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It's finally pumpkaine season!

@wolpers.bsky.social
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writer of small things, wrangler of small to mid sized mammals, and reluctant academic. A michif puke in amiskwaciwâskahikan. sometimes i share NSFW stuff on here, just as a heads up.

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 14h
To put this in perspective chestnut trees used to be dominant species in the United States. Billions of trees were killed by fungal blight and now fully grown America chestnuts are functionally extinct. There is no getting them back. Ever. All for a data center. www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-ameri...
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One of America’s Last Chestnut Groves Is About to Be Destroyed for a Data Center
A rare 200-tree American chestnut grove in West Virginia may be cleared for data-center development, but the project denies the site is on its land.
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Jaws🎃 @jaws-stone.bsky.social · 12h
Nebulous Deer Mouse Commission 2026 The return of the queer animals!
An illustration of a mouse pouncing out from a cluster of flowers.
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Leon Barillaro is UNIONIZING @barilleon.com · 18h
If you want to support our efforts at United Wizards of the Coast, the absolute best thing you can do is sign and share our petition asking the company to voluntarily recognize us! Together we can change the games industry for the better! actionnetwork.org/forms/uwotcp...
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Stand with Dungeons & Dragons and Magic Workers Forming a Union!
The Dungeons & Dragons team and Studio X (Magic: The Gathering; Duel Masters) are forming a union! We are joining the ranks of United Wizards of the Coast - CWA (UWOTC-CWA) and following in the fo...
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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 12h
ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...
old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)
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Bike Edmonton @bikeedmonton.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This Sunday, we're holding a learn to fix a flat clinic for women and gender minorities. We're excited to teach a really useful repair skill to people who're often underrepresented in the bike world, and who might be new to our shop. Register at: www.zeffy.com/en-CA/ticket... #yegbike
Poster for the Fix-A-Flat event for women and gender minorities happening at Bike Edmonton on Sunday October 11th, starting at 6pm.
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Jennifer Kretchmer @dreamwisp.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
One other thought about the union announcement: A lot of people who laid the foundation and culture for this moment over the last few years aren’t at Wizards anymore for a lot of reasons and/or are contractors/freelance contributors. This is your win, too. Thank you for making it possible. 💜
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Adam P Knave @adampknave.com · 06/10/2026
HAHAHAHHAHAHA "On Monday, Williams took to her Instagram Stories, posting a screenshot of DHS’ statement alongside her own suggestion: “And may I suggest all Nazi bitches suck on my fat dick.”"
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Hayley Williams Responds to DHS' Suggestion to Thank Officers After ICE Comments: 'Nazi Bitches'
Hayley Williams has drawn the ire of President Donald Trump's Department of Homeland Security.
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Kendra, spooky version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
A great time to pick up one or some of my books if you haven't!! We love Bookshop!! REAL HERO SHIT: bookshop.org/p/books/real... REAL HERO SHIT: HARDER THAN IT LOOKS: bookshop.org/p/books/hard... TELL NO TALES: bookshop.org/p/books/tell...
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Heather McPherson MP @heathermcpherson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Foreign interference in Alberta's referendum is a serious matter impacting our sovereignty and should be debated in Canada's House of Commons. Why then is the Liberal Speaker not interested in this debate?
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This will be a thread of essays I recommend to students in my creative nonfiction workshop:
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Hannah Lee Stockdale (LOOKING 4 WORK) @hanoodles.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
He destroyed careers, he destroyed peoples’ livelihoods. I hope he sleeps well with his golden parachute knowing he’s had a major hand in turning the US animation industry into the desert it is today.
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mads 🐼 @smadseli.northsky.social · 27/09/2026
“Shocking! This girly game for girls actually appeals to everyone!” “this girlypop game for dumb silly girlies is topping the Steam charts!” “you know this girl game is good..the top review is a straight man saying even HE liked it 🤣🤣🤣” do you realize how you sound. I’m going to be under your bed.
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Lindsay @neomeruru.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
New How Baby! Don't lie to people you're trying to teach to trust your judgment.
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#673: Honesty
I rarely feel like a Good Parent (who does?), but there’s something to be said for having thirteen years of experience. I don’t just know how Momo communicates, I shaped how she communi…
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Lindsay @neomeruru.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I talk about this all the time with people who are more latecomers to social media. I’m native to the internet, at this point. It’s my home, and I’ve made it a comfortable place by curating what gets to enter it. I love looking out my ‘window’ and seeing my ‘neighbours.’
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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The Catholic Bishops of Alberta have written an open letter calling on Catholic Albertans to remember the tenets of their faith, particularly loving ones neighbour, respecting human dignity, and the commitment to the common good. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
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Kendra, spooky version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I'm doing a challenge called Screamtober where I scream and scream and scream and scream and scream and scream and scream
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Jaws🎃 @jaws-stone.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Wanna help me reach 1k? 🥰 www.instagram.com/jawsstone/
Screenshot of my instagram profile
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sweetie π @sixfeetofcandy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
i don’t want to run errands and be busy today i want to be her
uni_komugico on ig little white chihuahua wearing a pumpkin with costume 

Hana(parti color) € 2005.11.01-2020.01.14
Sea urchin (red) 7 2007.08.12-2022.08.19
Komugi (cream) · 2017.02.25
Mochi (cream&white) · 2022.07.23
See original & uni_komugico
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It's finally pumpkaine season! @wolpers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I think my neighbours, that I've known since I was a kid, finally sold their house. It's wild. They outlasted two generations of my family and I really thought they would outlast us but I guess not. It's weird contemplating future fence conversations with someone who hasn't known since I was child.
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Arden Powell @ardenpowell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If you think an artist's style looks like AI but you can scroll back through their portfolio and see them doing the same work before 2020, congrats, you're not looking at an AI grifter. You're looking at one of the original victims whose entire style AI stole.
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
ATTENTION COMIC NERDS!
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🔞teobutt💕 @smutteo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This wasn't on my bingo card for 2026, but did anyone else have "pope becomes antiAI comrade"
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Lucy ⟭⟬⁷🎤🎸🏴🌱🛸🔮 @kafkanlevity.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Got Other Worlds: The Art of Alex Ries in the post today, and not only is this a very heavy and stiff blunt weapon with which to KO a burglar in self-defence if needs be, AND an exercise weight, but it turns out it's also a pretty lit sci-fi book detailing speculative evolution on other planets.
Pic of the cover of the chongus absolute unit of a book. A giant stone grey fairy angel alien with a light for a face and a light in the chest like Princess Peach's broach is sat cross-legged in peach and grey clouds looking down at two beings on a peach and grey beach. The beings have the centaur body plan and pointy Jar Jar Binks-coded but without the ears(?) faces. Though you can't see the front of their faces here but I know how they look from promotional materials and from the back of the book.

The book is about 40cm × 40cm and 5cm deep and very heavy - must be pretty fancy paper!
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Kieran @toadally.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There’s always going to be someone better, faster, and more skilled than I. But no one is going to have the same artistic voice as mine. Creating isn’t a competition, it’s a form of communication and connection. It’s a vulnerable thing, but it’s beautiful that way.
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Nathan Grayson @nathangrayson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
the brand safety panopticon has come to twitch
Streamers, wary of both AI and YouTube’s infuriatingly un-transparent hall of mirrors, are not enthused about this new development.

“Ohhh so that’s why ad revenue dropped,” longtime streamer JP "itmeJP" McDaniel said on Twitter.  

“I’m genuinely worried that the sheer fact that I’m a lesbian will cause the AI to remove ads,” said Vtuber LuminusRed. “In the past I’ve tested it and confirmed that I get less ad money if I had queer-related tags on my stream like ‘lesbian,’ so I am worried this dumb AI monitoring will mean I no longer get money from ads on Twitch.”
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Courtney Theriault @ctheriault.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“Really unjust, really unfair.”—Kristi Hall-Busque accuses the UCP gov’t of moving more people to ADAP to save money. She says her son Ben was moved from AISH to ADAP despite being unable to work. She believes his decision was reversed only after "media pressure" podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/a...
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The Progress Report @theprogressreport.ca · 30/09/2026
The Alberta chapter of the Canadian Bar Association has published an analysis of Premier Smith's nine referendum questions. They find that most of these proposals would invite immediate court challenges, and several of them are not legally clear at all.
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CBA Alberta Referendum Analysis
CBA Alberta Referendum Analysis
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Communist Party of Canada @compartycanada.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Bill C-39 is designed to gut the right to strike, silence Indigenous nations, and fast-track corporate pollution. We demand the immediate withdrawal of the "Building Canada Strong Act" and call for escalating action to defeat the bill. Full statement 🔗 communist-party.ca/defend-the-r...
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GLITCH @glitchprod.com · 23/09/2026
She's missed you. Knights of Guinevere returns October 9. The season will feature 8 episodes.
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Kathleen Jennings @tanaudel.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Twilight unicorns Available on things: www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/4748... (Also on fabric and wallpaper at Spoonflower: www.spoonflower.com/profiles/tan... )
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Twilight Unicorns by tanaudel | Redbubble
Unicorns frolic in a net of leaves and stars.
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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 22/09/2026
Happy mushroom season!
A comic titled "Types of mushrooms" with 12 mushroom species. A wrinkly-looking morel is labeled "creepy but tasty". A brownish deadly galerina is labeled "boring but deadly". A witch's butter on a branch is labeled "jiggles if you poke it". A large puffball is labeled "egg". A creepy red-dripping bleeding tooth fungus is labeled "deeply disconcerting". A fly agaric with a green treefrog sitting under it is labeled "frog umbrella". A black chanterelle is labeled "chalice for forbidden elixers". Three straight-stemmed entolomas are labeled "haha, nipples". A bright purple viscid violet cort is labeled "purple is nice". A birch polypore sticking out of a birch trunk is labeled "tree nose". A complex yellow-tpped coral fungus is labeled "cursed citadel where dwells a fairy queen". A Ravenel's stinkhorn is pixellated at the top for your safety, and labeled "NSFW".
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Victoria Maderna @victoriamaderna.com · 05/05/2026
The Connoisseur. Gouache and watercolor on paper. Dreaming of autumn... Prints: www.inprnt.com/gallery/vmad...
Painting of a boar in a sweater with a mushroom basket, holding and smelling a mushroom.
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Don Davies @donvdavies.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The Liberals’ new bill allows the Minister to violate workers’ right to strike based solely on her opinion after taking into account any consideration she wants. That’s not guardrails at all - it’s pure discretion.
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A reporter asked the government about the Trumpian tactic of flooding the zone with this bill (it’s an omnibus!) and the ministers appear outraged. They balk at a question that…accurately characterizes what they’re doing. If you don’t like it, don’t do it!
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Ash G. @kilomonster.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I drew out my feelings about stars. 🌻🦎
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Tony Elkins @tonyelkins.com · 21/09/2026
Who needs real Indigenous voices when you can just have AI create them? This is truly, truly, fucked. I don't have a better way to say it. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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‘Very harmful’: website uses AI to generate northern Indigenous news ‘correspondents’ | CBC News
The website WE NEWS has three northern Indigenous 'AI correspondents.' Their profiles say they are 'a member of Yukon First Nation,' 'of Dene heritage,' and 'an Inuk raised in the North.' Experts in t...
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Arlo Henry @beadspiller.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I have a couple pieces in this art exhibition, Expressions of Métis Religion and Spirituality, which is at Harcourt House in Edmonton until tomorrow. It'll be touring to a few venues, so I'll post future dates and locations when I know them.
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auntie lino’s strap @aplethoras.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“is it true ao3 authors appreciate comments” is one of the wildest sentences i’ve ever read. is it true people like receiving feedback on their work? being told they did a good job? experiencing human connection?
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Kristen Hanley Cardozo @khandozo.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I wish this essay my friend Christian wrote in 2017 wasn't still relevant, but regardless: he talks about lacking access to bathrooms in a pre-ADA world and how that affected him, and how it affects him now as a disabled trans man.
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I’m Trans, Disabled, And Tired Of Fighting To Get Into Bathrooms
After growing up with a disability, I thought being excluded from public restrooms was a relic of my past, not a part of my — and thousands of other trans people’s — futures.
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☠️ Skulls and Sheets 👻 @skullsandsheets.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
A mari and a lantern
A mari in a patterned cloak holding a lantern
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I’ll take this a step further and say, I believe we should be able to support an average-sized family on a single income at what we determine to be the minimum wage. A lot of Boomers got this. But for whatever reason, we’re considered ridiculous for proposing it.
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JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 19/09/2026
Heads up: the US government has been targeting Albertans with covert online disinformation operations seeking to undermine public confidence in Canada in advance of an October referendum. So ya. Exactly the fucking same.
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Studio Élan @vnstudioelan.com · 19/09/2026
can you believe it's sapphic saturday already...
anime style illustration of a pair of magical girls kissing on a rooftop at night with a full moon behind them
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The accounting is in: In Oregon there are 111 data centers. The TOTAL number of people employed at data centers is just 2,630, or 0.1% of the labor force. Those 100 data centers consumer 23% of all electricity used in Oregon. Meanwhile, electricity rates skyrocket as more centers are built.
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Oregon data centers by the numbers: 111 facilities consume nearly one-quarter of state’s power, according to new report
A first-of-its-kind report details the footprint of the controversial facilities.
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Amazing Digital Carcass @amagire.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
this one doin numbers on mastodon but bsky doesn't let me have enough characters
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elevated horror: what if you're grieving your loved one TOO MUCH? 
folk horror: what if a child's disability could EAT PEOPLE? 
supernatural horror: what if your childhood trauma could EAT PEOPLE? 
psychological horror: what if your adult trauma could EAT PEOPLE? 
body horror: what if your gender dysphoria could EAT PEOPLE? 
slasher horror: what if a random guy was trying to kill you, instead of a cop or your boyfriend?
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Kiana Mai @kianamai.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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Aika from “I Don’t Want to be a Magical Girl” at three different stages in her life. Child Aika is in the foreground, arms spread and smiling. She wears a blue oversized two toned t-shirt and her hair is all black. Behind her is 13 year old Aika in her magical girl from with her hands clasped and a smile on her face. She is completely blonde with long locs. In the background, current day 15 year old Aika faces away from camera with a tired, over it expression. Her hair is now blonde on top and and black on the bottom
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My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
"The super-rich have apocalypse fantasies of their own, built not on faith or ideology but on a calm and rational evaluation of how best to maintain their position; they would genuinely rather reign in hell than share in heaven. And they have all the money to make sure they get there."
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Janet 🇨🇦 @jansplanet.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Be an ally & support Saddle Lake Cree Nation Defend Treaty Health Rights and Protect Gender-Affirming Care for all People #Treaty #CdnPoli #Access #HumanRights #EvidenceBasedCare #CharterRights #NWC #WhiteSupremacyProblem #UnethicalAlberta 
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Donate to Saddle Lake Cree Nation Treaty Health Legal Defense Fund, organized by James Makokis
Help Saddle Lake Cree Nation Defend Treaty Health Rights and Pr… James Makokis needs your support for Saddle Lake Cree Nation Treaty Health Legal Defense Fund
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