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Adriaan 🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦

@adriaan.braevitae.com
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SciFi and Fantasy Author 🇨🇦 at braevitae.com. Software Developer. Parent to a very busy 9yo 🤷‍♀️💗 Trans 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 They/She

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Idra Fallow @idrafallow.bsky.social · 5h
When you hear a politician talking about saving small farms, just know that they do *not* mean the market gardener selling zucchini and corn at their roadside stand every Saturday. They mean a guy who inherited 500 acres and pays other people to work the land while he goes on hunting trips.
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Idra Fallow @idrafallow.bsky.social · 5h
But of course, we all know the small family farm is largely a myth. The few that actually exist are hated by the agricultural industry and elected officials. A person who owns a little plot of land and sells just enough produce to get by? Fuck them. Their labor isn't helping the upper class at all!
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Idra Fallow @idrafallow.bsky.social · 5h
Not that I expect consistency from this administration, but it's kinda funny that they talk so much about how important small family farms are, and how women ought to stay home and raise babies, and then they create obstacles to both by imposing work requirements for SNAP and Medicaid.
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Tiffany Morris @tiffmorris.bsky.social · 7h
I wanted to share my grandmother’s story but Native people shouldn’t have to share our trauma for non-Native people to care about all the ways Canada has harmed and continues to harm us.
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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 6h
We're live with APTN News anchors Dennis Ward and Tiar Wheatle as they provide live coverage ahead of the national commemorative gathering, Remembering the Children. Watch: www.aptnnews.ca/ourstories/r...
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Remembering the Children | APTN News
For 160 years, Indigenous children were taken and put into institutions across Canada. September 30 is a day to remember the children.
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 4h
⚡️ Russia strikes Ukrainian power pylon with steel-cutting drone for 1st time, Zelensky's adviser says. The warhead was designed to destroy high-voltage pylons and steel bridges and contains a 40-kilogram main charge and four additional destructive modules, Serhii Beskrestnov said.
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Russia strikes Ukrainian power pylon with steel-cutting drone for 1st time, Zelensky's adviser says
The warhead was designed to destroy high-voltage pylons and steel bridges and contains a 40-kilogram main charge and four additional destructive modules, Serhii Beskrestnov said.
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Rakeela Windrider @rakeela.bsky.social · 13h
I think this is exactly why genAI is the first technology to be taken up by conservatives more than progressives. Conservatives want everything in the world to be made for them and are offended by anything that isn't. Behind their pleas for broader unity, they were expressing this all along.
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ecw press @ecwpress.bsky.social · 8h
September 30 is the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. Today and every day we encourage you to reflect on the painful legacy of residential schools and colonization in Canada, support Indigenous businesses and creators, engage in community events, and listen to Indigenous voices.
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Alex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 09/06/2026
You Are Your Own Worst Enemy #pipandgunko #comic
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Kate Hagen 🦂 𓋹 🦂 @thathagengrrl.bsky.social · 21h
"Meanwhile, Jane Doe dropped out of Cornell and was denied her request to get her tuition refunded so that she could transfer to a different college. She hence faced more severe consequences than most of the men who she alleges gang-raped her." www.thecut.com/article/what...
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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 21h
they DIDN'T REFUND her fucking TUITION?????
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 29/09/2026
I think it's pretty neat that one of the legit breakout indie success stories this year is a game about painstakingly designing and sewing opulent ballgowns store.steampowered.com/app/4019220/...
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Dressmaker on Steam
Become a dressmaker! Choose fabric, cut out patterns, and sew them all together to satisfy (or sabotage!) townsfolk in this cozy crafting game inspired by real dressmaking.
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Translunar Travelers Lounge @translunartl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Submissions remain open. We are looking for science fiction and fantasy stories 5000 words and under. Although our keyword is fun, don't self reject - our readers and editors have a very wide definition including tragic elements - if the story is good translunartravelerslounge.com/submissions/
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Submissions
Broadly defined, the type of fiction we are looking for is “fun”. [Go to Submissions]
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Adriaan 🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 @adriaan.braevitae.com · 14/10/2025
We all start and end as stories. We should make some time to tell our own in the time in-between.
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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 29/09/2026
College fraternities and coaches who don’t give water breaks are all much, much bigger threats to college athletes than trans people.
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
But if trans girls are "cheating" by playing women's sports, what else are the sneaky trans people cheating about. They're also coming for Title IX. They don't care about women in sports. They want women out of sports. Please, I am begging you, stop falling for this shit.
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
Save Women's Sports, an anti-trans organization whose entire existence is built around ferreting out trans athletes who want to run rougshod over your cisgender girl could only find 5 athletes competing K-12. Five.
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
fucking really
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Education Department formally rescinds Title IX protections for LGBTQ students
The Education Department announced Monday it has formally rescinded the Biden-era Title IX interpretation that gave sex-based discrimination protections to students on the basis of sexual orientati…
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Photoonist @photoonist.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Sam Altman and his pals are begging, pleading for government to stop them before they kill everyone, but just not before their IPOs.
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Rent Controller OG @alisonb916.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
AI was trained from the beginning to do this, and the human perps should be prosecuted for it. This is not hard.
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 28/09/2026
Any analysis of the Iran War that doesn't start and end with the fact that an entire cottage industry of think tankers and lobbyists and their friends in Congress were frothing at the mouth for literal decades for this got exactly what they wanted and it failed immediately and totally is wrong.
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Andy Scollick @andyscollick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Russia said exactly the same about Ukraine in 2014 - just before sending infantry, tank, airborne and air defence units into Ukraine's Donbas in August 2014. Russia said the same thing again about Ukraine in January 2022 - just before attempting the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
And the truth is that as a man's real power grows and his knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow grows narrower: until at last he chooses nothing, but does only and wholly what he must do.
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Angry Algonquin @angryalgonquin.com · 27/09/2026
#Musk has been demusked in this new doc. He HATES it! PLEASE don't share and watch, since it would make him vewwy vewwy angwy.
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Translunar Travelers Lounge @translunartl.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Welcome to the Translunar Travelers Lounge. The submissions portal is open for those of you booked in for the writing trajectory. Meanwhile those of you looking for reading material might wish to take a look at our previous 15 issues, available at the link. translunartravelerslounge.com
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Translunar Travelers Lounge
a speculative fiction magazine
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Rhea Liang @liangrhea.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
'A survey of Australians as young as 13 found misogyny can predict extremist violence more strongly than ideology, religion or time online.' The under-16 social media ban won't address this. We have to start having the necessary difficult conversations to challenge gendered disrespect everywhere.
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Hostile attitudes toward women are driving extremism in young Australians
A University of Melbourne survey of Australians as young as 13 found misogyny can predict extremist violence more strongly than ideology, religion or time online.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A lie does not become truth because millions believe it. Wrong does not become right because the majority accepts it. And evil does not become good because enough people choose to look the other way. The masses can make evil normal. It can never make it right.
People Pictured in the Collage

Top Left: Donald Trump with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Middle Left: Donald Trump shaking hands with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Bottom Left: Donald Trump standing alongside Chinese President Xi Jinping.

Right Side: Donald Trump posing with Jeffrey Epstein at an event during the 1990s or early 2000s
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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 26/01/2026
"ai" is not a genie that can't be put back in a bottle, it's a pillar of smoke that dissipates unless you keep burning money
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Nor’Easter is heading towards the east coast so reminder that if you have any other option DO NOT put your body in flood water. It has raw sewage, gasoline, chemicals, medical waste, radiological waste and more — anything the water touches. People die from infections after contact with it.
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Misa on Wheels @misaonwheels.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Nursing homes should never be a replacement for accessible housing. Read that again.
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Brian Jay Jones @brianjayjones.com · 24/09/2026
Jim Henson would have been 90 (yup, you read that right: NINETY) years old today. You can celebrate his life by celebrating creativity, diversity, peace, imagination, and silliness.
A tuxedoed Jim Henson sits in a sea of Muppets.
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will jobst @willjobst.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
don't be shy gen con go ahead. don't be shy pax unplugged go ahead. don't be shy origins go ahead. don't be shy gamehole go ahead. don't be shy gary con go ahead. don't be shy page go ahead. don't be shy breakout go ahead. don't be shy dragon con go ahead.
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Geek Native @geeknative.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
UK Games Expo has banned generative AI art, text, and merchandise across all NEC exhibition halls, bringing the convention in line with broader British tabletop standards. Standholders face removal or bans if their products aren't made by humans. #UKGE
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UK Games Expo bans generative AI art and text across all trade halls
UK Games Expo has introduced a mandatory policy prohibiting generative AI art and text across all NEC trade halls, requiring exhibitors to sell only human-made games.
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James Davis Nicoll @jdnicoll.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Five Stories Set in Small-Town Canada Why let the big cities have all the murder-y, post-apocalyptic fun? reactormag.com/five-stories...
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Five Stories Set in Small-Town Canada - Reactor
Why let the big cities have all the murder-y, post-apocalyptic fun?
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Kara Buchanan 🏳️‍⚧️ @magicariot.com · 25/09/2026
sometimes the book flows out of you and sometimes you gotta grind your brain meat against the rock of iteration to shape the work into the form that makes your delight spark
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"RKF took money earmarked to provide health care for Black infants and spent it on his personal security detail" is a ludicrous headline. Comic book villainy.
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Exclusive | RFK Jr.’s Enhanced Security Was Funded With Money From Minority Health Office
The cost of the health secretary’s security grew from roughly $10 million in fiscal year 2025 to $17 million in fiscal year 2026.
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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
a lifeboat that was trying to save ppl. like at least pretend you aren’t in the pocket of the far right.
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Adriaan 🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 @adriaan.braevitae.com · 25/09/2026
I'm amazed the number of people convinced Heinlein was fascist because he once floated the idea that only people who'd served 2y mandatory service (not even as soldiers) could vote - who don't know he also floated the idea that only mothers should be allowed to vote, for the same reason 😒
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Giles for You @gilesforyou.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"The Thing" lands on Earth in hopes of developing the ultimate polycule.
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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.com · 24/09/2026
funny how the government is considering jailing parents for the crimes their kids commit, but not jailing tech ceos for the crimes their ai agents commit
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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 23/09/2026
I had not seen this clip where Tammy Duckworth advises Democrats to "not impeach anybody," "get back to work" and "allow" Donald Trump to "save face" and I would just like to remind the senator from IL that the federal government took 4,000 Chicagoans and murdered a 38-year-old father last fall.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
In the US they have a similar free MAID-like program, you just have to be sitting in a classroom or crowded space and it's funded by the NRA. They don't send a pamphlet and volunteers are selected at random. If you are a minority the police or ICE can personally select you.
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 23/09/2026
⚡️'Ukrainians did not choose this war. We choose not to die,' Zelensky says to UN General Assembly as he calls for peace.
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'Ukrainians did not choose this war. We choose not to die,' Zelensky says to UN General Assembly
President Volodymyr Zelensky, on Sept. 23, addressed the U.N. General Assembly, calling for continued support for Ukraine, stressing the importance of negotiations, and warning that Ukrainians will co...
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R.B. Lemberg. Yes, still in Kansas @rblemberg.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Mutual aid alert. Siobhán Kirchstein, whom I've known for many years, is a trans woman who works as a janitor at KU and has been targeted for using a bathroom. Her case has been profiled in many venues, including by M. Gessen at the NYT. I've talked to her at length recently.
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Adriaan 🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 @adriaan.braevitae.com · 23/09/2026
This! I've been warry of sigle-issue litmus tests my whole life, but the last 20 years has shown me that anyone who is transphobic can't be trusted to support anyone's humanity.
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
when some people say "Bluesky is a toxic anti-AI place" I am always a little irritated. Most of social media is teeming with AI generated images and other media, and the pro-AI crowd is all over politics, media and power. What makes you so resistant to the idea critics might have ONE space?
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Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 20/09/2026
Many people have entangled their identities with a tool/weapon And seem to take people who are uninterested in using it, are concerned about the behaved ethics of ai companies abs of long term impact on the community as a whole As a personal attack on their personalities.
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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 20/09/2026
Not really sure where a bunch of liberals got the idea that they can’t win without throwing trans people in the garbage, but they’re stupid and cruel and wrong. If you want a human sacrifice so damned bad put gavin newsom in the wicker man
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no brain, only alison @alisonborealis.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
One book? I have to choose one book? Black Water Sister by Zen Cho immediately comes to mind because the anti-urban development gods in that story live rent free in my head. The Siege of Burning Grass by Premee Mohamed also jumps to mind, with its war pteradons, flying cities, and incredible voice
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jimmycraig42.bsky.social @jimmycraig42.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
When you have a for profit prison industry, all innovation will be directed to increase revenue streams for said industry
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