One of the best parts of maternity leave are days when I change from my daytime pyjamas into my nighttime pyjamas

“An Epic Research study published on Friday analyzing electronic health records found that gambling disorder diagnoses have risen more than 60 percent since 2018 in states that have legalized sports betting. The largest increase came from young people, aged 18 to 29, whose rate more than doubled.”

In a few hours I’ll have made it 6 weeks and now I’m finally allowed to do scar massage on my c-section incision!

It is a fallacy that anonymity creates negative behavior on the internet. Anonymity levels the playing field between white dudes and everyone else, so white dudes perceive spaces that allow anonymity as more hostile. Anonymity protects everyone else.

Not to get all paranoid again, but I think people on here underestimate the number of bots, trolls, agitators, ops, and so forth designed to piss us off and pit us against each other on the internet.

Lying down with the baby making sure he’s really asleep before I move and thinking about the cereal I’m going to eat!

Their parents died because the US stopped funding HIV meds. Now three brothers, 17, 15 and 12, live alone. They sleep on a rug and blanket, because they sold their mattress. They eat once a day The rise in child-headed households www.npr.org/2026/06/18/g...

Assigned female at birth. Pretty comfortable with that still! Never have I less connected with a term than “girlhood”.Just give me the ick.

My recommendation for not getting stressed about the PWHL expansion is to have a baby in mid May! I only have time to think about it once a week at most!

🌈 Saturday June 20th it’s the @royalcityroller.bsky.social Pride Bout! RCRDs home team, Killer Uprising will take on South Simcoe Rebel Rollers at 6:15 but first up it’s Freshies (& Friends) vs Nipissing Roller Derby. Doors 3:30 first jam at 4. #RollerDerby #PrideBout.

So happy I got to see that Calgary vs Montreal game in person! #WFTDA and my kid did so well!

Going to be in Montreal in early July. Taking pizza recommendations as it’s my child’s raison d’être / idée fixe to sample the worlds best pizzas

My kid’s Health card just arrived in the mail! I really loved the way. Their name looks written down!

E-bikes and scooters are amazing but almost every day there is a near miss between a pedestrian and an e-bike on the sidewalk outside my house.

When I was in the trenches of fertility treatment @carolynkendrick.bsky.social cover of lullaby used to make me ugly cry. Rediscovered it last night when searching for lullabies for my cranky three week old. 🥹

I can’t believe it’s June! That winter was a year long.

Yeah she did!

I was given such an amazing collection of books for my kiddo. Tonight we read The Crown on your Head. Glad baby was basically asleep since I cried my way through it! 🥹

There’s a lot to be said for a clean fitted sheet, a shower, a baby in a sleep sack and Goodnight Moon. Especially when goodnight moon was a gift from the library.

And here they are contemplating their sloth.

My kid got the best Jelly Cat!!

He’s already bigger!!

Just discovered a bag of chips and the juice freezies in the freezer. Left for me by my best friend who visited for a few days this week! If you want tips on supporting a brand new single parent (by choice in my case). She’s the BEST!

Keep thinking how little time off I’d have left if I didn’t have paid mat leave and dying inside a little for every parent that had to go back to work at six weeks. (I have a year).

I can’t believe I made you.

Never understood why the whole “cutting the gordian knot” story is celebrated as outside-the-box problem solving and not reviled as some uncouth brute wrecking a perfectly good puzzle

Catching up on some of the #WFTDA games from the weekend. Are we in a jammer era right now? Blockers cannot stop these jammers solo. It’s gotta be walls.

1 sad looking gluten free pancake. $5 each $10 gf surcharge

Having a baby makes me want to listen to the music of my childhood. Moody Blues albums are the winner so far.

If I could change one thing in derby I’d make it against the rules to ask “what is the floor like?” I can’t even tell you what the floor will be like in a venue I’ve skated in for a decade!

it's the 23 year anniversary of when bill clinton got a haircut

On my kid’s third day of life they watched (I mean can’t see/comprehend much yet so ‘watched’) the first game of the first all Canadian Walter Cup Final. Where someone got injured and her wife was the player to help her off.

Yesss!!

What if, instead of always worrying about how autistic people can be "productive" members of society, we recognize that our autistic community peeps are already contributing members of society? TY @mx-joyner.bsky.social. #autism #autistic #neurodiversity

Population wise Ontario should absolutely have 3 PWHL teams.

Something big just happened on Haida Gwaii. For the first time in B.C., a utility-scale solar project is now taking a meaningful bite out of a diesel-fuelled remote grid. It's a product of years of work from the Haida Nation, and it could signal a tipping point. (photos: Katherine Cheng) 🧵

Thanks to the @victoire-lphf.bsky.social for getting my kid such a good welcome to the world present!

The City of Ottawa posted the raw speed data from before and after Doug Ford banned speed cameras and the effect is so obvious it's not even necessary put a line marking when that happened. This chart shows the percentage of drivers going 15km/h or more over the posted limit.

TABARNAK

Oh Ottawa! I love you but that was for sure roughing. Natural consequence. #PWHL

It will be a burgundy and blue CN Tower watching over Toronto tonight as the Tempo tip off their first regular season game in franchise history. 🙌 #WNBA

By 2029, literally every public institution in Ontario will be run by a single, unaccountable Doug Ford flunkie #onpoli

1. "But there's already a PWHL team in Toronto, two southwestern Ontario teams is too many" 40% of Canadians live in Ontario, most of them live in the southernmost tip. In terms of population density it makes sense to put teams where people are...

Why you are wrong about PWHL Hamilton (if indeed there is to be a PWHL Hamilton) as someone who lives here, a thread

Yay!! Oh this was so stressful!!

I don’t think I will ever stop getting a little sad every time a power play happens now. Bring back the Tiger!! #pwhl

So sick of the Aero ad! #PWHL

THIS IS THE BEST NEWS!!

At my appointment today the provider was explaining to her new student why BMI is stupid! So then I got to recommend @maintenancephase.bsky.social