The most frustrating thing about discussion of #Wikipedia is how uninformed it always is about how Wikipedia works. All the lengthy and open debates about these sources are catalogued at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:RSP and anyone can read them. There's no secrets. Who tf is Mr. X even supposed to be?

Random shoutout to the last time I got sick (strep throat), back in 2019! #MasksWork

Just for the record, Zionism is decolonization, and Jewish people have generally been allies to queer, racialized and other marginalized people for many decades. Un/follow as you prefer.

Found the deserted sandy beach that goes out knee-deep for half a klick, just four years too late. Maybe everything would have been different.

This is such a funny element to the Kirk eulogizing: they can’t describe him the way they’re describing him *and* show clips of anything he actually said or did

Charlie Kirk never served one day in uniform nor one day in office. He made memes on the internet and said shitty things about people on podcasts. If this is who Republicans consider a hero and want to display in death, let them. It says more about them than anyone against their ideology ever could.

Everyone seems allergic to the word, but Charlie Kirk was not an activist, he was a propagandist. Turning Point was a meme factory backed by a billionaire designed to steer kids towards Christian Nationalism. He didn’t advocate for policy; he spun narratives to change beliefs. Propaganda.

"Happening all the time in urban America, prowling Blacks go around for fun to go target white people, that’s a fact. It’s happening more and more." - Charlie Kirk (??? - yesterday)

One last obituary check before I leave cell range for the week

into my parents' bedroom to read his books, hoping I could learn how to avoid being punished so severely. I remember putting them back into place feeling even greater confusion and despair. He taught a generation not just how to physically, emotionally, verbally, and spiritually abuse their

CW: Child Abuse James Dobson was a monster. I grew up listening to Focus on the Family. My parents had every single one of his abusive, authoritarian parenting books. He wrote the manuals they used to destroy my childhood, and ruined any chance we had at a healthy relationship. I used to sneak

James Dobson dying is a staring into the middle distance type of event. You have likely directly suffered bc of him. Few have done more to harm humanity at large in the past few decades. A principal architect of our current nightmare. No redeeming aspect. He was a rat made entirely out of plague.

I know it’s considered rude to speak ill of the dead so in celebration of his life’s work, here’s a chart from Dr. James Dobson that helped generations of parents figure out the exact right number of times to hit their kids with a belt.

James Dobson is dead 🎉

Don't worry, it's not a really big bug bite, it's just a normal sized bug bite on top of an already-raised irregularly-shaped mole.

In retrospect, it was a red flag that only the first quarter of this thrift store book had any creases on its spine.

Actually not sure if I've seen air quality this good in a city before

Couldn't be helped apparently. This patch of grass just had to be mowed.

Wait, so he's walkng up and down Broadway with his old stud Leroy, and the girls are telling *him* to ride a cowboy instead? Like, there's no other horses on Broadway, nobody else around has the opportunity for a mode switch here

I wonder how many spiders I've eaten since the start of blackberry season.

Rule of thumb; the more people with silly hats on the election debate stage, the more embarrassing it is to be sitting there with them. #BattleRiverCrowfoot #abpoli

Just when you think it can’t get any more stunning, from pristine lakes, to Canadian Shield, prairie fields, Rocky Mountains, you enter the Okenagan Valley. All along our road trip from Ontario to British Columbia, the border to the USA snaked just south of us, and we sang love songs to Canada. 🇨🇦

Forgot to attach #HotStickSaturday

Mushrooms

I think my phone might be suicidal. Any time my pockets are angled even close to sideways (sitting, crouching, stairs, anything), it makes a leap, not straight down, but for the nearest concrete surface around. I just caught it doing a flip to try to go forward.

It's nice to hear "I should probably be wearing a mask too". It'd be nicer if they did, of course. Your box of masks isn't doing you or this assisted care facility much good in the trunk of your car, hon.

There sure are a lot of male characters in this old Larry Niven/Jerry Pournelle book with strong opinions about women's lib.

Just to reiterate, the FDA director claimed to *personally* know of *multiple* people who died from mRNA COVID vaccines, and nobody has asked him anything else about that. These cases have never been reported in neither the medical and scientific records, nor literal death records.

Oh, no, this is my dining plane. The sleeping plane is just behind us, there's a mid-air cable transfer. Ew, do you normally fly with just one plane, that's so sad

I hope The Revolution will still have hearing aid batteries and lens grinders, cause otherwise I'm gonna be deaf and blind for it.

briefly pausing our four-year-long non-stop protest to cross out the "didn't" and scrawl an "ed" on all our signs and banners

The daily routine

Self-described leftist guy still posting on the nazi site says what? (I can't hear him because I'm not on the nazi site)

"All that to say sorry, Mr. Mayor, no news yet on your allegation. But you can bet Castanet will be first with the story when the police inevitably conclude once again that you are full of it." i feel badly for our kamloops but this is tremendous content

Keshet has really been stepping up with advocacy resources, too. Really an org that seems to be trying hard to meet the (awful) moment.

Adopting these six cats would just put them right back into another hoarding situation. Adopting these six cats would just put them right back into another hoarding situation. Adopting these six cats would just put them right back into another hoarding situation. Adopting these six cats would ju

X did have a lot of reach, and as the journalist in B.C. with arguably the most reach on it, I would have preferred to stay. But we all have agency, and I didn't want to post on a website whose owner said things like "Canada is not a real country", so I left. Life is full of tradeoffs.

If the premier of British Columbia is posting on a website the same day its chatbot is engaging in antisemitic tropes and saying Hitler would solve problems, I'll point it out. That's not shaming, that's highlighting what public figures are doing with their time.

“Rest assured, no one knew this kind of flood was coming.” Who the hell is supposed to rest, assured, by this statement?! #texasfloods

Think I might watch Sophie's Choice, the story of a Polish-Catholic Holocaust survivor, tomorrow. For completeness I'll also have to read about original author William Styron's views on Holocaust being an evil against all people & deflecting blame for it from long-term Christian antisemitism.

Should have asked for more dog pics.

⚡️ Iranian commander killed in Israeli airstrike oversaw Shahed drone supply to Russia. Amir Ali Hajizadeh was sanctioned by the European Union in 2022 for overseeing Tehran's supply of Shahed-type drones to Russia.

Imagine typing out "Does Iran have the right to defend itself?" without cracking up laughing halfway through. Women, life, freedom, death to the dictator!

Found my keys *and* a really big leaf. Today is a good day.

I realize this is now controversial, but I think single parents should not be smoking meth.

Every minute I spend looking at my phone is a minute I could have spent looking at a tree