kit sparks 🔥

feels like there used to be a tasteful smokescreen

fascinating that “color revolution” has become pejorative among American conservatives, who famously used to be quite into post-Soviet states adopting western-style democracy

dang, I almost bought that last week but I picked up a La Roche-Posay one instead and it’s mid 😔

I went to a family reunion in rural northern Alberta in the 90’s that was on the grounds of the world’s creepiest Ukrainian Orthodox chapel in the middle of a fallow wheat field

Canada has some spooky houses of worship

solfège just means singing “do re mi” instead of “A B C” for the notes, so she is indeed using solfège

there should be a kind of medicine snake who bites you and makes you healthier. such an animal would be beloved by all creatures, held as sacred even by predators. also it would have a little pink heart shape on its head I think, for decoration

Rivers Cuomo writes Weezer’s vocals on a guitar and the guitar solos with his voice so that the vocals will be simple and hook-y and the guitar solos will be harder and more varied, which I think is Neat

solfège is particularly crucial for memorizing music vocally if your vocal range doesn’t match your instrument

it’s much easier to map the staff to the solfège and sing it transposed than to sing the letters of the violin part transposed to the wrong vocal notes

me almost out of frame looking blah next to a man-sized nutcracker from a mall Christmas display

festive

I can confirm my coffee always comes with a spoon in the cup at Halifax diners, but I don’t order it black and they don’t usually ask because the add-ins are already on the table

I bet this is downstream of something annoying old people do, like refusing to use a spoon that’s touched the table

Flyer by John Giorno published by Visual AIDS in 1993 for Day Without Art.

I’m so glad you’re still here! Every one of our community who is alive and free is a gift. 💝

Imagine if Regan had stayed an actor. Imagine if AIDS had been handled like a major public health emergency instead of disregarded as “gay cancer.” Imagine how many people could still be alive. Now imagine how many of them might be in public office.
#WorldAIDSday

I could tell my autism to go somewhere, but it would ask where and start listing all of the nations and all of their capitals.

my husband isn’t autistic and couldn’t give half a shit about political geography and I accept it but do not understand it

I hate when people say “2 minutes” when they mean “a short while” because I always think they mean “between 1 and 3 minutes”

I am way too median bsky age to keep falling for this, but the autism isn’t going anywhere ig

I have been saying this, and also imo it’s a huge factor creating the idea that people get more conservative as they age

some people get more conservative, but many people just get less comfortable with being non-normative

😋

this is why I watch lawn mowing instead

can’t fake an overgrown lawn

BIG Challenges 🐊

Video results for a Google search of “slough”: Slough in 2025 | Voted 'most miserable town in the UK SLOUGH | Is This The UK's Worst Town To Live ??? I Travelled to Slough - Britain's 'Ugliest' Town ?

my husband doesn’t, he can just recover the password from Stupid Liam

my husband Liam gets many emails intended for a man he calls “Stupid Liam” who evidently lives in Slough and pays for PornHub

yeah I’m a mixed bag of immigration waves, earliest in the 1600s (French fur traders) and latest in the 1930s (Slovak not vibing with Germany’s whole deal)

all four of my dad’s grandparents were born in different countries and had different native languages, which I think is neat

someone tried to tell me this is an anglo thing but they deleted

there were francophone settlers from Vermont to Missouri to Louisiana

the ones who chose canada over warmer climes in the 1600s were undoubtedly weird, and make up ~25% of my genome

I’m always saying this

old stock white Canadians are descended from the freaks who thought 17th century USA was too hot and crowded

we’re very weird, it’s a whole country of Mostly Just Vermont

yeah I find my best bets are The Decemberists and Lucy Dacus, but both have a few songs just out of my range on either side

Heart is also good if you like your falsetto

dang girl, pretty voice

I think we have around the same timbre! the high tenor/low alto zone is cool and good imo

I literally was holding my breath when I unmuted, thank goodness you’re safe 🙏

when my mom died I got CAD$36k from her life insurance and it genuinely changed my life

paid off some consumer debt that had collectors harassing me constantly (it was about $2500 total), threw myself a wedding, bought a real bed frame and a couch that didn’t have fleas (my old couch had fleas)