Jaden Wilkes 🇨🇦

Landscape photograph showing a river and mountains.

Photograph of a log on a beach with mountains in the background.

Field days are the best days.

I was sent this thread by a friend because I’m an archaeologist, I’m a romance author, and my real name is Rachael. I was like “man, we might be the only members of a very small club.” 😆 (fantastic response btw, it never fails to surprise me the audacity some people claim over our work.)

Huh. 🤔

map showing the Quebec-Vermont border and Venise-en-Quebec on the northern tip of Lake Champlain, where the Quebec man was fishing and detained by USCG

This is where 60-year-old Edouard Lallemand, a lifelong angler who'd been fishing these waters for decades and knows that he was miles north of the border, was fishing when he was intercepted by a much larger US vessel, rammed, taken to the US side, and jailed.

Lallemand said he borrowed his friend’s boat and was fishing near Venise-en-Québec, which is roughly 15 kilometres north of the U.S. border at the northern tip of Lake Champlain. He says he has been fishing for decades and is adamant that he was in Canadian waters when the Coast Guard showed up and told him to turn off his engine, to which he complied. The three officers told him he was in U.S. territory. “I said, ‘No, I’m very sorry, I’m in Canada.’ And I said I’m polite enough to talk to you guys but you cannot arrest me. ‘You can’t come across the border and pick me up’ but they did,” he recalled. Lallemand started his engine and said he wanted to talk with the officers by the shore, but the Coast Guard followed and tried to push him into the U.S., which is what caused him to go overboard. “They’re tying my boat to their boat. They’re not even taking care of me. The third time I went down, coming out with water in my mouth, spitting it out, I said throw me a buoy,” he said. Once on their vessel, he said he was aggressively put in handcuffs. “I never saw somebody so angry,” he said. He was then handed over to U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers, who fingerprinted him, put him in a jail cell with his clothes soaking wet, and gave him a “dirty” blanket.

A Quebec fisherman who was fishing 15 kilometers north of the US border was essentially kidnapped by US Border Patrol, who capsized his boat and dragged him to an American prison cell.

In any normal time this'd be quite the international incident, y'know?

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Mary Leakey and her husband Louis with the skull. They are both white people.

#OnThisDay, 17 July 1959 paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey discovers a fossilized skull from a previously unknown species of hominid - Zinjanthropus boisei.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Anthropology 🗃️

for bottle feeding, I can’t imagine if Medela had pulled this bullshit back then, I probably would have quit. What a backwards fucked up message. It feels like control and policing a woman’s body yet again.

This is fucking horrifying! My twins were preemies and too small to latch. By the time they were big enough, they preferred the bottle and it was easier for my husband and I. I exclusively pumped for them for 2 years, and had enough supply frozen to donate. I was continually harassed by people…

Years ago on twitter I once told a friend that I was too poor for a Love Shack, I had to settle for a Fuck Shed.

I’m happy to say we’re still friends and our group chat (just the two of us) is called Fuck Shed.

That’s the one good thing I got from the bird app.

This is my own fault for opening this app today.

A photo of a white hydrangea flower cluster with a dark background.

A photo of several hydrangeas flower clusters in various states of blooming and shades of green, white, and blue. With dark background.

Hydrangeas at night.

I think fuck you from Canada. Fuck you bloody bastard bitch.

Off to block you now, couch fucker.

We, the people, have spoken!

Which is so weird of him to mention inferior genes because I’m sure he’s seen a mirror.

So cute! I have two drooly kitties, I take it as a sign of love now. ❤️

An antique mirror in a patch of pink peonies reflecting a cloudy white sky.

Lunch time shenanigans to keep me out of trouble.

sensitive content blurred restriction image

clicked the “ask why” and it says the post was automatically censored but apparently didn’t violate community guidelines

the post was news coverage of Los Angeles

a story of censorship on instagram, told in three parts (via my band @ ekkoastral)

tl;dr they’re censoring news coverage of los angeles posted by the LA TIMES

Can confirm, as a Canadian I am a reverse Scarlett O’Hara, my waist is broad, my husband gives many damns, and my curtains are firmly in place inside my modest home.

🤣🤣

a drawing of a pigeon holding a $20 bill in its beak. the background is a bunch of dollars. purple text says "yeah can i get a uhhhhhhhhh crumb"

a photo of a pigeon holding a $20 bill in its beak

share the money pigeon for 10,000 years good luck 💸🍀🤞

Close up of a pink dogwood flower with water droplets.

Close up of a pink dogwood flower with water droplets.

Pink Dogwood flowers in the rain.

Nine Inch Pails

An illustration of a grey tabby cat on a flying carpet sailing above the green fields, from behind so you see his cute little pose.

This makes me happy.

Fired up. Ready to go! #Obama

If I had a nickel for every time I ordered Sunchoke tubers and then promptly forgot where I put them I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice.

Do his potential patients know about his anti-trans, IRS denying side? I hope Townsite Allied Health screens his patients carefully so nobody is harmed by his beliefs…or did he magically reinvent himself into being a decent human being? 🤔

Trump's secret police are arresting opposition party members.

Sadly this wasn’t a course, this is my job. lol I work for a First Nations government and one of the hats I wear is cultural protection. Still very cool that you got to hold the hand axe though! There’s something very special about being connected to the past through material culture imo.

I think most Americans would trust this raccoon with their medical information over the worm brained human in charge of it now.