I do know some people who tend to paint the US as the root of all evil, tho' pretty sure they arrived at those opinions over a bullying, might is right, invade-who-we-want, side of the US that has appeared repeatedly & which, right now, is a central pillar of the very antagonistic regime in power.

This is the same issue about which Canada and other countries have considered shutting out TikTok or Huawei phones, for example. In those cases the data gathering authoritarian entity is China, of course.

Husband also had Pay by Phone app update to install on his newer Android phone. The interface before my update installation was difficult & confusing, in addition to not keeping me logged in it made it look like it was only offering to let me pay with Google Pay, don't use NFC.

I agree, that moment when I get a notification for a credit card billing and don't know what it's for always gives me pause, after my card was compromised twice in the previous decade.

we need a lot more of this and more ...

A friend of ours, Diane Evans (who died in 2023) worked at Polygon Gallery of photography in N. Vancouver and specialized in pinhole photography including in her teaching.
Diane Evans and Sunlight - The Polygon Gallery share.google/mfdfYtFf5Xv7...

We're Canadians, stunned by the severe threats against us by Trump. Media reports on Canadian tourism to the US, including Florida, don't reflect this level of avoidance. It's actually a bit of a relief to hear of it, thinking many snowbirds care mostly @ weather, sending a message they don't mind.

Wonder how long Trump's team thinks they can continue to prop him up to play President with such steadily diminishing capacity? He can't even read a teleprompter speech without telling on himself. The country's/the Republican party's do-or-die existential crisis is playing out on the world stage.

It's a crime in Trump's/Noem's/Miller's America not to be afraid. They have to put a stop to that.

For some reason before seeing the caption I immediately thought of Port Townsend. It reminded me of a cafe at Pointi Hudson about 3 miles away where we had breakfast in Oct/24.

In an illustrated encyclopedia (I guess now that would be Wikipedia?) the entry for the psychological phenomenon known as "projection" would have Trump's photo and case history as the prime example.

He would try to bring the world to an end, if the WH-team bag of tricks to distract ever came up empty. A hollowed out shell of a person.

I've now made a custom template but the location for blank 2-1/2" x 3" Avery business cards in MS Word is under Mailings, Labels, Options & picking the right template # in the drop-down below Avery US letter. MS Word templates only offered predesigned cards vs. blanks, and were missing Avery form #.

Though I'm not a gambler when it comes to the AI stuff Trump was posting: the map of the US annexing Canada & Greenland etc., the photo of himself & others in Greenland as conquerors, I bet they came from Stephen Miller. Miller is a troll at his core, fixated on dominance & "getting" those he hates.