Janel Comeau 🍁

also a not-insignificant part of her escape involved men in positions of relative power knowingly having sex with her in exchange for doing her favours, and then claiming they had been unfairly bewitched by an evil temptress

Posted for “girl on the run: the hunt for America’s most wanted woman”

I think the wildest part of this documentary is the cops saying over and over again “she had supernatural powers of manipulation, she had a mysterious ability to make people to do things for her” and then her actual escape strategy was “she made friends by being nice to them and they helped her”

my great-grandparents had it pretty rough, but I'm willing to bet they didn't have to find out about WWII on the toilet at 4 o'clock in the morning

"we voted for cheap steak and no new wars"

aww, sure you did, sport. now eat your liver so you'll be nice and strong when you're sent off to die for Israel

apparently when I said I wanted to see Les Misérables someday, I should have clarified that I did not mean "unfolding on the streets around me in real time"

because if there’s one thing I know about men, it’s that they crave full-time child-rearing responsibilities without even getting to have sex first

Columbia President with NEW details:

5 DHS agents entered a residency with no warrant.

They said they were police looking for a missing kid.
Security camera even captures them showing pictures of the "kid."

A campus officer asked for a warrant & their boss.

They ignored him & took the student.

As of tonight, licenses of trans people across Kansas are being invalidated en masse, enabling the overnight criminalization of an entire group of people for going about our lives. It’s often said you never know when you’re living through history, so let me assure you: that’s what’s happening now.

American politicians talking about life in Canada: Every day Canadians wake up amidst the rubble of their ruined cities. Pressed beneath the thumb of authoritarianism, they cry out for American liberation.

Canadians living life in Canada: roll up da rim 2 win :)

Temple in a City literary journal Poem My hope for you by poet, writer, illustrator, comedian and youth worker Janel Comeau. Published in Temple in a City literary journal.

‘you will leave him the first time it happens
you’ll be gone by the end of the day
not into a bed at some shelter
but moved into your very own place’
Fervent and heart aching by @verybadllama.bsky.social
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Shout out to NYX epic ink liner, just walked 20 minutes through a blizzard and it did not budge

Selfie of the author in a toque and scarf completely encrusted with ice

I’ll just go into the office for a bit, she said. It’ll be fine as long as I leave a little early, she said. The storm won’t get really bad until this evening, she said.

the storm started about an hour ago and I already can’t see the buildings across the street!

‪if fate has smiled upon you in the form of “never having to deal with Nova Scotia Power”, this is the fun online map they provide so you can watch power blackouts roll toward you in real time ‬

night gathers, and now my watch begins

as a former Edmontonian, the giant teepee pales in comparison to our glorious Talus Balls

it would take me an entire day just to teach someone the correct stereotypes for people from different parts of the Maritimes

the people yearn for my niche Canadian humour

if you want to hate Canada like a local, gather 'round, we'll have a four-hour argument about crown corporations and the Meech Lake accord conducted partly in English and partly in two equally unintelligible dialects of French

The funny thing about the sudden wave of Americans hating Canada is that they're not even good at it. You hate Canada except for the part that contains Red Deer? Amateur shit. I'm embarrassed for you.

Temple in a City literary journal Poem My hope for you by poet, writer, illustrator, comedian and youth worker Janel Comeau. Published in Temple in a City literary journal.

I have channeled all the rage and sorrow I've accumulated over a decade of working in shelters into a poem - "My Hope For You" - that is out now in the latest issue of @templeinacity.bsky.social

templeinacity.com/poetry-by-ja...

when the creators of Idiocracy set out to imagine the dumbest possible future, even they didn’t anticipate that there would be this much Kid Rock

Or yearn for careers in retail sales, which is the most common occupation for men.

Wild how many people operate on the assumption that all women work corporate email jobs and men work 16-hour shifts mud-wrestling in mine shafts. The most common sector for women is healthcare. And I have seen things working in healthcare that would make men yearn for the mines.

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the children yearn for Crusader Kings III

‪watching a show where the cops just didn’t arrest a guy after finding multiple human skeletons in his yard and another where they disproved a husband’s abili by checking the position of the stars so I guess if you’re going to get murdered choose your jurisdiction wisely ‬

cops on unsolved true crime shows: yeah she left behind her phone, wallet and 47 diaries about her violent husband so we didn’t investigate at all

cops on solved true crime shows: we brought in special investigator Autism Jim and locked him in the basement until he solved it

Happy Valentine’s Day to my French Husband - thanks for being the best thing I ever got off the internet

"government ends work-from-home for civil servants" is just a short way of saying "government decides to make your already-unbearable commute at least forty-seven times more excruciating to make sure their donors never miss out on a single dime in commercial real estate profits"

just once I want to see a crime show that goes “this is the kind of town where people triple-lock their doors. In this town, people set up Home Alone-style booby traps just to feel safe taking a dump. This is the first place people picture when you hear about a crime like that.”