majael.bsky.social
GenX, agender (he/she/they). Location: NCR (unceded Algonquin territory). Other interests: Legion of Super-Heroes, Toronto Blue Jays, generational cycles, books, Warren Zevon, lists, Christmas music. Probably a crank.
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I mentioned Anka, Alanis, Bruce Cockburn, and Les Emmerson this morning when I was trying to figure out Ottawa. But I wasn't really satisfied with any of them.
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We aren't born hating others, it's a learned behaviour. Skin color, gender, sexual orientation are all made up boundaries designed to separate us. To keep us down and stop us from being all we can be. Stay safe, but we have to remember, and we have to stand up to hate, even the smallest bit of it.
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"It's like the rocking chair scam, but with lifeguards."
"Ooh."
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It’s been a while since I’ve read it, but Ben Elton’s _Stark_.
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Again I feel like I must remind people that the saying is “A few bad apples spoils the bushel”, not “a few bad apples means most of the bushel is fine lol”.
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someone asked for the baseball (and softball) tees with the trans flag swapped in
posting 'em here too
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Put me down for Booker T and the MGs.
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"82 year old dies" is in a sense hardly news at all. "singular genius who transformed popular culture dies" is news, but also not uncommon. but "one-time symbol of bravura youth culture, trapped for decades by the fallout of the sixties, who fought free and became a widely beloved elder, dies," phew
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but they didn't go. they pulled through, and for both of them, in different ways, that very longevity, the ability to celebrate a new sense of freedom, of (fractured) wholeness, of outliving the demons was what they came to stand for, as much as the original peace love & joy of the transistor era