K_
@kmusgr.bsky.social
Politics nerd. Adoptee. Mum. Fatiguée. Here for the cat pics.
📍Ottawa, Canada
📍Ottawa, Canada
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Something to look forward to!
It's amusing how important the Headline of the Year contest has become to my internal sense of the course of the year.
I mean, it's not a particularly big part, to be fair, but the fact that it's more than none at all is quite fun.
I mean, it's not a particularly big part, to be fair, but the fact that it's more than none at all is quite fun.
December 1, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Something to look forward to!
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She's going to have to cross the floor again
November 28, 2025 at 10:34 PM
She's going to have to cross the floor again
Love this for her
Danielle Smith gets booed at UCP convention after mentioning working with Canada
November 28, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Love this for her
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Danielle Smith: "I hope people today feel a lot more confident that Canada works than they did a couple of days ago."
UCP convention crowd: LOUD BOOS
UCP convention crowd: LOUD BOOS
Danielle Smith tried to sell her federal-Alberta energy deal to the UCP convention crowd: tepid applause.
She told them that this proved Canada can work well for Alberta’s interests: loud boos.
This ain’t a base that wants Smith to work with a Liberal PM on a better industrial carbon tax.
She told them that this proved Canada can work well for Alberta’s interests: loud boos.
This ain’t a base that wants Smith to work with a Liberal PM on a better industrial carbon tax.
November 28, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Danielle Smith: "I hope people today feel a lot more confident that Canada works than they did a couple of days ago."
UCP convention crowd: LOUD BOOS
UCP convention crowd: LOUD BOOS
Lol took less than 90 minutes for the Quebec government to find an applicable exception to save this catholic chapel at a university #catholaïcité
November 28, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Lol took less than 90 minutes for the Quebec government to find an applicable exception to save this catholic chapel at a university #catholaïcité
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Former CEO of his dad's company has job search tips for the general public.
November 24, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Former CEO of his dad's company has job search tips for the general public.
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Just wanna say that this has been said to me multiple times in my life, by people who “mean well”.
From this adoptee:
STOP IT. STOP ASKING THAT QUESTION.
From this adoptee:
STOP IT. STOP ASKING THAT QUESTION.
“would you prefer to have been aborted?”
Do you mean would i prefer a world in which women have control over their bodies? 🥚
Do you mean would i prefer a world in which women have control over their bodies? 🥚
So my adoptive mom threw the"well you know, your mom could've aborted you" at me today because she's tired of my "attitude". I told her "I am pro abortion to the point of being fine with having never existed." That pulled her up short. I don't play this game. With anyone. 🥚
November 22, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Just wanna say that this has been said to me multiple times in my life, by people who “mean well”.
From this adoptee:
STOP IT. STOP ASKING THAT QUESTION.
From this adoptee:
STOP IT. STOP ASKING THAT QUESTION.
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ChatGPT’s signature writing style is everywhere now, and I hate it. It reminds me of when we tried mixing all the beverages at the soda fountain in middle school. We didn’t actually create the perfect drink, we just made a cloying monstrosity that lost everything good about its constituent parts.
November 19, 2025 at 5:17 PM
ChatGPT’s signature writing style is everywhere now, and I hate it. It reminds me of when we tried mixing all the beverages at the soda fountain in middle school. We didn’t actually create the perfect drink, we just made a cloying monstrosity that lost everything good about its constituent parts.
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refusing to debate someone, online or irl, about a topic of such moral urgency to you that you cannot perform emotional dissociation and treat it like an intellectual puzzle, is not being “closed-minded,” it just might be saving your psyche and your health for more constructive pursuits.
November 17, 2025 at 4:32 PM
refusing to debate someone, online or irl, about a topic of such moral urgency to you that you cannot perform emotional dissociation and treat it like an intellectual puzzle, is not being “closed-minded,” it just might be saving your psyche and your health for more constructive pursuits.
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'Four cones wins, but in order to get a cone you have to build a civilization. Which is where the spirit cards come in'
November 15, 2025 at 11:25 PM
'Four cones wins, but in order to get a cone you have to build a civilization. Which is where the spirit cards come in'
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montreal, truly the marriage of france (we will build a large, efficient metro system with rubber tires and automated trains) and north america (you will be required to understand local government divisions of responsibility to ride it)
November 15, 2025 at 10:10 PM
montreal, truly the marriage of france (we will build a large, efficient metro system with rubber tires and automated trains) and north america (you will be required to understand local government divisions of responsibility to ride it)
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the biggest section of the REM (and imo the most important phase) opened today, basically extending a highway-median suburban branch into a full-fledged 50 km north-south metro across the montreal region
montreal now has a 119-kilometre metro system with 87 stations, by far the largest in canada!
montreal now has a 119-kilometre metro system with 87 stations, by far the largest in canada!
November 15, 2025 at 8:17 PM
the biggest section of the REM (and imo the most important phase) opened today, basically extending a highway-median suburban branch into a full-fledged 50 km north-south metro across the montreal region
montreal now has a 119-kilometre metro system with 87 stations, by far the largest in canada!
montreal now has a 119-kilometre metro system with 87 stations, by far the largest in canada!
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pretty funny in retrospect that QAnon hinged on the idea that powerful elites at the highest levels of government were smart enough to talk in code when sending emails to each other about their despicable crimes
November 12, 2025 at 10:08 PM
pretty funny in retrospect that QAnon hinged on the idea that powerful elites at the highest levels of government were smart enough to talk in code when sending emails to each other about their despicable crimes
A woman's work is never done
A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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November 6, 2025 at 11:59 PM
A woman's work is never done
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Note to self: put together a thread of things the New York Times says that Canadians are saying that Canadians are definitely not saying.
The World Series was played outside the U.S. for the first time in 32 years this October, when the Toronto Blue Jays united fans across Canada as the country’s only MLB team. The team even became known as the “Glue Jays” before the Los Angeles Dodgers ended their thrilling postseason run.
Canadians Mourn a Loss by Underdogs Who Brought a Nation Together
The Blue Jays, Canada’s only M.L.B. team, were a salve for a country hit by President Trump’s threats and tariffs. Then the Dodgers ended their thrilling postseason run.
nyti.ms
November 2, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Note to self: put together a thread of things the New York Times says that Canadians are saying that Canadians are definitely not saying.
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Sentences like this are why we read John:
“Imagining that Canada’s actions are anything other than a secondary input into the pudding that sits between the ears of the president is something closer to vanity than analysis.”
Parfait
“Imagining that Canada’s actions are anything other than a secondary input into the pudding that sits between the ears of the president is something closer to vanity than analysis.”
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New from me at TVO, with the radical theory that the person primarily responsible for Donald Trump's actions is Donald Trump. www.tvo.org/article/anal...
TVO Today | Current Affairs Journalism, Documentaries and Podcasts
www.tvo.org
October 28, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Sentences like this are why we read John:
“Imagining that Canada’s actions are anything other than a secondary input into the pudding that sits between the ears of the president is something closer to vanity than analysis.”
Parfait
“Imagining that Canada’s actions are anything other than a secondary input into the pudding that sits between the ears of the president is something closer to vanity than analysis.”
Parfait
Where can we find updated/live council voting records? Trying to navigate to specific results in the city of Ottawa's agendas and minutes web portal is an exercise in frustration 😵💫
Today over half of #ottcity councillors present at Council wanted to debate the timing of the Lansdowne report. A project of this size and complexity should be given more than nine days for councillors and the public to prepare.
October 22, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Where can we find updated/live council voting records? Trying to navigate to specific results in the city of Ottawa's agendas and minutes web portal is an exercise in frustration 😵💫
We can presume this is part of what Dr Oz meant today when he said "under-babied" -- there aren't enough babies being relinquished for adoption, so limited supply vs high demand means the big expenses of adoption are in the way of families getting all the children they want 🥚
Indeed. Goes without saying in the adoptee rights world.
Price to adopt an infant = $40,000-80,000.
White babies cost more. 🥚
www.get-carrot.com/blog/adoptio...
Price to adopt an infant = $40,000-80,000.
White babies cost more. 🥚
www.get-carrot.com/blog/adoptio...
Adoption costs: An in-depth guide | Carrot Fertility | Carrot Fertility
Learn the different costs you can expect during the adoption process — including private, independent, and foster-care, and international adoptions.
www.get-carrot.com
October 16, 2025 at 9:53 PM
We can presume this is part of what Dr Oz meant today when he said "under-babied" -- there aren't enough babies being relinquished for adoption, so limited supply vs high demand means the big expenses of adoption are in the way of families getting all the children they want 🥚
It was said explicitly in the US supreme court Dobbs ruling (by which Roe v Wade was overturned), there's not enough "domestic supply of infants" – so, restrict abortion access to force more births. They've gotta increase baby supply to reduce baby price, aka adoption! 🥚
Dr Oz: "Turns out that about 1/3 families don't have the number of babies they desire. They're under-babied. So this president committed to address that during the campaign and he's delivering on that today."
October 16, 2025 at 9:46 PM
It was said explicitly in the US supreme court Dobbs ruling (by which Roe v Wade was overturned), there's not enough "domestic supply of infants" – so, restrict abortion access to force more births. They've gotta increase baby supply to reduce baby price, aka adoption! 🥚
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If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.
October 13, 2025 at 5:58 PM
If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.
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Gift Link// Whether the US's ongoing act of political suicide evolves as a murder-suicide is of more than passing interest to the US’s northern domestic partner. Canada is extremely -- uniquely -- vulnerable. I spoke to executives, defense analysts, others. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/feat...
Can Canada Survive Donald Trump?
Under assault from an increasingly aggressive and authoritarian United States, the country’s future looks less secure than at any time in postwar history.
www.bloomberg.com
October 7, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Gift Link// Whether the US's ongoing act of political suicide evolves as a murder-suicide is of more than passing interest to the US’s northern domestic partner. Canada is extremely -- uniquely -- vulnerable. I spoke to executives, defense analysts, others. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/feat...
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October 7, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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To be clear, there is never a time when condemning political violence is wrong. But Democrats need to choose their words today, under these circumstances, very carefully. In the clip below, Pritzker does just that: He condemns the shooting, he offers condolences, then he says this.
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) on the shooting of Charlie Kirk:
"Political violence, unfortunately, has ramped up in this country ... I think there are people who are fomenting it in this country. I think the president's rhetoric often foments it."
"Political violence, unfortunately, has ramped up in this country ... I think there are people who are fomenting it in this country. I think the president's rhetoric often foments it."
September 10, 2025 at 7:57 PM
To be clear, there is never a time when condemning political violence is wrong. But Democrats need to choose their words today, under these circumstances, very carefully. In the clip below, Pritzker does just that: He condemns the shooting, he offers condolences, then he says this.
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Acts of political violence aren’t acceptable. Non-political school shootings aren’t acceptable. Sacking the legislature isn’t acceptable. Military occupation of peaceful American cities isn’t acceptable. Abductions conducted in courthouse hallways by masked agents of the state aren’t acceptable.
September 10, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Acts of political violence aren’t acceptable. Non-political school shootings aren’t acceptable. Sacking the legislature isn’t acceptable. Military occupation of peaceful American cities isn’t acceptable. Abductions conducted in courthouse hallways by masked agents of the state aren’t acceptable.