On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

You may have heard in recent months of the Canadian COVID Society. They're looking out for the rights of people living with, or trying to avoid having to live with, COVID infections across Confederation.

They just announced a new resource for such people:

https://bsky.app/profile/cancovsoc.bsky.social/post/3lnnhco2wm52w
https://bsky.app/profile/cancovsoc.bsky.social/post/3lnnhcowr622t
https://bsky.app/profile/cancovsoc.bsky.social/post/3lnnhcpjyfk2t

https://covidsociety.ca/priorities/safer-health-care/accommodation-request/

So...I signed up for another service today.

https://hey.cafe/@dewline

Hey.Cafe is Canadian-owned and operated, and if I lose access to US-based services because of national/international security, there'll still be this, right?

Apparently, there's a mass dismissal of workers in the works this weekend.

So you might want to heed Allison Gill's advice in the link below before reading any of your office e-mail.

No joke.

https://www.muellershewrote.com/p/attn-hhs-employees

1. I really don't trust François Legault's definition of "secularisme" in Québec.

2. Looks like papermail delivery is restarting in Canada tomorrow (AKA December 17th, 2024). I worry about the possible consequences of how that was arranged.

3. If you've watched a recent Hallmark Christmas-themed movie, you might have seen parts of Ottawa.

It's underway now.

https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc-podcast/rachel-maddow-presents-ultra/rachel-maddow-presents-ultra-season-2-episode-1-dr-hunt-n1309994

Something I want to revisit:

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/whitecoat/the-dose-brain-health-1.7210034

Following up a bit on local comics creators and suchlike.

One friendly acquaintance of mine from the long-dissolved Orléans Comic Jam sessions, Dominic Bercier, has a Kickstarter fundraiser/project going at the moment. Timing might be tight for you if you're interested, I understand that...

Anyway, here's the link.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/renaissancebp/exclusive-holiday-card-delivered-by-santa

If you're interested in Dominic's published work to date more generally:

https://www.bercier.ca/

The local publisher that Dominic's more recently tying in with:

https://pressesrenaissancepress.ca/

I had to amend my ArtStation profile. I'm getting asks about wedding anniversary illustration gigs, and between my day job, the map project and the caregiving trips, this is going to fall by the wayside.

Again.

I just saw the notice this morning:

https://gridlore.dreamwidth.org/2075928.html

I don't think we got to know each other very well, and it's still a loss.

So I've started setting up a presence there.

https://www.artstation.com/dwightwilliams-ottawa