Carol Kroeger🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

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Carol Kroeger🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈@carolkroeger· 12d

Quote with a ridiculous movie you think people should watch.

Promo image from The Guyver 2: Dark Hero, showing the hero and his Guyver alter ego standing back to back. I love this absolutely ridiculous movie 😍

Carol Kroeger🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈@carolkroeger· 13d

I also really liked this description of one of the pieces.

Ecstasy (Black Accent)
1944
oil on canvas
Collection of Paul and Susan Taçon
170207
For Taçon, painting and making music were both intuitive processes and rooted in creative imagination. She once explained: "There has to be intellect behind it, but if you start trying to intellectualize, you miss the whole point of the intuitive search for new delights and satisfactions....
One has to be alone for intense concentration so that the feeling of ecstasy will come out in the paint."

Carol Kroeger🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈@carolkroeger· 13d

We saw this show! Some of my favourites

Photo of an abstract art piece with a white Matt and wood frame.
The piece is primarily cool colours, with an orange bird like figure in the center. It expresses balanced movement.

Another abstract piece, this one without any Matt,
The primary colour is green, but there is a bright turquoise shape and some swirls of red. The overall effect is iridescent.

This piece is mostly reds, with yellow, white and gray ribbons of contrasting colour. It makes me think of dancers swirling to the music.

This is the artist’s self portrait. She has a serious expression on her face and is holding a Siamese cat. On the table behind her is a vase of brightly coloured flowers. She is wearing an orange shirt. Triangles and diamond shapes are overlaid on the piece.

Carol Kroeger🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈@carolkroeger· 19d

Got the new Costco Connection in the mail today and OOPS!

Photo of an article in the magazine. Headline: Great greens

Costco supplier Taylor Farms helps take the work out of salad prep

by MICHAEL REDSTONE

Building the perfect salad at home is not the easiest proposition. Between shopping, washing, slicing and mixing, putting a finished salad on your plate is an involved process.
Salinas, California-based Taylor Farms has solved this dilemma by creating several lines of ready-to-eat greens and salad kits.

Carol Kroeger🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈@carolkroeger· 20d

If you see this, we IMPLORE you to post a picture from whatever device you're using without explanation.

Mural of a man sitting on the ridge of a roof, looking up at the sky hopefully. From his hand dangles a glass bottle. Beyond him, in the real world, storm clouds are gathering.

Carol Kroeger🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈@carolkroeger· 20d

OTOH 61% approve of high speed rail and only 19% oppose it.

Probe Research surveyed 1,300 Canadians earlier this month and found 61 per cent of respondents supported the project, while 19 per cent opposed it to some degree.

Carol Kroeger🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈@carolkroeger· 20d

87% of respondents oppose jets at Billy Bishop.

He said Ottawa came to the decision following consultations, citing a public survey in which 87 per cent of respondents opposed the move.

Carol Kroeger🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈@carolkroeger· 27d

World weary John Rawls is sick of your shit.

Carol Kroeger🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈@carolkroeger· Jul 16

Shoot me now.

Two and half years later, Noah, a professor at Harvard Law School, proposed while the couple was staying at the Bambu Indah resort in Ubud, Bali. A few years earlier, Julia had taken a sabbatical in Bali, calling it her, "Eat, Pray, Love moment." During their relationship, they visited frequently (there was also a trip to Burning Man, natch), and the two were on a walk when there was a downpour followed by a rainbow ("Rainbow, coincidentally, is Julia's middle name). "It was appropriate weather," he said as he got down on one knee, "because you're the rainbow sign of universal hope and optimism promised to the biblical Noah after the flood." Friends then appeared and began singing
"Rainbow Connection" from The Muppets.

Carol Kroeger🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈@carolkroeger· Jul 15

He looks like James Talarico

Photo of James Talarico, a slender clean shaven brunette with a boyish face. He is wearing a dark suit with a white shirt underneath. He is smiling pleasantly.

Carol Kroeger🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈@carolkroeger· Jul 10

Also👇 which could be a good thing

$And experts have warned any new additions risks destroying the four monuments which already exist among the cracks and fractures deep within the stone.$

Carol Kroeger🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈@carolkroeger· Jul 6

What horror movie image haunts you?

A disheveled old man in a blue shirt holds a stick upright in front of him.
There is a purplish glowing blob on the stick that is stretching towards the man’s hand.
It is nighttime and that blob is totally going to consume that old man.

Carol Kroeger🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈@carolkroeger· Jun 18

Name a TV show you’ve positive no one remembers but you.

Poster for the TV show Quark starring Richard Benjamin. It was a space adventure spoof created by Buck Henry.

Carol Kroeger🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈@carolkroeger· Jun 11

Is some sporting event happening?

Albert Burneko @albertbur... • 49s oh my god
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• 49s
Mike Boylan-Kolc...• @m..
Holy shit
• • •
darth T
omfg
@darthbluesky.bs... • 49s
•7
Meredith Shiner @meredit... are you fucking kidding me
•••
• 49s

Carol Kroeger🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈@carolkroeger· Jun 4

Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy

Pope Leo is his pope clothes, holding a black baseball bat and grinning at the camera.
Over top of this photo, in bold, red horror movie title font, are the words, “DELETE THIS A.I. SLOP”

Carol Kroeger🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈@carolkroeger· May 26

Apparently they like her, just not as a leader. It’s infuriating.

Image showing Abacus polling that has Ford preferred leader with 39% of the vote (Stiles at 18%), but Stiles net favourables at +7 and Ford at -8. It’s stupid!

Carol Kroeger🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈@carolkroeger· May 26

Pick a Bond villain from the photos you already have on your phone (if you feel like it)

Richard Scarry’s Rudolf Von Flugel, a fox in a WWI German uniform, flies a red prop plane decorated with the German Iron Cross. He is always very happy an often crashes his plane, but that’s okay because he has several other flying machines.

Carol Kroeger🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈@carolkroeger· May 24

I miss him

The beautiful, wonderful David Lynch, expressing what so many of us experience every day. In the top photo he is looking directly at the camera. He says, “Good morning, everyone. It’s…
And then in the bottom photo he looks out his window and finishes, “It’s an absolute shitshow out there, today.”

Carol Kroeger🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈@carolkroeger· May 18

What is this AI ad selling? (wrong answers only)

An obviously AI image of 6 women with identical smiles and slightly different skin tones and hairstyles above text that reads IN BOLD: “Hot Flashes. Night Sweats.”
And in small blue text on the next line: “Looking for a career?”

Carol Kroeger🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈@carolkroeger· May 14

Chart showing that while natural gas may be a significant improvement over oil and coal, it is still wildly worse than all other renewable sources - 9 times higher lifetime emissions than biomass- 37 times higher than wind.

Carol Kroeger🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈@carolkroeger· May 12

FWIW the article states that 98% of data centres’ energy use will be from renewable sources. Water use will be an issue though.

According to Telus, all three of the projects are planned to run on "98 percent renewable energy" sourced from BC Hydro.

Additionally, they will deploy closed-loop, direct-to-chip cooling systems to reduce environmental impact, and feed waste heat into district networks that the company says will offset power demands in Vancouver. They also claimed to be exploring ways to leverage Vancouver's rainfall as a way to offset water demands. Data centres can consume significant amounts of water, with large facilities potentially using millions of gallons daily, according to the Environmental and Energy Study Institute.

Carol Kroeger🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈@carolkroeger· Apr 30

This is from the article.

According to the Canadian Airports Council, 26 of the country’s larger airports — known as national airport system airports — are owned by the government but operated by local airport authorities, with most run as capital corporations where profits go not to a shareholder but are put back into the airport infrastructure itself. Four of the airport authorities are run by local territorial or city governments. More than 70 other regional and local airports are operated with non-government ownership and operation, under federal regulatory oversight.

Carol Kroeger🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈@carolkroeger· Apr 29

I find this from Bains's Wikipedia bio disqualifying - we need fewer monopolies, not more.

After leaving federal politics, Bains joined CIBC as Vice Chair, Global Investment Banking in September 2021. He left the position in May 2023 and joined Rogers Communications as Chief Corporate Affairs Officer. At Rogers, he reportedly worked on getting the merger between the company and Shaw Communications approved.

Carol Kroeger🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈@carolkroeger· Apr 22

What are the rules on disturbing a sleeping kitty who is not on your lap, but instead nestled comfortably next to your outstretched legs? (Please note that it is lunchtime and I am very hungry 🥺)

Fluffy gray cat stretched out all along my leg, sleeping peacefully.

Carol Kroeger🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈@carolkroeger· Mar 22

Casualties and losses
Main battle phase:
6,821 dead
19,217 wounded
2 captured
2,648 fatigued
44 tanks
destroyed
28,698 total

Post-battle phase:
15 killed
144 wounded
Main battle phase:
17,845-18,375
KIA/MIA
216 prisoners
Post-battle phase:
867 prisoners remainder killed, died, or dispersed

Carol Kroeger🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈@carolkroeger· Feb 18

Doug Ford, the 26th and current Premier of Ontario, does not have a university degree. He graduated from Scarlett Heights Collegiate Institute and briefly attended Humber College in 1984, but dropped out after two months to join his family business. He has stated that he did not have the marks for university.

Carol Kroeger🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈@carolkroeger· Feb 16

Fluffy gray cat, Cloudy, happily lolls on a pile of white towels at the top of the stairs.

Carol Kroeger🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈@carolkroeger· Feb 11

Thirst, 2009 by Park Chan-wook.

Poster for Thirst
From the Director of OLD BOY
"A MAD LOVE STORY! Park's richest, craziest, most mature work yet!" Richard Corliss, Time Magazine

Image shows a beautiful young woman, upside down with her hands around the throat of a priest. She looks entrhalled. He looks sad and worried.

Thirst is written in red letters across his chest.

Note in the bottom right hand corner: Winner, Cannes International Film Festival Jury Prize, 2009.

Carol Kroeger🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈@carolkroeger· Feb 6

And now, the work begins. For better or for worse, what people most admire in Canada, certainly more than success, is the capacity to endure — no doubt a product of the brutality of the landscape. Atanarjuat, the hero of Inuit legend, survived a murderous plot by running through the snow naked. Terry Fox, as every Canadian schoolchild knows, ran a marathon a day for 143 days on a single leg to raise money for cancer. The idols of our national sport spit out their teeth and get back in the game. Mr. Carney’s speech offered a glimpse of that spirit, too. What liberal democracies need now, more than ever, is the sheer will to go on, without nostalgia for what once was.

The West is feeling its betrayal turn into rage. The world is waking up to both its vulnerability and its value. But better late than never: We’re all Canadian now.

Carol Kroeger🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈@carolkroeger· Jan 23