James H McLaren @JamesHMcLaren@qoto.org

Less flamboyant version of the Boom Chachalaca
#OldMemesNeverDie

SUBTITLES ARE AWESOME. I JUST LEARNED THAT DONALD DUCK SOMETIMES SHOUTS "THAT'S UNCONSTITUTIONAL!" AT THINGS THAT ANNOY HIM.

Hi! This is my #introduction post. I'm new to mastodon and currently #adhd hyperfixating on #gardening and #permaculture. I have a lot of revolving interests, though!

Welcome to Mastodon, yet again, outraged twitter users!

*Top Tip*

We simply don't care what the billionaire has done this time with his little toy!

Leave your anger behind and embrace our pets, hobbies, interests and insights into the lives of real people with real lives

Welcome to Mastodon 🙂

It's been a long time since I spent a whole week stacking stone and I can tell you, my lower back is very glad that it's the weekend.

Great progress this week, and we'll be back on Monday to finish building. Excited to add a wee feature to this structure too.

This wall has lots of shims, snecks and is built in a 'random' style.

The Conservative MP for Kelowna is tweeting about how awful the carbon tax is at literally the same time Kelowna and West Kelowna are being evacuated because of wildfires exacerbated by climate change that the carbon tax would help alleviate by reducing the burning of fossil fuels that release greenhouse gases that are heating the earth and causing extreme weather conditions resulting in out-of-control wildfires.#Kelowna #KelownaFire #WestKelowna #bcpoli #cdnpoli #ClimateChange #ClimateActionNow

Of course he’s going to take away one of the only tools for stopping harassment and abuse. Nazis hate being ignored.

i never see the point in state leaders visiting natural disaster areas

they clearly have no power over the disaster itself

they will not suffer what the people have suffered, and even if they did it would not mitigate the people's suffering

bringing them in and hosting them would eat up all sorts of resources that could be better spent helping the people actually affected

it takes time away from the state leader that they could have better spent receiving and reviewing reports and ordering things to get done

“Now, most journalists worth their salt do not let politicians become their assignment editors…”

Markusoff nails it with this piece.

Assessing Danielle Smith's latest reasons for pausing Alberta wind and solar, to the letter | CBC Calgary

#ableg #abpoli

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/danielle-smith-wind-solar-power-freeze-letters-analysis-1.6936415

A really cool and good thing to remember is that if someone does bad things because their boss told them to, they’re still responsible for the bad things they do.

In a gosh-darn coincidence, that "authentic" folk song from a guy in a forest with high-end AV equipment is wholly aligned with the policy preferences of right-wing billionaires, arguing for no societal changes except cutting taxes and eliminating food assistance for the poor.🤔

I see the City of Ottawa #ottcity is flogging private insurance for the water and sewer lines between the city lot line and the actual house (about $12 monthly) again. Haven't had a problem so far for about 40 years so NO.

You misspelled "fraud."

Last night I shared two posts. The first was positive (Fred Rogers) & the second was abysmal (normalized gun violence).

On #Twitter, I suspect the latter would have garnered far more attention bc a race for publicly visible RTs, likes & follows favors promoting shock & outrage.

But here on #Mastodon, Mister Rogers wisdom was shared more widely.

This isn’t a scientific analysis but a mere observation reinforcing that social media will be what we make it. And I like this neighborhood.

omg... there are babies onhere that have never seen AIRPLANE!

how can their mammas raise them so wrong