it is a small white electronic device with a blue screen that reads, from appearances, oop!
bought an electric warmer thing from a brand called idoo but if you flip it upside it reads "oop!" like a friendly Manitoban who's just gonna skootch by ya there.
i propose a rebrand.
the orange puppet is in Calgary today and the bad vibes are palpable. it's like the whole city just put its shoulders up and avoided eye contact.
there is an old joke that the Beatles are dying in the exact wrong order & idk how true that is for the Beach Boys but any world where Mike Love outlasts Brian Wilson can't be fucking right
not even two and already a narc
how did i fail so badly
straight up running around the house yelling "Daddy eat cheeses. Cheeses!"
it's been 3 and a half hours
i finished a bag of cheese puffs and my toddler is giving me so much mfing grief
this is how i survived racial profiling in Paris
i bought a two-inch cross on a string cord and wore it outside my clothes every day
it worked
i couldn't fucking believe how well it worked
it was the simplest, dumbest, most transparently cynical ploy
strangers smiled & i smiled too
screenshot of a music program suggesting the playlists "100% Bauhaus" and "100% Nursery Rhymes 123"
parenting in 2025
i take back what I said about France. i've been stopped and questioned by police 4 times in the last week.
i spent decades oblivious to the fact that i look vaguely Algerian, but boy did the French let me know quickly.
you know Paris is actually OK i dont know why people dont talk about it more
this my riding and I'm genuinely relieved we've got a good Liberal candidate.
a news headline reading "Dolphins surround space capsule after its return to Earth in magical moment"
that's BS they just want off of here too
kind of embarrassing when the judge says you're too fucking dumb to be a terrorist
globalnews.ca/news/1108501...
a full life ♥️
yes i do literally everything as a celiac
literally what are you talking about #canpoli
always delights when the vomit is a colour you have no recollection of eating
it's like a fun lil celiac mystery
Dear Albertans, it's time to connect the dots. Smith's gov't is mismanaging issues across the board
1 Shutting down renewable energy projects
2 Lifting the moratorium on coal exploration & development
3 Busting up a unified approach to health care
4 Pandering to President Trump's every whim
#abpoli
Dear American colleagues and friends.
Where are you?
Where are the letters and emails of support?
Where are the letters questioning every single premise of President Trump's attack on Canada?
The letters of denunciation?
#ableg #abpoli #canpoli
have we considered sending MORE fentanyl through the US border
It's a great speech, and if it's one of Trudeau's last then he has done his reputation a genuine service.
That said energy tariffs are a tool I would have liked to see right away. No half-measures. Let the Southern bastards freeze in the dark.
So UCP has issued an invitation to sign a declaration of support for Danielle Smith for her ridiculous stand against Canada. Argh!! @thebreakdownab.bsky.social @abresistance.bsky.social
I cancelled my Prime membership last week and that decision has aged beautifully. Fuck this anti-labour bullshit.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
it's an air pressure chart for the City of Calgary, showing that the air pressure has dropped 2.5 kPa in the last 24 hours.
Calgary, I love you but this is horseshit.
between Neil Gaiman and Alice Munro my library has taken some big hits.
so this holiday season, before you get pushed into any manufactured culture war conflict with your distant relatives, try to find some class allyship instead. remember: a guillotine is a two-person project. ♥️
anyway, he was great. an old-school socialist farmer with an accent you could break a stick over. we talked for half the dinner. afterwards, I was musing about the fact my own in-laws thought the two of us would argue. it reminded me that culture war is a manufactured distraction from class war.
(as an aside. why is it that people typically handle criticism of their hockey teams more easily than criticism of their politics? I'm Canadian, the two are of equal importance)
big family dinner last night. going in i was repeatedly warned about another guest, my brother-in-law's B-I-L. we'd never met before but he's a rural Ontario farmer who is "kind of political". My mother-in-law painted a harsh picture. I expected a MAGA type and resolved to stick to hockey.
