@kittypurrzog
Oh my god…. I grew up in Baptist and Pentecostal enclaves and I’ve never seen anything as possessed as the “repent motherfucker” tambourine person. Am also shaking with laughter.
@Komatii_V
@DiscussionFlim
@raynefq
it's true. The buccal fat the OP referred to saved my face in my forties, it's starting to drift south but at least it's there. Faces hollow out as they age and the current trend of young women getting their cheek fat sucked out is going to haunt them in 20 years.
She sweetly thanked me "for my kindness" although everyone else found me a nuisance. She says she wants assisted suicide. It seems to me underway, but slower with more suffering and chaos. How to intervene before Carrie is at the end of her line? her cute smile flashed and gone.
Made calls to her "friends". Showed her pictures of my cat cuz she likes cats. Pulled my flipper out of my mouth to show I'm missing teeth too.I am so frustrated. She hit her pipe and thanked me. Such a cute broken smile. I suspect no one had talked to her like a human in days.
I stayed with her over three hours. A mystery. why was she discharged and left? Across the street from life saving devices. She was immobilized by cold, having no foot, a broken wheelchair, rotting hams for hands. Her addiction: which she inhaled every minute Who left her there?!
I am so angry. I talked to security, desk, EMT's catching a rare 5 in parked ambulances. We were literally right there on a bench across from Emerg for 2-3 hours. They said "what business is it of yours". I understand better today, their burnout, their frustration, their "why?"
Carrie has lost a foot and her hands are next. I recognized her lean and the sound of butane. Tried to compel myself home but halfway there came back because all the walkers shuttering their eyes made me sick. I knew I wouldn't sleep. She was wearing a hospital gown in the cold.
Carrie was clear: She needs drugs. She wants to die. Wants to go back inside. I ended up calling 911 to re-triage her and an EMT walked over an hour later. Everyone annoyed at both of us. Kept asking me why I was there. This added to my confusion although I understand better now.
They wouldn't let me wheel her back in. Since she had already been there and left they couldn't just come get her without a mental health act. What are we doing?! She was cold and crying and high as kite, very ill and in need of medical care for her hands and feet at least.
@sqwabb
@Cariboojeff11
Thanks S, a genuinely confusing situation. The visible anger of the EMT's was jarring. I asked one why he was being so sharp to me and he apologized, said he was on hour 15. A friend helped me understand that the EMT's have PTSD and a sense of futility in the face of this crisis.
@TorontoStar
no problem as long the as the negative covid test money grab required both ways (300$x2 is 600$) is discontinued. if the vax works this is unnecessary. if the vax doesnt work and still requires testing every 72 hours than there is no point in mandating it for travel,
Such a perplexing situation. C had clearly been in hospital that day. still wearing gown & bracelet. At some point was released or convinced someone to wheel her out, I think because she needed to use. Too sick to move herself. No one was coming for her. She had nowhere to go.
Leaving YVR. Dorset Realty just listed my 1BR apartment. It's shabby, no hot water in morning, no d/w or w/d, three storey w/up, freezing in winter boiling in summer, hallways smell funny. None of these things bother me because it is beautiful. it was 1300$ 4yrs ago. 1900$ now.
@Komatii_V
@DiscussionFlim
@raynefq
don't do it! You'll start to lose it in your late thirties naturally and you'll see bone structure you never saw before! It's very cool, meanwhile all those who had thin faces naturally will be starting to look a little gaunt around the same age.
The owners will improve nothing. A 600$ hike in 4yrs. A 45% rent hike in 4yrs for the next struggling worker who comes along and has no choice. This is war profiteering. This is hoarding in a scarcity crisis and should be illegal. Our governments do not care.
@YVRTenantsUnion
@DrDebraSoh
the othering, "unbanking" and doxxing are terrifying. All could have been avoided by quietly allowing an exemption to a mandate that no longer has any medical, ethical or intellectual basis. No sane person cares if a handful of holdouts make a poor and entirely individual choice.
@MatthewStadlen
@DouglasKMurray
@DAaronovitch
I first saw DM here. A day the entire left was stuttering "Je Suis Charlie, but..." and millions began to sniff the air and wonder if they were in fact on the "right" side. I urge you to watch it and dare use the word "scared" to describe Douglas again.
@chrisbostrowski
why broken teeth? that alone is incredibly emotionally affecting. -- My front teeth were badly broken in a fall. The mental toll of not smiling over years doesn't get a lot of airplay or sympathy. Hard to describe. You have my sympathy.
@katrosenfield
I love this anecdote but find the descriptor "handwritten" interesting. Was there an alternative in the restaurant? Imagine running to a Corner Printer or pulling a portable Epson from your stuffs to dash off "you're beautiful". What font do you choose?
@kittypurrzog
I’m in Vancouver. People are losing friends over this. It’s madness, the local media bias is the worst I’ve ever seen on any issue. Health workers yesterday were warned by officials not to wear scrubs and to hide indoors lest trucker attack. There is no basis for this.
@AP
This is a big deal. Charging him as an adult. That evil could bloom this young… another sickening event. We need to talk about guns… but we also need to talk about boys.
@elizamondegreen
She shouldn't have cowed. Needs to lawyer up, get her business out of their house. If they're funding a cause she has moral truck with (ie. war, big oil, big pharma) she has a right to pull assets instead of receive blows. Artists do all the time. I hope Roisin finds her backbone
@HistoryBoomer
I'm recoiling at it. So the mockers didn't like his politics. He worked at a safe injection site modelling the kind of compassion almost nonexistent in this selfish society. They'd literally mock Jesus or St. Theresa for not packing.
I have never understood why this bullshit skates, why it gets no share of the rage. People belong in jail. Baroque level greed, corruption and incompetence. Billion$ and billion$ squandered and lining pockets. People died. Your government mocks you.
@ML_Philosophy
Had miscarriage on Mother's Day. My ex-hus, who had bizarre codependency with baby mama of decade prior, wouldn't come to hospital or be with me at all cuz HER special day as the Real Mother. Took her for dim sum, massage & bike ride while I miscarried alone & found my way home.
@BuckAngel
Jesus. Without your voice leading the way my understanding of dysphoria would be both limited and negative, preventing empathy. calling you transphobic is a joke. you are a main reason I'm not.
@SAWMYFUNERAL
@raynefq
good genes! my dad is same, he didn't age till his 70's mind you, he went to bed looking young one night and woke up next morning looking like the cutest little wizened bug. I do moisturize and use sunscreen, we also have a lot of rainy days up here which makes a difference.
@kittypurrzog
Media/Social media has whipped public to a place where any anti-mandate position is an admittal of White Nationalism?! Yet any clear thinker understands that when vaccines do little to nothing to stop transmission they lose the ethical prerequisite required to force people to get
@suzanne_moore
It's as if the music industry is dominated by self serving, misogynist men. I know there's women in there somewhere... disappointed to realize how resigned they are to slavishly rubbing out any visible outline of their own backbones.
@guyfelicella
The most generous people are those with the least to give. I experienced this over and over again in the homeless community in YVR. I wouldn't have made it through the last three years if not for my street embedded neighbours picking me up when I was down. Miss them greatly.
@kittypurrzog
it's a widely held belief (that I suspect to be true) that right leaning men and women fuck better... dunno how this plays into "hot" but it might.
@FunkGodArtist
Feminism is Far Right
Criticism of Pornography is Far Right
Criticism of Prostitution is Far Right
Criticism of Surrogacy is Far Right
Insidious campaign to rewind feminism to serve capitalist & patriarchal commodification & access to women's bodies. Elders specifically targeted.
@ArmandDoma
"once again for the people in the back" needs to be added to this list. Although it's a great tell you about to read a regurgitated and incurious slogan. I just stop reading when I see it now.
@twitornot1
@rjjago
@Terrilltf
thanks for being sweet. they really do mean well I suspect. trying to show their kids something maybe. when my sister was killed my mom said that the people who said the "wrong" thing were in some ways more endearing than those who say the "right" thing. she pointed out that
@twitornot1
@rjjago
@Terrilltf
that most people shut up for fear of saying the "wrong" thing and that she'll take the wrong thing over silence any day. It's a display of vulnerability in our stupidity. Thank you for your wisdom.
@Aja02537920
thank you. they just found another socially sanctioned way to advertise their hatred of women writ large since the term "bitches" became persona non grata. Initially comic "Karen" morphed into this slur so fast my head spun.
@luxesuccubus
@PRADAESQUE
peeps don't understand, being anti-sex work isn't being anti sex worker. I'm here for the sex workers. And the child labourers and the underpaid factory workers and the migrant labourers. What I'm NOT here for is the people paying for and profiting from. Shackles and chains. 🙈
@hollowearthterf
I dated a guy who said he didn't like having sex with women who'd given birth because "..._____". It was meant to be some weird roundabout compliment about my body parts but it made me feel sick to my stomach.
@Parappa_Wrapper
@Komatii_V
@alexisjeanx
@DiscussionFlim
@raynefq
you are both being nice. My profile pic is more recent but it was soft light so yeah I look young. Here's one from the year before under harsh light and bare face and you can see I'm not a kid, am aging naturally and still look alright
@Garnet_2203
@nationalpost
Remember asking your parents "But how?" when learning of the Holocaust? A child cannot grapple "How?" when good, silent people saw the trucks, the smokestacks, the spectres. Future kids will ask "But how?" about this. History condemns "Mind your own business"s role in atrocities.
@angrybklynmom
@joerogan
@MaajidNawaz
I've loved Maajid forever. He went a little cuckoo for covid last year. As a fellow didactic insomniac I empathise to how this can happen in isolation. His third eye burns white hot. Definitely worth listening and considering. You got the goods to separate the wheat from chaff.
@WomenReadWomen
textbook autogynephilia. possessing a thorny sliver of BDD myself I get it. But the thirst will never be slacked. it will bankrupt and leave you eternally questing for something perfect. I pray we both can be free.
@jessesingal
she is a renowned pathological liar. she cannot help herself. it's funny and pitiful and perhaps deserves some allowances at the same time. There are some interesting threads on her alleged munchausen's.
@mabel_normand
@Delicious_Tacos
My parents became better parents not just with each kid, but with age. Esp. my dad: more loving, funnier, more time, patience and compassion. I wish kid-me had known that dad. So does he. He's been making up for that lost time since he was around 45. Old man dad can be awesome.
@anthonyzenkus
Women have more experience w/ objectification than you and absorb the short leap from Uterus Haver>Bleeder>Front Hole>Fuck Hole>Cum Dumpster. Most prefer the not-dehumanizing "women". If pronouns are to be respected in the abstract than why is this an immaterial ask from women?
@ntkallday
Hi, I feel this. I now own my own resto and am far worse off (and worried) than I was when I was serving at 21. Squeezed into an ever more squalid rental every few years I believe I will be homeless in my senior years which are around the corner. Being single adds a unique panic.
@ones__opinion
@AquarianGodd
she's preggo, you can tell by how she's moving. My sister is one year younger than me and it's a gift to have siblings close in age. I think you're generally really fertile after first baby.
@seerutkchawla
two really destructive behaviours I've seen it manifest is in Munchausen's (and by proxy) and Parental Alienation Syndrome. How women abuse.
@sqwabb
I was looking at rates around the city. 1900 still below. average 1 BR is 2100-2400. If I stayed in YVR that would be 90% of my annual income. Not sustainable for anyone who is middle to working class. NYC apartments are lower. Nurses can’t afford here, let alone Service Industry
@NoLore
@sandela
I didn't realize till listening how THIRSTY, how STARVED I was for every word. Yes, the disaffected are defecting. They are not crazy to be mad, what IS crazy is that the left has allowed no space for it. I am agog at the activists/anarchists I used to know. It's disorienting.
@TheAfrocentricI
Peruvian-Japanese Food, Canadian-Chinese, Italian-American are distinct, legitimate things. Hong Kong French Toast is a thing, Japanese izakaya's make Hambagu. Australian sushi got tweaked as all foods do and she guessed other Aussies craved it. Grow up.
@fatpussyhex
it is such a bad idea. Your face loses fat as you age. I had a fair bit of baby fat for a long time and am reaping the benefits now. leave it alone.
@bjportraits
A year ago I would have a) had no idea what you mean b) have thought it crazy. Then I read about the uterus implants and fetishizing miscarriage......
@TristinHopper
Mainstreaming Bari is a major departure from the status quo, Morning Joe desk is absolutely frozen while she talks. R. Maddow last night was excellent with crisp interviews and questions. Canadian media is woefully out of it's depth.
Our founder,
@bariweiss
, on
@morning_joe
sets the record straight on the Israel massacre. “The Nazis tried to hide their war crimes. Hamas is livestreaming theirs.”
@sometherapist
@ngusdair
gold: Putting youth on this path is to steal Love from them. Securing love is hard for anyone. Compromised mental, physical, sexual & reproductive health narrows potential to know romantic & parental love. Those who steal Love from children should be tried accordingly.
@salltweets
Incel woke bros and vain, sex obsessed AGP influentsers are the greatest threat to trans rights. The more measured, vulnerable, brave transgendered/sexual people stepping up and speaking honestly the more angry this fringe is making me on behalf of women, kids, gays and trans.
@guyfelicella
Too simple, please stop it -- it prevents solutions. No one believes addiction is prohibitive to housing. But pretending behaviour associate with addiction does not come into play here HELPS NO ONE. Being a good neighbour and tenant requires respect for others safety and property
@JenniferRoseNYC
@HaitianDvorce
Sign is disastrously worded. I’m an owner too and I know lots. 9/10 are the hardest working person in the joint and the idea that chefs/deli owners/restauranteurs are in it for easy riches is laughable. Kudos to the slim few who manage to eventually eke out a middle class living.
@coccinellanovem
@PennyRed
I started following Laurie in the wake of me too. I’m surprised she has caved to what is clearly a
#metoo
backlash and to quote
@janeclarejones
“the most unholy tsunami of misogyny I have seen in my lifetime.”
@ThorChiggins
@HistoryBoomer
I oppose a lot of extreme harm reduction policies and am also capable of holding multiple thoughts simultaneously. The compassion of those on the front lines saving one life at a time isn't up for debate with me.
@CaitlinPacific
Trying to explain this brutal culture war, now a real civilizational clash, to my dad today and why it might not be safe for him to ride his bike to the cenotaph wearing his uniform. He is 85. He's gone down to the basement for hours now. I can hear the radio playing the service.
@LeorSapir
"Civility goes both ways" but you cannot compel speech in a democracy, nor compel ritual in public school. SOGI has curricula tools for Pronoun Play. So begins the slow unspooling of Church from State.
#4
on my list of things that are inevitable as this issue gathers daylight.
@LittleMammith
I totally agree, especially since we warned of such shortsightedness at the time. However, I'm working really hard to resist pleasure in schadenfreude except in the case of corrupted institutions. Individual pile ons lead to suicide ideation and worse. Bullying is bad.
@okayestdentist
Such a perplexing situation. C had clearly been in hospital that day. still wearing gown & bracelet. At some point was released or convinced someone to wheel her out, I think because she needed to use. Too sick to move herself. No one was coming for her. She had nowhere to go.
@KeishaKnits
simple and somewhat bland (not the "flavour bombs" of today's "fusion" food) as this takes us back to childhood. Fact is, you could name any cuisine in the world and I could give you an example of a screamingly spicy, flavourful dish AND a bland comfort dish found therein.
@Aella_Girl
That's a myopic view on sex-work debate. Sounds like you're referring to feminists, who don't posit that at all. But rather that for every you; there are hundreds thousands who are cornered. And that a women's right to survive shouldn't depend on men's "right" to sex.
@kittypurrzog
Personally, I adore Ivy for laying out unequivocal terms with stunning clarity. You either believe they are literal females or you don't. Once you've established, even privately, what your belief is, all else falls neatly into place. Or falls away.
@blkmsk
@HaitianDvorce
cuz small biz bosses make shit. owner of small cafe here. first to arrive last to leave. do all the dirty work plus all the cooking/serving/supplying/problem solving/Clean the grease trap/grill/bathrooms/walkins myself, work holidays and cover staff time off for less than 15/hr.