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Caro In Ottawa

@craftycaro

Queer mom, former midwife, former vaccine policy editor, now I work in sexual and repro health, low key make art, garden and share factual science. I’m ok wearing a mask forever and getting boosters if it keeps my family healthy.

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A detail I don't want to get lost in this: So far, Bri and her network have helped more than 500 families with grocery deliveries and more than 300 with diapers and wipes. In just two months.

02.02.2026 21:07 👍 803 🔁 280 💬 8 📌 3
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I did not drive up this ramp.
I did not relocate this rotten milk bag to behind the tires of a parked car.
I did not pick this lone daffodil.

I AM SO GOOD!

05.05.2025 18:27 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

The garden looks great. I love the orange tulips with that orange shrub. Anyone know what that shrub is called? I might want one.

05.05.2025 17:31 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

My 9yo while playing Switch on a road trip: “I don’t want to kill the Ender Dragon, so I’m just going to give her her stuff back and make her happy again. So then she can regenerate. And now she can see in the dark! I just gave her a potion of night vision.”

04.05.2025 14:42 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I have the CanImmunize app and have found it hard to get started with. I think it needs to be better integrated into the health records system. But health records systems in Canada are famously non integrated.

09.04.2025 14:20 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

What a cool project!

06.04.2025 02:19 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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“It’s not the Americans fault. It’s our fault. We’re stupid.” ~ Pierre Poilievre.

You cannot claim to be Canada first, when you call Canada stupid.

15.02.2025 11:47 👍 788 🔁 336 💬 67 📌 51

Please ignore tired pieces in publications like the Atlantic that are still trying to stigmatize mask wearing.

Wearing a mask to prevent sickness from airborne viruses is a science-informed position, and it has been that way for over 100 years.

03.04.2025 23:16 👍 5728 🔁 1327 💬 134 📌 55

I want to see more Canadian companies, celebrities and government accounts leaving X.

04.04.2025 03:01 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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03.04.2025 19:34 👍 12 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0

I think he’d probably really really want that fancy metal stuff from Wakanda.

03.04.2025 13:27 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

You know, instead of these endless pieces like “look at these individuals still masking” they could write about why it is America returned to normal without any policy changes to protect people from COVID in their communities and in their workplaces.

But neoliberalism eschews policy solutions.

02.04.2025 03:25 👍 439 🔁 66 💬 2 📌 2

Shame on the Conservative team, and shame on corporate media companies for bowing to them.

02.04.2025 11:16 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

My manager just postponed our meeting by 15 min cause she has “a few pressing issues on the go” and I have to say, that might become my new euphemism for needing to go to the toilet. I’m not saying that was her issue, but that phrase is excellent for detailing the urgency of a situation.

01.04.2025 13:31 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

9yo is sick at home today so we are watching the S03 Bluey short movie during my lunch break. She just noticed that Chili’s sister who struggled with infertility appears to be pregnant!
I hope there’s a spin off with her family.
🧡💙

31.03.2025 17:54 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I heard there was a secret ooze
It turned four turtles into dudes
But you don't really care for pizza, do ya?

They fought like this,
Two swords, a stick
A couple sai
Some nunchuck tricks
Those Ninja boys-a callin

Cowabunga

29.03.2025 22:11 👍 7061 🔁 2427 💬 90 📌 142

My 9 year old came in the room when I was listening to this, and we sat in sadness and reverence together.

May Ashlee and all her community find some peace.

28.03.2025 01:32 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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This one will come true if he gets elected.

27.03.2025 18:45 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I licked the salt wall at the spa.

27.03.2025 04:10 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

How come no one is questioning the “war plans” part of the leaked Signal messages? Why is the US bombing anyone and why is the phrase “war plans” being discussed as mundanely as dinner plans?

27.03.2025 04:09 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

Intimidating Fish-Dress

27.03.2025 04:07 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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27.03.2025 00:48 👍 39 🔁 33 💬 0 📌 0

Did anyone bring up issues of shadeism, anti-Black racism in non-white ethnic groups, etc?
I agree that racism is largely about reinforcing white supremacy, but I think there are nuances there when racial bigotry is occurring within and between non-caucasian ethnic groups.

26.03.2025 18:19 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Done the project in 20 minutes. Happy that I prevented some food waste.
I didn’t bother water-processing the jam since it’ll live in the fridge and we’ll eat most of it up before it can spoil on us. Well, the family will. I’m more of a jam maker than an eater.

26.03.2025 03:15 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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I was going to go to bed early at 10:40 but then I noticed that the grapes from my Odd Bunch (veggie box service) likely would be too shabby to eat by morning.
So I made 3 cups of small batch casual jam.
No recipe, yes sugar, yes microwave, yes pectin.

26.03.2025 03:13 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

I liked him in the pottery competition show.

26.03.2025 03:11 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Still trying to figure out how this app might fit into my life. In the meantime, don’t you think this ceiling sensor thing looks like a sleepy eyed gnome?

25.03.2025 12:16 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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SESAME STREET WORKERS ARE UNIONIZING!!! ✊

This morning, workers at the nonprofit behind Sesame Street delivered their letter asking for voluntary recognition to management!

Read all about it: www.opeiulocal153.org/news/employe...

04.03.2025 19:23 👍 6648 🔁 2026 💬 28 📌 114

The booing and jeering is very affirming.

05.03.2025 02:27 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Listening to it on the radio

05.03.2025 02:27 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0