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Hettie Bell

@hettiebelleau.bsky.social
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I make queer erotic romance books and games. Bi. I'm a precious sugar cookie. KNIT, PURL, A BABY & A GIRL out now! Also known as Heidi Belleau. she/her

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 1h
"We don't want to turn into a banana republic, so we won't try to rein in corporations" is the kind of thing you say if you don't know what makes a banana republic a banana republic, and instead want to be a banana republic where the bananas are data centers.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 3h
FUCK YES. This is the energy, morality, and courage that I expect from leaders. Unbelievably brave.
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IGN @ign.com · 9h
The Dungeons & Dragons and Magic: The Gathering teams at Wizards of the Coast have just announced they're unionizing. In a letter of demands, the union has urged Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast leaders to stop pushing generative AI. bit.ly/4hMhPzG
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 4h
they always show their asses eventually because the thing is that you cannot truly, sincerely care about women if you don’t care about trans women. the minute you carve off any one subcategory of women you claim are “lesser” in some way, you’ve declared women’s rights to be conditional by definition
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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 7h
The idea that ambiguity in communication is what causes men to rape is another one of those fictions we indulge in as a society to obfuscate how sexual assault is more or less a game to men, how groups of men encourage and enable each other and how it forms the basis of their social standing.
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Native Calgarian Podcast 🪶🧡>🇨🇦 @nativecalgarian.bsky.social · 9h
If I have an aneurysm tonight, please know it’s on behalf of all of Albertan folkx you told you all of this long ago and you didn’t believe us.
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 15h
a little louder for the cheap seats in the back
One of the biggest myths is that men rape by mistake. Like, "Oh, they need consent training." But research is very clear: Sexual violence is not a mistake. It is an intentionally made decision by people who know they don't have consent. They just don't prioritize consent over things like status, power, domination, and sexual gratification.
For my research, I got a certificate of confidentiality from the National Institutes of Health, so my notes couldn't be subpoenaed. One of the reasons I call them perpetrators in my work is because every single person I interviewed confessed in that context. The first question I would ask them was, "When you received that email from Title IX that you were under investigation, did you know what it was about?" Every perpetrator I interviewed said "yes." If sexual assault were a miscommunication, you would be wondering, What have I possibly done wrong? That is not the way that any of them reacted because they knew.
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clyde bruckman's skeleton's final repost @ultralaser.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
everyone is dunking on this but disney has the brand synergy power to just squash the harry potter show like a bug and get kids really into brooding southern gothic witches instead, and i support them in this effort (quoted image is a promo poster for disney freeform hulu's coven academy)
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Heather Campbell @thatheatherc.bsky.social · 21h
This is awful. Absolutely awful. Children have a right to education and in the hellscape that is Alberta we've got the government preventing that from occurring. Why does the Alberta government hate people so much?
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Gim @bestyoutuber69.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Just overall a great guy who DEFINITELY disclosed his crimes to people close to him, it's just so happens to be none of them are his collaborators or businesses publishing his stuff Those are actions of someone who regrets his actions and strives to do better
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Gim @bestyoutuber69.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Couldn't find the time to write a better apology but has all the time in the world to lock Instagram, delete LinkedIn, delete posts linking him to uni, disable showing earnings on patreon, unsubscribe from patrons of his colleagues and hold comments for review It's clear he changed as a person!
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Hettie Bell @hettiebelleau.bsky.social · 21h
let me get this straight the nhl is coming up with bullshit "hockey romance" nonsense to try and appeal to female fans but then they have the camera guy at the Stars game filming female fans AND ONLY FEMALE FANS eating at the game then playing that footage in reverse on the jumbotron?
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Mary Gillis @handle.invalid · 06/10/2026
If we had a federal government that wasn't firmly up the ass of Big AI, they'd make it a crime for an AI to put people in mortal danger by sending them into wilderness areas with fictional instructions. If a human kept doing this, they'd probably go to jail, even under existing laws.
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Please share this with every "send a message" Alberta voter in your life. #abpoli #cdnpoli www.readtheline.ca/p/jen-gerson...
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Jen Gerson: Oh, so you want to send Ottawa a message, eh?
Vote to stay and send Washington the right message. Namely, don’t fuck with us.
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Joram Wolters @joramwolters.com · 04/10/2026
This is a good list, I usually lead with "All of genAI was born from crime with the specific intention of harming (creative) labourers, no increase in output quality or efficiency will ever solve it's ethics."
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👻 Gordon Little 🎃 @gord.games · 04/10/2026
This is the reason tech bros want their gen AI to be considered alive / sentient / conscious. To give it legal protection as it steals from creatives, generates CSAM, and tells people to kill themselves.
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Ignoring advice to secure and monitor your sandboxes during testing then blaming it on your AI being so smart that it’s a threat to humanity is nasty work
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Hettie Bell @hettiebelleau.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
All the men who pathetically brag about eating pussy on their dating profiles need to get on this guy’s level
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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Something AI is responsible for that doesn't get enough talk: How, when it scrapes a website to illegally steal everything on it, it uses up a ton of its bandwidth allotment, crashing it or racking up massive fees for site owners.
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Mark Dewey @markiemaypo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
That as could be considered an act of war.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Alberta separatists sought US help to break up Canada, offering the province's oil, water and land while Trump threatened Canada with tariffs and annexation; US Republican operatives offered the separatist campaign voter-targeting technology. #cdnpoli
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Alberta separatists asked the US to help break up Canada and offered the province's oil, water and land in return
Albertans vote on 19 October after separatists offered the US government the province's oil, water and land, Michigan Republicans brought in software that exposed nearly three million voters' data, an...
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Hettie Bell @hettiebelleau.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I love Ryan gosling in Bladerunner 2049 and hate Jared Leto in it just as much as
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Hettie Bell @hettiebelleau.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The studio that tried to shelve Coyote vs Acme, everyone
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Jay Gamble @drjaydrno.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
What the 51st Stater seppies don’t realize is that they won’t be a state, they’ll not be able to vote, and they’ll not be wealthy because all the money will be funneled into a decaying empire. It’s the road to servitude not freedom.
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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Engaging with an existing trope or plot pattern, isn't about simplicity or robot formulas. It's rather about an acknowledgement of the history of your field, a constant intertextual conversation with (or against) the meanings that have built up around certain tropes.
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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
In other words, these are existing forms that you engage with and use, but this is not an act of plagiarism or repetition. Instead, through iteration (repetition) and variation, these 'strong forms' 'accumulate connotations' across the genre. They become richer, more complex.
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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The note that genre fiction (in their case the Gothic) uses 'strong forms' (familiar patterns and tropes) which 'easily lend themselves to codification in terms of conventions or 'rules' of composition. They are constraints authors take upon themselves.'
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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“Alberta separatists have gone to D.C. offering fresh water and oil in exchange for American support – and Republican operatives have provided tactical assistance inside the province.” Modry and Rath, again. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
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The elephant in the room
Alberta separatists have gone to D.C. offering fresh water and oil in exchange for American support – and Republican operatives have provided tactical assistance inside the province
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Benjamin Boles @benjaminboles.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This makes me think about this batshit insane article I read the other day: bsky.app/profile/sjsh...
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 03/10/2026
I joined @charlieangus104.bsky.social earlier this year to talk about these Michigan Republican operatives and how Alberta separatists were using their app I’m left wondering who chartered their private jet? youtu.be/2dJ3-qlFf3M
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PETE HOEKSTRA AND THE STOLEN VOTER DATA ?!!
YouTube video by Charlie Angus
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Sam Da Bear @samdabear09.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Everyone of the people cited in this article should be arrested for treason. The premier should cancel the referendum no later than noon today; she should also be charged with treason.
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elron Hubbard Jr. @odorono35.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Time for some criminal arrests here, this is getting ridiculous.
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 03/10/2026
Oh wow In May, I reported Alberta separatists were using an app developed by GOP operatives with ties to US ambassador Pete Hoekstra @theglobeandmail.com now reports the same operatives flew to Calgary on a private jet for a secret meeting with separatist leaders: pressprogress.ca/alberta-sepa...
The pitch began with a prayer.
On an afternoon in late January, Mitch Sylvestre, the leader of Alberta's most prominent separatist organization, gathered with three of his lieutenants in a boardroom not far from the executive hangars at the Calgary International Airport, where private jets shuttle in and out of the city away from prying eyes.
It was a few hours before thousands of Albertans would gather near the city centre at a rally to launch the separatist campaign. But this meeting, convened behind closed doors a half-hour drive away, was invite only.
The Alberta Prosperity Project chose the location to accommodate its guests, Republican political strategists from Michigan who helped Donald Trump win the state in the 2024 U.S. presidential election.
The American delegation travelled to Calgary to sell them on software developed for Republicans to get out the vote - and how it could be used to wrench Alberta from Confederation.
"They were young Christians. Capable, intelligent people," Mr. Sylvestre said. "We prayed before we started the meeting.""There is no secrecy'
One of the key figures behind the Michigan software company has expressed strong views on Alberta.
On July 1, Mr. Born wrote on social media: "On this Canada Day, I hope this is the last year Alberta is part of Canada." He has also called for U.S. annexation of the province.
A hunter, outdoorsman and commercial real estate agent in Grand Rapids, Mr. Born is the stepson of J.C. Huizenga, a wealthy Republican donor and founder of National Heritage Academies, a network of conservative charter schools in the U.S.
Mr. Wierda is the nephew of Erik Prince, who founded and ran the private military contractor Blackwater before it was sold to investors in 2010, and Betsy DeVos, the education secretary during Mr. Trump's first term.
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Hettie Bell @hettiebelleau.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Speaking as someone who HAS forgiven and found grace for men who have abused me? My personal forgiveness is mine alone, to give and to live with. Nobody else in the whole wide world should be expected to open themselves to potential harm just because I chose to forgive that person.
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Ravel Glossmoth @raveltglossmoth.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Yeah, you desperately need to read this, and then delete this entire thread, this is gross. He faced no punishment under the law. He didn't cooperate for shit. He talked her into making him breakfast. medium.com/the-nib/trig...
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Trigger Warning: Breakfast
The morning after I was raped, I thought I could create another story
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Dr. Ruth Marshall is still kicking against the pricks @wtfis2bdone.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
CW - Rape apology. You American women talking about rape as if it’s about fucking personal sin and not systemic violence and misogyny make me sick. Leftists my ass. YOU ALL NEED TO STOP FAWNING AND GET A GRIP!
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Micah @rincewind.run · 02/10/2026
remember when every company was like "we're gonna make a leaderboard for uses the most AI" until someone looked at their budget
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Giraud, basically @giraud.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I often remind myself that Marcus Aurelius has freed me from the burden of constant take-having:
52. You are not compelled to form any opinion about this matter before you, nor to disturb your peace of mind at all.
Things in themselves have no power to extort a verdict from you.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Thread below: www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Riot police clash with students as education protests rage in France
About 735 schools have faced disruption as violent protests over standards and lack of teachers continue.
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Michael Edwards @medwardsva.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The fucking anger I feel. Not even because of the merger or Newsom, but the fact that this piece of shit is just gonna fade into the background having made god knows how much money off of fucking over thousands of people the last 7 years.
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Hettie Bell @hettiebelleau.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Anyone know what Canadian authors are supposed to provide to Anthropic for their settlement? They’re asking for a SSN or TIN but the ITIN I have from the US govt doesn’t work and I doubt my Canadian SSN will either?
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A Dave you know you know @notjustdave.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"Premier Smith claims that 700,000 Albertans have signed petitions advocating for this vote. But that is a profound falsehood. The vast majority of those signatures came from the Forever Canada petition, which sought to prevent a secession referendum."
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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:
Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads: 

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."
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Hettie Bell @hettiebelleau.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
the "tiny bee wings" tweet lives rent free in my head because I'm pretty sure she literally channeled the voice of god for that one
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
every day it seems like a brand new sentence is written to describe the state of the world
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Every time a discourse kicks off over whether AI music, literature or art will be "as good as" the real thing, I'm always amazed more people don't cite that **there already are** creative pursuits where human-free spectacles have been available for decades, and nobody has ever wanted to watch them.
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
your response to “I was raped” should not be “I was right”
4 panel comic

Panel 1:
A Purple Woman looks distraught, on the verge of breaking down. She says “that man raped me”
Orange Guy standing next to her is absent-mindedly checking his nails. He says “Wellll, I’ve always disliked him and his work.”

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Purple Woman begins to cry. Orange Guy adopts an incredibly smug expression and says “Guess I must just be a good judge of character”

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Purple Woman dissolves into sobs. Orange  Guy notices, puts his hand on her shoulder and says “Aw”

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Purple Woman crumples to the floor. Orange Guy, looking bemused, asks “Are you crying because you’re jealous of how smart I am?”
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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 01/10/2026
Several weeks ago, Phil Tippett's legendary animation studio in Berkeley, CA closed. An anonymous hero noticed a folder of CDs. This turned out to be hundreds of unseen hi-res images and videos from Star Wars, Robocop, Jurassic Park, etc. ~90 isos for you to browse: archive.org/details/tipp...
A casual Star Wars alien fella at the cantina, in a sun faded, reddish photo. Someone will be mad at me for not knowing who this is. Phil, a balding Caucasian man, poses a model of the garthok, an antagonist from the Coneheads movie.Phil, a balding caucasian man, points at some CG on a CRT computer monitor, as a younger man looks on. The screen shows a model of a dinosaur attacking a jeep, while there's an actual physical model of that event in the foreground for reference.an isolated shot of a star wars vehicle. Sorry, I don't know star wars lol
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Walking Eagle News @theeagleist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
National interest and such
A Walking Eagle News headline reads: pipelines only bad when Conservatives do it
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Heather 🍁 @hganshorn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
If you're going to interview Parents for Choice in Education, maybe note for context that they are a lobby group with close UCP ties that was behind both the opt-in sex education policy, and the school library book bans. #ABEd #ABLeg www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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In the face of a new neutrality law, Alberta educators grapple with referendum lessons | CBC News
In Brett Dibble’s Grade 12-level social studies classes, lessons about Alberta’s 10 fall referendum questions are among the first issues students dived into this school year.
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