Tanis Miller 🍁

10 dead, including suspect, after active shooter incident in Tumbler Ridge, B.C. | CBC

I am horrified and stunned by the events at Tumbler Ridge, BC.

My heart goes out to the entire community.

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Me too!!

My husband is currently decommissioning a nuclear site and my mind boggles at the thought toxic waste was just dumped and not remediated.

Dear gawd. This is a horrifying moment of our history that needs to be addressed.

a picture from 2015 of a red headed white woman wearing blue glasses and pink lipstick and a blue shirt pursing her lips into a kiss while holding a Miss Piggy plush doll in a green dress

I am busting my son out of his group home this weekend to force him to watch the new The Muppet Show with me because life is short and Miss Piggy is eternal and by golly, my children WILL know the magic of snarky ass puppets if it's the only thing I ever teach them.

It is my time to shine.

ew, no. No fast food joint will earn the level of trust I'd need to eat any type of fish from it's menu. None. Ew.

The Wendy’s in Wetaskiwin has seen more of my money than any fast food chain, anywhere, thanks to its proximity to my son’s place and the fact that I too, fuck with their taco salad. It’s the only fast food I will eat.

Oh no!

Just received a lovely letter from the Albertan government reminding me they will be stealing money from my disabled son because they believe 1901 dollars a month makes severely disabled people rich.

The new seat for his wheelchair is almost 6000 dollars but hey; let’s not talk about that.

Sitting in the parking lot trying to work up the energy to go grocery shopping, knowing that it’s going to cost a fortune and that I’m going to run into treasonous separatists.

I dislike this timeline.

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I’m not sure if it was a deer, a moose, the world’s largest porcupine standing on a bunny & waving its arms, or Big Foot himself, but something was lurking in the forest when I took my dogs out for their nightly routine & freaked them out. I’m too young to die while my dogs pee & nature scares me.

Jean Chrétien will be my forever favourite prime minister.

Stephen Harper will likely be one of my least favourites, forever.

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I do not often feel verklempt over celebrities deaths. But the news of Catherine O'Hara's passing has really kicked me in the gut, in a way I did not expect.

I expected her to live forever as an indomitable queen of comedy and as one of my Canadian icons ought to.

Thank you Catherine.

Yeah Smith, as an Albertan I would sure like to hear your unequivocal opinion on the matter.

Quit hiding and tenderfooting the issue. Are you with Canadians or are you a separatist? Albertans would like to know. Speak up.

Fuck Albertan separatists and honestly, a big middle finger to anyone who lumps every Albertan in with those losers.

I am, and always will be Canadian.

My daughter is an emergency room nurse here in AB so I am aware of the logistical nightmare hospital staff face, with the influx of contagious patients, a lack of masking and a lack of vaxxing. It's a nightmare in every direction. Not just for the patients but for the never ending risk to staff.

This is how it's done @mark-carney.bsky.social and @evansolomon.bsky.social. #CdnPoli #CanPoli

Thinking of all those school aged kids who died for the 2A only to have the President of the United States of America declare "You can't have guns. You can't walk in with guns. You just can't."

Thoughts and prayers to all the gun lovers.

This will not comfort you, but when my husband had major thoracic surgery last year, he was placed in a room with a Covid positive patient and was then placed in isolation. It was terrible. We took all the precautions. Wore the N95s. And the hospital was the problem.

Good luck to you.

We are on the same page!

I started studying policing but I took a religion and the law class just to fill a schedule gap and it shook everything up and complemented my original studies so well that I just expanded my studies.

Yikes.

When I returned to university a few years ago during a midlife crisis, I took a lot of flack for choosing to study religion AND policing. Useless degrees, they said. But I wanted, NEEDED to know more about the systems used to oppress people & harm communities.

I have yet to regret my choice.

Ew. The sleet and rain make it so much worse. Stay warm. Keep off the ice. (Unless you have skates on, and then have fun!)

How much snow did you get down there? (I'm kinda jealous because we got extreme cold and only a light dusting of snow.)

YouTube video by JayIsPainting at EarthSkyArt Ice Bubbles.

If you're in the deep freeze, you can at least have some fun by making ice bubbles.

-200ml warm water
-35ml corn syrup
-35ml dish soap
-2tbs sugar

Dip a straw in & Gently blow on a flat surface

It’s the only way to deal with these people while they are hypnotized with propaganda. Until they feel the direct impact of the harms they support, they will reject your words, call you a liar and cling to their ideology.

Harm needs to find them.

So save yourself, your sanity & carve and starve

I had a convo w/my husband about dealing w/pro-authoritarian & the growing # of separatists surrounding us. It’s rather like trying to bring antivaxxers to science. They reject facts & truths.They double down. The only solution is to carve them out & starve them of your time.

Carve and starve.

It is overwhelming to be online today. As a Canadian, it feels terrible watching our American neighbours be gunned down and gaslighted by their government, the same govt that continues to threaten our country, and is idolized by AB separatists and maple MAGAts. It feels really heavy and scary.

Yep. While they radiate arrogance and anger because you dare disagree and challenge them.

The World Cup US location needs to be reconsidered immediately, no matter how many tickets have sold or how high demand is.

It is not safe for participants nor spectators. FIFA needs to do the right thing and Infantino needs to show some damn leadership instead of the bootlicking he has done.