What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers more than $15 an hour.” What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.” Funny how that works.

How about we worry less, as a society, about whether individuals might be cheating to get a disability accommodation or some help buying food, and more about whether extremely wealthy people and corporations are paying their fair share of taxes?

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Happy Canada Day!

Beautiful things happen when you loan out your typewriter.

I've never been one for ballcaps. Until now. Go, @victoire-lphf.bsky.social !

The receptacles into which Mrs Spry puts her flowers are equally varied: a wooden bowl, a silver sauce-boat, a tin-lined bible-box, and something which she calls a pancheon. #gardening www.countrylife.co.uk/luxury/art-a...

If you need a breather from all this bullshit, here's a photo of Earth. From Saturn. We're that slightly brighter star at centre right.

"Rivers flow not past, but through us; tingling, vibrating, exciting every cell and fiber in our bodies, making them sing and glide." -John Muir

Historical fiction workshop at the Centre for Newfoundland Studies Can't wait! www.eventbrite.ca/e/where-wind...

“My fiction may, now and again, illuminate aspects of the human condition, but I do not consciously set out to do so: I am a storyteller.” ― William Trevor (born on this day 1928)

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@scoffeywrites.bsky.social Happy or wha?

"It’s about denying the fundamental truth of being human. We all get sick. Our bodies are frail. We get older and things start to break down. If you live long enough, you will experience #disability. There’s no way around that, and yet a shocking number of people are completely unable to accept it."

@scoffeywrites.bsky.social Oh, look at that: a Montreal power play.

@thepwhl.com Good job suspending @pwhlfrost.bsky.social player Britta Curl, who plays dirty, from tonight's Minnestoa vs Toronto game ... but she's now got quite the track record for playing dirty, and rough. How much longer is the League going to put up with this? What if Curl injures someone?

MAGAts are upset with the new pope. He cares about the poor, the disabled, the elderly, and immigrants.

Hard empathise with this. Those who stuck around are gold dust but most vanished, even pre MCAS: enabled people get bored of sickness fast. (But please, no 12 minute voice notes - I loathe the things. Suspect it's generational: phone calls good.) inews.co.uk/inews-lifest... @francesryan.bsky.social