I texted the pic to my brother who’s responded with HE WHO SHALL NOT BE DISTURBED 😂😂😂
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I texted the pic to my brother who’s responded with HE WHO SHALL NOT BE DISTURBED 😂😂😂
RIP Graham Greene. Every time he popped up on screen when I was a kid, my mom would excitedly point him out for being an actual Native on the screen. Able to be deadly serious and infinitely hilarious (even in smaller roles like Last of Us), he ate up the screen. Nʌki’wah brother.
I was doing a bunch of bits & pieces around the yard today. Thought I’d finish by mowing a couple of small spots. When I drove up to the mower, I discovered it was already in use by this little fledgling barn swallow. So I guess I can mow tomorrow! #birds #BarnSwallow #fledgling #saskatchewan #farm
He keeps on trying, but even the right wing kinda mocks him. “Kudatah” though, that lives forever in AB political discourse.
I don’t honestly know! My parents had a cat from mom’s family farm when I was born, and Sam latched onto me as soon as I could walk. There’s also a photo of me (2? Maybe?) sitting in a box by the stove. In the box with me is Tiny, B&W mutt, as a puppy. Don’t know where he came from though.
Ahhh damn. Graham Greene was a treasure and he should have been able to stay longer. What a loss.
Same as one of our Alberta Freedum dudes who kept talking about a kudatah. People asked if he meant coup d’état and he said yes but Freedum meant he was using the English spelling. 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️
😂😂
And here we are, toddling along after playing with whatever matches are left over.
Nice, but with boundaries.
Mysterious skills! I know of no herd where there isn’t THAT ONE COW who is always outside the fence at the most unexpected, inconvenient time. (They are all named “that bloody damn cow” or similar.)
Reminding everyone! That he was a Very! Important! Mayor! once upon a time. Sorta. Pay no attention to all the criming & amorality on display before, during, after. He was Mayor! Mayor G!
Considering how the “official statement” kept referring to him as “Mayor” this is hilarious and entirely appropriate. So. Much. Shade.
Cows have some mysterious fence-bypass skills.
Yes the scissors were sharp enough for the task even if they’re not as sharp or multitasking-capable or aesthetically pleasing as a proper Set of Claws.
We also like to change up the ones we’re sincere about, just to keep things interesting.
😂😂😂
She is HELPing. Cats are always helping! It’s not their fault if their humans are not yet advanced enough to understand the degree of HELPfulness on offer.
I’m gonna be giggling about this for days!
Oh really pretty stuff in there!
It *does* give one pause, that’s for sure.
Also tells me Alex has never had a decent - not even a good!- sourdough. Also can’t use a bread knife to slice to preferred thinness.
Fires and harvest. It’ll be a red-sky September.
Ugh it’s gonna be a crunchy September (between fire smoke & harvest particulates).
We’re all living in hope here!
They do! The whole piece is fantastc!
That’s *amazing*.
Coots and boobies have the most hilarious feet.
Floridians, creating and recreating Pride crosswalks with chalk. This principle in action. Good trouble! (Plus apparently they have cops parked keeping sharp eyes out for chalk, so at least they’re not helping harass immigrants or BIPOC or just folks they don’t like the look of).
Repair cafes are great options to meet these sorts of people, or be one of these people! Fixers of all types and stripes. Libraries & community associations are great options for trying to start something. Or farmers markets!
Also, glasses are a disability accommodation. Just because we don’t think of it that way…if you’re wearing glasses, you can honestly say you have a disability.
Lovely! Look at those big soft snowshoe toes!
I wonder, if this “christian” doesn’t have faith in any governments, why is she asking a government to take such un-christian, un-biblical, steps?? What could possibly explain this?? Oh wait. I bet I know. I bet it’s the howling racism.
You can’t buy Kinder Surprise eggs in the US because the small toy “surprises” in the eggs are choking hazard. But freaking AI chatbot telling a kid how to choke himself *to death* is apparently fine.
Kid-memory is a very strange thing. Especially between about 4 and 8…some events are crystal clear but maybe didn’t happen, some did, and the percolation takes days.
Oh Issac’s Storm is a fantastic read!
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This is both hilarious and slightly terrifying.
I’m not fussy about the mechanism, but I hope for a long, lingering, excruciatingly painful decline with awareness and without communication. I’m okay to be a bad horrible person in very specific cases, and this is definitely one of them.
Well, honestly. You’re not wrong.
Like, it’s even smirking! (Of course it is, it’s a calico cat). It really does look so like a cat!!
Where’s the Stargate gang when you need ‘em?
These trees, man. As a prairie kid, these trees have always just filled me with awe that something grows that big and that long. Centuries of one tree, millennia even. What an astonishing world we live in.
And oh my what great photos! I would totally book you as a guide to interesting photo & swim spots 😆😉
I see a calico cat lounging on a fluffy pillow!
Happy Completed VLD!
Thinking of you, the kids, and your son, Debbie. Holding all of you in my thoughts and wishing strength and comfort to all.
Got a giggle out of Kylie Minogue in Doctor Who.
Boosting and sending “go home safely, kitty darlings” thoughts!
Boosting to #yeg folks! Please keep eyes peeled for escapees!
I would say that is a highly suspicious account, and I just blocked it.
Oh I sure hope Taylor sues them into oblivion.
RFKJR not asking for briefing on anything, by any SMEs, certainly explains why every time he goes in front of a committee he’s unaware of anything HHS has cancelled. He’s completely hostile to everything his agency is supposed to do. Of course he wouldn’t want to hear from anyone DOING THE WORK.
I’d volunteer to collaborate lookout & fixer, break the window & shut if off. Maybe take the keys to a convenient garbage can. Pretty sure anybody who saw it, wouldn’t have seen a thing.
Ooo yeah that’s asshole behaviour even if it’s -40. You’re parking for days, you move that shit on outta town - and somebody in town would give you a ride back & forth.
Yeah but that’s the easy ticketing target. Call the cops for this guy and they’d laugh you out of town.
Thank you dude in the giant fricking Denali HD diesel for sitting in front of of the vet office running. After 10 minutes we’re all thrilled the entire parking lot reeks.
It was, as Jorts says, a little honkers-bonkers.
Yeah if there are like 30 people replying and riffing on woodland murderings, podcast rights, and so forth it’s probably a safe bet everyone is having fun.
Yes! Keep them. Thank you.
I am the Shiba Inu every morning - absolutely EVERY morning - and mostly I am the husky at night, screming screming into the void.
All right then. Let's flood Cockrill's and Carr's offices with demands to make the boosters available and free for anyone who wants them. Copy to the premier and your local MLA. Health Min contact info: www.saskatchewan.ca/government/g... Premier: Phone 306-787-9433, Email premier@gov.sk.ca
Zero surprise, and also completely with @schmutzie.com - I hate them. Every last one of them.
I’m going to! I don’t think there’s much aside from notification for non-US copyrights, but I’ll take notification and being on the side of shut-down-the-plagiarism-slop-machines.
I’d bet money he overheard someone say “mitochondrial” and just thought it sounded impressive. I refuse to believe he has any understanding of what mitochondria actually IS or DOES in the body.
It was not supposed to drift over into the non-fiction and self-help sections!!
Sigh. I always picked them up when I came home because they were great snapshots to keep a little up to date (when living province/s away)
And book reviews!
God dammit, I’ve got 4 pubs in here. Well, three and a journal special issue intro.
“What you have accomplished here flies in the face of all the assumptions and stereotypes that have been heaped upon you,” Gov. Pritzker said. "To that I say: Don’t ever stop defying those expectations."
Hypothetically how evil would it be to just very accidentally push those ice dudes into the fire line…? I feel like it might be less evil than this.
Same, Darth. Same.
These resignations, the firings and dismantling in the last seven months - this is a looming disaster for public health not just in the US, but across the globe. We are all less safe the longer a crackpot like RFKJR is allowed any authority. I wish I thought this would get him fired, but. 🤬
In a reasonable world, higher ups would ensure those firefighters are back on the line tomorrow with major apologies & some firings to follow. In a just world, the firefighters would go back & the whole ICE team that took them would be reassigned there, on the line, until the fire’s contained.
Harvesting has started and so the grain dust in the air will be painting sunsets for the next while. A longer view and a closer crop in these two shots. #saskatchewan #farm #sunset #photography #harvest2025
Most of my US Deep South accent exposure is from TV, but yeah that “sounds” familiar. We’re more likely to drop vowels - and consonants - than lean into each one.
Okay, that legit made me laugh! “Like there’s a “u” in it…!” 😂😂
I still think it’s Aladdin’s lamp. Somebody should try rubbing the flag, maybe a genie would appear and get rid of Ken Paxton.
I’m outside the US but bookmark all of your giveaways (that I haven’t read) for my extensive library list! Never doubt that you ARE making the world better…you absolutely are. You’re bringing us books!
Why is Aladdin’s Lamp on a Texas flag?
Reminds me of an English prof who went off an a (brief) tear in the middle of a Holmes story… “Why were all these little old ladies so calm about mayhem? Laudanum! LAUDANUM! They were calm because they were all stoned to the gills!” And then he just carried on with a regular reading/lecture.
It’s…memorable.
One of the points I make when I guest lecture in policy grad classes: good evaluation work supports democracy. I usually use fairly local examples, but I’m debating if I should use BLS as an example this fall.
A two night project. Me, Pipsqueak, and a lot of peas needing to be shelled. Started last night, finished tonight.
Following the tarring & feathering, might there be options for drawing & quartering?
They should come to Richmound and ask the citizens and mayor and council there how “nuisance” plays out when a sov cit style cult settles in. (While the RD/Queen is not specifically a sov cit group there is absolutely significant overlap in beliefs and practices
Way to bury the lede! Congratulations
I feel like a lot of folks will be surprised! And shocked by how much OTC is made overseas.
They don’t need *us* to believe it, as long as the media and our governments continue to spout IDF lies and utter nonsense.
I snorted!
Dreeshen should open a desk drawer in his office and crawl back into the bottle that’s likely in there.
I am so sorry! I hope there’s a way out of this that doesn’t do irreparable damage to hundreds of thousands of folks in the US. I think SO many more meds than people realize - Rx and OTC - are made outside the country entirely or partially.
Hey it’s #InverteFest and for a change I have pics! Two bees on two different native asters. They were both very busy and very fast, no time for any posing-for-photos nonsense. #saskatchewan #farm #bees
They certainly don’t suck up water and power at a dangerous clip.
From middle aged, rural SK - what great news! Gonna follow and cheer.
Very odd indeed.
And have been for 20’years. Nobody seems to be able to understand it except for all the poor dudes who get laid off and discover there’s not as much opportunity as the various conservative govts like to say there is to transition out of the patch.
…ripped off, start over & make them pay some goddamn attention this time. Then I guess he told the shop teacher I would do better, asphalt or cedar shakes, because I’d paid attention when someone showed me how to do it. And that I’d shingled every farm building with him or solo. Which I had!
…got my mom, who said he could talk to dad if he wanted, and handily dad was picking me up after school. He came out, and dad walked around with him and looked. I never heard anything more. Dad sad a couple of weeks later that he told him the whole thing looked bad, and the shingles should be…