Friends at @coffeestainnorth.bsky.social I am forever indebted to you for the peace you have brought to my household when Satisfactory came to Xbox. No more loud, shouting matches with teams of drunk and stoned college students driving my husband @todmaffin.com crazy on Overwatch.

How Facebook ruined our friendship skills - and how you can fix it. vt.tiktok.com/ZSmCSyaPp/

Posting several links, this is madness: "An estimated 200,000 to half million U.S. firearms are smuggled into Mexico every year ... 'We have confiscated, in the time that I've been in government, 50,000 guns of high power, of high caliber ... Fifty thousand guns. And 75% of them from the U.S."

Bad punchline: US prez Trump sends USCS Comfort, a medical relief ship - from a country where healthcare costs doubled or tripled for most people in the last 2 months - to Greenland where healthcare is free (but geographically difficult to access for remote communities).

Heads up if you have a disability... @aircanada.bsky.social is charging my wife and I hundreds of dollars extra because she uses a wheelchair and they won’t provide an accessible airport transfer (which we paid for in the package) that she can use unless we pay more.

I am so thankful that we have someone like Chief Accessibility Officer Stephanie Cadieux - until our country and its business community fully buy in to their responsibility for access & inclusion and start following the law… 1/2

When your marketing manager is a boomer and your copywriter is a millennial TikTok user. (You were SO CLOSE!)

@todmaffin.com found a Valentine’s Day card for me clearly designed by someone spying on us in our living room. 😜😆💕

This week from the Island Healthcare infusion discord: Why aren’t we using a more secure community platform, then Discord? Because there aren’t any like this. It’s impossible to compete with American tech behemoths… and American companies own most of the cloud computing anyway... 1/x

2 (maybe 3?) years after WestJet tried to charge us extra for accessible airport transfer included in our package, this time @aircanada.bsky.social vacations has done it. I’m so disappointed, youve made such progress on accessibility since those bad old days of in 2022. Say it ain’t so.

Describing statistics like this drives me crazy. Wouldn’t expect it from @reuters.com but here we are. Why is that BUT there? 1 in 5 is 20%. These are not contradictory statistics - why are they described as if they are? 20% is less than 29% last I checked. www.reuters.com/world/albert...

“[US] Politics is the entertainment division of the military industrial complex.” Frank Zappa (possibly, modifications is mine)

Today in orange cat tales: I am beginning to think that Otis is addicted to our gas fireplace. He has started waking me up at 4 AM with no problem other than the fire place has gone out. This afternoon he came into my office yowling the house down. Sure enough the fire was off again.

My coworker is sleeping on the job again.

VANCOUVER, SURREY, VICTORIA, BURNABY! - A TON of accessible rental units just came up on The Right Fit program! It's a Christmas Miracle! This site helps people with physical disabilities keep accessible housing while their access and support needs are worked out. therightfitbc.org/listings/

“An ending is just a period waiting to become an ellipses.” “Ellipsis, Errorist” “That’s the spirit!” Elle Cordova is one of my faves. Can’t wait to see her host SNL one of these days. vt.tiktok.com/ZSfREkXos/

I keep having to look up US thanksgiving dates bc I every time I see a black Friday TikTok, I think, it can be black Friday yet…

One of life’s big mysteries, the use of quotation marks on instructions. We get that your boss gave you the copy, Lance, but why quote the first line instructions in the sign. (If you did, why not quote ALL of the instructions?!!) #grammar #punctuation #handwashing #hospital

What a huge loss. I envision a just and equitable world where Alice, Stella and Arley are thinking and writing great things together. www.cbc.ca/news/world/a...

SOMEBODY PAGE GEO! #spookylakesmonth www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

The more US healthcare workers I talk to the more I feel that we 🇨🇦 must urgently ensure we are not relying on governance norms (not laws) as guardrails. Even mostly normal politicians in Canada can't be trusted with the power of the Notwithstanding Clause, and then there's Danielle Smith.

I propose a new version of murphy’s law that me and my #disabled friends can really relate to, let’s call it Gimpy’s law: as soon as you’ve seen the specialist, you waited months to see you will develop a new troubling symptom that you should tell them about the very next day.

Dear 🇨🇦dairy industry: what do you have against egg nog lovers? Have we hurt you somehow? Why do you give us eggnog three days before Thanksgiving and then take it away again until Christmas?

Thanks @bcgeu.bsky.social for all you do in the public service and also to one of you who helped scoop me back up and into my wheelchair when I bit it right in front of your picket line at Canada Place today. I barely even had a chance to see who it was. ❤️ #solidarity #kindness

@carnivalcruise.bsky.social so far your accessible stateroom on #carnivalencounter has been great but do you see any issues with putting life jackets on the highest shelf in the wheelchair accessible stateroom? 🤔🧐

Attention CIA, if you ever want to torture a migraineur to do what you want, trap them in a public bathroom with a 4 year old playing with the air hand dryer. 😥

Every day I see how people with spinal cord injuries re-learn their bodies & rebuild their lives. The community of peer support and information resources SCI BC offers is about lifting that load, helping us help each other to adjust, adapt and thrive. Help me fund our work: b.link/sci

I just took this survey about primary care in Canada. If you live in Canada, I hope you will too! www.ourcare.ca

The union at the Canadian Press wire service says that some of its members "can no longer afford to live in the communities where they work and report."

The OO leader has no reason to have an official residence, esp if their riding is Ottawa. The PM & GG have diplomatic roles & thus need official residences to host. Stornoway should become the PM residence henceforth & Sussex Drive should be renovated as guesthouse & OO can get a housing allowance.

Way to go @permobilamericas.bsky.social for the worst product recall on the SmartDrive SpeedController. The "field action portal" (form) requires a US Zip code. The toll free line is only for US customers. Permobil Canada doesn't deal with customers. My vendor hadn't heard of the recall!

he should have done the hip flip

Woooooo! Phew. No conservative gov this time! #canpoli

2/2 We vacuumed it up and sealed it in & we are waiting for it to die among all of the dirt and dust in the cannister of our vacuum cleaner. It’s pretty hard to get a photo of it. Alas, it is still alive. It’s about an inch long & chonky. Advice pls #hornet #wasp #bc

A huge flying insect followed Tod in last night, and scared the shit out of the dog. It looks like a fluffy bumble bee attached to a hornet. It doesn’t look like an Asian #murderhornet, more like a European hornet. Interwebs say they aren’t known on #vancouverIsland. Any ideas? 1/2 #invasivespecies

❤️❤️❤️ #nanaimo #nanaimoinfusion nanaimonewsnow.com/2025/04/26/i...

“My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world.” — Late NDP leader Jack Layton #nanaimo #nanaimoinfusion youtu.be/TAkUs94EyAg

I can't believe it's taken me this long to understand how Mandarin and Cantonese are related but totally different. They are more different than English is from Russian as spoken languages but share a written system bridges the languages, making it even more similar than English and German!

What are we doing, Nanaimo? I’m feeling pretty fraught - 3 way centre left split, an NDP incumbent and a former Green MP and a 3rd time Liberal candidate. @smartvoting.ca says vote Lib despite incumbent NDP, Lib & Greens matched 21-22%. How do they pick? /1 #canpoli #elxn2025

I just want @bioware.bsky.social and the Dragon Age Veilguard team that I loved it. I’m sorry no DLC will be released (I know there’s a cosmetics dlc for PC, that doesn’t count) and I really enjoyed it. Thanks for all your hard work. ❤️ #dragonageveilguard #dragonage #teamvarric

“We need to fight.” Exactly right. @steveboots.bsky.social I am pleased to hear your wife got the care she needed and it didn’t bankrupt you. Can the Canadian government do better. Yes. Is privatization the answer? Absolutely not. See @kffhealthnews.org bill of the month. #ElbowsUp

Me and @jocelynlt.bsky.social put HAWKINS CHEEZIES to the ultimate test... Does Canada's favourite snack stand up against three competitors in a blind taste test? youtube.com/shorts/EkQBi...

Aggravating to see the US fail again at basic diplomacy - talk with, not about. Greenlanders don’t even really want danish rule, let alone Trump’s. Seeing American leaders condescend to Greenlanders about where they’d be safe acting as if the whole history of colonization never happened. Smh

I was a whole ass middle aged Canadian before it occurred to me that the “from Far and Wide, Oh Canada…” line might also refer to the many lands, far & wide, Canadians originated from. In other news, check out Tod’s podcast/YT channel/video content on Canada & politics. Farandwide.news

We’ll interfere with your home countries but you can’t come into our country once you’re a Canadian. apple.news/Aj82HFyB9TZG...

Does this headline not seem a bit salacious for an article that essentially is about how Carney has already put his assets in a blind trust and directed his team to propose screens around gov dealings with them to avoid conflict of interest? apple.news/ALWhtczmaQkm...

BC students with SCI/paralysis: The GRAGOPEAN scholarship is taking applications (until March 23!!) to fund all kinds of tuition, books, and disability costs of post-secondary education. Offered by Spinal Cord Injury BC & Vancouver Foundation. #college #university sci-bc.ca/gragopean Pls share!

Have you been to #windowseatbooks yet in #nanaimo? The owner just chased me down to bring me a book I ordered. I was getting in my car near closing time, and she brought it out and said just keep it - pay when the second book is in next week. #uncouver #whoneedsamazon #buylocal #indiebookseller

Pls if you love survival games, give @thelongdark.bsky.social a try. It still lives rent free in my head 500 hours and 7 years (?) later. Some days on Vancouver Island I feel like I live in it. This ain’t your mama’s survival game.

@bcferries.bsky.social do you respond to inquiries on Bluesky and do you know if the 6:35 queen of Surrey to departure bay is running late? I can’t see Queen of Surrey in the tracking view on the app.