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A needed background primer on me and clutter: I’ve long had a mixed relationship with housecleaning, in that I a) don’t do it remotely often or thoroughly enough, yet b) really appreciate when it’s done well. I find, and I know others do as well, that a cleaning so deep as to not merely dust…

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What I read this month

The shine of diving head and feet into new, unknown graphic novels wore off a fair bit this month when the handful of recent ones that I picked up at my local library turned out to be less interesting, or something I didn’t care to read just yet. One tightrope a graphic novel walks is…

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A razor’s edge from chaos

As I write this, there are digital outages across the country affecting millions of people and a ton of businesses, because Rogers, one of the big three telecom companies in Canada, is down. This means not just that people who have Rogers as a cell phone carrier can’t get online or make calls or send…

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On why the left lean

I lean left politically. That will mean different things in different countries, so to clarify: As a sweeping generalization and with the understanding that these issues contain nuanced points I’m painting with broad strokes, I care about peoples’ well-being more, and well before, companies’ well-being. This summary should, as a peek into my mentality, be…

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What I read this month

A busy month, reading-wise, though the vast bulk of it was graphic novels. I fell into something of a rabbit hole, just checking out the early (sometimes all) volumes of whatever series nearby libraries happened to have available. No premeditation, no putting anything on hold, just taking advantage of whatever I could get whenever wherever…

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Tiny bird update

I finally heard back from the animal refuge where we had taken Fiadh–they’re understandably slammed with work and replying to people inquiring about one critter or another who was brought in must be super low priority–and there were three main elements to the news: 1) It’s a he, not a she (Fiadh still works as…

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Update to the confusion about my height

(… and other headlines you’ve never read before…) You ever have one of those “ah-HA!” moments when you realize something that you hadn’t understood before? And maybe you feel a bit dumb about it, because you should’ve gotten it earlier? But it’s kinda not on you? Only it is, at least a bit? You know…

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