2026 is going to be different than every year since 2019, which was the last time i had a good year.

i moved to windsor in 2013 and it started what became the most productive and happy period of my life, from 2013-2019. the period from 2006-2013 was unstable but broadly happy and positive but i lost my studio for a few months from 2011-2013 and it was a wakeup call that i'd better get to work, and i did. the period from 2002-2006 was a low point, for me, and mostly full of experiences and people that i'd rather forget. the period from 1996-2002 was very productive, coming out of a period of instability from 1993-1996. 

i lost 2020, 2021 and 2022 to the pandemic. some people found the pandemic useful; the social restrictions that my governments put in place completely ruined my social life, and i experienced no upside to it whatsoever. i got almost nothing done, in terms of art. i was fighting legal battles and focusing on my health. i won two small settlements and used it to buy some gear, but i didn't have the time to use it. the pointless and non-scientific based and mostly superstitious restrictions, which i refused to follow, generated massive problems for me that wasted huge amounts of my time, they didn't give me more time. in the long run, i gained resources to use to create with, but i lost massive amounts of my time, which was wasted in fighting the social order created by the restrictions, which i could not live with, and could not comply by.

things were set to turn over in 2023, but i realized my new landlords were parasitic investor-class rentier pieces of shit and gay drug addicts that lived a terrible lifestyle that they wanted to enforce on me but that i didn't have the finances to be able to move anywhere and would have to lock myself inside the place to both avoid getting evicted and avoid them and their lifestyle until the market improved, which happened in mid 2025, slightly after i got evicted due to the lies that they told the court. i lost all of 2023, all of 2024 and the start of 2025 fighting them off, and got absolutely nothing worthwhile done at all while i was doing so. i couldn't leave my place or i would have been evicted when i was gone and lost everything nd i didn't have time to get any work done.

after a challenging turn of events in the spring of 2025, i got lucky and landed on my feet, but the place i moved to was full of filthy pothead losers that insisted on smoking inside or directly under my window and i lost the summer again because i had to focus on getting out of there instead of on existing.

at the very end of the summer, the situation started to clear up. i first got a settlement from my new landlords, i then signed a new lease, i got approved for the cohb, i got approved for the cdb, i opened an rdsp and i'm still fighting off the landlords that evicted me, with the expectation of getting compensated for the costs i incurred as a result of this mess. i am financially stable, moving forwards; i will be ok, even if i need to find a new apartment again in the near future.

i expect to be able to get back to my normal lifestyle by the spring. i just need to finish a few things off, first.

first productive phase: 1996-2003

first bottoming out: 2003-2006

second productive phase: 2006-2019

second bottoming out: 2020-2025

third productive phase: 2026-2040

i had my shop vac delivered today; canadian tire. it was like 70% off, so i paid the $10 delivery fee. it's still cheap.

i went to sign for it. i'm wearing a little red tank top, and the guy looks at me,

here's your shop vac.

he's laughing at me. hot tranny wants a shop vac. is she working on her corvette down there?

i bought a vacuum and i bought it to clean my dirty basement, because it needs it. you fucking dick. 

but i want to actually take the opportunity to address this, and this really goes out to the cis-ladies more than anything else.

you have been taught to use your sleek lady vacs, with their curvy attachments and their slender bodies and you know the truth - they often don't work. you've been frustrated with these things, repeatedly. admit it.

is a shop vac a boy vacuum? is it for vacuuming like a man?

that's fucking stupid.

a shop vac is a high powered vacuum for very dirty spaces, for wet spaces and for messes that have larger items that you'd have to pick up with your dainty hands, no doubt in gloves, if you use your dainty lady vacs.

trust me, ladies - if you get a chance to use a shop vac, you should jump at it. if you have one in your garage, go get it. use it right now. it's the best fucking vacuum you'll ever find. you'll never go back. you'll be using it to suck up all that shit in your doorway and around your kitchen in no time.

and if some loser wants to challenge your femininity over it, you should kick him in the balls.

you know the one.

there is no such thing as somalia.

somalia does not exist.

somalia does not exist because the somalis do not want it to exist.

stop pretending otherwise. adjust to reality and create reality-based policy positions.

somaliland exists, it is a democracy and it should be recognized as such and supported by the west.

the status quo in east africa is unsustainable. claims of "somalian territorial integrity" are laughable. the closest thing to a government in somalia is the brutal, bloodthirsty islamic/fascist terrorist network, al-shebaab. 

i do not recognize the legitimacy of al-shebaab and i reject the territorial integrity of any islamic fascist group attempting to administer itself as a state.

somaliland declared independence 35 years ago. it's a sovereign country with a functioning democracy.

instead of blathering about "territorial integrity", the united states should be arming somaliland. the west should be picking a side in this war (which is dormant, anyways), but we won't do it, because we're beholden to the fascist governments in the region. they can go fuck themselves.

this small democratic enclave needs our help and we should have given it to them eons ago. we now have the opportunity to make the right choice and be on the right side of history, but we will fail to do that, as we have continually done since dhimmi joe biden flushed the foreign policy legacy of barack obama down the toilet in a startling display of orientalism and racism.

the old song gets it right.

if you arm eritrea then you won't have to pay her and everyone can go home.

we should not just recognize somaliland, we should arm it and even send it troops to help it fight the islamic fascists off and restore democracy to the region.

but we won't.

the underlying implication is that these muslim dictatorships are in full support of the fascist terrorist groups fighting to keep somalia in the dark ages.

the unstated context is that the arab world uses somalia as a source of slaves and that any sort of government, democratic or not, would upset the remaining arab slave trade, which continues to act as a source of necessary cheap labour in the gulf area.

israel is a taking a bold step, here, to advance democracy and human rights in the region and i would hope that canada would recognize somaliland in solidarity, but i'm not holding my breath.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/un-security-council-to-convene-emergency-meeting-on-israels-somaliland-recognition/