Bronwyn Douwsma
@ninesnowboots.bsky.social
43 year old trans femme in Halifax, NS. Mostly human at times. AuDHD. My posts do not represent my employer.
Pronouns: they/them. MDNI.
http://linktr.ee/ninesnowboots
Pronouns: they/them. MDNI.
http://linktr.ee/ninesnowboots
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Reintroduction time: I'm Bronwyn (they/them), a 43 year old trans femme in Halifax, NS.
Looking to connect with fellow queerdos, local folk, exvangelicals, bald ladies and theydies, AuDHDers, and SNL nerds.
Looking to connect with fellow queerdos, local folk, exvangelicals, bald ladies and theydies, AuDHDers, and SNL nerds.
I remember when Global TV would mistake commercial parodies or @triumphicdhq.bsky.social's TV Funhouse segments for real commercial breaks about 20 years ago.
December 24, 2025 at 3:11 AM
I remember when Global TV would mistake commercial parodies or @triumphicdhq.bsky.social's TV Funhouse segments for real commercial breaks about 20 years ago.
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When you’re talking all time great Christmas specials, Lola’s Love Spirit featuring Juul Haalmeyer had better be in that conversation.
December 24, 2025 at 2:55 AM
When you’re talking all time great Christmas specials, Lola’s Love Spirit featuring Juul Haalmeyer had better be in that conversation.
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I’m at work and this is the first thing I see and rad to run to the bathroom to post this. Need all the help we can with this one, y’all. I can’t afford to be on the streets. These people play with those who struggle because they can. Please please share or help
December 23, 2025 at 6:25 PM
I’m at work and this is the first thing I see and rad to run to the bathroom to post this. Need all the help we can with this one, y’all. I can’t afford to be on the streets. These people play with those who struggle because they can. Please please share or help
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thinking of the fugitive slave act and people who profited from it
NEW: A variety of military and intelligence contractors have already signed on to help ICE's immigrant bounty hunter program. A review of procurement data shows 10 companies stand to make up to *ONE BILLION* dollars from the program by 2027. theintercept.com/2025/12/23/i...
10 Companies Have Already Made $1 Million as ICE Bounty Hunters. We Found Them.
And they stand to make millions more in cash bonuses for surveilling and tracking immigrants in service of ICE’s deportation machine.
theintercept.com
December 23, 2025 at 8:56 PM
thinking of the fugitive slave act and people who profited from it
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‘SNL’ writer Jimmy Fowlie pleads for help finding his missing sister
‘SNL’ writer Jimmy Fowlie pleads for help finding his missing sister
"Saturday Night Live" writer Jimmy Fowlie took to Instagram asking for the public's help locating his missing sister, Christina Lynn Downer, who was last seen in Los Angeles.
nypost.com
December 24, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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my festive spirit amidst our grimly stupid reality (2025)
December 23, 2025 at 9:34 PM
my festive spirit amidst our grimly stupid reality (2025)
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Stay safe out there y'all
December 18, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Stay safe out there y'all
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I’m interrupting my incessant quoting from @kathrynajoyce.bsky.social ‘s THE CHILD CATCHERS with a post in praise of the book. It’s amazingly thoroughly researched. It’s about the Christian “orphan care” movement but it also tells you about the Baby Scoop, CPCs, Utah’s notoriety, and so much else. +
December 23, 2025 at 3:48 AM
I’m interrupting my incessant quoting from @kathrynajoyce.bsky.social ‘s THE CHILD CATCHERS with a post in praise of the book. It’s amazingly thoroughly researched. It’s about the Christian “orphan care” movement but it also tells you about the Baby Scoop, CPCs, Utah’s notoriety, and so much else. +
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Friends with Benefits and the “benefits” is emotional availability.
December 23, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Friends with Benefits and the “benefits” is emotional availability.
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look at how little effort it takes for someone on the conservative grievance circuit to destroy a life
millions of college kids have half assed an assignment at the last minute, you eat the F and move on
but the effort to push trans people out of public life will use whatever it can get
millions of college kids have half assed an assignment at the last minute, you eat the F and move on
but the effort to push trans people out of public life will use whatever it can get
Worth noting that the student admits that she just threw the thing together in 30 minutes without reading the paper she was supposed to be responding to.
December 23, 2025 at 5:53 PM
look at how little effort it takes for someone on the conservative grievance circuit to destroy a life
millions of college kids have half assed an assignment at the last minute, you eat the F and move on
but the effort to push trans people out of public life will use whatever it can get
millions of college kids have half assed an assignment at the last minute, you eat the F and move on
but the effort to push trans people out of public life will use whatever it can get
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adding that not just media and fun things, but artists design everything you come in contact with every day. the clothes you wear, the packaging of everything you buy, the products you use to do anything. literally every day of your life is touched by art & design 💙
ARTISTS ARE ESSENTIAL WORKERS. IF YOU DOUBT THAT, TRY GOING WITHOUT BOOKS, ART, MUSIC, TV, MOVIES, OR ANY OF THE THINGS THAT SHAPE HOW WE COMMUNICATE, RELAX, AND UNDERSTAND THE WORLD. ALL OF WHICH EXIST ONLY BECAUSE OF CREATIVE CRAFTSPERSONSHIP.
LET US BEGIN THE AIRING OF GRIEVANCES. HAPPY FESTIVUS TO ALL!
December 23, 2025 at 7:36 PM
adding that not just media and fun things, but artists design everything you come in contact with every day. the clothes you wear, the packaging of everything you buy, the products you use to do anything. literally every day of your life is touched by art & design 💙
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this is the thing i've been trying to get at - it's entirely possible someone on global or bell's side knew and failed to take action.
but it's more likely that half the staff checked out for the holiday on friday afternoon & no one checked email on the wknd. set it & forget it.
but it's more likely that half the staff checked out for the holiday on friday afternoon & no one checked email on the wknd. set it & forget it.
Global TV is a low-effort conservative-leaning private network, and this wasn’t “treachery” this was “it was the weekend before Christmas and they just broadcast the episode that was sent to them digitally by CBS on Friday”, no one in the office on the weekend even if CBS tried to warn them
From the Atlantic attempt to justify Bari Weiss' decision. What's Canadian for "perfidious Albion?"
December 23, 2025 at 9:51 PM
this is the thing i've been trying to get at - it's entirely possible someone on global or bell's side knew and failed to take action.
but it's more likely that half the staff checked out for the holiday on friday afternoon & no one checked email on the wknd. set it & forget it.
but it's more likely that half the staff checked out for the holiday on friday afternoon & no one checked email on the wknd. set it & forget it.
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i don't know if i've ever posted about the 1959 project here but it's one of my biggest accomplishments to date i think the1959project.com
December 23, 2025 at 2:52 PM
i don't know if i've ever posted about the 1959 project here but it's one of my biggest accomplishments to date i think the1959project.com
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Hello from somewhere off I-80!
This is the project I work on all year long with NPR’s research librarians (aka RAD). It means a lot to me to remember these musicians, producers and industry folks who make our lives so much better.
This is the project I work on all year long with NPR’s research librarians (aka RAD). It means a lot to me to remember these musicians, producers and industry folks who make our lives so much better.
D'Angelo. Brian Wilson. Sly Stone. We lost these greats and so many more in 2025 — singers, producers, conductors and writers whose departures gave us a pang of loss, but whose art still lifts us up. n.pr/3YIJurW
In Memoriam 2025: The Musicians We Lost
D'Angelo. Brian Wilson. Sly Stone. We lost these greats and so many more in 2025 — singers, producers, conductors and writers whose departures gave us a pang of loss, but whose art still lifts us up.
n.pr
December 23, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Hello from somewhere off I-80!
This is the project I work on all year long with NPR’s research librarians (aka RAD). It means a lot to me to remember these musicians, producers and industry folks who make our lives so much better.
This is the project I work on all year long with NPR’s research librarians (aka RAD). It means a lot to me to remember these musicians, producers and industry folks who make our lives so much better.
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Did you know our government under the Biden administration allowed a CEO to basically dictate a public health policy that has likely played an important role in your or a loved one’s long term health? It’s true, sadly. #COVID
www.reuters.com/business/aer...
www.reuters.com/business/aer...
December 23, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Did you know our government under the Biden administration allowed a CEO to basically dictate a public health policy that has likely played an important role in your or a loved one’s long term health? It’s true, sadly. #COVID
www.reuters.com/business/aer...
www.reuters.com/business/aer...
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She’s so proud and dismissive of how she basically went out of her way ti destroy someone who’d never done anything to her’s life and livelihood for orchestrated conservative clout.
I wish her nothing but abject misery and unending woe for the rest of her days.
I wish her nothing but abject misery and unending woe for the rest of her days.
Worth noting that the student admits that she just threw the thing together in 30 minutes without reading the paper she was supposed to be responding to.
December 23, 2025 at 6:39 PM
She’s so proud and dismissive of how she basically went out of her way ti destroy someone who’d never done anything to her’s life and livelihood for orchestrated conservative clout.
I wish her nothing but abject misery and unending woe for the rest of her days.
I wish her nothing but abject misery and unending woe for the rest of her days.
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Winnipeg is alive with art: writers, theatre, music, exhibits, happenings, visual art. But you wouldn’t know it from the @winnipegfreepress.com Arts & Life section. Other than the occasional nods, it's mostly U.S. celebrity filler. We’re more than that. Tell our stories.
December 20, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Winnipeg is alive with art: writers, theatre, music, exhibits, happenings, visual art. But you wouldn’t know it from the @winnipegfreepress.com Arts & Life section. Other than the occasional nods, it's mostly U.S. celebrity filler. We’re more than that. Tell our stories.
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For @rollingstone.com, I wrote about the making of the myth of sheriff Buford Pusser, and how recent revelations that he was likely responsible for the 1967 murder of his wife, Pauline, undercuts that myth -- and begs for a new narrative about intimate partner violence and family trauma.
He Was a Legendary Sheriff Who Inspired a Movie. Did He Also Murder His Wife?
When Buford Pusser’s wife was killed, his grief turned into the movie ‘Walking Tall.’ But a new report from investigators suggests it was all a lie.
www.rollingstone.com
December 23, 2025 at 2:59 PM
For @rollingstone.com, I wrote about the making of the myth of sheriff Buford Pusser, and how recent revelations that he was likely responsible for the 1967 murder of his wife, Pauline, undercuts that myth -- and begs for a new narrative about intimate partner violence and family trauma.
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I think maybe we should bully christians more
Worth noting that the student admits that she just threw the thing together in 30 minutes without reading the paper she was supposed to be responding to.
December 23, 2025 at 1:09 PM
I think maybe we should bully christians more
Too much noise in my head tonight.
December 23, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Too much noise in my head tonight.
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People have historically, and rightfully, seen the evil of Guantanamo, Abu Gharib, and now CECOT for what it is, but I wish more people would also see the evil in our domestic prisons too. How we treat our most vulnerable, including prisoners, really sets the tone for our whole society.
I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.
December 23, 2025 at 2:09 AM
People have historically, and rightfully, seen the evil of Guantanamo, Abu Gharib, and now CECOT for what it is, but I wish more people would also see the evil in our domestic prisons too. How we treat our most vulnerable, including prisoners, really sets the tone for our whole society.
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When I teaching the Holocaust I note the Holocaust museum’s definition of a concentration camp is a prison whose inmates are denied due process. These are by definition concentration camps.
These are concentration camps. No other way to describe them. Truly horrific, and none of it surprising in the least.
30 minutes. Some deportees described sexual assault. Detainee describes the guard sexually assaulting most detainees. Lights left on all day. Prisoners not given clean water.
Now the DHS tour. Nobody spoke to the detainees. Noem's video was in a different area of the prison.
Now the DHS tour. Nobody spoke to the detainees. Noem's video was in a different area of the prison.
December 23, 2025 at 12:39 AM
When I teaching the Holocaust I note the Holocaust museum’s definition of a concentration camp is a prison whose inmates are denied due process. These are by definition concentration camps.
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Yes, CECOT is a concentration camp in the guise of a prison. The Venezuelans were the first people to *ever* be released from CECOT since Bukele opened the prison in January 2023. Seriously. The first.
These are concentration camps. No other way to describe them. Truly horrific, and none of it surprising in the least.
30 minutes. Some deportees described sexual assault. Detainee describes the guard sexually assaulting most detainees. Lights left on all day. Prisoners not given clean water.
Now the DHS tour. Nobody spoke to the detainees. Noem's video was in a different area of the prison.
Now the DHS tour. Nobody spoke to the detainees. Noem's video was in a different area of the prison.
December 23, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Yes, CECOT is a concentration camp in the guise of a prison. The Venezuelans were the first people to *ever* be released from CECOT since Bukele opened the prison in January 2023. Seriously. The first.