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Negative covid test so it was some other awful virus that has left me feeling like wrung out rag

I've had covid this week (I think) and I'm solo parenting and exhausted so I'm like. Really regretting every life choice I've ever made

Update: I am a neoliberal because I believe that voting (while imperfect and not enough) is important

Make bullying great again. Edmonton-based Stantec cancels ICE facility contract after backlash | Edmonton Journal share.google/8Y7uL9TDHamL...

"poor people can't make art" oh please, people have been making art with burnt sticks and mud for tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of years

Woke is so powerful it invented a time machine to go back to 1492 to call Christopher Columbus a colonizer

yeah, it's like *we* say go ahead and do whatever you want between consenting adults (within reason), while *they* insist that everyone should be forced into permanent hetero marriages while getting coked out of the skulls and fucking someone else's wife bsky.app/profile/cmer...

she somehow managed to lie about the very intentional racism in the video AND the animals present in Lion King

Have I mentioned lately that I hate it here?

This is only related in a sideways manner, but: the story of any small slice of humanity is the story of humanity, just boiled down and distilled. So: In 2020, we had a lot of conversations about harassment at SF/F conventions, and Isaac Asimov came up several times.

Dating myself but I'm old enough to remember that even before 2017 raping underage girls was considered "illegal" and "uncool."

You lose? You and your children die terribly and painfully You win? You drink some milk WEIRD THING TO GAMBLE UR KIDS' LIVES ON, HUH

Kindergarten teacher called a prank ICE hotline thinking it was real. She called to report her 6 year old student to ICE to try to get them and their family deported. 6 years old. She does not enjoy hearing her own words and actions played back to her.

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Here's why I'm working to eliminate loud fire alarms from my school district. Sudden loud alarming sounds can: ❌trigger panic ❌cause dissociation ❌harm children Instead, a firefighter should go to each child and ask them in a gentle voice, "Are you in the right headspace to receive information?"

This article is much better than the lede, just FYI, and the author describes this position as a "confected simplification" and calls out that basically these men want to restrict womens' freedom to supply utersuses to incels

In response to the deluge of messages on casting in The Odyssey: Helen was born from an 🥚 Don’t talk to me about historical veracity.

I saw the discourse about Helen of Troy in Nolan's Odyssey and already thought it was dumb and then I realised they were talking about Lupita Nyong'o. LUPITA NYONG'O. SHE IS ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL WOMEN ALIVE

As a teen girl in the 90s. Yeah. It was horrific. Endless and horrific, and no-one gave a shit

We really have come a LONG way in a pretty brief amount of time as a culture on “oh, maybe it’s actually creepy and gross to incessantly perv on teenage girls everywhere all the time.”

The cause of the male loneliness crisis is that they arrested Jeffrey Epstein, the only man who appears to have had friends.

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

Yet again the knowledge that illiterate pedophile Jeffrey Epstein was apparently BFFs with every rich and powerful arsehole in the world makes me feel truly insane

It's crazy that if you have the first principle "human ethnic groups, physical differences aside, are not different in terms of mental capacity or 'inherent' personality traits" you are woker than 90% of the people who work for supposedly liberal media organizations.

Oh so you're saying YOU do support the insane pro-America anti-vax trucker convoy movement then

We in Alberta are living through a political moment entirely informed by far-right conspiracy theories spread on Facebook, and those who foment those theories for power's sake are, as one might guess, utterly pathetic.

Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Matt Reuter. #NewYorkerCartoons

Some of the books banned books by the UCP... • A Game of Thrones: The Graphic Novel, Volume One • George Orwell’s 1984: The Graphic Novel • The Book of Genesis by Robert Crumb • Breakdown: Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*! • Andy Warhol • Introducing Camus #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

Not pictured: Haruki Murakami’s wife, or indeed whoever is cooking, cleaning, paying bills, running errands, doing the laundry, answering emails, etc like yea his routine is goals, but let’s not lie to ourselves about all the invisible work others are doing to enable him to have that routine

This creator’s TikTok really pokes fun at some of the conspiratorial thinking out there. 😆

Ripped this from Insta - so forgive the weird highlights, but (fellow Albertan) Jen Gerson of @thelineca.bsky.social has it right

Really bananas people in my mentions being like NOTHING GOOD EVER HAPPENS IN DEMOCRACIES VOTING DOES NOTHING and it's like. Can you point to me on a map where the best autocratic regimes are? The ones where everyone is happy and safe and life is awesome?

realistically an independent AB is going to be hit by a double whammy: (1) no longer in confederation + landlocked + surrounded by hostile Canadians (2) global energy transition away from oil

I wrote this yesterday about the hero city of Minneapolis www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKOW...

That's my half an hour of Alberta nonsense for the day. Alberta: Wild nonsense country

From the DM’s… Apparently last night at Jamil Jivani’s leadersh… Er. Event. It was just an event. Yeah. Smith called on the minister of advanced education to create a program so conservative students unhappy with their grades could have a “tip line” to report instructors. #abpoli #cdnpoli

Separatism doesn’t lower the cost of living. It won’t help us build hospital beds or hire teachers. Separatism only weakens us.
 We cannot let it define our future. youtube.com/shorts/POGx1...

Incredibly, this is an actual photo New York Post used for the guy who attacked Ilhan Omar.

From Sharon's lips to God's (and Albertans') ears

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Smith: "I wish I could direct the judges” "She added that she recently wrote to Mark Carney proposing more provincial involvement in judicial appointments “so that we start choosing judges in Alberta that reflect the values of how we want them to operate here.”" Ponder that for a moment. 🎁

Like this, this is worth yelling at the Liberals about. C'mon this policy SUCKS

Me in my community in Alberta: I'm VERY FAR LEFT apparently Me on Bluesky: I'm a centrist lib apparently

We are not here to generate shareholder value. We are here, as Vonnegut said, to fart around. Learn to sing, draw a picture, get laid, play dominoes in the park, lowball guys selling project stock cars on your local online yardsale, go count butterflies in a field.

it is beautiful how we are having another moment of Bluesky unity. everybody basking in the glow of how Ilhan Omar was very visibly gonna punch that dude in the mouth

I am now donating $10 to transactionalberta.ca in penance for indulging in daft fights on bluesky

Years of being on the internet have taught me nothing, apparently

I like Jesse's videos and this sort of comment is so dispiriting because voting can and does effect real change! That's why fascists don't want you to it! That's why suffragettes died to give women voting rights! That's why autocracies hold sham elections! Is voting the only thing? No!

I just saw a person who I like posting that the US democrats, Canada's liberals, and UK's labour are "all in favour of what the US republicans are doing right now but they just wish it was quieter"and I'm like. PLEASE