Guten Morgen

Battered dumpster, lid slightly ajar, in a snowy alley against a mustard yellow stucco building wall with graffiti cartoon frog and chaotic electrical/wiring boxes at the building corner. Two ravens stand on the dumpster lid and one stands at the edge of the building roof above. Sky is blue with mixed cloud and low-angle winter sun.

Northern album drop.

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

They delightfully pooped all over my car. Good thing they are so pretty.

Accurate.

It's not just the women and girls we know of. It's all their future work, and everything they could have been, and how we build structures that shelter their abusers. It's how a man's future has always been worth more than my past, present, and future combined.

And then there were none. The Carney government has officially axed the Documentary Heritage Communities Program, the only federal funding for community archival programs. A drop in the bucket of the federal budget, but hugely influential for local archival and documentation projects. Sigh.

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Fantastic news! It appears that an individual has used a program to download the data from the historic places register and created a new site with it! If all the data is accurate, this will become a valuable site for researchers across the country.
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A long, snow-topped mountain reflected in a patch of open water at the edge of a mostly frozen lake. Blue skies and partial white cloud above.

Foreground of snow and frost-covered, leafless trees in front of taller evergreen trees and filtered sun through winter sky of partial cloud cover.

Celebrating Imbolc and St. Brigid by catching absolutely no fish but having a very nice walk. May this day start a season of strength and light.

Stand With Minnesota Stand With Minnesota is a hub for supporting, learning, and taking action to support Minnesotans impacted by ICE and federal enforcement.

A great resource.

Saucy!

A Video Game Lets You Take Back Looted Artifacts An indie game studio in South Africa has developed a heist adventure that reframes play, memory, and repatriation.

In a new video game, players can join a heist crew to take back looted African artifacts from museums, but there’s even more at stake: Users must learn musical rhythms, consult elders, and participate in ceremonies to reactivate the social meaning of these objects.

"The co-payment model is a scaled-back edition of the previous Conservative government’s failed attempt in 2012 to cut health care for refugee claimants from the “designated countries of origin” that Ottawa considered safe."

Sending all my love to Minnesotans today. You continue to be the best of the best.

That soup could cure anything—flu, hangovers, heartache.

Umm…good luck?

That man is a treasure.

Yet another day of disillusionment with The Man.

You think Greenlanders are mostly white people?! Oi.

Clothing label/tag from the International Ladies Garment Workers Union.

Not a clothing label and maybe a little busy, but still my favourite label *in* my clothing.

“I stopped watching when Rick left.”

I have died DEAD.

RIP, me.

😵😂

I would gladly take actual dry cold, but instead we just get these frigid stretches *plus* endless shovelling. Argh!

The next dumb ass who exclaims, “But it’s a dry cold!” as we dig out from under already the third significant snowfall of the winter is getting a slap upside the head and a screen taped to their face so they can observe humidity readings from Environment Canada.

Study: Seasonal depression cured by wrapping paper scissor glides

Our water guy showed up a day early, which is probably colder than tomorrow will be, then proceeded to fill the tank at a leisurely pace while dressed in what appeared to be a hoodie—smiling, imparting holiday greetings, somehow not freezing his face off. Total hero.

Close-up photo of a digital temperature gauge sitting on a kitchen counter. The top line reads 8:02 PM. The middle line, indicating outdoor temperature, just reads LLL and shows temperature is still dropping. The bottom line, indicating indoor temperature, reads 21.3 degrees C.

The gauge has tapped out. The outdoor temperature is just LLLow.

There is something very, very wrong with the owners. I have no idea what that something is, but it is wrong.

Low sun over a parking lots and northern city downtown with a sun dog, a refraction of light through ice crystals that causes bright spots on either side of and above the sun and a partial rainbow effect.

The most beautiful way to find out that the weather is going to get even colder.