Reposted by Carol Kroeger🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈Philippa East (Author) @philippaeast.bsky.social · 2hAs a psychologist, I endorse this. (Not sure what’s going on with Edwin and Kayla tho.) 1171
Reposted by Carol Kroeger🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 5hCredit to the US for making the point the conference was trying to make about US foreign interference in European democracies for them, and bringing more attention to the conference and its themes than they could have possibly hoped for. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...politico.comEU, Canada and Lithuania pull out of disinformation conference after US pressureThe Trump administration was bothered by panels that referred to the U.S. as a disinformation threat. 39794379
Reposted by Carol Kroeger🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 2hI've talked about this before, but it is very hard when you see how moral red lines are drawn, and the complete gutting of trans people's civil rights is entirely within an accepted norm and barely remarked upon even by many progressives. 6452126
Reposted by Carol Kroeger🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 2hLike it's also not just even transphobia being legitimised - it's direct discrimination, a breach of trans people's human rights being the law of the land. An entire group of people's who's very ability to function in society removed 321322
Reposted by Carol Kroeger🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈Senator Paula Simons 🇨🇦 @senatorpaulasimons.bsky.social · 14hFor heaven’s sake, if your ballot is sitting on your kitchen table or bedroom dresser, MAIL IT IN! Mail it in tonight. With your ID included. Or half a million Albertans made find themselves disenfranchised. And that could tip the balance. 310846
Reposted by Carol Kroeger🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈Senator Paula Simons 🇨🇦 @senatorpaulasimons.bsky.social · 01/09/2026My rallying cry. We must reject these nine noxious questions, which are cynically designed to incite discrimination and foment distrust in our courts, our county, and our fellow Canadians. Say no to the nine. And please read snd share. #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli #Canada #Alberta #nototheninealbertaviews.caAlberta's Referendum Questions - The Noxious Nine - Alberta ViewsNine disingenuous, malicious referendum questions, push-polls, designed to incite social division and undermine confidence in the country. 14543324
Reposted by Carol Kroeger🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈Skip, the Online New Yorker (terrifying, i know) @badposter.lol · 16hmore business owners need to be like this 166308971
Reposted by Carol Kroeger🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈Tauriq Moosa @tauriq.bsky.social · 22hWasn’t able to secure any review code for HELLRAISER unfortunately. But I found this amazing FB clip of Doug Bradley doing a Scouse Pinhead and now I’m crying from laughter. He’s amazing. (Source: YMH Podcast.) 11691286
Reposted by Carol Kroeger🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 19hCanada is refusing to issue ISBNs to books primarily generated with AI. This illustrates both the urgency of the problem of the growing flood of slop books, and also the toothlessness of addressing it on the honor system without there also being consequences for lying 212404632
Reposted by Carol Kroeger🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈KM Apothecary @apothcarysees.bsky.social · 07/10/2026When I saw Ghost, the Pacific Giant octopus at the Aquarium of the Pacific she was entering senescence and slowing down. I captured her color with airbrush, so now she has a portrait. 381538204
Reposted by Carol Kroeger🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈Get To Know Nature @gettoknownature.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Ok, here it is. The Panicked Aster. So relatable #SpookyNature #BloomScrolling 🌿 913810
Reposted by Carol Kroeger🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Incredible diorama of 1997 NYC: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/s... 341358270
Reposted by Carol Kroeger🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈Kathleen Neeley @kathleenneeley.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Peeling 113819
Reposted by Carol Kroeger🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/10/2026Abdul El-Sayed on Fox News: "I think about MLK. He said this thing I always think about -- 'If your coalition is not uncomfortable, it's not big enough.' A lot of people wonder why I'm having this conversation with you. It's because there are people out there who I want to have a conversation with." 18883651934
Reposted by Carol Kroeger🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈Jeremy Ghooooost Shipp @jeremycshipp.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Meet my newest fabric art creation: Thundercloud Cuckoo the Neolithic Bird Statue. I designed and hand-sewed him, and I first created this style of bird in a dream a few months ago. Thundercloud enjoys appearing to people in their dreams. jeremycreature.bigcartel.com 319260
Reposted by Carol Kroeger🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈‘stina is a spooky spectral one 👻🧛🧟♀️🐈⬛🦇🎃🧟 @stinapag.bsky.social · 05/10/2026This is really lovely. And infuriating. 1224
Reposted by Carol Kroeger🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Atelopus barbotini the purple pink toads: #AGoodPlace 381112164
Reposted by Carol Kroeger🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈ceej @ceej.online · 05/10/2026we don't have time for another plague apocalypse. we already did that. we're on to robot apocalypse now, try to catch up. next in line is fungal apocalypse. please consult the schedule 842586520
Reposted by Carol Kroeger🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🇨🇦🍁weaseman 🍁🇨🇦 @weaseman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026National Post needs to be banned from Canada. nationalpost.com/opinion/joel...nationalpost.comJoel Kotkin: Hating Trump is natural. Destroying Canada's future to get back at him is borderline insaneTrump isn't forever. Running into the arms of the economically stagnant EU and China doesn't make sense 131
Reposted by Carol Kroeger🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈Dr. Barry Torch @barrytorch.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I will always feel weird doing self promotion, but my latest article has been officially published in "Renaissance and Reformation/Renaissance et Reforme," titled "Jockeying for Printed Reputation: Giovanni Bussi and the Apuleius of 1469." jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/re... 88325
Reposted by Carol Kroeger🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈Steffani Cameron 🇨🇦 @snarkysteff.bsky.social · 04/10/2026MEANWHILE, in Canada, meet Brady Rogers, the reluctant politician who's fed up and thinks he can do better. His sign says "I barely want to do this." His website says, "I guess I'm running for Kelowna city council." His business? Recycling plastic into cool things. 19376101
Reposted by Carol Kroeger🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈Matthew Mendelsohn @mendelmatt.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Want to track what's going on with Canada's agreements with middle powers and democratic allies around the world? The Shield Institute, the Gloves Off podcast and @scpartners.bsky.social are updating our Variable Geometry map every day (almost every day?). Check it out. variablegeometry.cavariablegeometry.caTracking Canada's AgreementsAn interactive global map of Canada's recent international agreements, updated live. 3209
Reposted by Carol Kroeger🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈Joe Adalian @tvmojoe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Also, pretty clear HBO Max is using AI to translate its show descriptions into UK English, because look what they call John Candy… 251046228
Reposted by Carol Kroeger🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈403 FORBIDDEN @joshgrant.online · 03/10/2026I’ve got some time, so here’s a thread about this painting, its story and why it’s one of the greatest Canadian modern art stories 🧵 1259
Reposted by Carol Kroeger🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈Jennifer Graham @jennrgraham.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Every intro to sociology class I teach gets this image. 101408312
Reposted by Carol Kroeger🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈MapQuest @mapquest.com · 03/10/2026Live look at a few things we’re working on. Vote for prioritization at roadmap.mapquest.com. Link in bio 💚 713723
Reposted by Carol Kroeger🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈Conservation of Anger Momentum @primarylupine.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Geese are containers of all the spite, meanness, and hate taken from Canadians, transferred to them in the annual Emotional Conflux, a week after Moose-hatching season ends. The energy radiates from the CN Tower, across the ionosphere, and into geese around the globe. 2539
Reposted by Carol Kroeger🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 03/10/2026I implore all cis people to read this. 17990419
Reposted by Carol Kroeger🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈James “Vamp” Fleet @horrorfilms101.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Excellent personal essay that teases out the new film’s potential dimensions. Survival horror as an addict’s push-pull for hoarding and splurging precious resources. 074
Reposted by Carol Kroeger🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Maybe more than a whiff of treason. Alberta separatists are flat-out traitors to the nation. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... 13265133
Reposted by Carol Kroeger🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈David Shepherd @dshepyeg.bsky.social · 03/10/2026You got it. I got it. Danielle Smith’s big book of political propaganda, paid for with $4M of your tax dollars, telling you how to vote in her $200M referendum. But no opinion on separation… You deserve better. Vote to REMAIN and NO to Danielle’s other nine. youtu.be/4uMimyMZ6pg?... #abpoliyoutu.beDanielle’s Big Book of Political PropagandaYouTube video by David Shepherd 16938
Reposted by Carol Kroeger🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 03/10/2026i've thought about this probably once a month for the past few years 1650371
Reposted by Carol Kroeger🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 02/10/2026 4852881254
Reposted by Carol Kroeger🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Not the least bit surprising but still extremely grim to read. time.com/article/2026... 18588158
Carol Kroeger🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 @carolkroeger.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Does anyone understand what he means by this? How does the price guard and cap work? And what do they have to do with the gas tax? 120
Reposted by Carol Kroeger🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈Zachary Gillan @megapolisomancy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I’m guest editing the next issue of Agita; send me your weirdest <1000 word stories about weird art. Authors from marginalized backgrounds encouraged and prioritized. No AI bullshit. The weirder the better. agitamag.com/submissions/ 6161104
Reposted by Carol Kroeger🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I’ve been a media witness to two federal executions. One was Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh. The other, a week later, was a drug kingpin named Juan Raul Garza. My conclusion after watching both men die: The death penalty should not exist. Period. It fixes nothing, and it erodes our souls. 501234276
Carol Kroeger🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 @carolkroeger.bsky.social · 01/10/2026*THIRTY-FIVE CENTS* The province says this bump will add $728 per year to a full time worker - but that’s only if you work 40 hours a week for all 52 weeks AND it’s before any taxes are taken out. This is bullshit.cbc.caOntario minimum wage just increased by 35 cents but advocates say it's not enough | CBC NewsThe Ontario government is increasing the minimum wage from $17.60 to $17.95 an hour on Thursday but advocates say the 35 cent increase is not enough for workers to make ends meet. 041
Reposted by Carol Kroeger🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🇨🇦 Art Covey 🇨🇦 @artcovey.bsky.social · 30/09/2026OH REALLY 181120333
Reposted by Carol Kroeger🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o... 11571792058
Reposted by Carol Kroeger🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Your city could embrace a patio/street seating culture if it really wanted to. You don’t have to be like Paris to do better, you just have to WANT to do better. Between now and next summer, your city could put in place everything it needs to transform streets as people-places. So do you want to? 612829
Reposted by Carol Kroeger🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈Cai @annenotation.bsky.social · 30/09/2026This is something I've been complaining about with Disney Studios in particular for about the last 10 years, but all of the animation is way too literal. It feels very informed by video game animation. 89711
Reposted by Carol Kroeger🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈Maladroithe @maladroithe.bsky.social · 30/09/2026This is the coolest girl around and I want to be her friend so bad 1547565
Reposted by Carol Kroeger🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈Isitjustme @shotze3.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Stop purchasing anything u.s. 0102
Reposted by Carol Kroeger🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈Miranda Gray @mirgray.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The city's failure to increase the number of pools as the city grows means two companies in Orléans have built their own pools just to teach kids to swim. Registration issues are the symptom. Insufficient investment in pools is due to extremely low taxes. Set a higher tax cap target. 2165
Carol Kroeger🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 @carolkroeger.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The province with HUGE solar and wind power potential, is instead focusing its efforts on the most expensive and risky power going.cbc.caPremier Scott Moe goes big on nuclear with plans to explore 2 large nuclear reactors in northwest Sask. | CBC NewsSaskatchewan says it wants to have a large nuclear reactor online by 2042. It has also narrowed down the location of further study for its construction of Small Modular Reactors (SMR) to the Rafferty... 3136
Reposted by Carol Kroeger🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 29/09/2026Child's imaginary restaurant acquired, shuttered by private equitythebeaverton.comChild's imaginary restaurant acquired, shuttered by private equityBRANDON, MB - 4-year-old Mikaela Hermer's imaginary restaurant, in which she served invisible hot dogs and ice cream to her parents and friends, has filed for bankruptcy after being acquired by Hedges... 221239321