Linkages of Interest - 24 May 2022

1. Ottawa author Kate Heartfield gets to hold forth on the Big Idea of The Embroidered Book by way of Athena Scalzi:

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2022/05/24/the-big-idea-kate-heartfield/

2. Dylan Reid at Spacing Media notes the contents of the "Rain" issue of Spacing now arriving in newsstands and mailboxes across Canada (and, I hope, elsewhere, too):

http://spacing.ca/national/2022/05/24/new-issue-rain/

3. Canadian national security is under threat in a way some of us never stopped worrying about, and others grew up never understanding until now:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/national-security-us-fox-news-threat-report-1.6459660

4. The process of recovery is underway, and it's complicated.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/storm-damage-ice-tornado-power-grid-ottawa-1.6463247

5. The Ottawa Titans have started their first baseball season.

https://apt613.ca/the-ottawa-titans-play-home-stadium-for-the-first-time-may-24-2022/

6. How to get help as needed during the Derecho-blackout of 2022:

https://ottawastart.com/ottawa-power-outage-where-to-recharge-get-a-shower-and-eat/

7. Fascist infiltrator in (New) Conservatives gets shown the exit door:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/conservative-party-resigns-racist-email-1.6463136

And Now Monkeypox, Right?

siderea makes some notes about the monkeypox situation. Once again, we are likely to be Not Paranoid Enough about the things that we should be, because the organized bigots are going to start leveraging this too to restore their power over their chosen prey-groups if they haven't already. And that will likely undermine the public health measure we should already be undertaking.

(Should I use "Augh!" or "Virus Don't Care" for this one?)