August C. Bourré
fishsauce@mastodon.social
<p>Writer, critic, editor. Bylines: Brick, CNQ, Carousel, Dalhousie Review, Globe & Mail, National Post, Quill & Quire. Master of Information candidate at the University of Toronto's iSchool. Gomi no sensei. Archival maximalist.</p>
Posts
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Post #2069113
A forum I&#39;m on has a &quot;stupid ideas&quot; thread, in which people talk about passion projects they doubt they&#39;ll ever realize because they are, typically, labour and capital intensive with virtually no hope of generating a reasonable income, or even any income at all. Pretty much all of them involve making art, food, labour, care, and space available to the public in a thoughtful way. None of them are about phones, computers, or &quot;tech.&quot; The world nee...
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Post #1991377
Also from today&#39;s writing: Note, also, that “content” is a term for cultural goods that artificially separates the material and ethical conditions of their production from the material and ethical realities of the distribution channels through which they are explicitly commodified.
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Post #1991376
My final paper is done, no more school until my final term in the fall.
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Post #1991375
The train I’m on just did an automated land acknowledgment.
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Post #1991374
Dad and I are at an old man diner that I found by literally googling &quot;old people restaurants in Hamilton.&quot; Also, if a Canadian restaurant has liver &amp; onions on the menu you can rest assured they have not served a fresh vegetable since the invention of canning.
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Post #1991373
I have put together a goofy little street name generator for NPCs in cyberpunk games. https://reflexgames.itch.io/npc-street-name-generator
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Post #1991372
I have uploaded another game jam thing. Obscure Sins: D100 things that make the gods in your fantasy setting irrationally angry. https://reflexgames.itch.io/obscure-sins (It will no longer prompt for a donation; I have figured out how to actually make things free.)
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Post #1991371
I&#39;m going to see if I can make time to build a saw bench this summer. I would also like to build a bench for setting, and a box to keep our generator and fuel in.
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Post #1991370
DJ Shadow tickets acquired.
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Post #1991368
Playing Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon tonight trying to see how many hops to my high school celebrity crushes. I managed 3 to Winona Ryder. Haven’t figured out Nicole Kidman yet.