On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

I know Nicholas Brandon has a History of Being an Unpleasant Human Being. Earned.

By way of how his death happened, he's also apparently part of a larger story about how governments and industries are still trying to push aside the consequences of COVID-19 before the Pandemic itself is truly over and done.

Sharing a note with you all. The book that inspired the first of my in-progress star-mapping projects has had its first volume remastered properly, also accounting for revelations found in assorted episodes of Strange New Worlds.

Details here.

If your Trek fandom leads you in the direction of trying to understand the Federation as a nation...this is a fanfic for you.

This went live today:

https://theneworleans.ca/2026/01/06/orleans-needs-more-public-libraries/

Rachel Maddow argues that the United States is "there" now...



I have figured out some things that I have already been doing, that I will keep doing, in order to keep the Problem from fully installing itself in Canada. Other things, I need to either stop or start doing. There are lists that others have worked up, lists I should be copying from, to that end.

Resistance to the revival of the nightmare continues in the States and in Canada, of course, with or without me.

I'm also still looking for work because until either that job is secured or I'm driven out of the workforce to whatever result, I still have to live within the existing system.

Go read this if you want cues on how to respond and you live in the States:

https://flamingsword.dreamwidth.org/496875.html

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