April P

A jack-o’-lantern with a jagged smile

Two jack-o’-lanterns with cute but unsettling smiles

Chuffed that the weather let up early enough that trick or treating could happen. Happiest of Halloweens.

A Kimono decorated with skeletons, from Japan, 1840-1860 CE,
now housed at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London

Close-up of an antique doll with blonde, curly hair, blue eyes, and rosy cheeks, wearing a black dress with an ornate lace collar, a museum exhibit in the back ground.

Happy Halloween from Luella. Given to Mary Davis when her parents visited from sea. Mary lived with her grandparents until age 5, then joined her parents at sea from 1873-1878. Luella has “real hair” & watches you while you sleep. 👻

lol, woke up because I heard a weird noise

the weird noise was rain on the roof

genuinely hard to believe that the lyrics “and I scream at the top of my lungs, what’s going on?” were written in 1993. What’s going on is that you can buy a house for $4 and a button, get on that.

On Truth and Reconciliation Day, the Houston government prepares to criminalize Indigenous land protectors - Halifax Examiner "If that's what you're prepared to do, that's in effect, an act of beyond criminalization. It's an act of violence upon our people."

On Truth and Reconciliation Day, the Houston government prepares to criminalize Indigenous land protectors

reported by @timbousquet.bsky.social

Double spinach!

One of the ‘flying’ saucers: a shiny disk, a little over four feet in diameter, with a dome shape on top. We can see the legs of someone in dark clothes standing next to it. This may be a police officer.

58 years ago today we discovered we weren’t alone in the universe. Six *actual* flying saucers landed across southern England along a ley line, providing CONCLUSIVE PROOF at long last.

Well... 🧵

enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits

Air Canada could tell me that the flight attendants have begun eating the passengers and selling their luggage for drug money and I would still side with the flight attendants

if you really want to stick it to the government of Nova Scotia you should start by playing on these awesome black rocks the government doesn’t want us to stand on

Instagram post from the nsgov Instagram account. Black and red text reads “STAY OUT OF THE WOODS”; the foreground is a black silhouette of trees

obsessed with this vague notice from the government of Nova Scotia. Like it’s definitely about the new fire restrictions, but it also looks like a poster you’d find yellowed and curled on the bulletin board of a diner in a town where locals won’t talk about their missing kids

Met a new friend on the BLT trail.

Screenshot of hyenas marching during the “be prepared” scene in the animated version of The Lion King

screenshot of soldiers marching without enthusiasm during Trump’s birthday parade

another disappointing attempt at a live action Disney remake

A female sim on the computer, ignoring a baby who is on fire

not now, sweetie, mommy’s refreshing the Tesla stock price

A yellow fishing boat with several people aboard including one dressed as Darth Vader wearing a sou’wester.

Took a boat ride with Scotian Shores to McNabs Island for a May the Fourth shore cleanup.

#MayThe4thBeWithYou

little did they know that when the ferry left the carnage would begin

Halifax council's survey on the proposal to quit "X" collected over 4,000 responses. Most (86.5%) were "extremely supportive" or "supportive". The word "Nazi" appears 181 times in the survey responses.

I have tariffed
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island

and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods

forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold

Duolingo screen cap: I’m on a 1500 day learning streak!

A brown tabby cat is standing with his front feet in a pair of adult human shoes. A white and brown cat in the foreground is agape.

Trying to participate in my online class last night and I look over and my elder cat is wearing shoes for attention.

[youth pastor voice] you know who else got in trouble by accidentally adding the wrong person to his group chat with the boys

don’t think people realize how much Canadians are already mobilizing … just heard a worrying report that 20 anglers & other fiſhermen, lately of Halifax, have Taken to a certain Sloop, the Antelope, heavily laden with 14 four-pounders and a Letter of Marque to cruise the Seas for American Gold

governments should spend money, literally all their fucking money. on taking care of the people from whom they got the money. on building cool shit for the people from whom they got the money to use, like highways and public works. this is real easy

how can these people be so bad at this

Remember to realize that time is an arbitrary construct tonight. Free yourself. Miss every appointment. People will be so mad at you

Ongoing Vandalism at VE Halifax (TW for transphobia and neo-nazi references)   At the beginning of February our storefront was vandalized with transphobic graffiti scrawled in sharpie. Glitter Bean, also a queer run business, recei...

Standing with Venus Envy & Glitter Beans - Halifax is a better place because of these businesses.

venusenvy.ca/blogs/news/o...

92g Elbows Up Bar Ingredients: Milk chocolate (sugar, whole milk powder, cocoa butter, cocoa mass, soy lecithin, natural vanilla flavour), Filling (Vegetable oil [palm and/or sunflower and/or rapeseed], nonfat dry milk...

Our home. Our pride.

ELBOWS UP 🇨🇦

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My Latin professor (in Atlantic Canada) had the habit of translating the second person plural as “y’all” in a gesture of absurd linguistic accuracy