Independent author & FOSS web developer.
Writer of 200+ articles on Medium.com for over ten years.
Main account: https://social.lol/@brennan
šØš¦ 30 | MĆ©tis | Queer
| Pronouns | he/they |
| Home | https://brennan.day |
| Poetry | https://bkpoetry.com |
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This morning I published a piece on Frances Widdowson. Shortly after, she reached out to comment.
What followed was an hour of argument about ātruth,ā evidence, and what gets centered.
Iāve published the full exchange.
https://blog.brennanbrown.ca/follow-up-an-interview-with-frances-widdowson-66c5736efb6a
Ex-MRU prof Frances Widdowson has raised $50K+ fighting what she calls the Kamloops215Deception. The "deception" being, apparently, the grief of Indigenous communities over children who never came home.
The Daily Wire spent $100 million trying to build a conservative Disney. Bentkey is dead. Ben Shapiro produced Terror on the Prairie, it grossed $804 in theatres. You cannot purchase hunger, truth, and empathy.
https://blog.brennanbrown.ca/right-wing-conservatives-cannot-make-good-art-why-96e66aa1cc6d
Read the full poetry at: https://bkpoetry.com/post/814464863759892480/maine-squeeze
Maine Squeeze
Rubber bands are orangeāroad
crew orange, caution tape
orange. Someone's idea of mercy.
Scuttling sideways in the tank.
No forward in twelve gallons
of recirculated water.
One claw opens. Bubbles rise.
Buzzing light makes everything
the colour of a waiting room.
The cook's bandaged hands know
the handling, firm. Assertive.
Steel pot already boiling.
Filled w/ the sea
pressed to its lo...
I just launched Syntax, a simple static site to test out different coding palettes using Shiki!
17 Dark themes. 11 Light themes. 15 Fonts. 27 Language examples.
ā syntax.brennan.day
why do I write every day?
Theophrastus dropped bottles into the Mediterranean in 310 BCE. Sadako Sasaki folded 1,450 paper cranes from medicine wrappers in a hospital ward. Johnson's Rambler sat unread until someone gave it to the future.
maybe one post in a hundred lands on the right shore. by the logic of drift bottles, that's enough.
https://brennan.day/a-thousand-cranes-why-i-write-every-day/
My daily writing is a practice of releasing messages in bottles and folding paper cranesāfrom Montaigne in his tower and Johnson writing in poverty, to Sadako Sasaki folding 1,450 cranes in a hospital ward. What the essayists, drift bottles, and Senbazuru share, and why the attempt itself is the whole math.
Read the full poetry at: https://bkpoetry.com/post/814243193874939904/antler-ink
antler ink
Tine. Saw-teeth @ the base.
12 points, calcium phosphateāAugust
velvet dried, rutting-hardāhalved
from the skull. His closing door
Cut slices release collagen into a water
reflecting his fatherāeach hour the colour
of surrendering. The scent of ammonia
& piss & an animal becoming other.
Cloth stretched over mouth, clear amber
trembling. White grit, white knuckles,
calcium, he does not realize w...
We spend ~90% of our time indoors. That air is either managed or it isn't. Right now, it isn't.
MERV 13 filters. Corsi-Rosenthal Boxes. Local building codes. School board meetings. The disability denial wall. What those of us with capacity owe to the people too sick to climb it themselves.
a history of memes, from Dawkins' The Selfish Gene in 1976, through Advice Dog and the death of shared internet monoculture, to Metal Gear Rising's Monsoon delivering the most honest account of cultural transmission I've encountered.
https://blog.brennanbrown.ca/memes-metal-gear-solid-and-you-57106388f234
Hardin's "tragedy of the commons" was always a myth. Elinor Ostrom spent a career proving it. The Blackfoot had already been living the refutation for thousands of years.
on digital stewardship, the wood wide web, and what it means to plant seeds in a garden you'll never see š±
https://blog.brennanbrown.ca/good-standard-work-creating-the-commons-d7d28bcea469
