Not My Inside Voice 🇨🇦🦊🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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Barista at Red Star Café & Cabinet of Curiosities. Liberal. Occasional photographer & painter. Glaswegian on Canada's South Coast. #EastCoastKin Arts Collective Member Avatar: Little girl with a little curl on her forehead Background: Café

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Not My Inside Voice 🇨🇦🦊🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿@janmac· Jul 17

Fill your boots.

Chart of countries that have emitted the most CO2 emissions to date. US tops the list at 24%. Canada is at 1.9%.

What are these Karens planning to do to clean their own house?

Not My Inside Voice 🇨🇦🦊🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿@janmac· Jul 17

Sorry/not sorry.

Cartoon by Rob Cottingham.
On the left (Canada), forest wildfire burning, sending smoke over US.
On the right (US), dumpster fire burning, sending smoke over Canada.

Not My Inside Voice 🇨🇦🦊🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿@janmac· Jul 14

Thinking of #water on this hot July day. Belfountain Pond reflections with paper texture in iColorama: Water, Water-B, Paper and a little vibrance. Original with light photoshopping on right.

Altered image, mostly in shades of blue, white and grey, of water in Belfountain Pond, with the reflection of a large tree in black and grey. Small orange spots represent autumn leaves in the water.

Photo, mostly in shades of blue, white and grey, of water in Belfountain Pond, with the reflection of a large tree in black and grey. Small orange spots are autumn leaves in the water.

Not My Inside Voice 🇨🇦🦊🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿@janmac· Jul 5

There is no city that does not dream
from its foundations. The lost lake
crumbling in the hands of brickmakers
the floor of the ravine where light lies broken
with the memory of rivers. All the winters
stored in that geologic
garden. Dinosaurs sleep in the subway
at Bloor and Shaw, a bed of bones
under the rumbling track. The storm
that lit the city with the voltage
of spring, when we were eighteen
on the clean earth. The ferry ride in the rain
wind wet with wedding music and everything that
sings in the carbon of stone and bone
like a page of love, wind-lost from a hand, unread.

Not My Inside Voice 🇨🇦🦊🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿@janmac· Jul 1

A view of the 250th celebration at the State Fair. Ferris wheel and some tents in the distance. Otherwise, an empty field, but with a woman sitting on the grass, from Andrew Wyeth's "Christina's
World".

Not My Inside Voice 🇨🇦🦊🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿@janmac· Jul 1

Celebrating 250 with Waldo.

Cartoon showing the State Fair grounds with green reflecting pool, ferris wheel, and maybe 10 people, including Waldo right at the front.

Not My Inside Voice 🇨🇦🦊🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿@janmac· Jul 1

Cartoon by Tom Falco.
American guy looking at newspaper: "It's 40 degrees in Europe. Maybe we should take that trip to Italy we talked about, and get away from this oppressive heat."
Woman thinks: "Mention Celsius right now, or play dumb till we land?"

Not My Inside Voice 🇨🇦🦊🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿@janmac· Jul 1

Happy Birthday Canada! / Bonne fête Canada ! (Paul Gross of Due South with Diefenbaker the doughnut-loving wolf hybrid)

Paul Gross as Canadian mountie, Benton Fraser, poses in his mountie uniform - red jacket, hat - with wolf hybrid, Diefenbaker.

Not My Inside Voice 🇨🇦🦊🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿@janmac· Jun 19

Plus ça change...

Mackay cartoon, "Young Doug Ford". He's sitting at the back of the classroom with his two pals, looking bored.
"Applied learning classes are a joke! Once I become president of Canada, boom! Gone!"

Not My Inside Voice 🇨🇦🦊🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿@janmac· Jun 19

Go, Santa Giorgia! Le gravi e offensive parole del Presidente Trump nei confronti del Presidente del Consiglio Giorgia Meloni offendono tutta l’Italia. Per questo motivo ho deciso di annullare la mia visita negli Stati Uniti prevista per i prossimi 21 e 22 giugno. (Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani)

Cartoon of Italian PM Giorgia Meloni giving a swift whack upside The Donald's head (same side as "The Ear').

Not My Inside Voice 🇨🇦🦊🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿@janmac· Jun 18

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekXforXyloid Vines at the Old Mill in winter. #photography #Toronto

Blue, green and grey vines nearly cover the stone wall at the Old Mill, Toronto. A few orange leaves hang on in winter.

Not My Inside Voice 🇨🇦🦊🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿@janmac· Jun 18

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekXforXyloid Shadow dancing at Golden Hour #photography #tree #shadow

Golden hour. A tree, bare of its leaves, casts a shadow against a golden stone wall. Its crooked branches give it the impression of a frantic dancer.

Not My Inside Voice 🇨🇦🦊🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿@janmac· Jun 15

Now what? 🇨🇦

Not My Inside Voice 🇨🇦🦊🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿@janmac· Jun 9

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekWforWater Driving past Rogers Centre at night in the pouring #rain. #Toronto

Rogers Centre from the highway in the pouring rain. A blue arched roof, red neon lighting, yellow/orange lights from traffic. And spears of rain captured through the window of the moving car.

Not My Inside Voice 🇨🇦🦊🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿@janmac· Jun 9

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekWforWater A fountain waterfall at a winery in Niagara.

In the garden outside the winery café in Niagara, water plunges over the edge of a fountain. The water is turquoise in the top pool. It falls in a silvery stream into a lower pool.

Not My Inside Voice 🇨🇦🦊🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿@janmac· Jun 5

“It was such a big beautiful button the most beautiful button ever.” The Art of Mark Bryan

Parade featuring gigantic gold machine with Trump head and Nazi salute, guns, jet fighters, missiles and tanks, elephants, child in cage, audience of sheep and generals. Trump in Napoleon hat pointing at parade and pressing a red button.

Not My Inside Voice 🇨🇦🦊🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿@janmac· Jun 3

Another spring cleaning tip. Time for an adult beverage.

Woman sitting on the floor of a messy room. Coat hangers all over the floor. Bags of stuff. She is drinking wine.
"When the deep cleaning motivation wears off mid way and now you're just sitting in the room like this."

Not My Inside Voice 🇨🇦🦊🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿@janmac· Jun 3

Another gardening tip. “I was with the President of Finland and he said ... ‘we are a forest nation’,” Poilievre said. “And they spend a lot of time on raking and cleaning and doing things, and they don’t have any problem." Actually, it was Trump who said that, not PP. #RakeCanadaGreatAgain

Not My Inside Voice 🇨🇦🦊🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿@janmac· Jun 3

That’s not a messy garden but a 5-star wellness oasis for bees!

Messy garden with sign: Das ist kein unordentlicher Garten, sondern eine 5-Sterne Wellness Oase für Beinen!

Not My Inside Voice 🇨🇦🦊🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿@janmac· May 22

Boketto: Japanese; the act of gazing into the distance without a thought in your head.

Cartoon.
Top panel: Japanese girl sitting with shiba inu at lakeside. She says "Is when you can just relax and not have to think about it." Shiba says: "The most invaluable moments in life."
Bottom panel: Shiba says: "Then it is not a waste of time if you enjoyed the time you wasted."

Not My Inside Voice 🇨🇦🦊🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿@janmac· May 21

The first US consulate in Nuuk seems more "respectful".

First US consulate in Nuuk, Greenland. A small red frame building with sloping grey roof. Three windows in front and a small door.

Not My Inside Voice 🇨🇦🦊🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿@janmac· May 21

Lordy! Is that entire monstrosity the US consulate? Surely that's now the largest fortress - er, building - in Nuuk. I remember how the US embassy was battened down during Canada Day in Ottawa.

Not My Inside Voice 🇨🇦🦊🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿@janmac· May 16

#BlueSkyArtShow #Morning L'Enfer #art #museum #sculpture #weltschmerz

At an art gallery somewhere in Italy, this marble sculptured man is bent over, his palm over his forehead, perhaps from a hangover or just the state of things. The lighting is hellish red and yellow. The title of this photo is "L'Enfer".

Not My Inside Voice 🇨🇦🦊🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿@janmac· May 11

For Mothers' Day. High Park in Toronto in October.

Mommy and child in High Park among the orange leaves in October. She's taking a photo of the child. Trees are gold and green on this sunny day.

Not My Inside Voice 🇨🇦🦊🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿@janmac· May 10

#BlueSkyArtShow Time Was #Soft There For a trip to a gentler time and walk through the legendary #Paris bookstore, "Shakespeare and Co.", enjoy this memoir by Jeremy Mercer. www.ottawareviewofbooks.com/single-post/... #book #bookstore

The Shakespeare and Company Café, next door to the bookstore. It's a rainy day, and patrons are sitting outside the white cafe under an umbrella. There's a street lamp at the edge of the stone sidewalk. The image is rendered as a pastel with an emphasis on blue.

The cover of Jeremy Mercer's book, Time Was Soft There, featuring three shelves of books and the back end of a black and white cat going by.

Not My Inside Voice 🇨🇦🦊🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿@janmac· May 8

Nancy comic. Nancy is really mad.
"I swear to Christ every adult in this town ate lead paint chips all day as a kid. I'm sick of this MAGA bullshit factory!"

Not My Inside Voice 🇨🇦🦊🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿@janmac· May 8

Eating lead paint chips at the Canada Strong and Free Network conference.

Nancy Bushmiller cartoon from Facebook.
Panel 1: Nancy: I'm telling you, nobody at school actually uses a litter box or identifies as a house pet.
Fritzi: Who am I supposed to trust - some snot-nosed kid indoctrinated by woke liberal socialist union thug teachers, or the dreamboats at Newsmax, OAN, and Fox New? Facts don't care about your feelings, Nancy!
Panel 2: Angry Nancy: I swear to Christ every adult in this town ate lead paint chips all day as a kid. I'm sick of this MAGA bullshit factory.
Panel 3: Sluggo: Your aunt says come inside,, she read some Heather Cox Richardson and she feels like a total dipshit now, and she wants you to forgive her for 15 years of bullshit.
Nancy in the doghouse, looking angry.
Panel 4: Sluggo to Fritzi: She said she left you a "present" in the doghouse and once you clean it up, she'll talk!

Not My Inside Voice 🇨🇦🦊🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿@janmac· May 7

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekRforReflections East/West A pond somewhere in #Italy. #Waterlily

Blue water in a pond in Italy with waterlily leaves. Top right, a white lily flower. Bottom left: reflection of a red cross on top of a chapel.

Not My Inside Voice 🇨🇦🦊🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿@janmac· May 2

#BlueSkyArtShow #ShadowPlay The remains of the garden - hydrangeas in autumn. #bloomscrolling #garden

The pink-brown remains of the hydrangeas in the autumn afternoon sun, skeletal against the back fence, and highlighted by a blue shadow from the adjacent fence.

Not My Inside Voice 🇨🇦🦊🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿@janmac· May 2

Blessed Beltane! The yellow plum in my back yard appeared 30 years ago as a tiny sapling that had stowed away in another pot. It's a giant now, bestowing its white blossoms on cue every spring.