Journal, Day 1866
Monday, 28 April 2025
Ukraine War: Day 1172
Hamas-Israel War: Day 568
Mass shootings in the USA in 2025: 89
Days of OSG in office: 99
Days until Midterm Elections: 554
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Canada elections today (spoiler… the Liberal Party won big, thanks for the “51st state” bullshit being tossed around by the OSG). Maybe this is a sign that regular, working-class folks all over the world are sick and tired of wealthy, pseudo-conservative, white men making all the rules about our lives, our paychecks, and our bodies. At the same time, they play fast and loose with the stock market, cheat on their wives, and cash in behind the scenes where we can’t see WTF they’re doing.
As a side note to my Canadian friends and colleagues — and I know I speak for many other Americans — I’m really sorry about all this shit. I hope that someday we can be allies again.
In happier news, an escaped miniature dachshund in Australia named Valerie has been found alive after missing for 529 days in the wilderness. She disappeared in November 2023 during a camping trip with her humans. She was rescued on a remote area of Kangaroo Island off South Australia by Kangala Wildlife Rescue.
The nonprofit group said its volunteers had spent more than 1000 hours and traveled more than 3,000 miles in the search operation, which involved numerous cameras and traps.
They created a scent trail using Valerie’s toys and pieces of a shirt the dog’s owner had worn for 12 hours at a time. The trail eventually lured the little dog into a cage they had set up.
Her humans say it’s nothing short of a miracle that their pup survived for a year and five months alone on the island, which is home to venomous snakes and spiders, while surrounded by possums, wallabies, kangaroos, goannas (huge carnivorous monitor lizards), and feral cats.
Welcome home, little Valerie.
