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Canadian. Vimy, not Vichy.

Screenshot from "The Emperors New Groove" where Uzma is dragging an alligator and saying "why do we even have that lever?"
Photo of an early military tank from Wikipedia. Caption reads: "Renault FT on display at the Museum des Blindés in Saumur. The picture taken August 8, 2006. This is the 1934-1935..."
A photo(shopped image) of the Rideau Canal in Ottawa with a leaping dolphin emerging from it.
Black cat in pet pram is weighing his options...
Cheap pun using screencapture from Bad LipReading video "Carl Poppa" Because I flow!
Purple REM photo pass, featuring Bill Berry's luxurious and iconic eyebrows, reading "R.E.M U.S. 86, TO PHOTO, NO BACKSTAGE ACCESS" This btw is one of the few legitimate cases for the overused word "iconic."
dude/do͞od/"Dude" originated in 1880s New York City as an insulting slang term for overly dressed, foppish men (dandies). It likely evolved as a shortened version of "Yankee Doodle," mocking those who obsessed over British fashion. By the 1920s, it shifted to describe city tourists visiting Western ranches, and by the 1970s, it transformed via California surfer culture into the casual, all-purpose term we use today.The meaning of "dude" has completely flipped throughout history. Here are its major eras:1880s (The Fashion Victim): Coined as NYC slang, a "dude" was an extremely vain, fastidious man who slavishly followed European trends.1890s–1950s (The City Slicker): The definition shifted to mean an Eastern city dweller vacationing in the American West. This gave birth to the term "Dude Ranch", where wealthy tourists paid to play cowboy.
Small photo of a basic turtle. Info from Google in response to question "how to know if a turtle is alive or dead." "To determine if a turtle is alive, check for bright, moist eyes, a normal color, and responsiveness when gently stimulated or warmed. Signs the turtle has passed away include a foul, rotting odor, severely sunken and dried eyes, extreme bloating, or completely limp, unresponsive limbs.Turtles can easily be mistaken for deceased when they are simply hibernating, in a state of severe torpor, or cold-stunned. Before assuming the worst, follow this assessment checklist:Inspect the Eyes: This is often the most telling sign. Sunken, cloudy, or completely dried, sunken eyes indicate the turtle is likely dead. A living turtle, even a cold-stunned one, will have clear, moist eyes.Check the Smell: A deceased turtle will quickly emit a foul, putrid odor from decomposition. If there is no bad smell, there is a good chance it is still alive.Test the Response to Warmth: Cold environments can cause extreme lethargy that mimics death. Gently place the turtle in a controlled, warm, and dry spot (around 24–28°C or 75–82°F) for several hours to see if it blinks, twitches, or moves its toes as it warms up."
3. The "Interruption / Cessation" Cryptotype (Off)Physically, off means separating two surfaces. Subconsciously, we map this to stopping a flow, a process, or a connection.Call off: Cancel an event (disconnect the plan).Break off: End a relationship or a conversation abruptly.Doze off: Disconnect from consciousness.Cut off: Interrupt someone speaking.Without realizing it, your brain has a massive map of these spatial metaphors. When a new verb enters the language, you instantly know which particle to grab because of these hidden categories.
2. The "Boundary / Accessibility" Cryptotype (Out)Physically, out means exiting an enclosure. Metaphorically, the enclosure is the "mind" or "the hidden state." Emerging out means entering public awareness or reality.Find out: Bring information into the light.Speak out: Move a thought from inside your head to the public.Pass out: Hand items from a central pile to the wider group (or lose consciousness, exiting awareness).Work out: Solve a problem, bringing the answer to the surface.
Do Cryptotypes Explain Phrasal Verbs?Yes, absolutely. The chaotic world of phrasal verbs (verb + particle, like up, down, off, out) is actually governed by deep, spatial cryptotypes.When foreign learners struggle with phrasal verbs, it is usually because textbooks teach them as random idioms. In reality, native speakers use particles based on metaphorical extensions of physical space. Here is how cryptotypes organize phrasal verbs:1. The "Completeness / Consumption" Cryptotype (Up)Physically, up means vertical movement. Metaphorically, our brains treat a container filling up to the brim as a finished action. Therefore, up acts as a cryptotype for totality or destruction.Eat up: Eat everything until it is gone.Burn up: Burn completely to ashes.Lock up: Lock every door securely.Use up: Consume the entire supply.
3 large pots of (potential) tomato plants and 4 small pots of herbs on a concrete pad. Left to right: rosemary, lavender, chives and basil. You might wonder -- why no dill? Where's the dill??? I'm going to grow some from seed in back yard and hoping to attract butterflies.
https://diabetesjournals.org/care/article/49/6/901/164764/Misguided-Brushes-of-a-Pen-Continue-to-Dismantle is the location of the editorial... we should make sureeveryine reads it @amdiabetesassn
Screencapture of title and first paragraph of Substack article "How Borderline Personality Became a Holding Category for Undiagnosed Audhd Women" by Bridgette Hamstead. JUNE 5, 2026. "Somewhere between the 1980s and now, borderline personality disorder became one of the most commonly assigned diagnoses in women’s psychiatric care, and almost nobody in the mainstream mental health conversation has asked why. The rates climbed. The referrals accumulated. The diagnosis spread across inpatient units, outpatient practices, community mental health centers. And a substantial proportion of the women carrying it were autistic and ADHD, with those neurologies entirely unrecognized, being treated for a personality disorder they didn’t have, in systems that had no interest in looking harder."
Screenshot of post by Massimo :bot: Archeologists in southern Turkey unearthed thr marble foot of a life-sized statue of the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius.... Photo of a sandy foot with a red and white wooden marker to give scale. Nice pedicure on him, too.
Rush's "By-Tor and the Snow Dog" origin story Rush's road manager Howard Ungerleider came up with the title at a party.... There were two dogs at the party, one a German shepherd and the other a tiny white nervous dog. Howard used to call the shepherd By-Tor because anyone that walked into the house was bitten. The other dog was a snow-dog (white). Text cut-and-paste from Facebook post by Cygnus-X1.net, April 2022. Cover Art from Rush Fly By Night Album -- dramatic blue and black Owl with glowing yellow eyes and outstretched wings.
Small photos of knob & tube wiring from Google image search. White porcelain knobs and tube are used for switches and connectors. Old wooden houses.
Black and white text of Ottawa Citizen headline "LCBO to pay agency $650,000 for branding, marketing of cannabis store, logo." By Staff Reporter Published March 16, 2018 1 momute read Join the conversation Incredibly bland, boring, unimaginative, plain black & white text, somehow more boring even than calibri, block letters reading ONTARIO CANNABIS STORE and a sad logo bearing "OCS" inside a thin black circle.
Crude childlike pen drawing of the word "bed" with a person sleeping in it. Because science.
Cover of The Transition Handbook by Rob Hopkins Has a green line drawing of a small village Located on a website called "Foundation for Intentional Community" which offers a link for free ebook download. "The Transition Handbook (Ebook) Free! FREE DOWNLOAD! A link to download is emailed to you after checkout. The Transition Handbook (Ebook) quantity Categories: All Titles, Ebooks, Free Resources, Living in Community, Social + Racial Justice, Sustainability + Resiliency
Photo of Kash Patel staring into his own brain. That's literally the definition of introspection. This man is an intellectual giant.
Photo of an open book, both pages blank except for text reading "Cat's Eye" in block letters, and underneath a signature slanting upwards in blue ink, reading "Margaret Atwood" -- goddess/heroine of CanLit. Some might say she's overhyped, but SHE has never stopped growing and she has spoken more truth to power via literature than anybody I know. And somehow she has kept her sense of humour.
Photo of an apricot Havanese dog on a white chair, lookin' adorable.
Headline from Canada Healthwatch: "Health Canada says paid plasma clinic in Regina violated rules requiring at least two days between a person donating Links to CBC article Photo of building with sign reading "Grifols Plasma Donation Centre" 2nd post by Chae Chiu Yin,.replying: "Yes! The Minister of Health, Uzoma Asagwara should ban paid plasma. This is a matter of principle, Grifols needs to be held accountable for its incompetence."
Screencapture of Washington Post headline "Trump, seeking power over elections, is urged to declare emergency" With photo of someone voting in a school gymnasium (credited to Matt McClain/The Washington Post). Cutline reads: "Activists who say they are in coordination with the White House are circulating a draft executive order that could unlock extraordinary presidential power over voting." By Isaac Arnsdorf.
Screenshot of CSPAN showing a photo of Trump doing a presentation on the left and a photo of US Supreme Court judges on the right. Post is from @antifawinemoms from about 11pm EST on February 21 2026: "YOU GUYS YOU GUYS... 'John Barron' called @cspan to complain about the Supreme Court's ruling on Trump's tariffs and I. AM. SCREAMING this is amazing (laughing emojis?) They cut the man off (smiling emoji?)" I don't know nuances of emojis. I do know Trump used to call radio stations with a slightly disguised voice representing himself as John Barron. In this recording he sounds like he has a clothespin his nose.
Pixabay copyright free image of gorgeous horned highland cow with prominent tongue appearance.
Posted on Facebook by "Refutations to Anti-Vaccination Memes" group. Photo of a smiling, bearded man with glasses in blue scrubs in front of an American flag. Captioned "Alex Pretti, RN"
An image posted by Governor Newsom's press office showing Mark Carney, Macron and von der Leyen pointing and laughing at Trump slumped over a podium sleeping with a night cap on his head. Not helpful
Image of famous hat toss taken from opening credits of Mary Tyler Moore show
Screen capture of NYT headline "F.B.I's Inquiry Into ICE Shooting Faces Doubts After White House's Remarks" has been redacted with black lines so it only reads "F.B.I's Inquiry Into ICE Shooting Faces."
A screenshot of a post from The Shallow State: "Jonathan Ross may be a misogynist, intoxicated by the authority imbued upon him, and a reckless hothead, but here's a behaviorist's view on the single thing that made him lose control and set him off to shoot Renée Good three times in the face. Believe it or not, it was her telling him it's OK, she wasn't mad at him and then turning the wheel to leave. That was her being in control, it was a statement about HER feelings, with HER as the subject, and driving away would have made that THE LAST WORD. He couldn't handle that. To him, she was sighting his manhood by making his feelings subordinate, effectively saying she wasn't afraid, and this caused his innate hatred for women to bubble up and overtake him. Shooting her was his way of saying- who has the last word now?"
A screenshot of a post from The Shallow State: "Jonathan Ross may be a misogynist, intoxicated by the authority imbued upon him, and a reckless hothead, but here's a behaviorist's view on the single thing that made him lose control and set him off to shoot Renée Good three times in the face. Believe it or not, it was her telling him it's OK, she wasn't mad at him and then turning the wheel to leave. That was her being in control, it was a statement about HER feelings, with HER as the subject, and driving away would have made that THE LAST WORD. He couldn't handle that. To him, she was sighting his manhood by making his feelings subordinate, effectively saying she wasn't afraid, and this caused his innate hatred for women to bubble up and overtake him. Shooting her was his way of saying- who has the last word now?"
Reply from @go-dems01.bsky.social: "I wish to stimulate discussion here. How do people here on Bluesky feel about what this Pennsylvania Sherriff said in this news conference?" 7:19pm Jan 10, 2026
Screen capture of @go-dems01.bsky.social account showing it lists 110 posts in 2 months, but display of home page has only one actual post, reading "Everyone on Bluesky you need to do at least one BBC. Big Beautiful Boycott." End of feed. The 109 other posts are all replies to other posts, seeming to support Democrat and anti-Trump sentiment without adding any new or noteworthy content. This is suspicious, as it does not "stimulate discussion" to participate in social media this way. So I am going to block this account, strongly believing this account has 11 other sock puppet accounts hidden and they all follow each other. I don't know what the game is, but I don't play.
Quoted from Heather Cox Richardson's Facebook post January 7, 2026: Today has been bonkers, and tonight's letter will reflect that. But while we are copyediting that letter, I want to call out something in it, toward the end, that I don't want to have overawed by everything else that's happened today. It's this: "Today, Energy Secretary Chris Wright told an audience at a Goldman Sachs energy industry event in Miami, Florida, that the United States will take control of all oil from Venezuela for the foreseeable future. Lisa Desjardins and Nick Schifrin of PBS News hour reported this afternoon that Trump administration officials have told lawmakers that they plan to put the money raised from their seizure of Venezuelan oil into bank accounts outside the U.S. Treasury. Desjardins clarified that "[s]ources said they understood these as similar [to] or decidedly 'off-shore' accounts.' Yesterday, Trump announced that, as President of the United States, he would control the money from the sale of Venezuelan oil."
Googled to find images for sale of Trump depicted as a Second Coming of Christ, a Saint holding hands with St. Teresa etc.
Don'tCallthePolice.com Don't call the police dot com has a city by city list of organizations you can call in a crisis that are trained in disability and de-escalation. @RabbiShoshana
Screenshot from Timothy Snyder's Substack post: "State Terror: a brief guide for Americans" by Timothy Snyder. April 15, 2025. "Yesterday the president defied a Supreme Court ruling to return a man who was mistakenly sent to a gulag in another country, celebrated the suffering of this innocent person, and spoke of sending Americans to foreign concentration camps. This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped." Subscribe!
Pierre Poilievre in one of many photos bringing treats and encouragement to illegal convoy occupiers of Ottawa.
A screenshot from the bird app where a user with handle @neilhorning asks Grok give @assassinscreed's burn of Elon Musk a rating out of 10. Grok gave it a 9/10
"Clement was removed from the Conservative caucus in November 2018. Shortly after, Clement himself revealed that he had shared sexually explicit images and video with multiple women. He also reported that someone had attempted to bribe one woman to disclose "intimate and personal information" and that he had been targeted for extortion by someone demanding money to keep the images from being released." https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/tony-clement-sexting-scandal-conservative-1.5081312
"One message from PM Carney really stuck with me. 'We can give ourselves more than he can take away.' That is such a powerful reminder of how much control we actually have. Canada is not weak, and we have so much to offer, not just to the world but to ourselves. The best way to respond to any outside challenge is by building on our great strengths and having the unfailing confidence to do so."
Graphic of horizontal bar graph with caption "what gives people feelings of power" First bar is green and short, labeled "money". Second bar is blue and labeled "status", a bit longer than the first bar. Third bar is red and much longer than the first two bars, labeled "growing a tomato"
A single, perfect, bright red cherry tomato that I grew during 2020 lockdown. Growing food -- even one pot of herbs -- is resistance. Sharing what you grow -- is revolution!
Purple press pass for REM Pageantry tour 1986, with Bill Berry's face from eyes upward
Photo of Dems sitting in SOTU, some displaying discreet black paddles with words on them eg "Save Medicaid" and "Musk Steals"
Cartoon showing two people balanced on a plank at a great height. One is labeled "USA", one is labeled "Canada". The one labeled USA is shown preparing to kick the one labeled Canada from behind, like a creepy backstabbing faithless loser, such that Canada will fall from the grest height. The USA doesn't seem to grasp that this will cause the plank to lose countervailing balance such that USA will immediately also fall from the grest height. They teach science in schools so countries can avoid scenarios like this.