Mastodawn

Allusion

@giltay@tenforward.social

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Cave pixie. Sufficiently accurate for poetry. There are cats. Call me Geoff.

Languages: English, and limited French. Formerly giltay@m.s (2017–22) and giltay@eldritch (2022–23).

I'm okay if people want to interact with me, follow me, or boost my toots.

Avatar description: Avatar description: My face (white person with auburn hair and glasses). I'm wearing a Tilley hat.

Header image description: A macro closeup of a gilt steel pen nib with "№ 42" inscribed on it.

pronouns	he/him usually, but I'm open to she/her
home	Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada (Treaties 45½, 67, and 82)
forty	something
web	https://www.giltay.ca

Allusion 1h ago

Found this enterprising little zebra spider while doing yard work.

Allusion 12h ago

Greg Burrell

🦞🚴🥔12h ago

Petitions to the Government of Canada (originally posted by @matt without content warnings, and with better formatting)

https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-6619

"work with international partners, including the United Nations, to urgently deploy peacekeeping forces to Gaza for the protection of civilians, to support the delivery of humanitarian aid, and to uphold Canada’s commitment to international humanitarian law and the responsibility to protect vulnerable populations."

https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-6581

"1. Suspend the Canada-Israel Free Trade Agreement until the Government of Canada has certitude that the Israeli government is no longer acting in violation of international laws with its deliberate blockade.
2. Impose sanctions on all members of the present Israeli government who have publicly expressed their support for the continued blockade."

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Allusion 1d ago

@mhoye There used to be a full picnic bench along the riding trail. A tree fell on it in the summer of 2002 and it disintegrated within a few years. (Aftermath in 2016: https://youtu.be/BZgSd78lF4c?t=140 )

Allusion 1d ago

Bálint Szilakszi 2d ago

Alchemy is only ever going to get better and it is improving every year.

Soon Alchemy will make goldminers obsolete.

Allusion 1d ago

Leafy Greens Jun 10

Reposting for pride month #QueerUp

bless you, lesbians
blessbians

Allusion 1d ago

Some wicked clouds after the storm. Had to fiddle hard with the settings to get the approximate colour.

Allusion 2d ago

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mcc 2d ago

Sign held by a person standing alongside the transmarch route:

"Birds born in cages view flying as a disease"

Actually wow

Allusion 2d ago

phillmv 2d ago

HAPPY PRIDE EVERYBODY

love the trans march

dillyd 3d ago

First time I saw this, a bumblebee with a passenger

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Ω 🌍 Gus Posey 3d ago

@dillyd As one of the huge, graceless apes that stumble around this planet, I love insights into tiny communities like these, however they may come to be.

@Gustodon @dillyd 💚

@dillyd Oh, wow!!!
Awesome shot!!!

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dillyd 3d ago

@Waitnwallflower thanks! I can't get enough of these bumblebees. They're common here but new to me

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neville park 2d ago

@dillyd fantastic spot!!