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@captfuzz.bsky.social told me about this as a joke. He was shocked when I told him, “Actually, I’ve been wanting to see that.”

And now we have tickets!

To my friends from LiveJournal I still think about you Wonder if you finally quit, Do you still speak to your mom? I remember when you went to Japan How you swore you'd never forgive him. I can't remember to take my meds but I remember you wanted to live on a houseboat. It's a strange intimacy, all of us unspooling across decades of internet space Like balls of yarn leaving a trail behind us of everywhere and everyone we've ever been I hope you got your houseboat. I hope you got everything. -Hayley DeRoche

♥️

🏴 untitled 🏴 The world sees a ferocious fire spreading across a Hong Kong high rise apartment block for 43 hours. I invite you to see Hong Kong as Hongkongers do, without the colonial bullshit.  In my humble and ...

A roundup of the goodness, and the ineptness of the Government being shown in HK now. Please read all the way to the end.

konggirlsocialist.ghost.io/untitled/

Excellent 🧵

Alarming climate news from my dad’s homeland.

I’m 150 cm, with the added fun of scoliosis, and the fertility doctor I saw told me pregnancy, especially a multiple pregnancy made likely by fertility treatments, would probably kill me. (We adopted.)

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I watched a couple of episodes of Physical 100, and the slow paced editing killed me. But I’ll watch a ton of slow edited sequences if the competitors are all dressed like this! 👍💯

I worry that there’s not going to be any public land or assets left when we finally manage to vote Ford out. (Why the heck do people keep voting for him when his grift is so damn obvious?🤨)

I just went from “maybe I’ll watch Physical Asia” to “beam this show into my brain right now!”

This is the opposite of what we need to make sure everyone has a roof over their heads. 😡

Backed!

Wait. They have Bourne’s ballets?!?!

If only Doug Ford wasn’t all in on letting people drive as fast as they want. 😡

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I use it in talks because it's pretty and also because, as an audience member, I am perpetually squinting at people's slides

The good: I start my new W4 tomorrow.

The bad: My new gig pays *monthly* at the end of each month and I'm starting at the beginning of the period, so I wont get paid until New Years.

There's 12% or $8407 left to close out this ENTIRE campaign. I REALLY need a hand to hold onto the gig.

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Former UN special rapporteur Richard Falk interrogated for hours in Canada Falk, who has investigated Israeli abuses, says questioning reflects push to silence truth of Israel's war on Gaza.

"A former United Nations special rapporteur who investigated Israeli abuses against Palestinians says he was interrogated by Canadian authorities on “national security” grounds as he travelled to Canada this week to attend a Gaza-related event."

One way I have found to mourn someone is to set up a monthly sustaining donation to a mutual aid effort they cared about. If you can join me in honoring Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social with a sustaining donation today, please do. Thank you Alice, and I will not let the bastards grind me down.

Anytime the “but think of the children” argument is invoked, you know it’s in aid of some kind of bigoted terrible policy. (Demonizing the unhoused, LGBTG+, people with addictions, etc.) And our councillor (the awful Bradford) seems more determined than most to lean into our worst impulses.

As always when the topic of “clearing encampments” comes up, I ask just where the heck are these people supposed to go! The shelters are full, and there is no affordable housing for people on welfare or disability or working minimum wage jobs.

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My dad worked on Superior for the coast Guard. In fact he was on the lake the night the Fitzgerald sank. My mom HATED that song.

Black and white picture of the freighter the Edmund Fitzgerald docked somewhere on Lake Superior.

Found the pic of the Edmund Fitzgerald my dad took at some point on Superior. He took a LOT of pictures of ships while working the Great Lakes. I stumbled on this one while digitizing boxes of family slides.

I booked a month ago and couldn’t get in until Dec. 2. 🙁

Wow. My dad was Canadian Coast Guard and spent every winter on Superior. Now I know why my mom hated it.

I see James Watson has died.

What did Watson discover?

Rosalind Franklin's lab notes.

Only we spell it 'S-T-E-A-L' these days.

Rosalind Franklin died at 37 of ovarian cancer attributed to radiation exposure from the methods she & her assistant used to photograph a cross-section of the DNA double helix.

Meanwhile, Watson won a Nobel off that work & survived to the ripe old age of 97 by simply: stealing those notes!

Ontario Fall Economic Statement: No help on the way - CCPA Last May, CCPA’s detailed analysis of the Ontario budget argued that it failed to address years-long funding shortfalls, leaving the province vulnerable to the economic storm on the horizon.

www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc... 'Ontarians need a firm govt w/ the courage to raise revenue & spend it on concrete programs & services that make life better...the govt of the day asks us to sit tight & wait for the market to do its magic' @policyalternatives.ca @ricardotranjan.bsky.social

Mamdani’s win has given me hope that we can have progressive wins in Canada too. I’ve got big hopes that Lewis can deliver them.