The first-ever Canadian word of the year, chosen by national poll, is maplewash: making things appear more Canadian than they actually are. fritinancy.substack.com/p/words-o…

Hot tip for iPhone UX designers but the option to reset keyboard settings should not appear in a dangerous menu where I can accidentally reset my whole phone, right below the option to “delete all E-Sims”. That’s just asking for disaster, considering the keyboard is currently so bad I have to reset it like once a month. www.youtube.com/watch

Played a fun game of “is this cute or have I fallen too far down the vintage Northern Reflections collection rabbit hole” this morning.

I’ve posted before about having aphantasia, in that I always thought “picture this” was a metaphor; I can’t call up images of things in my mind, and when I close my eyes I just see the back of my eyes. However I definitely miss people when I haven’t seen them for a bit. The person who describes people as no longer existing when they’re not around, that’s very strange to me.

Me when I change my sheets mid week

Raise your hand if you expected 9/11 to be the example of unforeseen risk in this project management course

Hey New York Times, I invented something I think you’ll be really interested in. This minimalist, paper-based to-do manager can help you focus on completing your important tasks while staying offline. nyti.ms/4h8ijiC — The New York Times (@nytimes.com) Oct 16, 2025 at 4:35 PM

🎶iiiiiiiii…. Have become… uncomfortably full #onelinesongparody

I went to unsubscribe from a newsletter and got a “you have been unsubscribed” confirmation from Blogger in this, the year 2025.

Me eating the last cookie to stop my future self from eating cookies.

Archives of Wes Anderson London’s Design Museum proudly presents in collaboration with la Cinémathèque française, … Wes Anderson: The Archives, an intimate look at some of the papers and props from some of our favorite films, shedding light on the process and the man behind the lens. -via Design Milk

Sending this to all my friends with the caption “my children”.

This is completely useless, unsuitable for most reasons that people require monitors, and I love it: Boox is debuting its first desktop monitor featuring a color E Ink screen. The new version of the Boox Mira Pro carries over the same functionality as the black-and-white version that launched in 2023, but using the same E Ink color display technology found in devices like the Kindle Colorsoft. Boox launches its first color E Ink monitor via the Verge

Back to a Website The new Homestar Runner video is about how much better the internet was when it was all websites, which obviously I agree with. Back to the Crazebox! (via Homestarrunner.com, celebrating 25 dot coms)

I don’t know how people manage having more than one plant. I’ve typically only kept one and it occupied like 10% of my brain space. But I’ve recently been gifted two more plants and now all I can think about is keeping my plant babies alive. ARE YOU OKAY PLANT BABIES. 🪴

I Didn’t Think Things Would Get This Chaotic When We Elected President Donkey Kong Same with President Donkey Kong’s press conferences. Reporter asks a gotcha question? Barrel. Someone wants to know what he’s doing about the price of eggs? Barrel. Softball from a friendly reporter? Barrel, barrel, barrel. (via McSweeneys and kottke.org)

This is actually crazy. Canadian details the hate she experiences living in the U.S. A Canadian working in health care in the U.S. shared a disturbing incident she faced in the operating room amid a discussion on the tariff war. … The neuroscientist described how she was in the middle of surgery when she “outed” herself as a Canadian during a conversation about tariffs. This is a neuroscientist working with a nurse.

Add “winter travel advisories” to the list of things I am absolutely over, please and thanks

When I first got on Bluesky I was really stoked. It felt like old internet Twitter. It was friendly and exciting and fun to engage with. Then it got more popular, and started feeling a little more like twitter in the middle years. People seemed more interested in gathering followers, increasing engagement through “starter packs”, and more businesses got on board. It was still fun, it still felt like a cool place to be on the internet, but the shine was starting to wear off for me.

I did a big hair colour switch over the weekend. Click here for selfie Went from dark brunette to a bright copper-red! I love it!

A few days ago I posted about how I was moving to micro.blog, but I was having trouble with the import feature. I said I was just going to let that go, and leave all my archives on one of my backup sites. Of course this was a lie, I would never let that go. I ended up taking my Tumblr back up, importing it to a Wordpress account, exporting that backup, and using that to import to micro.

A couple of days ago l saw that Micro.blog had started offering plans for $1 a month, which is basically free. Without too much thought, I decided to move my blog over, away from blot.im. I’ve had a couple of concerns with Blot in my time using them, the main one being the price of Dropbox storage. Blot itself is very competitively priced, especially for the quality of service. But it relies on outside cloud storage to work, and the number one option is Dropbox.

Attempting to import posts, stay tuned.