Available Autumn/Spring here too.
Long COVID (since Jan2020)
under 65, disabled,
Carer (unpaid) for 5+ ill/frail relatives and neighbours.
If people like me (mostly women, holding up society) start to fall, we’re all done for. Our work is even more invisible than work done by brown/black people.
12.12.2025 11:37 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
How often can you get a booster where you are?
We can get them 2x/yr at most.
12.12.2025 11:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Techbros in this Ai slop are the opposite of the original Kahnawake Mohawk builders!
11.12.2025 19:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Storyboard:
R.Maxwell (“pushed off his yacht, no body”), J.Epstein and JL.Brunel (“hung in cell”, no video) are waiting for Ghislaine on a ghost ship
11.12.2025 16:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Yep, Canadian politicians, also have no clue. They think seniors can live on $800/month pension, when average rent for a one-bedroom is $2000.
FYI
4 litres (1 gallon-ish) of A2 cow’s milk is $10
4 litres of goat milk is $16
11.12.2025 14:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Agreed.
It’s been a green check mark this whole time, even after ICE began abducting Canadians.
11.12.2025 01:35 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Add to this wilful gov’t underfunding of ESL classes led by trained Teachers.
Sometimes the only ESL class in a community is run by a conservative Christian church, so traumatized immigrants think/vote to appease their sponsors.
10.12.2025 20:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Canadians have been under informed on Canadian issues due to increased US media consumption since the 1980s.
Historical complacency and apathy (eg: vote how your parents voted) is exacerbated by long-COVID brain damage.
10.12.2025 20:41 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Canada did this too, and looks to be creating conditions for illegal incarceration again (Bill C9, if the feds decide that you speaking for Palestine is an ‘offence’, for example)
10.12.2025 19:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Cabrón emissions
10.12.2025 17:54 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
And when ‘the authorities’ are inevitably involved, the sole caregiver will be taken away/incarcerated after failing to manage impossible situations.
The zombie apocalypse begins: the demented are still driving, attempting to work, voting, shopping items they don’t need/can’t afford
10.12.2025 17:28 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
That’s not a beanie, Bowie; you’re in Canada, it’s a toque! 😆
10.12.2025 14:10 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Go find everything by Rob Brezsny: his books including PRONOIA is the Antidote for Paranoia (c 2005),
his FreeWillAstrology website (free),
his band World Entertainment War’s music
Saved my sanity on many occasions over the years!
10.12.2025 12:47 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
True.
We definitely need a long-term OatmealSocialist solution.
Just thinking about adding a bit of calm in your situation, to disrupt the stress build.
Perhaps light classical for an hour, during ‘peak shenanigans’?
09.12.2025 16:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Can you get a local chamber quartet to practice at the library during those hours?
Classical music is a natural teen deterrent.
Nearby downtown put up speakers to play classical music outdoors during tourist season—dramatic reduction in teen/mentally ill/homeless bad behaviour.
09.12.2025 12:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Yes! May I suggest implementation with a jolly ‘Festival Rules’ solution:
1. Send your tax form in blank.
2. When asked, say ‘I must’ve sent the original.
I’ll send it again’.
3. Go to 1.
07.12.2025 19:54 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
What types of güd füd 😆 are presented here?
07.12.2025 14:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Not to mention the loss of all the FREE WORK (low/no pay, volunteer, caregiving, ‘house’work) done mostly by working class women, including immigrants, none of which appears on any economic balance sheet anywhere in the world!
07.12.2025 12:55 — 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
‘Like’, but not, you know?
I wish there were an ‘I feel you’ button.
06.12.2025 21:38 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Re: killing women
Canadian women wait up to 8x longer than men for life-saving surgeries.
Doctors are paid LESS to operate on women.
Who is going to do the ‘FREE WORK’ (millions of dollars yearly, unpaid/volunteer) done by women whose lives are being cut short?!
www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
06.12.2025 21:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
In a uni Physics class full of mostly Engineers (5 women), when this shooting happened in 1989.
We didn’t hear about it right away, but when I did the math I got a chill, imagining how easily that could’ve happened to us, one province over.
06.12.2025 21:20 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Started going to free public lectures when PI still made the Blackberry, continued online during Covid.
Excellent resource, many thanks!
06.12.2025 20:22 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Canadian women wait up to 8x longer than men for life-saving surgeries; Doctors are paid LESS to operate on women.
Who do you think is going to do the ‘FREE WORK’ (millions of dollars’ worth of unpaid/volunteer/caregiving) done by women whose lives are being cut short?!
www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
06.12.2025 18:54 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Is there a sanctuary city (anywhere in the world?) for people who can think?!
Maybe with a test to see if the applicant understands paradox, irony, true humour (not derogatory), and satire.
06.12.2025 15:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Why not both?!
I’ve never not masked.
I’m often the only one in the whole place with a mask.
My OG 2020 (long) Covid sequelae continue, eg: my tonsils have grown back exponentially for the 3rd time (!). Guess when I get back in to see the ENT this time? October 2026. I may asphyxiate by then.
06.12.2025 15:23 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Good antennae, bring in all the best radio stations!
06.12.2025 00:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Proximity to fences suggests Morag jailbreak—she may have been wrongfully incarcerated in a past life.
Or she has natural affinity for the building trades, specifically basements.
05.12.2025 22:26 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Hockey/Covid brain damage?
Wet brain (from the wine)?
Regular ol’ dementia?
I stand by my plan to build a Dementia Village, staffed by Healthcare ‘actors’, complete with mini White™️Hous, Gretzky Whinery, and Faux Newz cameras to record the goings on.
NetflixWB livestream pays for it.
05.12.2025 22:14 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
5. Buy another cottage or house to rent (untaxed income) as STR/AirBnB/ghost hotel…
…stressing garbage/water/police/fire services in low income rural areas, displacing local workers who now live in sheds and trailers during winter, if they have a nearby relative with a driveway
05.12.2025 20:21 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
And by ‘people’ you mean ‘criminals’, surely
05.12.2025 14:25 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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