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Bookseller. Photographer. Grandmother. Very pissed off Canadian. Pics of my horses, cats, chickens. Supporting #Ukraine. Media tab to see my photos. My bookstore: https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/StoreFrontDisplay?cid=59873904

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Grey Azira 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🍁 🍁 🍁 @greyazira.bsky.social · Sep 5

The real Grey Azira.
#horses #animals

Dark grey horse with a silver mane. A few blades of grass hanging from her mouth.

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Grey Azira 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🍁 🍁 🍁 @greyazira.bsky.social · 1h

Maybe I'm too much of a pessimist, but I keep thinking of Bush's "Mission accomplished" moment when I read Gaza news.

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Grey Azira 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🍁 🍁 🍁 @greyazira.bsky.social · 16h

Definitely gross! I have a couple of gray horses, and they are honestly just disgusting most of the time (except Azira who is perfect of course!) but none of them have ever slept face first in fresh manure. That’s talent. 😂

Grey Azira 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🍁 🍁 🍁 @greyazira.bsky.social · 22h

😂 wow that’s a lovely image 🤣

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Grey Azira 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🍁 🍁 🍁 @greyazira.bsky.social · 23h

Oh yes... I have one of those. It's like a blender has gone through the stall by morning.

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Grey Azira 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🍁 🍁 🍁 @greyazira.bsky.social · 1d

youtube.com/shorts/A2P-8...

Every country gets one voice

YouTube video by Tod Maffin

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Grey Azira 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🍁 🍁 🍁 @greyazira.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, that's similar to me. I have five of my own, plus one long time boarder. I'm on 100+ acres, so it's not really a size limitation, but more would be way too much work. I think your barn plan is perfect. I have a 4 stall barn but the are all only 12X12, and once in while, bigger is better.

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Grey Azira 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🍁 🍁 🍁 @greyazira.bsky.social · 1d

How many horses do you have?

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Grey Azira 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🍁 🍁 🍁 @greyazira.bsky.social · 1d

That sounds like a really nice setup with big stalls and separate runs 👍

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Grey Azira 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🍁 🍁 🍁 @greyazira.bsky.social · 1d

Some of you have brains. You're the ones I feel bad for.

Grey Azira 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🍁 🍁 🍁 @greyazira.bsky.social · 1d

One thing that does get missed a lot in these articles is that the boycott is that it is not just about punishing the US. It's about helping Canadian workers and businesses survive this blatant attack on our economy.

Grey Azira 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🍁 🍁 🍁 @greyazira.bsky.social · 1d

Quite right

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Grey Azira 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🍁 🍁 🍁 @greyazira.bsky.social · 1d

These articles are getting a bit closer to the truth. But they still really fail to report on the actual rage that Canadians feel, and keep mentioning high hopes that we will soon come back. Apparently when we are over our little hurt feelings.

Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 1d

"Canada’s boycott (of) America movement is hurting innocent bystanders."

What did they expect? Canadians are nice, but we are also not pushovers. www.cnn.com/2025/10/13/b...

Canada’s boycott America movement is hurting innocent bystanders | CNN Business

Virginia Distillery CEO Gareth Moore was bullish on his company’s American single malt whisky sales north of the border when 2025 kicked off.

www.cnn.com

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Grey Azira 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🍁 🍁 🍁 @greyazira.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, I can imagine. And of course the same issues would apply to UBI as well.

Grey Azira 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🍁 🍁 🍁 @greyazira.bsky.social · 2d

The bad boy is home. I had to drive up and load him on the trailer, because he declined to leave his new best friend. But he was happy enough once he got home and saw all his mares again. Much excitement and foolishness. Azira is thrilled and trying to hog all his attention. #horses #animals

White horse looking over the top of a fence

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Grey Azira 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🍁 🍁 🍁 @greyazira.bsky.social · 2d

Maybe. Though I’ve seen enough extreme right commentary suggesting that a dictatorship would be okay as long as it’s their own dictator that I’m not totally convinced. I certainly hope you are correct anyway.

Grey Azira 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🍁 🍁 🍁 @greyazira.bsky.social · 3d

You make a good point. However, this particular essay is about the tendencies towards an authoritarian viewpoint within the general populace, not those in power. So it really is not about dictatorship in this specific case.

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AnarchoTerran @anarchoterran.bsky.social · 3d

Resist Fascism!

youtu.be/VwcKwGS7OSQ?...

Woody Guthrie~ All You Fascists Bound To Lose

YouTube video by UnAmericanBandstand

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Grey Azira 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🍁 🍁 🍁 @greyazira.bsky.social · 3d

This is long, but worth the read. Makes the argument that universal basic income would be an excellent way to tamp down on authoritarianism. www.scottsantens.com/the-hidden-r...

The Hidden Reasons Authoritarianism Is Growing — And How to Reverse It

It takes all kinds. Humanity would have never made it this far without a multitude of people with a wide diversity of personality types and preferences. It is our individual differences wherein lies o...

www.scottsantens.com

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 3d

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

www.cbsnews.com

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Grey Azira 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🍁 🍁 🍁 @greyazira.bsky.social · 3d

Good luck Milton! 🥳🤞🤞🤞

Grey Azira 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🍁 🍁 🍁 @greyazira.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks! She is a fun cat and very photogenic.

Grey Azira 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🍁 🍁 🍁 @greyazira.bsky.social · 3d

Sophie wishes everyone a Happy #Caturday and also that she was big enough to catch birds.
#cats #animals

Tiny tabby kitten with white chest and white toes looking out a window from under a curtain.

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Grey Azira 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🍁 🍁 🍁 @greyazira.bsky.social · 4d

I think the govt is just swallowing CP management excuses without really examining the failures. It’s easier than thinking analytically.

Grey Azira 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🍁 🍁 🍁 @greyazira.bsky.social · 4d

Canada Post management has utterly failed to look at the market and change to take advantage of the rapidly growing parcel business. It's a classic failure to adapt. And CP employees have been telling them this for years.

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Grey Azira 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🍁 🍁 🍁 @greyazira.bsky.social · 4d

I agree with your general conclusion, though I have to say... Purolator is mostly more expensive than CP, and not as reliable for rural and remote deliveries. CP is actually not replaceable for those. Nor for multi-occupant buildings (condos, apartments, etc.)

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