Devon Paul

@devonp.bsky.social

Geek, politics junkie, lawyer, Canadian. Everything is my own views, nothing to do with my employer. He/him.

I must have cooked more than a thousand risottos, yet every time the emergence of something that looks edible from what had previously resembled a pond is a blessed relief.

Our flight from Seattle to Sacramento was delayed by a few hours last night, but we were rewarded with an epic sunset on Tahoma (Rainier) as it poked through the low stratus layer. The pastel peach backdrop was made possible by the horrific wildfire smoke from all the PNW fires.

Stratovolcanonpops out of clouds and is bathed in sunset warm peach glow.

The COVID denialism discourse over the last 48hrs has been getting to me. I worked as counsel to CUPE on Ontario's COVID-19 Long-Term Care Commission of Inquiry. I listened to healtcare workers tell their devastating, first-hand, stories of being overwhelmed by the disease. 1/3

Important to note that Bev Craig, the new Mayor of Greater Manchester, won her overwhelming victory on a platform of trans inclusion, as an out lesbian. A stark reminder to the GC crowd that a) transphobia is a losing policy, and b) the vast majority of lesbians support trans inclusion.

you cannot technocrat your way out of the climate crisis. adaptation will be necessary to mitigate the damage, but every call to concede is a call for more destruction, more death, more suffering for the sake of immediate convenience. it should be treated with unforgiving scorn

Something that is going under-discussed in coverage of the Liberals doing the right thing and deep-sixing the expansion of the island airport is that Ford thought he had made a deal with Carney and was totally chill with the feds running what he thought was a sham of public consultation.

I'm going to lay down a #TOpoli marker right now: Chris Alexander will get nowhere near the Mayor's office. The man who fronted for the "barbaric cultural practices tip line" will not get traction in a city as multicultural as Toronto.

*Trojan historian watching as the Achaeans break down the gates* Wow, my civilization is undergoing a complex transformation from a heavily centralized and stratified administrative society to a more socially-fragmented modality of living in which material culture is dispersed amidst smaller sites.

that odyssey review was pretty funny but also kind of like if wes anderson did the iliad and someone went long on how everything looks like a diorama and the characters have a flat affect and there's a general named "Gen. Greek Tragedy" and like yes i understand that is a wes anderson movie correct

There is a seafood-to-go freezer at this airport, and I cannot for the life of me imagine what would motivate me to buy frozen sea food before taking an hours-long flight.

people who can’t tell what a nazi is are suddenly homeric scholars demanding historical accuracy in a story where the wind lives in a bag.