Ashley Papineau

@ajmpapin.bsky.social

Quest Designer @ Ubisoft MTL. 🇨🇦⚜️🇯🇲🇵🇭 she/her/elle Synesthete 🎹🎨 Gentle weirdo 🪷 Opinions here are my own. Possibly stolen if it sounded like a good idea at the time. It's fine don't worry about it

The internet wants you to be both 1. Someone who has to change your mind to fit into the changing world 2. Will hold you accountable for any views you held at any point in your life because people don't change

Most places I've lived have been along the Great Lakes or St Lawrence River, and I've always consumed the local tap water. 🥲 Still crazy that this is the best time to be alive healthwise, all things considered. 🤸🏾‍♀️ Always a fan of sleek anims from the CBC explaining dire problems that affect me haha

PFAS in the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River | CBC News

Toxic chemicals are flowing into the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River — and they’re showing up in drinking water.

newsinteractives.cbc.ca

to live in modern times is to suffer repeatedly from a poison ingredient, convenience, or app that seems fine at first. and then after you've become poisoned it turns out that it was poisonous the whole time, with no remedy

The older I get, the more evidence I have for my childhood dictating patterns throughout the rest of my life. Which is some nice wisdom but also A TOTAL PAIN IN THE ASS as an ex-perfectionist who still needs validation from everyone and everything, like a child. Work ≠ school! 😮‍💨

I have 3 guests and am silently judging whoever has done this. We're all over 30. The guest with ADHD? Possibly, but her home is cleaner than mine, it's uncharacteristic of her. Maybe her partner? Too little data. Could be the guest who still lives with her parents, but that's a potential bias... 🧐

An empty toilet paper roll on a holder, with a newly started toilet paper roll nearby on a garbage can lid, in a bathroom.

Regarding my appreciation of transit in cities I've lived in, I'll take Montreal's STM stability over hometown Toronto's TTC any day. But I'm also impressed that Torontonians remain much more patient boarding the train. They don't force in before people have mostly exited. More of this pls MTL!

Beloit, WI revitalized its waterfront and chose this way to celebrate it: by bringing to life Georges Seurat's "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte."

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I wanted to buy a fall/winter fleece on sale and did the responsible thing and waited a couple of days to decide. Went to purchase it today and now it's gone from the site. Not sold out. Gone. Along with all of its other out-of-season friends. God I hate the fast fashion cycle.

- 1st yr veggie garden - yay transplant time - Montreal wtf cold in June - bag heavy, do indoors? maybe I'll get lucky and not spill soil - *spills soil* welp - *drags 45 lb bag to balcony*... x3 - o no soil on pants - soil on balcony - soil on hands - hey wait soil feels nice - oh god a spider sac

A large bag of soil on a balcony, surrounded by smaller colourful grow bagsA yellow and brown group of spider eggs about a thumb's width, suspended in a veil-like web

Do you think anything is missing? I'd add "access to rich sensory experiences" for myself. I love rich colours, distinct and rich flavours in food, music with finely tuned EQ and electronic instruments, rich stories... the intensity of experience. It's blissful, and certainly a luxury to have.

A list with six luxuries of life.
Time. Health. A quiet mind. Slow mornings. Meaningful work. A house full of love.

A woman is dead, kept alive as an incubator. Her family can’t grieve. This isn’t pro-life. It’s control. It’s cruelty. It’s stripping women of agency...even in death. If you support this, you’re complicit. Stand up. Speak out. Fight back. Or admit you’re okay with our girls having no rights.