@HandyGingerGal Love a cruller, such a great use of eggs and so much faster than a yeast or cake doughnut.
You can pipe small blobs directly into the hot oil to make Cruller âholesâ. I toss them in powdered sugar & lemon zest or cinnamon.
We finally had 12 hours of rain here that actually saturated the soil.
Beforehand, I planted my old & unused veg seeds in all empty garden soil for hours on end.
Carrots, beans, beets, sunflowers, cucumbers, herbs, squashes, pumpkins.
If anything grows: itâs free food.
SCHOOL IS NOT FOR BOYS.
When my son was 4 we enrolled him at Montessori school.
Their mission statement is:
"To cultivate the "whole child" by providing a prepared, stimulating environment that fosters independent thought, self-directed learning, & a lifelong love of education."
My son is all BOY.
We were assured this would be a great environment for him & he could roam & play a lot!
A week in they pull my wife aside to say he isn't sitting still in the circle during reading & art times...... how long are those my wife asks? 45 minutes each.
He's also not sitting quietly during other times too they scolded.
You want our 4 year old boy sitting quietly for 45 straight minutes multiple times a day????
WHY? And if so you had better run him through an hour of tough cardio, sprints, & relay races first!
It kept escalating the next few weeks until we heard similar..... he needs meds, can't sit still, too aggressive.
We pulled him out.
School isn't for BOYS.
Only in academia is LOW ENERGY valued & HIGH energy + curiosity demonized.
Our young boys aren't broken.
Our schools are broken & failing them.
BREAKING: The Somali referee who was denied entree into the U.S. had an âassociation with suspected members of terror organizations.â
Democrats are really mad that we didnât let someone who reportedly has ties to terrorist organizations into our country.
Let that sink in.
I just tried to get on a family doctor waitlist in BC and was sent an âintake formâ that reads less like healthcare and more like onboarding into a disciplinary regime.
Let me walk you through how a clinic can quietly strip away your sense of rights and agency before youâve even met a doctor.
First, the vibe: youâre not greeted as a person with needs. Youâre treated as a potential problem to be controlled. The form opens with medical history, then rapidly shifts into a wall of clinic policies, âI Agreeâ checkboxes, and threats of termination.
Youâre told âINCOMPLETE APPLICATIONS WILL NOT BE ADDED TO WAITLIST,â which is wild when thereâs a family doctor shortage. Miss a checkbox in this maze and you donât even get the privilege of waiting. [1]
Then the consent pile-on starts.
Youâre asked to consent to:
- PharmaNet access
- Care Connect access
- Eâmessaging over explicitly ânot securedâ channels
- Doctors using âAI-assisted tools during consultationâ
No explanation of what AI tools, what data they touch, where it goes, or whether you can say no without losing care. Just a checkbox: âI consent doctors utilize AI-assisted tools during consultation.â
That is not meaningful consent. That is âclick accept on the EULA if you want a doctor.â
Now letâs talk recording and privacy.
The form says you âacceptâ that audio/video recording in public areas (like the waiting room) is not permitted and may lead to âdiscontinuation of the therapeutic relationship and termination from the practice.â
Then it goes further: any recording of your doctor or their staff in the exam room or virtual visit, âwithout her/their permission and/or knowledge,â may also lead to termination. If you *do* record with permission, you âmustâ give them a copy as part of your medical record.
So the clinic can document you in their systems, but your ability to document them is treated as a threat to be controlled, and potentially a reason to cut you off from care.
In an era of medical gaslighting, disability struggles, and patients needing their own record for selfâadvocacy, that should set off alarms.
Then comes the termination section.
The clinic lists reasons it may end the physicianâpatient relationship, including but not limited to:
- âExcessive use of outside walk-in clinicsâ
- âRoutinely showing up late to appointments or missing appointments (even if no-show fees are paid)â
- âSignificant breakdown in the physician-patient relationship, including irremediable differences in philosophy of careâ
- âIf the practice size is decreased/reduced for any reasonâ
And then the kicker: this list âis not exhaustive,â meaning they reserve the right to terminate you for other reasons they havenât stated.
So youâre supposed to sign away your acceptance of a policy where:
They can drop you if you seek care elsewhere when you canât get in.
They can drop you even if you pay their fees.
They can drop you over âphilosophy of careâ differences.
They can drop you whenever they feel like shrinking their panel.
And they explicitly reserve the right to add other reasons later.
All of this is presented as if itâs just normal admin housekeeping.
Meanwhile, youâre the one expected to be perfectly compliant: cancel 24 hours ahead or pay, arrive late and you may be penalized, use other providers âtoo muchâ and you risk being discharged.
This is what power imbalance looks like on paper.
It doesnât *say*: âWe will treat you with dignity, collaborate on decisions, and work through disagreements like adults.â
It says: âWe will control the terms, keep our options open to discharge you, and you will accept that as a condition of getting on our list.â
And itâs all wrapped in that classic, soothing healthcare tone: âWe appreciate your honesty,â âThank you for your understanding,â âWe respect your decisionsâŚâ
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But underneath the soft language is a hard structure:
- Consent is bundled, not negotiated.
- Termination is broad, not exceptional.
- Recording is treated as a threat, not a tool for patient safety.
- AI is pushed as a checkbox, not explained as a risk/benefit tradeoff.
If youâre desperate for a family doctor in BC, youâre expected to swallow all of this just to be allowed to wait.
This is exactly how systems teach people to accept less than they deserve: normalize the idea that youâre lucky to get any care at all, then attach a long list of oneâsided conditions to that âluck.â
The clinic might say, âWe need policies to protect staff and manage limited resources.â
Fine. Have policies. But policies can be written in ways that either respect or erode patient agency.
Here are some examples of how this could have been different:
Instead of âwe may terminate you for using walk-in clinics,â they could say: âWe ask you to let us coordinate your care. If you need walk-in care, please inform us so we can integrate those notes.â
Instead of ârecording may lead to termination,â they could say: âWe respect patients who want to document their care. To protect everyoneâs privacy, letâs agree on how recording will work and where copies will live.â
Instead of a single checkbox for AI, they could provide a plain-language page: âHereâs what AI tools we use, what they see, how we protect your data, and how to opt out.â
Instead of a non-exhaustive list of reasons to terminate you, they could bind themselves to professional standards that make discharge rare, justified, and properly transitioned.
But they didnât.
They chose to frontâload control. They chose to ask patients to walk into a relationship where they have less recording power, less leverage, less clarity, and more fear about being dropped.
If you are writing or reviewing policies in healthcare, this is your reminder:
You cannot build trust by handing people a contract that screams âyou are the problem weâre managingâ and then slapping âtherapeutic relationshipâ on top.
A therapeutic relationship is not something you secure with âI Agreeâ checkboxes. Itâs something you earn with transparency, humility, and mutual respect.
What this intake packet shows is not just one clinicâs approach. Itâs a symptom of a system where scarcity and burnout are being offloaded onto patients as conditions of entry.
If youâre in BC and you see forms like this: read carefully. Ask questions. Push back on bundled consents. And remember: needing care does not mean you forfeit your right to be treated as a full human being.
Link to original form:
https://t.co/1rpc4Ltxzq
âIâm too busy with summer activities to plant a food gardenâ is not a good look this year.
If you have available dirt, put some food seeds in the ground. If food grows, you can eat it or share it.
Self-sufficiency is worth making planting one of your âsummer activitiesâ.
If a Canadian politician says theyâre doing something âfor Canadiansâ then gets so many negative comments on X disagreeing with them that they have to turn off repliesâŚ
Itâs NOT for Canadians.
I made stew with Bay leaves in it, showed them to my daughter and said:
âThese make food more tasty but they can be dangerous. Iâm in charge of looking out for Bay when youâre little, then youâll be in charge when youâre grown.â
Thats how parents should deal with social media too.
I donât need the government to ban Bay leaves for my daughter not to choke on one.
And I donât need them to take charge of when and how she accesses social media and the internet as she grows up.
Thatâs my responsibility as a parent.
Not the government.