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I don't like messing with politics, but politics keeps messing with me.
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Gift shop in Okinawa is super sneaky. They have a cat sit outside and if you walk close it walks inside and lays in a box. It’s there to lure you in to buy cute things.

How it started // How it’s going

For all the #BuyCanadian folks out there - help a presumably struggling beer brewer. Their target demographic won’t buy if anyone else is around to see them.

Beware that we are now entering into the phase of the federal election cycle where campaigns start getting really weird and over-protective about their election signs

For more than a week, conservative media and politicians have worked themselves into a frenzy over a spectacle manufactured by a fencer who refused to compete against a 19-year-old trans woman. Here is the target of that hate campaign, finally, in her own words.

Oba! Look what I just discovered at the Steinbach Liquor Mart. Mennonite beer. From Blumstein yet once. According to the can, the one pairs well with knackzoat and the other is better for formavorscht and schmaunt fat. Na, junges. (Yes, this is real.)

A helpful guide to the current state of US trade policy:

The Toronto Raptors have made their way to Okinawa in the form of a high school basketball team 😂

Revealing just how selectively this administration respects national sovereignty. With Canada and Greenland, Trump threatens invasion enthusiastically. With El Salvador, Trump sees sovereignty as sacrosanct.

They really do have a vending machine for everything.

You peek at me? I Pikachu

Spotted at American Village, #Okinawa.

A small airline’s side business: #Deportation flights for #ICE www.yahoo.com/news/small-a...

There's a type of reply warrior on here who is convinced you said something that you didn't and is intent on fighting you about a point you never made and don't have any interest in defending. And they make it their mission to "prove" that you secretly believe something you don't.

“The solution is not to have one single source of news and information,” LeBrun said. “What I would actually propose we need is a diverse and democratic media ecosystem” “We should also have smaller independent outlets, ideally operating on a non-profit model, that can step in to fill in the gaps”

AI Slop Merchants, the purple guy is you

this year is going good

Pretty significant local opposition to incumbent Conservative candidate Michelle Ferreri in Peterborough, Ontario:

What a terrible day to have eyes and ears

Oh my god. This is a real Tory ad. Indescribably uncomfortable.

Former Canadian Conservative leader Andrew Scheer, everyone! Strong contender to be Canada’s answer to the “call a crackhead” clip

Meanwhile, the federal government is just out here, disappearing people.

A few hours before #caturday ends here in #Okinawa and I finally see the first cat I’m not supposed to feed. I will, of course, return with a few treats k bought just in case 😂

Just some chonker cat plushies for #caturday

Is this what kids these day call rizz?

Some personal news: the Department of Homeland Security has given me, an immigration lawyer born in Newton, Massachusetts, seven days to leave the U.S. Does anyone know if you can get Italian citizenship through great-grandparents?

Found Banksy in Okinawa

With the cat snoring and his anti-air defenses offline, Carl seizes the opportunity to impress his friends. #Caturday

View from my AirBNB in Okinawa, Japan. I swear to god it wasn’t my choice to stay in the red light district. Sam just saw “No Children allowed” and made the decision for us 😂

I’m trying to imagine Tim Houston communicating with Nova Scotians like this.

Just posting this here to share the cool shit in Japan

Standing in 7-11 in Okinawa while a piano rendition of “Sweet Caroline” plays in the store when a bunch of us go “bah bah bah” at the same time. Canadian, German, Japanese, and at least 1 Frenchman. A song that bridges cultural divides 😂

OMG the new Black Mirror is so believable and terrible and... this is good art, an actual black mirror.

For all the folks out there interested in helping your community, the plan institute is offering a free course on how to build Personal Support Networks. Next course starts April 28 planinstitute.ca/learning-cen...

Didulo follower sending the decrees to the court again, even though they did not work the first time

Happy caturday. Except to the owners of the AirBNB I’m staying at. #caturday #okinawa #japan

Oooh a journalist asks why Poilievre only allows four questions per day (with no follow ups, I’d add). She asks in French: are you scared? Poilievre replies “no” and then goes off into a spiel about the Lost Liberal Decade lmao

Look, even if you otherwise tolerate Jesse, I don’t see how you can consume this as anything but blatant bad faith, given his focus on trans-related issues. Plus, it’s a stupid and dishonest point, because “trans athletes” have been the bloody flag the GOP has waved to cause rage and fear.

more law firms have just sold out to Trump

This is somehow more obsequious than "Mr. Burns, your campaign seems to have the momentum of a runaway freight train. Why are you so popular?"