Some notes on microblogging
This week Twitter continues to burn money by rebranding to X. I’m still at Twitter at @sherwinarnott. But I don’t know for how long. Twitter remains more or less functional,…
Five kinds of compassion, according to Gabor Maté
I’ve been reading (listening to) The Myth of Normal, by Gabor Maté. It’s a fascinating look at the role of trauma in our selves, but also in our collective selves….
Municipal election recommendations for #YYJ
I live in a family of three with a young kid, downtown adjacent, in a condo. Here are my voting recommendations.
White supremacy, doing journalism, and the explanatory comma
This particular Code Switch episode on the explanatory comma is itself a kind of extended explanatory comma, or perhaps an interrogatory comma, because Demby and Marisol Meraji take time to really discuss and think about their own discomfort with this practice.
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Three unforgettable moments in [my] hockey history
Where I grew up in Northern Alberta, hockey was a big deal. My big brother played hockey. And my dad, who was not a great skater, played hockey in a…
I seen it
She was kind. But she was also ruthlessly attentive to my Northern Alberta dialect. Sometimes she would simply say it back to me. I seen.
My cell phone carrier has stopped spamming me
My local gym and community centre is awesome. It’s a little less than three kilometres from my home. The pool is great. The gym is nice. It’s got a kind…
The closet, sewing communities, and yay for good comments
I’m loving this article written on the Sewcialists blog. It’s a blog with the goal of making the sewing community more inclusive and representing a wider range of voices. The article is published under a pseudonym…
Trinity Western University continues to defend anti-gay community covenant
The Supreme Court of Canada, happily, was not moved by Trinity Western University’s claims that they weren’t hurting gay folks. And the Supreme Court was not moved by the claims by TWU that they…
Bharat’s Pocket Scraps Sep 29
On American colonialism, racism, football and more
UBCIC Rejects Canada 150 Celebrations
Republished with permission: “Canada150” is not representative of the history of our lands and territories, or of our present realities as Indigenous Peoples. We, the Union of BC Indian Chiefs (UBCIC), cannot, in all good conscience, participate in, and will not celebrate…
Meghan Jezewski: Hitchhikings
In which Meghan and Sherwin reflect on the old days, hitchhiking, and being young and lucky (and privileged) …
Sherwin Arnott: Hitchhikings
One time, I was trying to hitch a ride. It was a really long wait. I was generally careful not to feel too entitled about getting picked up. But I…
Sometimes courage is choosing not to jump
Watch this. I find it so fascinating. The video shows a dozen or so people at the top of a ten metre diving tower deciding whether to jump.
Imprints
Reflections on safety and ways of being…
Pitting the haves against the have-nots hurts everyone
Reading “Christ Church Cathedral wants tent city shut down”, about tent city in Victoria, left me disappointed in the leadership and community of Christ Church Cathedral…
“She’s my Rushmore, Max!”: masculinity and vulnerability in Rushmore
Rushmore is from 1998, and it’s very white, but Sabrina and Sherwin think it has some redeeming features. It’s an interesting meditation on class and masculinity…
Literary Lowdown: A Beginning
Introduction to a new type of post that will feature book recommendations and reviews…
Cop show Blue Bloods makes me cringe
Blue Bloods is a story of a cop family, the Reagans, in New York. And it’s a reasonably well written family drama that suffers from deeply racist, and sexist, narratives…
fb is for activists / fb is not for activists
We believe in the power of public discourse. And this can happen in person. And it can happen online…
Encryption
We have a choice going forward, let artificial intelligence help us grow, or limit their use to innocuous thoughts because we are not allowed to keep them private and encrypted
Keeping solidarity for workers
When workers ask for more for themselves and their families, and their communities, every worker benefits. And yet, recently I noticed that some folks have a distinct lack of strength and solidarity …
Optimum health and capitalism
Capitalism is fed by dividing collective strengths and conquering individuals with embedded, regenerative, and dynamic hierarchies. I thought I’d write a blog post about the relationship between optimum health and capitalism and call it a day, but it’s a big idea…
Underpants are political
People underestimate the importance, politically, of underpants. Here I explain why this can be said of, well, anything you want …