I ran out of N95s and didn't have time to go out before the game started, so hopefully, this surgical mask with a PM2.5 filter inserted will help with all the wildfire smoke. #LightsUpLetsGo #SportsingOnMyPatio #MaskUp

The way casinos let you self-exile; I have reached that time of year that I need this, but for greenhouses. #yegGarden

Congratulations to my friend @stephaniemclean.bsky.social on her appointment as Secretary of State for Seniors. She's going to do great!

National Nursing Week (May 12-18) recognizes and celebrates each and every nurse who works so hard to keep us healthy and safe. Thank you! #NationalNursingWeek #ABHealth

Wherein DJC reports that the government of Alberta has applied to lock out employees of the provincial public service in the event of a breakdown in contract negotiations. #ABPoli #ABLabour albertapolitics.ca/2025/05/dani...

If hockey teams were like Alberta conservatives, they would threaten to leave the NHL if they didn't win the Stanley Cup. As a Habs fan, I am able to congratulate the Leafs, and cheer for the Oilers & the Jets (in this metaphoric stretch) because I am not an asshole. #CdnPoli

It's 25° outside, so we're obviously gonna need two tvs on the back deck. #GoJays #GoHabs #yegwx

Offspring#1. Raised right.

I probably wrote this after I learned that Prince had died. Still true, nine years later. 💜

Introduced this afternoon, Bill 49 creates a crown corporation to deliver policing in Alberta and will move 600 sheriffs from direct government employment to this new entity. #ABLeg #ABLabour www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti...

May 1st is a day for workers to celebrate our achievements and commit to our continued struggle for better working conditions. Except in Alberta, where a bunch of angry white dudes who can't spell "constitutional" are organizing a rally for independence. 🙄 #ABPoli #CdnPoli

Get me to God's Country* *God's Country might not be when Tesla stock drops below $200, but you can see it from there, probably.

“It highlights that there is a problem, because if one person is willing to say it... how many others also agree with them?” thetyee.ca/News/2025/04...

Today, we celebrate trans & non-binary people and raise awareness of the increasingly frightening discrimination they face every day. #ITDOV

"Parking is available for free to the public on the south side of the facility, and overflow parking exists in the neighbouring parkade." #ABPoli

On Sunday, Mar 23/97, 10,000 Safeway workers struck across the province. UFCW 401 members at Safeway (and Superstore) are still fighting for fairness. Find out more here 👇 faircheckout.ca/#SignUp #ABLabour #CanLab

I just called her #MAGAHari™ on The Twitters. Please clap. #CdnPoli #ABPoli

Everyone has a side to pick in the elimination of racial discrimination. Which side are you on?

Fun Trivia Fact: Mark Carney will be the second Canadian Prime Minister in history to hold a PhD. The first (and, so far, only) one was William Lyon Mackenzie King. #CdnPoli

It's the time of year that I have to remember to change the time on my watch and caution myself not to get my hopes up for the Blue Jays.

The Supremes have concluded that a spending limit on third-party political advertising violates the right to vote. decisions.scc-csc.ca/scc-csc/scc-...

Today is the final Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) Grassy Mountain Mine hearing. Concerned citizens fighting the destruction of the Eastern Slopes are holding a gathering outside the AER at 11:15 AM. Join if you can! 250 - 5th Street SW, Calgary #SaveOurSlopes #ABPoli

"We began to simply reward those who reproduced the most and left the intelligent to become an endangered species," says the narrator at the beginning of this incredibly prescient 2006 documentary.

I had always assumed humans would just keep getting smarter. I'm not sure why I thought this since I saw the original Planet of the Apes as a very young child.

"Those who opposed free trade 40 years ago have, by and large, been proven correct by its long-term consequences." www.readthemaple.com/time-to-thin...

Happy Friday!

Trump, currently: it is too ghetto. Make it stop! Straight outta Compton!

8 year old bookface memory: we should have planted the damned hedge. //sigh

You don't give a bigger bully your lunch. You punch them in the throat before they can kick you in the stomach. Then you kick them in the balls. Sometimes, tactics are more important than strategy. Just one short person's opinion, of course. ✊️

Is there any way I can find Edmonton Sun archives circa 1996/7 online? Nothing comes up via ProQuest. #YEGMedia

Facebook memory from eight years ago.

Bertrand Russell on fascism:

People who are nervous about being associated with Nazis: "Don't be ridiculous! That was not a Sieg Heil salute!" People who are proud to call themselves Nazis: "Damned right, it was!"

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ME: You have a bronchoscopy appointment on the 23rd SPOUSALUNIT: The 23rd? Are we still going to be Canadian, or are we going to need to pay for it? #FunnyGuy #CdnPoli #USPoli

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If you can't write a media release or a social media message that doesn't force me to scroll, you're doing it wrong.

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Finally saw one in real life. Despite my overwhelming urge to laugh at the driver, I stayed several car lengths behind in case it exploded.

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I've asked a few folks, and all have noticed there are no CheckStops anymore. Did the police spend all our money breaking up peaceful protests and destroying the property of the unhoused in lieu of taking actual potential killers off the streets? 🤷‍♀️

Denied the opportunity to participate in online Boxing Day shopping (shakes fist at credit card compromiser!), I am watching The Madness, an excellent Netflix original series shot largely in Toronto and Hamilton, while making a mental list of necessary New Year's Revolutions.

Feel free to guess what I am doing. I hope y'all are doing exactly what you want to be doing, too. If you are working to keep the rest of us safe and warm and fed, thank you. (Thank you, also, Steven Spielberg. The film remains perfect!) 🎄🦈

Ran out of "I made a donation to the Human Fund in your name" cards, so hope Offspring #1, #2, Step-Offspring #1, and Daughter-in-law #1 will love my "I bought you a brand new all season radial tire for Christmas and you can come and visit it whenever you want" cards. #Festivus