Two women sitting in chairs wearing horse heads and watching horse racing on a TV

I've been finding lots of great photos of me and my mom, but a particular favorite is this one where we're watching the Kentucky Derby (I'm wearing the latex horse head and she's wearing a horse head that she crocheted herself)

I feel like this probably gives some idea of her sense of humor 😄

Reddish tree trunks with Japanese Pagoda in the background. Ground covered in low growing moss.

One of my favorite scenes/moments to stop and enjoy, as I wander the Japanese Tea Garden in San Francisco. 🌱

Air Canada plane collides with ground vehicle at New York’s LaGuardia airport, halting all flights The regulator has issued a ground stop for all planes and New York’s emergency management authority warned people to expect cancellations and delays

My heart goes out to everyone impacted by the Air Canada incident today.

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They Helped Women Fight Online Abuse. They Were Barred From the U.S.

The story is about two women. But what they represent cuts to the MAGA core.
HateAid challenges the ecosystem of disinformation, harassment and algorithmic amplification that fueled Trump’s rise.
The DSA is not censorship. It is a guardrail against weaponized information.

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Hello, @support.bsky.team @safety.bsky.app any updates on this bug? I’m going to give it another week of attempting manual reply deletion but if the problem continues here I’m going to need to delete my account. Ty!

Based on user reports from late 2025, this is a known, active bug in the Bluesky application where deleted posts- particularly replies-reappear after a refresh, even after the app indicates the deletion was successful.

Honestly, will need to delete Bluesky if this issue continues. The lack of ability to set one’s acct here to private is already a difficult compromise I’ve chosen to accept in order to stay in touch w/friends here but that lack of user control and choice combined w/this bug has me eyeing the exits.

On Substack’s partnership with Polymarket— “There’s a slippery slope from all this integration with shady quasi-gambling to these folks becoming straight-up touts.”

EXCLUSIVE: Canadian PM Mark Carney is spearheading discussions between the EU and a major Indo-Pacific trade bloc after calling on middle powers to join forces.

The aim is to short-circuit Donald Trump’s tariffs.

🔗 politi.co/4ayYnTn

Given the toxicity of social media, a moral question now faces all of us: is it still ethical to use it? | Frances Ryan With so many platforms rife with racism, misogyny and far-right rhetoric, there must be a point where decent people walk away, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

“I’d just like to post a photo of my dog without coming into contact with a Nazi. I’m not sure that’s the snowflake demand Musk and co want us to think it is.”

Moments like this remind us how fragile and precious life is.
May Tumbler Ridge feel the love of a nation wrapping around them.

Overwhelming majority want Elon Musk’s X banned in Ireland

Overwhelming majority of public want X banned in Ireland due to the proliferation of AI-generated “nudified” images.

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screenshot of a reddit post in r/nursing Photo of a hospital hallway where staff in scrubs stand with their hands clasped and heads bowed

As seen on r/nursing

Alex Pretti's coworkers taking a moment of silence to honor him

Alex Pretti from his early days working at the VA

Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now

Alex Pretti identified as man fatally shot by federal officers in Minneapolis Pretti, an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis Veterans Affairs Health Care System, had no criminal record beyond parking tickets.

Dr. Dimitri Drekonja, a friend and colleague of Alex Pretti’s from the Minneapolis VA, described Pretti as a caring and funny ICU nurse who treated the hospital’s most critically ill veterans. www.startribune.com/alex-pretti-...

a candle is lit up in the dark with a single flame coming out of it Alt: a candle is lit up in the dark with a single flame coming out of it

Alex Pretti

The California Tower at Balboa Park in San Diego on Jan. 21, 2026. Photo by Adriana Heldiz, CalMatters. Hed: ‘People are mad’: First-ever parking fees at San Diego’s Balboa Park draw anger

San Diego’s new paid parking at Balboa Park has sparked widespread backlash as museum visits dropped and residents complained about the additional cost to access one of the cities most iconic spaces. bit.ly/49WVQC1

📸 Adriana Heldiz

The only path out is through.

Bloom posting.

Likewise, I’m sure! :-)

cute little dog splooted out

cute little dog splooted out

cute little dog splooted out

cute little dog splooted out

what's a seal doing at the farmers market?

imagine if you took all the city's meat and put it in a freezer

Today we’re making and sharing lentil soup with our neighbors.

I was just thinking the same thing earlier today walking down the main street of my own town, in North Vancouver.

I realise I'm just a freak, but living in a multicultural city is the best thing of all time, it's just the best possible human experience and i can not understand why anyone on earth would be like "weve got to destroy this"

Listen, if you put a song in a mix tape for one person and then reuse that song in someone else's mix tape that's unethical. These are just the rules, I don't make them.

Two songs by the same band can never be back to back, it's the law. Shit is complicated.

Looking past Vancouver’s Lions Gate Bridge on my walk this morning to the mists shrouding Mount Baker to the southeast in the United States.

Golden Gate Bridge from Lincoln Park, San Francisco 5:48p 1/16/26 @trachkids.bsky.social

Canada agrees to cut tariff on Chinese EVs in return for lower tariffs on Canadian farm products Breaking with the United States, Canada has agreed to cut its 100% tariff on Chinese electric cars in return for lower tariffs on Canadian farm products, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Friday.

Breaking with the United States, Canada has agreed to cut its 100% tariff on Chinese electric cars in return for lower tariffs on Canadian farm products, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Friday. n.pr/4bzqnrR

meanwhile in canada