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I will be downloading everything I purchased from Bandcamp and keeping an eye on it.

What HAS changed recently is that Songtradr is shutting down THEIR distribution site and telling artists to move to BC.

You can add Jumanji (kids action adventure) and The Mummy (1999) (adult action adventure) to the list.

They're all self-aware in a way that could be mocking, but is actually played very sincerely. They're all affectionate to the source material.

Last year, it was announced that, like the majority of national agencies, the AAFC would be subject to comprehensive cuts of 15 percent. Earlier this year, it was revealed that much of that pruning, including 665 positions and almost $350 million in spending, would focus on the research and development sector.

Over the coming months, seven sites are set to close: three research and development centres in Guelph, Ontario; in Lacombe, Alberta; and in Quebec City; as well as four satellite research farms at Nappan, Nova Scotia; Portage la Prairie, Manitoba; and Scott and Indian Head, Saskatchewan.

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Tags passing peer review, gonna share.

but now???? friend hosta. beloved friend hosta who can always be relied upon. they do not give a single fuck about how you treat them. I just propagated one of my hostas by walking up to it, ripping off a stalk close to the ground, shoving it in some potting soil, and dumping water on it every other day or so. that was two weeks ago. It's sprouting its first and second new leaf because it does not give a fuck.

Sun? Shade? the hosta does not give a fuck. Soil type? Does not care. Hardiness zone? fuckin MOST of them. Water needs? It won't flop over dramatically if it goes without for a while. And they come in all sorts of goddamn sizes and different colors and leaf shapes and some are stripy and some have frilly-edged leaves. You just stick them in the ground and forget about them and come back two weeks later to find them straight up vibing.

AND THEY'RE EDIBLE?????

There are some hostas that have a bluish cast to them. I have the "Neptune" varietal, but it's still a distinctly GREEN shade, as in this photo. The Neptune hosta is the one on the left -- i chose this photo to illustrate how bluish the variety looks in comparison to more green-green plants (source):

You CAN get hostas with a reddish cast, like this one, "Bloodline" (source) (which i now need, that looks cool as hell):

The white hosta pictured above (the varietal is called "White Feather") is the craziest color i've seen -- everything else has been shades of green (ranging from a deep cool green (like on "Neptune") to a bright almost neon chartreuse green ("Curly Fries" or "Holar Sunset Python")...

or green striped with white ("Fire and Ice") or green striped with yellow ("Island Breeze")

For movies, here is the beginner's list:

And the more advanced list:

Not all these movies are necessarily good, but the ones that gave me small pop culture epiphanies. It made me realize that 30%-40% of the jokes from modern sitcoms are references/parodies- and these movies are their source material.

^^ This is also true for socializing. So many people I thought were naturally funny were just doing movie bits.

I HAVE FOUND MY FAVOURITE POST ON THE INTERNET

Image description: photo of a brown sign with white text that reads: "You can't save everything cute, eat everything that tastes good, and kill everything you're afraid of and expect a working ecosystem to come out of it." -- Flip Nicklin, wildlife photographer

Jonathan Labillois. Still Dancing. 2014.

Ovide Mercredi is many things, but a terrorist isn't one of them. A lawyer, poet and member of the Order of Canada, he's an accomplished Cree leader who spent two terms leading the Assembly of First Nations in the 1990s. And yet, sitting inside his Winnipeg living room flipping through a hefty stack of formerly secret intelligence files, Mercredi is compelled to set the record straight. "I don't appreciate being called an extreme Native," the former national chief says emphatically, "because I'm not a terrorist." Yet there he is, in black and white — named in a secret 1997 domestic counterterrorism report from the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), which lists Mercredi's call for a national day of protest against federal policy inaction as "Native extremism."

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"Former Prime Minister Harper’s swansong, the Anti-Terrorism Act, 2015, pushes CSIS even further away from its original conception by the MacDonald commission. With an unchanged mandate, CSIS can now take direct action to disrupt threats. The only caveat to this positive right is that the agency may not cause harm, death, or injury. CSIS now has explicit authority to contravene the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and Canadian Law. These actions must be authorized by a federal court judge, but these proceedings are (ironically) subject to severe privacy limitation[7]."