On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

From graydon's Mastodon presence, I believe:

https://mastodon.social/@graydon@canada.masto.host/109695485956755364

And the source for same:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41423-021-00728-2

*nervous twitching*

Noting this for ongoing discussion...and Musk is clearly enmeshed in this particular mess, by our settler-nations' encouragement.

https://apt613.ca/space-is-part-of-the-land-indigenous-knowledges-and-colonization-by-light-and-satellite-pollution/

Here's mine:

Always expect to be dragged off-course from what you expected and trained to do for a living.

Inspired by a contest put together by the Algonquin College Alumni Association.

Ecological consequences:

https://twitter.com/JaroGiesbrecht/status/1494407970850934796

As regards the class action lawsuit in the works:

https://twitter.com/Justin_Ling/status/1494651217112449028

If you live, run a business, work(ed) inside the affected areas, you are a potential class member. At least that's my understanding of Paul Champ's statements to the news services.

So this has also been going on here in Ottawa in places where I wasn't looking, when I wasn't visiting. Check out the report:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/film-tv-production-ottawa-pandemic-1.5898243

If you watched last week's episode of Coroner on CBC/Gem, you've likely gotten some sense of what's involved in making shows in safer ways than usual. The logistics and workplace safety protocols are more complex now. And people still need entertainment for sanity-maintenance's sake.

For myself, I'm not binge-watching. I've been too busy looking for steadier work, and these past two weeks, actually working. I haven't given myself the time or the permission to do otherwise. And once this current contract wraps up, I won't dare to. Not with the current UI claim on its way to wrapping up in a few months with few prospects yet. (Barring any further truly helpful surprises from either Parliament Hill or Queens Park, akin to those I've gotten this past year. Or from the non-profit or private sectors. Which I can't rule out.)

But some of you might have ideas that could translate into paying work for people here in the film and TV business...and you might want to keep this site bookmarked, too:

https://ottawa.film/

So Biden is declared the president-elect by the world's news services now.

So now, we celebrate and prepare to both build upon that victory and fight off whatever rage against that victory yet comes our way.

And 2022 is coming. And so are the further consequences of climate derangement. And the new fascist international isn't done trying to murder the rest of us yet (with or without help from climate derangement)!

In Klingon: qapla'!

In English: Good luck!

Climate derangement don't care about any coronavirus.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/tuktoyaktuk-homes-relocated-pandemic-1.5542057

Listening to this as I check the job boards this afternoon:

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/what-shakespeare-can-teach-us-about-conspiracy-theories-today-1.5516289

I am definitely pleased with Nahlah Ayed's first months as the new host-narrator of Ideas.

I managed, just a few minutes ago at this writing, to accidentally dismantle the pen that came with my current tablet. It's a PTK-640, which I bought about ten years ago. So...looking for a solution that preferably doesn't entail recycling the rest of the tablet or anything else deemed financially intolerable for someone between day jobs.

Update 1: There may be a solution in hand by Saturday. Stay tuned.

Update 2: The solution is in hand. Thanks be to the Ottawa Comic Jam network of artists.