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Love cats, wine, books & old things. Cotswolds via Vancouver, Toronto, San Francisco, Amsterdam & London.
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*Another* flood alert. They are happening on almost a bi-weekly basis.

A dating app but it's just one picture of someone's bookshelves, one of their usual grocery haul, one of their pets, and one their thermostat

💥The Netherlands' largest pension fund, has sold its shares in Tesla, Meta, and Alphabet (Google). The fund with US $569 billion equivolent in assets is "directing more money to companies and projects that help to improve society and the environment." #Divest www.reuters.com/markets/euro...

Daughter & son-in-law’s cats Theo & Archie in New York wearing the woolly jumpers I sent. #proofofcat

Wordle 1,345 5/6 This one was pretty annoying. 🟨⬜⬜🟩⬜ ⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

In Berlin & taxi stopped as Police barricading the road. Lovely anti-fascists sitting in at the intersection & barricades for blocks kettling in Nazis marching to promote far right for tomorrow’s election. Horrifying to see Nazis marching in Germany.

They’re completely adorable.

24 hours in Berlin, still haven’t left the (very cool former women’s prison) hotel. Too much time prepping & presenting PowerPoints.

This blue Lobster was caught off the coast of Portland and returned to the water to continue to grow. Blue lobsters are one in two million.

Also, PLEASE LEAVE THE SHIP is going to be used a lot from now on

The entire world should now call America South Canada.

people aren't really scared of canadians because they're almost always polite and accommodating and okay but also have you ever seen a hockey fight

How's that for a hairdo? Saffron-crested Tyrant-Manakin at Mitú, Vaupes, Colombia. #birds #nature

this is declaring trade war on literally the entire world

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Obligatory clip of Tom Holland's Umbrella routine for National Umbrella Day (today)...

A fab long weekend in Paris with daughter who flew in from NYC.

Tom Robbins has died, one of those fabulous furry freak brothers like Richard Brautigan or, in the 1970s, John Irving, the literary offspring of the counterculture. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/f...

Again and always, I point people to the winner of the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary (Rock & Roll) Performance in 1967, and to the list of other nominees.

American health workers looking to relocate? Doorway to practice medicine in Canada 🇨🇦 We have job openings nationwide. www.canada.ca/en/immigrati...

Yes. I think this is the much bigger problem. The US as unreliable ally.

iBook this weekend and we’ve made it to sunset at 16:59! It was actually sunny today with signs of things stirring in the garden.

Good graphic by WaPo showing Canada (purple), China (brown), Mexico (blue) and other top suppliers by share of value of goods imported by the US in 2023. “One of the first places US shoppers may feel the impact of increased tariffs is in the grocery aisle…” www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Ontario will remove American-made alcohol from all liquor stores and restaurants, Premier Doug Ford announces

Red state alcohol being removed at BC Liquor stores including Tito’s and Jack Daniels. #bcpoli

Also a major presence in naval hospitals as nurses. Just how prevalent was obscured for over two centuries, because black nurses rarely showed up as individuals in pay records. Often they were slaves then later contracted servants, with a master/contract agent being paid for the service provision.

do you have any idea just how badly you have to fuck up to get Canada mad at you

this hurts worse than the tariffs 😭

I wonder if Americans know this hasn't even interrupted Hockey Night in Canada

The premier of BC just opened by talking about how Canadians helped fight the fires in Los Angeles. I'm not sure how many other areas of life are going to be disrupted in a trade war, but this is obviously going to be much broader than price hikes at the grocery store.

i feel like there's an opportunity in all this to make Barrett's Privateers the new Canadian national anthem

Nova Scotia has jumped the gun on the feds and announced retaliatory measures against American businesses. If Ontario or Quebec do this it will hit upstate New York HARD. Our region has more economic linkage with the major Canadian population centers than with the rest of the USA.

oh we're mad

In the coming trade war countries should sanction Elon Musk and his businesses specifically. Crush any international revenue and seize his assets abroad.

Good news, everyone: March 2020 is finally over. It will now be January 2025 for the next fifteen years.

Leopard: I will eat your face Bank analysts: Our baseline assumes no face-eating Leopard: Chomp chomp chomp

The Globe and Mail

Ack watching the @thepwhl.com & having a Canadian Saturday night.

Do Not Comply In Advance: bossy, already a cliche, implies permission to comply later Fuck You, Make Me: leads by example, directs yelling at opposition instead of allies, easy to chant at a protest or put on a banner

Paperwhites and a brave pelargonium in the kitchen window this afternoon

Beaver Overthinking Dam