Alison Wolanski

I wish this was closer!

‘You can yodel and don’t have to be conservative’: the Swiss feminist choir rewriting traditional songs Echo vom Eierstock is opening up the overwhelmingly male Alpine folk music scene with new versions of lyrics about nagging wives and naive girls

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Canada goose fights off bald eagle in rare, symbolism-laden battle on ice Photographer captures 20-minute clash between birds emblematic of Canada and US amid high trade tensions

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

So...I am finding Bluesky a bit difficult to use. Is there a setting somewhere to actually group together conversations? Link posts and their replies? Everything is fragmented.

I hope that, when people start suing and pursuing legal action for things the Muskrat and Pumpkin Strumpf are doing, it will be directed at THEM, not at the American government.

I wasn't having any problem, just wondering how it was from Canada. Switz doesn't have a news posting problem on FB or other.

The only way to understand the pumpkin schtrumpf's announcements is distraction and diversion. He knows they are contradictory. He knows they will shock. Don't treat them as the main story.

‘Here lives the monster’s brain’: the man who exposed Switzerland’s dirty secrets Inspired by Che Guevara, Jean Ziegler has spent the past 60 years exposing how Switzerland enabled global wrongdoing. His enemies accuse him of treason

www.theguardian.com/news/2025/fe...

@mheacock.bsky.social can you read and post news articles here in Canada?

I have ridiculous numbers of files that need to be purged, but instead of a friendly message reminding me to do so, I am just being pestered to buy more storage space. As if it is endless.

Is there a theoretical limit to how long hundreds of millions of people can continually put off purging their email, old useless photos, and other random misc. personal files before the cost, including environmental, of building new data farms outweighs the hoarding instinct?

Being a mother in the west would be a dream, I was told. But compared to Uganda, it was a nightmare | Patience Akumu Nothing prepared me for the reality of mothering without my extended family to help. How have western women managed like this for so long?

Being a mother in the west would be a dream, I was told. But compared to Uganda, it was a nightmare | Patience Akumu www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Yesterday the boys were being ultra-quiet, with the door closed. This is always a sign of trouble.

I opened the door. Looks of dismay! Uh oh, we're in trouble! I could almost feel their racing pulses.

What were they doing? Secretly reading my very old building construction textbook.

Today....is a day. Yup. I wish there was something to provide optimism in the news, but I don't dare go there lately. i am in full ostrich (myth) mode.

constantly!

Today it might be fun to ski. But lego chaos reigns once again chez nous and so the long LONG slog of teaching organization and cleaning skills to the cubs continues.

Not yet. We shall see! :)

This place stays boring unless we write stuff I assume. So I am going to try daily notes.

Hi!