Not That Rick Scott 🇨🇦

no need to apologize. y'all are witnessing more horrors than anyone should have to. whatever you do to gather strength, stave off despair, or find some happiness has my blessing.

Doesn’t matter if it’s healthy. Materials that don’t kill you go straight into your face. Right now. Please. We’ll come back stronger tomorrow.

Japanese curry is my go-to for cold weather. might also revisit the sausage & bean stew I did a couple weeks ago; that went over really well.

I could not be more proud to be from Minnesota. We may be flyover country be we sure as hell ain't fuckover country.

Tarnak Farm incident - Wikipedia

indeed, and as if it couldn't be worse, the first Canadian casualties in Afghanistan came at the hands of a US Air National Guard pilot

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarnak_...

you can't say we haven't been warned. in fact right from the beginning of Trump's second term it's been like

Trump: We're going to make Canada the 51st state

Canadians: what the fuck

Americans: hahaha that's so funny, obviously he's trolling

Ukrainians: @Canadians get ready

awesome! best of luck to him at the Olympics 🤩

in my first remote job, we had employees all over Canada & the USA (as well as a few in Taiwan).

my colleagues in MSP were the only ones who were consistently colder and snowier than I was, here in Northern Ontario.

Current conditions at Minneapolis, Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport (KMSP) Lat: 44.88°N Lon: 93.23°W Elev: 840ft. Condition: Fair. Temperature: -21°F (-29°C) Humidity 49% Wind Speed NW 13 mph Barometer 30.71 in (1043.1 mb) Dewpoint -34°F (-37°C) Visibility 10.00 mi Wind Chill -45°F (-43°C) Last update 23 Jan 4:53 am CST

wow, good morning MSP.

guess who got a visit from the Giant Snowblower tonight? this guy! 😁🙌

Mark Carney faced off against a very young looking Pierre Poilievre, Street Fighter intro screen style. Caption: "THE BANKER vs THE WANKER".

listen to Dennis. temperatures that criss-cross the freezing point can make driving more miserable than any long uniform cold snap.

If you need a little hope, read this.

this from the guy who cancelled the rebate that made EVs from other manufacturers more affordable? lol no thanks 😂

some areas north of us are forecast to get 30-50cm (12-20") of snow instead of the 20-40cm (8-16") we're slated for here. so I guess we're getting off relatively easy 🙃

Weather alert from Environment Canada for Sault Ste Marie, ON Yellow Watch - Snow Squall Issued: 9:47 AM EST Wednesday 21 January 2026 Impact Level: Moderate Forecast Confidence: Very High Snow squalls are expected to develop tonight. What: Significantly reduced visibility in heavy snow. Local snowfall amounts of 20 to 40 cm. When: Tonight into early Friday morning.

lol - lol - lmao

we haven't even finshed cleaning up from the dumping we got at the end of December yet 🫠

but coal is so *manly*! and therefore it's clearly a cheaper energy source than, say, solar panels. which have no moving parts...no fuel cost...basically just sit there and make electricity 🤔

Quoted passage: "Lutnick told his audience that the world should focus on coal as an energy source rather than renewables, according to one person present, and made dismissive comments about Europe."

I mean...anyone who says stuff like this is a clown; no wonder he got laughed at

seriously. also, imho Lisa Raitt, Michael Chong, & Jean Charest could all actually lead a credible, rational opposition party...and were all soundly rejected by the CPC.

seriously, this is "slink off to Outer Balochistan, hide under a rock, and never be seen or heard from again" level stuff.

ahhh jeez, yeah, for me too! and that's earlier than some of the stuff I listed off the top of my head, lol

also reminds me of Gorbachev and the perestroika / glasnost era, which would have been 1985-1991-ish

first 3 for me:
• Free Trade with the USA (1989)
• opening salvos of the Gulf War (1991)
• the Acid Rain treaty (1991)

agree with Jess here; words need to be backed up by actions. if the old world order is over, then so is the time for incremental steps. we need transformational change to secure a future that is peaceful, prosperous, and democratic.

'The old order is not coming back,' Carney says in provocative speech at Davos | CBC News Prime Minister Mark Carney delivered a frank assessment of how he views the world in a provocative speech in Davos, Switzerland, on Tuesday, where he said the longstanding U.S.-led, rules-based intern...

I don’t love everything he does but Canada got incredibly lucky that this guy won instead of Poilievre

www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Bluesky trending topics: 1. Mark Carney 2. Denmark Politics 3. Republican Congress 4. European Security 5. Davos Criticism

...whut 😅

Angry Sun = pretty skies! If you're in a position to do so, it's worth looking for some aurorae with this one!

I mean. who could have known that a quick google search would turn up dozens & dozens of sources of Slotkin saying exactly that

the foremost thing I learned from Rotary Youth Exchange, meeting people from 40+ countries, was how much everyone in the world has in common

without discounting our cultural differences, everyone loves a good meal, a good joke, and a good night out with friends
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It’s sort of insane how pervasive the framing that multiculturalism is some weird liberal experiment has become.

It’s the default state of what happens when people have easy movement and aren’t actively being told to hate each other. You can prove it by going outside in almost any city.