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Rosemary Rowe @rosemaryrowe.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Musical theatre songwriting QOTD: Can I rhyme "beliefs" with "queefs".

Rosemary Rowe @rosemaryrowe.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Today during my conversational French lesson, I asked my Québecoise teacher « Comment dit-on (how do you say) 'pretty messed up'? » and she said « Assez fucké. » I have signed up for 10 more lessons.

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Rosemary Rowe @rosemaryrowe.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

I don't know why, but when I ask someone a question and they reply "Yep", I think "Folksy and adorable!" but if they reply "Yup", I think "Go fuck yourself."

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Rosemary Rowe @rosemaryrowe.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

I deeply hate all of my best friend’s exes, even when he is fine with them. My BFF: I ran into S the other day... Me: THAT FUCKFACE WHAT DID HE WANT BFF: ...he says hi.

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Rosemary Rowe @rosemaryrowe.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Picked up my first HRT prescription yesterday...and it was free. Just...zero dollars. Because I live in B.C. HRT IS FREE IN B.C.!!!! And now I can't stop eating pickles, but that's not B.C.'s fault.

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Rosemary Rowe @rosemaryrowe.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

The tiny, queer-affirming United Church down the road from us is having its annual plant/book/bake sale this weekend and I ASSUME it will also offer a shocking yet cozy murder so I can finally step into the role I was born to play: small town lesbian Jessica Fletcher.

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Rosemary Rowe @rosemaryrowe.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Me (casually): Oh hey - I can't get the self-checkout to read my points card. Cashier: The machine has trouble reading some people's cards off their phones. *looks me right in the eye* YOU'RE NOT DOING ANYTHING WRONG. Me (holding back tears I didn't know were there): Thank you

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Rosemary Rowe @rosemaryrowe.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but if you’re holding something in one hand and you come across a task that requires TWO hands, it’s okay to just go ahead and put the first thing down.

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Rosemary Rowe @rosemaryrowe.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

My wife: Do you want to split that brownie? Me, after a long silence: That's a very grown up suggestion. And I appreciate that you made it. My wife: But "fuck you?" Me: Yeah, fuck you.

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Rosemary Rowe @rosemaryrowe.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Turns out the reason this dark chocolate is the best dark chocolate I've ever had is because it's milk chocolate.

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Rosemary Rowe @rosemaryrowe.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Me: (making an hilarious noise due to attempting to hold in a violent sneeze in public) Lady beside me at the LifeLabs: “Never hold it in. I tried to do that this morning and my teeth flew right out of my mouth.”

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Rosemary Rowe @rosemaryrowe.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

A different Rosemary Rowe put her email address in wrong and now I'm signed up for a heterosexual dating site for mature singles called FirstMet. Rosemary Rowe from Seattle: Gary P. really seems like our type if you're ready to be a stepmom to Cody, Larch and Bailey.

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Rosemary Rowe @rosemaryrowe.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

When you're a kid: Only four sleeps 'til Christmas! When you're a perimenopausal 50 year old: Only four sleeps 'til I get to see the surgeon about my gallbladder!

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Rosemary Rowe @rosemaryrowe.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

My friend Chris Dodd was just appointed a member of the Order of Canada and my ruptured boob cyst is finally closing up, so. Things are going pretty great for both of us.

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Rosemary Rowe @rosemaryrowe.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Some mornings, the line between "doing yoga" and "lying on the floor staring at the Christmas tree" gets verrrrrry blurry.

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Rosemary Rowe @rosemaryrowe.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Finding something to over-function about every day is a real gift.

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Rosemary Rowe @rosemaryrowe.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Every time I grunt while picking up my cast iron frying pan, I think about how strong Sipsey must have been to kill Frank Bennett with hers.

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Rosemary Rowe @rosemaryrowe.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

How is it that we can put a man on the moon but we can't figure out a way to measure blood pressure that doesn't feel like your arm is about to be sheared off?

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Rosemary Rowe @rosemaryrowe.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

My hands were full of heavy shopping bags & my cab pulled up & this fellow walking by stepped into the road & said "Here, let me get that for you!" & he opened the cab door for me. Because my hands were full & he noticed. And then did something about it. Who is this PRINCE? So nice, made my day.

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Catherine Winters @catherinewinters.com · 10/09/2025

Here's "Mission Specialist", my entry for @augursociety.bsky.social's #AugurMicros2025. Enjoy!

A poster in the style of "STAY CALM AND CARRY ON":

Mission Specialist

"Dame Ivy Smith felt every moment of her seventy years as the Blackhawk thundered over London. As always, the SAS men towered over her, grateful looks on grim faces. Two Oscars, six BAFTAs, a Tony... they didn’t matter. She’d earned this role, whether she wanted it or not.

"As the door opened, Dame Ivy readied her rifle. Everyone knew humanity was pushing back the adversary at last. But as she aimed at the massive beast atop the ruins of St. Paul's, she wished it had taken less time to discover that only a knight can slay a dragon."

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Rosemary Rowe @rosemaryrowe.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

TFW when you gleefully click into the comments on what seems like controversial Facebook post, expecting a juicy flame war, and you find it's just people emphatically and respectfully agreeing with each other 🙄

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Rosemary Rowe @rosemaryrowe.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

It's not enough to just have pants on these days. People expect you to also have them zipped up. 🙄

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Rosemary Rowe @rosemaryrowe.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Pulled some kind of muscle pulling on my bathing suit this morning, if you're wondering how ageing is going. #ThisIs50

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Rosemary Rowe @rosemaryrowe.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Me, watching videos of pandas being ridiculous: Do you think panda bears are real? Or are they just people in suits? My wife, INSTANTLY: If they're not real, I want that job. Splashing around in the bath, playing with my toes, being carried places by long-suffering staff, SIGN ME UP.

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Rosemary Rowe @rosemaryrowe.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

The woman at the BCAA taking my passport photo said that my face is "very symmetrical" so yeah...I've still got it.

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𝙱𝚊𝚋𝚎 𝚁𝚞𝚝𝚑𝚕𝚎𝚜𝚜 @unfitz.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Well, well, well. If it isn’t another new outrage that’s even more horrifying than yesterday’s new horrifying outrage.

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Rosemary Rowe @rosemaryrowe.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

I love how our houseguest Spyder greets each morning with an open…heart.

A black and white dog on an armchair, on her back with her lower legs splayed wide and a coquettish look in her eyes.

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Rosemary Rowe @rosemaryrowe.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

If you lean down to pet a neighbourhood dog & your underwire cracks loudly in half, it's time to take your bra off for the day. And probably your pants.

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Rosemary Rowe @rosemaryrowe.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Sometimes the line between "working" and "just staring open-mouthed at my computer" is very fine.

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Rosemary Rowe @rosemaryrowe.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

My physio, after a convo about how I’ve added more weights to my workout routine: “So you tweaked your shoulder lifting weights?” Me, who tweaked my shoulder by scrolling endlessly through Facebook Marketplace for 2 weeks, looking for a used 36 gallon bow front fish tank: “ … that’s right.”

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Rosemary Rowe @rosemaryrowe.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Happy Pride Month!! As my #Pride activity this year, I’ve decided that whenever I go into a store or business where they have put up Pride decor, I’m going to find someone who works there and tell them how happy I am to see it. Already freaked out the clerk at Shoppers, off to a great start. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

A sticker on a municipal worker’s desk. It’s a rainbow and it says Everyone is welcome here.

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Rosemary Rowe @rosemaryrowe.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

The appearance of the sun today is lifting my spirits while also revealing how truly filthy my keyboard is.

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Rosemary Rowe @rosemaryrowe.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

I was really proud of this cheese board I made for our guests last night but now that I see the picture, it’s actually pretty mid, I’m clearly not ready to step into my destiny as a cheese board influencer. 10/10 for taste though, the pear cognac preserves look like turds but were ambrosial.

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Rosemary Rowe @rosemaryrowe.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

We can do this, Canada! Let's not shoot ourselves in the dick today! #cdnpoli #elxn45

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Rosemary Rowe @rosemaryrowe.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Got my first dose of the shingles vaccine yesterday and I feel like I’ve been eaten by a wolf and shit off a cliff. But probably still better than getting shingles!!

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.chantal//RYAN @thoughtrise.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

unfollowing everyone on linkedin except this guy

linkedin post screenshot:

Ken Cheng - I want to connect with you, emotionally)

Al will never be able to write like me. Why? Because | am now inserting random sentences into every post to throw off their language learning models. Any Al emulating me will radiator freak yellow horse spout nonsense. 1 wiite all my emails, That's Not My Baby and reports like this to protect my data waffle iron 40% off. 1 suggest all writers and artists do the same Strawberry mango Forklift. The robot nerds will never get the better of Ken Hey can | have whipped cream please? Cheng. We can tuna fish tango foxtrot defeat Al. We just have to talk like this. All. The. Time. Piss on carpet

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Rosemary Rowe @rosemaryrowe.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

I have located what appears to be the neighbourhood's only undecided voter. #cdnpoli #elxn45

A line-up of election signs on a neighbourhood lawn, one for each candidate: Elizabeth May (Green), Colin Plant (NDP), David Beckham (Real Madrid), Cathie Ounsted (Conservative).

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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 15/04/2025

How dare Governor Newsom steal our joke

A Beaverton headline reading "US campaign entices Canada tourists: “Come visit America and also maybe El Salvador!”"

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Rosemary Rowe @rosemaryrowe.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

The company painting our house repaired the stucco incorrectly, which we (reasonably, politely) pointed out to the project manager this morning. Now the guy who did the painting is fixing it but is being a sullen bitch about it and not speaking to me and I've been watching too much FBI: Most Wanted.

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Rosemary Rowe @rosemaryrowe.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Today for #WorldTheatreDay, I am looking forward to reviving my searing, one-woman, interactive theatre piece "Fat Person at Whole Foods", in which I go to a Victoria, BC Whole Foods and am fat there. Audiences rave “How did she get in here?” and “How can she afford to shop here?”

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Rosemary Rowe @rosemaryrowe.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Today I discovered that I am now "weeps gently whenever I hear a James Taylor song" years old.

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Rosemary Rowe @rosemaryrowe.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Tried to get the dog we’re dog-sitting to whiz on all the Conservative campaign signs in our neighbourhood but she was too polite 🙄 #NeverPoilievre

A dog not peeing on a Conservative Party campaign sign.

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Jagmeet Singh @jagmeetsingh.ca · 18/03/2025

To Poilievre's friends. Lay off Carney's kid. Stop being a bunch of bullies and jerks. It's not okay.

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Jessica Cale @dirtysexyhistory.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Looking forward to a day when accurately describing current events is not constantly dismissed as “fear mongering”

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Rosemary Rowe @rosemaryrowe.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Thanks to @mark-carney.bsky.social for giving my wife the perfect comeback for every occasion until the end of time. #LookInsideYourselfRosemary

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Kate Trgovac 🇨🇦 @mynameiskate.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

"This is a time to choose. Canadians cannot and should not reason with the unserious, humour the deplorable or entertain the unthinkable. As Canada’s ambassador to the United Nations, Bob Rae, so eloquently stated, 'we are very proud to be Canadian and we think we have a lot to be proud of.'”

thetyee.ca

Canada Is in a Fight for Its Life | The Tyee

Trump attacks from outside and the right undermines from within. Here’s what’s needed.

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Rosemary Rowe @rosemaryrowe.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

I don't love the feeling of "losing an hour" for Daylight Saving Time but the REAL affront, to me, is that it's full sun at 5 fucking 30 when I want to be cozy in the dark eating my old lady dinner & congratulating myself on a day well-lived.

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