Took me 8 months to read this absolutely magisterial work. 850 pages and I made 222 annotations to come back to. I have a much better understanding (and respect!) for Ajahn Chah. 🙏 Very grateful to Ajahn Jayasaro #Buddhism
Took a nice bike ride down to the lake. So many ducks 🦆 and other birds. Saw a stunning red-winged black bird 🐦⬛ and a bald-headed eagle with massive wingspan patrolling 🦅. Nice to be a quick jaunt from nature. This lake is just beyond the forest (just beyond the park) that I normally walk.
Infinite scroll is samsāra and The Algorithm is Māra
😆 Ajahn Kovilo explaining 2500 year old concepts in modern terms! #Buddhism
What Baldwin was for America, Fanon was for the world, especially the insurgent Third World, those subjects of European empires who had been denied what Edward Said called ‘the permission to narrate their own histories’
The Rebel’s Clinic The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon by Adam Shatz 📚
At the library randomly found ourselves in a Vancouver Cantonese Opera workshop. Great intro to the art form with some demonstration of makeup and techniques! Super lucky to be in this intimate setting with the performers. Thanks Burnaby Library!
“like a filing cabinet, where certain types of information would be available with legal authorization.” — CBC
We need to kill Bill C-22 with fire 🔥
#cdnpoli
🦞 unsung.aresluna.org/save-for-…
What’s your claw?
Ran into friends, made new ones at the Surrey Founders meetup, got recognized by a pal I haven’t seen in person for 10 years! Talked with the only co-op, hung with language nerds (spoke some 日本語), and observed last year’s “responsible AI” messaging is now “sovereign AI” 😜 #WebSummitVancouver 🇨🇦
- BC Premier David Eby talks about the province’s Look West campaign and growing tech center
- Gary Marcus delivers hot takes on Anthropic leak, symbolic logic, the Sillycon Valley Trials
- CEO of Bell asks for an industrial policy 👀
- Stephen Walt‼️ sez Trump lost the Iran War
#WebSummitVancouver 🇨🇦
Good morning from #WebSummitVancouver
Made a little bento and had a picnic by Deer Lake in Burnaby. The flowers 🌺 were out. Even got to see a wedding proposal!
If you are in or near London, they are having a mini-RightsCon at Newspeak House! 🙌🎉
We can just DO things… together.
Started Hild by Nicola Griffith 📚 #AmReading
The hands look cool! ☸️
(h/t @nevint.bsky.social )
Lol. 🔥
New worker-owned #localnews outlet dropped in #Vancouver
MODERATOR: Are there things the Empire has done well?
HASK: Disintegrations. And I like that they’re decisive. You look at that battle station, and you think, Wow, that’s decisive engineering. People make jokes about the cost of it, but I see efficiency. They should make two.
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Fleetwood Flyer with a snow-capped Mt Baker in the distance. The next station down the hill will be called Bakerview, I think you can see why 🤩 (cf. micro.chadkohalyk.com/2026/04/0…) #SurreyBC
Today is an Uposatha Day, a day of Buddhist Observance. People often wear white tops and black bottoms. Today was also the day I took our bikes out of storage, washed them, replaced inner tubes, cleaned and oiled the drive trains… I was EXTRA mindful 🪷 and my shirt is still white! 💪
Free Palestine protest in downtown #SurreyBC. Maybe about 20 people? Lots of horns honking. Counter protest across the street: Israeli flag paired with Iranian Monarchist flag 🤔
