Grandma Angie 🇦🇺🇨🇦 🐜🪰🪳

You guys ever think about how, if Al Gore had been president on 9/11, we might be energy independent now? I wish I didn’t.

Seriously dude! Understatement of the minute lol

30 day books-by-women challenge! Choose 30 books, one per day, no particular order, that you’ve read that were written by women.
#BookSky #BookChallenge #ReadingWomen
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I had to bite my tongue constantly when my first granddaughter was born Nov 2020 and no vaccine available until she was maybe 2. I was and am still livid with both fed and provincial govts. That airborne protocols with masks wasn’t the default option is enraging to me…

Enshittification my internet friend! Enshittification is a great book that helps one understand why everything is getting worse…and @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy has ideas for how to turn it around. Although an illegal war may not have been anticipated by the author…

I’m washing dishes in my kitchen. I was here 4 years ago listening to Phoebe Bridgers and crying my face off that my government was really going to do this to all the kids. May I remind you that in March 2022 *THERE WASN’T A 0-5 COVID VACCINE.* Forced mass infection, including all of our youngest.

How did let it rip work out for us? How has it been 4 full years since then and we still have a healthcare system denying airborne transmission. Municipalities display no new knowledge of how disease spreads. Have heard of no entity improving IAQ, except schools which we have pushed so hard for.

4 years ago, NB abruptly went from closing due to omicron, to encouraging the hasty and deadly spread of disease. No more counting school cases, no more masks, no more isolation, no more testing required. And education and health reps were all unavailable for comment.

Obama: "We are living in a time where it can be hard to hope. Each day we wake up to some new assault on our democratic institutions. Another setback to the idea of the rule of law ... but this man - Rev. Jesse Jackson - inspires us to take a harder path ... bc if we don't step up, nobody else will"

I lack the words to capture it, but ... it's just endlessly remarkable to me that so many people in our society have chosen trans kis -- TRANS KIDS, the smallest, least significant, most vulnerable demographic slice you could possibly pick -- as a repository for all their fears & insecurities.

“Trans children are perfect.”

Even with a highly dysfunctional transit system, I still feel happier without a car. And yes, I no longer have a job I have to get to every day. I had hoped to go car-less much sooner but #Transit in #Ottawa has deteriorated significantly since I first had that goal in 2010…

Here’s my urban truth for you. I ended my relationship with my car in November. I’ve been car-less this winter & my mental health improved. I live in the urban core, with permit-street parking only available and boy, is that stressful in #Ottawa winters. This year, no parking of car to worry about!

Credit to Shaun Benson for spitting facts against the lies being spread in #Canada

Educate yourself by doing research! #FactsMatter

All of these details are easily found online 😏

Thanks!

The next one I'm facilitating is April 16 @ 7pm EST

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Lacuna An absence with edges

Some absences have edges.

#words #etymology

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Thank you @julieslalonde.bsky.social for the Stand Up Against Street Harassment training today. #Empower yourself with strategies that work, that help build #Community and make all of us #Safer. Check out @righttobe.bsky.social for more info.

That’s just until they’ve been charged, convicted and sentenced, right? Preferably the sentences will be multiple lifetimes with no parole to be served in Guantanamo…
A girl can dream…

here’s my take re: PMMC and Iran on power & politics today

The fact he’s been able to fail upward, his entire life, to TWICE reaching the most powerful office in the world, is the most damning indictment of the American system it is possible to imagine.

Image is line paper with writing showing an English word followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled and pronounced. The words are night of the comet and pronounced suhnaw-yee ahjheelah tluhdahjhee

Your Cherokee words for today.
The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically.

A long time ago a man had a dog that would go down to the river every day and howl.

Black-and-white formal portrait of Alva Myrdal (1902–1986), the Swedish diplomat, sociologist, politician, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate. She is photographed against a dark background, resting her chin thoughtfully on her left hand, which displays a large, ornate ring. Her expression is calm, wise, and slightly introspective, with deep-set eyes, fine lines of age, and a gentle smile. Her silver-gray hair is styled in a soft, voluminous updo typical of the mid-20th century, and she wears a dark tailored jacket or dress with a simple collar, along with a distinctive metal wristwatch on her left arm. Alva Myrdal was a pioneering figure in social policy, women's rights, and international disarmament. With her husband Gunnar Myrdal, she co-authored the influential 1934 book Kris i befolkningsfrågan (Crisis in the Population Question), which shaped Sweden's progressive family and welfare policies. She served as Sweden's Minister for Disarmament and Church Affairs (1966–1973), headed UNESCO's social science department, and played a key role in the United Nations. In 1982, she shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Alfonso García Robles for her lifelong work on nuclear disarmament and peace advocacy through organizations like the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) and Pugwash Conferences. Known for her intellectual rigor, feminist principles, and commitment to global justice, she remains an icon of principled leadership in diplomacy and social reform.#AlvaMyrdal #NobelPeacePrize #Disarmament #SIPRI

Alva Myrdal was a Swedish sociologist, diplomat & a prominent leader of the disarmament movement. She shared the #Nobel Peace Prize in 1982 (w/A. Robles) "for their work for disarmament & nuclear and weapon-free zones." #WHM

It's International Day for #Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Awareness.

I don’t have spotify for reasons such as that 👆

Trying to stay positive and keep chugging, but this whole thing with the US fully becoming a new Axis with Israel against the will of the people is so incredibly, deeply fucked

Kristi Noem has done a stunning amount of damage and it’s good she’s gone.

But this doesn’t change the fact that we need a complete overhaul of DHS, impartial investigations into the killings of two American citizens, and information on children that were taken from Minnesota.

Cover of Binti by Nnedi Okorafor Cover illustration is the face of a young black woman gazing forward with a planet under her face.

30 day books-by-women challenge! Choose 30 books, one per day, no particular order, that you’ve read that were written by women.
#BookSky #BookChallenge #ReadingWomen
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A run for their money: Young candidates rival older incumbents in midterm fundraising As a growing crop of young candidates challenge longtime Democratic incumbents, some are not just breaking through in the money race, but outraising their opponents altogether.

As a growing crop of young candidates challenge longtime Democratic incumbents, some are not just breaking through in the money race, but outraising their opponents altogether. n.pr/3NgKMIE