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Andi
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When depressed, spending three hours reading brutal holocaust survivor testimony puts all my little shit problems into perspective

Humans have such incredible capacity for cruelty, willful blindness, self delusion, perseverance, kindness, and survival
November 30, 2025 at 6:10 AM
For real life, me on the daily
November 20, 2025 at 8:12 PM
"Kind, good, happy, gentlemanly, secure people never go Nazi...But the frustrated and humiliated intellectual, the rich and scared speculator, the spoiled son, the labor tyrant, the fellow who has achieved success by smelling out the wind of success—they would all go Nazi in a crisis." - D Thompson
November 16, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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props to WSJ for once on a useful notion, ADMIN PARTY for everybody
November 15, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Writing an essay for school about Caroline Herschel's career as a female astronomer in 1700s and y'all, I did not anticipate the ridiculousness of their "family telescope"

This poor house is getting plowed.
November 11, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Dudebro peppers:
I'm looking for a good knife for my bug out bag in case of EMP attacks!!

Momcore peppers:
I'm looking for a good kids gas mask because ICE deployed tear gas outside his school and we walk home

Me with insomnia & anxiety:
aaaaaaaaaaahahhhhhhhh
November 11, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Fascinating read about a gay man infiltrating an organization that would kill him, while hoping to bring it down
Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias.

He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends. The one person he told was ProPublica reporter @josh-kaplan.bsky.social.

(Published January)
A Mole Infiltrated the Highest Ranks of American Militias. This Is What He Found.
Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends....
www.propublica.org
November 11, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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🔥 COACH SULLY: “Let’s see what $4.3 TRILLION looks like when each party gets their hands on it… the oligarchs are laughing all the way to the bank (with Republicans)…”
October 29, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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As far as I’m concerned the Canada Health Act and The Canadian Charter Of Rights And Freedoms are the two most important and fundamental pieces of legislation in Canada.

Any politician who even toys with the idea of skirting either of them deserves to be cancelled.
#cdnpoli #ableg
October 28, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Timeline refresh
Elizabeth Blackwell (1707-1758), Scottish botanical illustrator known for the book "A Curious Herbal" 1737. Blackwell published her hand drawn, engraved and coloured work in order to raise funds to free her husband from debtors prison. #ReframingWomenPrintmakers
October 26, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Introducing kiddo to dinotopia. Was shocked someone at our local library rated it a 2!

"The eco-radical message of this oh-so-squeaky-clean socialist-fantasy of a culture is very hamhanded, and far less believable than the idea of surviving dinosaurs. Probably not wise to expose young children to"
October 26, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Don't really know when it happened, but prepping is being taken back by the "you can't survive alone without community because no one has all the skills and tools to survive" folks who are more about seed saving in case USA collapses like Soviet Union in 90s and dying their camo bags purple

Love it
October 26, 2025 at 11:15 AM
"To heal well you need to relax, be in a calm body state. Do meditations. This extensive, immobile healing schedule will test your mental limits."

Me: consumes the fiery outrage of the world's social and geopolitical doom like a speed demon monkey perfectly farmed by every algorithm
October 24, 2025 at 11:51 PM
One more day of walking before I'm wheelchair bound for a few weeks

Decided to do both feet rather than one at a time. Private docs will just do whatever you want whenever you want, eh? Did you need it? That's between you and their lawyer

Crazy none of it is covered by AB health. It's only walking
October 21, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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Every public health expert - “We need to reduce barriers to entry for vaccines and increase availability!”

UCP - “So you’re saying we should open up a month and a half window to rebook vaccines for a year from now?”

Experts - *Sob uncontrollably*

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
October 19, 2025 at 2:59 AM
If you want your Flu & COVID vaccine in 2026, you need to order by this Dec 15. This will determine how many shots AB orders next year

I'm troubled they are using this little preorder form to order doses rather than based on actual usage!

#abhealth #abpoli

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October 19, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Saving for tomorrow...
Garlic Pita Bread

3/4 cup warm water
1 TBSP honey
2 1/4 tsp active dry yeast
3.5 TBSP EVOO
4 crushed garlic cloves
3/4 cup natural Greek yogurt
480 grams bread flour
2 tsp garlic powder
1.5 tsp sea salt
.5 tsp MSG (optional)

1. Combine water, honey, yeast and bloom for 10 minutes in mixer bowl.
Today’s Garlic Pita Bread recipe test was a roaring success. 🧄🫓🍽️🍜
October 18, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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Christmas is going to be wild. A lot of people who are pretending that they don't see ICE terrorizing children here in Chicago are gonna be like "my kid is crying because I didn't buy a $300 toy; Christ's birth is ruined."
October 14, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Fuuuuuu, as this dude installing our furnace he mentioned he figures I'm safer in USA now than under the last administration. A fuckin maple maga in my house again

Are all these furnace contractors magas??
October 14, 2025 at 9:11 PM
With my own eyeballs I just read a 1670 biography that said "neither did the want of children detract from his good usage of his consort during the intermarriage, whom he prosecuted with much conjugal love and respect"

Aka: they raw dogged like, all the time.

#francisbacon #history
October 12, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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October 9, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Amazing message to keep hope, keep doing your best in your little piece of earth.
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
October 6, 2025 at 12:05 AM
What is up with contractors in AB trying to convince me NOT to buy their stuff?

Also furnace man heard I was Merican and tried to pro 51 state me. In my own fuckin house

"Why do you think I left? I'm Canadian now"
October 5, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Okay, it's awful but I laughed

Such stupid shinanigans
imagine flying halfway around the world for a meeting that could’ve been an email and some guy with a hangover is just shouting at you that it’s against the rules to be fat or gay
October 1, 2025 at 12:12 AM
AB gov has decided to take over the Primary Care Networks to "save money". I don't think most people know yet. They are doing a quiet roll out with meetings with GPs now to discuss the imminent changes that leave folks with unanswered questions and provide only vague promises #abhealth
September 29, 2025 at 10:17 PM