Lady DEADtera, Wee Ghostie Edition 👻🍁😷
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Canadian novelist-in-progress, Ea-nāṣir hater, and shopping cart aficionado. Doing okay (allegedly). "AI" is built on stolen art. I'll wear an N95 for as long as it takes.
Me: "The HOA guidelines say garden gnomes are an approved lawn decoration" The Guy from the HOA, looking at my five gnomes standing on a pentagram around a prone lawn flamingo: "Okay but not like this"
captain’s log: should our luck run out, i’d like to say that the shitposters of bluesky acted with distinction and valor
Meme from 1943 from my dad’s collection of family memorabilia. This postcard was sent to my dad’s uncle. I love that it’s addressed simply to Thor Larson, Sandpoint Idaho, and it got where it was meant to go.
Yeah— multiple people in my friend group who used to host are disabled now by long covid (like me!) and very few have outdoor space. But we used to have people over and order pizza or tacos etc. Cooking for others is a lot more work. Potlucks only.
whenever it's raining out, I wonder if he remembers all the storms he must have gone through without a place to be safe and warm inside
Some years I clarify that it's Canadian Thanksgiving, but I think there's like a 40% chance the American version is going to be renamed "Trumpsgiving" or something so it's a moot point.
“I’m surrounded by women I fucking hate. They’re vile, idiotic cows who I despise with every fiber of my being. And I have to say, it’s really depressing that they don’t want to date a nice guy like me.”
This is amazing! Also, many men scare the shit out of me. To think, this is so common something like this has to be invented. We live in hell
Yours in negritude, Ryan K. Smith@mewefree.bsky.social · 12h agoThese are Drink Strips, which can detect if your drink has been spiked. If half of the yellow sticker turns green, your drink has been spiked. They're available here: drinkstrips.com
Frog And Toad, Having Escaped The Wedding, Sit In The Back Of The Bus, Staring Forward
Me: I am the breadwinner in my household Dude: ok, what does your husband think? Me: *giggling and widening my eyes* none of the men who provide for my garden have ever asked me to wed them Dude: uhhhhh have a nice day
Dude outside the grocery store, with a clipboard: take this, vote against WA having an income tax Me: but I want an income tax Dude: Sorry, I think I misheard you, vote to PREVENT an income tax Me: yes, I WANT an income tax Dude: (nonplussed) what does the breadwinner in your household want?
And HealthLink BC is even worse. Apparently, frequent hand-washing is considered cutting-edge disease prevention in BC. I'm only surprised it doesn't list prayer, leeches, avoiding miasma, & animal sacrifice as viable options. Disgraceful. 2/2 www.healthlinkbc.ca/healthlinkbc...
Never mind COVID: CBC JUST did a piece on the 'early arrival' of influenza, informing the public that measures they might take to avoid getting influenza are getting vaccinated & staying home if sick. That's it. Nothing about masks. www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
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If public health and infection control leaders had any meaningful combination of competence and integrity we'd be seeing public education about the value of standards-compliant PPE (N95s) for protection against new variants, and its importance for avoiding long COVID. But they don't. So we aren't.
Ryan Hisner@ryanhisner.bsky.social · 3d agoLarge upload from Ontario yesterday, providing some striking revelations about the evolution of PJ.2.1. First, there is yet another strikingly divergent branch of PJ.2.1. This isn't one variant: it's four. More and more, this resembles the emergence of BA.1/2/3. What is happening? 1/
A good summation of David Brooks and "civility" politics generally: no one on the right-wing can ever be described honestly, while everyone who isn't on the right-wing is always portrayed as a radical breaking cherished norms.
driftglass@driftglass.bsky.social · 2d ago"Jon Ossoff, my advice to him is, if you start calling your political opponents Nazis, maybe it's time to shut up. That's just not what we do here in this country." -- David Brooks, this evening. Remember, Brooks still gets very handsomely rewarded by the fossilized media for saying shit like this
Ruin a book by adding a word: Queen of the Damned Castle
it's Halloween name charloh! (it/its)@charloh.online · yesterdayRuin a book by adding a word: Interview with the Emotional Vampire
Ruin a book by adding a word: Never Let Me Go Pee
dial ë̈m̈ for mystery 🏳️⚧️⚢🐍@emmeline.northsky.social · yesterdayRuin a book by adding a word: Queen of the Damned Castle
there's no way to really explain to dudes what's up better than 25 years of being in pits without a single bad experience, and then getting groped multiple times while dolled up in a pit for the first (1st) time ever last month
Stereogum@stereogum.com · 12h agoFrank Carter, while performing with the Sex Pistols in Denver, had a concertgoer ejected for objecting to a women-only mosh pit
I don't know who needs to hear this but all it took to make me a more consistent fiction writer (vs technical and marketing stuff for clients) was a monthly hour goal and a timesheet. Proud to say I wrote a full 110k (edited down to 99k) manuscript, from idea to finished second draft, in 9 months
It's seasonal so I thought I would post my old stop-motion short about some critter kids carving pumpkins. 🎃🎃🎃
They've taken so much from us already. Don't let them take your art too.
yeeorjanedoe poems@yeehawpoems.bsky.social · 15h agoMake art when you're upset about politics or life in general or heck even when you're happy just make art
The feminine urge to wear floral skirts and solve murders in a fictional seaside town with an alarmingly high crime rate.
Broke up with my medieval bf because I can’t eat another pigeon cooked inside a duck cooked inside a goose
If you live in southwest Calgary, getting to advance voting at Spruce Meadows isn't easy without a car. Our Calgary Transit team noticed the problem and stepped up with a shuttle. Proud of them for making voting easier! www.calgarytransit.com/news/spruce-...
Too many people judge the disabled for what we do to survive. The truth is you can’t fathom what it’s like to live in a body that’s betrayed you. To exist in legislated poverty with no reliable help or care. To be left by the wayside to die and abandoned by almost everyone. 🧵