Evkob

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[–] Evkob 3 points 14 hours ago

I won't lie though, judging from how much of the litter where I live is cigarettes butts and packs, there seems to be a rather large overlap.

Add people who drink Tim Horton's coffee and that's a solid 80% of the litter I see.

(Am smoker, will carry smelly butts rather than throw them on the street)

[–] Evkob 12 points 20 hours ago

Great take, we should take all the humans out of cities to make them even more car-friendly!

It worked for Radiator Springs!

[–] Evkob 0 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I think context matters. My queer friends and I will call each other the f-slur, but I wouldn't use it at a family supper, for example. Likewise, I think the tone is different using "gay" in a queer meme community versus in a serious discussion on a news community.

[–] Evkob 4 points 1 day ago (3 children)

"That's how they do it on 4chan" is probably one of the worst possible justifications for one's behaviour.

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This post brought to you by my local radio station in the early '00s. Thanks CanCon!

[–] Evkob 32 points 2 days ago (11 children)

Just waiting for the web to become unbearably enshittified so I can finally be free.

[–] Evkob 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)
 

Starting out as a street musician, Jérôme 50 has become an indie darling in Québec, most known for his hit song Tokébakicitte (which loosely translates to "We're in Québec, here!" and explores different Québécois stereotypes), here's a song from his most recent album released at the beginning of May of this year.

[–] Evkob 2 points 5 days ago

My parents are pretty hippy-dippy granola types who have regularly volunteered for our local Green Party, so I'm obviously coming at this from a different perspective than you. I like to think I'd have ended up at the same conclusions I have even if I grew up with super conservative parents, but I'd probably be pretty different.

So props to you for doing the hard work of detaching yourself from those mindsets. Of course, we all absorb some bullshit through society at large (heck I even remember, when I was just a kid, my dad making occasional "jokes" about how Indigenous people here in Canada "were lazy and got everything for free". And my dad is rather progressive for his peer group).

But I can only imagine it must be so much harder to detach yourself from that if your family is completely immersed into the kind of rhetoric the right has been pushing for years now.

[–] Evkob 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Virtue signaling, political correctness, woke, they've used a bunch of terms over the years and I don't doubt they'll eventually move on from woke to another term they use to mock anyone with empathy.

[–] Evkob 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I work both opening shifts and closing shifts in a typical week, so I'll wake up anywhere from 5am to 11am.

[–] Evkob 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Do you know the song Chop Suey, by System of a Down?

Do you know the original name of that song, before the record company forced them to change it?

That's what she's referring to, I think.

HintSuicide

[–] Evkob 21 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Oh god, I'm not usually one to horny-post but crunchy granola girls 💕

Long tangled hair, perhaps a bandana, no makeup, cargo shorts or flowy elephant pants, unshaved pits and legs, a human smell (and maybe some patchouli).

I knew a crunchy granola girl who rolled her joints using raw rotini noodles as the filter, proudly declaring to everyone in the smoke circle "it's biodegradable!", she was amazing.

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I was at work (café) closing up, cleaning everything. I picked up the pot of soup to put it away in the fridge (picture of the type of soup pot, rather tall and unstable).

It then slipped from my hands, in free fall for about 2 inches or so, before catching it. I spilled maybe a quarter of a ladle-full of soup. I was so happy. It could have been so much worse, and it would have taken ages to clean up.

The soup today was a coconut cream curry cauliflower soup. It's good soup.

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Québec's Harmonium was a force in the '70s prog rock scene, and one of the most popular acts of the decade in their home province. They were pioneers of the prog folk subgenre of progressive rock, incorporating elaborate instrumental sections into their music.

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BA Johnston is an artist from Hamilton, Ontario known for his satirical songs and energetic live performances. Some songs will be simple acoustic arrangements, as in Canadian Beers or they'll feature synth and drum machines, like I Don't Buy No Government Weed (Still Buying From Steve). Across all tracks, there's BA Johnston's self-deprecating humour and many references to real Canadian culture (like the mention of the camo Alpines in Canadian Beers, this man gets me)

Seriously, if you ever get the chance to see one of his live shows, please do yourself a favour and go! I don't want to share any details because it's best you go in blind. I will say that a BA Johnston show is an unhinged, multi-sensory experience.

 

Playful as a puppy but smart as a whip, New Brunswick's Motherhood pack deeply conceptual art rock into a delightfully unpretentious package.

 

Summer is approaching (in the Northern hemisphere, anyways) and while I do still bike in the winter, I'm hyped for the nicer weather to go on more leisure rides rather than just commuting.

However, I'm lacking ideas and inspirations for spots to cycle to, so I was curious where everyone here likes to go on bike rides!

 

According to the Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA), 27.9 per cent of New Brunswickers indicated having difficulties with their mental health in 2024. Additionally, Statistics Canada reports that New Brunswick has the third highest suicide rate among all Canadian provinces, with 15.1 deaths per population of 100,000. It is crucial that New Brunswickers have access to timely and effective mental health services.

Unfortunately, in New Brunswick there are limited and inadequate supports for individuals seeking mental health care.

 

Tandis que le comité de sages sur l’identité de genre formé par Québec s’apprête à déposer son rapport à la fin du mois, le Conseil québécois LGBT veut lui envoyer un message clair. « On s’attend à [ce qu’il n’y ait] aucun recul de nos droits et aucun recul dans l’accès aux services », lance, inquiet, le directeur général de l'organisme, James Galantino.

Même si la ministre Suzanne Roy, qui a mis sur pied le comité il y a plus d’un an, avait promis de ne pas revenir sur la question des droits existants, le contexte social et la "montée de la haine" nourrissent les appréhensions de M. Galantino.

 

Last week, Premier Susan Holt launched her weekly livestreamed press conferences on her government's tariff "action plan."

New Brunswickers got to know the media room Holt was using — and the image of leadership in crisis — during Blaine Higgs's frequent pandemic briefings, fed into laptop computers and smartphones.

The premier instead adopted the role of therapist-in-chief, pledging to use the weekly briefing to respond to questions sent to her office by anxious, frustrated New Brunswickers.

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