If I were a doo-dad found in a charity shop, I’d officially be labeled Antique, and priced accordingly. It’s my birthday. 😌

Mark Carney's speech really is terrific: full text is here and very much worth your time.

COW TOOLS COW TOOLS COW TOOLS

From November 2020, when murder hornets were killing the bees in the US

A trial beginning this week in B.C. Supreme Court could help clarify the rights of Canadians to protest, the ability of the media to cover those events, and the consequences for police when they violate reporters’ constitutional rights. @tyolsen.bsky.social reports. #CdnMedia #bcpoli

Evgeny Lushpin. Artista ruso, nacido en 1966. Resplandor Matutino. 2013. Óleo sobre lienzo.

…and Jennifer Lawrence wore an antimacassar.

Peder Mørk Mønsted.

Me, too, red pepper. Me, too.

Old man friends are saying we’re having an old-fashioned winter- the kind they remember as kids. Fierce cold and plenty of snow, but we didn’t feel it then, did we?

File under the ever-growing subgenre of my work which I’m calling ‘Inanimate Object Has A Massive Go At A Person For No Reason’

To the kings, it was all about optics.

If PM Carney and Ms Freeland succeed in brokering a real peace deal in Ukraine, the Orange Thing will have a lovely meltdown. www.cbc.ca/news/world/f...

Sadly announcing the death of the F-bomb. It’s stopped being an expletive and has morphed into a socially-acceptable emphatic, often meaning “a lot”. (It’s cold as fuck out.)

The real reason we have January

My partner has been coaching a friend with dementia through the process of leaving home and moving into assisted living. Weeks and weeks of prep, pastoral walking alongside, and Saturday’s the big day. It’s been stressful. I hope she might welcome a small glass of cheer tonight.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=7I_n... Operation: HANS OFF! 🦫🚫 A Canadian Satirical Musical (Claymation-Style)

Well, the freezing rain has started. I wish everyone safe harbour.

The Week Between Christmas and New Years

How delicately a Romanesque angel uses the lightest touch of a finger to wake one of the magi, snuggled with the other 2 under their embroidered circular blanket at St Lazare, Autun, c1130 (& how beautifully the textures of pillow & blanket are represented). Season's greetings to you all!

Stumpfest. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Cosy evening ahead with The Bear. Day off tomorrow. 🖼️ Chris Dunn

I think it’s time for Canada to issue a five-dollar coin. It would encourage us to use coins more often and keep our money very local.

New sign in the Canadian House of Commons. 😅😂🤣

The law isn’t a vibe. It’s what keeps Canada fair, equal, and (mostly) polite. 🇨🇦
Visit ourstoprotect.ca ... because fairness doesn’t protect itself.
#OursToProtect #RuleofLaw #Partner

I heard Meghan’s been giving out homemade Advent calendars to the homeless.

Poor phone. It updated itself in the night and now it wants to cook me breakfast.

Our neighbour, farmer Don, 91, fell in the snow last week, got back up and went on his rounds delivering 1000 pounds of meat to his various rural customers. Pain this week took him to the ER, where it turns out he’s snapped a rib. He’s a tough as boiled owl, our Don.

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Oh, that’s easy. His brain, such as it is, is full of pus. www.cbc.ca/news/world/t...

So it’s ok to have enormous “F* Carney” signs in your front yard, for all the kiddies to see, but woe betide you if you dare to question the worship of an omnipotent sugar daddy?https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/santa-parade-signs-brantford-9.6999839

I love this the arc of this story. No doubt someone will make it into a movie. www.bbc.com/news/article...

America, It's Not You, It's...

Experienced cooks please advise: fresh beef liver had strangely firm texture when raw. Sliced like steak, almost. Fried it up in the usual way, and it was crunchy. (!) Like coconut meat. Inedible. Disaster.

It looks like the right wing is flying the whole eagle at this point.

Well, that Murrican fella Trumpet is up the creek, sounds like. Not like our boy Carnival. Wasn’t looking forward to a bunch of election signs gumming up the snowplow all winter long.

From watching too many Scandi noirs lately: Come to Finland! It snows all summer long!

First snowplough of the season just thundered past. They’d make awesome tanks if it came to it.

News headlines written in the form of a question are invariably biased opinion pieces.

This Is delicious. The BBC managed to write about Harry without mentioning Meghan in the article by name at all (except identifying her in the cutline). “…his wife, a former actress”. www.bbc.com/news/article...

The poor mook. It was his first assignment as an ICEPrick, and the shouting terrified him. He was peeing his drawers when he got sandwiched. He’ll never work again.

Available with real or fake swearing! The fake swearing is in the form of 'grawlix', which is a great word for something familiar, if you are unaware of it. www.worldofmoose.com/collections/...

This man should close his grubby little potty mouth and go home. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

It looks as if the Trump regime is blaming “Democrats” for any and all the ills they themselves have deliberately inflicted upon the US proletariat. The next thing is to purge the population of people they identify as “Democrats” through the usual channels. The camps will be full.

Just thinking, re. a thread about true-to-life film characters, that in the Nordic noir cop shows (which I love), their glasses never fog up when they come in from the frozen outside. And their noses never run.

A useful animated video, illustrating how everyday noises—ones non-autistic people may not notice—can overwhelm an autistic person, in some cases leading to bolting and meltdowns that uninformed people dismiss as "autistic behaviors." Please watch and share. youtu.be/K2P4Ed6G3gw?... #neurodiversity