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trach or treat! @boogerminer.bsky.social · 48m

Canada has a term for removal of vulnerable people from the city where they are abandoned by cops to fend for themselves with no resources. They're called starlight tours. spheresofinfluence.ca/canadas-best...

Canada's Best-Kept Secret: Starlight Tours

For decades, the Canadian public has overlooked Starlight Tours. Within Indigenous communities, this practice is all too familiar.

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trach or treat! @boogerminer.bsky.social · 10h

Japanese mayo is so good I keep it on hand at all times in addition to the regular ass mayo.

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trach or treat! @boogerminer.bsky.social · 10h

Oh no Japan is def down with mayo. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okonomi...

Okonomiyaki - Wikipedia

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 11h

why, that's a *steal* for the smart piss ball, and I can't wait to find out how much the monthly subscription for the piss-sniffing service costs, and it'll be so useful, and I won't mind the occasional leaking of data on my leaks until the inevitable shutdown day, when my piss ball is sadly bricked

The Verge @theverge.com · 11h

Withings’ urine scanning health tracker is now available for $350

Replacement cartridges that can last up to three months with semiweekly testing start at $100.

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trach or treat! @boogerminer.bsky.social · 11h

Would you like a bonus? For laughs, AI will tell you it means "buddy" or "good friend" www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?t...

Urban Dictionary: tuguy

tuguy: its cree for penis...u know, the thing that ur mom chokes on at night

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trach or treat! @boogerminer.bsky.social · 11h

The Mountain Understander spouse told me we were taking a snow shovel on our drive through the Rockies, the first time.
My prairie ass was like, but it's spring?
Spouse: we are going 2km above sea level, do you think the mountains care that it's spring?

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 13h

People are so fascinatingly stupid about Mt. Washington.

“Oh, it’s not that tall,” they say, little knowing it is haunted by Weather Demons

Were-Wolf Hamel 🏳️‍🌈 @wolfperson1.bsky.social · 13h

I’m sorry but what were over 20 people thinking:

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trach or treat! @boogerminer.bsky.social · 11h

imo the perfect condiment for kebabs is a type of aioli called toum en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toum

Toum - Wikipedia

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Sara @sportsandsuffering.bsky.social · 13h

I regret to inform everyone that my pedantic brain couldn’t let me live until I knew whether or not dodger blue and blue jays blue are the same blue. They are ONE PANTONE NUMBER APART.

a graphic showing the pantone numbers for the two core colors of the toronto blue jays. they are skydome blue (pantone 293) and Stieb Navy (pantone 282)

a hat and canvas tote with the pantone number for Dodger Blue (294 C)

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trach or treat! @boogerminer.bsky.social · 13h

The Coworkers were discussing this and there have honestly been years where we were laughing when flu shots showed up like "about time, we've been in viral season for a while!" We have all been saying the Summoning Words (RSV) while knocking on wood/our heads but team RSV vaccine is here for it.

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trach or treat! @boogerminer.bsky.social · 13h

sleep is for losers, peter
the world series is for winners

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trach or treat! @boogerminer.bsky.social · 13h

Gotta say between the school stuff and the province paying for RSV vaccines, uh, don't jinx it, but I got my flu shot before PICU got slammed with bronchiolitics on bipap.

trach or treat! @boogerminer.bsky.social · Sep 3

For example, in a place where covid vaccination is around 80% and the province spent a lot of money on school ventilation systems for respiratory illnesses, this will reflect in the outcome effects that show up in the hospital. Of course the risks seem lower to me. Because they are.

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trach or treat! @boogerminer.bsky.social · Sep 11

There is no point arguing in a text based format with people who can't read.

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trach or treat! @boogerminer.bsky.social · 14h

please refrain from witnessing me

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trach or treat! @boogerminer.bsky.social · 14h

Man I already regret not capitalizing Indigenous.

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trach or treat! @boogerminer.bsky.social · 14h

Or explode in your pocket and make you pregnant.

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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 15h

I think people also sometimes think they hate mayo from an early experience, but what they actually hate is mayo’s evil and inferior diet cousin, Miracle Whip

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 16h

Ranch is indeed the actual Identifying Sauce of white middle America, not mayonnaise

C.A. Pinkham @eyepatchguy.bsky.social · 17h

Yes. That’s the white Midwestern condiment that the rest of the world is baffled by, not the French cold mother sauce that gets used in fucking everything, everywhere around the globe

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trach or treat! @boogerminer.bsky.social · 14h

Thousand island dressing includes onions and pickle, and if you add mustard to this it makes a great dressing for a cheeseburger salad.

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trach or treat! @boogerminer.bsky.social · 14h

a cartoon character with a cross on his hat

Alt: a cartoon character salutes, with tears streaming down their face

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trach or treat! @boogerminer.bsky.social · 14h

This tracks because I first encountered it in Québec.

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trach or treat! @boogerminer.bsky.social · 14h

#mayofacts Heinz did not know when making a mayo and ketchup mixture in a bottle that mayochup in Cree (the most widely spoken indigenous language in Canada) translates to "shit face." boingboing.net/2019/05/23/i...

In Cree, Heinz new 'MayoChup' translates poorly

It comes in a squeeze bottle. Calgary Herald:The name seems pretty logical—though some would argue ketchonnaise would be better—but in certain Cree dialects it comes off as less than appealing.To…

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trach or treat! @boogerminer.bsky.social · 14h

I think it's an Eastern Canadian thing but I'm sure other places do it, mayo on French fries. If you've already had an aïoli with fries, guess what! You're already on board.

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trach or treat! @boogerminer.bsky.social · 18h

Counter to the idea that it's a bad strategy to build an opposition coalition is that doing so in fact undermines the separatist strategy of normalizing the separatists as presented by former leader of the BQ JF Lisée. jflisee.org/la-strategie...

La stratégie de l'Alberta, de l'ouvrage bien fait - Le blogue et les balados de Jean-François Lisée

Le discours à la nation prononcé lundi soir dernier par la première ministre albertaine était en tous points remarquable. Bon, elle n’a pas dit « nation », car il est compliqué d’inventer une « nation...

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trach or treat! @boogerminer.bsky.social · 18h

I don't think he would have done it if he didn't have some belief, founded in the evidence gathered talking to voters, that the grassroots are not dyed in the wool separatists. The Alberta Prosperity Project is likely as astroturfed as the CCFR, and they came for Jason Kenney too.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 19h

U.S. lawmakers want to ban Chinese drones for security reasons.

They do not seem to realize this will spark a revival of the old DIY drone movement among people who cannot afford overpriced, bad American-made drones.

This will create many exciting, brand-new security threats. Possibly worse ones.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 19h

there'd definitely problems with using military/war framings for electoral politics, but one thing it is good at is helping people keep is and ought separate. "The enemy has a strategic advantage that we must fight around" is rarely interpreted as "The enemy is correct and we should lose".

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