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  My youngest (18) and their friend tonight all homemade, very proud.

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  Just saw Premier Smith in full teary-eyed self-pitying bleat: … sniff sniff … does Canada even want us anymore? 😭 ‘Alberta sends twice as much money to Ottawa as we do the provincial coffers’ 🤮 Talk about unearned and unexamined privilege: we sit on a mountain of natural resources and even though Smith et al can’t give it away fast enough, the leavings are still enough to pay for half of what we do in this province Boo hoo we have billions in O&G royalties to spend! #ABPoli #CdnPoli

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  How it’s going in Alberta: The government recently expanded eligibility for mail in ballots, so now ballots are arriving in people’s homes with this declaration to sign 👇 “I declare that I am unable to vote at an advance voting place or a voting place on Election Day.” Which is not longer required, so Elections Alberta is telling people to just “cross it out” and then sign, despite the dire threats below. … what a two-bit tin-pot gong show this province is 😞 #ABpoli #CdnPoli

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  @crispius@mstdn.fname.ca @anderspuck@mastodon.social @chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca The logic is *supposed* to be that your stockpile is there to be a deterrent, *and* to provide you with time to ramp up domestic production to the scale so that you will be able to continue the fight unimpeded as a war continues. It seems like today’s ‘generals’ are so enamoured of the idea that they can shock and awe any enemy into submission in weeks or months that they have forgotten to do the second part?

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  So, I’ve never been one to pay much attention to influencers, because as far as I can tell they’re just propagandists - maybe sincere, more likely for hire. Whether old school like Oprah or new school on line, it seems people have been handing their brains over to propagandists for a while now, in accelerating volume… … which kind of explains the pickle we’re in now doesn’t it?

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  The SAVE act (and the Alberta counterpart that the UCP seem to be preparing for) involves a bait and switch that most people don’t seem to recognize. They take an inherent right that you are entitled to based on who you are - I am entitled to vote because I am a citizen - and trade it for a credential that can be taken away - I can only vote if I can produce document X. This puts all the power into the hands of the government… which seems a bad deal to me.

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  Wild storm in #yeg tonight. Out driving to pick up one of my kids and passed K-Days emptying out of all its people. Wind, rain, hail, thick enough to make driving even slowly nearly impossible. 😬 Stay in and stay safe Edmonton! #yegwx #storm #AB

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  @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org A Canadian treasure. I think it’s pretty funny when people want to sing Halleluia at church, or weddings. A couple weeks ago I heard a Spanish youth choir sing it with thick accents even though the Italian cathedral hosting the concert insisted on ‘appropriate’ music and dress 🤣 (read the words if you haven’t yet… moderately sacrilegious text by a mostly secular Canadian jew)

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  I’ve often heard the (maybe not accurate) wondering of “What was that Easter Islander thinking when they cut down the last tree?” but I don’t need to wonder what the rest of the people of Easter Island thought as the last trees went down… It’s exactly what I’m feeling as big energy and big tech collaborate in the data centre explosion: massively increasing resource use in water and pollution just as we are at a pinch or tipping point.

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  I keep seeing comments about how we are at a tipping point only barely (or not quite) containing fascists in countries around the world. It is right to be concerned, but this framing contains an important implied falsehood: that fascists will soon out number us. So this is my reminder that even in times of peril like today: fascists are *always* a minority. They only win when we - the majority - cannot or will not stand in solidarity against them. #fascism #politics

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  Heard pundits today talking about the proposed pipeline as ‘ensuring energy independence’ … BULLSHIT All a pipeline does is make exports easier, more profit for oil&gas… it doesn’t help Canadians dealing with energy insecurity. #CdnPoli

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  I’m not sure it was ever true, and it should have been clear at least a year ago, but *now* surely it must be glaringly obvious now to anyone that the USA is no longer a “safe third country” and Canada has an *obligation* to adjust our various laws, policies and agreements to account for this reality. #CdnPoli #USPol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada–United_States_Safe_Third_Country_Agreement

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  @randahl@mastodon.social When you show it like that, it sure looks hopeless, but the real situation is that there are always more anti-fascists than fascists… make common cause and don’t let the systems defeats you.

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  @benroyce@mastodon.social Thanks for the update… the flight attendant was definitely the most concerning but least reliable (until confirmed) element of the story as the level of contact involved truly would have fit the descriptions “brief” and “casual” which would indicate a substantial change in characteristics for hantavirus.

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  @thehole @oldladyplays Use it, spread it, the more the merrier… let’s change the language! (I’m not worried about credit)

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  @thehole @oldladyplays My kids and I spend the Xmas vacation one year fleshing out ‘nibling’ into a full set of non-gendered relations, something like this…

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  Call-in show about tipping culture on Alberta at Noon today, but no one said the obvious thing: Tipping culture (and businesses that rely on it) is inherently exploitative because it downloads the risk of the business and the transaction onto the persons with the least privilege who are least positioned to weather failure. Regardless of the many rationalizations people invent, the underlying fact is that tipping as a practice is a tool of oppression.

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  @marvin “Family of 6+ is definitely a choice” Sounds like you’re making the mistake of assuming that all large households are simply large nuclear families. Millions of single person households is a choice of a different kind, one that is putting a lot of pressure (as you indicate) on our housing stock. @mikepmoffatt

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  I thought I just had a slightly nerdy plant… but it turns out they’re an alien… #BloomScolling

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  Boils, Bubos, and Beyond #MedievalStoreNames #HashTagGames

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  So let’s see if I’ve got this straight… POTUS was worried that Iran’s nuclear program was too advanced (even though he just recently blew it up, apparently) and that this was too destabilizing to the world and might lead to nuclear war. So he launched an otherwise unprovoked war … in order to prevent war, and is now saber rattling about using nukes … to prevent nuclear war? 😞 #USPol #Iran #NuclearWar

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  A magpie story: two years ago in June, a wind storm blew a fledgling magpie out of the nest at the top of the neighbour’s towering blue spruce. Most of its siblings were able to flutter to a new roost, but this runt was left behind in our yard with an injured leg and not yet able to fly. It was a perilous week that included hazing from unrelated adult magpies, hiding from the other neighbour’s cat, the local coyotes, and crows. 1/ #Birds #burd #Magpie #yeg