memento mori (hot girl edition) @vpj.bsky.social · 13hA very elegant lady at an intersection on a share-bike called out to me: "Can you help me? Can you please push the crosswalk button for me so the light will change?" I did, and as I crossed complimented her on her plaid blazer. She looked genuinely touched. This is why it's good to live in a city. 020
memento mori (hot girl edition) @vpj.bsky.social · 05/10/2026We're all just people in the world sitting next to one another on the subway and I think that's nice. 150
memento mori (hot girl edition) @vpj.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I sneezed on the subway this morning (into my elbow, of course) and the man sitting next to me quietly and politely said "Bless you." I thanked him and we shared a brief but sincere smile. My mood's been a little rough lately but I had to try to keep myself from crying. 140
memento mori (hot girl edition) @vpj.bsky.social · 05/10/2026That Ghostriders in the Sky song scared the bejesus out of me. 200
Reposted by memento mori (hot girl edition)blair @blairaf.com · 04/10/2026Some marginalia from my full reading of the Pope's Encyclical on AI this morning: - AI does not love - AI does not intrinsically value truth or justice - AI does not experience hunger - AI does not experience communion with the natural world or any sort of higher power 47328
Reposted by memento mori (hot girl edition)pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Sad news everyone. Our beloved friend the computer has now become a hated enemy 167123812642
memento mori (hot girl edition) @vpj.bsky.social · 26/09/2026The Oddbird chardonnay was life changing. I have yet to find it in Canada. 200
memento mori (hot girl edition) @vpj.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Migraine klaxon! This beautiful day and what I'm assuming is an aggressive change of pressure is waging war directly upon my brain and I must take to my bed. 001
memento mori (hot girl edition) @vpj.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I'm going opening night. I'm going to be first in line. 010
memento mori (hot girl edition) @vpj.bsky.social · 22/09/2026It's autumn. I'm writing again. My life feels like it belongs to me. 260
memento mori (hot girl edition) @vpj.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I'm a prison abolitionist but also I make an exception for the people that upload surreptitiously captured videos and images of strangers without their consent. Straight to jail, do not pass go, etc. 130
memento mori (hot girl edition) @vpj.bsky.social · 16/09/2026What's a good Canadian Politics newsletter that will give me a headline roundup and some basic analysis. I'll pay. Someone must be doing this. 011
memento mori (hot girl edition) @vpj.bsky.social · 16/09/2026There's something so electric and exciting to me that Robyn looks her age and leans into her own body and isn't trying to pretend to be anything else. I would see that concert ten more times. 030
memento mori (hot girl edition) @vpj.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I have a diagnosis in ink, signed off by two doctors. I did not seek diagnosis. It followed a GP appt where I suggested an increasingly unsettling symptom was "probably nothing, right?" Wrong, dingus. Yet, I still wake up and feel like garbage and convince myself it's imaginary and go to work. 030
memento mori (hot girl edition) @vpj.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Not to chronic-illness-post but I'm wondering at what point will I stop convincing myself I'm making it up, even as myself and others note tangible, physical symptoms happening in front of us? To me! 130
memento mori (hot girl edition) @vpj.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Also local news: I got bangs on Friday and it's going well. A man in a Spiderman t-shirt on a skateboard called me Mary Jane,was immediately embarrassed by it, then quickly skateboarded away. 050
memento mori (hot girl edition) @vpj.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Big local news: the psychic that's been on the north east corner of Bathurst and Dupont for at least as long as I've been in Toronto (20 years?????) is GONE. I yelled in the car much to my partner's quiet annoyance. 150
memento mori (hot girl edition) @vpj.bsky.social · 02/09/2026It wasn't raining downtown when I got on the subway. It stopped raining as I got off the bus in the Junction. I saw no storm! I feel ripped off! AND I don't have power. 010
memento mori (hot girl edition) @vpj.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Today the general sale opened and every single screening for the 10 movies I wanted to see were sold out. TIFF, baybee! 000
memento mori (hot girl edition) @vpj.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Life update: this weekend I used an electric lawnmower for the first time. Very efficient! 040
memento mori (hot girl edition) @vpj.bsky.social · 28/08/2026It's remarkable how attempting to buy tickets for TIFF gets worse every year. A genuine nightmare every time! 020
memento mori (hot girl edition) @vpj.bsky.social · 26/08/2026I'm sure it's great... I'm just not doing that. 000
memento mori (hot girl edition) @vpj.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Me seeing Alex Gibney has a new doc at TIFF: 🤩 Me seeing that it's a nearly 4-hour documentary about Elon Musk: 😦 100
Reposted by memento mori (hot girl edition)David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Great performer, great lady and, perhaps, when all is said and done, one of our greatest citizens. 161316148
Reposted by memento mori (hot girl edition)John Michael McGrath @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social · 21/08/2026"Lucy definitely won't pull the football this time" —the Canadian business class 717552
memento mori (hot girl edition) @vpj.bsky.social · 18/08/2026I would have thought your one territory was the Yukon, based on your BC history! Both Whitehorse and Iqaluit are worth the visit. And Halifax, yes! It IS criminal. Come here! 000
memento mori (hot girl edition) @vpj.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Also good. But Nova Scotia is the top. 100
memento mori (hot girl edition) @vpj.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Published authors who come up through the fan fiction space are either craven opportunists or Real Ones. Glad to see RR is the latter. share.google/5SNAzcAzxTC7...share.googleHeated Rivalry author donates $300K to 5 rural libraries facing closure | CBC NewsRachel Reid says when she heard five libraries in Nova Scotia’s Annapolis Valley were set to permanently close their doors, she wanted to help as much as she could. 181
memento mori (hot girl edition) @vpj.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Really??? Next summer. August. Don't deprive yourself any further. (What's the other province?) 100
Reposted by memento mori (hot girl edition)Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 14/08/2026the story that the right wanted to tell here is about DEI run amok - institutions so obsessed with diversity that they embraced an obvious fraud. that story gets it backwards. to Cambridge et al Arday was a PR stunt. they hired him as a symbol, meant to shield them from criticism. 2100677
memento mori (hot girl edition) @vpj.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Perhaps it would be best not to say anything at all. But this whole thing is depressing and I can't stop reading about it. 000
memento mori (hot girl edition) @vpj.bsky.social · 06/08/2026As a non-academic in academia, I believe we need to hold each other to very high standards, the same as we do students. As a human being in the world I am troubled that those scholars who are being raked over the coals are those who have been historically excluded from academia. 140
memento mori (hot girl edition) @vpj.bsky.social · 06/08/2026This is what I've learned after more than six years working in academic integrity: that close, scrutinizing investigations of many academics across disciplines would reveal issues, especially those that are producing large volumes of scholarly work. 120
memento mori (hot girl edition) @vpj.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Three, the subject may be a bit of a fantasist, in some regards. And finally... Four, that the subject was specifically and unfairly targeted because of their marginalized identity/identities. 100
memento mori (hot girl edition) @vpj.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Two, some of that work seems to have genuine shortcomings when it comes to academic integrity, and the allegations of plagiarism may have strong grounds. 100
memento mori (hot girl edition) @vpj.bsky.social · 06/08/2026One, the subject of the investigation appears to have done some interesting and important work that has contributed to their discipline in exciting ways. 100
memento mori (hot girl edition) @vpj.bsky.social · 06/08/2026I've been watching the latest high profile academic misconduct case coming out of the UK, which is one of those cases where multiple things are true... 130
Reposted by memento mori (hot girl edition)jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful 193126127999
memento mori (hot girl edition) @vpj.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Full props to buddy passing me on the sidewalk, yelling into his phone in clear irritation that he was standing outside the Art Gallery, and could be easily located. My man was at the Shoe Museum. 260
memento mori (hot girl edition) @vpj.bsky.social · 20/07/2026I wanted to make some friends a quilt for their baby, who will be arriving soon, and Etsy, which used to have really fun, different patterns is now awash with AI slop-patterns. Of course. To the library it is. 150
Reposted by memento mori (hot girl edition)Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 08/07/2026‘“We cannot afford to have a society in which a significant fraction of our best young minds think that cheating is OK,” [Serrano] said. “That leads to a declining society, to a failed society … We cannot choose to become idiots.”’ 49223
memento mori (hot girl edition) @vpj.bsky.social · 22/06/2026I failed the Ulysses book club miserably. 210
memento mori (hot girl edition) @vpj.bsky.social · 22/06/2026It's always a bummer to pick up a book others have written rapturously about and then just have it fall flat when I read it. Great passages throughout but otherwise a slog. I'm glad I got it from the library rather than buying it. 130
memento mori (hot girl edition) @vpj.bsky.social · 21/06/2026Hello police I'd like to press charges regarding a criME 010
Reposted by memento mori (hot girl edition)Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social · 12/06/2026I hope this doesn't sound patronising but go and see art. The Hockney talk has reminded me again that seeing art in the flesh is a very different experience to seeing it on a screen. You understand why people cry in art galleries. It's not just the gift shop prices. 1215933
Reposted by memento mori (hot girl edition)jen see @iamjensee.bsky.social · 09/06/2026"But the present is a riptide. You’re only human; the spirit of the age will ragdoll you." What a lovely essay on reading and discovering joy in books. So enjoyed. 14913
Reposted by memento mori (hot girl edition)Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Persepolis - Eye of the Tiger (2007) 1038921500