- Jeff
- Recovering a normal digestive schedule after getting rid of my ulcer last year
- Wrote a lot of songs (melodies, airs and instrumentals) this past year
- Published Upsun
- Alex
- Mike
- Peggy
- mOm and pOp
- Keith continues to challenge himself and the results are wonderful
- Katie is a safety officer and if someone had told me that when she was 15 I’d have fucking choked to death laughing, or possibly crying, or walking into a door from just the utter strangeness of such a happening
- Reconnecting on twitter with my second oldest friend, Liz GOD WE ARE LAUGHING NOOOOOW
- The Black, Latinx, trans, disabled, Indigenous and combinations thereof activists and academics on twitter who hold me to my oath to improve my understanding of gender and race every damned day
- @GreatDismal is great on twitter (William Gibson of Neuromancer fame) because he supports his wife and children in their endeavours, reposts the coolest damned stuff, and is fucking hilarious in that standard low key way of his.
- @DecolonialBlack – his tweets are one third pure fire, one third reasoned argument and one third hilarity through a very fine lens and all of it educational as hell
- @cricketcrocker I won’t say she’s my fave Indigenous person on twitter cause I still think
- @apihtawikosisan is that person mostly because of how she talks about her kids and also her clarity with language is like drinking elfin wine
- @ConnerHabib is my fave male sex worker / cultural commentater on twitter
- @whoresofyore is so wonderful in so many ways she gives me life ALSO she does everything she can to repost pictures of non-white sex workers and also men wearing allied uniforms in wwII which is like freaking awesome. Some of her reposts are racy as hell, and it’s very nice to see some black and white booty for a change in a full colour race toward hell
- @SFdirewolf is getting me on board with disability rights – she is FYYA (FIRE)
- LOVE @ZoeSTodd although sometimes I find her challenging
- @StephanieCarvin is about as politically correct as a hand grenade in a barrel of refugees but she sure has a lot of well researched opinions about Canadian security and so as long as I’m writing about asymmetrical warfare in Vancouver I kinda hafta pay attention – and she is grimly feminist and no chump, so I accept her as she is
- @Olivia_Graciela AKA Auntie Carpet Weed is freaking awesome. If you’re on twitter follow her and get dragged into the light Indigenous women are holding up over their challenges
- @xodanix3 another amazing person worth following. She has a mean streak I quite like.
- @BorschtSiouxp is likewise full of bright beauty and hot takes and awesome
- @IvaCheung takes on user guides, grammar, social justice and life in general and I love her with whatever my gristly heart can beat out
- @Inked_Archivist who not coincidentally is my biggest fan (Upsun series) and posts fantastic SJ stuff from Europa and the Netherlands I wouldn’t otherwise see.
- @GeorgMir is my dose of Austrian game making fandom – a beautiful soul who wants the best for the world and ain’t takin’ no shit in the process
- @APebbleInTheSky is my favourite anarchist
- @rechelon is not my favourite anarchist but I need him because he’s the only anarchist I know of who is remotely consistent in his personal and political life
- @cjane87 is an amazing writer and opinion leader and her comments on sports events especially football have given me more laughs than I can count
- @bogiperson is an amazing writer and anthologist and I’m a better person for reading their posts and links
- @SpicyTunaRo not exactly as spicy as advertised but has given me plenty to chew on regarding Indigenous rights and history
- @MikeStuchbery_ is so wonderful I’m just going to tell anyone who is on twitter to follow him. He’s not always right but he’s edumacational as all get out.
- Alex not drowning on my watch at Edmonds Community Centre
- Paul driving back from Seattle in the rain to housefilk at Cindy’s in January and Paul in general and I hope his ears are burning over what we said about him today, all nice except his driving of course
- @LuxAlptraum, not perfect always perfect for me
- @gerdurhalldora is the magical Icelandic woman who showed me around a very small part of Reykjavik and I’m SO HAPPY I MET HER
- The Iceland trip, all of it. The landscape, the people, even the food although I’ll eat fermented shark in hell and not before…
- This message on facebook was about me. IFUCKINGROCK screw the haters
This morning, I had the longest facebook messenger convo of my life and it was, with little exaggeration and without getting into personal details, a life saver.
Technology really can overcome distance and give you meaningful connections with people far away.
Reach out to your friends, and you will get and give support in ways you can’t imagine.
We all need each other.
I am grateful and thankful for the love and support of my girlfriends. - the picture of the grandson of the above noted friend HAPPY SIGH
- really feeling like I’m coming around from this depressed period. writing at least 300 words a day
- Starting to meditate – still not consistent at it but I am enjoying how hard it is
- published 114000 words of fanfic on a03 JUST THIS YEAR if you think I haven’t been writing I basically never stop
- Rawd’s package came for mOm and what a bonanza of family history
- mOm fell down and got a hip 18 months faster than she was booked to, got the surgeon she wanted and got a private room — this is like hitting a hole in one from the moon even if you live in a major metropolitan area in Canada
- season three of The Expanse
- My mOm, just now, reading A PURE FIRE LETTER FROM FAMILY HISTORY ABOUT THE HORRORS OF FUNDAMENTALIST CHRISTIANITY YUP YUP YUP
- Margot dying was horrible but how kind we tried to be about it was not and what happened with Deimos was a fucking tragedy but it was not made worse by the people around me and that’s not nothing
- Mike, who needs two mentions
- Jeff, ditto
year end round up – all the best up to the number of 50 which is so freaking arbitary
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