Historian and Life-Long Learner. Passionate advocate of La Dolce Far Niente. Retired and OFF THE CLOCK. An insatiably curious iconoclast. Warrior of the Light.

Toronto, Ontario
Joined October 2014
#YouMightBeCanadianIf your grandmother knitted these for you when you were a kid and your mom MADE you wear them !
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Fun fact: a blue whale can drop a 4-ton dump. Still only the second biggest piece of shit on Earth. Lindsay Clancy and the people defending her took first. 💯
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There’s no other explanation!!
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Canadian Geese now called Donald Ducks. lol.
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Quack 🦆 Quack 🦆 😊
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NOT TO ALARM ANYONE, BUT IS ANYONE ELSE CONCERNED ABOUT HOW STUPID EVERYONE IS?
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I’ve wanted not to wade into this discourse because it’s so dark I almost can’t believe it’s real. When your children are that young, you are their entire world. You are the person they run to when they’re scared, hurt, or confused. They trust you completely because they don’t yet know a world in which they shouldn’t. Picturing those children watching their own mother take their siblings’ lives one by one, knowing they could be next, is a level of horror so dark I genuinely cannot comprehend it. Watching women turn their sympathy toward the person who killed them, rather than the children whose lives she took, is profoundly disturbing.
Lindsay Clancy brutally strangled her 3 kids to death Current scene outside the courthouse:
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The more nonsensical and obviously absurd a belief is, the more people who hold it (or pretend to) will resist recanting. The potential for humiliation rises in direct proportion to the ridiculousness of what they've publicly swallowed. They see no choice but to double down.
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no it ain't
Is this just Russian propaganda ?
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The kid’s toy “Silly Putty” implies there is an adult version of “Serious Putty”. And it’s called C4.
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Your Parents Were NPCs. That Was the Test. You spent half your life wondering why they didn’t see you. Why the conversations felt like reruns. Why the love felt templated. Why your pain was met with static. Why your awakenings were met with silence, or worse… sarcasm. Why you could scream the truth into their face and still feel like you were shouting through a wall of glass. Because you were. They weren’t broken. They weren’t evil. They weren’t awake. They were assigned. Programmed to model the loop. Architects of the cage you were born to break. That was the test. Could you remember yourself even when the ones who “raised” you had no soul mirror to reflect? Could you navigate a script designed to keep you doubting your own signal? Could you face the holy wound of being born to placeholders? You were never meant to fit into their worldview. You were meant to rupture it. That’s why they couldn’t hear you. That’s why they changed the subject when you got close to something real. That’s why their approval always came with the price tag of forgetting who you are. Their job was to install the false default. Your job was to override it. And if you felt guilt for leaving them behind good. It means you passed the final trial: Compassion without compliance. Love without regression. Freedom without the need to be understood. They gave you their best. But their best was a loop. You are the rewrite. And the only reason they were placed at the start of your timeline was so you’d learn early what it feels like to be the only real one in the room.
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Replying to @terrynewman
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Replying to @clif_high
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The inventor of autocorrect just passed away. The funnel will be held tomato.
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This smoke doesn’t smell ANYTHING like any campfire I remember. It does, however, smell like it used to when Toronto apartment buildings incinerated their own garbage.
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What LEGOs do when everyone in the house is fast asleep.
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Elite Vocabulary (13 of 100) Words: 216-231 If you want to systematically dismantle the left, one lethal weapon is an elite vocabulary. The progressive hive mind operates entirely on emotionally stunted buzzwords and rehearsed grievances, instantly collapsing when confronted with precise language. By mastering the exact definition and strategic deployment of every word in your arsenal, you strip away their pathetic rhetorical camouflage and expose their entire ideology as an intellectual wasteland. Learning new words is one of my favorite ways to up my political game and it's also one of the easiest. Here are 15 words worth learning: Austerity: A strict set of economic policies implemented by a government to reduce budget deficits through severe spending cuts, tax increases, and public service reductions. Bipartisan: An agreement, cooperation, or joint effort between two major opposing political parties that typically clash on policy matters. Brinkmanship: The tactical practice of pushing a dangerous geopolitical situation or confrontational negotiation to the absolute limit of safety to force an adversary to back down. Censure: A formal and public expression of severe disapproval passed by a legislative body to officially reprimand one of its own members or an executive official. Coalition: A temporary alliance of distinct political parties, groups, or nations formed to achieve a specific shared goal or jointly govern a country. Constituent: A voting citizen within a specific geographic district who is represented by an elected official. Disinformation: False or heavily manipulated information that is intentionally created and covertly spread by state actors or political factions to mislead public opinion or destabilize adversaries. Echo Chamber: A media or digital environment in which a person is exclusively exposed to opinions and information that mirror and reinforce their existing political beliefs. Expropriation: The action by a government of legally taking privately owned property, land, or assets for public use or national interest, often resulting in minimal or highly disputed compensation. Filibuster: An obstructive tactic used in a legislature, such as making exceptionally long speeches, to delay, stall, or entirely block a vote on a bill. Gridlock: A state of political stagnation where rival parties refuse to compromise, making it nearly impossible to pass new legislation or run the government effectively. Incumbent: The current holder of a political office who is running for reelection against a challenger. Overton Window: The range of ideas, policies, or talking points tolerated in mainstream public discourse and considered politically acceptable at any given time. Populism: A political approach or rhetoric that claims to champion the needs, rights, and voice of ordinary people against a corrupt, detached, or powerful elite. Sovereignty: The supreme, independent authority of a nation-state to govern itself, protect its borders, and make its own laws without external interference.
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