'morning. This is awkward.

But targeting a reporter - hi! - with
surreptitiously obtained photos and details of her tooling around town is an attack on the public's right to know.

www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Watchman I Part one of a three-part series

I posted a new piece of short fiction yesterday. Part one or a three-parter, inspired by my business partner's month off. Give it a read, if you like: bingofuel.substack.com/p/watchman

I’m watching TikTok’s on my phone and freaking out because I can’t find my phone in my pocket years old.

Waiting in the Maple Leaf Lounge 🍁 for a flight and can’t stop calling it the Make Believe Lounge ✨ thanks to Tig Notaro.

Alberta releases its pension survey results, 63% opposed to leaving CPP After a more than 21-month wait, the Alberta government has released to Postmedia the results of its 2023 provincial pension plan survey.

Danielle Smith gov't fought for 2yrs to not release its Alberta pension plan survey results. It's finally out.
Only 10% of people expressed support, 63% said don't. by Ed Journal's @matthewblack.ca ack , at long last. edmontonjournal.com/news/politic...

Reflections Twilight adventures

I posted a new piece of quick-and-dirty fiction to my Substack this morning.

Nothing beats a story involving cats and portals: open.substack.com/pub/bingofue...

Do everything you can to politely undermine their confidence.

Most Albertans, including healthcare workers, will now have to pay to get a COVID vaccine.

Danielle Smith promised Albertans would never have to pay out of pocket for the medical treatment they need. She lied.

Such a cruel, dangerous, anti-science, anti-public health decision.

Make it make sense.

I appreciate the encouragement Darrell! I’m not writing as much in my day job as you are, that’s for sure.

The Compass An endless journey

Trying to get back into writing as a practice. Feel free to follow along! bingofuel.substack.com/p/the-compas...

Polling plunge a five-alarm fire for Nenshi's NDP Opposition shouldn't panic - it should make smart changes

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 Nenshi’s NDP should avoid panicking in response to these two polls but it’s hard to see this as anything but a five alarm fire. The gains being made by the UCP in the two big cities should be deeply concerning for the NDP, especially with a by-election happening in suburban Edmonton-Ellerslie.

TACO.

Note to future self: you had beets AND asparagus for dinner. Calm down.

Rep. Laurel Libby, R-Auburn, recently used my second-place finish in the 1,600-meter run, and that of my teammate in the 800-meter run, to malign Soren Stark-Chessa, the trans-identified athlete who finished first. One of the reasons I chose to run cross-country and track is the community: Teammates cheering each other on, athletes from different schools coming together, and the fact that personal improvement is valued as much as, if not more than, the place we finish. Last Friday, I ran the fastest 1,600-meter race I have ever run in middle school or high school track and earned varsity status by my school’s standards. I am extremely proud of the effort I put into the race and the time that I achieved. The fact that someone else finished in front of me didn’t diminish the happiness I felt after finishing that race. I don’t feel like first place was taken from me. Instead, I feel like a happy day was turned ugly by a bully who is using children to make political points. We are all just kids trying to make our way through high school. Participating in sports is the highlight of high school for some kids. No one was harmed by Soren’s participation in the girls’ track meet, but we are all harmed by the hateful rhetoric of bullies, like Rep. Libby, who want to take sports away from some kids just because of who they are. Anelise Feldman Freshman, Yarmouth High School Yarmouth

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

Ooh yes, I'm still excited about wearables!

Nothing beats home upgrades. It’s like playing the Sims, but it’s real life, Dave!

I used to be so excited to get the newest iPad or laptop or whatever.

But y’all we just ordered remote-control blinds for all of our downstairs windows and I am HYPED!

I assume his advisors worried it would push centrist voters to the Liberals. Or that Rogan might have “goaded” Poilievre to say something really dumb the liberals could campaign on.

Absolutely. I'm the worst at this!

Normalize insisting that your staff take sick days. They can't work effectively if they're exhausted.

And if they try and push through, they'll just keep the cycle of sickness going.

They're looking for your permission to take the time they need to recover. Give it enthusiastically.

Weird, I’m reading it right now and finding it a slog. And I love Steinbeck’s stuff!

Folks in #yeg have any good suggestions for contractors who can build a fence? We and our neighbours are looking for quotes.

While I appreciate the sentiment behind folks who’ve voted saying “doing my civic duty,” you’ve actually done the bare minimum.

Stay on your representatives. Hold them to account. They’re not celebrities. They work FOR us.

Democracy is NOT a spectator sport.

It's not JUST that Lee Pace is a gloriously handsome man (naked melee fight in S2E1 was fantastic), but Foundation is unbelievable. The entire cast, the intersecting storylines, the centuries and millennia view of an entire space-faring civilization, the music... I'm OBSESSED.