Me: When Americans misspell ‘Ottawa’, I experience it as a microaggression.
Partner: How are they misspelling ’Ottawa’?
Me: With two O’s.
Partner, looking at me like I’ve grown another head: ‘OOTTAWA’?
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@IPEdmonton@mstdn.ca
mastodon 4.8.0-alpha.3+glitchCanadian by choice. International in outlook. Home in Halifax. Leftie. Foodie. Queer. Multilingual. Bike person, but a pedestrian at heart. Social scientist by trade. Household = me, Partner, two cats. Pretty bent by the anti-reality turn our world has taken since early 2022 but not (yet) broken.
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Joined May 01, 2022
Living in:
Halifax/Kjipuktuk, Nova Scotia, Canada
Languages:
English, German, and Dutch fluently, decent Italian, some French, a bit of Spanish
Bikes:
Two Brompton folding bikes (one acoustic, one electric), a co-owned Tern HSD short-tail electric cargo bike, and an Optima Hopper semirecumbent (currently stored with friends in the Netherlands)
Pronouns:
Obvious if you interact with me for a while, irrelevant if you don’t know me (if you misgender me in the absence of full disclosure, I will find it interesting rather than annoying, I promise!)
In Edmonton we lived above (WAY above) a beloved downtown pub. In 2018 the NDP government passed a law that allowed bars to open for the duration of the men’s hockey gold medal game (at like 4am), so we got up early for it and headed down. We all wore our pyjamas! I will be thinking of that Sunday.
It is not normal how much thought we’ve been putting into how to celebrate our cats’ birthday next week, but here we are.
Extra-special cat treats for the birthday girls!
@sarah_ist_muede@troet.cafe es gibt außerdem noch viele Leute, die „es doch sind“, aber das noch gar nicht wissen.
When people first started talking regularly about Rachel Reid (local author of the Heated Rivalry book), I would hear “Rachel Reeves” (UK politician) before mentally backtracking and correcting. Somewhere along the line, though, my expectations switched.
It’s funny either way, though, so I’m good!
Tonight we are at a concert in a building where we attended a federal NDP convention in 2009. Tonight, though, we WALKED here. From our HOUSE.
What even is time?
Someone in one of the gardening social media communities I lurk on is complaining about Japanese beetles. I thanked them for reminding me that there are worse things than gross piles of discoloured snow in early March. 😳
Replying to
@eniko@peoplemaking.games yyyyyyep. Which means I’m also “done with” the vast majority of the people I work with, and therefore my career.
Oh well.
Replying to
@augieray@mastodon.social and add to the first one: “if you have had COVID, there is a real chance you already have some of this damage without realizing it (even if you’re otherwise young and healthy), and being infected again could make it worse”
Replying to
@terry@mastodon.world @mastodonusercount@bitcoinhackers.org The above post about Mastodon growth (click through and scroll up) is absolutely wild. If even some of those new people stay, things are about to get pretty wild ‘round these parts.
(Also, in a more meta sense, trying out the boosting-own-comment workaround to the lack of a non-snarky quotation option. Let’s see how it works!)
Replying to
@errantscience@mas.to @Wikisteff@mastodon.social if it were LITERALLY IN 3D in the sense of jumping off the page at you, though, it might be worth it.
Replying to
@athena_rising@beige.party
I’m glad you’re in a position to do that! I’m sure it will improve your life immensely.
I’m looking at early retirement. Counting down the days.
@eniko@peoplemaking.games