Notices by Burn🔥🔥🔥🔥 (jhein@mastodon.social)

Walter fast asleep this morning.

#cat

On another note. Home depot is American, but Homehardware is Canadian.

These are things I'm going to try next.

Google Maps > https://osmand.net/

Youtube Premium for my Smart TV > https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTube (for PC just use Firefox with ublock origins)

Play Books For Audio Books > Libby with a library card

Amazon > https://www.singingpebblebooks.ca/ for physical books

Diary Queen > A local ice cream parlor. I have one down the street from me I might try.

Instacart with voila.ca when my subscription expires.

Amazon > Canadian Tire App for tools / house stuff

Amazon > Shop local for clothes (but if you're tall like me, there is much more work to do to find tall clothes online).

Netflix > Crave

Disney Plus > Ahoy Matey, Sail the Seas

Uber Eats > Skip the Dishes

Burger King / Mcdonalds > A&W

Starbucks / Mcdonalds Coffee > A local cafe or second Cup. Tim hortons is okay-ish, but it is owned by an American company.

Buying Canadian Update - What I'm Currently Trying

Groceries > Basically anywhere but Walmart.

Look for "Product of Canada" on packaging. "Made in Canada" is 2nd best.

For produce with no packaging ask someone at the store, it's just better than any research I've done online.

voila.ca lists the country of origin at the bottom if you're buying from Sobeys.

A long thread. Check out my replies for more

#canada #buycanadian #ontario #canadian

When the tariffs were delayed Doug Ford quietly went full coward again and is currently going through with the Starlink contract.

Why are you giving our money to the fascist?

#ontario #canada

@dansup We should make filtering your competition's links illegal and count it as a form of anti-competitive behavior.

I got a filing cabinet for my office, towels, curtains, and more Mistborne books.

#Christmas

@stux

As a teenager, I worked at a convenience store that had a lottery machine.

Every single day on closing, the lottery machine was 2k or more in favor of the lottery company.

I saw multiple people every day toss $100 into the machine and spend every dollar they won on more lottery until they lost. It was just sad.

I think advertising gambling should be illegal. It's extremely predatory.

The lights of the great north.

Honestly, they were bright, but not nearly as vibrantly colorful as cameras capture.

I saw a lot of subtle colors streaking across the sky, but a lot of the lights are whiteish.

Still beautiful though. I'm glad I went out to the side of a country road to see them.

#ontario #northernlights #ottawa

Feeling a little emotional malnutrition today, but at least I had my keys returned to me by someone in the building.