mellow4ever.bsky.social
Bookworm, Leafs fan, cat lover, proud union member and leftist dilettante. Half Irish, half human, all Canadian.
🇨🇦#ElbowsUp
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It's actually about a guy who died when a bunch of cups and saucers crushed him.
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I thought it was a foregone conclusion that ignorance of the law is no defense. Trump's America, huh?
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Unfortunately, Canada is currently at risk of entering a recession, and I don't think Carney is eager to raise tax revenues to expand social programs. Besides, aren't disability benefits a provincial responsibility?
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Is Molly the woman on the left or the right? 😁
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Huh. I would've taken them for an Oasis cover band. Shows what I know.
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On schedule, 2 weeks before the election, conservative media begin a coordinated attack on Mark Carney. Meanwhile, they let Pierre Poilievre, a career politician who still has no security clearance and whose only other job was as a paperboy, skate through unchallenged. So frustrating. So predictable
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You've reposted this stupid meme at least 8 times in the last hour. Get over yourself. You've got nothing insightful to say.
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I can't believe their entire defense rested on the fact there were no nearby signs telling these idiots that destruction of the sandstone pillars was illegal. Morons like this are why bleach comes with a warning not to drink it.
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I'd feel better if it said "F*ck Poilievre." Alberta is the land of magical thinking, where the ocean is called "tidewater," the price of oil will always go up and PP is just the man to stand up to Trump.
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Ah, yes, Boy in the Striped Pajamas, where the true horror of the Holocaust occurs when the German son of a death camp commandant is accidentally gassed 🙄
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Luke Kornet (the guy in the video) plays for the Boston Celtics and wears #40. Another Celtics player, Derrick White, wears #9. The math formula 40 > 9 means "40 is greater than 9." Hope that helps.
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(Bad translation): Trump is stupid for stupidly pushing us into a stupid recession.
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If Anne Frank is a fictional character, whose house did I tour in Amsterdam?
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I can't figure out the math here. How is it that 35.7% of the popular vote won P.E.T. 4 seats, while 30% of the popular vote is expected to win Carney 7-11 seats? What am I failing to understand here?
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Ebola has joined the chat.
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Warning: this is what happens to you when you get jilted by Stephen Harper.
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🤣🤣🤣
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My niece's husband made this canoe-on-a-paddle candlestick for me. Notwithstanding the aerial photograph I have of the lake where my cottage is, the candlestick is the most Canadian thing I own.
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🤣👏👏👏
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(Top Right) That might be the creepiest museum diorama I have ever seen 😳
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I thought my little honey badger was the only cat to hang ten like that. Guess not. Happy #caturday , Stove.
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I'm at best a once-a-month golfer whose best club is my "hand wedge," but boy oh boy do I want Rory to win this one. I want it because he took a principled stand against LIV and the golfers who took easy money to spit on the most prestigious golf association in the world.
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Yes, exactly!
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I'm curious. What would you have people do?
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(2/2)...to earn God's love. It's nothing but shameless greed masquerading as faith and based on a truly twisted rewriting of the Bible. But it's not hypocrisy lol.
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The problem - well, one of them - is that evangelicals invented the prosperity doctrine to justify the vast wealth that some of these preachers accrue. In short, the doctrine holds that the richer you are, the more blessed by God you are. In other words, you are required to profiteer... (1/2)
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The idea that people need to be paid to despise the likes of Trump and Musk is laughable. Every one of those protesters loathe them for free.
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Hear, hear!
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Also, and help me out here because I'm Canadian and so a little shaky on American history, wasn't the Boston Tea Party nothing but a demonstration with a bit of vandalism thrown in (😉) for fun?
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(2/2) physically depose a tyrannical king but it can motivate people to find a way to depose him.
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I disagree. Such a large turn-out brings with it hope for those feeling hopeless and solidarity for those feeling alone. Protests helped to stop a war in the 1970s, bring an end to nuclear proliferation in the '80s, and put a stop to acid rain and ozone depletion in the '90s. No, it can't (1/2)
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🔥
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How many HR managers does it take to screw in a lightbulb? Ten - one to put in the new bulb and nine to make sure it's done according to company policy.
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Let's not forget his image makeover too. Glasses out, contact lenses in. Ties out, open collars and t-shirts in. Skinny weasel out, fake weasel muscles in, three-word slogans ou...okay, never mind that one. Majority govt out, slide to irrelevance in. Ha ha!
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So, the cultists eschew statistical analysis because of whistles and clapping?
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A move to Montréal from NYC might save some climate scientists from being disappeared to El Salvador. We already know ICE is not adverse to grabbing foreign nationals from the street. Besides, if moving the conference to Canada puts another burr under Trump's saddle, it'll be well worth it.
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(2/2) could each say anything that needed saying. It helped a lot to have had that opportunity. If you don't mind me asking, are your parents still alive?
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Thank you. My mother suffered a series of mini-strokes (she was nearly 97), and when the doctor told her he could get her better but not back to where she was before the strokes, she opted for what in Canada is called MAID - medical assistance in dying. It meant her children and grandchildren (1/2)
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That was exactly it - the comfort in familiar rituals in a building that played a large part in my childhood.
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As Churchill said, "nations that go down fighting rise again, but those which surrender lamely are finished." Nothing is more important for everyday American citizens right now than resisting MAGA/Trump / Project 2025, and being resilient in the face of the chaos, hatred, and cruelty.
Signed,
Canada
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Oh, yeah, great point! I hadn't thought of that. Religion is a powerful drug. When my mom died, I'd been an atheist for nearly 50 yrs. Yet, of all the family, I was the one who most wanted the funeral at a church. The notion that we'll be reunited w/ loved ones in heaven is very, very comforting.
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🤣 My mother was 70 when my father died. She went on to live another 27 years without him, and often wondered aloud if dad would even recognize her if they were reunited in corporeal form in heaven lol
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I'm not sure they see any need to reconcile their conflicting beliefs at all.
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So true. The cost of living for Americans is going to skyrocket, for everything from t-shirts and tube socks to microwaves and washing machines. The ones who will be hurt the most are those earning less than $75,000/yr.
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I'm in Canada so it's not quite the same. Still, my investments are down by $75,000. However, my financial adviser has told me to be patient, that the market will recover as soon as Trump stops lobbing grenades at it. The market cares less about tariffs than it does about uncertainty.
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Right?! When my cat starts vigorously wagging her tail, I get my hand the hell away from her.
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(2/2) immediately precede the Rapture. And if there's one thing the Christian far right loves (besides money and molesting children) it's the Rapture.
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You're right, and I find the right-wing Christian adoration of Trump fascinating. At times, it seems as straightforward as Trump's public position on abortion but, at other times, it seems to be a complex oxymoron in which Trump is both a saviour and the bringer of the tribulations that...(1/2)
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Pride
Envy
Gluttony
Lechery
Avarice
Wrath
Sloth
Do these 7 deadly sins sound like anyone you know?