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casseagull

@casseagull@mstdn.social

Come for the intermittent #BikeTooter and urbanism toots, suffer through my obsessions with music, food, and making things with my hands. Pogievangelist. From Vancouver, living in Ottawa. Twitter refugee from #OttBike and #OttPoli

Unless I say so in my post, I am almost certainly not asking for your unsolicited advice or for you to explain things to me, especially if we've literally never interacted before.

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This makes me so fucking mad because my local small grocery store, the only place nearby to get fruit and vegetables, closed in December over a liquor license dispute - their square footage wasn't large enough to be considered a grocery store!!!! - and now the government is rolling out liquor sales to corner stores. Come the fuck on. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/alcohol-sales-convenience-stores-ontario-1.7213546

casseagull,
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And the additional irony to this is that now we almost certainly also won't have anywhere nearby to buy beer, wine, and ready to drink cocktails because there are no real stores.

casseagull, to random
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One of my neighbours is practicing their trumpet at 10:30pm. We get it, you’re quirky and interesting, now go the fuck to bed. (At least they’re talented at it but come the fuck on)

grivettcarnac, to Ottawa
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So we have via rail tickets booked for August and naturally I loaded the tickets in Apple Wallet… then a few days later I got an email saying the schedule was going to change and now I’ve gotten 2 new sets of tickets and I’m sick of adding and deleting tickets 🥸 I should be able to just use the same set of tickets regardless of what schedule changes but I’m annoyed at this process. If the time changes by 5 minutes and I need a whole new set of tickets? Gesus…

casseagull,
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@grivettcarnac Yeah they did this to my schedules for later this month and just sent me a vague email saying my times had changed and here's a link to all the new times for all of our routes, which I could only figure out the relation to my own trains by knowing the train numbers. It was really weird and not helpful.

casseagull,
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@WTL @grivettcarnac That is smart as hell. I am stealing that.

stephanie, to random
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I was really looking forward to having a nice patio, so I'm glad it's finally done!! (It was supposed to be finished last week, but a longer project before us, rain and a blown tire on the highway delayed them.)

But after going to bed at 5 am because of work, I didn't appreciate the machinery at 8:30 am, and the stone cutting at 4 pm when I was finally napping 😅

casseagull,
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@stephanie ohhhhh nooooo. That’s so terrible! Hope you’re able to get a good night’s sleep tonight.

casseagull, to random
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Israel is working on starving to death the Gazans they haven't bombed to death. This is genocide. Israel is committing genocide.

Meanwhile, the US has not delivered a single bit of aid to Gazans, claiming that there is danger of "looting", again telling racist stories about Gazans instead of the truth that they are being starved to death and are understandably extremely desperate. https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/22/humanitarian-operations-near-collapse-in-gaza-says-wfp

casseagull, to random
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For my veg meal seekers out there, these portobello smash burgers are SO good. Even my partner who thinks he hates mushrooms said that they tasted really good and gave you the satisfaction of a beef smash burger. https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1025333-mushroom-smash-burgers?unlocked_article_code=1.t00.kFVL.2dOPELj4twV5&smid=share-url

shawnhooper, to random
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I can’t believe how pervasive Ring doorbells have become. (Never mind all the other brands out there.)

They’re everywhere.

I don’t like it.

casseagull,
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@shawnhooper Same. It's so incredible to me that people are willing to let these things into their homes.

casseagull, to random
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Having a fruit tree is so fun 😒 non-stop mess.

The grey cushion of a patio chair with many pear buds fallen onto it.

casseagull, to random
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Tulip Fest traffic on our street is extra fun this year because the construction project has been working on landscaping and has a ton of gravel and dirt that are all over the street so every time someone drives by and has to turn around at the dead end they cast even more dust onto our house.

jleiper, to random
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Absolutely incredible coffee on the deck this morning under a cloudless sky and a pleasant breeze. All good things must come to an end, though. I left last night's dishes to this morning, and need to scoot to the Market for a paper, shoot a video for work. I've let Natalie know I'm available from 11:00 on for our first bike->ice cream of the season.

casseagull,
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@jleiper Where to for ice cream?

casseagull, to random
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My larger work unit has two executives off on burnout-related leave and still senior executives think we're a great place to work.

An animated cartoon-style GIF of a brown dog with black ears and a small brown hat sitting at a table in a room that is on fire around it, with smoke at the ceiling level. The dog says "This is fine" and smiles and picks up a coffee cup from the table in front of it and looks into it.

casseagull, to random
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We went to the plant nursery last night and I went a bit ham on choosing shade-loving perennials for the section of our backyard that doesn't get much light.

Happily, they (Ritchies Windmill Lane) had Hellebores, which I was really really wanting, so I got a few of those that should look SUPER cool once they bloom (next year, bah).

jleiper, to random
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Time to get these in the ground.

casseagull,
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@jleiper I pinched mine off after they got past two true leaves - was that hasty?

casseagull, to random
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I'm generally quite excited in general about the PWHL but today I saw a headline about how Boston is the first team to qualify for the Walter Cup and I wondered what that was named for...

... only to found out that it's named for Mark Walter, the male founder of the league and owner of all the teams. Gross, man.

They don't even have names for the teams yet, but the cup? Yup, named after some fucking billionaire.

stephanie, to random
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Aww, the feeling when, after feeling anxious for a few days, you realize that you were worried for nothing.

Apparently, I can translate properly for the public accounts committee of the House 😆

casseagull,
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@stephanie @Cassandra Hilariously, even people who work in Finance seem to rarely use the frigging French words for things. They nearly always just toss in the English! It's very silly.

casseagull, to random
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Ooh, Neko Case is playing the Bronson Centre on September 26th. I saw her in Vancouver a couple of years ago and she was great. Presale tomorrow - code NEKO24 https://www.ticketweb.ca/event/neko-case-bronson-centre-theatre-tickets/13483264?pl=spectrasonic&refid=TMmlrbodNC&spMailingID=11014707&spUserID=NDg1OTM4NzIwMjQyS0&spJobID=1980306575&spReportId=MTk4MDMwNjU3NQS2

casseagull, to random
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Okay then give your money away you selfish pieces of shit? Good lord. https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/14/problems-that-rich-people-face-according-to-therapists-.html

casseagull,
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Which reminds me, another initiative that is going on over on The Bad Site but also TikTok is the Block List where people are blocking celebrities who haven't spoken out against genocide in Gaza. It's not so much of a thing over here on Mastodon, which is pretty much a group blocking of celebrities by design, but it's an interesting way to apply pressure.

casseagull, to random
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I do wonder about what kind of ass kissing shitbirds the requirement that federal executives having to work four days a week in the office is going to attract.

For one, the most snivelling asskisser, old schoolers imagineable, only interested in furthering their careers (honestly not a huge change from many executives in some departments now)

It's also wildly white man favouring, since who else has the flexibility to be able to be in the office that often.

casseagull, to random
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Today is Nakba Day, commemorating the forced mass displacement of Palestinians from their land by Israeli forces in 1948 and mostly not allowed to return to Palestine and living as permanent refugees. https://amnesty.ca/human-rights-news/nakba-day-mass-forced-displacement-in-gaza/

casseagull,
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Israelis in illegal settlements are starting to say the quiet part out loud, commenting that they are ready to set up new settlements in Gaza now that they have largely displaced Palestinians, looking forward to beachfront properties. Fucking evil. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-68650815

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Oooh you doubled your secure bike parking to 62. Welcome to 1985 ESDC.

casseagull,
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@lanastewart Yup, that's what it was. I don't miss it.

Apparently there are now 355 bike racks in the parking garage and that project is completed. https://www.canada.ca/en/public-services-procurement/services/infrastructure-buildings/construction/terrasses-chaudiere-complex-renovating-modernizing.html

casseagull, to random
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I bought a few grow lights and set one up over this little ikea greenhouse think and put my lemon plant in there. The frigging thing has cranked out two leaves in the last few weeks at a ridiculously fast rate compared to usual.

A small lemon plant in a tabletop greenhouse. Two new leaves are sprouted from its top.

casseagull,
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My lemon tree grew so much over the winter and spring! It's getting a bit lopsided for some reason, but look how huge it is!

casseagull,
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The photo on the left with the sprouted seeds is from when I first started trying to grow a lemon tree in November 2022 (I really wanted a lime tree but none of my limes have seeds!) and the second is in August 2023. You can tell it has grown so so much in less than a year.

A small lemon tree in a pot on a windowsill. It is about half a foot tall, including the pot.

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