Lisa Kadonaga

It's bad enough that major policy announcements are being made by tweet, but in the form of shoddy hats? Bizarre.

Millions of Americans can now claim Canadian citizenship by descent. But they have to prove it | CBC News Amid rising tensions in the United States and increased global volatility, many Americans are looking to Canada — and their roots — for a possible way out following recent changes to Canada’s citizens...

If either you or your wife have any Canadian ancestors -- this is real, the citizenship law changed last year. Now the descendants of anyone who was born here are eligible. Ethel Kennedy's grandpa was born in Quebec, so all the Skakels and all of RFK Sr's kids could.

" I believe there are many who forget all the tragedy women face in Afghanistan, that is why I use my paintings as a mean to remind the people"
- Shamsia Hassani
Afghan Artist #InternationalWomensDay

I used to pet-sit for one of this guy's relatives.

I think this is about the temperature but honestly it works for decades as well

"The 2022 oil spike was the biggest single cause of the res­ult­ing infla­tion [...] I have estim­ated that the cumu­lat­ive toll for Cana­dian con­sumers [...] exceeded $200 bil­lion over three years — a stag­ger­ing $12,000 per house­hold."
(also, note the role of speculative buyers)

CBC News had a clip with a bewildered and disconsolate motorist in Edmonton: "But don't we make the stuff here?"

This is basic first aid stuff! All I can conclude is that those ICE staff are a) too ignorant to be in any job involving people, let alone this sensitive; b) deliberately torturing.
When we had a couple of diabetics at my workplace, everyone got briefed on what to do if they had a sugar low, etc.

This is basic first aid stuff! We had a couple of diabetics at my workplace and our whole department got briefed on what to do if they had a sugar low, etc.
What's going on at those facilities that we aren't hearing about?

I guess we can add diabetes to the list of conditions that ICE staff can't deal with.
"A diabetic Norwegian woman who was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has told Newsweek that she feared she might die in detention as her requests for insulin were repeatedly ignored."

(Polio. It's polio)

Not really that surprising -- though if Canada were being mentioned a lot, I suspect it would be because people were upset with us

described having problems in school, though I don't know if he was one of the kids who was forced to be right-handed.
Observing my dad, he used his right hand for a lot of things, like writing and drawing (he was an expert calligrapher and I never saw him using his left hand for that).

by sinistrals, it's not 100%. But I wonder how many of Rose's children (JFK etc.) and grandkids were left-handed.
My dad, a school counsellor, told me that one reason why they don't make kids switch is that it was linked to learning difficulties. I don't know if it's been verified, but RFK Jr

weren't being pressured to switch.
I saw in RFK Jr's memoirs, he said Rose Kennedy "switched all of us from southpaw to right-handed" when she was babysitting in 1964. (There were 8 kids by then, or 7 not counting the 1-year-old.) I think Bobby is exaggerating because even in families dominated

(aside from when someone's signing a book they've written).
Although going back to before WWII, left-handed kids were often forced to use their right hands. It happened to my dad. I don't know when this changed, though by the time I started going to school in the 1970s, I noticed that my classmates

That's fascinating -- in previous eras if someone was taking notes or signing a document, they'd be using a pen and that was generally a clue about their dominant hand. But now with laptops, it may not be as obvious. And autograph books aren't as big as they used to be

CA Voters Said Yes To Ending The Time Change. What Happened? Yet another pair of efforts to eliminate the biannual clock-changing scramble are up for consideration in California. What to know.

I guess California has already voted to make DST permanent, but need the feds to sign off on it.
Across the border, my province (BC) finally decided to implement this -- we won't be turning the clocks back in the fall.

Photo of a pair of flannel pyjama pants, displayed on a wooden table. The flannel fabric has a red background, with a black grid of stripes creating a checked red-and-black pattern. There are little yellow diamond shapes like minature animal crossing signs scattered over the pattern facing in random orientations, with a black moose silhouette. The crotch area of the pants is a different-coloured striped flannel (had to be inserted because the main piece of fabric was a bit too small).

Three-step diagram showing how to cut out and assemble a simple pair of braccae (short Roman trousers). There are two identical components, each made by folding cloth along the long axis and cutting to shape. Then the halves are sewn together. How to adjust the size of the two components for your individual size is described (e.g. the length along the fold should equal the distance from your waist to your knee, plus 3-4 inches). I made the legs a bit longer than in the diagram. Source: Matthew Amt's Legio XX reference page (thanks Matthew!) https://www.larp.com/legioxx/coldcloth.html

One of the things that makes me really happy in the cooler months is being able to sew my own pair of flannel pyjama bottoms (I just wear an oversized t-shirt on top). I'm using this pattern for Roman legionary braccae, with elastic around the waist instead of a drawstring.
#TapirCrafts

One of the other researchers at my Arctic field camp clocked a common redpoll having a stunning number of copulations per hour (it was well over 1 per minute).

Xylospongium - Wikipedia

Just wanted to note that not even Roman re-enactors agree that the sponge-on-a-stick is the way to go.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xylospo...

Xylospongium - Wikipedia

The sponge-on-a-stick is debated by historians (I've seen Roman re-enactors feature them in public displays but not actually use them).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xylospo...

Precisely proportioned: intertidal barnacles alter penis form to suit coastal wave action For their size, barnacles possess the longest penis of any animal (up to eight times their body length). However, as one of few sessile animals to copulate, they face a trade-off between reaching more mates and controlling ever-longer penises in ...

An animal having a penis 8 times their body length is admittedly pretty amazing
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

"as fast as possible to get through it" -- though he'd have been too young to have bad memories about the first time he did get through one

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Here's the CBC Radio evening news with the citizenship thing

So disappointed that those things are useless against hurricanes!

I hope people kept their N-95 or P-100 masks -- it sounds like there's a lot of smoke. Old buildings like that, it could be pretty toxic.

Some good news

Someone tell Danielle Smith to put down that monkey's paw!

BTW this also means that all of Ethel and RFK Sr's kids -- and grandkids, and great-grandkids -- could claim Canadian citizenship.