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Passionate. Strong opinions, loosely held (trying anyway). Waking up. Nerd. Reader. Meditator. Walker. Having a mid-life love affair with classical music. #ldnont
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We, the undersigned, citizens of Canada, call upon the Prime Minister to revoke Elon Musk's dual citizenship status, and revoke his Canadian passport effective immediately. www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

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Deleted Apple Maps and Google Maps and subscribed to @mapquest.com. If I can’t trust a maps app, what good is it?

submitted 13 hours ago • 0 comments

It’s a real challenge that even an understated description of what’s currently happening to American democracy can sound wildly hyperbolic based on our previous frames of reference.

submitted 14 hours ago • 6 comments

Who wants to chip in with me to put this on billboards in the States?

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submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

This.

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Counting down the days until countries have to ban aircraft maintained in the US from their skies due to safety concerns.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

#TeamAsteroid

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

What do you call an ICE van burning by the side of the road? A good start.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

One of the main problems with the left has always been a desire for intellectual purity. Growing up in Kansas, I knew so many people who were easily reachable, but felt judged by lefty people for not speaking the right vocabulary or for not agreeing about one litmus test or another

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One thing I admired Americans for was they provided efficient and effective aid for people around the world. I thought this made America great. The PEPFAR program saved plausibly about 25 million lives and prevented at least 5.5 million babies from being born with HIV. See: pepfarreport.org

submitted 5 days ago • 5 comments

Canadians are preparing to create a retail blackout on Feb 28 of all U.S retailers doing business here. For one day, show them we have the power when provoked. Absolutely no purchases from Walmart, Home Depot, Best Buy, Amazon, McDonald’s, Staples, Gap,Toys r Us, Costco or any other US retailers.

submitted 6 days ago • 290 comments

People who generally experience higher loneliness are more negatively affected by their smartphone use—specifically, social media. This seems to be a risk factor.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

time to dig up the @adamkotsko.bsky.social tweet

submitted 6 days ago • 73 comments

Was gonna make a joke about a cybertruck driver's kid asking their dad to drop them off a block away from school so their friends don't see them in it but then I remembered they wouldn't be allowed custody

submitted 7 days ago • 42 comments

Gross.

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Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

submitted 7 days ago • 538 comments

lmao "while women believe they're more impulsive, men are more impulsive" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Lately, my scroll is all doom, but every now and then I get a glimpse of someone saying and doing The Right Thing and I feel a little bit of hope. So I’m going to sit here and soak that up for a bit.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Ford to execute first prisoner by using Ontario healthcare system

submitted 8 days ago • 24 comments

Roses are red, Elon's a knob,

submitted 8 days ago • 17 comments

Happy Flag Day Canada. The maple leaf celebrates 60 years as a beacon of decency.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

The Indigenous People of North America have decided to go back to calling the Gulf of Mexico, “Chalchiuhtlicueyecatl”. It is what the Nahuatl People originally called it as it is the domain of the goddess Chalchiuhtlicue, who is assoc w/water bodies, including the Gulf of Mexico.

submitted 8 days ago • 1051 comments

What a sycophant. Protect Ontario from Doug Ford. Vote ABC.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Absolute unit

submitted 10 days ago • 84 comments

Odds are that Google has disabled internal alerts for this, but it felt good to do it anyway.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

This is life in #ldnont. Age friendly? Family friendly? Accessible?

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Two Way Street. A reworked version I made from a police produced victim and youth blaming PSA.

submitted 10 days ago • 6 comments