Reposted by Salty Olives 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️🦓Isabel Zaw-Tun @izzyzaw.bsky.social · 29/11/2024"She's pretty but I hear she's had work done" Me: *turns around to reveal I've replaced my eyebrows with branches that birds can rest upon* 8782155
Reposted by Salty Olives 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️🦓The Other Happy Place @theotherhappyplace.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Being unique is all well and good until you realize you have such weird esoteric tastes that if you want something to exist you KEEP HAVING TO MAKE IT YOURSELF 110119
Reposted by Salty Olives 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️🦓Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social · 19/09/2026My hot take on AI and climate change is that I would not like to be killed by either of them 1343392
Reposted by Salty Olives 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️🦓Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026When the powerful playact powerlessness it is always a ploy to avoid accountability. 91321416
Reposted by Salty Olives 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️🦓Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 19/09/2026It takes a toll. 162100693
Reposted by Salty Olives 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️🦓Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 19/09/2026@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Sep The 2,000+ anti-trans laws passed recently can cause trans people more psychological distress than personal experiences of discrimination, according to new Virginia Commonwealth University research study. news.vcu.edu/article/anti...news.vcu.eduAnti-transgender legislation causes psychological distress even in states with trans-friendly laws, according to VCU researchTransgender study participants viewed the more than 2,000 laws proposed in the U.S. since 2020 ‘as an existential threat’ to their lives and the lives of other transgender people 213852
Reposted by Salty Olives 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️🦓Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 19/09/2026I created a live anti trans ad tracker that tracks all anti trans ad spending on meta and Google. It runs and updates nightly. You can see ad campaigns in real time. adtracker.lgbtqlegislation.comadtracker.lgbtqlegislation.com2026 anti-trans ad trackerAnti-trans political ads in the 2026 US midterms on Meta and Google, flagged nightly by a classifier. 20847288
Reposted by Salty Olives 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️🦓More Perfect University @mpuniversity.bsky.social · 11/09/2026We're launching Rate Your Landlord (Rate Your Professor but for Landlords). Not seen: everyone in the room raising their hand to wanting to submit reviews for their landlords. 016026
Reposted by Salty Olives 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️🦓🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 10/09/2026"These really contentious plans will give free rein to large polluters, put nature and species at risk, limit public participation and keep Canadians in the dark about the impacts to their health and safety. It's a huge abdication of responsibility from the feds."nationalobserver.comFeds quietly exempt oilsands and gas power plants from environmental impact assessmentsThe change comes as part of a suite of amendments to Canada's impact assessment laws passed by the Carney government early Wednesday morning. 10224140
Reposted by Salty Olives 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️🦓Disability News Service @johnpring.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Reform UK and Tories silent after research shows their own supporters oppose cuts to disability benefits #DisabilityBenefits @conservatives.bsky.social @natcen.bsky.social www.disabilitynewsservice.com/reform-uk-an...disabilitynewsservice.comReform UK and Tories silent after research shows their own supporters oppose cuts to disability benefitsPolitical parties that have spent years calling for cuts to spending on disabled people’s benefits have stayed silent in response to new research which shows the public have ignored their rhetoric … 42216
Reposted by Salty Olives 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️🦓Organization for Transformative Works @transformativeworks.org · 19/08/2026Canada’s Bill C-34 would implement age verification and create a Digital Safety Commission to set online standards for millions of internet users in #Canada. #OTW Legal explains why this is concerning and how to add your voice. Read more otw-news.org/bdcte7e6 0134126
Reposted by Salty Olives 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️🦓The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 27/08/2026"British Columbia’s landmark Cambie surgical case concluded that private clinics do not shorten public wait times. They divert limited health-care staff to for-profit facilities and increase wait times for everyone else." #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...thestar.comIris Gorfinkel: Same doctor, different price tag: How universal health care is under attackAlberta’s Bill 11 is a direct assault on the Canada Health Act, but the greater danger is federal complacency. What starts in Alberta doesn’t stay in Alberta. 13316171
Reposted by Salty Olives 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️🦓Geoff Dembicki @geoffdembicki.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Stunning new financial analysis from @desmog.com. During a year when gas prices skyrocketed for regular Canadians, oil executives personally raked in over $1 billion worth of stock holdings increases. "Angry yet?" writes @manderson98.bsky.social www.desmog.com/2026/08/27/c...desmog.comCanadian Oil Executives’ Stock Holdings Increased by Over $1 Billion Amid War and WildfiresExecutives at Canadian Natural Resources Limited, Suncor, and Imperial Oil saw their personal stock holdings and options skyrocket this year, according to a DeSmog analysis. 13120
Reposted by Salty Olives 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️🦓Bean & Sprout's Mom @beansproutsmom.bsky.social · 27/08/2026So, it's another good day to call on PM @mark-carney.bsky.social to expel the US Ambassador. 259,840 signatures and counting. #cdnpoli #LakeOntario Sign here: www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...ourcommons.caPetition e-7531 - Petitions 02111
Reposted by Salty Olives 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️🦓Le Ca-ghoul @lecagle.bsky.social · 27/08/2026[apparates into your timeline] please note: there are zero (0.0) writing studies researchers involved in this [disappears in a puff of smoke] 112132
Salty Olives 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️🦓 @salty-olives.bsky.social · 26/08/2026I am super not stoked that the day after I talked to the unuon about some job chaos stuff I literally got locked out of all of my work accounts. 🙃 000
Salty Olives 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️🦓 @salty-olives.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Anyone make a ....uuhh... shareable set to maintain... like that package of CDC datasets from prior to the initial dataset purge? 000
Salty Olives 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️🦓 @salty-olives.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Funny how I finally remove all the spam text messages and I realize that I totally know more people that I used to text more often until their messages gut freaken buried under spam. That's annoying. 000
Reposted by Salty Olives 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️🦓Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 20/08/2026www.wgbh.org/news/health/... 625079
Salty Olives 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️🦓 @salty-olives.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Why is it that every time I get a "like" reaction on my a post of mine, I am logged out of bluesky? That seems really odd and hard to like.... blame on something else when I've gone months without being logged out, and then the 2 times it's happened; I've gotten logged out. Wtf? 001
Reposted by Salty Olives 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️🦓WKBN 27 First News @wkbn.bsky.social · 14/08/2026What is an open plea, which Luigi Mangione entered in court?wkbn.comWhat is an open plea, which Luigi Mangione entered in court?By entering the plea, Mangione avoids state charges or sentencing in New York under double jeopardy protections. 011
Reposted by Salty Olives 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️🦓Melissa Lem @drmelissalem.bsky.social · 10/08/2026"If we want to save our summers...we need to take climate change seriously and phase out fossil fuels." BC is under a state of emergency with over 20,000 wildfire evacuees, and smoke causing serious health impacts. Governments must do better. Watch: www.cbc.ca/player/play/... @cape-acme.bsky.social 14122
Salty Olives 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️🦓 @salty-olives.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Loovvvee going to my GP to update them on the anaphylaxis chaos to find out that because the ER doc didn't SEE the use of the Epi-pen, as far as they're concerned, I was in the hospital for unknown, and possibly FND. WTF. JFC. Unclear if that's my GP's interpretation or the ER Doc. #NEISVoid 100
Reposted by Salty Olives 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️🦓Rory @rennyrose.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Hey ya'll if you have a second, would you mind taking a moment to read n sign this petition regarding another Amazon data center development in Mississippi? www.change.org/p/say-no-to-...change.orgSign the PetitionSay No to Amazon’s $3 Billion Data Center in Mississippi Without Community Protections 23541
Reposted by Salty Olives 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️🦓Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 10/08/2026I wrote about a reason not to use generative AI in your writing that I haven't seen anyone talking about. Once I realized this, banning GenAI in our lab's writing became a no-brainer. Feel free to share, I think this is probably useful especially for trainees: www.carlsonlab.bio/thoughts/the...carlsonlab.bioThe only reason you’ll ever need not to write with AI — The Carlson LabOver the last year, our lab has been developing a policy on AI use. To do this, we did three main things: We read a lot of academic publications and tech news. We set up an #ai channel on our la... 351564633
Reposted by Salty Olives 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️🦓Io Dodds 🌘🏳️⚧️♾️ @iododds.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Very proud to be making my @assignedmedia.org debut with this fascinating & farcical exposé! Someone — we don’t yet know who — has been bombarding the US government with blatantly machine-generated comments. All of them ask for one thing: make it harder for trans people to legally buy firearms. 214354
Reposted by Salty Olives 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️🦓ʟᴇɢꜱ ʙᴇɴᴇᴅɪᴄᴛ ✨ @maybecam.blacksky.app · 07/08/2026This is not a mistake, they started with Black women, as always, and we told them they would come for you. 3226167
Reposted by Salty Olives 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️🦓Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 05/08/2026So many people I encounter, especially in HigherEd, believe the only strategy for this moment is "keep your head down." @debtcollective.bsky.social didn't change priorities in 2024, nor in 2020, nor in 2016. They barreled ahead. There first big win was $800 million. This one is $11 billion. 426566
Reposted by Salty Olives 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️🦓Pandemic 𓅃. Index @panaccindex.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Hey #medsky! Here is the latest compilation of research on COVID-19's impacts on the body! I hope this is helpful to you! www.panaccindex.info/p/what-covid...panaccindex.infoWhat COVID-19 Does to the Body (11th Edition, August 2026)Your Regular COVID-19 Research Update (70+ Studies) 0195
Reposted by Salty Olives 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️🦓Nick Tsergas @nicktsergas.ca · 07/08/2026Again and again, people have been asking for a national map. So we made one. Other maps exist, yes. But they're either out of date or woefully overinclusive. I don't need to see every hospital's tiny datacentre. stopthedatacentre.ca/mapstopthedatacentre.caDatacentre proposals map · Stop the DatacentreInteractive map of active datacentre proposals and local campaigns across Canada. 39464
Reposted by Salty Olives 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️🦓Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 07/08/2026**gestures broadly at province on fire** Anyway, tell me again that mandatory commutes for work that can be done remotely is a normal response to the climate breakdown 39719
Reposted by Salty Olives 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️🦓Milk Burger @milkpork.bsky.social · 07/08/2026I don’t know who needs to hear this… but all those art supplies sitting unused in your totes? They’re made to be used. Fuck them up. Get them dirty. Use the markers til the ink is dry. Use all the super glue. Paint til your paint is gone. MAKE. ART. The world needs it now more than ever. #art 718256
Reposted by Salty Olives 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️🦓Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 29/07/2026"Helping working people to afford lives of joy” This is absolutely why Mamdani is succeeding in New York and is so beloved. 81023192
Reposted by Salty Olives 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️🦓Rav BOO!dram 🎃👻 @rvbdrm.com · 30/07/2026Look at how terrible this socialism is: “The windfall of tips comes after a city law cracking down on deceptive tipping practices by app-based delivery companies took effect in January … Since taking office, Mayor Mamdani has directed DCWP to vigorously enforce the laws.”documentedny.comNYC Delivery Workers Earned $104M Extra in Tips Under New City LawAccording to a new city report, enforcement of New York City’s tip transparency law has led to an average of about $2,287 in additional tips for each of the city’s 70,000 app-based delivery workers. 11652168
Salty Olives 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️🦓 @salty-olives.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Apparently this is just going to turn into a chronic health bitching account. Lol Like, not actually... but who knows.. that sure is the vibe as of late. 000
Salty Olives 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️🦓 @salty-olives.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Because of how the last anaphylatic reaction started, now anytime my head feels woozy and I feel like crap, I get really worried that it's the start of anaphylaxis again. Suuuper not a fun time. The stress of not being sure about the safety of returning to work really isn't helping. #NEISvoid 130
Salty Olives 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️🦓 @salty-olives.bsky.social · 27/07/2026It's very exhausting yo feel like you're finally climbing out of the hole caused by the last medical crisis (anaphylaxis) and starting to do things (like post fic chapters) to then fall into ANOTHER hole of a medical crisis that's worse then the last one! (anaphylaxis, this time needed an epipen) 100
Reposted by Salty Olives 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️🦓Zi @majormcdoom.bsky.social · 26/07/2026From an art slide for new Aang movie 🤮: ""Also according to chatgpt, "In general it is not common for South East Asian cultures to emphasize or traditionally have a strong association with beards. Traditionally valued a c clean-shaven appearance or minimal facial hair grooming."" 1519440
Salty Olives 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️🦓 @salty-olives.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Sometimes people make a thing and I realize I didn't even think the medium could do that. And then I look at it and I'm like, oh yeah, that used to be the way we *insert historical way of some specific clothing detailing*... I love being reminded of the versatility of embroidery. Hell yeah. 💖 011
Reposted by Salty Olives 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️🦓Amy Maxmen, PhD @amymaxmen.bsky.social · 24/07/2026And the graph of measles cases in the US (ref Johns Hopkins) 04533
Reposted by Salty Olives 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️🦓The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 24/07/2026One Brookfield subsidiary in B.C. is applying to export power to another in the United States. If successful, it will be an incentive for private companies to increase private electricity exports independent of Canadian needs. Marjorie Griffin Cohen writes. thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...thetyee.caHow Powell River Became Ground Zero for Canada’s Electricity Future | The TyeeMark Carney’s old company wants an unprecedented right to sell power to the US. 34627
Reposted by Salty Olives 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️🦓Helga Vanthournout @wealthofflows.bsky.social · 24/07/2026This week: #Calgary city council fights against a more compact, less car-centric city. #Alberta provincial govt works to dismantle the bike lanes it considers woke and harmful to society. And our federal government is hard at work to boost oil and gas sales as the only way to save the country. 2165
Reposted by Salty Olives 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️🦓Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 24/07/2026The claim “RFK Jr. does not fuck chickens” is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that RFK Jr. fucks chickens. 647173574126
Salty Olives 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️🦓 @salty-olives.bsky.social · 19/07/2026I finally posted a chapter. Wheeeeeeeeeee It's only been... 4 months. 😭 Life is really not letting me write and it sucks. 000
Reposted by Salty Olives 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️🦓it looks like you're writing a novel @gr8writingtips.bsky.social · 16/07/2026it doesn't matter if anyone else finds it hot. it only matters if YOU find it hot. just write it 0269163
Salty Olives 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️🦓 @salty-olives.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Hot muffins. I have been struggling with some nitty gritty details of this chapter all week and I finalllllly sussed it out. Annnnnd cue 1400 words.. in the span of like... 2 hours Jfc. And that's JUST dialogue. Wheeeeeee 000