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She/Her/Elle. Rural Alberta. Socialist Beer Club. Pets, politics, education, literacy, daily minutia, and sometimes baking or gardening.
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Facebook kindly reminds me that 8 years ago I watched train spotting and T2 back-to-back. Choose life. youtu.be/lpCStdET8b4?...

Ha! Apparently if you cry (which I didn't do on purpose - it was spontaneous) and tell customer service that your partner is dead, you can knock 30 bucks off your monthly internet/cable bill. I'm going to call that a win.

Also, we had to give orphan well cleanup money back, because of course we did.

All is forgiven! Just had an amazing donair, and really good poutine. I will try the donair poutine again soon. But in the meantime, oh my god I need a nap 😎

The least these editors and reporters can do is point out that what Smith said is a complete falsehood. No one is sterilizing 10 year olds or giving them sex changes. www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti...

After Honey died, so many people said to just let them know if I needed anything. I sure hope they meant it, cause I have been leaning on a lot of people, and asking folks for favours quite a bit lately. Not my usual modis operandi, and I don't feel super comfortable with any of it...

Go listen to this post right away - Great episode, amazing stories from a badass freedom fighter with close to 100 years in the trenches! @travisview.bsky.social @jakerockatansky.bsky.social Julian Feeld (is Julian on BlueSky?)

Name just one 10 year old... This is evil and these lies are so blatant and easily disproved. Fuck I hate her!

Oh, and don't forget the brain worm! So glad my province thinks this guy's public health policy is the policy we should model ours on... *Heavy sigh*

Good reminder - I've been meaning to make a donation for a while now... Done!

Well, the little rose bush Honey bought for me last summer seems to have survived the winter, and chose today to push out my first blooms of the year. #BloomScrolling

BREAKING NEWS. Alberta Court of King’s Bench grants injunction preventing Alberta Government from banning gender-affirmative care for minors citing “irreparable harm will be caused if the Ban comes into force.” A victory for human rights and trans youth! 🏳️‍⚧️

The premier is wrong. Support for separatism has been higher than it is now. Levels of other things, like class sizes, waitlists, oil production, cabinet members, selenium in the water supply... ...those have reached record heights. globalnews.ca/news/1126345...

New from me: an Alberta judge is facing a judicial complaint for briefly jailing a 36-week pregnant woman accused of income assistance fraud who showed up late for court. Refused to speak to release til end of day, leaving her in suspense about whether she’d be sent to remand.

My neighbour came home early, to set up to blast School's Out for the local kids walking home from their last day of the year 😁🤘

The government shouldn't be campaigning during a genuine public consultation. And the panel should have control over the engagement materials, including the website and surveys. This is a propaganda exercise and panelists would be wise to consider their role in it. www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/art...

Today, I rose in the Senate to speak to Bill C-5, specifically to the Building Canada Act. Here's my effort to contextualize my various concerns with the act - and to tell to Albertans about why separatist threats will scuttle any pipeline dreams. #C5 #SenCa #SenateofCanada #cndpoli #ableg #abpoli

What could possibly go wrong(er)?

Voting stations in Edmonton-Ellerslie, Edmonton-Strathcona, and Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills are open from 9:00am to 8:00pm today.

Bombing for peace is like burning books to promote literacy.

BREAKING: fuck...

Please cross your fingers or pray or whatever for my petunias! I think they loved the rain, but they definitely did not enjoy the hail. Here's hoping they perk back up in the morning... 🤞

Not a fan of any Loblaws brands as a general rule, but I do have to give a shout out to our local No Frills. I just picked up enough groceries to make stew and bannock for about 30 people, for our celebration of National Indigenous Peoples' Day celebration at work. All donated to our program 💜.

Danielle Smith doesn’t have a plan yet for running public health care, but just like Donald Trump she’s got a concept of a plan. albertapolitics.ca/2025/06/dani...

Them: "How are you feeling?" Me: "Everything is awful, but I'm mostly numb to feeling anything at all at this point? Dissociating, mostly." Them: ... Me: "...I meant it's fine. Everything is fine. How are you?"

I am so tired of being so tired and so sad...

Tell your protest dogs I say hi.

Local woman wakes up, sends all the wildlife who are mad about lack of climate action and destruction of their homes via wildfires and extreme weather to attend the G7 summit in Kananaskis, makes oatmeal.

calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu... This is Dr. Parks, speaking truth to power, protecting us, risking his career. This is Danielle Smith warning him. Danielle Smith: We are warning you…threaten Dr. Parks? You deal with us. Signed, Albertans.