NA Niles🇨🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
@niles403.bsky.social
@Treaty7 Confluence in Canada aka YYC. The Great White North teaches you we all can get stranded in isolating cold & dark.
If society isn't the storm defying presence digging down to you & asking "are you ok?" writ large, we're doing it wrong.
If society isn't the storm defying presence digging down to you & asking "are you ok?" writ large, we're doing it wrong.
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NA Niles🇨🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
@niles403.bsky.social
· Apr 17
My husband has taught human reproduction and development to the Cambridge medics for over three decades. When people start banging on about "only two biological sexes" he starts with "which sex: genetic, hormonal, or gonadal"?
Biological sex is not binary. www.scientificamerican.com/article/sex-...
Biological sex is not binary. www.scientificamerican.com/article/sex-...
Sex Redefined: The Idea of 2 Sexes Is Overly Simplistic
Biologists now think there is a larger spectrum than just binary female and male
www.scientificamerican.com
Humans, like all sexual animals, are a biological spectrum. Not male/female & 'wrong'.
But when superiority is defined as 'male', a spectrum fucks this smug presumption up. Throw in 'this holy book sed so, science is satanic' as 'proof' malez rool & we lose all the kewl factual wonder of the world.
But when superiority is defined as 'male', a spectrum fucks this smug presumption up. Throw in 'this holy book sed so, science is satanic' as 'proof' malez rool & we lose all the kewl factual wonder of the world.
-Remember Remember
11 November
A day where a war, at last, was no more-
The "butcher's bill" was gallows humour slang for military casualties count post battle.
It didn't count survivors w 'soldiers heart, combat fatigue, shell shock, PTSD'
It didn't count civilians or other species.
Remember
11 November
A day where a war, at last, was no more-
The "butcher's bill" was gallows humour slang for military casualties count post battle.
It didn't count survivors w 'soldiers heart, combat fatigue, shell shock, PTSD'
It didn't count civilians or other species.
Remember
November 11, 2025 at 1:53 PM
-Remember Remember
11 November
A day where a war, at last, was no more-
The "butcher's bill" was gallows humour slang for military casualties count post battle.
It didn't count survivors w 'soldiers heart, combat fatigue, shell shock, PTSD'
It didn't count civilians or other species.
Remember
11 November
A day where a war, at last, was no more-
The "butcher's bill" was gallows humour slang for military casualties count post battle.
It didn't count survivors w 'soldiers heart, combat fatigue, shell shock, PTSD'
It didn't count civilians or other species.
Remember
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Thank you @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social for noting that the conventional belief that women ovulate once a month is wrong, according to Canadian researchers. They have found that women can potentially ovulate two or even three times a month.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
November 10, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Thank you @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social for noting that the conventional belief that women ovulate once a month is wrong, according to Canadian researchers. They have found that women can potentially ovulate two or even three times a month.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
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Every major policy that makes life in Canada great: healthcare, pensions, paid time off - the Cons fought against it.
They’ve never been on the side of progress, only the side of power. And if given the chance, they’d take it all back. Women’s rights, workers’ rights, healthcare, all of it.
They’ve never been on the side of progress, only the side of power. And if given the chance, they’d take it all back. Women’s rights, workers’ rights, healthcare, all of it.
November 10, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Every major policy that makes life in Canada great: healthcare, pensions, paid time off - the Cons fought against it.
They’ve never been on the side of progress, only the side of power. And if given the chance, they’d take it all back. Women’s rights, workers’ rights, healthcare, all of it.
They’ve never been on the side of progress, only the side of power. And if given the chance, they’d take it all back. Women’s rights, workers’ rights, healthcare, all of it.
11.11.11
🇨🇦 & the Nations within, sea to sea to sea, aren't weak because we're not hip deep in killing tech.
Culturally, we don't glorify war.
Too often, 🇨🇦 allows regressive 🇨🇦govts to abandon mil-veteran care & the potential for vets to bloom as community safeguards.
That's 🇨🇦 being weak.
1/2
🇨🇦 & the Nations within, sea to sea to sea, aren't weak because we're not hip deep in killing tech.
Culturally, we don't glorify war.
Too often, 🇨🇦 allows regressive 🇨🇦govts to abandon mil-veteran care & the potential for vets to bloom as community safeguards.
That's 🇨🇦 being weak.
1/2
November 10, 2025 at 6:32 PM
11.11.11
🇨🇦 & the Nations within, sea to sea to sea, aren't weak because we're not hip deep in killing tech.
Culturally, we don't glorify war.
Too often, 🇨🇦 allows regressive 🇨🇦govts to abandon mil-veteran care & the potential for vets to bloom as community safeguards.
That's 🇨🇦 being weak.
1/2
🇨🇦 & the Nations within, sea to sea to sea, aren't weak because we're not hip deep in killing tech.
Culturally, we don't glorify war.
Too often, 🇨🇦 allows regressive 🇨🇦govts to abandon mil-veteran care & the potential for vets to bloom as community safeguards.
That's 🇨🇦 being weak.
1/2
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Hi Bluesky 👋
Small life update: I’m at the centre of a multimillion dollar lawsuit in Alberta launched by a failed candidate for Jason Kenney’s UCP
It may be the longest and most expensive media trial in Canadian history
I’m ready to go public about it and I want to share more details with you 🧵
Small life update: I’m at the centre of a multimillion dollar lawsuit in Alberta launched by a failed candidate for Jason Kenney’s UCP
It may be the longest and most expensive media trial in Canadian history
I’m ready to go public about it and I want to share more details with you 🧵
November 7, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Hi Bluesky 👋
Small life update: I’m at the centre of a multimillion dollar lawsuit in Alberta launched by a failed candidate for Jason Kenney’s UCP
It may be the longest and most expensive media trial in Canadian history
I’m ready to go public about it and I want to share more details with you 🧵
Small life update: I’m at the centre of a multimillion dollar lawsuit in Alberta launched by a failed candidate for Jason Kenney’s UCP
It may be the longest and most expensive media trial in Canadian history
I’m ready to go public about it and I want to share more details with you 🧵
When govts create "laws" to outlaw dissent by groups directly suffering from their grotesque "ants under glass" torments & use those laws to make dissenters -forced labour- in front of kids cited as the reason to criminalize dissent, even while criminalizing kids for existing.
Where does it end?
Where does it end?
Grandiose claims and unlikely predictions of Alberta Throne Speech bordered at times on science fiction. albertapolitics.ca/2025/10/gran... Outside, 30,000 striking Alberta schoolteachers rang cowbells & blew trumpets to protest the UCP’s bargaining strategy.
Grandiose claims and unlikely predictions of Alberta Throne Speech bordered at times on science fiction - Alberta Politics
Having already solved the problem of trade and tariffs with the United States simply by being nice to the Trump Administration, Alberta’s United Conservative Government is about to “end the landlockin...
albertapolitics.ca
October 26, 2025 at 4:27 PM
When govts create "laws" to outlaw dissent by groups directly suffering from their grotesque "ants under glass" torments & use those laws to make dissenters -forced labour- in front of kids cited as the reason to criminalize dissent, even while criminalizing kids for existing.
Where does it end?
Where does it end?
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Our long extended waits in line in CGY were b/c we requested school board ballot.
Some may have declined it knowing they'd have to go thru paperwork.
Despise AB's UCP gov duplicity.
Making municipalities cumbersome lets them take over municipal governance.
www.sprawlcalgary.com/voter-turnou...
Some may have declined it knowing they'd have to go thru paperwork.
Despise AB's UCP gov duplicity.
Making municipalities cumbersome lets them take over municipal governance.
www.sprawlcalgary.com/voter-turnou...
Calgary’s bizarre low-turnout, high-turnover election | The Sprawl
Relatively few Calgarians made big changes.
www.sprawlcalgary.com
October 25, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Our long extended waits in line in CGY were b/c we requested school board ballot.
Some may have declined it knowing they'd have to go thru paperwork.
Despise AB's UCP gov duplicity.
Making municipalities cumbersome lets them take over municipal governance.
www.sprawlcalgary.com/voter-turnou...
Some may have declined it knowing they'd have to go thru paperwork.
Despise AB's UCP gov duplicity.
Making municipalities cumbersome lets them take over municipal governance.
www.sprawlcalgary.com/voter-turnou...
Rest in Purpose, Ms Jane G. Hominids owe you a great debt for your scientific sisterhood and your dry British voice puncturing Greed.
October 2, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Rest in Purpose, Ms Jane G. Hominids owe you a great debt for your scientific sisterhood and your dry British voice puncturing Greed.
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The fact that this administration is hell bent on punishing Kilmar Abrego Garcia while rewarding Ghislane Maxwell tells you all you need to know about their violent racism and misogyny.
August 25, 2025 at 12:59 PM
The fact that this administration is hell bent on punishing Kilmar Abrego Garcia while rewarding Ghislane Maxwell tells you all you need to know about their violent racism and misogyny.
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Today in Black History: On Aug. 25, 1927, tennis legend Althea Gibson was born in Silver, SC. The daughter of sharecroppers, she rose from Harlem’s courts to win Grand Slams, shatter racial barriers in tennis, and later break ground as the first Black woman on the LPGA tour.
#BlackHistory
#BlackHistory
Althea Gibson - Early Life, Championships & Legacy | HISTORY
Trailblazing athlete Althea Gibson became the first great African American player in women’s tennis. She won a string...
www.history.com
August 25, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Today in Black History: On Aug. 25, 1927, tennis legend Althea Gibson was born in Silver, SC. The daughter of sharecroppers, she rose from Harlem’s courts to win Grand Slams, shatter racial barriers in tennis, and later break ground as the first Black woman on the LPGA tour.
#BlackHistory
#BlackHistory
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Reminder:
Live long enough, and you’ll -
A. Get old.
B. Acquire some kind of disability l, because our bodies were not designed to last forever.
So, when you address how society should treat people with disabilities and the elderly, remember that if you’re lucky, one day that will be you.
Live long enough, and you’ll -
A. Get old.
B. Acquire some kind of disability l, because our bodies were not designed to last forever.
So, when you address how society should treat people with disabilities and the elderly, remember that if you’re lucky, one day that will be you.
August 23, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Reminder:
Live long enough, and you’ll -
A. Get old.
B. Acquire some kind of disability l, because our bodies were not designed to last forever.
So, when you address how society should treat people with disabilities and the elderly, remember that if you’re lucky, one day that will be you.
Live long enough, and you’ll -
A. Get old.
B. Acquire some kind of disability l, because our bodies were not designed to last forever.
So, when you address how society should treat people with disabilities and the elderly, remember that if you’re lucky, one day that will be you.
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Today is Emancipation Day in Canada, across the Caribbean, and other regions - marking the day slavery was abolished in the British Empire. My book, The Book of Possibilities, has been featured on a few Emancipation Day reading lists, and I'm grateful!
Lemme tell y'all a bit about the day:
Lemme tell y'all a bit about the day:
August 1, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Today is Emancipation Day in Canada, across the Caribbean, and other regions - marking the day slavery was abolished in the British Empire. My book, The Book of Possibilities, has been featured on a few Emancipation Day reading lists, and I'm grateful!
Lemme tell y'all a bit about the day:
Lemme tell y'all a bit about the day:
A report from this week highlights a link between MMIWG and human trafficking in Canada.
Despite being 5 per cent of the population, Indigenous women and girls account for over half of trafficking victims.
That’s on this week’s Truth & Politics podcast.
Despite being 5 per cent of the population, Indigenous women and girls account for over half of trafficking victims.
That’s on this week’s Truth & Politics podcast.
Report raising alarms: Indigenous women and girls overrepresented in trafficking | Truth & Politics
YouTube video by APTN News
youtu.be
August 1, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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Report highlights intersections between disappearance of Indigenous women and human trafficking in Canada.
Hear more on APTN News Brief:
Hear more on APTN News Brief:
APTN News Brief: July 31, 2025—Report highlights intersections between disappearance of Indigenous women and human trafficking in Canada
Our lead story: a new report highlights intersections between the disappearance of Indigenous women and human trafficking in Canada.
pod.fo
July 31, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Report highlights intersections between disappearance of Indigenous women and human trafficking in Canada.
Hear more on APTN News Brief:
Hear more on APTN News Brief:
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Airborne Technologies is an Austrian company that is customizing Canadian Twin Otters for surveillance, search & rescue (SAR), & maritime patrol operations.
They can be built with wheels, floats or skies.
Demark just bought 2 of them.
12 sold already.
www.airbornetechnologies.at/en/news/star...
They can be built with wheels, floats or skies.
Demark just bought 2 of them.
12 sold already.
www.airbornetechnologies.at/en/news/star...
July 24, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Airborne Technologies is an Austrian company that is customizing Canadian Twin Otters for surveillance, search & rescue (SAR), & maritime patrol operations.
They can be built with wheels, floats or skies.
Demark just bought 2 of them.
12 sold already.
www.airbornetechnologies.at/en/news/star...
They can be built with wheels, floats or skies.
Demark just bought 2 of them.
12 sold already.
www.airbornetechnologies.at/en/news/star...
#cdnpoli Pols hav whined about #CBC unfairly competing w/for-profit telecoms & shld be destroyed bkuz Reezunz.
Watching for-profits ignore local affairs & kneel before rightwing poli-profiteering Reezunz, how abt we return to journo regs, no ads, real budget & reportage that links🇨🇦 w f'n facts.
Watching for-profits ignore local affairs & kneel before rightwing poli-profiteering Reezunz, how abt we return to journo regs, no ads, real budget & reportage that links🇨🇦 w f'n facts.
July 11, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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This is excellent news. Hopefully Transgender teens and their families can breathe a sigh of relief. They deserve to have access to the healthcare they need. 🏳️⚧️
BREAKING NEWS. Alberta Court of King’s Bench grants injunction preventing Alberta Government from banning gender-affirmative care for minors citing “irreparable harm will be caused if the Ban comes into force.”
A victory for human rights and trans youth! 🏳️⚧️
A victory for human rights and trans youth! 🏳️⚧️
June 27, 2025 at 10:22 PM
This is excellent news. Hopefully Transgender teens and their families can breathe a sigh of relief. They deserve to have access to the healthcare they need. 🏳️⚧️
Fight Smith's efforts to destroy lives she finds convenient political kickballs, if not for sheer empathy, then for the fact she'll come for your Othered ass next...kuz they always need more 5 minute Hate enemies to feed their idols of greed & whim.
We’re not free unless every one of us is free. Freedom to choose, freedom to be safe, freedom to live authentically.
Transgender kids in Alberta got a little bit closer to freedom today.
Let’s keep fighting. 🏳️⚧️
egale.ca/donate/#tab-...
Transgender kids in Alberta got a little bit closer to freedom today.
Let’s keep fighting. 🏳️⚧️
egale.ca/donate/#tab-...
Donate - Egale Canada
Donate today. With your donation, Egale Canada will be able to continue providing support for the 2SLGBTQI community through research, education, awareness, and legal advocacy.
egale.ca
June 28, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Fight Smith's efforts to destroy lives she finds convenient political kickballs, if not for sheer empathy, then for the fact she'll come for your Othered ass next...kuz they always need more 5 minute Hate enemies to feed their idols of greed & whim.
Alberta Republican Party aren't separatists, they're pro-TruMpAGA Americanists, insurgents willing to break 🇨🇦, for $ or as useful idiots.
Such 'native' breakaway groups r 1st steps in excuse for invaders to 'liberate' territory. Funding, splitting & testing for defence pushback.
#abpoli #canpoli
Such 'native' breakaway groups r 1st steps in excuse for invaders to 'liberate' territory. Funding, splitting & testing for defence pushback.
#abpoli #canpoli
June 24, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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There is a vaccine. There is a plan that could work.
However, the UCP, or any one of their four health ministers, refuse to act.
globalnews.ca/news/1125212...
However, the UCP, or any one of their four health ministers, refuse to act.
globalnews.ca/news/1125212...
Alberta surpasses 1,000 measles cases, AHS warns of potential exposures in Edmonton | Globalnews.ca
"Measles is a virus that spreads easily through the air when an infected person breathes, coughs or sneezes," reads a post on the provincial government's website.
globalnews.ca
June 21, 2025 at 1:45 AM
There is a vaccine. There is a plan that could work.
However, the UCP, or any one of their four health ministers, refuse to act.
globalnews.ca/news/1125212...
However, the UCP, or any one of their four health ministers, refuse to act.
globalnews.ca/news/1125212...
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This is very important information. Please pass it on... Stay safe! 💙
June 20, 2025 at 2:02 AM
This is very important information. Please pass it on... Stay safe! 💙
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Episode 3 NOW LIVE for stream and download on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
In this episode I explore some very dark chapters in our national history and lessons to learn.
This was a tough one to record.
#cdnpoli #uspoli #cdnmedia #history #podcast
open.spotify.com/episode/6v1s...
In this episode I explore some very dark chapters in our national history and lessons to learn.
This was a tough one to record.
#cdnpoli #uspoli #cdnmedia #history #podcast
open.spotify.com/episode/6v1s...
Pursed Lips, Three Ships
Maple Drenched Musings · Episode
open.spotify.com
June 16, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Idk man but when the administration that tried to reject humanitarian aid for Los Angeles when it was burning tries to justify their illegal military occupation by saying they aren’t going to let LA burn it kinda sounds like bullshit
June 11, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Idk man but when the administration that tried to reject humanitarian aid for Los Angeles when it was burning tries to justify their illegal military occupation by saying they aren’t going to let LA burn it kinda sounds like bullshit