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Larhanya

@Larhanya@zeroes.ca

😷 💖💜💙 🏳️‍🌈 🇨🇦 Novid. Total nerd. Wannabe writer. Cat mom. Dragonborn. Sort-of theologian. Bleeding heart. 🇺🇦

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Larhanya, to Mycology
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Okay, Mastodon! I have a mystery for you. Can anyone tell me what exactly is growing out of the path to my backyard? If it helps, I live in , which is in , about 620.1 km / 385.31 mi north of Minneapolis.

(Sorry, no alt text since I don't know how to describe what I'm looking at.)

Please boost! Hopefully someone knows what this is (and how to get rid of it.) :boost_ok:

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msquebanh, to humanrights
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condemned a & factually incorrect March 22 statement from the which criticized a recently drafted Title Land Agreement.

The FNLC said ’s statement — which called for an immediate pause in talks — politicized peoples’ as outlined by the Declaration on the Rights of

https://www.cheknews.ca/first-nations-group-condemns-bc-united-statement-on-haida-land-agreement-1196845

Larhanya,
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@msquebanh It sickens me that here are all these politicians—across Canada and around the world (oh, hai, Oz)—that make blatantly racist statements about Indigenous Peoples as if that was normal and okay.

And 999 times out of 1000, those racist statements about Land Title or Aboriginal Rights serve the extraction industries. Forestry, mining, etc.

I'm sorry you and other Indigenous folks have to keep hearing these things from stupid settlers.

Larhanya,
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@msquebanh :1000:

Larhanya, to beer
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Welp. Without thinking, I slurped the last beer off the edge of the can that I'd poured for my husband. Normal wheat and/or barley beer. I washed my mouth out with water and gargled several times, but I'm pretty sure that I swallowed the beer.

RIP digestive system.

Worst of all, it tasted really good! 😭😭😭

(That was about two hours ago. No nausea or gut pain yet, but I am hearing gurgling.)

Larhanya, to random
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Today, I am questioning my life choices. :mastocold: #Winnipeg #Manitoba #ColdWeather

Larhanya, to random
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This bird looks like he feels the same way as me about the Winnipeg weather.

Larhanya, to random
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My husband was heckled for the first time today because of his mask. He was dropping off returnable bottles at the Return-it Depot, and some guy also returning bottles started loudly calling my husband "dirty," "disgusting," "an abomination," and saying, "you're in Canada, take off your mask."

My husband just ignored the guy and kept sorting the bottles. Dude continues randomly trying to insult my husband, as well as going around to other people at the depot to point out the mask and rail against it. Everyone else ignored crazy guy, too.

The ranter was in line at the cash out counter in front of my husband, and starts complaining at the clerk, too. She was like, "THERE'S SOMEONE BEHIND YOU IN LINE, MOVE ALONG."

I'm still trying to work out the "dirty" and "disgusting" bit. 🙄

#CovidIsNotOver #WearAMask #DoNotReadQAnon #TrudeauIsADisappointmentButABC

Larhanya, to random
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@augieray Hi Augie, I know you fly fairly regularly. Do you ever eat on flights, and, if so, what precautions do you take?

Thanks!

#CovidIsNotOver #covidsafety

Larhanya,
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@augieray Thank you! That's good to hear. We're flying next month and it's a 3-hour flight over lunchtime, so we'll probably want to eat.

MrBerard, to ADHD
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It's gonna be a fun month #ADHD #ADHDMeds @actuallyadhd

Larhanya,
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@MrBerard @actuallyadhd Later this month:

The BBC reports thousands of people across Britain are wandering aimlessly, staring into shop windows, and impatiently queueing around the block to get into coffee shops. When asked why they were there or what they were doing, most replied that they couldn't remember.

#ADHD #MedicationShortages

ArRo, to random
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✨ Achtung

Larhanya,
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@ArRo
#ALT4you #GermanToEnglish #translation
A small European red squirrel with tufted ears and this text:

And this year, I'm gladly sharing it again...

IMPORTANT!!!

Here's an annual notice!

Baby squirrels [squirrel children is direct Google translation] running after a person and even clinging to their trouser leg, do NOT have rabies!!!

They do this out of sheer desperation because they lost their mother and have already been insufficiently supplied with food for days.

Baby squirrels are an exception in the animal kingdom!

When they have lost contact with their mother and therefore suffer from hunger and thirst, they gather all their courage and specifically seek proximity to people in order to get help.

These animals are usually injured in the snout after falling from a tree.

Please find a vet immediately!
Veterinarians treat things like this for FREE!!!

Larhanya,
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#ALT4you #deutsch

Und auch dieses Jahr teile ich es
wieder gern...

WICHTIG!!!
Hier ein alljährlicher Hinweis!

[Bild eines Eichhörnchenkinder]

Eichhörnchenkinder, die einem Menschen hinterher laufen
und sich sogar am Hosenbein festklammer, haben KEINE Tollwut !!!

Sie tun dies aus purer Verzweiflung, weil sie ihre Mutter verloren haben und seit Tagen bereits mangelversorgt sind
Eichhörnchenkinder bilden da im Tierreich eine Ausnahme!

Wenn sie den Kontakt zu ihrer Mutter verloren haben und dadurch Hunger und Durst leiden, nehmen sie all ihren Mut zusammen und suchen gezielt die Nähe zu Menschen um sich Hilfe zu holen.

Meist sind diese Tiere auch durch einen Absturz von einem Baum an der Schnauze verletzt.

Bitte sucht sofort einen Tierarzt !
Tierärzte behandeln sowas KOSTENLOS !!!

@ArRo

cambskeptics, to random

An ark replica with dinosaurs "is one way to bring people to this recognition... that what we read in the Bible are actual historical events,” Mike Johnson said, report Liz Skalka and Paul Blumenthal for HuffPost. https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/new-house-speaker-thinks-creationist-museum-is-pointing-people-to-the-truth_uk_653b5572e4b05def8bc7361f

Larhanya,
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I wish we could call Young Earth Creationism "fringe." In Evangelical circles, it's usually taken as a given, along with eternal torment infernalism and sundry ideas about "the rapture." It made my brain hurt, and my tongue, which I frequently had to bite.

Leaving the Church was a relief. Now, I don't have to be polite to YECs and homophobes and "pro-lifers" and patriarchalists and...

#exvangelical #Creationism #science

@cambskeptics

Larhanya,
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@jake4480 @cambskeptics

Yeah. It wasn't easy to accept at first. But I found myself always saying, "oh, that bad thing Christians are doing, that's because they're not real Christians."

Then it finally dawned on me that all the bad things Christians do is because that's what Christianity let them do.

It was me that wasn't the real Christian.

I now feel more freedom to love people well than I did as a big-C Christian.

subjacentish, to random
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Having been 3000km in the last 4 days, and being a professional people-studier by training, I can say something with definite certainty:

THERE HAS NEVER BEEN THIS MUCH SICKNESS.

[insert acceptable oath here]

I HAVE SEEN SO MANY SICK PEOPLE.

SO FUCKING MANY.

It's just waves of illness out there right now. People staggering around in parking lots. The restrooms full of coughing and shitting and stuff on the floor... At night in the motels you can hear them coughing and horking up in their toilets. The medicine aisles in the grocery stores. Conferences where a quarter of the attendees are absent and another half are present and physically ill.

So many people with that pallid-blue-purple-red skin combination that looks like they were recently saved from drowning in the lake. (I assume it's an O2 depletion or a heart issue?)

Larhanya,
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@subjacentish

A person in a green biohazard outfit with large helmet-hood, gloves taped on at the wrists, and an air supply on their back that is also covered by the suit. Inside the suit they are wearing a half-mask respirator, presumably hooked up to the air supply. At the bottom of the picture, it says, "READY".

augieray, to random
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Nothing like being stuck on the ground on a plane with no circulation or ventilation. Thanks, American Airlines.

Larhanya,
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@augieray Damn, sorry to hear that. Before Covid, I used to get claustrophobic from the still, warm, stinky air in a grounded airplane.

Take comfort in the tight embrace of your mask.

futurebird, to random
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It's really interesting that there is a perceived dichotomy separating intelligence from emotion when we consider the cognitive processes of humans and other animals.

There are no examples of animals we'd call "intelligent" that aren't also "emotional" -- emotions are probably the foundation of everything we describe as intelligence.

But, there is still a tendency to portray emotion and intelligence as distinct or even as opposite and opposed.

Larhanya,
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@futurebird I'm pretty confident that the concept of intelligence vs. emotions arises from the old idea that men are intelligent (e.g., clever, brilliant, calm, logical, objective, etc.), and women are emotional (e.g., stupid, dull, hysterical, illogical, subjective, etc.).

I'd like to think most people now know there is no inherent cognitive difference between people assigned male at birth and those assigned female, and that behavioural differences (including educational expectations) are primarily driven by gender expression.* But...well...evidence suggests otherwise.

*Gender expression, of course, being subject to changes in cultural norms and expectations.

Larhanya,
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@futurebird Another thought! The comments here read very differently if you're thinking about #ActuallyAutistic folks. I'm curious about their perspective on the issue.

Larhanya, to random
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How is this phrase coming from Israel? It's like reality is shifting sideways.

" 'We are fighting against human animals'. This is how Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant announced what he called a 'complete siege' on Gaza, following a surprise attack by Hamas on Israel."

Israeli defence minister orders ‘complete siege’ on Gaza | Hamas | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2023/10/9/israeli-defence-minister-orders-complete-siege-on-gaza

breadandcircuses, to socialism

I don't have any problem with a market economy, per se, but I do have a BIG problem with capitalism.

In my preferred version of state socialism, there is no accumulation of capital, and thus no capitalism. All large industries and large-scale services are socialized, owned by the people and managed by the state (or by worker cooperatives, where practical).

In my version of a market economy, people can own and run small companies, hire employees, set prices, make a profit... that's all fine. But they can't buy their competitors and either take them over or put them out of business. They can't open franchises, where they sell (or rent) the right to operate a different company with the same name. They're not allowed to buy their suppliers and create a conglomerate. They aren't permitted to grow so large that the market no longer operates fairly. And every business owner's wealth will be capped with a highly progressive tax structure (which is the price of using the commons to turn a profit).

So, the marketplace as such is not the problem. The problem is capitalism.

Larhanya,
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@breadandcircuses And no shareholding except in the context of a co-op. Let's crash the stock market and never rebuild it.

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    Larhanya,
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    @Binder Mobile wake!

    Larhanya, to Plants
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    I've been growing air plants from seed. It's definitely an exercise in patience! I got the seeds in March 2022. One picture is from a month later, the other is from today. Unfortunately, I didn't think to use a ruler in the first picture. #plants #AirPlants #GrowingThings

    Several air plant seeds, just sprouted, with "long" (1 cm) cottony tails and just a bit of green, laying on a black soft velcro surface. This picture was taken in April 2022.

    grrrr_shark, to random
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    Found this while looking for things I can do to start regaining my sense of balance that don't hurt my head.

    Right now, everything feels like having extreme tinnitus, but inside my brain.

    https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2022/03/29/how-people-fall-apart-yale-faculty-discuss-the-impact-of-burnout-on-the-brain/

    Larhanya,
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    @grrrr_shark
    Excellent article, thanks for sharing! So many familiar feelings 🫠

    Jyoti, to random
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    Sooo... remember the Nazi getting a standing ovation the other day?

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/trudeau-zelensky-nazi-ovation-embarrassment-b2418720.html

    Larhanya,
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    @ahelwer @Jyoti Reading the article, I was shocked that "half of them are still alive" since Huska (the guy brought to Parliament by the former Speaker of the House) is now 98.

    Then I saw that the article was written 26 years ago 😅

    But it certainly is a mess. I wonder how much Canada was motivated to take in Ukrainian war vets--regardless of background--because of guilt over interning the Ukrainians during and after WWI. 🤔

    Not trying to excuse the actions. Just trying to understand. I'm also very aware of how powerful the anti-Communism movement was in both Canada and the US, and how many Canadian-born, far-right, actual Nazis there were in that period. ☹️

    PacificNic, to ADHD
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    I've noticed a lot of people on here who have #ADHD work with computers. Computers never clicked for me and I feel like I'm missing something so now I'm curious, if you have ADHD, what do you like about working with computers?

    Larhanya,
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    @PacificNic I was in government. Sadly, I did not get to solve problems all day. For a while, I had some independence to choose what i worked on, but then they shifted me onto business analysis, which is SO BORING that my brain broke. I started the position as a technical writer, which was sometimes interesting. I got to do some HTML, JS, and CSS stuff to customize the job aids I wrote for the online-style help system we used.

    I'm hoping to get into policy analysis after we move to MB, and I'm hoping that will involve some problem solving as well. Of a different sort.

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