I just saw a video of a fatphobic woman (with a response from a woman I respect) and now, thanks to the woman I respect, I have a response to every fatphobic woman from now on: I can deadlift you (I deadlift 185lb so far). When I started deadlifting, I wanted that to be a response I could give to bothersome people, and now I have a group of bothersome people I can definitely deadlift! No, I will never be 160lb (that would not be healthy for me), but I can deadlift you (probably for a set of 20).
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Kelly's Shenanigans 🇨🇦
@Kellyshenanigans@yeg.bike
mastodon 4.5.19#carfree, white settler, #BikeTooter, #crochet, reducing waste, neurodiversity, mom to non-binary 
kiddo, early retiree #ADHD #ActuallyAutistic. Shitty reply guys get blocked. @sgranigan@mstdn.games is my partner.
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KellyShenanigans@lemmy.ca
Location:
Kjipuktuk (Halifax, NS)
Pronouns:
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sensory triggers:
smells, textures, sounds, light, air pressure changes
Eddie's Gotcha Day was yesteday, and we spoiled him well. We covered over an ottoman he's scratched apart, adding multiple scratching surfaces at different angles and different textures. Sisal rope on steps for scratching laying on his back upside down or horizontally on top, sisal fabric for verical scratching laying on his side, and linen to pick at and shred like he likes to shred curtains. I also took the kids to the pet store and they got to pick cat toys too. #Caturday
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@jwz@mastodon.social I successfully convinced a local paper to switch from Substack to Ghost mostly because Ghost took less of their money.
With coming food shortages due to an illegal war, eating invasive plants sounds like a great plan! In Halifax, we've got Japanese knotweed, which apparently is tasty in the spring stir fried, pickled, and as a granita. Alexis Nikole Nelson wrote a book (Happy Snacking Don't Die) with foraging instructions and recipes sorted by season that I'm excited to buy. I might try stir frying some knotweed this spring. (Video has vegan food) #VeganFood #VegetarianFood #forraging #InvasiveSpecies
I took a naked picture with my bike. It's so freeing riding like this. #BikeTooter #BikeHFX
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@helenclayton@mas.to @justip@zeroes.ca i also have made a sewn solution, invented in the 1800s, involving a series of hidden cords and weights, and detailed in the book Bikes and Bloomers, but I'm guessing you won't want to sew modifications to your skirt(s)
I'm rereading Teardown: Rebuilding Democracy From the Ground Up by David Meslin (published in 2019) and I'm sharing an activist activity I want to think about trying so I will remember, and maybe others would like to too. Put price tags on things. People don't understand where their tax dollars are going, making them resent paying taxes. We have the city budget, we can look up what things cost, and label items around the city with their cost.
TIL one of the things the #NovaScotia government cut for literal billionaire yacht money was Provincial Heritage Fair. Heritage fair is like a science fair but instead it's about Canadian culture and heritage. This was my kid's first year. They did ravens. They were 1 vote from making it to provincials (4th place). Now I don't know if they'll ever get a chance again. #NSPoli
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He then proceeded to pile on more weight quickly, but he was only doing 3 reps a set (I was doing 8). I hit a PR and continued happily with my day, and he proceeded to repeatedly injur himself. What is wrong with the male ego that they insist upon looking foolish to feel good about themselves?
Sidenote: My PR today was a 170lb deadlift, 6 reps, but only because my trainer said I wasn't allowed to do 8, I could've done 8. 💪 or more properly 🦵
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We were debating asking him to stop slamming the weights, when he asked how heavy the bar I was using is (I used a trap bar, he used a straight bar). We told him same as his bar, 45lb, and asked him to stop slamming the weights: it's bad for the weights, it's bad for the floor, and it's really loud. I MAY have rubbed his nose in it when I said "I'm lifting similar weight, and I put it down gently, you can watch me". 2/?
I finally got over my previous medical trauma to try for the 4th time in my life to see a dr for AUB. I realized I answered a question wrong at the dr. He asked if I change my pad more often than 2h. I said no. Part I didn't say: I use a combo of a pad and period underwear to get an equivalent of 6+ pads, so I can get through 8h without changing. I answered the question, not the intention, in typical Autistic fashion 🙄. I will correct this next time I see dr.
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@tiamat271@mastodon.online hi, I'm a perimenopause experiencer, but I don't really post about it. I read the book Menopause Manifesto and it was SUPER helpful, and I started weight lifting and started taking creatine, also super helpful. But today I'm trying my best to cope with severe period pain. I'm trying a couple more things for a month, and then I'm going to beg a doctor for help. Perimenopause was what made my executive function go to crap enough to realize I was AuDHD at 38.
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@UrbanEdm@yeg.bike hope so! Wishing Alberta luck from afar
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@clacksee@wandering.shop are you getting yourself a treat to celebrate?
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@clacksee@wandering.shop congratulations!!
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@adhd_coffee I don't know, I read a very informative (children's satirical) book that said ADHDers are dogs and Autisic people are cats. Still don't know where that puts me as an AuDHDer.
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@casseagull@mstdn.social I used to use a merula cup, and would come to drs and nurses with mL (and really it was more than a full cup, I wore a pad and period underwear with it too cuz I overflowed multiple times a day), but they didn't react in a meaningful way. I should have known how to answer the question, but I'll have another chance.
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@UrbanEdm@yeg.bike the idea I heard on the Strategists is they know it will be crushed in court, and then they'll use that to attack the courts and judges and demand constitution changes
Halifax transit bus driver fails to yield, then honks at, family crossing at crosswalk with lights activated, resulting in the bus driver nearly taking out a whole family. The dad had to call 311 multiple times to get the city to take the near miss seriously. No word from city on any consequences for the driver. #Halifax https://globalnews.ca/news/11643814/halifax-transit-safety-crosswalk-close-call/
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@uxmark so glad!!! Hope to use this to help our fight with the mayor and province here in Halifax.
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Scritchy has babies now!
https://www.reddit.com/r/halifax/s/99WaQw4Fqi
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@geodarcy I couldn't find the raccoon picture, but here's the news article
https://www.grandparade.news/p/allan-st-diverter-divides-community
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@ellie@ellieayla.net it wanted to use a special app, and wanted subscription money to use the app when I interacted with it with my phone. I think I can plug it into a USB on the computer and just grab the files off without editing. I rarely use a computer, though, so it was a little bit of a hastle.