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WhippoorwillSong

@WhippoorwillSong@mstdn.social

Canadian lady writing about life, the end of life, possibly the afterlife... lots of life thoughts.

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WhippoorwillSong, to Ottawa
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People driving like loons again, trying to break the sound barrier, as they kick off the long weekend here in

idoubtit, to random
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Vatican releases Supernatural Standard Operating Procedures https://sharonahill.com/vatican-releases-supernatural-standard-operating-procedures/

WhippoorwillSong,
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@idoubtit I can respect the attempt.

WhippoorwillSong, to random
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Further thoughts on bilingualism:

My francophone Dad insisted that we use English at home. No mixed French and English. He was an anomaly… his belief was that French was a language of the past. Internalized bigotry? Maybe?

He wanted us to be literate and fluent in English. He was an illiterate grade school drop out, who did manual work his whole life. We weren’t going to learn the language of Moliere from Dad. I learned it as an adult.

That was his perspective, right or wrong.

WhippoorwillSong, to random
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I have mixed feelings about the whole French immersion school concept. I think the results are iffy, and the theoretical purpose (fluent bilingualism) doesnt match the reality (parents use the system for socio-economic class segregation).

I’m from New Brunswick, and my father was a francophone Acadian; mum was anglophone, and I was raised Anglo in a small, almost entirely Anglo city. There was no push for bilingualism back then. French immersion was new. 1/n

WhippoorwillSong,
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French immersion quickly became a status thing. It was only available at certain schools. (Not at lower class schools like my Catholic one.) It tended to draw kids who had parents who were teachers, doctors, lawyers, managers, white collar types.

The kids left French immersion with iffy French, and they sure as heck weren’t taught Acadian French. It seemed performative, at worst. But, it was a popular way for parents to stream their kids according to social class. 2/n

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I wonder how this new strategy will work out in Ottawa schools. The social class streaming is a well-known issue, now.

Will this new strategy eliminate that problem? Will kids leave school with fluent Canadian French skills? Will newcomers leave with English and French fluency?

Remains to be seen how this experiment will go.

3/3

https://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/eliminating-english-only-education-on-table-of-ocdsb-program-review-1.6890429

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The state I live in (South of the US) is pushing a law to ban the mask in public for "health reasons".

This spring I have been so miserable because of the allergies that by necessity I decided to wear a outside again despite taking strong medicine that won't allow me to be safe outside.

There is also a deadly pandemic going on but who cares I guess.

If I wear a mask that is to protect my health and also others.

I have no name to describe how messed up this is.

WhippoorwillSong,
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@compost It seems like a great opportunity for some civil disobedience. It would take a group of people with stage 4 cancer, organ transplants, heck - allergies will do; stage a public protest, all masked up. Would they round up and drag terminally and chronically ill people into the court system for masking???

WhippoorwillSong,
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@compost It's a society run by sociopaths. I can't even.

WhippoorwillSong, to Ottawa
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We're number one at something,

Laugh out loud.

"Full-time employees see vastly more calls than those Hamilton, Toronto, Windsor"

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/ottawa-bylaw-services-staffing-1.7206657?cmp=rss

WhippoorwillSong,
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I really have no explanation for it...

WhippoorwillSong, to random
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Coffee's a psychoactive substance. This explains a heck of a lot.

https://youtu.be/62wEk02YKs0?si=d4VjwjuqYmfaQ9TO

WhippoorwillSong, to random
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Once you’re into a habit of practising gratitude, you start feeling sorry for people who don’t….

Some people are feasting at a banquet, but they might as well be starving.

gmr_leon, to random
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I should really try to get better at finding more people around here that I relate to to follow, or better hashtags.

The hashtags that I currently follow make me feel like I'm plugged into streaming and games industry adverts, unfortunately. 😞

WhippoorwillSong,
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@gmr_leon You can also set up filters in your Preferences to block out certain words, that might be useful too.

Artemis201, to random
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As a Catholic woman, I find the commencement speech by that football player disgusting and I'm ashamed to have anything in common with him.
And yes I also grew up learning queer-phobia but I was at least smart enough to see through the bullshit.
"The women who just earned their degrees today don't understand they would be happier as homemakers" I hope someone accidentally spills soup on him whenever he goes out in public.

WhippoorwillSong,
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@Artemis201 The rad trads have no use for women who aren’t raising kids. They got rid of the convents, they don’t want women around the altar, they have no role and no use for that category of human that doesn’t have testicles and doesn’t have kids.

Which begs the question: what do they expect us to do with our earthly lives?

St. Theresa of Avila needs to come back and school some of these nuts.

carlysagan, to random
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“Starlink precipitation” should not be allowable as a term - I’m sorry, what?!

WhippoorwillSong,
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@carlysagan
"De-orbited refuse discombobulation"

RickiTarr, to random
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Y'all want to hear a fact that really changed the way I thought about homelessness?

Half of all homeless people were in the foster system at some point. Social Workers often call the foster system The Highway to Homelessness. If you ever had a point in your life where you had to live with friends or family to for a short time to get back on your feet, remember that is a privilege that not everyone had.

WhippoorwillSong,
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@RickiTarr I have relatives who were in foster care in another era. They moved into their adults lives relatively successfully, for a few reasons.

They got lucky in having foster parents in their teens who were supportive, not abusive. A post-secondary education wasn’t required to get a job with a future and upward mobility opportunities. They were white, and didn’t face an added burden of racial marginalization.

“Aging out” of care these days means being cut loose, maybe no support.

WhippoorwillSong, to random
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Very random thoughts on bigotry:

Bigotry comes from fear, fear of the "Other." But part of that fear veers right off the rails and into irrational paranoia, superstition even.

Why do bigots tend to attribute supernatural powers to whatever minority they're hating on?

They think these "Others" have super powers, like superhuman strength, cunning, capacity for violence, telepathy, time travel, clairvoyance, the ability to walk through walls, etc.

Just... wut.

WhippoorwillSong, to random
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Forest fire smoke from the western half of Canada is being pulled eastward by a weather jet stream.

Could have smoke in the air in Toronto, and Ottawa, by dawn.

https://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/wildfire-smoke-could-move-into-ottawa-eastern-ontario-tonight-1.6884544

It's also drifting into some northern U.S. states now:

https://mynbc15.com/news/nation-world/wildfire-smoke-from-canada-triggers-air-quality-alerts-across-multiple-us-states-wisconsin-north-south-dakota-minnesota-aqi-unhealthy-zone-airnow-map-canadian-interagency-forest-fire-centre-evacuation-order

WhippoorwillSong, to random
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There's a For Lease sign down the street, outside a ground-floor retail place that is being renovated.

Someone placed a port-a-potty right beside the For Lease sign.

:garfield_thumbs_up:

WhippoorwillSong, to random
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First B.C., then Alberta, now Manitoba facing growing wildfires:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/cranberry-portage-manitoba-residents-evacuate-wildfire-1.7201963

WhippoorwillSong, to random
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Looked at a small basic tool set in a case sold by Ikea. And I just realized: it doesn't include a hex key (Allen key) set in it.

Just seems strange.

WhippoorwillSong, to random
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Every love has a force of its own. Love cannot be inactive in a lover; it cannot but lead in some direction. If you want to see the character of a person's love, see where it is leading.

-- Augustine of Hippo

WhippoorwillSong, to random
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For posterity:

Night sky in Ottawa, Canada, May 10, 2024.

fraying, to random
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I have been planting peppers all day and I am finally ready to admit that I started too many peppers.

WhippoorwillSong,
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@fraying They're hot stuff (ha) at farmer's markets. If they do well, maybe you can find a buyer.

WhippoorwillSong, to random
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Within barely a month, we've had a solar eclipse (through the Americas, anyway), and now the aurora light show.

Centuries ago, they surely would've thought that we were entering the End Times.

Shouldn't someone at least compose a symphony to commemorate all of this?

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