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Hapalochlaena Lunulata 🍁🦜🐤🐙 🇺🇦

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Varied interests. Cephalopods, parrots, photography, fishing, archery, amateur radio. Centrist with no love of right or left extremism. I block blockers and follow most who follow me. I have a blue and gold macaw (39) and an African grey (21)

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Hapalochlaena Lunulata 🍁🦜🐤🐙 🇺🇦 @hapalochlaena.bsky.social · 6h

I bought a new office chair, and my grey is afraid of it. She'll still come to my office, but she stays attached to me instead of sitting on the back of the chair.

Now I type with a 1 lb weight on my hand.

Hapalochlaena Lunulata 🍁🦜🐤🐙 🇺🇦 @hapalochlaena.bsky.social · 6h

I annoyed my macaw with something, and for days she'd go out of her way to walk past me and do a "Hmmpf!"

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Hapalochlaena Lunulata 🍁🦜🐤🐙 🇺🇦 @hapalochlaena.bsky.social · 7h

I think the US is on the way to another civil war.

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Hapalochlaena Lunulata 🍁🦜🐤🐙 🇺🇦 @hapalochlaena.bsky.social · 8h

>> Mr. Poilievre knows all of that because he’s not stupid.

20 years ago I might have agreed with that, but now, I think time has shown you're wrong on that one.

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Alan Smithee DGA @alansmitheedga.bsky.social · 1d

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Hapalochlaena Lunulata 🍁🦜🐤🐙 🇺🇦 @hapalochlaena.bsky.social · 1d

some historian with a sense of humour and access to a time machine.

Hapalochlaena Lunulata 🍁🦜🐤🐙 🇺🇦 @hapalochlaena.bsky.social · 1d

Back when he got that, I really felt it was undeserved. Even today, I thought it was undeserved.

Then I realized that what's happened here: someone from after 2025 has time machined back, and set up Obama to troll Trump. cue Dr. Who music...

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Hapalochlaena Lunulata 🍁🦜🐤🐙 🇺🇦 @hapalochlaena.bsky.social · 1d

Someone could present him with the Knob-L Piss Prize, and as long as it came with a cheque and the presenter could manage a passable northern European accent, I bed he'd let you pour it on him.

Hapalochlaena Lunulata 🍁🦜🐤🐙 🇺🇦 @hapalochlaena.bsky.social · 1d

another way to look at it. You know the shit you get away with, that other people don't see. If you start becoming comfortable with that stuff, you're going to forget that you're just getting away with it. Then one day, you don't get away with it. Until that day, it must be that everyone does it.

Hapalochlaena Lunulata 🍁🦜🐤🐙 🇺🇦 @hapalochlaena.bsky.social · 1d

Sorry, that was long-winded.

Hapalochlaena Lunulata 🍁🦜🐤🐙 🇺🇦 @hapalochlaena.bsky.social · 1d

I took a psych minor and the concept of "projection" always interested me. You can look around and see people doing it if you pay attention, but the way these guys do it is almost inconceivable. These events need to be in Psych 101 level courses.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSSW...

Every inconceivable from The Princess Bride

YouTube video by tim lindner

www.youtube.com

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Hapalochlaena Lunulata 🍁🦜🐤🐙 🇺🇦 @hapalochlaena.bsky.social · 1d

5/... 45 years ago, I might have been one of them.

But then... I grew up.

Hapalochlaena Lunulata 🍁🦜🐤🐙 🇺🇦 @hapalochlaena.bsky.social · 1d

4/... That's what's happening right now. People bought the message for too long, and never thought about the consequences. Obviously, I did at some point, but I'm certain there are not as many who thought far into it. We have people here who would love full Trumpism or even to be the 51st. .../5

Hapalochlaena Lunulata 🍁🦜🐤🐙 🇺🇦 @hapalochlaena.bsky.social · 1d

3/... Thing is, when you're poor, you don't always really appreciate the things taxes actually give you. Esp. in Canada, people take things for granted. You take, health care for granted, and suddenly you're paying $50k in the hospital because you "broke" your leg playing kick the Tannerite. .../4

Hapalochlaena Lunulata 🍁🦜🐤🐙 🇺🇦 @hapalochlaena.bsky.social · 1d

2/... Now I'm Canadian, so I had the advantage of seeing the experiment play out in the USA over the last half-century, without having to actually live it.

But that message was strong, and if you were confident you could get out of being poor, it was a place you wanted to go.

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Hapalochlaena Lunulata 🍁🦜🐤🐙 🇺🇦 @hapalochlaena.bsky.social · 1d

Regan got elected when I was 15. And TBH, I loved that message. We were poor. We *wanted* stuff like that to happen; AND if we got rich somehow, we'd have lower taxes. If we didn't get rich, life was already shit, so no change. It was a low-odds dice roll, but seemed to have no downside. .../2

Hapalochlaena Lunulata 🍁🦜🐤🐙 🇺🇦 @hapalochlaena.bsky.social · 1d

[sound of time passing... do de do]

Continuing this thought. My neighbourhood was built in 1962, making it just a little older than me. The nearest grocery store is 1.7 km as the google walks. I'm 60, I'm not walking that with groceries when it's -25, and certainly not 15 years from now.

Hapalochlaena Lunulata 🍁🦜🐤🐙 🇺🇦 @hapalochlaena.bsky.social · 1d

And do you notice, it's the first thing to use on liberal politician, and always come up blank.

Hypothesis: they're a pedo club and think it's so normal they can't imagine anyone *not* being a pedo. Hence, it's a thing to nonchalantly throw to "pwn a lib" but because it's not normal, they lose.

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Hapalochlaena Lunulata 🍁🦜🐤🐙 🇺🇦 @hapalochlaena.bsky.social · 1d

All that's missing on the right is a pencil 'stache.

Hapalochlaena Lunulata 🍁🦜🐤🐙 🇺🇦 @hapalochlaena.bsky.social · 1d

You're welcome, and thank you.

When you live next door to a madman who thinks he's some kind of Caesar and regularly threatens to annex your country...

well, you know it better than I.

Keep up the good fight!

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Hapalochlaena Lunulata 🍁🦜🐤🐙 🇺🇦 @hapalochlaena.bsky.social · 1d

To me, voting is just about the most important thing I do that isn't a medical emergency or breathing.

Hapalochlaena Lunulata 🍁🦜🐤🐙 🇺🇦 @hapalochlaena.bsky.social · 1d

heh, I found a picture of young me in university... i am closest to the camera.

Hapalochlaena carrying the Queen's Colours in a military parade. Behind him, a colour guard, and the unit colours.

Hapalochlaena Lunulata 🍁🦜🐤🐙 🇺🇦 @hapalochlaena.bsky.social · 1d

Dude, it's their environment plan. now the terrorist planes won't have to fly as far.

Hapalochlaena Lunulata 🍁🦜🐤🐙 🇺🇦 @hapalochlaena.bsky.social · 1d

>> Many people seen the line and walked out.

That, unfortunately is something that does make my skin crawl. People will bitch and moan about the government but won't stand in a bit of a line to have their say.

Democracy is work, and people can't be lazy about it.

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Hapalochlaena Lunulata 🍁🦜🐤🐙 🇺🇦 @hapalochlaena.bsky.social · 1d

Definitely some polling stations work better than others. If i were to pick one thing to fix about them it would be that EC really needs to come down with some standards about managing the stations, and *enforce* those standards.

Manual or machine, voting sucks if the poll station is a shitshow.