Ain’t no party like a beige.party party
When I first joined Mastodon in 2019, it was via a server — an instance, as it’s called — named mastodon.social. In part, joining that particu...
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The trickiness of effective email addresses
I have a weird name. For those outside my family and group of friends who haven’t known me forever, the first one is pronounced “Ray” and the ...
What I learned from my first union strike
Our union settled with the company 15 days after we went on strike. I’ve finished my first full week of being back at work and making money again, which I...
Thoughts on working my first picket line
For those out of town or who otherwise wouldn’t be in the know or affected by it, employees at the LCBO — the Liquor Control Board of Ontario, the o...
Three strikes against privatizing the LCBO
I’ve worked for the LCBO for just over two years. This upcoming strike deadline is the first I’ve ever looked at being personally involved in, as LC...
It’s (now) a dog’s life
I’ve been remiss in updating my website the last several weeks. It’s largely because this happened on April 20th… After years of discussing ge...
Need even more reason to leave all Meta platforms for good? Here you go.
Hey, you know how Facebook (now called Meta) makes a fourtune from selling oceans of highly detailed, extremely personal data about each of its users to adverti...
First draft of new novel: Done. ish.
I struggled with making myself work on this book idea more than any other idea in recent memory. I had the core idea for a while, and started filling it out as ...
… aaaaand we’re back!
It’s been… let’s call it an interesting few weeks. Back in mid-February, we were visiting friends in Florida. The day after we arrived, I woke...
#lifestylechangefail
I recently mentioned I was going to try to get into some intermittent fasting. Yeah… well… no. Or at least, what I have managed to do hasn’t g...