Generally speaking I love living alone, but I admit there are times when it would be nice to have someone to clean the blood off the kitchen floor and feel sorry for me a bit. (Am fine. Stubbed a toe in such a way the nail came off is all.)
Em Fleming 🍁
@emilyflemily.bsky.social
Poet, Victorianist, cries easily at movies, general-purpose nerd. Montréalaise. She/her/elle
Very cool to see this Atlantic Canada Game Celebration on Steam. 🍁 Shoutout to Greyhaven Craft for organizing!
Steam is running an Atlantic Canada Game Celebration
The promotion spotlights games that are made and/or set in the region.
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Kinda delighted about this, ngl. Am also totally okay with a minority government - I know majority governments "get things done" but I'd prefer "okay we have to work together" and a slower pace.
Brian Wilde@bwildemtl.bsky.social · 2w agoZero seats. Zero.
Turandot and The Hobbit have in common that in both cases some guy wins a riddle contest with a gotcha question that's not actually a riddle, which is profoundly irritating.
My evening today involved trying to explain the plot of Turandot to a very small child. Mostly doable if you skirt around the beheadings.
Aw, no. So Hard is one of my favourite songs to sing at the top of my lungs on the highway. If you haven't heard it, give yourself a treat and do.
Canadian History Ehx@cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 2w agoSass Jordan has died. Born in 1962 in England, she grew up in Montreal. Jordan had several hit songs in Canada including Rescue Me and Tell Somebody. A Juno Award winner, she also served as the honorary colonel of 417 Combat Support Squadron. (Announced on her Facebook page)
Any suggestions for middle grade books with arab protagonists? My kid just said they dont like being arab because "we're always the bad guys."
Alert! Alert! Story doing cool things with structure! I love that.
A. L. Munson | Onnahinli Hinak Bitepuli (she/her)@almunsonauthor.bsky.social · 2w agoAnother good read: "This Obituary Has Been Redacted" by @pcverrone.com. This is a sweet short story about #LGBTQ people and their pets resurrecting during the height of the AIDS epidemic. strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi... #sff #fantasy #supernatural #readsky #reading #2SLGBTQIA
There was a little pretend polling station set up for kids. Super cute.
Em Fleming 🍁@emilyflemily.bsky.social · 2w agoRight. Voted early and voted for the party that I reckon will do the most good and that doesn't have the weird nugget of racism that a few of the other parties have. Best I can do and it means I can start my annoyed letters to my MNA with "as a (riding name) voter...". #votequebec
Right. Voted early and voted for the party that I reckon will do the most good and that doesn't have the weird nugget of racism that a few of the other parties have. Best I can do and it means I can start my annoyed letters to my MNA with "as a (riding name) voter...". #votequebec
Credit to thespicynonna - check out his TikTok, he’s always making something. 🥰 Tribute to Gord Downey of The Tragically Hip, he moved from Italy to Canada years ago #InGordWeTrust #Canada #TheHip
youtu.be/tD8o0LivpnE?... I mean really
Cara sposa / Handel (from Rinaldo)
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Em Fleming 🍁@emilyflemily.bsky.social · 3w agoMy choir was giving out free tickets to see Iestyn Davies sing Handel tonight. What a fabulous evening. Amazing musicians accompanying him too, les Violons du Roy, who included a bass lute among other things. Just brilliant. He was so _nimble_.
If I were a billionaire, I would put on so many free concerts. Everyone deserves to hear beautiful things.
Em Fleming 🍁@emilyflemily.bsky.social · 3w agoMy choir was giving out free tickets to see Iestyn Davies sing Handel tonight. What a fabulous evening. Amazing musicians accompanying him too, les Violons du Roy, who included a bass lute among other things. Just brilliant. He was so _nimble_.
My choir was giving out free tickets to see Iestyn Davies sing Handel tonight. What a fabulous evening. Amazing musicians accompanying him too, les Violons du Roy, who included a bass lute among other things. Just brilliant. He was so _nimble_.
Small Beloved Child saw an octopus kite when he was two and was obsessed with the Octopus in the Sky. When i found Octopus Shocktopus, about a giant octopus that falls from the sky to live in a small town, it was my Best Aunt Move Ever. We read it eight times in a row immediately.
Rachel Ernst @rachelernst.myatproto.social · 3w agoThe desperation in adults' eyes as they ask, "Do you have any books on sharks?" as a small child in a shark shirt vibrates next to them. 😂🤣
The new Map Men video shouts out "HOW TO KILL A LANGUAGE: Power, Resistance, and the Race to Save Our Words" by Sophia Smith Galler, who I was just listening to on the latest @lingthusiasm.com episode! Love that.
Starting Slow Horses immediately after catching up on All Creatures Great And Small is a same-actor whiplash
It is semiannual "buy an aubergine because I want to be the kind of person who cooks aubergine" week! (It's a common vegetable. It is just not one I ever had growing up or in my twenties, just not in my culinary idiom.)
Quebec election seems, as usual, to be a choice between "party who is not going to do much that I particularly like" and "party who cares about a lot of things that I care about, like transit and infrastructure and culture, but is also weirdly racist so not an option for my actual vote."
Pleased with these. If they bake as well as they rose, well. Yum.
Doing a Big Thing for my mother's milestone birthday, and the price for a major part of it comes out to pretty much exactly the interest earned from money my aunt left me a few years ago. Mum's getting a last birthday present from her big sister. I'm sitting here feeling a little weepy about that.
In an art gallery and there are so many things I want to buy and I am caught in that terrible paradox of knowing they are simultaneously underpriced and a little out of my budget
25 years ago, I was running a little late to CEGEP so got right in with no chat, and my teacher said "well, the world may be ending but you'll all know how to write a thesis statement." The guy next to me saw I was confused, and told me. "That's not funny, don't joke about that," I said.
There are few experiences like watching Brad Gushue win from the university pub in Newfoundland and then staggering into your classes hoping your professor won't notice you are drunk, except he was also in that pub and is also verging tipsy
Canadian History Ehx@cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · last mo.Brad Gushue One of Canada's greatest curlers, he has appeared at the Brier a record 23 times and won the event a record six times. He is a five-time World Champion and won Olympic gold in 2006 and a bronze in 2022.
Astrophotographer Adam (AJ) Smadi caught this image a few hours ago from Washington state. A thin crescent Moon, sunlight illuminating the rugged lunar surface. And 2,400 times farther away—and on the other side of the Sun—mighty Jupiter, and its moons Io (left) and Ganymede (right).
Conductor: So this is in the enigmatic scale, which some guy came up with in the 18th century to be a weirdo. Monteverdi wrote in it basically to prove someone could Choir, in unison : y tho
Context-free quote from my work chat today: "If it is exploding, it is not safely stored."
When you think to yourself, "okay, I'm gonna get that citybuilder DLC and spend a nice night poking at things and playing Spreadsheets The Game" and it turns out that when you bought the citybuilder, you bought the edition that included future DLC so you already own it: Hurrah!