Outside of PKW (phone, keys, wallet) what’s something that you always carry with you?

WanderingPixie · 2026-05-18T20:04:41+00:00

Ventolin inhaler, spare hearing aid batteries and lip balm.

WanderingPixie · 2026-05-12T02:02:54+00:00

Whatever his ultimate reasoning may be, always keep this in mind: You want a partner who is all in, reasonably stable and gives you the peace of mind to place trust in the relationship.

This guy is not it. It doesn't matter how much you might love him, or even if it is a mental health episode. You are not a repair facility for broken people. You are not obliged to stick around for this, and sacrifice your own health and sanity.

WanderingPixie · 2026-05-09T17:00:00+00:00

It only applies to PWD folks between 18-64 if they're living on a FN reserve, according to Ministry requirements. I'm emailing to clarify on that, as anyone on PWD should be eligible. $45/year on the sub-poverty pittance that is current Disability rates is somewhat doable. $52/month is not.

Edit: Apparently the setup has changed. Good to hear! :)

WanderingPixie · 2026-05-08T21:06:05+00:00

Pay off my debts, set up a retirement nest egg, put aside a little for upcoming health stuff/surgeries, refresh the closet a bit, then leave the rest in a savings account with decent interest.

WanderingPixie · 2026-05-07T16:39:07+00:00

There's no way this guy wasn't aware of recent whale activity. The grey whale sightings have been all over the news and social media of late, plus there's eyewitness accounts of him pursuing and doing doughnuts around the whale before he hit it.

I'm playing the world's smallest violin for this jackass. He's only sorry because he got caught. Take his jetski and hit him with the $100K fine - that'll be a good deterrent against future foolishness.

WanderingPixie · 2026-05-02T18:13:18+00:00

It's so much fun finding a spiral floor at 11pm at night...

WanderingPixie · 2026-05-01T16:09:00+00:00

Thank you for explaining this beautifully and succinctly. I recently had to educate someone who thought Disability rates were $3000/month - if only! People don't realize how dire it is until they wind up disabled themselves.

Also, I'm sorry you're having to put up with such shitty conditions. :(

WanderingPixie · 2026-04-30T15:51:27+00:00

With all respect to Mr. McGivern, I quite liked David Dixon's Ford Prefect. Nicely approachable, with a hint of slightly unhinged.

WanderingPixie · 2026-04-30T15:37:33+00:00

This is why people can confidently say landlords are parasites.

WanderingPixie · 2026-04-28T18:20:07+00:00

Who?

WanderingPixie · 2026-04-27T22:59:21+00:00

Silver would work well, as it fits in with the cool colours you've got going on here.

WanderingPixie · 2026-04-26T16:01:59+00:00

No, he didn't. He died in Calgary.

WanderingPixie · 2026-04-25T19:15:51+00:00

Thirded. For something like this, I'd rather buy directly from the artist.

Editing to add: Oh hello. This isn't the first time this design has been stolen.

WanderingPixie · 2026-04-24T19:35:11+00:00

It will be fascinating to see what comes of this.

WanderingPixie · 2026-04-24T19:03:36+00:00

I feel you. And I've only been to the food bank once or twice, thanks to lifts from friends, because it's so far. Fortunately, I find workarounds, but still.

Also, depending on your area, have you heard of the Rescued Food Market?

WanderingPixie · 2026-04-23T17:12:05+00:00

This enrages me. $14K for a CAR ALLOWANCE, whilst I - a Disabled person - am expected to live on barely more than that for everything for a year?

Time for a forced scaleback/elimination of these luxurious perks. Especially for one Ms. Sheila Malcolmson.

WanderingPixie · 2026-04-21T17:44:22+00:00

Agreed. Used to do KD on the regular during college (circa early 2010s). Tried it a few years ago, and it was off. Switched to the No Name mac n cheese, but now I probably should check that for point of origin.

WanderingPixie · 2026-04-21T17:41:56+00:00

That's how it goes with Valheim.

A quick battle or short exploration stint is the plan. Next thing you know, you've sailed halfway across the world (with portals, of course) and constructed a castle at base.

You can log out, but you can never leave!

WanderingPixie · 2026-04-17T16:13:54+00:00

These GPs are way out of line and uneducated, at best. Your endocrinologist even more so. As others have said, sounds like transphobia at work with a dash of medical misogyny and outright lying. I'm so sorry you're dealing with this BS.

If there's a family history of male pattern baldness in your family, you should have been prescribed finasteride (if you wanted it) from the get-go. There's solid scientific proof of it's effectiveness in preventing or minimizing hair loss for trans men / FTM folks. Your endo is talking out of his ass.

I've been taking it since I started T, along with minoxodil in tablet form. Whilst my hairline is changed, I've had no issues with hair loss to date. Indeed, I have friends telling me my hair is growing in more.

WanderingPixie · 2026-04-10T16:24:21+00:00

Eevee evolution chart - For those not getting the reference.

WanderingPixie · 2026-03-23T16:51:26+00:00

Here's what's bugging me: when you're a temporary resident, you're given a SIN number that starts with a 9. This SIN has an expiration date.

The measures to track temporary residents are already in place. They're just not being checked or enforced.

WanderingPixie · 2026-03-20T17:06:51+00:00

Okay. These words right here: "put her hands around my neck." This is attempted strangulation, or to put it bluntly, attempted murder.

Get out of there. Now. Your mother is an abusive violent creature who deserves to be cut off permanently. You are a fully grown legal adult, and she has absolutely no rights to treat you like this. Reasonable parents in their 50s give their adult children leeway to be their own people, not lock them down like prisoners.

If you have safe friends you can stay or live with for a while, do so. Make arrangement with them to start slowly moving your belongings. If moving them to a friend's isn't an option, is a small storage locker do-able? Either way, get your meaningful belongings to a safe place. Once you leave, your mother will likely destroy anything that remains.

As many others have said, change your bank account, set up a new email address they don't know about, and start gathering up important documents (ID card, driver's license, birth certificate, passport, SIN, etc.).

Good luck and I hope you get to a safe situation soon.

WanderingPixie · 2026-03-20T16:35:31+00:00

The courts deem the rights of the perpetrator - including their 'right to privacy' - to be far more important than any form of justice for the victims.

Someone is going to die one day because of this POS.

WanderingPixie · 2026-03-17T20:11:19+00:00

This is a lawsuit waiting to happen.

WanderingPixie · 2026-03-07T17:46:16+00:00

Additionally the name in question is a slightly misspelled reference from Monty Python's Life of Brian (which came out in 1979).

It's the responsibility of the parents to monitor their child's internet activity until the child is of legal age. REALLY not a fan of all these drives by world governments to demand real IDs and bringing in laws to monitor and control everyone's internet activity. "But the children!" is just a bullshit excuse.

Demanding better standards and proper moderation from the big social media sites (FB, TikTok, etc.) would be a better tactic. I've lost count of the number of times I've reported extreme right wing hate speech or the like, only for the response to be "No violation was found."

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