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I read this too fast and thought you had gotten the flu and Covid for 24 hours so far 😂 glad you are well and healthy and freshly vaccinated!

A rock that has been painted to look like a piece of paper. The text on the rock reads, “Dear Rock - I win!! - Paper :-) “ The rock is being held by a person standing on a trail.

Good news for Team Paper….

Spotted during this morning’s hike in the Vernon Nature Area outside of Kenora.

Everyone I know is sick right now with “a bad bug”

Many are lamenting the fact that they were sick not long ago as well

Then they turn around and ask me when I’m going to stop masking

My N95 means I avoid not only covid, but all the other viruses floating around

Masks rock!

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I could go off but the point is. Ableism is not partisan. Stop acting like it's partisan.

And stop using the lib pormanteau of the r word, seriously, what the fuck, just think about what you're saying and how cruel it comes off as.

Since 2020, disabled people have been pointing out the rising ease with ableist rhetoric/language, the comfort with which so many people used the r word, the number of people willing to abandon disabled people for some notion of the "normal."
All of it mattered/matters to understand fascism today.

Today is Canada’s National Day for Truth & Reconciliation

We honour Indigenous peoples: survivors of residential schools & the 60s Scoop, the lives lost to MMIW & the Highway of Tears, and the erasure of Two-Spirit people

We acknowledge genocide, racism, grief, and the land

Listen. Learn. Act 🧡

BUT he didn’t realize the devs of Arzette “Seedy Eye Software” was a pun on CD-i for like, months lol so we are even I guess lol

(I’ve known the Bonzo Goes to Bitburg song for like 20 years but only recently read it was spoofing Ronald Reagan. I told Zack about this important new-to-me information and he’s like “oh yeah I could have guessed that, Bedtime for Bonzo…”)

Zack and I were looking for Bonsly and then Zack said “bedtime for Bonsly” [instead of Bedtime for Bonzo] and then I said “Bonsly Goes to Bitburg” like the Ramones song and now that’s all I can think of when I listen to the song 😂

A photo of the screen of the 3DS on Pokémon Sun. The playable character is talking to a person outside of a hotel. The person is saying “There is one more hotel on Akala Island, miss.”

A continuation of the previous picture. The person continues “I leave it up to your exquisite tastes to judge which of the two offers the most delight.”

A continuation of the previous pictures. The person in front of the hotel says “Me? I prefer the Tide Song Hotel. I interviewed for a job at that other place and got rejected.”

😂

A photo of the screen of the 3DS on Pokémon Sun. The playable character is talking to a man in a Hawaiian shirt. He says “You there! Trial-goer kid! I’m an old man and you’d better listen to me!” the responses the playable character can give are “Sure” or “I’m busy”.

At Scarleteen, we respect all our visitors. We believe in real human contact and service, not robot hallucinations, and we believe that the damage AI does and can do to our planet and to actual people creating work and providing services is wholly unnecessary.

Yes lmao

Me holding up the 3DS showing where the damaged area is. It’s a Pikachu 3DS XL and now has a clear plastic case covering it

A picture of the empty box of the 3DS case next to the 3DS using the case. I have the Pikachu 3DS XL and it’s bright yellow with Pikachu on the front. Attached are two phone charms, one of Chibiusa and Luna-P from Sailor Moon, and one of Piplup from Pokémon (the Piplup one is very worn out looking, I got it on my Japan trip in 2008!)

I fell asleep playing Pokémon & dropped the 3DS on the floor (not a comment on the quality of the game) & got this big crack next to the right hinge 😬 so I got one of those clear cases. The protection is minimal on the hinge for obvious reasons but I’d like to think it’ll help if I dropped it again.

Box artwork for Pokémon Diamond and Pearl Versions

Today is the 19th anniversary of Pokémon Diamond and Pearl Versions, first released in Japan for the Nintendo DS on September 28, 2006!

They are the first core series games of Gen IV and take place in the Sinnoh region.

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On one hand I keep hearing about how nobody uses Canada Post anymore, and on the other, my inbox is full of stuff like my local library telling me interlibrary loans are now suspended because they use Canada Post, my bank not being able to send me my new card, frantic apologies from small businesses

you’re never more than 10 feet away from someone texting “lol” with a completely expressionless face

Will keep you posted! 😎

A photo of the 3DS screen of Pokémon Sun. It’s zoomed in to Cosmog floating to the side of the playable character and Lillie.

Okay Cosmog is pretty cute lol

Like I can probably name the Kanto 151 in JAPANESE from memory, but God help me if I have to recognize anything but the most famous (or my favourites) from Gen 7-8-9 🤣 I didn’t know who Decidueye was lmaoooo

Zack and I have been into collecting the Pokémon TCG lately, and I’ve been familiarizing myself with the Alolan Pokémon more as a result. We keep joking that Gen 7 is where my memorization drops off and his skyrockets lol. There are so many newer Pokémon I never recognize 😂

A photo of the 3DS screen of Pokémon Sun. The playable character is looking at a Wii U. The game text says “It’s a Wii U! It has a GamePad with a screen!”.

I’m kind of excited to see if I like it better this time around, almost 10 years later!!

P.S. LONG LIVE THE WII U

A photo of the 3DS screen of Pokémon Sun. The playable character is talking to “Mom”. Mom is saying “So, Beck… are you pumped to meet some Alolan Pokémon?”.

A screenshot of a text message of me sending the previous photo to Zack. His response is “You: [thinking cloud emoticon] Diglett…. [heart emoticon]”.

I didn’t super love Pokémon Sun + Moon when they first came out, and to tell the truth, I never finished them! I’m pretty close to the end in Moon, but was only 2 hours in on Sun. Zack was planning a re-play of Sun himself, so I tucked the event Pokémon safely in Pokémon Bank, and started over too!

a sticker with a heart shaped ita bag and many fandom merch in it, such as undertale, sonic, Vocaloid and Gravity Falls. the text next to it reads "Yeah I have EMOTIONAL BAGGAGE it's called an ITA BAG."

what do we think chat is this funny enough for a sticker?

(typography will still be improved, this is just a concept)

goofy final boss

I don't really care if the future is short videos. I like words. Words have gotten me this far and I'm gonna stick with 'em for the duration

Mom would love that 💛💛

Love it!! Tie dye is so fun. My mom would say that looks “very psychedelic” lol

My mom said the only mouse allowed in our house was Pikachu or Mickey Mouse lol