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Curious to see what happens to my bulb flowers next week. We're going from cool spring to summer starting this weekend. Temps will hit high 20s all week long before plunging again. Will probably lose my daffodils quickly & not sure what will happen to tulips that haven't even opened yet. 🌱

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Istg, I need to win the lottery so I can retire far away from the world and everyone in it. I hate this timeline. 😑

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Oh, ffs this is just dumb. It's like hi-tech phrenology. Betting all the American health insurance companies are positively salivating over this as a fancy new way to deny people coverage.

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If you’re surprised by this, you’re not paying attention.

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please, i am begging you, if you do not care about theft or doing your own work - please at least care about our water and planet. www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

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Two years after moving into this place, I have discovered that I am missing a box from the move. It had old blankets in it. One of the blankets was handwoven by my mother on a loom my father made. Both parents are long gone and this is hitting me pretty hard. :(

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"Through a series of 19 interviews, the researchers concluded 'chains of for-profit primary care clinics, physicians, commercial data brokers and pharmaceutical companies ... work together to convert patient medical records into commercial assets.'" www.cbc.ca/news/health/...

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Also lost all my gorgeous dark pink malvas in addition to two of my delphiniums. Seems like an unusual amount of die-off from the winter. Hoping to find a replacement dark blue delphinium, but haven't been able to source one yet. 🥺🌱

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There wasn't a single flower on either of my Asian pears this year. I only put them in last year, but they were covered with flowers when I got them, so I just assumed that would be their usual thing. 😢🌱

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You’re reborn as a cartoon character. Who are you?

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This is absolutely outrageous. How is it legal for an official CPC email to suggest something like this? Every single Canadian should be condemning this and there should be some sort of censure of the party. Bloody MAGA-wannabes! I am disgusted. 🤬 www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

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It's not just reflecting, her rhetoric has pushed more people over to the dangerous side. Radicalism between leaders and their base is mutually-reinforcing.

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Spent my entire lunch hour mowing my lawn and now I have to go back to fighting with this miserable work project that is doing everything it can to NOT WORK THE WAY IT'S SUPPOSED TO and what is this madness why is adulting is such a frickin' scam? 😑

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In the fall of 2023 the federal government called all the major grocers to Ottawa to talk about the need to stabilize grocery prices. One of the government requests after this meeting was for regular updates from these companies, but some grocers did not play ball. ricochet.media/labour/corpo...

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I hate this timeline. Screw 2019, I want to go back to 1999. I don't think I even had a stupid cell phone back then. I certainly didn't have doorbells taking video of me walking down the street. And AI was just a sci-fi trope. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

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TANK vs TESLA "We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again" - ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank

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The absolute gall of this administration. The sheer, unbridled arrogance. If I were in charge I'd be turfing every single American embassy around the world out on their supercilious asses until the Yanks institute a regime change. (Which is probably why I should never be in politics at any level.)

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You NEED this thread in your life. :)

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I don't even know what to do with this. Society as a whole relies on each generation producing new doctors, scientists, engineers, artists, thinkers. We're looking at a generation that will produce none of these. They'll have papers that say they are these things, but will be completely incompetent.

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“The American right to privacy has been chipped away over the last 75 years. And with the help of rapidly advancing technology, surveillance has been woven into the social fabric of this country.”

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[Ottawa] Save our science — protect Ottawa’s wastewater monitoring! 📣 Take action! Send letters to municipal councillors. Use our online tool to send emails. stillcoviding.ca/en/take-acti... #Ottawa #COVID #CovidIsntOver #AvianFlu

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😂

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To celebrate my books launching on itch, I'm doing a one-day sale! I'd love to raise $50.00 before midnight, so please give this post a share 💙 📚 🎃 👻 #kidlit itch.io/s/152638/the...

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I feel seen.

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Hiya writers of bsky: Have you written a book particularly close to your heart that could do with some extra readers? Drop a comment (and link to where it can be bought?) 😊 #booksky

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Want. 😍

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Props to Carney. I could not do his job. I could not do any job that required me to play nice with asshats, especially if faced with one who rambles as incoherently as that one does.

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Do you know why we are seeing rising cases of #measles? Because back before political interference decimated Public Health, we used to close schools when there was a case of #measles. The new pandemic normal is to leave schools open and for reporters to ignore this basic principle. #PublicHealth

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

I'm just an author, standing in front of a sales dashboard, asking why books can't just sell themselves. 😢🙃

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Say it louder, for the people in the back who refuse to hear it. Then go count all the "car drove into building" stories in the news over the past few years. At one point, I was seeing them weekly (sometimes more than one!), just in my city alone.

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