Tom Mason

Slow down and think.

The changing face of death and dying - Saltscapes Magazine From aquamation to mourning jewelry, death can be as distinctive as the deceased

The Changing Face of Death and Dying: From aquamation to mourning jewelry, death can be as distinctive as the deceased. Recent Saltscapes feature by Denise Flint. (No paywall)

It's owned by DRDC Atlantic, the Canada's navy's R&D branch. It has a hole in the bottom and they use it to test and calibrate torpedos and sonar equipment.

Democracy will start working in Canada when voters in places like Alberta and Saskatchewan start holding their representatives accountable instead of letting them get away with bad behaviour.

My father was a gun collector so I can handle them but I’ve always been terrified by them.

Lou Gossett Jr’s best role IMO.

Very interesting story, but my wife would be mad if I didn't point out that Johnny Miles was actually from her home town of Sydney Mines, Nova Scotia.

A few random immigrants being sworn in as new American citizens in 1940.

“If Adam Picked the Apple” by Danielle Coffyn
Love this. Reminds me of “If Men Could Menstruate” by Gloria Steinem

I have faced fascism before, in this very country. I was one of 120,000 Japanese Americans summarily rounded up and expelled from our homes at gunpoint, all for the crime of looking like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor.

I spent my childhood behind barbed wire. My parents lost everything. 1/

Is color even real? The true nature of the rainbow is deeper than it seems Ask a simple question, undermine your entire reality

"If you removed all living creatures from the universe, there would be no love, but there would also be no color, no sound, no taste, no smell.” - Stephen Westland

"He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear. But so long as he uttered it, in some obscure way the continuity was not broken. It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage."
- George Orwell, 1984