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@anne I definitely deserve to smell like oregano though. I'll skip the Tabasco from your story.

Thanks for writing! It hits all the justice feels.

@evan It's the birthday of someone I once loved who cancer took too soon. Not a bad day otherwise though.

It'd probably be unpleasant to dwell in it forever.

When work calms down, I'm going on vacation for the first time in a long time.

Hitting BC as the last province in Canada I have yet to visit. Probably some time in spring!

Good

#poll

When you scroll and boost 4 posts in a row.

Damn, the feed is on fire today.

@skinnylatte It's fucking heartbreaking.

@evan took me a hot minute to understand this one.

Translation, any user can interact with the social media stream via an API, which means you're not locked into the platform's servers or apps or payment systems.

(Is this correct?)

@afreytes The water washed it all away.

@cwebber Sure didn't help that Stack Overflow was killing itself too.

@dancer_storm I love this for you!!

My parents brought me here as a young kid and I was told we were probably never going back home. It was nice that all the kids around me looked different too, and they were all (probably) Canadians.

In my head, it wasn't long before I thought "I guess I'm a Canadian now?"

@renata @evan @fabio

@evan @fabio I appreciate you both.

@evan I like these too. @fabio

@evan I'm asking you to reconsider your position on the term "expatriate", and to perhaps refrain from using it in this context in the future.

I don't care about the poll itself, since I know that editing is not an option.

@fabio

@RuthODay2 For context, the Temporary Foreign Worker program here in Canada is a highly problematic one, where workers are brought in with the right to abode tied to your employer and there's no path to permanent residence.

UN Special Rapporteur dubbed it: a "Breeding Ground’ for Contemporary Forms of Slavery
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/un-report-abuse-temporary-foreign-workers-canada-1.7293495

I brought it up because Evan and Fabio are also in Canada.

@evan @fabio

@evan @fabio And further down the thread to:
https://cosocial.ca/@evan/115956282132331931

"Country of origin" also gets really messy if you have multiple citizenships and grew up in different places. Or if some citizenships no longer exist (like my birth place).

A clearer, not-problematic question: "Should people who do not permanently reside in their country of citizenship have the right to vote?"

@evan @fabio Fabio is right. Expatriate is a term that spun out of white colonizers living in the other parts of the world, where they have no intention of becoming a part of the society, including accepting citizenship.

Would most people call Jamaican temporary foreign workers on Canadian farms that are treated as slave labour "expats"?

When I went to China to work, was I a Canadian expat? Would I be considered one from the lens of a Chinese national vs a Canadian? The place where I was born is a part of China now. I don't even know what my rights are anymore with regards to my birth place. I'm a Canadian citizen.

Expatriate is a term that's drowning in class, racism, and white colonial history. Perhaps you should reconsider its use.

@mcc imagine popcorn, but with rice. Pop!

@mcc How could you ignore me?!?!

@sundogplanets It's like Harper 2007/2008 all over again.