James H McLaren @JamesHMcLaren@qoto.org

Dear university-educated women under 45 in Alberta:
I really hope you're planning to vote next week because the guys over 45 seem pretty strongly invested in voting away their pensions & healthcare.

https://abacusdata.ca/alberta-ucp-leads-with-one-week-to-go/
#abpoli #abelxn @cdnpoli

"Meh, why even bother voting?
Nothing really bad is going happen.
I mean, it never has before..
We have laws and stuff."

Meanwhile, in #Ontario voters stayed home never imagining the premier would rewrite the laws, flout democratic norms, privatize healthcare and upend the fabric of the province...and there would be no one to stop him.

#alberta #abpoli #abelxn #yeg #yyc #onpoli #voting

@JamesHMcLaren When you can’t watch the Monty Python cheese shop sketch anymore, because the loss is too painful. 😢

The problem with capitalism is how it distorts the natural balance of Fucking Around & Finding Out by creating a class that is allowed nearly infinite fuckery with zero finding out

Now regretting that I didn’t move to Estonia. It was on my list to visit when I did my next run through Europe in 2021, but I was here in Cuenca in 2020 when COVID hit, and so here I’ve stayed.

https://tech.lgbt/@LilahTovMoon/110414245551813346

OK, sorta pumped, because they published my Letter To The Editor the day after I sent it.
#Pronouns #Trans

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Pierre Trudeau, Ed Broadbent and Joe Clark before their election debate on May 13, 1979.
"The two-hour debate was the first since 1968 and it was moderated by McGill University principal, and future Governor General, David Johnston."
Photo pillaged from Craig Baird, Canadian History Ehx on birdsite. Photo by Graham Bezant.
#canadianhistory #canada #civility

Five Stories of Lives Upended After Dealing With the “We Buy Ugly Houses” Company
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Pennee was convinced to sell the family trailer she'd inherited for 1/5 of its market value.

She's just one of several people who shared their stories of finding themselves in unwanted deals with a cash home buyer.

#RealEstate #Realty #Homes #Houses #HomeVestors #Elderly #Contracts

https://www.propublica.org/article/five-lives-upended-after-dealing-with-we-buy-ugly-houses?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

Well this sort of sucks. An online vendor is using my photographs in their "Crows" 2024 calendar without permission.

Also, the second photo is a raven, not a crow.

America seems to sleepwalking into a 1930s Germany inspired fascist dystopia with barely a whimper….

Houston's only lesbian bar denied insurance for hosting drag

https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/houston-pearl-bar-drag-texas-18100109.php

I'm watching a scene where the hero, who was recently injured, has checked himself out of hospital. He is clearly exhausted but he's pushing himself forward. The story presents this behaviour as heroic and admirable.

I'm over it.

Promoting reckless behaviour regarding health, particularly in men, has always been harmful. In the pandemic, people need the message that rest when fatigued is the "heroic" thing to do.

I want more stories where people rest.

#Storytelling #Screenwriting #Writing

This looks very bad. Looks like New Brunswick won’t be safe for trans kids soon.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/new-brunswick-lgbtq-rights-protections-policy-1.6848092

You'd have to question the training of NSW #police that a senior cuntstable with 12 years experience would find it okay in his tiny little mind to #Taser a 95 year old woman approaching him slowly using a walking frame and #armed with a steak #knife

#ClareKnowland might weight 50kgs dripping wet and it's believed she has dementia.

Seriously in what universe does this even make sense? It makes more sense every time someone says all cops are cvnts.

Please boost the shit out of this.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/may/19/homicide-squad-officers-to-investigate-senior-constables-tasering-of-95-year-old-aged-care-resident?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

#ClareKnowland #NSWPolice #australia

The Nazis did not successfully murder millions because every German was a Nazi. They succeeded because not enough Germans were anti-Nazi.

You have the power to stop it from happening again. All it takes is the willingness to stand up and fight.

Idea from the 17 year old. Kansas City, Kansas should rename their city Missouri City, Kansas. 🤣