Fridge Magnets and Memory: Part 1 Fridge magnets are more than tacky souvenirs. They're vessels for our memories.

Gather, my friends, and you shall learn the esoteric history of fridge magnets, and how they function as tacky little references for human memory:

Gas tax breaks are bandaids at best. Real solution is to help low & middle-income Cdns get off fossil fuels. Invest in solar, heat pumps, batteries, EVs. Tackle barriers, offer real incentives & fund w/ windfall tax on Big Oil (who are laughing all the way to the bank). Cleaner, cheaper, healthier.

Living in the perceptual world of the wealthy and the material world of a regular person is stressful. It is *meant* to make you feel like you’re falling behind even if you’re not. That’s how demand is induced. This is just one element but I think economists miss it (among other things).

if you wanna keep your job, don't be a fucking creep. it's really that simple.

This is a sentiment you hear a lot from now-elderly people who grew up without a lot of material comforts. Their perceptual and material worlds were pretty well aligned! Now we basically all live in the perceptual world of the wealthy. It’s hard to imagine anyone not knowing what they don’t have.

Eliminating libraries in prisons is a disaster, completely shortsighted. Libraries are a lifeline for incarcerated people who want to learn and grow, and have few other options.

Hahaha. She actually answered me on Mastodon. :)

Mixing some cocktails and wondering: is it Negronis Sbagliato, or Negroni Sbagliatos?

The capsule splashing down onto the water with the three red and white parachutes above it

Splashdown! Vehicle is stable and upright. “A perfect bulls-eye splash for Integrity and its four astronauts!” #Artemis

That was amazing and inspiring. #Artemis

“Our purpose as humans is to find joy in lifting each other up by creating solutions together instead of destroying, and when you see it from out here it doesn’t change it, it just absolutely reaffirms that.” Jeremy Hansen: www.theguardian.com/science/live... #Artemis

The City of London should publicly explain why a symbol widely understood as divisive and exclusionary is being worn by staff tasked with supporting vulnerable community members.

#HatePropaganda #LdnOnt

few slogans make me more viscerally angry than scotiabank's "you're richer than you think" no I'm not, you fuckers, I'll fight you

Sad to hear about this. I spent so many evenings when I was younger enjoying shows at the planetarium and it ignited my love for space and science. I know it had been closed for two decades, but wish it could have been restored instead of demolished. toronto.citynews.ca/2026/04/08/m...

i need to return more purposefully to volunteering. i did a lot more pre-pandemic and it is time to rebuild that muscle

Feeling the same way. Was heavily involved in civic advocacy and volunteering before having a kid; miss being part of that community. Great way to give back but also build connections with others.

You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.

Oh my what a delightful and heartfelt show. I think I need to do a rewatch.

Oh, I love this!

But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?

Your regular reminder that dehumanizing the people who are dehumanizing others isn’t how we’re gonna get to liberation.

We have to live into the world we want to create.

I don't know how anyone else feels about this, but to me, sharing a screenshot of chatbot output to make a point of some kind is an excellent way to undermine any credibility that might otherwise be granted to you in the context of whatever you're trying to say.

Thanks for this! Always love to learn more about the history of my neighborhood.

Glad you had a great trip here!

A collection of cookbooks - Flashing Palely in the Margins Sameer Vasta is an epistolarian, anthropologist, urban explorer, and over-user of the discretionary comma.

A rumination on cookbooks and a large collection of good links from around the web to check out: www.inthemargins.ca/collection-o...

I made a little Instagram reel about this image because it’s just so frickin’ cool

In #LdnOnt the poor old LTC is a favourite punching bag. Turns out, as this article shows, they run a pretty tight ship but are underfunded by parsimonious Councils (who also like kicking LTC around). Read more: strongtownslondon.com/articles/far...

Highlighted section of the Copilot ToS which says "Copilot is for entertainment purposes only"

www.microsoft.com/en-us/micros... is it good to build an entire economy and software infrastructure on this

Things I learned these past few months - Flashing Palely in the Margins Sameer Vasta is an epistolarian, anthropologist, urban explorer, and over-user of the discretionary comma.

So every three months I post a little list of some interesting things I’ve learned (with sources) over that period of time. Here’s the most recent one, posted today: www.inthemargins.ca/til-2026-q1

This whole profile is actually quite excellent at describing me and my work, to be honest.