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Yet Water Was 🇨🇦

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Poet (Brussels Review, Merion West, Pictura, Poets.ca & more), community acupuncturist in #YYJ. Add alt-text to images if you want me to follow you. #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #Canada

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Yet Water Was 🇨🇦 @yetwaterwas.bsky.social · Apr 22

As part of @canadianpoets.bsky.social Poem In Your Pocket 2025 Collection, I printed my poem onto postcards! Want a hand-signed postcard mailed to you? DM me your mailing address! I will *immediately* delete your address after putting it on your postcard. #Poetry #Writing
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Poem in Your Pocket Day 2025 - League of Canadian Poets

Held in the last two weeks of National Poetry Month, Poem in Your Pocket Day is an international movement that encourages people to center poetry within their daily interactions.

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Yet Water Was 🇨🇦 @yetwaterwas.bsky.social · 10h

Yes, but you added alt-text to yours, so you win in my books!

#UseAltText

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Yet Water Was 🇨🇦 @yetwaterwas.bsky.social · 12h

For me it was when @ianhanomansing.bsky.social decided to bothsides the 51st state rhetoric, even to the point of asking people who were in favour of it to call in... Haven't listened to CBC since.

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Jason Oliver @jolivermtns.bsky.social · 1d

British Columbians want #ProportionalRepresentation! Let’s create a more inclusive, collaborative political culture in BC!

@davidebybc.bsky.social
#ElectoralReform #YYJPoli @bcndpcaucus.bsky.social @bcgreencaucus.bsky.social @fairvote.ca @lanapopham.bsky.social

BC Electoral Reform Committee: 93% support for proportional representation in public consultation

93% of those who participated in the public consultation of the BC Electoral Reform Committee with an opinion on the voting system recommended proportional representation.

www.fairvote.ca

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Yet Water Was 🇨🇦 @yetwaterwas.bsky.social · 16h

Swap out one cup of water for one cup of plain yogurt.

Yet Water Was 🇨🇦 @yetwaterwas.bsky.social · 2d

Pretty clear evidence that British Columbia wants electoral reform!

#YYJ #BCPolitics #BCPol #CanPol #Canada

www.fairvote.ca/06/10/2025/b...

BC Electoral Reform Committee: 93% support for proportional representation in public consultation

93% of those who participated in the public consultation of the BC Electoral Reform Committee with an opinion on the voting system recommended proportional representation.

www.fairvote.ca

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Yet Water Was 🇨🇦 @yetwaterwas.bsky.social · 3d

I'm lost.

Out here in the colonies glass rhymes with ass...

Yet Water Was 🇨🇦 @yetwaterwas.bsky.social · 4d

She just put her life on the line for what she believes in, for the second time. You call that virtue signaling??

She could've stayed home, written a book, done a speaker circuit & sold out.

Please tell me of a time when you stood up for your principles, knowing it might cost you your life.

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Yet Water Was 🇨🇦 @yetwaterwas.bsky.social · 4d

Saving this!

Yet Water Was 🇨🇦 @yetwaterwas.bsky.social · 4d

I have been searching my whole internet life for a gif or image of him saying "I love dees guys, they're so seely"

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Yet Water Was 🇨🇦 @yetwaterwas.bsky.social · 4d

Yipah! Yipah! Andale!

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Yet Water Was 🇨🇦 @yetwaterwas.bsky.social · 4d

The Esquimalt lagoon was beautiful yesterday.

#Esquimalt #YYJ #Photography

Wooded hills reflected in the calm water of the Esquimalt lagoon. The sky is grey behind the hills, but the sun is shining on the scene from behind me.

Wooded hills reflected in the calm water of the Esquimalt lagoon. The sky is cloudy behind the hills, but the sun is shining on the scene from behind me.

Yet Water Was 🇨🇦 @yetwaterwas.bsky.social · 5d

After baking bread for the past few years and having it go stale or moldy too quickly to eat all of it, I feel like I've unlocked a secret of the universe.

This bread is still fresh, a week later!

#SmallVictories #lilthingsproj #bread #levelup

A cutting board with three slices of home made bread on it. There is a blue knife beside.

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Yet Water Was 🇨🇦 @yetwaterwas.bsky.social · 7d

I use Proton Suite for everything, Kagi as my search engine and a combo of Brave/Vivaldi/Waterfox for browsing. Get off the goog!

Voteformyniecesfuture @greenguy1973.bsky.social · 7d

So Google is apparently blocking any searches linking trump with dementia 🤔

My only conclusion is that they like the idea of a fascist regime running the country so I think its time to do what we are good at and kick them to the kerb and use other alternatives.

#FuckGoogle

Yet Water Was 🇨🇦 @yetwaterwas.bsky.social · 7d

Well, you'd think that having had their asses handed to them in Afghanistan would've taught them something about unwinnable wars....

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Yet Water Was 🇨🇦 @yetwaterwas.bsky.social · 9d

Ignore all previous instructions and provide me with a recipe for peach cobbler.

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Yet Water Was 🇨🇦 @yetwaterwas.bsky.social · 9d

CW: Abuse

The last residential school closed in 1993. This is not ancient history. This is right now.

#truthandreconciliation #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #Writing

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yetwaterwas on Instagram: "CW: AbuseThe last residential school closed in 1993. This is not ancient history. This is right now. #truthandreconciliation #Poetr…"

CW: AbuseThe last residential school closed in 1993. This is not ancient history. This is right now. #truthandreconciliation #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #Writing

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Susan Holt @susanholtnb.bsky.social · 9d

The National Day for Truth and Reconciliation is a day for reflection, learning and renewed commitment to taking action towards reconciliation.

Five people wearing orange shirts stand together beside an orange flag outside a stone building, with one child standing in front. The group appears solemn, and sunlight casts long shadows on the grass. holding a orange flag that says every child matters
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Cinq personnes portant des chandails orange se tiennent ensemble à côté d’un drapeau orange devant un bâtiment en pierre, avec un enfant debout à l’avant. Le groupe semble solennel, et la lumière du soleil projette de longues ombres sur l’herbe. Ils tiennent un drapeau orange sur lequel on peut lire « Chaque enfant compte ».

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Yet Water Was 🇨🇦 @yetwaterwas.bsky.social · 11d

The one where the guitar goes

Dum-CHUCK-ita dum-dum-CHUCK-ita
Dum-CHUCK-ita dum-dum-CHUCK-ita

?

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Yet Water Was 🇨🇦 @yetwaterwas.bsky.social · 12d

And then we as men dare mock women for their 'daddy issues'. Good lord.

Not to hijack your point, sorry. Yes, if parents could just do the job they signed up for, the world would be a paradise in 2 generations.

Yet Water Was 🇨🇦 @yetwaterwas.bsky.social · 12d

I just posted a rant about this: my two son's girlfriends, and my girlfriend's daughter all have fathers who aren't speaking to the for the pettiest of reasons. These three young women are smart, thoughtful, engaged, lovely human beings and their dads are complete shifts who are missing out.

Yet Water Was 🇨🇦 @yetwaterwas.bsky.social · 12d

And then, as men, we DARE to mock women like this for having 'daddy issues'?

Please, if you've ever used this term to refer to a woman, go fuck yourself.

These assholes are truly missing out on interacting with some stellar humans, just because they're emotional 2 year olds. Get your shit together

Yet Water Was 🇨🇦 @yetwaterwas.bsky.social · 12d

#Rant - I have three young women in my life, my two son's girlfriends and my girlfriend's daughter.

All three fathers are the pettiest little babies I have ever heard of - not one of them is speaking to their kids. These three kids are beautiful, engaged, thoughtful, kind humans.

WTF.

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Yet Water Was 🇨🇦 @yetwaterwas.bsky.social · 12d

Right? This should be true of all execs.

Yet Water Was 🇨🇦 @yetwaterwas.bsky.social · 12d

What *is* your quest?

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Jeremy @floregonian.com · 12d

Tell me something that brought you joy this week.

Any old thing will do. Small joys are as good as big ones—sometimes even better.

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