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Writer of fiction and blogs. Lives in Toronto. Occasional humorist. Stoic in Training. marywwalters.com
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submitted 2 days ago • 138 comments

“Tenderness is the most modest form of love. It is the kind of love that does not appear in the scriptures or the gospels… It appears wherever we take a close and careful look at another being, at something that is not our ‘self.’” --Olga Tokarczuk www.themarginalian.org/2022/11/21/t...

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Kermit the Frog giving a better commencement speech than the POTUS was not on my 2025 BINGO card.

submitted 4 days ago • 23 comments

submitted 25 days ago • 554 comments

DO NOT try to impeach him. You'll just increase his support again as it is finally eroding. With best wishes from a Canadian. www.cnn.com/2025/04/25/p...

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

US Republicans remind me of those talking dolls we used to have. You pulled a string on the doll's back and pre-recorded sentences came out, which were almost always unrelated to the question you had asked. Same talking points were built into all the dolls.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Oilers!!!!!

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

Two weeks ago the office of Maggie Chi (DVN, @liberalca.bsky.social ) called and left a message to ask if I'd take a lawn sign. Called back to say yes, and followed up 3 more times but still no lawn sign.

submitted 42 days ago • 1 comment

My favourite line from my choir rehearsal last night. Our conductor said to the altos, sopranos and basses , "Now, when the tenors come in, you are going to think 'Maybe we're in C Minor 7th or something'." I am glad of his confidence, but

submitted 44 days ago • 1 comment

I love this because I can't decide which one it's meaner to.

submitted 46 days ago • 47 comments

Melanie Joly just did a brilliant job speaking to Jake Tapper. Politically astute, that one. #elbowsup

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submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

Golly, I wonder if he's going to win?

submitted 53 days ago • 25 comments

Sucks to be you, small businesses

submitted 54 days ago • 426 comments

Does it help that I, a Canadian, have my browser open to watch Corey Booker's long speech live on YouTube? No idea, but in case all numbers matter, I'm doing it.

submitted 57 days ago • 1 comment

Looked around the online media for April Fool's jokes, which used to appear in headlines in such respected journals as Nature and Science, and even respectable news publications...

submitted 57 days ago • 1 comment

“While the US prefers dictators to democrats, punishes its friends, and lies, bullies and plots to steal allies’ sovereign territory, there is no going back. Many, perhaps most, Americans abhor this vile behaviour – yet unaccountably fail to stop it,” Simon Tisdall says what many of us are thinking.

submitted 60 days ago • 8 comments

🎯🎯🎯

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

The leader of Patriot Front, Thomas Rousseau, responded to an investigation by @philinvestigates.com about a PF compound in Tellico Plains, TN. Rousseau's response is hilarious and reveals how he attempts to keep his org relevant in the white power movement 🧵 www.youtube.com/watch?v=wi4V...

submitted 63 days ago • 4 comments

Mark Carney releases second ad with Mike Myers

submitted 65 days ago • 76 comments

@resolutesquare.bsky.social

submitted 67 days ago • 1 comment

He didn't sign it, but it's signed. With his signature. Wonder if someone used an autopen. Wonder if he used an autopen. Wonder if he remembers using an autopen. Wonder if there's such a thing as an autoSharpie.

submitted 68 days ago • 1 comment

SNL has finally got the impersonation right, but they’re letting Trump off easy by not mocking the makeup. Just have a sketch where he keeps getting oranger skin and whiter hair between shots

submitted 68 days ago • 29 comments

🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 Zelenskyy in charge! The vote was 286-0

submitted 69 days ago • 93 comments