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Laura Brown 🍁 @thatgrrl.bsky.social · 22h

To the epidemic of lonely men... get a cat and avoid people who burn you.

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Laura Brown 🍁 @thatgrrl.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Men, be safe. Assume the answer is NO! thatgrrl.com/blog/?action...

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Laura Brown 🍁 @thatgrrl.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

How does AI see you? thatgrrl.com/blog/?action...

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Laura Brown 🍁 @thatgrrl.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Be careful what accounts you follow on social media. A LOT of them are just AI pollution. Generated content, random and often incorrect, to make money for someone sitting behind the scenes doing not much at all. A lot of Canadian history accounts are actually US based.

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Laura Brown 🍁 @thatgrrl.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Need a boost today? Look up your name in the Urban Dictionary. www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?t...

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Laura Brown 🍁 @thatgrrl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

In a time of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. 1984 George Orwell. Orwell was all about that. Have you read 1984?

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Laura Brown 🍁 @thatgrrl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Most of it is gone. I did hear there was some part of it still standing. I haven't lived in Toronto since I was a teenager.

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Laura Brown 🍁 @thatgrrl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"In every corner of my soul there is an altar to a different god." - Fernando Pessoa

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Laura Brown 🍁 @thatgrrl.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

1930 Bathing Pavilion Sunnyside Toronto Canada - This is long gone now. I forget what it was demolished for. My Mother and her family visited Sunnyside, before the 1960's. #CanadianCulture #OntarioHistory #CanadianHistory

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Laura Brown 🍁 @thatgrrl.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

1906 Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Dorchester Street in Winter. #CanadianHistory

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Laura Brown 🍁 @thatgrrl.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

From Nova Scotia Past and Present on Facebook. www.facebook.com/groups/11867...

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Laura Brown 🍁 @thatgrrl.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Windfalls for Cider...The Poems of Raymond Knister - 1925.

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Laura Brown 🍁 @thatgrrl.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Is this the ancestor for the current domestic cat? I read it was a desert cat from Egypt. I read this post today about a Jungle Cat. www.worldatlas.com/animals/jung... What do you think?

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Jungle Cat

Behind the jungle cat's adorable appearance hides a fierce predator designed by nature to perfect the skill of hunting.

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Laura Brown 🍁 @thatgrrl.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I would think lawyers would pay attention to details and proofread any documents for errors. Seems they slipped up. #ProofreaderNeeded

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Laura Brown 🍁 @thatgrrl.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I can't see anything I've done wrong. But my auto feeder (two of them, one in coop and one in barn) are duds. I've added hay and it just sits there. I still have to manually fill the feeders at the top of the coop/barn.

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Laura Brown 🍁 @thatgrrl.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

You have no idea what colour, age, or what my life has been like.

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Laura Brown 🍁 @thatgrrl.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I've seen plenty. I guess you have just ignored it because you are able to. Funny, your support ended pretty quick and turned into F bombs.

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Laura Brown 🍁 @thatgrrl.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Narrative? I feel women (natural/ biological as we now have to describe ourselves) are under threat. This is how we live, it isn't some kind of hobby we can put aside.

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Laura Brown 🍁 @thatgrrl.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

It's already happened a few times. I was fired from a job (online) for not catering to trans people. I would rather defend women's rights and safety than agree with propaganda. Oddly those who demand to be identified as women are the most aggressively hateful to those who were born female.

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Laura Brown 🍁 @thatgrrl.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Find a way to step out of your own shadow today, at least for today. "Most of the shadows in life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson - ASCII art by ldb asciiartist.com

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Laura Brown 🍁 @thatgrrl.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Abandoned Military Installations of Ontario - Paul Ozorak. I found this on ebay. Self-published 1991. People looking for places to explore would like to find this book, but the price is very high. How about a reprint? www.ebay.com/itm/38967015... #OntarioHistory #MilitaryHistory #AbandonedOntario

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Laura Brown 🍁 @thatgrrl.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I think I bought this book years ago, but the cover was different. Or, maybe the same name was used with different authors. I will try to find it, I love the old houses. www.etsy.com/ca/listing/4... #OntarioHistory

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Ontario Barn Preservation 🍁 @obp.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Please take a look at our freshly updated guide to Saving Barns from Ontario Barn Preservation - drive.google.com/file/d/1x5lp... - Review, critique, or best of all - use the guide as a resource for your own old Ontario barn.

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Laura Brown 🍁 @thatgrrl.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Squashed lizard coaster - Good for a laugh or two. www.etsy.com/ca/listing/4...

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Laura Brown 🍁 @thatgrrl.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Found online - Grandeur, ghosts & gargoyles : the entertaining history of Ontario's Parliament building - 1970 - Gordon Donaldson, Canadian government publication. dn760109.eu.archive.org/0/items/3176... another edition - dn720003.ca.archive.org/0/items/3176... #CanadianHistory #OntarioHistory

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Laura Brown 🍁 @thatgrrl.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I've had luck finding Made in Canada and Ontario at Giant Tiger too. I shop there more often now. I wish the government would set up a system to label what is really made/ product of Canada. They have it so much easier in Australia, for Australians.

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Laura Brown 🍁 @thatgrrl.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

How far can Carney bend over? Must be doing a lot of yoga to bend so much. I do not buy US goods/ services, as much as possible, even if the government is pushing them in our faces again. US business can squeak all they want. They need to do something about their President. No sale!

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Laura Brown 🍁 @thatgrrl.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Social media is addictive. How is this in debate at all?

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Save the CBC 🇨🇦✌️ @savethecbc.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Want to help Save the CBC? Here are the things you can do RIGHT NOW to help the cause. We are a grassroots organization and we need individuals to contribute as a community! Together we are stronger, so please take time to do these things and help Save the CBC! Links: buff.ly/g6n31iJ

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Laura Brown 🍁 @thatgrrl.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Its a challenge for the idea of fair use. Is copying an entire book and using it for a commercial project fair use? I don't think so. Its not the same as buying a book, reading it, and then sharing it with a friend. Once money is involved (and the entire book contents) that should not be fair use.

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Laura Brown 🍁 @thatgrrl.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

If this is anything like Protect Ontario... What a lot of tax money spent to promote fluff.

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Laura Brown 🍁 @thatgrrl.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I wonder how many people brush the seat to check for fresh chalk before they sit on it. :)

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Laura Brown 🍁 @thatgrrl.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Early Yonge Street, Toronto, Ontario. "Early Painting Postcard Toronto ON Foot of Yonge Street Old York 1834 Circa 1909" www.ebay.ca/itm/26753368... #OntarioHistory

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Laura Brown 🍁 @thatgrrl.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

The RVH is still around but very different looking now. I don't think those houses exist at all now. I can't think of where they would have been even. I've lived in Barrie for years. This was nice to find. www.ebay.ca/itm/15791339... Barrie, Ontario, Canada.

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Laura Brown 🍁 @thatgrrl.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Do you think you're buying Canadian beef? This was new to me. I haven't bought any beef, or much meat at all for awhile. Now I will have to watch that it is not ungraded. I've gotten used to trusting that all the meat in our grocery stores is a good grade - and Canadian. I guess not always.

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Laura Brown 🍁 @thatgrrl.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Why is one software company allowed to control so many personal computers? When I buy a PC I do not want an MS account.

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Laura Brown 🍁 @thatgrrl.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Get MS off your back, switch to a local login instead of the MS account Windows pushes. geekrewind.com/how-to-chang... I have done this and I hope it will be the last I get nagged to use more MS services and stuff I do not want. I bought a PC, not an MS account!

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How to Change from a Microsoft Account to a Local Account in Windows 11

Easily switch from a Microsoft account to a Windows 11 local account for enhanced privacy and a simpler login. Follow our step-by-step guide to make the change.

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Laura Brown 🍁 @thatgrrl.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Was Canadian money cursed? People used to believe it was. Is it still? youtube.com/shorts/3LNzj... Down the Crooked Path

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devil head money

YouTube video by Down the Crooked Path

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Laura Brown 🍁 @thatgrrl.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Keep Canada beautiful for all of us.

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Laura Brown 🍁 @thatgrrl.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Does anyone know what this has to do with Canada? Is is something that comes up for everyone, just changing the name of the location/ country? en.wikipedia.org I'd expect better from Wikipedia. What are they trying to pull? @wikimediafoundation.org

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Laura Brown 🍁 @thatgrrl.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Bad things happen to even good writers.

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Laura Brown 🍁 @thatgrrl.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Sir Henry Pellatt and his Castle in Toronto - thatgrrl.com/blog/?action... #CanadianCulture #CanadianHistory

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National Day Calendar @nationaldaycalendar.com · 11/07/2026

A small act of kindness can mean the world! Whether it’s a quick text, a phone call, or a surprise visit, let's cheer up someone who may seem lonely or isolated today. #CheerUpTheLonelyDay #NationalDayCalendar nationaldaycalendar.com/celebration…

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Laura Brown 🍁 @thatgrrl.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Embed Bluesky on your web site. embedbsky.com

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Laura Brown 🍁 @thatgrrl.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Somewhere in Canada... My niece and nephew are taking the VIA Rail across Canada this summer. This is her photo.

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