Douglas Hunter

@dwhauthor
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Words and images guy. Various awards won. I have a PhD but don't let that scare you. There's a website. Latest book: Jackson's Wars (MQUP) #histodons #history
websitehttps://dwhauthor.wordpress.com
domain namedouglashunter.ca
placeGeorgian Bay

Mastodon two months ago: wow what a collegial and welcoming place to be! Loving the sense of community and sharing!

Mastodon today: BEAR WITNESS TO MY NUMEROUS SOCIOPOLITICAL GRIEVANCES ALSO I DEMAND QUOTE-BOOSTING IT IS MY BIRTHRIGHT

Tech Journalism Doesn’t Know What to Do With Mastodon. By George Dillard via @jjn1:
https://worldhistory.medium.com/tech-journalism-doesnt-know-what-to-do-with-mastodon-df1309f088a0
Tech Journalism Doesn’t Know What to Do With Mastodon

Twitter is a for-profit company with headquarters in California. It has a CEO. It has investors and revenues and a valuation. The purpose of the company is to make money for its…

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Daughter and partner have waited out the weather and made it up for Christmas and the dogs have immediately asserted themselves
Normalize having seven boyfriends that live together in a tiny cottage, are named after their moods & follow you around with singing birds.
Snow squalls to the left of me
Flash freezes to the right
Here I am
Stuck in the middle with you
#GeorgianBay
Time for the most memorable public toilets of Canada's National Parks! (And I've used the ones at Georgian Bay islands NP)
https://www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2022/12/parks-canadas-most-memorable-public-toilets-2022
Parks Canada's Most Memorable Public Toilets Of 2022

Call them what you like — outhouses, pit privies, vault toilets, washrooms, bathrooms or just plain old public toilets. When you spend the year touring Parks Canada's national historic sites and national parks for stories — like I just did — you'll need to use the facilities on a regular basis. And by facilities, I don't mean the "facilitrees" when you're desparate and have to go in the great outdoors, and I don't mean the cush indoor ones with flush toilets found in heated/air-conditioned visitor centers. I mean the standalone ones that aren't always as clean and fragant as you'd like and where you consider yourself lucky if there's a good supply of toilet paper and sanitizer.

Going through the shipping registry for Kingston, Ontario, in the 1860s, I came across a vessel called the "New Broom" in case anyone is looking for a distinctive yacht name
Another blizzard, another roof shovelling session #GeorgianBay #GeorgianBaySnowSqualls
That thing where someone gives you for Xmas what turns out to be the second volume of a 2 volume study so now you're on the inter webs ordering the first volume #AllBookGiftsAreGoodGifts
Just shovelled another foot or so of overnight snow but it's going up to 5C on Wed and 7C on Thursday and Friday and the urge to "just wait and let it all melt" at this point is getting overwhelming.