Lori Cameron

folks can complain about the effectiveness of scheduled orderly mass protest but to think about it another way its the closest thing we have to the opening scene of A Muppet Christmas Carol where all the muppets sing "there goes Mr. Dipshit, there goes Mr. Ass" to Scrooge and it clearly bothered him

It really can't be said enough: the goal of the "anti-woke" movement was always to destroy social norms against bigotry. And it worked. And there's a whole lot of purportedly "left" thinkers & commentators who helped it -- indeed, it couldn't have been done without them.

They should feel bad.

A rocky and pebbly riverbed with almost no water in it, and in the middle of the gravelly empty middle, grass is growing. Some reddish and green shrubs are visible on the left of the photo.

Nova Scotia - a province known for endless rainy days & many bountiful rivers & lakes - is into its 4th month of extreme drought. This is the French River, that provides Tatamagouche with water (or not). Climate crisis kicking in. But: let’s frack and clearcut anyway, says NS Premier Tim Houston.

To spell some shit out unambiguously: fascism requires domestic abuse to propagate itself. Demands it. There is no way to humanely teach your children that might makes right. There is no way to gently love a spouse you think is your genetic intellectual inferior.

These are inextricably linked.

A blue candle jar called, inexplicably, “Classic Man”

“Why does it smell like someone’s speaking over me in a meeting in here?”
“Oh that’ll be my candle”

As a baby, my 82 yo mother was always put down for her nap outdoors. Her pram was often gone when my grandmother went out to get her, but she “never worried”because she knew a passerby must have seen the baby fussing and took her for a little walk. 😬

Congratulations!

Woke: the radical notion that EVERYBODY deserves to be treated as well as a mediocre Christian straight white male.

People who are against universal basic income just want to make sure someone always has less than them, is 'beneath' them. It's the same mentality as those boomer FB replies of 'I had it hard, why shouldn't you'. When we alleviate poverty and struggle, everyone is better for it. It lifts us all.

No one hates white men, they hate entitlement, misogyny, homophobia, racism, a lack of anger management, petty grievances, gatekeeping and aggressive control. If white guys keep insisting on making those flaws *their very identity* there will be pushback from people defending themselves 🤷‍♂️

I'm so so so furious at the future creativity and artistry that AI is taking away from all of us by convincing kids nothing is worth doing on their own

Just spitballing here, but cryptobros throwing sex toys at WNBA players on the court and other cryptobros and male sports commentators calling it funny and telling the women and their coaches to 'lighten up' both explains the 'male loneliness epidemic' and why I don't care about it.

If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages

Substack doesn't just let Nazis turn a profit. Now, it’s promoting Nazi content, swastikas and all. That’s not just a shift in platform policy. It reflects a shift in our broader social landscape.

Oh yikes, I am SO relieved for you that this ended well.

Wodehouse is my absolute all-time favourite! I seem to like the series (Psmith, Blandings, Jeeves) slightly more than the standalones, but haven’t read a bad one yet. Thank goodness he was so prolific. (Also loved Miss Pettigrew and all the Barbara Pyms.)

The history of Canada in Heritage Minutes - YouTube Heritage Minutes in chronological order by event

I put all the Heritage Minutes in chronological order by event so you don't have to. 🇨🇦

(I was looking for this and couldn't find it, so it became a weird hobby. It genuinely may be of interest only to me.)

www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Everyone Is Using A.I. for Everything. Is That Bad?

i just find this so bizarre. searching through texts and doing the reading for myself is how i actually think through ideas! trying to put together a sentence is how i figure out what i actually want to say!

It's Apple Blossom Weekend (parade, fireworks, family events) here in the Annapolis Valley and that always means either torrential rain or blazing, unbearable heat. This year, we're doing the rain, apparently. Plus thunder and lightning.

A lot of the political rhetoric around appealing to young men boils down to reinforcing a hierarchy where white men benefit from the unrecognized and unpaid labor of women and other marginalized people on their behalf. That hierarchy still exists but anything that threatens it must go

Image is a bird with metallic blue head and, um, shoulders, dark grey wings, white chin and underparts. The bird is on a piece of barbed wire, looking dramatically to its left against a light grey sky.

Tree swallow in the rain.

🪶 #NSbirds

The photo pf the huge container ship run aground in the garden of a small coastal house. I've photoshopped an arrow to the house with 'House to Live in', and another arrow to the ship that says 'a room to keep books in'. of course writing the alt text has warned me this may be a joke that only I find funny.

Exciting and practical house designs coming out of Scandinavia

A headline from The Times, with Nick Clegg saying that requiring permission from copyright holders to train AI on their word would 'kill' the AI industry. Boo fecking hoo.

My plans for a major retail emporium are being threatend by wholesalers who won't let me steal the stock.

I see once again I’m going to have to beg pundits who haven’t lived outside of Toronto in decades to stop opining on how useful Canada Post is.

I don’t care how little you personally get or send mail. A public postal service with a mandate to get mail to every address in Canada is a public good.

One of the many fine works of the Irish poet, Paul Durcan, who passed away this weekend - few have ever written better on death

We’ve protected all 168 acres of Johns Island — a vital stopover on the Atlantic Flyway. Home to endangered birds like the Roseate Tern, this is a huge win for birds and biodiversity! Read more here: nsnt.ca/blog/johns-i...

#WorldMigratoryBirdDay #WMBD2025 #Seabirds #Ecology&Conservation 🌎

I love my echo chamber where everyone values the humanity of other people and enjoys the arts.

I’ve seen several people today claiming that PP can remain as leader even without a seat (which would be weird, in my opinion) but this seems to settle it.

My nerves are so fried I probably couldn’t sleep anyway, but I really need Carleton to pick up the pace of counting