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bthl.bsky.social
@bthl.bsky.social
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Usually found in one of two places: at my computer or at my sewing machine. ⌨️📖🪡🧵 Board member @ Tomorrow Foundation for a Sustainable Future 🌳🌬️ tomorrowfoundation.ca
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Finally finished a mending project I’ve been stuck on all month. This free tote bag I got in 2020 immediately became a favourite for grocery runs. After 4ish years of use, I needed to 1) darn some holes, 2) add a panel to the bottom, and 3) make shorter handles.

Before / after
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IDK who needs to hear this but a well planned city is an affordable city.
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Nobody tell David Staples this is all because of the changes me and my UCP have made to how municipal elections are held in Alberta.

Let's see if he can use his "journalism" skills to figure it out on his own!🤭

#abpoli #yyc #yycvote #yeg #yegvote
Oh great, it looks like none of the businesses on this street (82 St north of YH) except the habitat for humanity restore has a place to lock bikes. This may be the most annoying place to which I’ve ever had the displeasure of planning a trip. #yegbike
Yet again I am trying and failing to find a bike rack (via streetview) that I can use on my trip later this week. A bike shop being located beside a bike lane but having no bike rack just doesn’t make sense. I think the message being sent is that cyclists aren’t actually supposed to use 82 St.
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Update from Elections Edmonton:

"Voting has been suspended at St. Timothy Catholic Elementary School in Ward Anirniq due to a power outage. EPCOR is accessing the situation.

Voters assigned to St. Timothy Catholic Elementary School can cast their ballots at Caernarvon School, 14820 118 St NW."
*The last day of early voting in the 2025 federal election was the longest I’ve ever waited to vote. An hour in hell (the mall) 😵‍💫
Ah, I forgot to look at the time when arriving and leaving my polling place but I got through 5 or 6 rnds of sock knitting while waiting in line for ballots, so… close to 20 mins? Not very long but I’m sure that’s the longest election day* wait I’ve ever experienced
The discomfiting ordeal of being perceived is the unspoken prerequisite to the mortifying ordeal of being known
It’s not the same but someone once messaged me to say they had just seen me go past their house on my bike and I was mortified for no rational reason
Question for candidates: is it embarrassing to go to the polls to vote for yourself? How does it feel if the poll workers recognize you? 😳
Right, so much character! Seeing experimental, sometimes “imperfect” hair-styling was how I started to understand the versatility of kinky/curly hair.
I’m a big fan of the “unnatural” hair trends from this time too. My cousins had different colour hair at every reunion and it was amazing.
This post makes me want to wear bantu knots, long earrings, and burgundy lipstick soon 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️
When people mock millennial style I am never bothered because surely you don’t mean me! 2010s Black hipster fashion is something I will always look back on fondly, with 0% cringe. IMO this wasn’t just Peak Fashion but also Peak Hair (and makeup)
okay i’m kind of obsessing, going thru 2011 tumblr archives, but is there a name for this aesthetic? i just remember looking up to girls dressed like this - the way this felt like PEAK fashion to me - i lived for an afro punk fit from this era 🥰
My one-sided beef with the ready-to-wear clothing industry continues. You wouldn’t think that someone who’s less than 5’6” should have to buy tall sizes. And yet >:(
Length added: 5 cm (8.5 when cuffs are turned down), which I had hoped would be a little too long. Not so; they turned out normal length.
I finally remembered that I can sew, so now my too-short pyjama sleeves have turn-up cuffs. 😌 And it only took [mumbling] years for me to get annoyed enough to make this fix.

Don’t mind the basting threads, I got too excited about posting. #garmentsewing
Screenshotting this post to send to my mother and make her happy
actually extremely grateful to ethiopian cuisine for basically teaching me how to appreciate vegetarian cooking as a 23 year old
*rubbing temples*
I just helped some family members book their seasonal immunization appointments online and I have some questions, beginning with: why does the appointment booking change every year? Why is it a different process on a different website every time?
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Everything I have learned about [insert name of far-right US media pundit], I have learned entirely against my will.
Might have seen a driver in the French Quarter abruptly pull over on the wrong side of the street for a chance to talk to Andrew Knack this afternoon. I was like, “What the hell does this guy think they’re doing? Oh, they’re talking to someone, maybe picking someone up. Wait, Andrew Knack??!?”
Made this diagram about angle parking to explain why I’m not into bike racks that are public art pieces first and bike parking second. No one does this to car parking; why do it to bike parking? It’s not like a standard staple-type bike rack is an eyesore.
The fork… no. The fish can stay, though.
Boyne City, Michigan loved a non-standard artistic bike rack.
Very normal and democratic regime
JERUSALEM (AP) — In 'unprecedented operation,' Israeli army takes over mobile phones of Gaza residents to carry Netanyahu UN speech live.
This week l've been thinking a lot about how Danielle Smith said it's fine, everything's totally fine, Alberta can easily sell the excess not-Tylenol to the US
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President Trump said he will put import taxes of 100% on pharmaceutical drugs, 50% on kitchen cabinets and bathroom vanities, 30% on upholstered furniture and 25% on heavy trucks starting on Oct. 1.
Trump to place import taxes on drugs, home furnishings and heavy trucks
President Trump said he will put import taxes of 100% on pharmaceutical drugs, 50% on kitchen cabinets and bathroom vanities, 30% on upholstered furniture and 25% on heavy trucks starting on Oct. 1.
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