A sunshiney flower on a grey day with a few happy friends ☀️🌻🐝
Crys Tom (she/her) 🇨🇦
@crystom.bsky.social
Wildlife photography (hobby, for fun and health) & rescue dogs (also love cats but currently don’t share my home with one) Posts re trauma & therapy (as a client), lawyer wellness. Opinions my own not my employer’s
I got into this a bit in my column last week but I think social platforms' extreme push toward sales, slop and outrage has done a lot to degrade people's attitudes toward tech, even if they're still using them and still buying. People feeling compelled to do things that feel bad breeds resentment!
Mia Sato@miasato.bsky.social · last wk.We shouldn't discount the fact that at least part of the data center backlash (and by extension the broader techlash) is because people feel like the tech industry has not given them anything cool, inspiring, beautiful, or useful in a long time
He may not have Olive’s vocal talents but he has a style all his own (especially his eyes and ears)
I have to squeak the ball much more aggressively (which is ultra grating and loud—sorry!) to get Smoke to sing but he is so cute when he does
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
‘It was barbaric. I was crying my eyes out’: why are so many women left in agony by routine womb examinations?
There are more than 70,000 hysteroscopies every year in England alone. The NHS calls them ‘low complexity’ – yet a shocking number of patients complain of inadequate pain relief and medical staff who ...
theguardian.com
Painted Turtles, one basking on a waterlily root at left, & one feeding in the vegetation on the right.
Red-tailed Hawk, filmed from our back yard this morning 🪶
I don't have children. I don't *want* children. But I don't understand hating children. Also, every time I see a post about how children shouldn't be in public because they are loud or disruptive, I hear that *I* shouldn't be allowed in public, because my disability is also loud and disruptive.
Matthew Noe@noethematt.bsky.social · last mo."This might be unpopular but I'd like to discriminate against an entire class of people" If this is you, I hope the next 500 books you try to read are a disappointment.
I saw somewhere else: "You are entitled to a childfree life, but you are not entitled to a childfree world"
"This might be unpopular but I'd like to discriminate against an entire class of people" If this is you, I hope the next 500 books you try to read are a disappointment.
I didn’t know until my third spaniel that there is such a thing as a spaniel bowl to keep their ears dry for wet food and water so they stay cleaner and get fewer ear infections! If only I’d known before. I haven’t gotten one yet but I’m using water glasses and small bowls. Game changing!
I’m troubled by how intensely social media raged about a frightened child (under 5) who couldn’t or wouldn’t be buckled in and caused a flight cancellation. The people who called for outright child abuse, & insisted that the answer was duct tape if not worse made me think the internet was a mistake
Olive is obsessed with nature documentaries. He loses his little mind…
I’m very happy I got this to remove wee bugs humanely www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFXQ...
Humane Bug Catcher | Catch and Release | HU-30 | Carson Optical
YouTube video by Carson
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Wait a second! Are you telling me a toddler was immensely scared of flying and was trying to hide under his seat? You mean this kid wasn't an unruly brat? (Of course this didn't stop every parent from threatening physical abuse to the child and strapping them into the seat against their will 🙄)
CHEK News@cheknews.ca · 3w agoA passenger aboard the Porter Airlines flight to Toronto that was cancelled last week after a toddler refused to buckle up says the child was scared and should not be blamed. https://cheknews.ca/child-who-prompted-porter-airline-flight-cancellation-not-at-fault-passenger-says-1341165/
A passenger aboard the Porter Airlines flight to Toronto that was cancelled last week after a toddler refused to buckle up says the child was scared and should not be blamed. https://cheknews.ca/child-who-prompted-porter-airline-flight-cancellation-not-at-fault-passenger-says-1341165/
Child who prompted Porter Airline flight cancellation not at fault, passenger says
A passenger aboard the Porter Airlines flight to Toronto that was cancelled last week after a toddler refused to buckle up says the child was scared and should not be blamed.
cheknews.ca
‘I couldn’t breathe’: the deadly health burden of wildfire smoke
‘I couldn’t breathe’: the deadly health burden of wildfire smoke
Scientists race to untangle complex links between exposure and mortality as fire weather grows more prevalent
theguardian.com
I now have my own little squeaky ball choir. I just need to find a less annoying instrument to get them going 😁💕🎶🐾
