Heck.

Canadian Ecology Centre hosts Earth Day book talk to aid storm recovery Two of Canada’s best-known outdoor storytellers are heading to North Bay this spring as the Canadian Ecology Centre hosts its ninth annual Earth Day Book Talk. The April 18 event will raise funds to s...

I'll be in North Bay this Saturday to read and talk at a fundraiser for the Canadian Ecology Centre, which was hit hard by a windstorm last year. If you're in the area, please come out and support the CEC and stories about the land! www.baytoday.ca/more-local/c...

Heck.

Who up? Who else feeling a profound emptiness in the wake of fearing the imminent detonation of a nuclear weapon in their lifetime?

I’m getting a little sick of the most disgusting & craven humans among us being on top of the world as figures we have to focus on for our survival.

It was a poetry filled week 💕 and my RMT had her work cut out for her today 😂 anyone else hold stress and exhaustion in their hips?

It’s a poetry filled night 💕 first: celebrating the launch of @jgodley-doctorpoet.bsky.social’s “How the Black Panthers Fell From the Sky” ~ now: listening to #OliviaDean on the 20 ~ next: @versefestottawa.bsky.social x @arcpoetry.bsky.social

folio : Forty-five Ottawa poets : ed. rob mclennan,
, via periodicities: a journal of poetry and poetics, / @mreid.bsky.social @margolapierre.bsky.social @ajdolman.bsky.social @ehjchang.bsky.social @francesboyle19.bsky.social @versefest-ottawa.bsky.social ;
robmclennan.substack.com/p/folio-fort...

Ryuichi Sakamoto’s async the only thing keeping me calm.

Hnnnnnggghhhhhhh
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Ensemble Made in Canada Champions Nation’s Composers | The Tyee The Juno-winning piano quartet will play an intimate salon-like concert at the Chan Centre’s Telus Studio Theatre.

Whether performing classical repertoire or newly commissioned works, EMIC captivates audiences with their expressive range and technical brilliance. 🎻

In this NBN episode, I have a wonderful conversation with author KJ Aiello about their book, The Monster and the Mirror: Mental Illness, Magic, and the Stories We Tell (ECW Press, 2024).

newbooksnetwork.com/the-monster-...

@kjaiello.bsky.social @ecwpress.bsky.social @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social

The fact that bodies with uteri still get up, go out into the world, and deal with the shit we have to deal with, all while experiencing debilitating pain, tells me we should run the world.

#fuckmisogyny

a background of scalloped layers resembling a gradient in different shade of teal “Crips for eSims for Gaza Alice Wong, Forever” in bubbly fuzzy black text “Year of the Horse x Ramadan Update 02/18/26 63,258 eSims + top ups purchased $3.28 million CAD ($2.4M USD) raised 20K+ eSims activated in total 4894 eSims currently active” in Knock Out Cruiserweight font  Three orange-, blood-orange- grapefruit-coloured SIM cards, the second one upside down, both with green and white kufiya patterns inside where the SIM chip is. Inside the last SIM card is a green QR code. 

Ramadan Kareem and happy new year (not to be confused with Gregorian new year)!

🏇May the year of the fire horse bring energy in the form of rebellion and revolution. 🔥

🧧 Send us 红包 so we can keep our eSIMs topped up and begin sending new ones again. 🤳🏼

bit.ly/eSimsRUs #ConnectingGaza

elmo from sesame street is standing in front of a wall of fire . ALT: elmo from sesame street is standing in front of a wall of fire .

Fire Elmo GIF has been living in my head rent free since the Year of the Fire Horse began.

Coming this Saturday: SEEDS FESTIVAL!

MA|DE is very happy to be reading at this literary extravaganza put on by Draft Reading Series!

We'll be reading on Saturday February 21 from 11am-12:30pm EST on Zoom with writers @fmolavi.bsky.social @ehjchang.bsky.social @storiedselves.bsky.social & more!

All these little men in power. Are their parents proud of them? 😒

Annex businesses tell Ford to back off Bloor bike lanes Stores in the Annex say the Bloor bike lanes have been a big boost to business. As Michelle Mackey reports, the neighborhood's BIA wants the province to back off its new bill that could see the lanes ...

WATCH: Seriously, if you’re following ANY bike-lane debate, you HAVE TO WATCH this news story. You actually can’t make this up. Ford claims without evidence that bike-lanes are bad for small business, and THE ACTUAL BUSINESS ASSOCIATION obliterates him with data.

Safe bike-lanes mean business.

I don’t want AI. I want old growth forests, coral reefs, biodiversity, tundra, taiga, rainforests, prairies, marshes, peatlands. I want clean water, air, and a future habitable for those that come after me.

You want to order everyone back to the office? Fucking fund and support a transit system that can sustain this.

ST:NG Season 7, Episode 14 "Sub Rosa": Beverly Crusher's Ghost Candle which originally aired on 1/31/94

Happy original air date of Beverly's ghost sex candle episode "Sub Rosa", for those that celebrate 🕯️

Registration for the Capital Riichi Open is now open! You can find a link to the registration page through our website: capitalriichiclub.carrd.co#tournament

Interested in visiting Canada's capital region and riichi mahjong? Join our event, we'd love to have you!

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Gross.

German scientists issue a stark climate warning: “Most people alive today will suffer the fury of a hothouse planet. We’ve created an emergency that threatens all of humankind.”

davidsuzuki.org/story/german...

Congrats from the 𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝑐𝑜𝑛 team to CNF editor, art history maestro, and 13-time Best Dressed at an Editorial Meeting recipient Ellen Chang-Richardson on the recent publication of their poetry chapbook 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑀𝑜𝑙𝑒𝑠𝑘𝑖𝑛 𝐶𝑜𝑎𝑡 (above/ground press)!

Link to order 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑀𝑜𝑙𝑒𝑠𝑘𝑖𝑛 𝐶𝑜𝑎𝑡 at linktr.ee/longconmag

Ate too much salami.

Thank you, subconscious, for consistently giving me the most beautiful, hyperreal, multicoloured dreams.

Ottawa literary, storytelling, spoken word & nonfiction groups holding events during Black History Month in February, please let me know so i can add your events to the Bywords.ca calendar. thanks!

It finally happened. Someone asked me where the poetry section was in the library!