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Topher
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Nonbinary queer white settler in small town Eastern Ontario

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Travels
A sign saying Inveraray ballpark, and it's address is next to a fence. Inside is a swing, more fencing, a line of trees with night sport lighting. The sky is cloudy A sign reading INVERARAY PLAYHOUSE NSAA THEATRE .COM in yellow letters, next to a shed, next to a white building with a red roof and yellow shutters There is a telephone poll to the left of the sign There is a truck and trees in the background The sky is blue and slightly cloudy A picture of Devil Lake, ON. A large body of water surrounded by trees. There is a small island with 5 trees on it The sky is blue and cloudy in the distance My foot with white nail polish in a sandal on the sidewalk. On the edge of the pavement, propped on the grass is a 5 hearts playing card
August 30, 2025 at 5:18 AM
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#flowers #notmycat #glovesong
August 28, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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A ginger semi long hair cat #notmycat is sitting next to a small blue Bose speaker, squinting at a screen, showing blixa bargled performing DNS-Wasserturm with Einstürzende Neubauten It wasn't too loud, and she stayed for the entire song
August 13, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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My favourite Dr and Companion
A picture of Dave Gilmour and Kate Bush smiling to varying degrees (N.B. Kate is the Doctor, and Dave occasionally adds a guitar solo)
August 10, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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Clearing out my phone
Eastern black swallowtail, Papilio polyxenes, next to a muddle puddle Advert from Viz magazine 2 people are pictures wrestling with one of them in a headlock The text above, Don't be soft... The text below, HAVE A FIGHT Issued by the Fighting, Scrapping, and Pagga Information Council of Great Britain An A7sus4 Dominant 7th Suspended 4th chord fingering and an Am7 Minor 7 chord pictured in a book from the library Basswood, Tilia americana flowers and leaved pictured from below with bits of sky through the leaves
July 5, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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Alok at the Bronson Centre, Ottawa
06.30.2025
An empty stage, before the shoe. 2 bring white lights shine into the audience, white coloured lights are on the stage. An overexposed picture of Alok on stage in a floor-length dress, seated on a stool. The stage is lit up with purple and pink lighting. Above them is a glitterball and the shadows of the lighting rig A slightly closer overexposed picture of Alok on stage in a floor-length dress, seated on a stool. The stage is lit up with purple and pink lighting. Above them is a glitterball, and the shadows of the lighting rig
July 1, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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Full Moon in June
La Pleine Lune des Fraises
06.07.2025
Le Chœur Gai d'Ottawa Gay Men's Chorus at the Gladstone Theatre, Ottawa
Played to our seat by a Chorus member playing the accordian (name not mentioned in program). Seating with according and music stand in front of bleachers for the Chorus. ehind the bleachers is a black curtain with stars hanging from the ceiling. The stage is flanked by 2 paper trees. On the the left of the stage are a trumpet, flute, yamaha keyboard, bass, and drum/percussion set. Above them is a paper full moon (with a red squiggly light). The Chorus and band in performance Intermission Chorus and musicians posing for a picture Closing number, and beginning of a stage invasion
June 8, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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Clearing out my phone
SPITFIRE GRILL sign with a manniquin jester perched above, a part of the interior of the Studio Theatre, Perth, Ontario Selfie, before taking a picture of a wildfower Fireground is my knee, wearing a cap and round glasses #notmycat Daphne, a scruffy orange semi long hair tabby, is curled up with a paw over their face. They are ontop of a grey bedspread A screenshot of Matthew Perry (on the left) and another student, who briefly went to my boarding school, as a day student. The picture is from a production of Lord of the flies, done by the junior school. It is available online from the Internet Archive, 1983 Ashburian
May 20, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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Clearing various pictures from my phone
A sign left over from the previous day's Festival of the Maples, for a Waste Station. Also pictured my shadow, leaning on a lampost . Selfie with my one dimple sitting on a staircase below other parts of the wooden staircase, next to a brick wall a Northern rough-winged swallow perched on a branch Salix babylonica, Weeping willow over water of the River Tay
May 4, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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I got a couple of parcels of some of my stuff from the UK. It's nice to have some photos and other bits and bobs again.

I saw this exhibition when it came to Glasgow, probably after this, at a GoMA previous to its current site... Anyways, I didn't find this poster til years later
Picture of a poster of a John Heartfield dada/photomontage exhibition at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in 1993. The poster also contains details of times dates, sponsors, admission prices, as well as a picture called "The Meaning of Geneva" It is described in an early catalogue, as "The dove of peace is transfixed by a fascist bayonet in front of the League of Nations building, whose white cross has become a swastika"
February 17, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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Winter idents
Cornus cornuta Beaked filbert, Californian hazelnut, Beaked hazel, Turkish filbert, Bgaanensmin'gaawansh in front of my hand Pycnanthemum virginianum Virginia mountain mint, Common mountain mint between my fingers Lythrum salicaria Purple loosestrife in front of my hand Quercus ilicifolia Bear oak, Scrub oak in front of my hand
February 11, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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Black and white winter idents
Quercus macrocarpa Bur oak, Scrub oak, Prairie oak, Mossycup oak Onoclea sensiblis Sensitive fern, Sympathy fern, Bead fern Myrica gale Sweetgale, Bog myrtle, Common Candleberry, Devonshire myrtle, Golden osier, Sweet bayberry, Sweet willow, Dutch myrtle, Moor myrtle, Waxberry, Acer negundo Box elder, Maple ash, Ash-leaved maple, Manitoba maple
February 11, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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Winter idents by hand
Amur honeysuckle, Lonicera maackii aka Bush honeysuckle, Late honeysuckle Common buckthorn, Rhamnus cathartica aka Hart's thorn, Purging buckthorn, European buckthorn Black raspberry, Rubus occidentalis aka Thimbleberry, Black caps, Scotch cap Tatarian honeysuckle, Lonicera tatarica
February 9, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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Winter idents
White meadowsweet, Spitea alba aka Pale bridelwort, Narrowleaf meadowsweet, Pipestem my boot bottom left Bebb's willow, Salix bebbiana aka Long-beaked willow, Gray willow, Red willow, Diamond willow, Chaton Balsam fir, Abies balsamea aka Blister pine Common buckthorn, Rhamnus cathartica aka Hart's thorn, Purging buckthorn, European buckthorn in front of my hand
February 7, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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A visit to Canada Science and Technology Museum
A bald bespectacled grey haired bearded person in the bottom right corner, wearing a black mask in front of 2 height measurements, scored in increments of 100s and 10s. Surrounding the numbers are to the left, pictures of snowflakes, and to the right, pictures of ants. At the top, the text reads: "How many snowflakes tall are you? What about your height in hockey pucks? Or ants? Combien de flocons du neige measurez-vous? Combien de rondelle de hockey? Combien de fourmis?" Snowflakes, hockey pucks, ants, flocons de neige, rondelle de hockey, and fourmis are in bold type
February 6, 2025 at 5:49 AM
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In from shoveling snow. Shower.
I'm sweaty and straining to take a selfie, so the white text on the back of the black t-shirt (with a white cross on the front) is visible in the black frammed mirror behind me. Text in mirror reads ꓘИIHT ƎVITAӘƎИ LAIBACH Text on the back of the t-shirt reads THINK NEGATIVE HƆAꓭIA⅃ The only gig t-shirt, i currently own
February 4, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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Michael Jeter, unnamed "homeless cabaret singer" (IMDB) in the Fisher King (1991) Christopher Isherwood
February 2, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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Winter idents by hand
Black ash, Fraxinus nigra In front on my hand and a snowy background American hazelnut, Corylus americana In front of my hand and a snowy background White ash, Fraxinus americana aka American ash, Cane ash, Biltmore ash In front of my hand and a snowy background Alder buckthorn, Frangula alnus aka Glossy buckthorn, Butcher's frick tree, Breaking buckthorn In front of my hand in a snowy background
February 1, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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Using up bits of leftover nail polish
Finger nails painted with gold, silver, eucalyptus, electric blue nail polish entangled with toe nails painted gold on a background of grey fake fur
January 31, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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I got my earlobes pierced for by Kaiti at The Ink Spot, yesterday
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A picture of the side of a person's head, part of a grey/gray beard, the blue are of spectacles attached to the ear. The ball of a dumbell jewelry sticks out the lobe of the ear A picture of the side of a person's head, part of a grey/gray beard, the blue are of spectacles attached to the ear. The ball of a dumbell jewelry sticks out the lobe of the ear. In the background is a headboard and pillow
January 30, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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Fun fact: Brexit also had the get it done logo

First, stuck to the door after yesterday's pronouncement from the current majority government, over a year early, at great expense, with great urgency, for no reason, ...
A card on a wooden table showing an AI picture of a provincial political party wasting money again for the benefit of their cronies. The bald man from the picture on the other side of the card is less sweaty here, but possibly the same suit and tie. The picture on the back is clouded, making the dull text seem relevant to what is going on in the picture. The other man on the right does not have a tie but has expensive taste in shirts and is possibly wearing a toupee or hair piece. He has a very ruddy complexion. The 2 AI generated pictures of people are not in the same room The text on the left includes the candidates name and riding as well as the Doug Ford catchphrase from the last provincial election, GET DOUG FORDIT DONE in grey and white text on a blue background. A card on a wooden table, containing words, forming sentences, in bullet point form with blue dots containg images... bearing no resemblence to reality. For example, the carbon tax is not Liberal, it is Doug Fords's Carbon Tax. Doug Ford is not Liberal. The picture on the right of the card shows a white man, shaking the hand of another younger white man in a long line of white men. Each man is wearing a yellow hi viz vest made by Milkakee and a hard hat with 401 electric (possibly a logo?), written on the side of each hat. All logos are facing the camera. The older man is wearing a blue grey suit. The older man is bald, sweating with a ruddy complexion. The line up of white men in branded hi viz are all dry and very photoshopped fair skinned. It looks like the arm coming from the line of milwakee hi viz white people is photoshopped or the picture is possibly AI To left of photo the text reads FOR SENIORS FOR STUDENTS FOR FAMILIES and bottom right FOR WORKERS FOR ONTARIO FOR YOU which looks AI generated or just insipid
January 30, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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Back garden idents from yesterdays failed removal of a fence because it was frozen to the ground.
Heliopsis helianthoides False sunflower, Smooth oxeye, Rough oxeye, Oxeye sunflower Seed head with out of focus hand in a snowy background Oenothera biennis Common evening primrose, Evening star, King's cure-all, Sundrop, German rampion, Fever plant Seed head in front of a hand and a blurred snowy background Acer negundo Box elder, Manitoba maple, Maple ash, Ash-leaved maple Winter twig ident in front of a hand and a snowy background Ulmus rubra Slippery elm, Red elm, Sweet elm, Grey/Gray elm, Soft elm, Indian elm, Ozhashigob na. Winter twig ident in front of a hand, and a blurred snowy background
January 30, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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A day outside. Clearing snow, then starting to tidy up fencing that trapped the squirrel yesterday.
A lot of it was frozen in the ground, so itll be an ongoing thing...along with tidying up that bit of property behind the fence
3 greem metal poles, the pole on the right has a teflective red disc on it Between it and the nest green metal post are 2 bush honeysuckle. There is no fencing between these posts nor entangled in these 2 shrubs Cut up bits of fencing on top of a pile of snow next to a house's concrete wall and grey aluminum siding. The bits of fencing were previously entangled in the bush honeysuckle of the previous picture 2 green meyal posts and a few leafless shrubs in the snow. Wrapped up are 2 piles of fencing frozen to the ground. Another piece of wrapped up fencing in the snow surrounded by branches, with a tree stump to the left
January 28, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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Setting up Firefox on a laptop, i find that "Scots" is an available option in Languages

Have a Happy Burns' Night no matter where ye come fae
Picture of a screen with Scots selected as the language option Page reads "Wale the leids yaises tae kythe menus, messages..."*text becomes blurred The box below reads "Scots" Optional buttons read " Set Ithers" and "Wale..." Below reads the language selection box read "Wale your preferred leid for trythin pages A blue box has a white tick. Next to it reads, "Yaise your operatin system settins for English (CA) tae format dates times nummers and meisurements" Another blue box has a white tick. Text next to it reads, "Check your spellin as ye type" Other text below the title "Translations", is either blurred or incomplete.
January 26, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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Poster cellotaped to a metallic post at the crossing junction of a street in bright daylight. Poster reads: WE ARE NEVER JUST ONE PERSON surrounded by a black line It looks hand drawn?
January 24, 2025 at 10:44 PM