Who is using literal.club I haven’t started and am thinking about giving it a go. There are already a couple of bookshelf apps on atproto. I want something that can track reading (which is why I haven’t had much joy with Bookwyrm or Storygraph. GR makes this easy) #amReading #books 📚
On the plane back to Vancouver. 🛫 Goodbye Ottawa! 🏛️ Thanks for the memories Kingston. 💍 Loved the Cirque, Montréal. 🎪 Quebec City, I hope to return to the Château Frontenac in 19+ to see the new colour of the ceiling! 🏰 Summer hols are almost over. Regular programming starts Monday. 👋
More Ottawa adventures: Stewart the Service dog who greets people at the hotel and lives in a castle in the lobby, the portrait of Churchill that was stolen from Château Laurier and wasn’t noticed for 8 months and later returned, and Hitler’s car.
Today’s exploration in Ottawa: the Canadian War Museum. This place has a massive collection of equipment you can walk around and view.
Today’s adventures in Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada and Canadian Museum of History 🇨🇦
Found this cool beer called Yasuke, named after the famous African samurai who first landed in Shimabara Japan in 1579. The company Mascot is from Toronto and apparently the only Black-owned brewery in Ontario. mascotbrewery.com
Updated my “Interesting Conferences in 2025” list. Tomorrow is the start of #DWebCampCascadia which I helped out with a bit but can’t attend due to being in Ottawa right now 😅, but there are some others coming up. Any suggestions, leave a comment!
The national Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa is a very impressive building. Built in “Scottish Baronial” design, it features of all sorts of animals 🫎🐺🦬🦫 on the outside and depicted in the stained glass. Also it has giant Earth 🌎 and Moon 🌖 globes!
Made it to the capital 🇨🇦
Tomorrow will be a nice #meditation milestone
https://stephango.com/ramblings
This from @stephango.com | @kepano@mastodon.social is similar to the #monologue channels we used at Fission. We didn’t do the strict threading tho. You could leave a note “on a person’s desk” without notifying them, useful as we were across 5 continents.
In downtown Kingston there is a bar called The Toucan where 19 years ago me and my friends would go every Thursday for “Grad Student Night”.
I am here now with my children 🤯
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After one last trip to Notre Dame, we left Montreal and drove to Kingston, Ontario. We are staying in my old neighborhood from grad school, and tonight will eat at the restaurant where we held our wedding banquet in 2006! 😱 🎉 👰♀️💗🤵♂️
Amazing to be back here with our children 🧑🧑🧒🧒
In the second segment of this Neverpo.st episode researcher Emily Owens discusses “BrainRot” as a rare method of decompression for today’s teenagers: There are loads of things you could do to decompress. Sometimes it is use your phone, but oftentimes it’s go for a walk, like go for a swim, take your bicycle out, paint a painting, write a little story. And we’re, I think, systematically discouraged from doing those things because those things don’t make anybody any money.
Now for some Cirque du Soleil 🎪
2 last morning shots of le Château Frontenac before we get on the train to Montréal. Over the past 100 years it has been expanded 5 times, taking the room count from 160 to over 600. In the 90s they almost lost their 5 ⭐️ rating for lack of a pool and spa so they built one! 🏊 🧖♀️
We GOBLIN’d it up in Quebec today #kdrama
Navigating the unfamiliar campus of Laval to pick my daughter up from her university for the first time. So THIS is what it feels like to be that awkward/proud parent 😅
Crossed the plains of Quebec to the capital city, founded in 1608 by Samuel de Champlain and the only walled city north of Mexico. We checked in at the hotel, did a walkaround, and ate some crepes. Tomorrow we reunite with our older daughter who has been here 5 weeks studying Français!
On the rooftop of the place we are staying and we got one of these tower thingies. Le Fancy!
