sedgeland empire

I made compend.org. It's a Letterboxd-style review site for all earthly things. It just seemed like a fun idea. I'll keep adding features if people use it, probably.

In Helsinki the "Old Church Park" is a former churchyard, called the "Plague Park" because the victims of the 1710 plague were buried there too. It's estimated some 10,000 bodies lie buried underneath the small park area.

Because the market rates have fallen faster than rents in affordable housing (market rates are decided by supply and demand, affordable rents by other things), affordable housing in Helsinki is now sometimes more expensive than market-rate housing!

the reason moby-dick remains such a vital piece of human art is that it addresses what is probably one of humanity's greatest collective atrocities, the genocide of the whales, with an ambivalence it cannot itself fully articulate. melville is distraught, but he can't explain why

Just got my mail in ballot. My options are ex-hack journalist (NDP), ex-cop (Tory) or the chief coroner who proposed that toxic drug plan that would have saved thousands of lives. If they're making it so easy I guess I'll pick her instead of writing in Ginger Goodwin