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Cranky queer elder on the west coast of Canada. I did 35 years in the US so don't tell me about the joys of privatized healthcare. Library and public transit enthusiast. It was ADHD all along. She/they (gendermeh)

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M @trinlisabeth.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The Child Catcher in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
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Child Catcher - Wikipedia
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jj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social · 03/10/2026
also: a reminder that restorative justice is definitionally within the control of the person who has been harmed and not ANYONE ELSE. it cannot be a route chosen for them, and they have full control over the process. otherwise it’s just sparkling mediation
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Script @script.health · 29/09/2026
BREAKING: Charges against DULF members thrown out—Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum have succeeded in their constitutional challenge. So what does the future look like for DULF?
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BREAKING: Charges against DULF members thrown out
Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum have succeeded in their constitutional challenge
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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
We're all having such a bad time
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M @trinlisabeth.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Is that unusual now? When my wife and I had a ceremony in the '90s, my parents were the golden ones because they were just silent. My wife's mother took the trouble to return the invitation.
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M @trinlisabeth.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I knew a few First Nations people who didn't vaccinate because of a well-founded distrust of government programs. But most anti-vaxxers I know/knew were hippies. 2020 finally taught me why white hippies are disinterested in social justice: they are deep in individualism.
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M @trinlisabeth.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Introduce yourself with 10 acts or bands you've seen live. That Petrol Emotion Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds Pixies Tom Waits The Cramps Los Lobos Dead Kennedys Butthole Surfers The Pogues Siouxsie and The Banshees
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
In the future, historians will marvel at how a U.S. political party documented their project to destroy America (aka Project 2025), won the elections and set about to dismantle everything that made America great without any mainstream discourse or accountability. Fuck the Heritage Foundation.
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M @trinlisabeth.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
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M @trinlisabeth.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I don't know how old you are but ARCO gave away plastic animals during the '70s as well as a big plastic ark. Pretty sure my Hot Wheels came from Chevron. In fact, I'm now realizing most of my toys came free with a tank of gas. So yes, plastic (and metal) toys used to be hella cheap.
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Dusty Evely 🎃 @dustyevely.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Having a completely normal day.
A sign that reads SHOPLIFTERS WILL BE
SACRIFICED TO THE MOSS GODS.
JON'T MAKE THIS AWKWARD.
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BC General Employees' Union (BCGEU) @bcgeu.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Provincial funding for B.C.'s public libraries has been frozen since 2010. Workers are stretched thin, libraries are cutting back hours, and the services communities count on are at risk. Will you sign the petition for sustainable library funding? www.mylibrarybc.ca/?recruiter_id=48…
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Sign the petition to fund B.C.'s public libraries!
Library funding has been frozen since 2010. Let's change that.
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Rine Vieth @rinewithoutacat.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
This isn't directly what Kate is talking about here (different country/context!), but I have a couple friends who are pregnant right now in Québec, and the provincial govt refusing to cover COVID-19 boosters for pregnant people makes me incandescently angry as a repro justice issue. Go buy the book!
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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
And of course, my friends, a reminder from the ruins of Lindisfarne priory, to always look up.
The rib vault of an archway spans two ruined pillars, with nothing around it but sky.
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M @trinlisabeth.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
The Tercel trunk/hatchback being impregnable is important. The door locks would break before opening which was nice but eventually attempted break-ins left me having to use the hatchback to get in and out of the car.
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 19/07/2026
As a committed prison abolitionist, it is my sincere belief that the Tate brothers should be sent back to England in a ship, which mysteriously sinks to the bottom of the ocean
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M @trinlisabeth.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
As a young teen, I realized things like the Playboy Bunny logo on cars and mudflap girls were signalling to other men. No woman is attracted to those things. Men who truly LIKE women stand out. No one is less interested in women than straight men who feel entitled to them.
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M @trinlisabeth.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
During Trump's first term, I recall watching him install donors to positions like running the USPS and realizing the looting a failing empire didn't need to be physical this time. It's being done via appointments and money transfers.
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M @trinlisabeth.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
'And of course, fascists love to be able to categorize people in order to oppress or destroy them, and anti-trans liberals are helping them determine “womanhood” as an immutable category. Fascists will build a prison for cis women built out of trans people’s bones.'
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M @trinlisabeth.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Bummed about Atul Gawande.
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Canada has some of the most evil mining corporations in the world that plunder resources internationally so this is actually a perfect fit globalnews.ca/news/1190912...
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Kristi Noem hired in strategic advisory role for B.C. mining company | Globalnews.ca
In March, Kristi Noem was reassigned from Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security after serving in the role for 13 months.
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thediscourse.ca @thediscourse.ca · 12/06/2026
Bodybuilding is everything to Jules Sherred. But when he was barred from competing, the Duncan based advocate took his fight to the BC Human Rights Tribunal. We sat down with him to learn more about why he continues to fight in a world that is becoming increasingly hostile towards trans athletes.
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Q&A: Jules Sherred Takes Fight to BC Human Rights Tribunal – The Discourse.
Sherred talks modern Pride, the struggle to be included in sports and why he keeps fighting for the entire trans community
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M @trinlisabeth.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
We often see more people on the streets who are men. Fifty years ago, they didn't built shelter space for women because it was believed only men were homeless. Yes, many women are homeless, just less visible. These sort of people also either fail to understand survival sex or are fine with it.
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Transgender World @transgenderreport.com · 06/06/2026
Trump isn’t gay and calling him gay as a schoolyard insult is homophobic. www.lgbtqnation.com/... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
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Trump isn’t gay & calling him gay as a schoolyard insult is homophobic
People would rather call Donald Trump gay than call him out for hurting women.
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M @trinlisabeth.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
I assumed everyone over 40 remembered the shenanigans libraries did in response to the Patriot Act in 2001. Must be time for my nap. share.google/3XijbEHLWJcD...
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M @trinlisabeth.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Book recommendation. Ask your public library to get it. I've avoided "the classics" all my life because I was wary of how idealized they were by monied white men. This was just the introduction I needed and it happens to be hopeful at a time when we need more of that.
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Gwendolyn Ann Smith @gwensmith.com · 10/05/2026
You do not, under any circumstances, "gotta hand it to" Marjorie Taylor Greene.
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Wendy N. Wagner 🎃 @wnwagner.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
A note I found yesterday while walking in Portland.
Handwritten note taped to a power pole that reads: if you promise to stay alive just a little bit longer I promise that we are going to make this world a place worth living in by any means NECESSARY. I ain't giving up. I swear.
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Maya Media @mayamedia.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
The bosses always go after vulnerable communities first, but they’ll get ‘round to everyone. That’s why ONLY solidarity works. “Data Colonialism”: Native Communities Fight AI Data Centers on Indigenous Land youtu.be/Ac0-fBK0LVQ
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“Data Colonialism”: Native Communities Fight AI Data Centers on Indigenous Land
YouTube video by Democracy Now!
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M @trinlisabeth.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Same with HR depts complaining about the use of sick time without addressing what has changed.
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M @trinlisabeth.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
The Golden State Killer was caught that way. I believe LEOs have access when a person agrees to share info on a third site.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 09/04/2026
Exclusive: The acting director of the CDC has delayed publication of a report showing the covid-19 vaccine cut the likelihood of ER visits and hospitalizations for healthy adults last winter by about half, according to two scientists.
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CDC delays publishing report showing covid vaccine benefits
The acting CDC director cited concerns with the methodology, but the design has long been used to test vaccine effectiveness.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/04/2026
it’s true, there are no middle class white kids in the american education system. they have all been excluded by invidious racial discrimination
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RedruM @dorsalstream.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."
I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake

By A Horse

Hello. I am a horse. I work very hard at my job of being a horse. When humans say move the heavy thing, I move the heavy thing. When humans sit on top of me and pull on my head, I carry them where they want to go. The main food the humans give me is hay and oats. But I am thinking it would be nice to have a different food.

I am thinking I would like to try cake.

Yes, yes. Cake. I know all about it. When humans eat cake, it is in glad times. It is the food for a celebration, such as when a woman becomes 47. I have seen cake on the Fourth of July. When humans have a cake, they stand around it and clap hands and smile and say happy birthday at each other. Sometimes there are beautiful markings on a cake, such as balloons or a pink shape.

Sometimes the top of a cake is on fire and a boy must blow on the fire with mouth wind. This is the scariest cake. I do not want this kind. But I will eat any other cake. Any cake that is not the fire cake that tries to kill the boy.

Please understand: I do not get money for doing work. I do not get to go inside the house. All I am either doing my horse job or standing in my pen or eating food off the floor. I always do these things. But I have never once gotten cake and I would like it very much.

I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children. I am more helpful to the farm. Children do not move the heavy things like me or let anyone ride on them. And yet they get cake. Maybe the humans will realize this. Maybe they will say, "You  know who deserves cake? That horse. That horse whose back we are always on."

Every day I dream about what it will be like if I get to eat cake. Here is what will happen. First, I will walk to the cake and putt my nose at it like hrrfff to make and stomping my hooves to make sure it is not a snake. Then I will trot in a circle to show that I am a horse and I am large. After that, I will nuzzle the cake to …
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M @trinlisabeth.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Ha, he was in *everything*. I recall confusing him with Davy Jones of the Monkees at some point.
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M @trinlisabeth.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
In this timeline, you were my go-movie reviewer when we were in our 20s. Now this. What a weird ride.
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Mark Gerretsen @markgerretsen.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Have you seen this yet? This is wrong. Parliament is supposed to be a civic space — the one room in this country where every faith, and no faith, stands on equal ground.
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Anthony Edwards @edwardsanthonyb.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Some more from Donner Pass today:
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phoenixrising @mmcarthur.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Happy 68th Birthday to the great Gary Oldman 🎂 First time I saw him was in '86 in Sid and Nancy, then '87 Prick Up Your Ears. I knew then he'd be a force to be reckoned with.
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M @trinlisabeth.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Worth bumping them up. Or audiobooks? Some better than others, of course, but dependably funny and clever.
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Crawford Kilian @crof.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
My latest, published yesterday: On the Brink of World War Trump via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
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On the Brink of World War Trump | The Tyee
Attacking Iran without securing the Strait of Hormuz is bringing grim consequences around the globe.
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Canadian Anti-Hate Network @antihate.ca · 18/03/2026
WHITEDATE: The Canadian Anti-Hate Network has identified an alternative wellness clinic owner as a paying member of the white supremacist dating site WhiteDate. 🧵 www.antihate.ca/the_fully_re...
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The ‘Fully Redpilled’ ‘Barbarian King’ Acupuncturist of British Columbia
The Canadian Anti-Hate Network has identified nearly 200 Canadian users of the white supremacist dating site WhiteDate.
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Dr Paul Mackey @auscandoc.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... “Canada has been slow to study health in relation to the oil and gas industry, with most studies being done in the United States. He says there's never been a comprehensive assessment of the industry in B.C.” #fracking
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Doctors calling for independent assessment of health impacts from oil and gas industry | CBC News
Public health physicians in B.C. are calling for an independent assessment of health impacts from the oil and gas industry. The request comes from the Health Officers’ Council of B.C., who passed a resolution in November 2025 outlining the need for an assessment.
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M @trinlisabeth.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
This may not come off well but I'm wary of most people who believe they're going to out-think you. We won't all agree on conclusions for a variety of reasons but folks who've been paying attention should approach humbly.
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The Vertlartnic @thev.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Why Do Some People Still Wear Masks In 2026 And On A Completely Unrelated Note Why Is Everyone In The Office Sick Right Now Apart From The Guy In The Mask?
A woman in a mask
Headline:
Why Do Some People Still Wear Masks In 2026 And On A Completely Unrelated Note Why Is Everyone In The Office Sick Right Now Apart From The Guy In The Mask?
Story from Jerk Wingley and Terramin Defishunsee

Photo from Adobe
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M @trinlisabeth.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
I once emailed a story idea and David Beers replied. It was refreshing to have solid journalism so close to home.
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
If you haven't already, consider subscribing to @thetyee.ca -- they do amazing work and I'm so grateful to them for partnering with me on this story!
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