Just a great Canadian Christmas song! 🇨🇦 "You're asking me to believe in too many things." The New Pornographers 🇨🇦 - Joseph, Who Understood youtu.be/5nOm81MqeCI?...

I’m a trained social worker. I worked with cases of CSA and other horrifying traumas. I didn’t learn til 6 months before I burnt out how dangerous and cumulative vicarious and secondary trauma are. You don’t want this in your head and you don’t want it to live in your body. It doesn’t leave.

Same 😽

This Christmas I find myself thinking about Martin Luther King Jr. In late 1963, after his near death experience in a brutal prison, and before fame, he was asked by a reporter "how does your story end?" He said, "it ends with me getting killed."

UN’s Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese: “I truly hope that people will stay calm, will not panic, and will remember that the international community is made of 193 states, and this is the time to give the US what it has been looking for – isolation!”

Merry Christmas to all those celebrating. Happy Thursday to all those who are not. And I hope this day passes bearably and swiftly for anyone struggling today. Dragon with Christmas Gift, Edward Gorey.

The Files There was a day I was pushed into a corner by a kid a grade lower than me. He shoved me up against a metal backyard door, pushed and kicked and hit and made me feel like the village idiot in a world of savages. I didn't know that in America, he could be a saint. #poet #vss365 #writing

For the first time, I worked Christmas Day at my mental health recovery centre. It was pretty nice! Being of service is definitely a way to de-gross the holidays.

What a lovely thread

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How this Florida barrier island community pushed back against overdevelopment

a very happy Falling Angel/Rising Ape day to you all for my money the single best passage in all of Discworld, and one of the finest passages in the history of literature

People, I'm done with surviving. Thriving is the order of the day, nay, week, nay rest of my life. I don't care if they come for me with guns and knives. To my last bloody moment, I will bloom, shout, dance! #vss365

Moosweibchen, the moss people, are gentle folk from the forests in the heart of Europe. But the Wild Hunt is out to get them. And the Wild Hunt rides tonight. Read what happens to a group of Moosweibchen in our 26th #yulefolklore tale below. 🎨 Brian Froud

Santas reclaim Bondi Beach for the people #Christmas around the world, in pictures. #MerryChristmas www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

So I just heard about this book which was a practical guide to how average people could resist Nazis in every day work by bogging them down with malicious compliance etc. Of interest to... Umm historians, I guess? Merry Christmas! 🎄🌟🎁 gutenberg.org/ebooks/26184

A predictive text #vss365: Will you shoot me some pictures of the world? I would be hypothetically interested in that if we could meet at the New Zealand place. You know, the place where the lichen bloom. Then you can go back home and see the other four shadows. Shadows of my art.

"Have good trust in yourself, not in the One that you think you should be, but in the One that you are." – Taizan Maezumi Daily #zen #buddhism #maezumi #taizanmaezumi

Tom Waits performs “Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis”

This is disgraceful. They should be at home with their families. Instead, Trump is forcing them to walk around in the cold for his fascist national security theater. DC is absolutely dead this time of year. There’s nobody here to “terrorize.” Just pathetic all around.

Been thinking a lot today about how childhood wounds influence our actions (and non-actions) and how I've always been fascinated by perpetrator trauma. In that context, came across an article by @drdoylesays.bsky.social - and realized I'm following him already! useyourdamnskills.com/2022/02/14/i...

People want to think changing the world is all big protests and important speeches and dramatic moments but you'd be surprised how much you can accomplish by being *consistently* annoying

I do not want your AI slop I do not want it in my mop I do not want it in my house I do not want it in my mouse I do not like brain-rotting AI spam I do not want it, Sam Alt-man

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cold christmas the man with a bullet for a heart ~~~~ a sad #senryu

One thing to note: Out of the last 21 "War Games Competitions" with the best the US Military has to offer, Canada won 20 of them!

❗️President Zelenskyy congratulated Ukrainians on Christmas! “Millions of us will be watching for the first star in the sky tonight. In the sky over Kyiv, Zakarpattia, over Odesa or Kupiansk—wherever Ukrainians are, today we are together. We celebrate Christmas on the same date, as one big family.”

1/8 🇨🇦 ALBERTA RECALL FRENZY HITS 26 POLITICIANS 🇨🇦 Citizen-led petitions have been approved against three more MLAs, bringing the total to 26. Twenty-four target the UCP—more than half of Danielle Smith's caucus. The Canadian Press reports... #AbLeg #CdnPoli

Growing up in Gaza, I didn't realize that the siege I was living under was unique or that others didn't face a constant threat of death. It was only after I left that I understood I had grown up in a concentration camp, and that it shaped my life. mondoweiss.net/2025/12/i-di... #Palestine #Israel

Canada is one of the eight countries that today expressed its solidarity with the people of Greenland and Denmark in the face of threats to their territorial integrity from Trump and his newly appointed Reichsstatthalter for Greenland, Jeff Landry.

A list of climate programs Carney has scrapped ... #cdnpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/24/n...

Meta Experiencing Mass Account Closures Facebook, Instagram and Thread users are finding their accounts closed, without warning, without technical support and without recourse. But there is no news reporting the millions of accounts being closed under the guise of "child sexual exploitation."

To the surprise of few by this point. www.wsj.com/world/middle...

everyone should read sharma's home rule and adopt her framework of people as *migrantized* by the world nation-state system, like how people are *criminalized* by state justice systems, to mark them as undesirable and disposable, targets for policing, trafficking, confinement, and liquidation

This day 57 years ago. Earthrise. A remarkable view of Earth hoving into view as the Apollo 8 command module flew over the lunar surface. That's us. That's home.

Former head of trust and safety at Twitter, Yoel Roth, demonstrating the intellectual dishonesty of “In Covid’s Wake” by showing how they distorted his own words to make them say the opposite of what he was arguing.

Fine, whatever, this random cat is your new god of the winter solstice

After buying it for $18.8 billion, Walgreens' new private equity owner has eliminated paid holidays for all hourly workers on Christmas and New Year's. Last year, Walgreens had a CEO-to-Worker pay gap of 410 to 1. Corporate greed that would make even Scrooge blush.

I blew off social media lately, and for that I apologize. But I can’t let #ArtAdventCalendar pass without posting at least ONCE! So here’s something different, a photo of a lone surfer, three weeks ago during the King Tides at Cannon Beach #Oregon, just two days before all the flooding hit.

Marc Chagall : Lune rousse au Cap d'Antibes, 1969 oil, pastel, and watercolor on paper 61.4 x 49.3 cm | 24.2 x 19.4 in

In Icelandic folklore Jólakötturinn, the Yule Cat, comes to eat those who do not wear their new clothes for Christmas. In this image, you can see somebody did not put on their new Christmas sweater. Or perhaps even more unfortunately, no one got them one! More ... 👇

Out of the city is a moon world, blue and white, frost like gas on the fields and roads. The land slips east into night, fen ditches glowing like pig-iron. High in the thin air the planes drum towards the coast. Rob Hindle (from our walking-themed anthology 'The Footing') thefooting.wordpress.com

Jeff Landry, greatest embarrassment to Louisiana since David Duke,on his appointment as Special Envoy to Greenland. Now Denmark has summoned our ambassador to answer for this threat. Their border security could arrest Jeff upon arrival in Greenland,as a security threat. #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

Yeah, no thanks. Stop guilting people about being estranged from family members. It someone is they likely have personal reasons for being so.

For #dailyhaikuprompt, instead of a #haiku, an essay by Michael Dylan Welch (one of the preeminent writers of and about haiku in the English language) with the word of the day, "vibrant." www.graceguts.com/essays/tradi...

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