Reposted by MF EnellFreethinkers United For Change @freethinkersunite.bsky.social · 20h 177100081711 1
Reposted by MF EnellGwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 15/10/2026Interesting to me that it seems like the folks who say "trans folks are such a tiny minority that it is solid electoral strategy to throw them under the bus" are the same folks who scream that trans folks have to vote for the people who throw them under the bus, or they will cost Dems the election. 1019248 0
MF Enell @aynamnotwen.bsky.social · 15/10/2026I wrote an 18 page expert witness document and the lawyers had complaints about... One word. Feel free to come over and party with me! 000 0
Reposted by MF Enelljess 🏳️⚧️ @fluffyfoxies.moe · 14/10/2026knee replacement is a life altering surgery so u will need to get 2 letters from 2 different mental health professionals and 1 letter from your primary care stating u have severe intractable joint dysphoria 2467 0
MF Enell @aynamnotwen.bsky.social · 13/10/2026I'm trying so hard to stay out of US politics. But today was a Rorschach test. Posting films of animals killing humans is: A. Unhinged B. A call to arms Apparently some people think it is B. A smaller section think it is both. 000 0
MF Enell @aynamnotwen.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Happy Canadian thanksgiving! Or, as we call it in Vancouver, thanksgiving. 000 0
MF Enell @aynamnotwen.bsky.social · 12/10/2026I thought I was an extrovert until COVID when I discovered that I was just an extremely loud introvert 100 0
MF Enell @aynamnotwen.bsky.social · 12/10/2026My daughter: I'm going to the store, I need the grocery spice. Me: ??? MD: cart o'mum Me: 🤬 She's here all week folks. Tip your waitress. 000 0
Reposted by MF EnellCeryl @politicdormouse.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Hattie Scott Peterson 1946 1st African-American woman 2 earn bachelor's degree in civil engineering, @ Howard Uni. 1947 survey & cartographic engineer 4 US Geological Survey. 1954 1st woman engineer 2 join local US Army Corps of Engineers, flood risk reduction work b #OTD 11 Oct 1913 bit.ly/3hKbQLJ 7356115 0
MF Enell @aynamnotwen.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Average cost of a school lunch in America ~ $3.25 Average cost of gender reassignment surgery in America: $50,000 (not counting hormones are blockers) Your kids aren't getting this in school. They're not even getting lunch. 000 0
Reposted by MF Enellrobsomerville.bsky.social @robsomerville.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Do Americans know their number one source of imported diesel fuel is Canada? Just saying. Canada supplies 1/2 of all American diesel fuel imports. So lets go start a trade war with Canada. It will be fun. 52910 0
MF Enell @aynamnotwen.bsky.social · 11/10/2026"fear that participating in the execution would violate the biblical commandment against murder" You're in the MILITARY! What did you think you'd be doing? Is it having to see the kill up close, killing an American, or being live streamed that makes this particular death against your religion? 000 0
Reposted by MF EnellAnna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 10/10/2026"An essential state role, parallel to provisioning basic services like education and healthcare, is endowing a wide open aesthetic field of form and meaning and collective sensibility." www.artnews.com/art-in-ameri...artnews.comHow Defunding the Arts Wrought Civic DisintegrationWhat Was America?: Art, Culture, and Politics in the Bicentennial Era tackles United States’ most ambitious cultural project: the bicentennial. 411939 0
Reposted by MF EnellAmerican Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social · 10/10/2026“These book challenges are happening in every corner of CT, and what I’m most concerned about is the quiet censorship that doesn’t make it into the news.” - Sam Lee, co-chair of the Intellectual Freedom Committee at the Connecticut Library Association. bit.ly/4hRAYQy #BannedBooksWeekctmirror.orgIt's Banned Books Week. For librarians that means soft censorshipConnecticut libraries are seeing an uptick in “soft censorship” of books that receive complaints or informal challenges from patrons. 04526 0
Reposted by MF EnellKathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Many people like to laugh at medieval illuminations of stag-snails, oh those funny medieval artists making up anim... 61373358 0
MF Enell @aynamnotwen.bsky.social · 10/10/2026www.theverge.com/ai-artificia... From the article: “We don’t know if the models are conscious.” Anthropic, say: "Don't be mean. It teaches the LLM bad things & that might have bad consequences" Conscious = sentience+higher order reasoning. I don't think you mean that and nobody wants that.theverge.com 010 0
MF Enell @aynamnotwen.bsky.social · 10/10/2026I realize I'm late to the game, but for those who haven't heard: Zero of the Cornell 7 were transgender. Zero were drag queens. It was never about the safety of women. It was always about control over other people's bodies. 000 0
MF Enell @aynamnotwen.bsky.social · 10/10/2026I hate it when people make fun of people's appearance. It wasn't ok in middle school; it isn't okay now. Pick someone you *really* dislike (Trump, for example). Imagine them saying the same thing about "the good guys." Yeah. So don't do it. 000 0
MF Enell @aynamnotwen.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Could we please have more journalists who write like this? 010 0
Reposted by MF EnellAdmirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Ophthalmologist Dr. Agatha Aboe led the medical campaign in Ghana to eliminate trachoma (leading infectious cause of preventable blindness globally). It worked. Ghana became the 1st country in sub-Saharan Africa to eliminate the disease, 2018. #WorldSightDay #WomenInSTEM 262437599 0
MF Enell @aynamnotwen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Why is Jane Eyre being banned? There's no sex, no violence, no queer aspect, no black or brown people, nothing but Christians mentioned. What makes this bannable? 100 0
Reposted by MF EnellAnn Rose @annmrose.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Look, I know publishing is a business and they want to make money, but I'm sure there are tons of amazing books out there by midlist or debut authors that would be massively successful with the marketing we know this book is going to get. 0151 0
Reposted by MF EnellBookshop.org @bookshop.org · 07/10/2026Having trouble deciding which books to buy from Amazon during Prime Days? Try this: None, then go support an independent bookstore instead. 😌 11987370 0
MF Enell @aynamnotwen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026substack.com/@mfenell/not... I'm pretty sure I broke the sound barrier. It was that or break my phone screen.substack.comMF Enell (@mfenell)I don't know the last time I moved as fast as I did when my daughter, (who likes the ASMR anxiety plucking and snipping stuff ), said: “Hey Google, show me Fairy Finger Plucking”? That's it folks. T... 000 0
Reposted by MF EnellAdmirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Biochemist Dr. Florence Seibert developed the Purified Protein Derivative in the 1930s that standardized tuberculosis testing worldwide by 1952. Before her work, TB skin tests were inconsistent/unreliable.It remains the basis for the TB skin test used today. Born #OTD in 1897. #WomenInSTEM 141247442 0
MF Enell @aynamnotwen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Ngl, I'm jealous. My husband and I just text each other memes. 000 0
MF Enell @aynamnotwen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Holy heavens--do some research on pneumonic plague (first fact for free: it's a bacteria, not a virus) before telling the whole internet how this is a massive plot to disrupt the US midterms. I love a good conspiracy theory, but try not to sound like an idiot while sowing fear. 010 0
Reposted by MF EnellScience Magazine @science.org · 05/10/2026Exclusive: A new analysis refutes James Watson’s claim that he was the first to recognize the significance of the famed photograph 51. scim.ag/4rTKck8scim.agHow did Rosalind Franklin miss the helix in her iconic DNA image? She didn’tNew analysis refutes James Watson’s claim he was first to recognize significance of famed photograph 51 432189778 0
Reposted by MF EnellMark Gerretsen @markgerretsen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026This month, we recognize the history, culture, and contributions of Muslim Canadians and celebrate the many ways Muslim communities enrich our country. ☪️ Let’s continue working toward a more understanding, respectful, and inclusive Canada 516751 0
MF Enell @aynamnotwen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026American border guard: What's your plate number? Me: XY-23456 BG: I'm going to check, you know. Me: okay BG: <checks, looks enraged, puts on his big deep angry man voice> WHY DID YOU KNOW THAT? WTF? Why do I know my license plate number? I didn't know that that was going to be a trick question. 000 0
Reposted by MF EnellThe Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 06/10/2026This gets my vote for the best thing I've seen on the Internet today: 438114042502 0
MF Enell @aynamnotwen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Oh good. There's nothing like a little good old pneumonic plague to wind down the year. 000 0
Reposted by MF EnellRobert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 04/10/2026A good fresh Star Trek take on those fake isekai title jokes 137116973145 0
MF Enell @aynamnotwen.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Best writing prompt I've seen in a while: type in "Florida man" and then your birthday month and day. Write a story from his perspective. 100 0
MF Enell @aynamnotwen.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Honestly, my dog walks here can be the high point of the day. 010 0
Reposted by MF EnellJoanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Harriet Brooks (July 2, 1876 – April 17, 1933) was the first Canadian female nuclear physicist. She is most famous for her research on nuclear transmutations and radioactivity. #CelebratingWomen 110432 0
MF Enell @aynamnotwen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Science! It saves lives! Do you remember when this was GRID? A certain death sentence? When people were talking about rounding up people with the virus and putting them in isolation camps? SCIENCE! 001 0
MF Enell @aynamnotwen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026"What do you do?" "I'm an emergency physician" "Oh, you poor dear. You guys have it so hard. Not like the American emergency department doctors have it with insurance and everything, but it's so bad." "Mmhmm. Thanks." Because it would take too damn long to explain--I'm still practicing in America. 000 0
MF Enell @aynamnotwen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026There is so much good stuff to read, but anyone who hasn't read the novella Emergency Skin by the amazing @nkjemisin.bsky.social needs to drop what they are doing and read it immediately. 110 0
MF Enell @aynamnotwen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Grinch is specific to Christmas. Is there a similar word for a "spooky season" Grinch? 000 0
MF Enell @aynamnotwen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026This has to be click bait, right. RIGHT? I currently hate all the suggests for the first book she should read. She needs something accessible+propulsive+short. Holes? Of Mice and Men? Mrs Frisby & the Rats of NIMH? The Outsiders? 000 0
MF Enell @aynamnotwen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Wish me luck, I submitted to literary magazines for the first time in my life yesterday. Agents are scarier, but this was something new. 000 0
MF Enell @aynamnotwen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Why are the words to Canada's national anthem SO much better in French? :( 000 0
Reposted by MF EnellDr Hannah M. Rowland @hannahmrowland.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Hope your day was better than Darwin’s, on this day 165 years ago 201100382459 0
MF Enell @aynamnotwen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I can sometimes hear the SkyTrain from my house in New Westminster, and I swear it sounds just like airships taking off from the Kansas terminal in Sea of Tranquility. All I need is some haunting violin music. 000 0