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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • I don’t know… I had a guy doing some landscape work for me and despite not engaging him he kept dropping comments about how great Trump was and how excited he was that he had just been reelected. Eventually he started asking directed questions and while I kept my answers honest and short, (“I think he is a terrible person by all metrics, including the 4 years he previously spent fucking things up, and anyone who voted for him is a fool at best and a psycho at worst”) he kept driving home how great Trump was and how this will really save our country.

    He eventually asked me where I get my news and I told him, and he said “see I don’t trust any of those guys anymore, I like to get my news from various sources, I’m actually listening to a lot of Russian news these days.”

    I asked him if he knew Russian and he said no, and asked him who the target audience might be for those news outlet (he had asked about who my news sources were catering too), but he didn’t seem to catch on.

    Also fun fact we are in Canada facepalm.

    He didn’t like talking much about Canadian politics, I think because I had answers to most of his really dumb “questions”, whereas I wasn’t listening to 10 hours of Russian propaganda at the time so didn’t know all the angles he was using about how smart Trump’s picks were and how Harris was the literal devil.



  • The difference is you (and I) didn’t make a big fuss to make sure everyone in our social circles is aware of the fact we didn’t like it. If someone asks me, I’ll say “yeah the clown car thing was super fun and the backup dancers did good and the guy on the lamppost, what was he doing up there? But yeah not my thing.”

    But that would imply that I thought the talent was talented and worked hard to put on a good show, which if I was a racist pos I would not want people to think I thought that.

    So to recap: not liking something that isn’t to your taste is not racism, but declaring it excessively within certain social circles certainly can be a form of virtue signalling… The signaled virtue being how white you are.





  • “No arrests were made”

    Because half the people in the U-Haul were probably co-workers.

    It baffles me that in this day in 2025, with hundreds of data points being reported hourly, that we can’t look at the obvious preferential treatment fascists get from their cop buddies. Had that been a Free Palestine protest and some racist nutjob showed up to harrass them, the cops would have cleared the bridge and arrested a handful of the protestors, MAYBE one of the nutjobs IF they were REALLY pushing it. Then they’d find a reason why that bridge can’t be used for protesting, release the nutjob with a “stern” warning and rake all the protestors across the coals with any minor “disturbing the peace” type charges so they have a record for next time.




  • I know this goes against the spirit of … Bachelor frog meme?

    But that was a very effective way my mom suggested to combat my ache. Every night I’d take my fresh t-shirt for the next day and put it over my pillow case. It meant that my face was always getting a fresh pillowcase without me needing to have 75 pillowcases to wash for every day.

    I did also try using the shirt at the end of the day (because when my ache got bad I’d have blood spots and stuff on my shirts and couldn’t wear them) but it didn’t feel as clean and nice, so I’d just occasionally put a shirt on the pillow and then if it was soiled that first night id wear a different shirt and leave that one on the pillow for another day or 2.

    Fresh pillow cases and sheets are a magical thing.