December 2025 – Pearl of Civilization

Made beans from my own bean zine. Always makes me feel self-actualized 😂

Is it sabotage?

This item from the Simple Sabotage Field Manual is such a common complaint about cishet husbands… Someone should check how many other CIA sabotage tactics double as stereotypical husband behaviour 😂

When you go to the lavatory, spend a longer time there than is necessary.

Winter mood privilege

Maybe it’s because I’m a night owl, maybe it is my goth heart, but when the gloom level gets apocalyptic like this I am filled with glee

The solstice cometh

Took an outdoor photo at 12:15pm and my phone automatically turned on nighttime mode

Reading Indigenous Intellectual Property

I’m still on med leave from my interesting job, so I figured I could at least read some interesting work-related books. First up: Indigenous Intellectual Property.

Book cover. Indigenous Intellectual Property: An Interrupted Intergenerational Conversation, by Val Napoleon, Rebecca Johnson, Richard Overstall, and Debra McKenzie.

There is an illustration of a red octopus in a contemporary west coast Indigenous formline style.

I finished chapter 1, and Val Napoleon’s framing of Indigenous intellectual property law is rearranging my brain. Here she is referring to laws as a set of knowledge about solving conflicts and problems. Just plopping the reader in the center of a vision about self-determined people supported by a vibrant legal system. Made my little anarchist heart wish for… laws?

Photo of text from a book:

We know that enforcement on its own is never adequate to ensuring societal lawfulness or adherence to law, whether intellectual property law or any other area of law. It is necessary to expand the thinking of Indigenous law beyond the limiting notions of "law as enforcement" and "law as rules" towards "law as lived" to empower people to see themselves as legal agents and so act accordingly. Again, one of the future key pedagogical questions is how Indigenous peoples internalize the law from their legal order so that they can take part in its legal problem solving as effective, self-determining legal actors. Law, in its best sense, creates and enables healthy citizenries and communities.

Eternal meme.

Meme of Mr Bean copying test answers from a neighbour. Mr Bean is labeled "anarchists", the neighbour is labeled "Indigenous peoples"

Optimal advent

Photo of a medium-sized corkboard (approx 18" x 24") with rows of colourful paper rectangles pinned on it

Got our little photo advent done in time for December. I just get mini-prints of 25 photos from the year, stick colourful scrap paper on the backs, and pin them on a corkboard. Kiddo flips one per day. When it is done, I put the pics in an album (eventually).

No trash, not much effort, fun for everyone, festive even if you do a very half-assed or messy job of it, and encourages me to actually get photos printed like I always intend to 👍