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Opinion: Exceptions, rules and looking at the big picture ‘But we’ve always had smoky days…” We certainly have. But this year has been the smokiest year since smoke records for Winnipeg started being kept and we’ve still got to the end of October to see thos...

Thank you WFP for this thoughtful editorial connecting the dots between forest fires and climate change. One can have skepticism with any given fact about the record breaking year in MB for smoke, but taking all the evidence together paints a grim picture.

www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/edit...

Last time I went several years back I marveled at how they had discovered how to burn a bagel and yet keep it raw. Also they have an unwavering commitment to ensuring 100% of the cream cheese is spackled in to the bagel hole with none actually IN the bagel.

My assumption has always been that motion blur is there to hide frame rate issues and lower resolution textures. It's always one of the first things I turn off. Along with film grain and chromatic aberration (I wear glasses, I already have enough chromatic aberration).

Mark Carney won on a promise of strong but fair Canada. This is how he is betraying that vision The Carney government is repeating the mistakes of Paul Martin and Stephen Harper.

I have a new piece out for the Toronto Star today on how the Carney Liberals ran on public investment and nation-building and have swung immediately to the right. Among other things, Canada may soon experience the most sweeping austerity program it's seen in decades. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

LEARN FLUTE IN 25 MINUTES WITH THIS ONE SIMPLE TRICK with a photo of the Kataan probe from the Star Trek TNG episode "The Inner Light"

Man! This autistic woman doesn’t feel like a woman A song by Canadian pop artist Shania Twain has uprooted an autistic woman's issues with gender identity, reports have confirmed. The throwback track - which was playing in a bar during a outing with…

“Doesn’t EVERY woman feel like this?” Bernard’s friends shook their heads pityingly, whilst surrounding women cradling goblets of pink gin looked on in fear.

epic handshake meme: Smoking weed High Femme Stone(d) Butch

stole this off reddit

Alberta’s Perverse New Barriers to COVID Vaccines | The Tyee The virus hits the old and poor hardest. The province is erecting hurdles for granting them protection.

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, who revived her ailing political career by peddling conspiratorial COVID theories, has designed a program that is not only punitive but discriminatory, bureaucratic and Soviet in nature, writes Andrew Nikiforuk.

#abcovid #abpoli

Tumblr poll from “lesbianalism” Do you think you could take a werewolf? Yes: 70.6% No: 29.4% In a fight? Yes: 8.1% No: 91.9% Final results from 35,878 votes

Allow me to share one of my favorite tumblr polls of all time

I know I, as a nonbinary person, do not owe the world androgyny, but I wanna be androgynous so badly. I want no one to be able to tell what I am. I want conservatives to wrinkle their noses when they see me and say, in Westley's voice, "Dear God, what is that thing?"

July was the smokiest month on record in Winnipeg with 189 hours of smoke at the Airport. Temperatures were average, but it was much drier than normal.

It was also the driest January to July on record at the Airport with 126mm of precip. Normal is close to 300mm

I've got an article out on the Narwhal today... talking about the First Nations Leaders Summit from the inside. One thing I talk about in this piece that I haven't elsewhere was how weird it was to see the disrespect from Cabinet Ministers to Musqueam MP, Wade Grant.

Meet the Group That Planted Over 22,000 Trees to Fight Colonialism's Impact in Puerto Rico Centuries of colonialism cost Puerto Rico's native mangroves. This group has planted over 22,000 since 2023.

Centuries of colonialism cost Puerto Rico's native mangroves. This group has planted over 22,000 since 2023. Read the full story:

Coworker was very proud yesterday of switching from Schweppes Tonic Water to Canada Dry Tonic Water because "it's Canadian!" and I didn't have the heart to tell her that Canada Dry is owned by a US corporation (Mostly cause I'd just told her about the US concentration camps ahead of her US vacation)

Opinion: Canada has become a petrocacy

My piece today in @winnipegfreepress.com: Canada has become a #Petrocacy. All govts in Canada must now bend the knee to the fossil fuel industry. Their powerful lobby uses devious tactics to eliminate regulation & responsibility for the mess they create. www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/anal...

Medical illustration of two organs. On the left is an organ with two "legs" at the bottom, a long body, and a shaft at the top, bent. On the right is an organ which is taller than the one on the left, with "legs" at the bottom, a longer body, and a longer shaft at the top, bent, with a prominent glans. From V Puppo and G Puppo, "Anatomy of Sex: Revision of the New Anatomical Terms Used for the Clitoris and the Female Orgasm by Sexologists", 2015.

Here's an illustration showing the anatomical similarities between structures of the clitoris (on the left) and penis (on the right), going for a little walk together.

Good god damn 🥵💦 every time I scroll past one of your videos I completely forget what I was doing or thinking

Human Rights Tribunal Affirms Immunocompromised Worker’s Right to Seek Workplace Accommodations Disability advocates praise the BC decision as broadening the concept of accessible workplaces

In what may be a Canadian first, a human rights tribunal has affirmed the right of an immunocompromised person to seek workplace accommodations.

Disability advocates are praising the decision, saying it broadens the concept of accessible workplaces.

pressprogress.ca/human-rights...

An acrylic painting sits on a canvas. A sunset silhouette of a couple is illuminated golden orange against the green cedars and lawn of the shadows. The style is impressionist realism, with many visible brush strokes and bright colours.

'Sunset Together' acrylic on 8x12-inch cold-press paper. #art #painting

Want to emphasize the thread: YES the judge is pointing to this particular assessment, but this case is also very much about C-2, incl the parts of C-2 that bolster the Safe Third Country Agreement w/the US, which impacts non-US citizens (beyond this case).

amnesty.ca/urgent-actio...

A fluffy white cat dressed as a unicorn riding an inflatable unicorn in a pool. Text overlay reads: "you're so funny." Thanks I'm not allowed to have grapefruit.

Judge halts deportation of non-binary American in landmark ruling after Trump’s gender edicts Advocates have been calling on the government to provide a safe haven for gender-diverse U.S. residents

Canadian judge blocks non-binary American's deportation, says immigration official failed to consider current conditions for LGBTQ people in the US: www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...

Finishing touches on "Wish I Were There" 😝 on 12x16-inch cold press paper. #art #painting

Street trees planted on Poplar Ave by Chalmers Neighbourhood Renewal last year, funded by a Home Grown Grant from the City of Winnipeg!

Kindness Rock Garden at Lord Selkirk School.

Little Free Library at Lord Selkirk School

Fun window art at Next Door Neighbour Studio! This bus stop has gotten much busier with the new transit system - it's actually rare to not see someone at it.

Scenes from some of my favourite spots around the neighbourhood this morning 😍

Happy Non-Binary People's Day. I am relieved to be just representing myself this year. Not trying to speak for a giant corporation, not having to be the face for choices that weren't mine, not dealing with focus testing on whether my existence is acceptable. Just me, figuring it out. I can do that.

The planet is burning because we burn fossil fuels. The science of climate change now allows us to measure the increased likelihood of wildfires as a result. It’s no longer a scientific question but a moral one. Promoting pipelines to burn more fossil fuels is immoral. #ClimateDisaster #MbPoli

My fellow trans fems,
It's not transmisogynist to point out that, prior to transition, we were *perceived* as men, and that has impacted how we move through the world. It does not invalidate our womanhood. But it does impact our lives even today. Unless we unpack and move past it.

Remember when I wrote and E. Denich illustrated The Most Baller Femdom Porn Ever

Real talk: I think it is *incredibly* helpful and formative for all cis people to question their gender identity from a position of "what if I'm *not* cis?" It helps immeasurably with your relationship with gender, even though chances are you end up at "yup, cis af"