Derek Taras

🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦🇨🇦✝️ just here to look at all the little angry people

[Slick Satan @slick_satan]

🏦🚨 take the money and run 💸💰 #pinupart #comicbookart #slicksatan

[𝖆 𝖕 𝖆 𝖘 𝖍 𝖊 @Apashe_Music]

For those who don't know, 'Uebok' means 'butterfly' (in Russian Slang).

[Derek Taras @DerekTaras]

@VIA_Rail When your booking system says you require ID that looks like you and has your legal name, will your staff deny a paid seat to a trans customer who hasn't legally changed their name and doesn't look like their photo anymore? Asking before I book

[Derek Taras @DerekTaras]

@LIVEpositivity Paint

[Derek Taras @DerekTaras]

@LIVEpositivity "I do not envy you the headache you will have when you awake. But for now, rest well and dream of large women."

[Derek Taras @DerekTaras]

@LIVEpositivity

[Canada Housing Crisis @rCanadaHousing]

Homeless. Shelters. Are. Not. Housing. They're a temporary, band-aid solution that doesn't work. Low-income and homeless Canadians need supportive housing that provides dignity - not a bunkbed in an unsafe zero-star motel.

[Derek Taras @DerekTaras]

@idillionaire Exercise. For me stress often demands a fight or flight response. A good workout feels like I've completed the stress cycle & boosts my self-confidence. Problems that felt impossible to deal with before suddenly aren't problems at all. Better mood, less irritable.

[Derek Taras @DerekTaras]

@ODSPoor @fordnation Anyone and everyone in charge of deciding and distributing SA rates should have to live solely on those rates for a year, without access to their assets or relatives money. Make them call their local OW office every week and live like us. They wouldn't last their first month.

[Mitchell Tremblay @ODSPoor]

To debunk the "how will we pay for it" once and for all. #Canada supports social services so little compared to world. @fordnation gave a raise equal to what #odsp gets in a year, held back $5.5 billion. The money is there you just hate us. #ontarioworks #cppd #autism #cdnpoli

[Derek Taras @DerekTaras]

@BRstreetlaw Exactly. Also re: 'deserving' poor - I mentioned I'm addiction&crime free, but I don't mean to imply anyone is deserving of hunger and homelessness. lmao the way OW "works" in practice, it pretty much forces people to rely on alt sources of income just to not die.

[Derek Taras @DerekTaras]

@ThisCrazyTrain Seems OW&ODSP functionally create homelessness, yet most cities tear down tents. They don't want the poor in homes, and they don't want us on the streets, they clearly just want us to magically disappear. There's a solution to poverty, and bullying us out of existence isn't it.

[Nettangel @nettangel7]

Doug Ford promised 5%, I doubt this will happen, let alone double. Cuts are on the table. 😡
Cruel government. #ODSP #OW #Poverty #onpoli
"We call on this government to double both OW (Ontario Works) and ODSP rates, and to index these rates to inflation."

[Derek Taras @DerekTaras]

@ChandraPasma @fordnation Much more needs to be done about OW & ODSP than just increasing funding. The poorest & most vulnerable ppl need to constantly access legal aid just to have their basic rights respected by a gov't ministry. Unacceptable. The whole department has been broken for decades.

[Derek Taras @DerekTaras]

some personal favourites from my latest trip to the McMichael Gallery. Great temp exhibits on! Elisapee Ishulutaq, Gathie Falk, Wanda Koop. Beautiful grounds, go if you can. Art & Nature are vital #Kleinburg #cdnart #vaughan https://t.co/eoJ2OFivfq

[Mohamud Dahir Abdi @MDahirAbdi]

The air is bad....... Plant a tree. 🌳
It is too hot.........Plant a tree. 🌴
Our soils are damaged..Plant a tree🌲
Too much wind.....Plant a tree.🌿
Protect our water....Plant a tree.🌵
Shortage of food....Plant a tree.🌾
You can never undermine a TREE

[Derek Taras @DerekTaras]

@LouchElaine That's terrible. I'm sorry you had to go through all of that. I found out there is a legal clinic nearby that might be able to help, I'll give them a call to see if they can help. Thanks for the advice! All the best to you.

[Derek Taras @DerekTaras]

@Cathrinmachin You make me want to paint again