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Dani Dilkes @danid.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Such a tremendous joy to share this work! @booksyarnlogic.bsky.social Other collaborators, Jenny and the mushrooms, are not on BlueSky.

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Gailey 🍉 @sarahgailey.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Writing is my deepest passion. It's my absolute favorite thing to do. Aside from, apparently, every single chore in my house and every mindless little app on my phone and also laying on the couch staring up at the ceiling

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 29/08/2025

AGREED Putting pronouns in my bio helps me get a lot less "Dear Mr. Mohamed" or just "Mohamed" because Anglo speakers can't necessarily parse 'Premee' as a gendered name

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Micah @rincewind.run · 25/08/2025

the thing I love about Zohran’s campaign is that instead of “this place fucking sucks and I alone can fix it” his message is “being a New Yorker rules, we live in the best city in the world, let’s make it even better together” show some damn pride in the places you want to govern

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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Trump proposes to rescind AIDS funds. Congress rejects the proposal. So Trump and his henchman Russ Vought just refuse to spend the money and try to hide that decision from Congress and the public. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/h...

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Trump Budget Office Is Withholding H.I.V. Funds That Congress Appropriated

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Radz Pandit @radzpandit.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Six recommendations from NYRB's Horror & the Supernatural sale. readersretreat2017.wordpress.com/2025/08/23/n...

Six NYRB Classics:

My Death by Lisa Tuttle
The Juniper Tree by Barbara Comyns
Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner
Other Worlds by Teffi
The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington
Ghosts by Edith Wharton

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Simon Pegg @simonpegg.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

29 years ago today, Jamiroquai released the music video for 'Virtual Insanity'

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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

He was very good in person with his trans fans too. Growing up going to SF cons, I met many trans people before I even knew what trans meant. I gave my parents very little they needed to accept in their child, so they had lots left over for everyone else. 😉 www.thepinknews.com/2021/08/06/t...

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Author Terry Pratchett was an unflinching trans ally, say the trans fans who met him

Claims that the late, great Sir Terry Pratchett would've been anti-trans have prompted a flood of transgender fans to share their happy memories of

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Mandy Rachael @booksyarnlogic.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Actual text from me to my bestie, 11:45 pm: "I am trying to decide whether to read a tragic French novel about a dysfunctional mother-daughter relationship or a Sapphic romance novella about a Victorian chicken breeder." So much to read, so little time!

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a chicken with a red comb and yellow beak

Alt: a chicken cartoon with a red comb and yellow beak

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Sabina Vohra-Miller @sabivm.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Health Canada has authorized the LP.8.1 variant adapted Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for individuals aged 6 months and older. The updated COMIRNATY® vaccine targets the Omicron LP.8.1 variant, one of the most recently circulating SARS-CoV-2 lineages. It will be made available this Fall across Canada.

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 16/08/2025

This helped me today. Small Kindnesses, by Danusha Laméris

Small Kindnesses
by Danusha Laméris

I’ve been thinking about the way, when you walk
down a crowded aisle, people pull in their legs
to let you by. Or how strangers still say “bless you”
when someone sneezes, a leftover
from the Bubonic plague. “Don’t die,” we are saying.
And sometimes, when you spill lemons
from your grocery bag, someone else will help you
pick them up. Mostly, we don’t want to harm each other.
We want to be handed our cup of coffee hot,
and to say thank you to the person handing it. To smile
at them and for them to smile back. For the waitress
to call us honey when she sets down the bowl of clam chowder,
and for the driver in the red pick-up truck to let us pass.
We have so little of each other, now. So far
from tribe and fire. Only these brief moments of exchange.
What if they are the true dwelling of the holy, these
fleeting temples we make together when we say, “Here,
have my seat,” “Go ahead—you first,” “I like your hat.”

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 16/08/2025

Reminder: striking workers ordered back to work by the government are STILL ON STRIKE. They are working under duress. I encourage Work to Rule tactics to resist their exploitation. TL;DR: This is bullshit.

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Dr. Jen Irwin @drjenirwin.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

A few study highlights: Increasing number of vaccinations further decreases Long COVID 23–36 % Remdesivir reduced Long COVID by 69 %. Paxlovid (Nirmatrelvir/ritonavir) reduced Long COVID by 95 % - effect was independent of up to three vaccination doses. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Association of COVID vaccinations and treatments with long COVID beyond 6 months: a case-control study on the adult population in a large integrated healthcare system in the United States from 2020 to...

Long coronavirus disease (Long COVID) is a chronic condition causing significant long-term disability and economic burden. This study aims to measure …

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Conservative Carney wasting no time busting this strike. Never let anyone tell you they give a shit about the little guy or wealth equality if they systematically attack and dismantle one of the only means of supporting both!

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mady.cat · 30/07/2025

Brown University is caving to Trump. They are banning trans women from female bathrooms, dorms, locker rooms, and sports across campus. They're also cracking down on trans care for minors, though that is unlikely to be broadly impactful since it's a university. president.brown.edu/president/br...

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10. t h he exception of actions to enforce this Agreement, the United States agrees not to institute any civil action or other adverse agency action against Brown, its officers, Corporation members, directors, agents, and employees (the "Brown Releasees) based on the Released Claims. The United States releases the Brown Releasees from any liability related to the Released Claims. The United States is not releasing Brown or the Brown Releases from any other liability.
11. The University will take the following steps to ensure compliance with Title IX and its implementing regulations, by providing safe and equitable opportunities and spaces for women:
a. Brown Athletics facilities, the University willprovide female student-athletes with intimate facilities such as locker rooms and bathrooms strictly separated on the basis of sex.
b. The University will define "male" and "female, for the purpose of all practices, policies and procedures adopted and implemented by the University for any athletic opportunity, event, competition, category, program, or activity designated for women, consistent with the definitions
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c. The University will offer women the option of female-only housing, restrooms, and showering facilities, and for these purposes will adopt the abovementioned definitions of "male' and "femalc."
d. The University will ensure students have access to single-sex floors in on-campus housing, using the above-mentioned definition.
12. h University will not perform gender reassignment surgery or prescribe puberty blockers or hormones to any minor child for the purpose of aligning the child's appearance with an identity that differs from hi…

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5. Addressing government requirements for "male" and
"female" defnitions for athletics and on-campus housing,
as well as limits on gender-affirming care

As we have for decades, Brown has agreed to abide by Title
IX and NCAA eligibility rules regarding the participation of
transgender athletes in intercollegiate sports. We also
committed that the University will continue to provide
housing and restroom access in a way that allows for gender-
inclusive, women-only and men-only options.

The agreement also states, The University will not perform
gender reassignment surgery or prescribe puberty blockers
or hormones to any minor child for the purpose of aligning
the child's appearance with an identity that differs from his or
her sex."' The University will refer affected students who seek
care from Student Health Services or the University
Pharmacy to area specialists. The agreement does not affect
medical teaching or training, and does not apply to clinical
services provided by health systems that are separate entities
from Brown, such as Brown University Health and Care New
England.

We remain fully commited to serving the health needs of all
Brown students in a manner consistent with our long-
established policy of nondiscrimination, which includes sex,
gender identity and gender expression. The LGBTQ Center,
Student Health and Wellness Services, and other offices in
the Division of Campus Life, as well as the Warren Alpert
Medical School School of Public Health. the College,

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

No. GAI might have some place in some fields and use cases but i fail to understand this rush/push to force it nonconsensually into every field in existence, while people who do not study or work in our fields condescendingly tell us how AI will be good for us

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Blayne Haggart @bhaggart.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Sashing the CBC, one of Canada’s few remaining shared cultural unifiers, at a time of existential national crisis, will only weaken the country. These moves, like Carney’s overall agenda, are the product of an out-of-date conservative economic ideology that is utterly unsuited to today’s world.

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So much for ‘Canada strong’: Mark Carney’s cuts to the public service are a brutal trade-off

The Liberals are pondering cuts so deep, they’ll outdo the Harper government and rival Paul Martin.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

As I wrote yesterday, It's when you assemble the whole picture that you have to raise the question if the intention is to destroy this country and whether this country is in fact being destroyed. Here's some more destruction.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

You’d think someone might ask why distributing aid in Gaza has proceeded like the opening twenty minutes of Saving Private Ryan, every day, for weeks. Is it normal to fire machine guns at starving civilians trying to collect flour? Because we are currently at one, two or three massacres *per day*.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/06/2025

the lesson of this isn't that tucker carlson is actually good but that you should ask these people basic factual questions instead of bullshit about politics

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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Yes, he's trampling on the Charter, steamrolling Indigenous rights, bending the knee to Trump, planning to cut public services, going backwards on climate, and signaling that we'd be dragged into war with Iran, but presumably it's still too soon to criticize Carney.

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Ann Petersen-Kane @anniegirl.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

If covid vaccine was wasted, it was because the government arbitrarily withheld access and deliberately undermined the promotion of its necessity from Albertans.

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Ash Parrish, Kotaku's LeBron James @adashtra.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Like I'm here in LA in the middle of the shit and things are Very Bad

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

The guy who claimed Indigenous bands “asked for” residential schools has a seat in Parliament. Ugh

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

democrats need to call this shit what it is: Weird

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

It was disturbing to be in court today. As I wrote: [I]n an alarming sign for LGBTQ people, it was clear that at least three of the justices believe that describing queer people accurately — acknowledging their equal existence — amounts to taking sides or trying to “influence” children.

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SCOTUS conservatives seem eager to increase parents' religious rights in public schools

Tuesday's arguments over Montgomery County schools' story-time sessions included alarming questions about LGBTQ people.

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

I don't really care what the "political consequences" are of fighting for the proposition that *everyone* is entitled to due process before they are removed from the United States and sent to a Salvadoran prison. It's not really a principle if you only adhere to it when it's politically expedient.

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 18/04/2025

I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.

Photo of Senator Chris Van Hollen with Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

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Katja Diehl @katjadiehl.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

This article by @naomiaklein.bsky.social and @astra.bsky.social might destroy your day with facts. It analyses the growing spread of a new form ‘end times fascism’. This ideology is espoused by religious fundamentalists and secular figures as Trump and Musk. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

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The rise of end times fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor

The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them

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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 14/04/2025

this is Mohsen Mahdawi, the green card holder who was just arrested by ICE for rendition at his citizenship interview

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 17/03/2025

It's wild to me that people who bought Teslas like yesterday are all 'oh but no one knew Elon was evil then' when in fact that was VERY well-documented. The labor abuses at the Fremont factory alone have been the subject of MULTIPLE investigative pieces for YEARS now. You knew you just didn't care.

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Jews For Racial & Economic Justice Action @jfrejnyc.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

🚨 EMERGENCY PRESS CONFERENCE Columbia/Barnard faculty, Jewish community leaders, immigrant advocates, and rabbis are demanding the immediate release of Mahmoud Khalil from ICE custody. We will not be silent or cower in the face of American Fascism. #FreeMahmoud

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Jeremy Appel 🍉 @readtheorchard.org · 09/03/2025

On March 27, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith will be speaking alongside Ben Shapiro at PragerU’s east coast gala.

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

The coolest thing I’ve seen today is that a bunch of volunteer public health professionals and developers have restored the CDC website from before January 20th 2025. This differs from an archive in that they want to rebuild the links between pages and replicate the full website.

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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 09/03/2025

1. Major news in transgender care. Germany, Switzerland, and Austria have just released their trans youth care guidelines. They strongly recommend trans youth care and slam the Cass Review in England. Europe is not "pulling back" on trans care. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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New German, Swiss, And Austrian Guidelines Recommend Trans Youth Care, Slam Cass Review

The recommendations, released by the Association of the Scientific Medical Societies in Germany, come at a time when US politicians erroneously claim that Europe is "pulling back" on transgender care.

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Clare Blackwood @clareblackwood.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Listening to radio ads right now is like "Canadians are strong. Canadians are tough. Canadians never back down. Canadians deserve the best. That's why at Bob's Lube Garage, we know your tire lube should smell like poutine and Lake Erie fish,"

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Jason Haslam @jasonhaslam.ca · 07/03/2025

Please consider joining the fight against the #nspoli government’s disastrous Bill 12, which threatens to end university autonomy, interfere in academic freedom, & gut Nova Scotia’s ability to innovate and usher in development. This is the most retrograde #cdnpse bill I’ve seen. www.ansut.ca/bill-12

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Bill 12

Make Your Voice Heard Call Premier Houston, Minister Maguire, the Dept of Advanced Education, and your MLA Send a letter to Premier Houston, Minister Maquire, the Dept of Advanced Edu…

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My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Please vaccinate your children. Please get yourself vaccinated if you haven't been. "An unvaccinated New Mexico adult who tested positive for measles has died, the second death in a growing measles outbreak centered along the West Texas-New Mexico border, officials said Thursday."

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Second death reported in growing measles outbreak

The death of a New Mexico adult comes eight days after a 6-year-old child succumbed to the disease in Texas last week.

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Jason Haslam @jasonhaslam.ca · 05/03/2025

As a professor of English, allow me to try, humbly and with the proper respect, to offer an appropriate response to the President’s address: Fuck you, you fucked-up fuck, and fuck all the fuckers who willingly fuck with you, especially. You can all fuck all the way off, and then fuck off some more.

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David Moscrop @davidmoscrop.com · 04/03/2025

Easy to lose this in the noise of the day, but the prime minister of Canada just said the US president, leader of the global hegemon, wants to soften us up economically so he can annex us. That is one of the most remarkable statements, and realities, in our history.

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Sarah Shulist (she/her) @sarahling.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Let's rip up the contract that's providing rural Ontario with literally their only option for internet service - and a lot of rural Ontarians, my family included, are willing to ride this out hoping for an alternative - but Dougie sacrificing his vacation? Don't be hasty.

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Ryan H. @ryan.blacksky.app · 04/03/2025

A is for Authorization B is for Bargaining Unit C is for Certification D is for... duty of fair representation! (took me a bit) E is for Escalator Clauses F is for Fair Share G is for Grievance H is for Housecalls I is for...informational picketing! yeah thats it J is for Just Cause

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 03/03/2025

Did not expect Rick Astley covering ‘Pink Pony Club’ when I opened TikTok and this cover is extremely good!

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Happy Sunday! Feeling in the pink today, I love this tune 💗#fyp #RickTok #springishere #spring @chappell roan

TikTok video by Rick Astley

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