Rika Klassen
@rikaklassen.bsky.social
Deafblind (ASL/EN)
EN: She/her
ASL: They/them/👉
EN: She/her
ASL: They/them/👉
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A debt of gratitude owed to @anhedoniaoakley.bsky.social for bringing this issue to public attention.
There are so many bad decisions made by the federal govt around Canadian Disability Benefit and they keep compounding rather than solving them.
www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...
There are so many bad decisions made by the federal govt around Canadian Disability Benefit and they keep compounding rather than solving them.
www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...
Woman seeking Canada Disability Benefit frustrated after being sent to costly AI-integrated service
When Vancouver Island resident Iris Parker began applying for the Canada Disability Benefit, she didn’t expect to face steep up-front costs—particularly to have AI-integrated software fill out one of ...
www.ctvnews.ca
November 28, 2025 at 12:47 AM
A debt of gratitude owed to @anhedoniaoakley.bsky.social for bringing this issue to public attention.
There are so many bad decisions made by the federal govt around Canadian Disability Benefit and they keep compounding rather than solving them.
www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...
There are so many bad decisions made by the federal govt around Canadian Disability Benefit and they keep compounding rather than solving them.
www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...
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Happy Thanksgiving thread dedicated to giving back to Native people. If your holiday is truly not about celebrating genocide, then show your thanks in a real way. Also check #SettlerSaturday. Natives, post any needs or art below.
November 27, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Happy Thanksgiving thread dedicated to giving back to Native people. If your holiday is truly not about celebrating genocide, then show your thanks in a real way. Also check #SettlerSaturday. Natives, post any needs or art below.
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Carney jamming another pipeline through our beautiful province isn't just bad energy policy - it's bad health policy. Climate health is population health.
More fossil fuels mean more PM2.5, more heart disease, more lung disease, even dementia. Not to mention the excess deaths from extreme heat
More fossil fuels mean more PM2.5, more heart disease, more lung disease, even dementia. Not to mention the excess deaths from extreme heat
November 28, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Carney jamming another pipeline through our beautiful province isn't just bad energy policy - it's bad health policy. Climate health is population health.
More fossil fuels mean more PM2.5, more heart disease, more lung disease, even dementia. Not to mention the excess deaths from extreme heat
More fossil fuels mean more PM2.5, more heart disease, more lung disease, even dementia. Not to mention the excess deaths from extreme heat
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I think that I shall never gleam
a poem as lovely as a meme.
a poem as lovely as a meme.
August 25, 2023 at 7:51 PM
I think that I shall never gleam
a poem as lovely as a meme.
a poem as lovely as a meme.
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🍂 anyways ily all especially the ones that helped me break out of my shell
also while you're reading this you should learn about the Native peoples whose land you occupy, they're still here, it's not ancient history, and the violence against them still continues to this day
also while you're reading this you should learn about the Native peoples whose land you occupy, they're still here, it's not ancient history, and the violence against them still continues to this day
November 27, 2025 at 10:26 PM
🍂 anyways ily all especially the ones that helped me break out of my shell
also while you're reading this you should learn about the Native peoples whose land you occupy, they're still here, it's not ancient history, and the violence against them still continues to this day
also while you're reading this you should learn about the Native peoples whose land you occupy, they're still here, it's not ancient history, and the violence against them still continues to this day
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no one:
absolutely no one:
not a single soul in this earth:
me: [whispering] im sorry
absolutely no one:
not a single soul in this earth:
me: [whispering] im sorry
November 28, 2025 at 12:02 AM
no one:
absolutely no one:
not a single soul in this earth:
me: [whispering] im sorry
absolutely no one:
not a single soul in this earth:
me: [whispering] im sorry
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i know funds are tight for you, too, but after thanksgiving with my sister ribbing me harder and harder i could really use some gas or pizza money if y'all got it.
another month another pleading post.
this one a little more urgent. gor denied for disability again, and i have only been able to scrape by from food stamps and the kindness of others. anything at all helps, even 10-20 for pizza
PP: @classypay
CA: $junedelphox
no nee pics of my cat molly today sry
this one a little more urgent. gor denied for disability again, and i have only been able to scrape by from food stamps and the kindness of others. anything at all helps, even 10-20 for pizza
PP: @classypay
CA: $junedelphox
no nee pics of my cat molly today sry
November 28, 2025 at 2:26 AM
i know funds are tight for you, too, but after thanksgiving with my sister ribbing me harder and harder i could really use some gas or pizza money if y'all got it.
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Nothing hotter than a woman who threatens to murder people for her girlfriend
Me and who else?
Me and who else?
November 28, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Nothing hotter than a woman who threatens to murder people for her girlfriend
Me and who else?
Me and who else?
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Carney rode into power claiming nation-building project of pipelines & ports & profit for corporations.
Canada-Alberta pipeline MOU today proves what nation-building on these lands always is - devastating colonial extraction on Indigenous lands without Indigenous consent
No consent, no pipelines!
Canada-Alberta pipeline MOU today proves what nation-building on these lands always is - devastating colonial extraction on Indigenous lands without Indigenous consent
No consent, no pipelines!
November 28, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Carney rode into power claiming nation-building project of pipelines & ports & profit for corporations.
Canada-Alberta pipeline MOU today proves what nation-building on these lands always is - devastating colonial extraction on Indigenous lands without Indigenous consent
No consent, no pipelines!
Canada-Alberta pipeline MOU today proves what nation-building on these lands always is - devastating colonial extraction on Indigenous lands without Indigenous consent
No consent, no pipelines!
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Here's the on point article about Inclusion Canada not doing their due diligence w/their benefits navigation services, and pointing disabled people towards shady 3rd party for-profit services just to access basics like the DTC & #CanadaDisabilityBenefit.
www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...
1/6
www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...
1/6
Woman seeking Canada Disability Benefit frustrated after being sent to costly AI-integrated service
When Vancouver Island resident Iris Parker began applying for the Canada Disability Benefit, she didn’t expect to face steep up-front costs—particularly to have AI-integrated software fill out one of ...
www.ctvnews.ca
November 28, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Here's the on point article about Inclusion Canada not doing their due diligence w/their benefits navigation services, and pointing disabled people towards shady 3rd party for-profit services just to access basics like the DTC & #CanadaDisabilityBenefit.
www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...
1/6
www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...
1/6
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Canadian weapons, mining interests, and refugee policies are leaving fingerprints on the ongoing genocide in Sudan.
@nisrinelamin.bsky.social, @policingblack.bsky.social and Ismail Adam write about Canada’s role in Sudan’s brutal and escalating war. breachmedia.ca/in-the-genoc...
@nisrinelamin.bsky.social, @policingblack.bsky.social and Ismail Adam write about Canada’s role in Sudan’s brutal and escalating war. breachmedia.ca/in-the-genoc...
In the genocide in Sudan, Canada has a hand in the violence ⋆ The Breach
The massacres of civilians in Sudan are being fuelled by Canadian weapons, mining interests, and refugee restrictions. It’s time for Canada to end its complicity
breachmedia.ca
November 27, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Canadian weapons, mining interests, and refugee policies are leaving fingerprints on the ongoing genocide in Sudan.
@nisrinelamin.bsky.social, @policingblack.bsky.social and Ismail Adam write about Canada’s role in Sudan’s brutal and escalating war. breachmedia.ca/in-the-genoc...
@nisrinelamin.bsky.social, @policingblack.bsky.social and Ismail Adam write about Canada’s role in Sudan’s brutal and escalating war. breachmedia.ca/in-the-genoc...
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On this day in 1885, Canada hanged eight Indigenous men for resisting colonialism in what's now the province of Saskatchewan.
Battleford Hangings – Saskatchewan Indian (1972)
historyiswhat.noblogs.org
November 27, 2025 at 10:51 PM
On this day in 1885, Canada hanged eight Indigenous men for resisting colonialism in what's now the province of Saskatchewan.
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with alt text, because everyone deserves a good cry.
come over.
come over.
July 15, 2025 at 11:21 PM
with alt text, because everyone deserves a good cry.
come over.
come over.
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Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s.
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
newsGP - Australia set for world-first cervical cancer elimination
Vaccination programs have played a key role, and GPs remain ‘instrumental’ in boosting screening rates to reach the 2035 target.
www1.racgp.org.au
November 27, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s.
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
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The absolutely awesome Canadian author, Robert J. Sawyer has written quite a few Indigenous characters into his books. He has even waxed philosophical about Indigenous relationships to land without ever needing to present himself as Indigenous. (apihtawikosisan.com/2012/01/ques...)
Questioning assumptions, Sawyer did it, will you?
I’ve been reading a lot of Robert J. Sawyer lately, because as pointed out by Adam Shaftoe and Matt Moore in the fall 2011 On Spec, he’s a Canadian Sci-Fi author who is surprisingly opt…
apihtawikosisan.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:44 PM
The absolutely awesome Canadian author, Robert J. Sawyer has written quite a few Indigenous characters into his books. He has even waxed philosophical about Indigenous relationships to land without ever needing to present himself as Indigenous. (apihtawikosisan.com/2012/01/ques...)
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hey Canada what happened the last time Canada forced pipelines through Indigenous territories?
November 27, 2025 at 6:03 PM
hey Canada what happened the last time Canada forced pipelines through Indigenous territories?
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having EDS means i come equipped with multiple deluxe points of articulation 😌
November 27, 2025 at 7:50 AM
having EDS means i come equipped with multiple deluxe points of articulation 😌
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“where did all the metrosexuals go?!” they transitioned, next question
November 27, 2025 at 7:49 AM
“where did all the metrosexuals go?!” they transitioned, next question
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In my experience, trans romance fiction tends to have a degree of intentionality and awareness about how sexuality and desire shapes gender. (That doesn't always make it better, to be clear.)
Cis romance, meanwhile, is usually about the dissonance that arises from desiring that which reviles you.
Cis romance, meanwhile, is usually about the dissonance that arises from desiring that which reviles you.
![alyson “☕” greaves — 11:46
I'm reading cis romances lately to broaden my horizons
the things the cis girlies want
lmao
it will forever amuse me that we keep policing each other on the suitability of our desires when there’s a whole industry out there, a whole world of authors and publishers and readers and influencers, who are getting really insanely fucky with it and writing shit ten times as wild as anything I’ve seen in a book by a trans woman
“Oh some trans girls want to be muzzled and wired into a cockpit do they? Yawn. Prince Tarothian Rape-Muchly likes to [redacted for the sake of good taste]. Call me when your girls are [incredibly fucking redacted] and picking up the pieces after.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xgkr6rl3xvo7kncvva45qgwh/bafkreicqmtnqwwtrbfxcut6rjrhwmwbnteyoyq6khapxrvsfl2eonqzdmy@jpeg)
November 27, 2025 at 2:07 PM
In my experience, trans romance fiction tends to have a degree of intentionality and awareness about how sexuality and desire shapes gender. (That doesn't always make it better, to be clear.)
Cis romance, meanwhile, is usually about the dissonance that arises from desiring that which reviles you.
Cis romance, meanwhile, is usually about the dissonance that arises from desiring that which reviles you.
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"Miles said her son and uncle were both detained by ICE agents who initially did not accept their tribal IDs before they were eventually let go."
‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
www.seattletimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:03 PM
"Miles said her son and uncle were both detained by ICE agents who initially did not accept their tribal IDs before they were eventually let go."
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Juno has her HRT now, but has no cell phone, and is about to have both her electricity and Internet shut off.
Help out my friend, please!
venmo.com/u/junostump
ko-fi.com/junostump
Help out my friend, please!
venmo.com/u/junostump
ko-fi.com/junostump
November 27, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Juno has her HRT now, but has no cell phone, and is about to have both her electricity and Internet shut off.
Help out my friend, please!
venmo.com/u/junostump
ko-fi.com/junostump
Help out my friend, please!
venmo.com/u/junostump
ko-fi.com/junostump
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happy give money to indigenous people day everyone happy land back in our time day everyone
November 27, 2025 at 3:36 PM
happy give money to indigenous people day everyone happy land back in our time day everyone
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Just want to point out that "Indigenous Writes: A Guide to First Nations, Métis & Inuit Issues in Canada" has a new edition coming out in the spring of 2026 with a much expanded exploration of administrative definitions of Indigenous folks (and more).
November 27, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Just want to point out that "Indigenous Writes: A Guide to First Nations, Métis & Inuit Issues in Canada" has a new edition coming out in the spring of 2026 with a much expanded exploration of administrative definitions of Indigenous folks (and more).
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Happy World Linguistics Day! Every deaf signer is the last signer of their own sign language variety.
November 26, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Happy World Linguistics Day! Every deaf signer is the last signer of their own sign language variety.