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Purple Hightops
@purplehightops.bsky.social
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She/Her/Elle. Rural Alberta. Socialist Beer Club. Pets, politics, education, literacy, daily minutia, and sometimes baking or gardening.
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*did
*buy
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November 13, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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KitKat. Not even a question.
(I get spontaneously by Twix recently, for the first time in years. Not bad, but definitely no KitKat.)
November 13, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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I'm having a hard time on your website, because there are just so many cool things! I am not a jewelry person, but my mum (who has tipped into her late 80s) is totally fabulous! She would love so many of your things. Now I just have to whittle it down to figure out what to buy for her 💜
November 10, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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Green is the colour!
November 9, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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ragyyc.bsky.social Reconciliation Action Group YYC @ragyyc.bsky.social · 7d
For Immediate Release

Calgary Police Enforcement Blitz November 5, 2025

See our full statement

#yyccc #CPS #94callstoaction #231callsforjustice #Indigenous #Treaty7
City of Calgary Mayor and Councillors, It is with great disappointment that our first communication to the newly formed council of the City of Calgary is to speak to an act of reprehensible violent raids perpetrated by the Calgary Police Service upon the most vulnerable residents. There can be no confusion that this was an act of deliberate harm and the continued genocide of First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples, who as you know disproportionately represent the population of homelessness in Calgary, as a direct result colonial violence. Targeting, arresting and dismantling desperate survival conditions of the most vulnerable people in the city will do nothing but perpetuate harm and cause further trauma. The loss of belongings, punitive fines and jail terms serve only to put the means of survival further from reach. Shelters and group facilities are not alternatives to housing and culturally appropriate wrap around services; they are places where people are forced to give up loved pets and belongings and are subjected to physical and emotional violence. Police sweeps are colonial tactics used to further displace vulnerable people and incarcerate Indigenous peoples to continue the displacement and assimilation tactics of land theft. They are not, as police Chief McLellan states “a collaborative and compassionate approach to addressing concerns about disorder and violent crime.” The measured and misleading language from the police Chief including statements such as “Arresting is connecting,” and “Arrests will be made when necessary, but always with dignity and care.” are intended to deliberately manipulate the public and camouflage the violence of raids and imprisonment each of the victims of Wednesday’s attacks will suffer from. Crime rhetoric weaponized during the recent municipal election is now being used to gain public sympathies for the acts of violence by the police. Many of the victims of these raids are Residential School survivors - the depravity of thi… This city is situated on Treaty 7 Territory, a councillor or mayor has a duty to represent residents as good Treaty partners, honouring the true intent and spirit of Treaty 7, and the responsibility to protect from colonial institutions, the rights of Indigenous peoples to live in freedom, peace and security. We have a duty to ensure the care of survivors by acting on the fulfillment of all 94 Calls to Action and ending the continuing violence with the full implementation of the 231 Calls for Justice. Non-Indigenous people carry the responsibility for the governing structures of Canada, its provinces and municipalities and an obligation to end the colonial violence that continues today. Each one of us is responsible for dismantling the systems that harm children first.
November 8, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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Agreed, but can you stop calling this "social disorder" - with all the connotations of crime, etc.?
I know you know, but this is a crisis of supports and services, not crime or "houseless people are bad" (AbNDP will never win over the right. Please stop pissing off your supporters on the left.)
November 8, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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Hightops can confirm!
November 8, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Hwy 43 is already a brutal route, with oil field big rigs, logging trucks, and jackasses driving at 130 or 140, despite the limit of 110...
November 8, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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*road trip
November 8, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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TIL (literally today 😁) about Embarrass Ab. I think I need to make a little to trip... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embarra...
Embarras, Alberta - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 8, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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Hilarious choice of photo 🤣🤣🤣
November 7, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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Oh. Of course she is...
November 4, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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Just me? It seems I need a minimum 3 pillows for myself. And Daisy wants at least one for herself (though she often uses two when we are upstairs in "real" bed)
November 4, 2025 at 4:53 AM