Peter @peterlamey.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Really love the years when the literature Nobel is announced and everyone is happy about it. My Folio copy of “If Not, Winter” is one of my most prized possessions. I pick it up and try to just bathe in the strangeness a few times a year and I think it kind of resets my brain a little. 000
Peter @peterlamey.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Will Lee actually died, and his friends had to (got to!) go through their grief about it, help fictional Big Bird go through his grief about it, show real children who had a relationship with Will’s fictional character how to go through it, and make a piece of art about death that holds up. 111
Peter @peterlamey.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I'm enough of an urbanist to have to clear my throat like this before whining about traffic in Halifax this morning, but also: Thank goodness I've made it through all that and arrived at the only place on earth my laptop works. 020
Peter @peterlamey.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Been told I should place “3 or 4” books on the various side tables in our house, artfully, so as to create a pleasing mood in persons who might wish to purchase my house. Constructing the perfect stack for each environment is now my entire personality. 031
Peter @peterlamey.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Mina's got me weeping at how hard r/bald comes out for people with chemo-related hair loss. Not how I thought my afternoon was going to play out. 010
Peter @peterlamey.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Wife and I playing stump the band at reciting children’s books from memory. She’s ahead, but I just ran through Peepo perfectly and that feels like a moral victory. 010
Peter @peterlamey.bsky.social · 26/08/2026I played this actual machine at the Propeller Arcade a couple years ago (niche Halifax post I suppose). 110
Peter @peterlamey.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Presumably the Germans have a word for the feeling you get when your baby discovers that they can reach objects on a surface that used to be too high. 031
Peter @peterlamey.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Someday iphone will figure out not to autocorrect my son's name to "high," right? 000
Peter @peterlamey.bsky.social · 19/08/2026My own biblical literacy is, if I may, quite strong and it's a huge source of joy for me in literature and in life. I got it from unhealthy religious communities in my late teens/early 20s which I do not recommend, and do not think you can replace with 3 weeks in grade 11 English. It's a pickle. 130
Peter @peterlamey.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Has this news hit halisky yet? Amazing stuff. valleylibrary.ca/news/bestsel...valleylibrary.caBestselling Nova Scotia author Rachel Reid donates $300,000 to AVRL - Annapolis Valley Regional LibraryAugust 17, 2026 2234
Peter @peterlamey.bsky.social · 30/07/2026You know you’ve reached northern New Brunswick when the gps hits you with the ol’ “continue straight for three hundred and fifty four kilometers.” 170
Peter @peterlamey.bsky.social · 25/07/2026I have tickets to see The Odyssey in 70mm in approximately 3 weeks, so I will catch up with all of your thoughts then thx. (Actually going to be our first outing sans bebé. Pray for us, lol) 030
Peter @peterlamey.bsky.social · 23/07/2026The greatest archetype of a Wile E Coyote sketch is where you can know exactly what is going to happen to him from the very first frame, but because the sketch is only 12 seconds long your brain hasn't quite caught up before he hits the canyon floor. 000
Peter @peterlamey.bsky.social · 22/07/2026CDs I learned about from a paperback book I bought at a mall bookstore! (Penguin Guide to Jazz, 6th edition. Still have it.) 000
Peter @peterlamey.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Probably Spike Lee’s He Got Game. I just liked basketball, maybe didn’t understand what I was getting into. 000
Peter @peterlamey.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Ok I did it for the first time (tbh hadn't really understood what people were posting about) and you're all right. It's neat. www.maptap.gg July 15 100🎯 100🎯 99🎯 98🎯 78👏 Final score: 926maptap.gg🎯MapTap Daily Geography GamePlay MapTap - the daily geography game! Find 5 world locations on a 3D globe with historical stories. Free browser-based daily game for geography lovers. 100
Peter @peterlamey.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Of course people in Northern communities, especially in winter, struggle with vitamin D deficiency. It’s very important to me, therefore, that everyone knows about the Yukon’s public health campaign on that front. The “We all need the D” campaign. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...cbc.caCheeky 'We all need the D' campaign tweaked after online reaction | CBC NewsYukon's Department of Health and Social Services says its vitamin D campaign was meant to target a younger crowd but online reaction 'escalated to ribald humour.' 021
Peter @peterlamey.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Blockbuster whatever. The good movie place in my hometown was an appliance shop whose proprietor just loved movies and kept a big rental section next to the dryers and stoves. Huge variety, historical selections, and never charged late fees because they didn't have a computer to track them. RIP. 110
Peter @peterlamey.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Any time I need to travel through Quebec I’m tempted to construct a route that just goes through all my favourite saints. 010
Peter @peterlamey.bsky.social · 02/07/2026I have a regular committee meeting with a guy who consistently uses "infer" when he means "imply" and I simply cannot manage it today. 010
Peter @peterlamey.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Baby all afternoon: I would prefer to play with my toys in whatever room you are farthest away from. Baby the second I begin to slice an onion: if you don’t pick me up this second I will sit on your feet and scream. 010
Peter @peterlamey.bsky.social · 24/06/2026When I moved back to Halifax from school in 2014 a group of kids from my building used to play cricket in the courtyard and it really made the place feel like a community. I’m delighted to see how much it’s grown since, and can’t wait to see a proper pitch in the city. 040
Peter @peterlamey.bsky.social · 27/05/2026Getting a weird urge to go full goblin mode and hand wire a custom keyboard layout because I think that will solve all my problems (mostly battlemech). 010
Peter @peterlamey.bsky.social · 21/05/2026Any time I need to type a letter with an accent I google a person whose name I know contains it and then copy/paste. Professionalism. 360
Peter @peterlamey.bsky.social · 20/05/2026My wife: “Is that a tick in your beard? Oh, no it’s just a little patch that hasn’t turned white yet.” 020
Peter @peterlamey.bsky.social · 18/05/2026The optimism of spring: “Gosh, what am I going to do if I end up with 80 watermelons?” August’s mildewed vines and September’s stunted nubbins an eternity away. 020
Peter @peterlamey.bsky.social · 06/05/2026Taking my wife to be induced last year I had to drop her, park at the Lord Nelson, and walk over to catch up. Honestly the worst part isn't even finding parking it's navigating the parkade past all the pickup trucks it clearly wasn't designed for and then trying to pull a 3 point u-turn at the top. 130
Peter @peterlamey.bsky.social · 06/05/2026Our neighbour had a Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever, and you could throw a stone she had licked into the water and she’d run down and bring the same one back all afternoon. Unless you threw it in too deep, in which case she’d splash for a while and bring back another one, looking embarrassed. 010
Peter @peterlamey.bsky.social · 02/05/2026Name your top 15 TV shows, gut instincts only: Deadwood The Wire Big Boys Jeeves and Wooster Bob’s Burgers Bunheads Frasier Community River Cottage Freaks and Geeks Hannibal King of the Hill Party Down DS9 The Trip 010
Peter @peterlamey.bsky.social · 26/04/2026I have so many of these… Jazz kissa-style listening/whisky bar Letterpress shop printing mostly poetry Just a nice used book store Cider orchard 030
Peter @peterlamey.bsky.social · 22/04/2026Pick up the nearest book, turn to p. 42, and post the second sentence: "The above quotation is completely self-explanatory." 110
Peter @peterlamey.bsky.social · 22/04/2026My personal version of YOLO is "buy the book while it's in print." 000
Peter @peterlamey.bsky.social · 20/04/2026On airports, the first time I flew internationally I was so nervous about missing a connection that I ended up with a thirteen hour layover at JFK en route to Dublin. They literally wouldn’t let me into my departure terminal when I landed and I had to go back to where I’d arrived. 100
Peter @peterlamey.bsky.social · 19/04/2026Few things in my life have been as radicalizing on the gender front as shopping for baby clothes, size 9-12mo. 030
Peter @peterlamey.bsky.social · 17/04/2026Astrophilately is a word that turns out to be much less cool that its initial impression would suggest. 000
Peter @peterlamey.bsky.social · 15/04/2026Tracking someone else’s location in real time is a gross invasion of privacy and you should approximately never do it or participate in it. 0166
Peter @peterlamey.bsky.social · 12/04/2026Baby clothes are like avocados. You sit with a drawer full of stuff that’s way too big to put on, then you have one day where it all fits exactly and then they’re outgrowing everything and you do it all over again. 010
Peter @peterlamey.bsky.social · 11/04/2026I do buy a lot of hardbacks, and, whether PB or HB, the fact that my favourite romance novels rarely get released well-made in print is one of the reasons I don’t own as many of them when compared to, say, the current mystery authors I read. 100
Peter @peterlamey.bsky.social · 09/04/2026I hope this is true, and do think it would make a big difference. You could tell, when I was a kid, that there were some adults who thought it was good that I was bullied. Too precocious, too odd, too queer. They thought it was important that someone knock me around to fix it. 010
Peter @peterlamey.bsky.social · 05/04/2026I am very much not a trad, and am almost always happy to defer to the liturgical choices people make in their particular communities. But I do think that if you’ve put together an Easter Vigil in which nobody says the word alleluia you maybe should take another crack at it. 031
Peter @peterlamey.bsky.social · 03/04/2026On a scale of 1-10 how weird is it that I eat kiwifruit skin-on? Because my wife thinks it’s about a 45… 220
Peter @peterlamey.bsky.social · 01/04/2026I’m just saying. How much have you read about what it was like to poop on the Apollo missions? 020
Peter @peterlamey.bsky.social · 01/04/2026The last time I got genuinely got by an April Fool’s post it was one of the conservation charities in NS posting that a small herd of wood caribou had been discovered on an offshore island here. I was just so excited. 050
Peter @peterlamey.bsky.social · 30/03/2026Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness. 020
Peter @peterlamey.bsky.social · 29/03/2026This holds true today in that Patricia Brennan has been on about 15 albums in the last 3 years and they’re all incredible. 000
Peter @peterlamey.bsky.social · 24/03/20261: if I need to type I’d rather do it on a keyboard (w/ numpad!), where I can also tab through fields. 2: if I’m going to have multiple tabs open to comparison shop I’d rather do it in a browser where I can one-click between them with a mouse. Even move to a new window to keep it all separate! 000
Peter @peterlamey.bsky.social · 22/03/2026Dream journal: my mother has remarried. Her new husband, Donald Sutherland, and I are in a feud that centres around eating mini wheats and performing Shakespeare soliloquies. 010
