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Krista D. Ball: Canada's Snarky Potato @kristadb1.bsky.social · 6h

Logged in to see people encouraging someone to get a pet that they cannot remotely afford (mutual aid it! It's fine! It's just a fucking living creature! Who cares about all that when there are cute pics for us!!!) so anyway I'm turning my phone off before I say something unkind.

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P. Thomas Johnson 🇬🇧🇨🇦 🤝 🇺🇦 @ptomj.bsky.social · 11h

People seem to be intentionally misreading this post, so:

> This is because Canadian Thanksgiving & Columbus Day fall on the same day, so performative morons looking to score social brownie points are accusing Canadians of celebrating a genocidal coloniser, even though it's tied to Canada's harvest

Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 14h

Thanksgiving in Canada has nothing to do with Columbus!

We are a colonial country with a million things to atone for but Thanksgiving is not one of them.

Our Thanksgiving is timed with the harvest and it's literally just "Be grateful for harvest"

US Imperialism has brain rotted too many of you.

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🌿Fern🌿 @itmustbebunnies.bsky.social · 12h

It is because Canadian Thanksgiving falls on US Columbus day so people are conflating the two 🤷‍♀️

Columbus Day > Date (2025)
Mon, Oct 13, 2025
United States

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'Nathan Boo-goine 👻 @nathanburgoine.bsky.social · 12h

We don’t do Thanksgiving b/c we were Britain-born so it meant nothing to us. My husband’s birthday is close, so we use the stat to gather with family for his birthday.

Also this.

(Also, I got "you need a better editor, you put Thanksgiving *before* Hallowe’en in your book!" from US readers. Ahem.)

Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 14h

Thanksgiving in Canada has nothing to do with Columbus!

We are a colonial country with a million things to atone for but Thanksgiving is not one of them.

Our Thanksgiving is timed with the harvest and it's literally just "Be grateful for harvest"

US Imperialism has brain rotted too many of you.

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Krista D. Ball: Canada's Snarky Potato @kristadb1.bsky.social · 12h

It's a statement to how well you made it!

Krista D. Ball: Canada's Snarky Potato @kristadb1.bsky.social · 12h

FLASHBACK for @magpie.tips

Dice, dice tower, bag that says don't be a dick

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Krista D. Ball: Canada's Snarky Potato @kristadb1.bsky.social · 12h

Oh! Here's the paint closet inside the gaming room. Slowly moving things in. Also putting in some lego.

Alt: top is unopened boxes of miniatures I need to paint. Bottom is watercolour stuff + painting gear + some unfinished lego. Right is all of my miniature paints (more supplies in drawers).;

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Krista D. Ball: Canada's Snarky Potato @kristadb1.bsky.social · 12h

It's hard to see, but the lower shelf actually has the plug in cut into the back, with a matching black plate.

...which means I can set up my steam deck charging station 🥰

As described. Steam deck is visible in foreground

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Krista D. Ball: Canada's Snarky Potato @kristadb1.bsky.social · 13h

$140 in "groceries" whereby the only edible thing was a bunch of bananas. 😭

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Krista D. Ball: Canada's Snarky Potato @kristadb1.bsky.social · 13h

But how can I do performative social justice if I can't comment on someone eating some mashed potatoes?

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Krista D. Ball: Canada's Snarky Potato @kristadb1.bsky.social · 13h

speaking of, I should actually start going through the fridge to see what I can make for Thanksgiving sides 😅

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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 16h

Did you know the first thanksgiving celebrated by Europeans in North America happened in Canada?
Or that the Indigenous celebrated autumn harvests long before Europeans arrived?
Why do we celebrate Thanksgiving a month earlier than the United States?
This is the story.

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A festive Thanksgiving dinner table featuring a roasted turkey as the centerpiece, surrounded by an array of dishes including green beans, stuffing, sliced ham, and a pumpkin pie. The table is decorated with pumpkins, sunflowers, candles, and autumnal flowers, with wine glasses and plates set for a meal.

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 14h

Thanksgiving in Canada has nothing to do with Columbus!

We are a colonial country with a million things to atone for but Thanksgiving is not one of them.

Our Thanksgiving is timed with the harvest and it's literally just "Be grateful for harvest"

US Imperialism has brain rotted too many of you.

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 17h

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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Tyche BoooOOOoooks 👻🇨🇦 @tychebooks.bsky.social · 14h

t's a long weekend in Canada! Time to stock up on books to curl up and read after your pumpkin pie.

On Kobo, get Unmagic by Jane Glatt & Jumpship Hope by Adria Laycraft for 99 cents!

Unmagic: www.kobo.com/ca/en/e...
Jumpship Hope: www.kobo.com/ca/en/e...

book promo post. Parchment watercolour background with pumpkins in lower left corner and leaves in the upper right corner. In the centre are two book covers, Unmagic by Jane Glatt and Jumpship Hope by Adria Laycraft. Unmagic is blue and shows a young woman standing on a beach. The trees around her are crystalline. Jumpship Hope is a green cover and shows a young starship pilot wearing an exo-suit, surveying a strange landscape, while overhead a space station is visible in the sky.

Additional text says Thanksgiving Sale Weekend, Kobo.

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Krista D. Ball: Canada's Snarky Potato @kristadb1.bsky.social · 14h

lol nah I did mean this year

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Doc Wallace @docwallace.bsky.social · 14h

A pox on whoever put 'Discover' as the default for some on here, so people get helicoptered into stuff without context.

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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 1d

[11] Peace (2023) | Original pen & ink on paper drawing by Robert Bohan

Buy here: robbohan.etsy.com/listing/4346...

The Wave (2016) | Original pen & ink on paper drawing by Robert Bohan

Buy here: robbohan.etsy.com/listing/4374...

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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 1d

🧵 When I draw I am greatly influenced by Irish mythology, culture & landscape. This is my photo of Kerry where, ancient the Bohan’s lived for a thousand years.

You can’t escape your past, as you can see in my art as you scroll down this thread & see my one-off ink on paper drawings [1]

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Jamie Schler @lifesafeast.bsky.social · 1d

Life is either boredom or whipped cream. - Voltaire

The most fun thing about researching the history of whipped cream is discovering that for centuries before it became a topping, whipped cream WAS the dessert!

jamieschler.substack.com/p/creme-foue...

Crème Fouettée, Crème à la Chantilly

“It’s only whipped cream.”

jamieschler.substack.com

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Krista D. Ball: Canada's Snarky Potato @kristadb1.bsky.social · 14h

That should take us well past Christmas, honestly 😭

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Krista D. Ball: Canada's Snarky Potato @kristadb1.bsky.social · 14h

Then, once the bathroom is done, the main basement needs a repaint (it's been years), a new windowbox (we still have the original from 45 years ago and...it lived a good life), and also clean/tidy/declutter the basement closets.

ALL of the basement closets.

Also, we need to make 2 new closets lol

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Krista D. Ball: Canada's Snarky Potato @kristadb1.bsky.social · 14h

I need to call the tiling people on Tuesday for a timeline on when they can come in (it's been two weeks since I paid, but they might've needed to order in one of the tiles...)

So while waiting for that, I think we'll divert and clean up the laundry room and re-paint the concrete.

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Krista D. Ball: Canada's Snarky Potato @kristadb1.bsky.social · 14h

After that, just waiting for spouse's desk to arrive (he has a makeshift one, but it'll be a bit to get the new one set up in the corner of the gaming room near the door).

Then I call the room done!

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Krista D. Ball: Canada's Snarky Potato @kristadb1.bsky.social · 14h

Spouse is working on the window box right now, so all that's left for the gaming room after that is the ceiling vent and emergency water valve access covers (since, um, the original builders decided to put an emergency turn off valve in a bedroom ceiling 🙄)

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