Secular Zen Buddhist. Preachy. Cranky. Political. ADHD.
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Last Notes npub14fjmms3rngeye22938mzrm6z4t52ck3pxfpmxexzvgq8urxj8klq7gq4pk ZenHeathen 🇨🇦 I'm considering a " #dumbphone ". npub14fjmms3rngeye22938mzrm6z4t52ck3pxfpmxexzvgq8urxj8klq7gq4pk ZenHeathen 🇨🇦 Undoubtedly, the healthiest diets short of modern nutritional advances are those closest to those we evolved eating, the basic hunter-gatherer diet. Move with the herds, eat what's available, eat what's seasonal, store preserve what you can for lean seasons. Certainly, our species spent far longer eating like that than any way we've eaten since, and evolution is slow, so we're probably still built for that. npub14fjmms3rngeye22938mzrm6z4t52ck3pxfpmxexzvgq8urxj8klq7gq4pk ZenHeathen 🇨🇦 Awesome! Thanks! npub14fjmms3rngeye22938mzrm6z4t52ck3pxfpmxexzvgq8urxj8klq7gq4pk ZenHeathen 🇨🇦 That's in Tudor Monastery Farm, right? When she's got pottage cooking? npub14fjmms3rngeye22938mzrm6z4t52ck3pxfpmxexzvgq8urxj8klq7gq4pk ZenHeathen 🇨🇦 Yeah, I like best the ones where she's with the boys. I've seen some of the "factory" ones, and it's clear that she's just a contributor to someone else's show, not one of the ones creating it, and I'm not as into it. npub14fjmms3rngeye22938mzrm6z4t52ck3pxfpmxexzvgq8urxj8klq7gq4pk ZenHeathen 🇨🇦 Yes, indeed. More's the pity. npub14fjmms3rngeye22938mzrm6z4t52ck3pxfpmxexzvgq8urxj8klq7gq4pk ZenHeathen 🇨🇦 Absolutely! And we discovered others through looking for them, like Jimmy's Farm and Jimmy's Forest, and some I've forgotten. Going to have to go back and re-watch them all, I guess. 🙂 npub14fjmms3rngeye22938mzrm6z4t52ck3pxfpmxexzvgq8urxj8klq7gq4pk ZenHeathen 🇨🇦 I miss these series. Our family watched them all religiously, and repeatedly. So much to learn. npub14fjmms3rngeye22938mzrm6z4t52ck3pxfpmxexzvgq8urxj8klq7gq4pk ZenHeathen 🇨🇦 My (for now) son was wearing a discreet little trans flag pin (with a dragon, natch) when we went for lunch with his grandma last weekend. None of us have said anything about his feelings or explorations to her yet. We're not ready for how that might go. She noticed the pin, asked about it, we only mentioned the dragon. npub14fjmms3rngeye22938mzrm6z4t52ck3pxfpmxexzvgq8urxj8klq7gq4pk ZenHeathen 🇨🇦 I've got six pieces of leftover KFC, four Rice Krispies squares, it's six hours until I can go home, it's quiet, and I wish I was wearing sunglasses. Hit it. npub14fjmms3rngeye22938mzrm6z4t52ck3pxfpmxexzvgq8urxj8klq7gq4pk ZenHeathen 🇨🇦 Called it. npub14fjmms3rngeye22938mzrm6z4t52ck3pxfpmxexzvgq8urxj8klq7gq4pk ZenHeathen 🇨🇦 Sanity gap. Intelligence gap. Empathy gap. Gap between election promises and reality. npub14fjmms3rngeye22938mzrm6z4t52ck3pxfpmxexzvgq8urxj8klq7gq4pk ZenHeathen 🇨🇦 Goes way beyond "shenanigans". Is "contempt of the legislature" a thing? npub14fjmms3rngeye22938mzrm6z4t52ck3pxfpmxexzvgq8urxj8klq7gq4pk ZenHeathen 🇨🇦 Looking into puttering around in #Gopherspace. Might be a nice change of pace. npub14fjmms3rngeye22938mzrm6z4t52ck3pxfpmxexzvgq8urxj8klq7gq4pk ZenHeathen 🇨🇦 Canada is my home. Canada is my heart. I want Canada to be... well, somewhere on the side of sanity and Right and trying to help, to make a positive difference (it's long past time that we could be anywhere near the forefront). I don't want us to be the anchor, the millstone, to make ourselves the enemy of the surviving world. npub14fjmms3rngeye22938mzrm6z4t52ck3pxfpmxexzvgq8urxj8klq7gq4pk ZenHeathen 🇨🇦 👏✊ npub14fjmms3rngeye22938mzrm6z4t52ck3pxfpmxexzvgq8urxj8klq7gq4pk ZenHeathen 🇨🇦 If their marginal tax rate didn't increase *by a lot*, then no, they are not paying nearly their fair share. @npub1xyl…pwlc @npub1spc…3gwu npub14fjmms3rngeye22938mzrm6z4t52ck3pxfpmxexzvgq8urxj8klq7gq4pk ZenHeathen 🇨🇦 *Canada has entered the chat* npub14fjmms3rngeye22938mzrm6z4t52ck3pxfpmxexzvgq8urxj8klq7gq4pk ZenHeathen 🇨🇦 I'm so mad that Trump is destroying the White House. npub14fjmms3rngeye22938mzrm6z4t52ck3pxfpmxexzvgq8urxj8klq7gq4pk ZenHeathen 🇨🇦 Restaurant menus. There are certain classics that have a specific name because they are a specific thing. When a chef starts making additions or substitutions, the thing is a new thing, not the old thing with the old name, so they shouldn't use the old name. npub14fjmms3rngeye22938mzrm6z4t52ck3pxfpmxexzvgq8urxj8klq7gq4pk ZenHeathen 🇨🇦 There's a film studies term I'm trying to remember that won't come to me. It describes an object within the narrative which drives the plot. Everyone's after it, the whole story turns on where it is, who's got it. npub14fjmms3rngeye22938mzrm6z4t52ck3pxfpmxexzvgq8urxj8klq7gq4pk ZenHeathen 🇨🇦 Or, for f*'s sakes. That's pathetic. I could jaywalk and have a harsher penalty. npub14fjmms3rngeye22938mzrm6z4t52ck3pxfpmxexzvgq8urxj8klq7gq4pk ZenHeathen 🇨🇦 Then what's the last six? Being put up at a swanky hotel? npub14fjmms3rngeye22938mzrm6z4t52ck3pxfpmxexzvgq8urxj8klq7gq4pk ZenHeathen 🇨🇦 Holocaust denial in a different wrapper. I'd like to see this treated the same way. npub14fjmms3rngeye22938mzrm6z4t52ck3pxfpmxexzvgq8urxj8klq7gq4pk ZenHeathen 🇨🇦 I have been watching Star Wars movies, shows, comics, novels, etc, etc, etc. since I was old enough to walk, from the *beginning*. That ends TODAY, ABC. npub14fjmms3rngeye22938mzrm6z4t52ck3pxfpmxexzvgq8urxj8klq7gq4pk ZenHeathen 🇨🇦 Dear Americans who care about what America was supposed to be about: npub14fjmms3rngeye22938mzrm6z4t52ck3pxfpmxexzvgq8urxj8klq7gq4pk ZenHeathen 🇨🇦 What a fucking disappointment. I *hate* that he's still the best of a bad lot, but holyfuckinggoddamn, that's a low bar. npub14fjmms3rngeye22938mzrm6z4t52ck3pxfpmxexzvgq8urxj8klq7gq4pk ZenHeathen 🇨🇦 For how many damn decades now have we known that you have to *spend* your way out of a recession? Give people in the bottom 75% money, and they'll spend it, cycling it through the economy and making everyone more prosperous. We f*in' *KNOW* this. npub14fjmms3rngeye22938mzrm6z4t52ck3pxfpmxexzvgq8urxj8klq7gq4pk ZenHeathen 🇨🇦 I have items in my fridge old enough to remember that. npub14fjmms3rngeye22938mzrm6z4t52ck3pxfpmxexzvgq8urxj8klq7gq4pk ZenHeathen 🇨🇦 This... um... WTF?!? I support both causes, but there's *no cause* for one hijacking and sabotaging the other. npub14fjmms3rngeye22938mzrm6z4t52ck3pxfpmxexzvgq8urxj8klq7gq4pk ZenHeathen 🇨🇦 Forget international cooperation. Would be great, but never gonna happen. If most countries agree to, say, 10%, but you set your country's at 5%, maybe they all flock to you and you get lots of revenue. They'd compete, not cooperate. @npub12pw…zvxn npub14fjmms3rngeye22938mzrm6z4t52ck3pxfpmxexzvgq8urxj8klq7gq4pk ZenHeathen 🇨🇦 I never saw it leave "normal", just some gently-worded shit about considering your electronics, which the US ambASSador immediately said wasn't an issue, which everyone knew was a lie. npub14fjmms3rngeye22938mzrm6z4t52ck3pxfpmxexzvgq8urxj8klq7gq4pk ZenHeathen 🇨🇦 Canada's "travel advisories" for the US are paltry and inadequate. npub14fjmms3rngeye22938mzrm6z4t52ck3pxfpmxexzvgq8urxj8klq7gq4pk ZenHeathen 🇨🇦 At an official level, we're cowards. It's long past time to speak up and flat-out tell Canadians not to go there. It's become--in the words of one particular philosopher--a shithole country. npub14fjmms3rngeye22938mzrm6z4t52ck3pxfpmxexzvgq8urxj8klq7gq4pk ZenHeathen 🇨🇦 I didn't think the Senate's job was to "make the PM happy". npub14fjmms3rngeye22938mzrm6z4t52ck3pxfpmxexzvgq8urxj8klq7gq4pk ZenHeathen 🇨🇦 Once it became okay in the US to sue news orgs for ungodly sums when they make mistakes in honest-effort news reporting, they got so scared to actually say anything. Add to that oligarch ownership now, and "news" almost does more harm than good. @npub1spc…3gwu npub14fjmms3rngeye22938mzrm6z4t52ck3pxfpmxexzvgq8urxj8klq7gq4pk ZenHeathen 🇨🇦 Tired of the framing "the war in Gaza". It's not a war if only one side has an army. npub14fjmms3rngeye22938mzrm6z4t52ck3pxfpmxexzvgq8urxj8klq7gq4pk ZenHeathen 🇨🇦 How the hell do you smuggle in *missiles*? npub14fjmms3rngeye22938mzrm6z4t52ck3pxfpmxexzvgq8urxj8klq7gq4pk ZenHeathen 🇨🇦 WordPad is already gone (recently), isn't it? npub14fjmms3rngeye22938mzrm6z4t52ck3pxfpmxexzvgq8urxj8klq7gq4pk ZenHeathen 🇨🇦 WordPad, exactly. For rtf. Reinventing the damn wheel again. npub14fjmms3rngeye22938mzrm6z4t52ck3pxfpmxexzvgq8urxj8klq7gq4pk ZenHeathen 🇨🇦 How does one contact this distributor? npub14fjmms3rngeye22938mzrm6z4t52ck3pxfpmxexzvgq8urxj8klq7gq4pk ZenHeathen 🇨🇦 I am so fucking sick and tired of "managing my cookie preferences". npub14fjmms3rngeye22938mzrm6z4t52ck3pxfpmxexzvgq8urxj8klq7gq4pk ZenHeathen 🇨🇦 Again, are they wrong? Yet to be seen, but I wouldn't be surprised. Disappointed, but not surprised. npub14fjmms3rngeye22938mzrm6z4t52ck3pxfpmxexzvgq8urxj8klq7gq4pk ZenHeathen 🇨🇦 Are they wrong, though? npub14fjmms3rngeye22938mzrm6z4t52ck3pxfpmxexzvgq8urxj8klq7gq4pk ZenHeathen 🇨🇦 I think "squatter" is a good name we should be throwing at Poilievre (re. Stornoway) npub14fjmms3rngeye22938mzrm6z4t52ck3pxfpmxexzvgq8urxj8klq7gq4pk ZenHeathen 🇨🇦 When you're already committing genocide, crimes against humanity and international war crimes on the daily, and then you step it up another notch... What do we even call that? npub14fjmms3rngeye22938mzrm6z4t52ck3pxfpmxexzvgq8urxj8klq7gq4pk ZenHeathen 🇨🇦 This May Day, remember that there is no such thing as "middle class". If you're not the owner class, then you're the worker class. Stop letting them divide us against each other. npub14fjmms3rngeye22938mzrm6z4t52ck3pxfpmxexzvgq8urxj8klq7gq4pk ZenHeathen 🇨🇦 Someone I work very closely with knew people directly involved in the horrific vehicle attack against the Filipino community in Vancouver. A friend of his is in hospital, and lost his wife. My friend is visibly affected. We're close, but not close enough for me to offer a hug--we're just not quite that. But I wanted to. My heart breaks for him and the whole community and their loved ones. npub14fjmms3rngeye22938mzrm6z4t52ck3pxfpmxexzvgq8urxj8klq7gq4pk ZenHeathen 🇨🇦 "Sharon Osborne can fuck right off" has been true for, what, twenty or thirty years, right? npub14fjmms3rngeye22938mzrm6z4t52ck3pxfpmxexzvgq8urxj8klq7gq4pk ZenHeathen 🇨🇦 Foreign election interference npub14fjmms3rngeye22938mzrm6z4t52ck3pxfpmxexzvgq8urxj8klq7gq4pk ZenHeathen 🇨🇦 "Let us sit upon the ground, and tell JOYFUL tales of the death of kings..." npub14fjmms3rngeye22938mzrm6z4t52ck3pxfpmxexzvgq8urxj8klq7gq4pk ZenHeathen 🇨🇦 Yes, I learned that "28 days" part last night. Even more mystified about the whole event now. I think the entire debates commission and their rules--including about media--need an overhaul. npub14fjmms3rngeye22938mzrm6z4t52ck3pxfpmxexzvgq8urxj8klq7gq4pk ZenHeathen 🇨🇦 Then I'm sorry, Alison, I shouldn't have poked at your wording. I need to poke at the article's wording. It could and should be worded better, to avoid the misunderstanding that I'm seeing all over Masto this afternoon. npub14fjmms3rngeye22938mzrm6z4t52ck3pxfpmxexzvgq8urxj8klq7gq4pk ZenHeathen 🇨🇦 Alison's post stated the commission pulled the invite because the Greens pulled candidates to not split the vote. Both may be true; a) Greens pulled candidates to not split the vote, and b) commission pulled the invite because candidates were pulled. But stating them together in one phrase can give the impression that c) the commission pulled the invite because the Greens didn't want to split the vote which is untrue (or at least unknown). npub14fjmms3rngeye22938mzrm6z4t52ck3pxfpmxexzvgq8urxj8klq7gq4pk ZenHeathen 🇨🇦 True enough. But that's not what was posted. I've got a bugbear about anything election-related, I really want information to be accurately stated. npub14fjmms3rngeye22938mzrm6z4t52ck3pxfpmxexzvgq8urxj8klq7gq4pk ZenHeathen 🇨🇦 They were dropped for not running the required 90% of candidates, though they'd told the commission they would. They may have dropped candidates for a good and useful reason, but that's not part of the commission's rules. npub14fjmms3rngeye22938mzrm6z4t52ck3pxfpmxexzvgq8urxj8klq7gq4pk ZenHeathen 🇨🇦 Okay, #Canada npub14fjmms3rngeye22938mzrm6z4t52ck3pxfpmxexzvgq8urxj8klq7gq4pk ZenHeathen 🇨🇦 I've been steered wrong by them in the past. npub14fjmms3rngeye22938mzrm6z4t52ck3pxfpmxexzvgq8urxj8klq7gq4pk ZenHeathen 🇨🇦 Seems to me the Roman Empire knew over two thousand years ago that "bread and circuses" kept the people from rising up. Can't do bread and circuses without bread. npub14fjmms3rngeye22938mzrm6z4t52ck3pxfpmxexzvgq8urxj8klq7gq4pk ZenHeathen 🇨🇦 Is Pierre Poilievre a squinty, fashy, lying little piece of shit? Hey, I'm just asking questions. npub14fjmms3rngeye22938mzrm6z4t52ck3pxfpmxexzvgq8urxj8klq7gq4pk ZenHeathen 🇨🇦 I was talking with my wife this morning about the boost in the Liberals' numbers in these polls over the last couple of weeks, even from companies fully in the bag for the Conservatives. And a new thought occurred to me.
