I was in a medication trial a few years ago. I was 99% sure I was on the placebo. After the study, I asked my family dr to prescribe it off label because I really wanted to try it, but ended up with side effects that had me discontinue. Now the study tells me I was on the real drug? What the fuck?
Part of the reason a lot of super rich people are so awful is that when normal people get an absurd amount of money, they immediately start looking around for who they can help.
Stoo Metz 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈@stoometz.bsky.social · 3d agoRachel Reid, who wrote the popular “Heated Rivalry” novel, has donated $300k to Annapolis Valley Regional Library, “one of the most significant private gifts” in their history. “I credit my local library for being a huge part of the reason I’m a published author today,” Reid said #Halifax #HaliSky
They released a remastered directors cut of But I’m A Cheerleader? Sign me the fuck up.
Finding out how my coworkers dress when they’re out of uniform is an experience.
I don’t typically grow ornamental flowers, but this volunteer “four o’clock” is pretty. I think it hitchhiked in with my dyers coreopsis seeds.
1: our favorite diner is closing. Went there for dinner tonight. Have never been there for dinner, we always go for breakfast. 2: 20-something years ago, I was obsessed with a local band called Day Theory. They got decent local recognition for a while, they were even in the movie “Saved”.
Thinking, as I often do, about this tumblr post
👁️🍄🪸@bloomfilters.plus · 2w agowatching cis people repeatedly fail to find a way to counter the conservatives' emphasis on sex and thus watch them hopelessly struggle as conservatives bring back extremely invasive "sex testing" and defund or destroy women's organizations and social spaces is so. wow lol
Weather is never going to be innocuous and inconsequential ever again, is it. 🤦🏻♀️
What Keeps Me Up at Night
Rising temperatures in the Pacific will blow away any previous “Super” El Niño by a “truly mind-blowing margin.” - Zeke Hausfather
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1. Hmm. Calgary, it seems. Also, Calgary is bigger than I expected. 2. Probably Prince George. It’s probable I’ve been there as an infant (I was born up north, I know we drove to the lower mainland a few times which would take us through PG) but not to my recollection.
Sean Marshall@seanyyz.bsky.social · 6d agoQuestions for all my 🇨🇦 followers: 1. What’s the largest city in Canada that you have yet to visit? 2. What’s the largest city or town in your home province or territory that you haven’t visited yet?
Open air drug use is already illegal, and enforcement is at the discretion of the VPD, which Sim for all intents functionally controls. The province has said that the involuntary care centres in Surrey can take residents from Vancouver. So this is intended to raise turnout from their base.
Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived! A reminder that the SIX!: The Musical pro-shot comes to theatres this weekend. www.cineplex.com/movie/six-th...
Six The Musical: Boleyn & Cleves Performance
Alt: A clip from Six!: The Musical featuring a shot of each of the six wives singing.
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My basic insecurity and general assumption that everybody is smarter than me is really being tested.
I recently asked a buyer at a huge indie bookstore how many customer requests it takes for a book to get on their radar, expecting dozens or hundreds. His answer? 5 or 6. At a handful, they start thinking, "Hm, people are calling us for this book; let's bring it in." Five or six.
violet allen@blipstress.bsky.social · 9mo agoI see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
You know it would be super if people would recognize the role that climate change is playing in the catastrophic wildfires instead of blaming… -check notes- foreign aid spending? But I guess that would require people having to make changes to their lifestyles and we can’t have that.
Me: I used to be interesting! Babysaur, muffled from the other room: nuh uh. Wow.
Me: might be going on strike, I should probably be more mindful with my spending Also me: oooh romance book/craft stickers Look I have adhd and credit cards, it’s a bad combination. But also; how cute are these? shop.ninetenpublications.ca/products/cra...
Craft Is for Lovers Sticker Bundle
Craft Is for Lovers celebrates the huge overlap of crafters and romance readers. Get a discount when you get all 5 stickers in the series! Set of 5 stickers, each 3.5 to 4 inches at the longest side. ...
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It's silently costing people friends and other connections, too. If I see that you are posting or reposting gen AI content I'm unlikely to say anything but I will immediately lose interest in striking up any kind of conversation, friendship, or working relationship. And I know I'm not the only one.
Aftermath@aftermath.site · 2w agoHello local business, your AI ads are costing you customers: aftermath.site/ai-poster-ad-f...
72 hour hour strike notice has been served. Uniform ban starting Aug 17. Bah.
Drivers didn’t ratify. Again. Fuck. I really hope we’re not going on strike. (I think we’re gonna go on strike.)
regrettably i have just taken a new stock photo for modern okanagan summers
Coworker: did you hear people are calling for boycotts of Tim Hortons? Me: omg yes I’m so pissed. I mean, the food is awful so I haven’t been in ages, but the HP thing just sucks. You can’t tell me they didn’t know. Coworker: HP? No, because they support Israel. …ok I guess we have lots of reasons.
I'd love to credit whoever wrote this. No idea. But I'm 100% with its message. When I think of how the '80s ethos, "Greed is Good" has metastasized, it surprises and depresses me. Imagine having so many millions, hundred of millions, even billions & caring about nothing except your own vanity.
You know when you’re trying to remember a song but all you have is a feeling, a 70s song with a female singer, possibly the word “midnight”, and maybe a lyric about a horse? Anyway it took me a very long time to remember Midnight at the Oasis. Also, it’s a camel, not a horse.
I put on a bra for thr first time since my surgery! Ahhh I missed the girls in their upstairs apartment.
dear city of vancouver gastown and chinatown are two blocks from each other you do not bike between them you should know this since you are, um, the city sincerely justin
