The long awaited cull went ahead, basically. The Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal, so the CFIA confirmed this morning that the ostriches had been culled.

Explaining this to friends who have a healthier relationship to the internet.

I am joining the Ostrich Watch.

Background on why everyone suddenly cares (specifically, even Pierre Poilievre) about ostriches here. www.thestar.com/politics/fed...

Thanks for sharing!

She hasn't left her house since yesterday. *concerned face*

Thanks to this post, one of my oldest friends shared her location with me. It's kind of fun as she lives far away, but I haven't decided if I want to break precedent and share back, so I'm basically running a surveillance state of one.

Yeah that feels like such a mindset shift! I feel like most generations (going back to... forever?) would have rather died than have their parents know where they were at all times.

I do think it's easy to pearl clutch at tech developments that are unfamiliar, and maybe I'm doing that here, but I do think that the acceptance of surveillance is a tipping point for me.

I mean Smith is not wrong that people are still free to answer “no” to this question so it may not be a slam dunk for Canada either. We will see.

Yeah when he started everyone I talked to was like "that's nice, but it won't happen" and yet here we are.

Well, if you change your mind, there IS a very evocative sentence about what a c section scar is like after six c sections and many decades. (She also switches to surrogacy at some point.)

Yeah I'm going to be processing that one for awhile.