This thread is so great because ANCIENT DOVECOTES (aka pigeon homes). The insides by the way have a slope at the bottom so they poop is easy to scoop out for fertilizer.

My driver's license comes in the mail. My health card comes in the mail. My notifications about mammograms and other imaging come by mail! Some of my income comes by mail. What if we just, I dunno, used TAXES to pay for this SERVICE?

"Canada Post is on track to lose money" Hum. Duh. It cost less than a toonie to send a letter across Canada. "Canada Post is a service and not a business" was common knowledge until late stage capitalism brain rotted most people into think if it ain't making money for shareholders, it's failing.

Canada Post “lost” 1 billion dollars last year? How about, “it cost Canadians 1 billion dollars to have a national postal service” which works out to costing about $25 a year per person (population of Canada in 2024 = 40 million). Seems like a pretty reasonable cost to me.

Each day, give thought to those who have helped you, shown you compassion, have been there for you. As a true warrior, you may that person: one who came to someone's aid and are in their thoughts now. Be grateful, for that is true honor.

Holy shit. Italy has sent a naval frigate to a flotilla of boats attempting to bring aid to the Gaza Strip www.dw.com/en/italy-sen...

This is huge: “A drug that provides near-perfect protection against H.I.V. with shots just twice a year will be made available at $40 per patient annually in low- and middle-income countries, offering new hope… making lenacapavir a realistic choice in countries with constrained resources.”

Tuesday poem #651 : Kit-Xgwelemc Kennedy : Paterain moment ; dusie.blogspot.com/2025/09/tues...

I have taken the Tylenol that was in the medicine cabinet and which they think probably is the reason you like trains forgive me but that’s bullshit you got autism from your dad

Crow Cards for today: The Nine of Earth The Sun Oh, that's a nice thing to see first thing in the morning

Today is the first day of Navratri, the 9 day festival of the Mother Goddess. Later today I will begin my annual posting of her story, but in the meantime I wish you all peace, love, and joy in her holy embrace.

@metuiteme.bsky.social you have to read this.

In the play I'm currently directing, one of the characters is a gay man who "found his Mr. Right - and then lost him." The play is set in the eighties. One of the actors, a guy in his twenties, had absolutely no idea what the implication was. What a wonder.

...OMG didn't realize at first (due to paywall) that this was about the recent deMayo study that showed that trans kids' gender identities were just as stable as cis kids'! (& that shifts were largely to nonbinary IDs). here's the study: doi.org/10.1111/mono...

We're half way there. Remember, we encourage general submissions alongside any work that might fit in with our four themed folios. When submitting you can specify where your work lines up. We're excited to see what you've got for us! kenyonreview.org/submit

A group of youth climate researchers affiliated with UC Davis is trying to fix climate models to correct for fossil fuel industry propaganda that has snuck its way in. But... of course their funding was just cut. :( So they're doing a GoFundMe. www.gofundme.com/f/support-Ba...

New Moon / Solar Eclipse in Virgo - Looking back to where things were six months ago and the progress I've made since the previous eclipse in Virgo. #WitchSky #Pagansky

This. Merciful life.

Also, just house unhoused people. It’s kinder and less expensive than punishment.

Myra Nymphaion: Healing waters of Roman Empire to flow again after 1,850 years, details on our page. A 2nd century CE Roman "healing water complex" in Antalya Province, Turkey with aqueducts, baths and cisterns. It was built over a natural spring rich in magnesium, iron, sulphur and phosphorus.

Hey if you cancelled a bunch of services and are going “now what”, can I recommend an audiobook and fiber art combo. Good for your brain, good for your hands, you get something squishy at the end! There’s no downside. None at all. You’re absolutely not going to go into yarn debt. Haha.

If you want some insights on current times but you could use a break, I highly recommend reading Guards, Guards! by Terry Pratchett. This book can teach us a lot about power and how it's used, evil and how it's fought. And it'll make you laugh. We need that. Quotes in thread. Art Paul Kidby #booksky

I know we all hate to log into LinkedIn, but you might wanna do to opt out of this 😘

Do one thing today to help. One thing tomorrow. One thing the day after. Taking a swing at every bad thing happening is just going to burn you out. Remember, if everyone does their one thing the world changes

TBH, I wonder if Boris and Julian are a low key reference to this.

“…our bones are built from stardust... If in our marrow we carry the weight of worlds, then perhaps even ordinary choices stretch boundlessly, far beyond what we can imagine.” Read Interview: moonlitgetaway.com/post/interview-t-e-bean-poet-musician-author #WritingCommunity #PoetryCommunity

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

The Ottawa Public Library does this, fyi

For those deleting our Academia dot edu accounts (due to their new exploitative TOC) make sure to follow the instructions quoted below or they'll force you to accept the TOC before you can get to the "delete my account" button. See you all on the open-source alternative hcommons Humanities Commons!

Etransfers and Paypal accepted: chuffed.org/project/crip...

Quick signal boost: my cousin (a nurse) and her kiddo lost their home and everything in it in the Sackville fire. They have a safe place to stay, thankfully, and things are tight for everyone, but any financial help for them to start rebuilding would be amazing. www.gofundme.com/f/shes-spent...

"We will march through the streets under the swollen moon, happy for our feet and each other’s company. Some dance. Some skip. I will find someone’s hand to hold for the first time in ages, and be glad to be with them" —Eric Oman Callahan anmly.org/ap40/eric-om...

Causing friction is very effective protesting. Three short, polite points in paper letters which must be manually opened to find out what they say. 90 seconds a letter? 100 letters = 2.5 hours staff time not spent on usual tasks. 1000 letters? Heaped mailbags soon get noticed.

This case is especially shocking but abuse and trauma are endemic and inevitable features of youth prisons. The way to protect youth from these horrors is to phase out the practice of incarcerating youth. At every turn, the system proliferates abuse rather than preventing it.

Knot Magic, Cognitive Behavioural Witchcraft, and Omens Ahoy. #Witchsky #Pagansky

Pancreatic got my auntie and my dad, so: FUCK YES glad to hear this

Frawwwwwgs 🐸🐸

Glamourous aerial hoops artiste. Strength, flexibility, and ✨spangles✨!

Happy Birthday, Mistress of the Dark. 74.

Phrase of the day: ✨ Stochastic Terrorism ✨ Def: violence instigated by hostile public rhetoric in indirect, vague or coded language, granting the instigator plausible deniability. Eg: broadcasting that houseless people should die, then an encampment being shot up, is ✨stochastic terrorism✨

need a skyline cleanse? it's dog o'clock!

very nice! my first ever shortlist for the Ottawa Book Awards, for On Beauty: stories (University of Alberta Press); ; congrats to Manahil, Nina, Paul and Chuqiao for also shortlisting! / @ualbertapress.bsky.social @manahil.bsky.social ; ottawa.ca/en/city-hall...

Crow Cards for today: The Star The 2 of Water

I was focused in on the mushroom but something else caught my eye. I zoomed out to see this little head poking up. 😁 Freaking adorable. #FungiFriends 🌿 #mammals

Costcos in Ontario don't, to my knowledge, sell wine. But perhaps they do where you live, so: Heads Up

$320 left to go if anyone can help

Hack the planet!! For a 30 year old movie the themes & forms of expression in Hackers has aged very well. The technology not so much, but that's part of why it's iconic media Also if you made this film today almost every character would be trans (as are half the people who watched this growing up)

Hey fellow Canadians. Can we really start getting some more noise made at granting Asylum to Trans* Americans? They're gonna get killed, and we should not allow that to happen. This is our DUTY to our siblings in the US. They do NOT deserve this.

I am witnessing history right now...