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Goodbye, 2024! You were...well, you were complicated. Just in the last few months alone, we've seen Syria kick out one tyrant, while the US elected a would-be one.

Closer to home, my adopted country, Canada, will probably ditch its current Prime Minister and make its own rightward shift (at the federal level) later this year. But Manitoba's new NDP government, headed by Canada's first Native Premier, looks to be settling in, and starting to deliver on its promises. And my province of BC managed to fight back a surge by the Conservatives, giving the local NDP a thunderclap of a wake-up call, but not quite a rebuke, thank the gods.

AI continued to promise a revolutionary future and that hasn't come. Twittercontinued to sink into the mire of reactionary delusions. But we also saw declining cancer rates, and globally broke all kinds of clean energy records.

The future is rushing towards us, both good and bad, and shows no signs of slowing down in 2025.

On a personal note, 2024 has also been a mixed bag. I celebrated my 45th birthday by traveling to Iceland for a week (I went in April, it was absurdly cold but beautiful in a deadly way). I'm getting divorced. I made my second short story sale, but failed to find an agent for my sci-fi thriller. I managed to avoid the two rounds of layoffs that hit my company this year. I took a trip to Asia for the first time (Japan!).

2025 is lining up to be a year of even more change. My divorce should get finalized in the next few months. I've finally (finally!) started on the second draft of my urban fantasy novel.

And now, I'm starting this newsletter.

My blogging sputtered to a halt in 2024. I made the leap from Wordpress (which has since decided to attack its biggest fan, not a good look) to micro.blog, but the new host never really felt like home. And I want something where I can work on my essay skills, writing longer-form posts on a regular basis.

So. I'll layout my goals and themes for this newsletter in a future post, but for now I'll say this: I intend to post weekly, on Fridays, keeping your inbox clutter to a bare minimum. I promise no scams and no spam, only things that I'm excited about (like the new Superman trailer, omg), or deeply worried about (like Premier Smith's weird obsession with policing children's bodies, or Mayor Sim's crypto-bro posing).

I have no idea what the year ahead will hold. Let's go through it together, shall we?