dewline: (canadian media)
2023-12-04 08:34 pm

Horror re: CBC Staffing

This is not what I want for the future of the Public Broadcaster:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/cbc-radio-canada-layoffs-budget-1.7048530

Here and I've been listening to this year's edition of the Massey Lectures for most of the afternoon while I was working on the new day job...
dewline: Text: "Empathy in Silence" (empathy-2)
2022-04-04 10:46 pm
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(no subject)

Some of you are Going Through Some Things of your own right now. Not going to name names or ID specific troubles you're facing. I'm grateful to be able to just be here if my presence is a thing you need to cope.

That's it for the moment.

More on other topics tomorrow, I expect.
dewline: self-portrait, taken while drawing (Sketching)
2016-12-05 02:22 pm

From The New Yorker: Empathy Vacuums

Yeah, this is something the people who make the gadgets I find Useful should be concerned about. Just saying.

http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/silicon-valley-has-an-empathy-vacuum

There are consequences that go beyond unemployment rates and election results.
dewline: Quotation: "I grieve with thee" (Grief)
2016-06-12 06:12 pm
dewline: Doctor Who quote: Books. Best Weapons in the World (Books)
2016-06-11 05:21 pm

A Note About a Novel II

One of the things that works about Windswept for me is there's this one aspect to the protagonist, Padma Mehta, that hits home...

ExpandSpoilers, I suspect... )

So there's that.
dewline: Quotation: "Don't Yield, Back SHIELD" (SHIELD)
2016-06-05 10:32 am

Helicarrier Fun: All-New Wolverine # 8

I laughed when I saw this page. Laughed, because I empathized with Gabby's reaction.

ExpandImage under the cut )

It's her first Helicarrier, after all.
dewline: self-portrait, taken while drawing (Sketching)
2014-06-05 07:32 pm
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Moncton

I've seen the news reports.

Not happy about them, and more than a little worried about some aspects.

Hoping for a resolution that's good enough.
dewline: Facepalming upon learning bad news (bad news)
2013-04-15 06:18 pm
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Boston

My first reaction was "Dammit. Not again."

I don't know what my next reaction should be, beyond reaching out to anyone in the neighbourhood...