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Adriaan 🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦
@adriaan.braevitae.com
SciFi and Fantasy Author 🇨🇦 at https://braevitae.com. Software Developer. Parent to a very busy 8yo 🤷‍♀️💗
Trans 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 They/She
Pinned
I write Fantasy and Science Fiction. Always with LGBTQIA+ characters. Often readable. Sometimes insightful.

See the full list of my books and short stories at adriaanbrae.braevitae.com.
Adriaan Brae Author
Fantasy and Science Fiction with a touch of horror.
adriaanbrae.braevitae.com
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A pox on the data brokers who make this kind of surveillance both extremely easy and very profitable.
This App Lets ICE Track Vehicles and Owners Across the Country
Material viewed by 404 Media shows data giant Thomson Reuters enriches license plate data with marriage, voter, and ownership records. The tool can predict where a car may be in the future.
www.404media.co
November 17, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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This piece was greenlit and then killed by a British newspaper, so I’ve decided to publish myself instead.

Trans People Deserve Better.
"Gender critical" feminism doesn't help women but it does help the far right

open.substack.com/pub/wellread...
Trans People Deserve Better
"Gender critical" feminism doesn't help women but it does help the far right
open.substack.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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⚡️ Ukraine's HUR releases new data on foreign equipment used in Russian weapons, focusing on eastern Asian companies.

Ukraine has long highlighted Western and foreign components used in Russian weapons to call for tougher sanctions.
Ukraine's HUR releases new data on foreign equipment used in Russian weapons, focusing on eastern Asian companies
Ukraine has long highlighted Western and foreign components used in Russian weapons to call for tougher sanctions .
kyivindependent.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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You can think it’s good that Massie and MTG are stirring up shit within the GOP caucus without thinking their politics in general is good. It’s not hard at all in fact?
November 16, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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This is a new low from a govt plumbing the depths of performative cruelty in hopes that the public won’t notice they have no answers to the real issues facing this country

A sensible, humane govt would focus on safe routes to prevent people making dangerous small boat crossings
November 17, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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Firings at Condé Nast hit trans journalists hard. When union representatives attempted to question the decision, they were fired in what the union says is illegal retaliation.

That and more trans news leading off the week this Monday AM.

www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
Trans People Fight Reprisals by Condé Nast and Trump Regime — Assigned
Leading Off: The media corporation is union busting, the NewsGuild says. Trans troops take Trump to court over broken promises. The week’s top story lines.
www.assignedmedia.org
November 17, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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Help me fund epic poem GULA: A Poem For The End Times on BackerKit! A modernist/post-modernist long-form poem, GULA explores Carrion City, a place where the lost and forsaken end up and rarely leave -- a mirror city to the world of the beloved and treasured.

www.backerkit.com/c/projects/e...
November 17, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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The use of terror is not a byproduct of Trumpian politics: it is central to how he governs.
(Politico) - An Indiana Senate Republican who President Donald Trump called out in a Truth Social post Sunday for not backing the White House’s plan to draw new congressional maps was later targeted by a swatting, according to local authorities.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
November 17, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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When DHS dared to call its anti-immigrant racial profiling weekend in Charlotte, North Carolina, “Operation Charlotte’s Web,” I knew I was going to have to write about it.

Tonight, at Law Dork, here it is: www.lawdork.com/p/gregory-bo...
November 17, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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Because they’re trying to normalize it in the court of public opinion.

They’re doing “shout your abortion” except abortion is moral and legal, while they’re attempting to mainstream statutory rape
And why does this person want to share this with everyone?
November 17, 2025 at 12:14 AM
It's quite the singular experience driving 4 pre-teen girls to an event when Golden (Huntrix) suddenly comes on the radio 🤣

(I admit, I'm singing along too ❤️)
November 17, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.

Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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holy shit: “Among the 2,000 UK adults surveyed, 85% were unaware that Britain forcibly transported more than 3 million Africans to the Caribbean, 89% did not know that Britain enslaved people in the Caribbean for more than 300 years” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Caribbean reparations leaders in ‘historic’ first UK visit to press for justice
CRC mission will seek to deepen public understanding of Britain’s colonial legacy and its lasting impact
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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The Epstein Survivors confirm Trump killed a Biden-era investigation into Epstein's co-conspirators, fired the prosecutors, then stole the files. I'll discuss today at Noon PT/3 PM ET www.youtube.com/live/49HUqKI...
LIVE: WOW! Trump PULLS PLUG on KEY INVESTIGATION Into THE FILES
Today, Trump killed a Biden investigation into the Epstein coconspirators, the criminal contempt proceedings against the DOJ are back on track, and over two hours of Halligan’s grand jury proceedings ...
www.youtube.com
November 16, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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There is speculation the UCP will invoke the notwithstanding clause tomorrow for its 3 laws restricting the rights of trans and gender diverse youth. This requires legislative amendment so will need to be voted on by the Leg. It is Transgender Awareness Week and this timing is beyond shameful.
@jenniferkoshan.bsky.social Jennifer this is correct I think. Smith is using the Notwithstanding Clause again. I wanted to check with the expert!
Is Danielle Smith using the Notwithstanding Clause a second time?!?!?!
November 16, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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Just for my own edification, if you are BIPOC and living in Canada and write gothic horror do you mind saying hi to me on this thread?

Off the bat respectfully I know of Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Premee, Nalo Hopkinson, I love all of their work and have their books.
November 16, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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If I can sell seven more copies of Magica Riot: Full Bloom today I’ll leave the weekend with a heck of a milestone 🥹
November 16, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Adding a scene to my WIP where one of my gay male chars helps win a battle by communicating his ideas using interpretive dance 😁

( I did not plan or expect this, it just happened that way 🙂)

#WriteSky
November 16, 2025 at 5:23 PM
CW: CSA, rape

With all the high-profile child-rapists in the news it's important to remember that the vast majority of rapists are are someone the child has emotional bonds to 😕 Advocating for the death penalty or vigilante justice hands them a weapon, as in: "If you tell anyone, daddy will die!"
November 16, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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“We—humanity—are made whole by a series of interacting acts of love. Love is an act of hope and defiance. Love helps keep us alive.”

My latest newsletter is a musing on love in the midst of struggle: thorncoyle.kit.com/posts/to-lov...

#photography
November 16, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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People keep saying that & I’m like:

- Why did we ditch masking in places that had it previous to the pandemic?

- what happened to all our dashboards? What about our metrics for shutdowns?

- why aren’t we given masks and tests?

- what about ventilation?

- why aren’t all shots free
November 16, 2025 at 5:14 AM
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For the fifty billionth time: I don't want society to shut down. I want you to mask at the fucking hospital, bus, airport, school, and grocery store, if you can.

If you cannot, I want everyone else to, to protect you.
November 16, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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Teenagers are old enough to have sex with middle aged men. They are not old enough to be trans.

by Megyn Kelly
November 16, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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This is why AI is so dangerous

Financial institutions will use it to scrape the web to discriminate against you — yes, YOU — and debank you

Today, it’s for being an adult VA

Tomorrow, for being trans? Gay?
November 16, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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Massie: "I would remind my Republican colleagues who are decided how to vote, Donald Trump can protect you in red districts right now by giving you an endorsement, but by 2030, he's not gonna be the president and you will have voted to protect pedophiles if you don't vote to release those files."
November 16, 2025 at 3:05 PM