marniethorp.bsky.social
I live in a housing co-op, I work for (and am a member of) a union and I use public transit.
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Third piece. I just ate its goldilocks perfection with strawberry rhubarb spread. In the time it took to make this quick snack I could have prepared and eaten eggs Benedict.
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Second piece. Forgot I was making toast. My toaster takes like ten minutes to toast to a golden brown, so I forgot for at least fifteen minutes.
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First piece. Dropped it when I took it out of the toaster. Which, normally, who cares, Iām not picky. Only it landed upside down, revealing the second, mouldy side of the bread.
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Fast forward six months to this headline:
UFO Sightings Drop Sharply Since Trump Takes Office
President takes credit for 'getting tough on all aliens, foreign and extraterrestrial'
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We could buy neighbouring villas and betray the collective ancestry
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Iāve had the 21ā Heys Vantage Smart Access for 10+ yrs. Love it. Hard sided, but also opens like a soft sider for easy packing. Itās a tetch too big for the smallest regional airline carryon. But I mostly check because I think carryon is anti-socialāFAs are unpaid throughout unpaidworkwontfly.ca
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Iāve heard two schools of thought: buy the cheapest and discard, buy the most expensive, best warrantied and repair. It seems like mid-range is the danger zone.
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I think about this a lot! I have a cousin who keeps badgering me to look into whether we could get citizenship (we canāt) and Iām like, sweet cousin, just move back to Windsor from L.A., most of your issues will be resolved.
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Skin care! Shower! Designer pyjamas! This for the woman who just booked a middle seat in economy because paying $75 for an aisle seat rankled me.
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Wonderful! Thank you thank you!!
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Friend, I am having the worst possible day in a series of worst possible days, but this photo brought tears to my eyes. In a good way. Thank you.
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Ah yes. The real looting begins.
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The org is not the top hit in an account search, and when I visit their page, those images are blurred out. But many posts are visible in a search when I tap the āfor youā tab
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Only one way to find out
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Does that mean if we unionize them all, they'll just shut the whole operation down?
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Eventually I'll do it.
I need a new heater and I want the refund to pay for it. I'll probably even buy the same heater again because the heater before it only lasted a year and at least these guys'll give me my money back.
But what a fucking world we live in.
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I knew, of course, that they weren't going to fix it and put it to use somewhere.
But the prospect of just completely junking and landfilling this big hunk of steel and wiringāthat could almost certainly be repairedāis such a bummer I'm just sitting here with icy feet.
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"Disable the unit by unplugging it from the wall and cutting the power cord, leaving just one inch of the cord attached to the unit."
And then email them a picture as proof.
I don't know what I thought they or the store were going to do with the heater when I returned it.
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It's heating about a metre radius. But I'm two metres away and cold.
I contacted the maker, who stands behind the product and has offered a refund.
But they don't want me to mail the heater to them, or take it back to the store I bought it from.
Instead what they want me to do is this:
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I regularly crunch through car debris on my way to the bus stop. It never occurred to me that the drivers speeding by would have no idea there had been a recent accident.
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Those are gorgeous, but Iād settle for an escalator at the Via Rail stop, where I see people schlepping suitcases up the stairs daily. So many corners were cut, the LRT is basically a sphere.
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It was a lot of fun!
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I don't know... as a lover of fruit I see an opportunity there
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ā¢ Lincoln in the Bardo
(I found this a painful slog to read, I think partly because it was ugly on the page (screen) but it was a fucking delight to listen to)
ā¢ Everything Sad Is Untrue
ā¢ Babel (I had the audiobook & the ebook at the same time and this is my new favourite thing)
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Deep black with a purple sheen would be gorgeous
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Neither sentence is strictly incorrect, but both are imprecise (sloppy). Itās just semantics, sure, Iām being pedantic, yeah, but if weāre talking about the cause of or the solution to a crisis, in professional writing, it matters. I wouldnāt care if it was just somebody shooting the shit.
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Yes but the āafterā in that sentence also doesnāt say why the power went out, just that it was out after the storm. Did it go out because the power grid needed to be more robust but budget cuts left it vulnerable? They why is important is you want to avert future crises.
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It sucks so much. Iām getting used to it, but I used to take every grey day as a personal affront . I mean, I moved across the country!
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Exactly. This isnāt the boy who cried wolf. Or, it is, but he also put an electric fence around the pasture and shot every wolf that came within 500m. You canāt then turn to the boy and say āSee? Nothing bad even happened.ā
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āDidnāt live up to the hypeā is a disappointing meal at a Michelin starred restaurant. Or $800 shoes that fall apart in the rain. This is sloppy writing and lazy editing. For Y2K, Iād go with ādodged a bullet.ā It was BECAUSE of āyears and billions of dollarsā, not merely āafter.ā Words have meaning
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No kid runs outside to play in the first winter rainfall