Reposted by Rebecca BraeTom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 20/01/2026Someone said to me, "I'm sorry but I got your book from a library." Nobody should ever apologise for that. You read my book! That's brilliant! I grew up hanging out in libraries and the idea of a world without them fills me with dread. Without libraries, authors, like readers, will only suffer. 332580517
Reposted by Rebecca BraeKrista D Ball is Canada's Spooky Potato @kristadb1.bsky.social · 24/11/2025Hey, can folks also look at this *amazing* anthology by @tychebooks.bsky.social that keeps being pirated every time it goes semi-viral on the internet: Swashbuckling Cats Link with buy links all over the internet: tychebooks.com/swashbucklin... 118139
Rebecca Brae @rebeccabrae.bsky.social · 23/11/2025Lol I read that wrong as the frog "has plans to keep him happy" 🤣🤣🤣 100
Reposted by Rebecca Braescott daGHOSTtino @scottdagostino.ca · 20/11/2025This is why Kermit loves and fears her 👑closertotheedge.netDear DonaldFrom Miss Piggy 295
Reposted by Rebecca BraeDr. Jen Irwin @drjenirwin.bsky.social · 09/11/2025😷 www.cbc.ca/news/health/...cbc.caCanada could face ‘worst kind’ of flu season as experts warn evolving strain may be mismatch for vaccine | CBC NewsWith flu cases now rising in Canada, medical experts are bracing for a difficult influenza season linked to the global spread of an evolving H3N2 strain that could be a mismatch for this year’s vaccin... 1247
Reposted by Rebecca BraeEric Feigl-Ding @drericding.bsky.social · 07/11/2025RFK Jr had slashed the CDC’s program to monitor and track food-borne outbreaks back in August. Fast forward to now… deadly listeria outbreak across the U.S. has now caused 25 hospitalizations and 6 deaths across 18 states, one of the largest outbreaks. These events are linked. 15637393
Reposted by Rebecca BraeTyche Books 🇨🇦 @tychebooks.bsky.social · 07/11/2025Saw a thread on table displays the other day, & while I did reply to that directly, I thought it would be fun to do a thread on it, too. Learn from my mistakes! (photo is from WWC 2025, photo credit: David Kotsibie / Persuasion Photo and Janis Isaman / Photos of People) 1/7 13116
Reposted by Rebecca BraeAlt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 30/10/20251/6 In the halls of the Department of Health and Human Services, a photo of Admiral Rachel Levine now hangs -- but with her *deadname* printed beneath it. It’s a quiet act of cruelty. And it says so much about how this Regime sees trans people.womenshistory.orgBiography: Rachel LevineRachel Levine became the highest-ranking openly transgender government official in U.S. history when she was confirmed by the Senate as the 17th Assistant Secretary for Health in March 2021. 925777
Reposted by Rebecca BraeFini de Jouer @dunplayin.bsky.social · 31/10/2025If you're of a certain age, you can't look away...DAMNIT! 1119823
Reposted by Rebecca BraeJess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 09/10/2025It cannot be made clearer. If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK. 117144327734
Reposted by Rebecca BraeFired but Fighting (National Public Health Coalition) @firedbutfighting.bsky.social · 03/10/2025RFK Jr lies about COVID vaccines. THE SCIENCE: Study found, 10%-20% of children who have had COVID-19, regardless of symptoms, are experiencing Long COVID. Long COVID has surpassed asthma as #1 pediatric chronic disease. Talk w/ pediatrician about COVID vaccine. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... 16025
Reposted by Rebecca BraeShematologist, MD @shematologist.medsky.social · 15/09/2025One of the saddest things is when children have cancer, immune deficiency or need bone marrow or organ transplants. And to add insult to injury, they’re unable to receive vaccines. But YOU can do your part to help protect them by immunizing yourself & your family. We are ALL in this together. 201541386
Reposted by Rebecca Brae🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 04/07/2025as mentioned before, I will inform Albertans of acute care COVID outbreaks, which are no longer being publicly reported. up 50% from my last report 6 d ago. Now 6 outbreaks, 2 at the Mis (up 1), ongoing outbreaks at the Rockyview, Royal Alex, and Leduc, and additional unit reported at the Sturgeon. 11179102
Reposted by Rebecca BraeMichael Tamblyn @mtamblyn.bsky.social · 29/06/2025Canada Day Sale! Kobo is the only ereader that is designed, engineered, software’d, and bookstore-curated in 🇨🇦 Canada 🇨🇦 and it is on sale now! Support the hard work of lovable Canadians who care about books, reading, authors, and libraries as much as you do. ❤️ ca.kobobooks.com/products/kob...ca.kobobooks.comKobo Libra Colour -The Kobo Libra Colour eReader and its 7" E Ink Kaleido™ 3 display make it easy to highlight your favourite quotes, annotate passages, and read in colour. 43613
Reposted by Rebecca BraeMichelle Cohen @docmcohen.medsky.social · 15/06/2025Making vaccines hard to access is FISCALLY IRRESPONSIBLE. 25215
Reposted by Rebecca BraePeter Barabas @peterbarabas.bsky.social · 17/06/2025Long Covid, only 5 years after the appearance of the virus now ranks #1 chronic illness in children. Eugenicists like to focus on the price of measures and forget about the price of "letting it rip". At the very least, we should clean the air in classrooms. www.thegauntlet.news/p/long-covid...thegauntlet.newsLong COVID is Now the Number One Chronic Illness in ChildrenRepeatedly mass infecting kids with COVID is not a public health strategy. It's a fast pass to declining population health 04317
Reposted by Rebecca BraeGlobal Project Against Hate and Extremism @globalextremism.bsky.social · 12/06/2025Once a fringe podcast collective, Diagolon has grown into one of Canada’s most active white nationalist networks. Identified as a violent extremist threat. A new report from @antihate.ca breaks down its growth, ideology, and ties to global hate movements. Read more:antihate.caDiagolon: Canada’s Homegrown White Nationalist NetworkOver approximately four years, Diagolon has grown from a small collective of live streamers and their audiences to a large interconnected network holding in-person meetups and a cross-country tour. Th... 23622
Reposted by Rebecca BraeBrendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 10/06/2025One of the things mentioned here is that they arrived in unmarked cars and wore casual clothing, so if staff hadn’t had the courage to tell them to go away, how would you know they were federal agents and not random adult men abducting children? This should be the biggest conservative mom panic ever 413203948
Reposted by Rebecca BraeRichard Ferro, MD MSc @richferro.com · 10/06/2025I was a medic at the Santa Ana protests in OC today. I watched police fire tear gas, flash bangs, & rubber bullets into crowds of men, women, & children. Other medics and I were clearly marked with red crosses, and the police were targeting us. One of the most fucked up things I’ve ever seen. 13666832513
Reposted by Rebecca BraeSkyla Dawn Cameron @skyladawn.ca · 27/05/2025The large print paperback version of Dweller is now up at Amazon--profanity and liberal propaganda for everyone! Links to all formats here: www.skyladawncameron.com/books/dwelle... 13513
Reposted by Rebecca BraeRo Salarian @rosalarian.bsky.social · 21/05/2025Saying "Oh the economy is bad" to justify using AI to generate art for a business is a stupid argument. If the biz needs paper and pens for the office, can they go to Office Max and steal supplies because they didn't budget for it? No! So why is it okay to steal from artists? 10400109
Reposted by Rebecca BraeBlue Sedition Podcast @blue-sedition.com · 11/05/2025People who never read books now in charge of books. 607114042786
Reposted by Rebecca BraeMother Jones @motherjones.com · 10/05/2025@billshaner.bsky.social reports from the scene of a brutal ICE arrest in Worcester, Massachusetts: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...motherjones.com“They’re trying to kidnap someone”On the scene of a brutal ICE arrest in Worcester, Massachusetts. 1195133505369
Reposted by Rebecca BraeMt Pleasant 🇨🇦 🇪🇺 @jekllnnhide.bsky.social · 11/05/2025Name. These. Fucks. Name the police who come to stop anyone questioning or getting in their way, too. There are loads of pics, masks down or off. There are ppl out there who recognize them. Name. These. Fucks. 093
Reposted by Rebecca BraeSkyla Dawn Cameron @skyladawn.ca · 09/05/2025If a feral cat could solve crime, it would be PI Waverly Jones: food-motivated and antisocial unless she wants something. With a series-long mystery, weekend binge-reading will get you offline and turning a wall of your room into a murder board: www.skyladawncameron.com/waverly-jone... 🧵of links 1177
Reposted by Rebecca BraeDr. Jen Gunter @drjengunter.bsky.social · 26/04/2025Dear Canada, Pierre Poilievre is Coming for Your Reproductive Rights vajenda.substack.com/p/dear-canad...vajenda.substack.comDear Canada, Pierre Poilievre is Coming for Your Reproductive RightsA letter to my fellow Canadians 42873467
Reposted by Rebecca BraeDavid Fisman. @dfisman.bsky.social · 25/04/2025For what it’s worth, here’s the editorial I sent the Globe and Mail April 5. The Globe took a pass. Balancing Individual Rights and Community Health Requires Knowledge of History 21390169
Reposted by Rebecca BraeAndrea Love, PhD | Biomedical Scientist @drandrealove.bsky.social · 21/04/2025Breast cancer diagnoses rose by over 300% between 1973 and 1992. Was there a breast cancer epidemic?! NO. Mammograms were implemented for screening in 1976. PREVALENCE is a function of being able to correctly diagnose something. This is also about autism. 167167784635
Reposted by Rebecca BraeAbra / Jessica Conwell, Carmella Creeper's Gender Doula🏳️⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼 @pairofclaws.bsky.social · 21/04/2025It's amazing how Amazon finds a new way to be hostile toward authors like every other week. 214644
Reposted by Rebecca BraeTeen Vogue @teenvogue.com · 20/04/2025In a clip from a July 2024 virtual town hall that recirculated online earlier this year RFK said Americans “addicted” to opioids, antidepressants, and stimulants should be sent to “wellness farms." This country tried that once before. Spoiler: It didn’t work. Read more here ⤵️teenvogue.comRFK Wants to Send People to ‘Wellness Farms.’ The US Already Tried That.RFK said Americans “addicted” to opioids, antidepressants, and stimulants should be sent to “wellness farms." 1324074
Reposted by Rebecca BraeCricket of MeadowHawk 🇨🇦 @cricketmh.bsky.social · 20/04/2025I remember everything. 43616
Reposted by Rebecca BraePEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 20/04/2025You cannot undo over 20 years of hatred, anger, rage farming, division, attacks, lying, misrepresenting, spreading misinformation in 1 minute! Just saying. It was a futile effort, and NOBODY in Canada is buying it. Not for one second. Be gone! #cdnpoli 3019773
Reposted by Rebecca BraeThe Onion @theonion.com · 19/04/2025Historians: Quibbling Over Exact Definition Of Concentration Camp Sign Of Healthy Society theonion.com/histori...theonion.comHistorians: Quibbling Over Exact Definition Of Concentration Camp Sign Of Healthy SocietyNEW HAVEN, CT—Calling such concern for linguistic precision a clear indicator of a thriving country, a panel of historians from Yale University issued a statement Thursday announcing that quibbling over the exact definition of a concentration camp was a sign of a healthy society. “Studies of the past tell us that nitpicking the particular semantics […] 182535368
Reposted by Rebecca Brae🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 19/04/2025"A group of Alberta energy executives has cancelled their corporate retreat in Jasper because they’re mad that the municipality’s mayor wants federal politicians to make climate change a priority." Remember when AB corporations said they cared about the climate? not even that long ago.jasperlocal.comCorporate crocodile tears? AB energy execs cancel retreat to Jasper - NewsA group of Alberta energy executives has cancelled their corporate retreat in Jasper because they’re mad that the municipality’s mayor wants federal politicians to make climate change a priority.&... 1511641
Reposted by Rebecca BraeCheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 17/04/2025Poilievre just LIED, a bill was put forward last year and the year before against abortion by his MP’s, "We will not adopt laws to restrict the right to abortion. It's been our policy [not to] for more than 20 years and it won't change," Poilievre said. "It's a guarantee that I offer you." 1051162490
Reposted by Rebecca BraeAl Haddrell @ukhadds.bsky.social · 16/04/2025If you're interested in the many ways CO2 is involved in airborne disease transmission (in both risk and in the assessment of risk), I walk through it in this explainer video: youtu.be/WKgUZbB1Yaoyoutu.beSARS-CoV-2, CO2, and YouYouTube video by Al Haddrell 04623
Reposted by Rebecca BraeT. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 16/04/2025www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...rollingstone.comTrump Admin Deports Teen With No Criminal Record to El Salvador Prison: Report19-year-old Merwil Gutiérrez was arrested just steps from his home in the Bronx and deported to El Salvador's notorious mega prison. 02112
Reposted by Rebecca BraeTyche Books 🇨🇦 @tychebooks.bsky.social · 16/04/2025One of my favourite cross stitch stores, The Witchy Stitcher, is not only Canadian, but apparently in Calgary. This makes me happy. 🖤 www.thewitchystitcher.comthewitchystitcher.comThe Witchy Stitcher - Cross Stitch Patterns, Kits & StitchesThe Witchy Stitcher ~ Cross Stitch patterns and kits - Gothic, Witchy, Halloween, & Horror. Unique, Modern, Subversive, it's all here! Instant download PDFs. 071
Reposted by Rebecca BraeHeba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 15/04/2025I must say I no longer believe that this is reminiscent of the Nazi playbook, I believe they’re using the Nazi playbook - offshore extermination and concentration camps, targeting people on basis of race and manufactured legality, academic onslaught, media, gender policing it’s all there. 15955250
Reposted by Rebecca BraeShematologist, MD @shematologist.medsky.social · 10/04/2025PSA: Your period should not 🩸last longer than 7 days 🩸interfere with your life 🩸happen more than monthly 🩸require product changes more than every 2 hours 🩸have clots larger than a quarter 🩸cause debilitating pain 🩸require double product coverage 🩸make you anemic 24351121
Reposted by Rebecca BraeDr. Genevieve Eastabrook, MD FRCSC (she/her) @placentadoc.bsky.social · 09/04/2025Winnipeg-born physician moving back to Canada after ‘rank misogyny’ drives devolution of women’s rights Well-written profile of @drjengunter.bsky.social who always has her finger on the pulse of reproductive rights & women’s health disinformation campaignswinnipegfreepress.comWinnipeg-born OB/GYN Jen Gunter moving back to Canada after ‘rank misogyny’ drives devolution of women’s rightsIn 1995, Dr. Jen Gunter arrived in Kansas. The Winnipeg-born-and-raised gynecologist was fresh out of her OB/GYN training at the University of Western Ontario, having completed medical school at the U... 0259
Reposted by Rebecca BraeCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 09/04/2025When the head of ICE starts talking about how great it would be to have Amazon Prime for shipping human beings to a concentration camp in El Salvador that no one ever leaves, you’ve gone way past “it could never happen here.”michiganadvance.comICE director envisions Amazon-like mass deportation system: ‘Prime, but with human beings’ • Michigan AdvanceThe leader of Immigration and Customs Enforcement said that his dream for the agency is squads of trucks rounding up immigrants for deportation the same way that Amazon trucks crisscross American citi... 24438751490
Reposted by Rebecca BraeJulia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 05/04/2025Not all “Hands Off” events were in-person. I attended two virtual events centering chronically ill and disabled people for @motherjones.com, who are terrified about attacks to Medicaid, Section 504, research funding, education and more. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...motherjones.comFor some disabled protestors, “Hands Off” went virtual"We know we have to teach everyone how to include us." 1664931586
Reposted by Rebecca BraeKristi Yamaguccimane @wapplehouse.bsky.social · 03/04/2025Here’s the thing about the tariffs: there will be no “short term pain”. Only long term. Every time a company realizes they can get away with charging you extra they don’t ever lower the price again. They just gouge. Whatever price hikes there are will be here for good. 228123153083
Reposted by Rebecca BraeBrittlestar @brittlestar.com · 03/04/2025The Prime Minister of the Heard / McDonald Islands Speaks on Trump’s Tariffs 17633221244
Reposted by Rebecca Braeian bremmer @ianbremmer.com · 03/04/2025unprecedented protests this morning on heard and macdonald islands, as the population rises up against trump imposition of 10% across the board tariffs. 601905481
Reposted by Rebecca BraeEric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 02/04/2025The vaccine against Shingles helps protect against dementia, results of a natural experiment, adding to prior evidence "implications are profound" New @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41... nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comA natural experiment on the effect of herpes zoster vaccination on dementia - NatureUsing a natural experiment that avoids common bias concerns, this study finds that the live-attenuated shingles vaccine reduced the probability of a new dementia diagnosis within a follow-up period of... 16459021834
Reposted by Rebecca BraeMark Cripps @markcripps.bsky.social · 02/04/2025this is outrageous that right wing trolls are now forcing private media companies to tow their line pressprogress.ca/ctv-cancelle...pressprogress.caCTV Cancelled a Fact-Checking Segment in Response to Political Pressure From Pierre Poilievre’s ConservativesAudio recording shows CTV cancelled an ‘election misinformation’ segment with journalist Rachel Gilmore after online backlash from conservatives 2147