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Christine Binzel @christinebinzel.bsky.social · 5h

Horrific testimony by Greta Thunberg

www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25...

Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face”

– Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar

www.aftonbladet.se

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All Lit Up @alllitupcanada.bsky.social · 1d

Read a passage from Vanessa F. Penney’s THE WITCH OF WILLOW SOUND (@ecwpress.bsky.social), an atmospheric
novel about women called witches, inspired by East Coast traditions and witch lore.

alllitup.ca/excerpted-the-witch-of-willow-sound/

The book cover for The Witch of Willow Sound by Vanessa F. Penney, features an illustration of a rabbit with an antler-like bone around its neck, surrounded by pale pink flowers against a dark background.

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JP Larocque @jplarocque.bsky.social · 18h

You’re only famous in Canada if you’re famous in Hollywood. Otherwise the country sorta operates like a series of professional microclimates where people can have popularity or notoriety within specific contexts but are otherwise unknown to the general populace.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

"a test"? you mean...a violation?

AP: Israel plans to halve aid into Gaza over slow return of dead hostages, a test for the Gaza ceasefire

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Elliott Gish @elliottgish.bsky.social · 23h

Bobby Newport saying "I guess my most unhinged literary opinion is... you know, let's just all have a good time."

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Elliott Gish @elliottgish.bsky.social · 1d

UPDATE: Did NOT say fuck!

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Elliott Gish @elliottgish.bsky.social · 1d

Waiting to do a phone interview and having the usual last-minute phone interview worries, i.e., what if I accidentally say "fuck."

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Georgina Kiersten @ingloriousgigi.bsky.social · 2d

Happy Indigenous Peoples' Day! If you want to get into the Halloween spirit and want to support Indigenous people, may I suggest you pick up Never Whistle At Night, edited by Shawn Hawk with an introduction by Stephen Graham Jones.

www.goodreads.com/book/show/75...

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 2d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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Elliott Gish @elliottgish.bsky.social · 2d

They truly deserve each other and that is the meanest thing I could ever say about either of them.

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Michelle Keep @jmkeep.bsky.social · 3d

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Three Newfoundland activists remain detained. Israelis prevent them from sleeping.

They played music repeatedly throughout the night and would wake up the detainees by shining lights, making noise and shaking them. She described the treatment as psychological torture.

Canadian epidemiologist says she experienced psychological torture in Israeli custody | CBC Accessibility

A Canadian epidemiologist says she experienced psychological torture in Israeli custody after she was detained while participating in a flotilla trying to bring aid to Gaza.

www.cbc.ca

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Elliott Gish @elliottgish.bsky.social · 4d

My favourite thing about National Coming Out Day is saying "I'm gay btw" to people who have known me for years so we can do a little bit together. "MY HEAVENS I NEVER WOULD HAVE GUESSED." "I KNOW I'M VERY SUBTLE." And so on.

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Elliott Gish @elliottgish.bsky.social · 4d

working in a public library

That one Achewood comic with the guy who got yelled at

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Elliott Gish @elliottgish.bsky.social · 4d

Oh my God absolutely. I only went to Scotland once, but the whole time I was like FEELS JUST LIKE HOME. (Our cows aren't as cute, though.)

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Liz LeClair (she/her) @lizleclairhfx.bsky.social · 4d

Booktoberfest is hopping down at the @hfxpublib.bsky.social 🎃 📕📗📘

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Elliott Gish @elliottgish.bsky.social · 4d

a closely guarded secret of the ancients that we must all cover up by complaining incessantly about how hard it is

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Elliott Gish @elliottgish.bsky.social · 5d

The speed and vigour with which dudes will defend other dudes known to be shitty to women should not surprise me at this point, and yet.

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Lyz @lyz.bsky.social · 5d

I wrote about the Elizabeth Holmes of the media lyz.substack.com/p/let-the-al...

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Elliott Gish @elliottgish.bsky.social · 5d

Sometimes I think about the time when I was twenty years old, working in a grocery store bakery, and a male coworker asked me why all girls were the same.

"What do you mean?" I asked, genuinely puzzled.

"Well, like," he said, "you all listen to Rihanna."

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♿️ Eva Roslin (They/She) is going to Can*Con! 🟨⬜️🟪⬛️ 🍁 @evavroslin.bsky.social · 6d

Hi everyone! I've been accepted to the once-in-a-lifetime writing workshop Under the Volcano, in January, in Mexico! I'm raising funds to help cover tuition, lodging, and airfare. If you are able to donate or boost the signal, thank you! www.gofundme.com/f/53fw2-help...

Donate to Help Eva get to a life-changing writing workshop!, organized by Eva Roslin

Hey everyone! I'm Eva Roslin (she/they), a queer, disabled horror and da… Eva Roslin needs your support for Help Eva get to a life-changing writing workshop!

www.gofundme.com

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Elliott Gish @elliottgish.bsky.social · 5d

Sometimes you just need to get drunk with your friends and yell about Shirley Jackson.

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Elliott Gish @elliottgish.bsky.social · 5d

A dumb question about AI with an even dumber answer.

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On Spec Magazine @onspecmag.bsky.social · 6d

With our new issue, we are making the sad announcement that this will be the final year for On Spec. See www.onspec.ca for details.

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Kate Beaton @katebeaton.bsky.social · 6d

Last week, Nova Scotia passed Bill 127, criminalizing Mi'kmaw protestors on Hunters Mountain who want to defend the land from clearcutting. And have a right to. Truth and Reconciliation means nothing to these people. www.saltwire.com/cape-breton/...

'Dismissing our Mi’kmaw voices': Passage of bill angers Nova Scotia Mi’kmaw leaders

Passage of Bill angers Nova Scotia Mi’kmaw leaders especially in Cape Breton where blockade continues at Hunters Mountain against logging.

www.saltwire.com

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