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today during hour like 5 in the pool i guess i was tired enough to make my normal at-home facial expression & sort of be splashing a rhythm out of boredom & what is very funny about that is that my teenage lifeguard class colleague thought i was play-acting an abandoned-in-the-pool child

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Passed my national lifeguarding course today! Officially ready to give you a lil pancake flip while protecting your airway. (No hardware with this one.)

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I have test anxiety today & feel nauseated; at 40 I am finally so mad at the doctor who misdiagnosed my gallstones at 20, leading me to suffer for a few more years, simply because I have a diagnosed anxiety disorder. I am absolutely capable of understanding when I am feeling anxious.

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"During the meeting, Ukraine was told it faced imminent shutoff of the Starlink service if it did not reach a deal on critical minerals, said the source, who requested anonymity to discuss closed negotiations." Astonishing betrayal of an ally. www.reuters.com/business/us-...

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Today I discovered that if an earthquake is centred close to where I am, the emergency alert will arrive after the earthquake

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SCOOP - A big payout for Sam Mraiche and major embarrassment for Infrastructure Minister Peter Guthrie, who called for the health minister to step down last week. Mraiche Profited from Quick Sale of Property to UCP Government via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/02...

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all of the wellness influencers love chia seeds right now & I guess I just feel a little offended on behalf of big flax

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Today the child’s teacher was talking to the class about how everyone has responsibilities and the child interrupted to say babies did not & let me just say I’m happy she’s not being educated in the age of corporal punishment

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Dinner is creamy beans & lemon + breadcrumb-dressed arugula. cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1025...

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my annual mortgage statement has shown up & while i'm very very lucky to even have a mortgage, the amount of principal vs interest we have paid is so sobering i might need to staple it to my desk so i can look at it every time i am tempted to eat takeout or fantasize about cabbageware

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He makes TikTok videos claiming that South Asian men are a threat to women… he’s also a paid BC Conservative staffer. #bcpoli Meet Adam Beattie, a Conservative influencer who goes by the name Robin Skies. thetyee.ca/News/2025/02...

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One lesson parenting has really underscored is that when things feel really out of sorts, one must attend to one’s physical needs first & then re-evaluate

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the amount of free-floating anxiety i have attempted to neutralize with doritos this week

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i need to pass my NLS class this weekend bc there's a really good celebratory cake i want to make buttermilkbysam.com/no-flour-cho...

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I’ve got a migraine hanging over me like a cloud threatening rain

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The child begged to come on my grocery jog, complained the whole time, and then asked immediately when we got home if dinner was ready. Buddy please why do you think we just went to the grocery store 😭

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listen i've never learned what the rrsp deadline is & i don't plan to change that this year, no matter how many times my bank emails me

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STORY + DATA: The scale of Canadian efforts to boycott US goods is becoming clear. New border data shows crossborder traffic has utterly plummeted in the last month. Southbound traffic during the recent holiday weekend dropped by more than 40% from last year. fvcurrent.com/p/border-tra...

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tackled a task i felt quite grumpy about & now i am really convinced i deserve that cabbageware platter i've been eyeing

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REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

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Big huge well-deserved congrats to my colleague @jenstden.bsky.social, one of Van Mag's Power 50 this year: www.vanmag.com/city/power-5....

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An update on the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal's inquiry into the RCMP's investigation of historical abuses against First Nations students in northern BC: The CHRT now says that it “hopes to issue the decision by early summer," but adds that "this may not be the case." thetyee.ca/News/2025/01...

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Dinner tonight will be this garlic cilantro tofu with some stir-fried snap peas & broccoli, & rice. Gotta jog to the grocery store after work to pick up some of the ingredients 😅. www.seasonsimmer.com/dinner/cilan...

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goodbye weekend, goodbye aspirational bordallo pinheiro cabbageware tabs.

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Interest in the Google search term "join the military" in Canada over the past 90 days

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I know I am middle-aged because I am excited about CLRing my bathtub

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I did an assisted pull-up today after not being able to the last time I tried a while ago, and let me tell you, it felt real good (even though the EXTRA-HEAVY on the assist band feels like a tsk tsk lol oh man)

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We don’t need to spend any more time thinking about the people arguing that the inclusion and acceptance of trans people (into sports, into pregnancy & parenting, etc) was so radical it created a conservative backlash. The results are in! The classical liberal essayists got had. Moving on now.

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