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  Feeling grateful that I exited the canadian coast guard before it returned from Fisheries to the Department of Defence. It still feels weird that people seem to see it as military service when at the time it was just helping science and cartography programs and rescuing people who made bad decisions. We definitely didn't get paid like military service either. Lowest paid marine labour in canada with zero danger/sea pay.

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  @emilyvanartist@mastodon.social @beandreams@friendhole.social We used to cut the bottoms off the bull kelp and spin it really fast to make tones. You could shift the tones by cutting them shorter or longer and when you get a bunch of people together it's amazing.

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  My inner woodworker loses its mind when I see someone using a belt sander across the grain.

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  There's something utterly fucked about people who see the planet as real estate and not the ecosystem that literally nurtures humanity. It's like staring at a brick so hard that you don't notice it's part of a wall or that the wall is in fact attached to a building.

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  Hanging with an old friend today. The loveable Agent Cooper. #dogsOfMastodon

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  I learned how to make cornbread when I was 14 years old. I've tried many others, but the first one I learned to make and eventually adapted to gluten free is still my all time favourite and maybe my favourite comfort food in rainy summer weather. #ouchThatsTasty

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  I don't know if I ever remember it raining here in July for at least 10 years. Serious torrential downpour.

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  I deal with a lot of grief surrounding my MECFS. People who knew me in the before times, knew I always had about six things on the go - At least two jobs, a very active band and volunteering with a harvest collective and music projects as well as studying kung fu for nine years. When I finally pared that down to one job, I used to cook meals for a crew of 13, three meals a day for a month straight, rain or shine, rough seas or calm waters. I did this so I could access better care for my chroni...

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  Irish and gaillige speaking friends, I'm changing my last name to my great grandmother's maiden name, which I know would have been prefaced with ní, but I'm agender so that feels a little weird, and I could go with the O' but I'm wondering if there's ever been a non gendered preface for names in Irish language, or if maybe there is one created now? I know it's maybe a long shot, but I would love to find out if I have an option, otherwise I may just run with O'....

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  Very excited to have found a stool I can use to sit while cooking. It means maybe I might be able to cook a little more often, and will give respite on the days my batteries disappear halfway through cooking and all I want to do is crumple into a ball on the floor. How was I ever a ship's cook? It was pretty brutal spoons wise then, but now I think I'd just die after a day. #mecfs #ouchThatsTasty

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  I just had a small, teary moment when I was standing outside and could smell people cooking breakfast. I never thought I would ever live somewhere that smelled like pancakes and bacon outside on a Sunday morning. Eight years ago, I would be listening to cops harassing homeless people, wheezing from car exhaust and smelling hot garbage. My life has changed in both horrifying and beautiful ways and I'm so glad I get to be here this morning, but in a bittersweet way where I know that the...

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  I guess it's summertime again

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  Curtido of future delicious tomorrows... #fermentation #ouchThatsTasty

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  Thinking about how I didn't realize how privileged I was as a teenager to have a grandad who was a former airplane mechanic in the military. Anytime my shitty $200 car was broken he would just say "bring it over". My car repairs were always out there, like he used pop cans to fix my exhaust system, but they literally never broke down after he'd done whatever he was gonna do. I also remember that the only exhaust system he could find to fit my old car was a Cherry Bomb so anyw...

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  Was thinking about how nearly all my trans friends use signal for communications, but how convincing my cis friends (save a couple who are pretty aware of the world, and one who is a journalist) to do so has been an exhausting effort to the point that I don't even bother anymore. The biggest argument is "but why????" from the safety bubble of a group of people who have never even glimpsed a thought of being persecuted for their own existence.

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  Hey fedi friends, My usual colouring app has, of course, become a cesspool of AI. I'm really struggling because it's a really good way for me to get my brain to check out when I'm having a bad mecfs day. Is there a non AI colouring app out there? I don't want to be supporting a hellish dystopia on days when i have to check out

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  @augieray@mastodon.social One of the most beautiful places I've even been.

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  People losing it over hantavirus while ignoring the ongoing pandemic is a special kind of sad/hilarious.

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  @Linzington@kind.social 💕This should just be how the world is. Everyone says "oh, I'm not ableist", but why the hell aren't we all fighting loudly for this on the daily if we aren't. Ableism is nearly invisible to people who aren't dealing with it on the regular. So much of people being ableist is going through the world without ever bothering to think about what other people have to juggle every single day.

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  Hey lovelies! It's becoming blatantly apparent that the age of search engines is dead. I was thinking back to how I functioned finding things before them: usually bookmarked or scribbled down links to good sites. Do you have any favourites? Wayback and internet archive, of course. Could we compile a list of resource sites for fedi users somehow? Categorized I would guess? I think there are enough of us here with special interests that it would be a work of art in the long run.

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  @FranceskaMann@freeradical.zone @GoblinQuester@dice.camp @broadwaybabyto@zeroes.ca Most people, even most Canadians, don't know they've completely gutted our right to protest in Canada as well. Just very quietly.

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  https://www.404media.co/hackers-dox-hundreds-of-dhs-ice-fbi-and-doj-officials/

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  Yet another "assassination" attempt still won't make the Epstein files go away.

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  Not sure what has shifted but I there were a large number of people masked up at the grocery store today across multiple demographics, to the point that it seemed to make a lot of unmasked people really uncomfortable. It's almost like visibility increases awareness... #maskUp #covidIsNotOver

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  @oldladyplays People also forget that China is HEAVILY invested in our natural resources. Something that was a point of consternation for many Canadians over the years, but simultaneously globally strategic in huge ways. So when it comes to Canadian borders, NATO + China = Oh Shit. #usPol

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  Gus, apparently having seen things out the window that he can never un-see. Happy Caturday. #caturday #gusTheCat #catsOfFedi

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  @QueerMatters I'm a post water phobic autistic. I love being in the water, but I hate being wet afterward. I love baths, but I cannot stand getting out of the tub. I hate the sensory chaos of showers.it's just too much coming at me. I like to swim when it's hot and windy so I dry off quick. It's worse in the winter. In the summer at least evaporation in the heat is cooling. I struggle with this always, but I also don't like being smelly. Lol. Even though I hate it, I ten...

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  If you live in the PNW zone 8b/9, what do you have that's blooming for the bees and hummingbirds right now? Our bleeding heart is up, but I still want to fill in some early gaps if I can for next year. The aubretia and existing viburnum are up, but other than the maple blooms things are pretty sparse. Lots of things are catching up though. I have plans for flowering currant, but I'm a little late on getting one this year. #gardening

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  We thought Gus had escaped due to fear of the sudden very large heavy equipment use outside our house this morning. We looked for him in every closet, nook, cranny and hidey hole to no avail. @ana left to search the neighbourhood. We were really worried. He wouldn't come when we shook the treats box or anything. Finally I decided to holler "dinnertime!" 0.3 seconds later Gus comes out from hiding ready to feast. I didn't give him a second dinner but he did get...