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obsequious, purple, and clairvoyant
she/her
Treaty 7 territory

turning to drugs to help you sleep
will only lead to sleep
and sleeping is the gateway drug
to being awake again
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The thing that bothers me so much about Carney's joke about greenlighting the Heated Rivalry show is that it furthers the narrative that it's a needle in a haystack. Anyone who reads Canadian books and watches Canadian film knows that we could have dozens more HRs with enough funding.
January 31, 2026 at 1:38 PM
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They went from deriding safe spaces and demanding fierce debate to insisting the entire academy be their safe space from hearing anything about race and gender
January 31, 2026 at 12:43 PM
husband and I are hanging in the kitchen listening to Mitch & Mickey songs from
“A Mighty Wind” and having a bit of a cry.
January 31, 2026 at 1:39 AM
It’s nearly Imbolc! We are almost halfway between the winter solstice and the vernal equinox!
January 31, 2026 at 12:46 AM
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On the 54th anniversary of Bloody Sunday we are reminded that all oppressed and occupied peoples are brothers and sisters and we are all working in service of the same victory, however dim or bright the hope seems in any moment, from Derry to Gaza to Iran to Minneapolis
January 31, 2026 at 12:31 AM
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Albertans do not own Alberta. It is the land of the Indigenous people. If people wish to join the USA, there are ways to do so. Although, they may want to check how they treat immigrants.
January 30, 2026 at 2:07 PM
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Alberta has been quietly removing books from school libraries, but not listing which ones. Turns out most titles have themes related to 2SLGBTQ+ people

A great scoop by @readtheorchard.org

www.readtheorchard.org/p/here-are-t...
Here are the secret lists of banned books from Alberta's 2 largest school boards
The Calgary Board of Education removed 42 books from its libraries and the Edmonton Public School Board removed 33 in response to an order from Education Minister Demetrios Nicolaides.
www.readtheorchard.org
January 29, 2026 at 7:32 PM
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Safety and moderation tools are fine and good but we won't really be free on this app until we can call brands and newspapers bitch-ass pieces of shit without getting flagged as abusive. You can't abuse a corporation, Bluesky
January 29, 2026 at 5:50 PM
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Since the international student flow has gone down to zero schools can’t fund their departments as well and therefore quality goes down for EVERY student.
The moral of the story is that I believe this was fueled by racism
January 29, 2026 at 3:32 AM
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Cutting Health, funding to Indigenous peoples, Food Inspection, environmental monitoring....to boost funding to defence and technocrats is certainly a choice.
January 28, 2026 at 6:40 PM
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Canadians, Ford celebrated a contract from Roshel for armored vehicles being sent to ICE in the US.

Here's a template you can use to email the following people: [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] and then include your MP and MPP.

There ya go!

docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Template for letter about armoured vehicles
Find your MP here: https://www.ourcommons.ca/members/en Or find your MPP here: https://www.ola.org/en/members/current Make sure you enter your MP/MPP’s name in the greeting and replace the template ...
docs.google.com
January 28, 2026 at 3:14 AM
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It's only TUESDAY.
January 27, 2026 at 10:20 PM
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If you are Canadian and posted something snarky about ICE today, then you also have to read & share this new piece from Other Eric.
January 27, 2026 at 10:33 PM
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every new baby born gets a birth certificate with a blank gender field and an IWW card
January 27, 2026 at 5:22 AM
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Roshel armoured trucks in action.
Elbows up, Canada?
This administration is cooked. Literally no one is scared of them.
January 27, 2026 at 6:31 AM
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sobbing
brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis
January 27, 2026 at 2:49 AM
got my first of two shingles vaccines today!

*cue TPOH “I’m an Adult Now”*
January 27, 2026 at 3:27 AM
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Remember: The insane tyrannical shit you're seeing in the States right now, there is a not insignificant percentage of people in Alberta who want to bring that north.
January 25, 2026 at 2:44 AM
we need a health care State of Emergency in Alberta! click here to send a letter to the Premier stateofemergency.ca
Premier Danielle Smith: Declare a Health Care State of Emergency
Demand real solutions–more beds, more staff, and public funding that keeps up with our population.
stateofemergency.ca
January 24, 2026 at 10:21 PM
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Once again, TikTok as a whole has not been sold, not even the US part in its entirety, just a part of their US operations. Even the ads and ecommerce features are AFAICT still under Bytedance, so the US operation seems to mostly be user data and custom training for the ‘algorithm’
January 24, 2026 at 3:13 PM
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solidarity forever
Today is the day. Right now hundreds of Minnesota businesses and institutions are shut down. Thousands of people are refusing to work. There’s a massive picket at the airport. Minnesota’s resistance to ICE today is changing the tenor our fight against fascism.

www.jphilll.com/p/the-first-...
The first General Strike in 80 years
We're at war, and now people are fighting back like never before
www.jphilll.com
January 23, 2026 at 6:16 PM
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People are asking why the folks that are constantly yelling about “tyrannical government” are silent now?

That’s easy—they’re all white settlers, many of them male, who actually love government oppression against people they dont like.

They just don’t like the government telling THEM what to do.
January 23, 2026 at 5:41 PM
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The HEI Network is proud to announce the 13th Annual On Cinema Oscar Special. Host New Heidecker has sworn his departure from On Cinema, but Head Buff Gregg Turkington wants the show to go on...

Will this be the last Oscar Special ever?

Only one way to find out!
January 22, 2026 at 8:46 PM
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People don't get that continually allowing your government to dehumanize people "over there" who maybe don't look like you inevitably leads to them dehumanizing people here who *do* look like you, because they *are* you.

None of us is free until all of us are free.
January 9, 2026 at 10:43 PM
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January 22, 2026 at 3:52 AM