Misty @dog@awoo.space

@Kit Oof, I didn't realize there was more on the schedule. :/

Last time this bill was tanked by the Senate making egregious amendments and pushing it back to Parliament, killing it. Seems it may pass this time. I’m not sure when the vote is scheduled for.

While this session wasn’t without senators being utter assholes, I believe it passed reading without amendments. One more vote still coming. That vote is the final vote, and it goes for royal assent afterwards.

For those interested in the progress of C-16, the trans rights bill, it had a senate reading today. Video at SenVU. http://senparlvu.parl.gc.ca/XRender/en/PowerBrowser/PowerBrowserV2?fk=452670&globalStreamId=3&useragent=Mozilla/5.0%20(Macintosh;%20Intel%20Mac%20OS%20X%2010_12_4)%20AppleWebKit/603.1.30%20(KHTML,%20like%20Gecko)%20Version/10.1%20Safari/603.1.30

And today, Justice Minister announced that Canadian passports will have a new “unspecified” gender marker option. http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/passport-transgender-c16-1.4099066

Friday: New Brunswick’s trans rights bill passed final reading. Anti-discrimination protection & easier ID changes. http://www.dailyxtra.com/canada/news-and-ideas/news/new-brunswick-trans-rights-bills-pass-final-reading-219806

I figure some of y’all might need gentle feel-good music right now so I thought I would link this https://youtu.be/z6tvZ-wsRMI

Bill C-6 (repealing Conservative immigration restrictions) passed Senate yesterday; going to parliament for review. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/senate-passes-bill-that-would-repeal-many-many-conservative-citizenship-changes/article34890037/

Among other things, this will reduce the physical residency requirement for citizenship to three years from four, and reinstate a provision allowing people on work and study visas to count 50% of that time towards residency.

These are three VERY lucky pups https://twitter.com/samoyeds_/status/860227942508625927

@quephird@mastodon.social Oh gosh!

@quephird@mastodon.social It's a VERY good status

Y'ALL

I JUST FOUND THE BEST ALBUM TITLE

https://www.discogs.com/Geoff-Bastow-Music-To-Varnish-Owls-By/master/1071885

https://awoo.space/media/AglW3ij9JNbPe2pZ-Kc

Somewhere between spacey analogue synth-driven ambient and gentle funk. It's good stuff.

Y'all, I found a download for the Bruton Music album The Video Age from 1980, and it is *excellent*. https://thepeoplesvault.wordpress.com/2013/04/23/bruton-music-library-bri-11-the-video-age-1980/

@bea @vahnj np :D

@vahnj Her followup album Surfbank Social Club is also really fun https://youtu.be/Jv_uVyb95zM And she did a cover album of classic city pop songs from the late 70s and early 80s https://youtu.be/-AudO6J1r5I