No! www.bbc.com/news/article...

We can become more skilled in navigating, subverting and transforming death and dying industries and institutions.

Mark Carney truly is a slop politician. He seems okay if you aren't paying much attention, but when you look closely and actually judge his work, he's just regurgitating bad ideas he got from other conservatives.

To our dismay, the artist and author Marjane Satrapi has passed away. As she wrote, ordinary Americans and Iranians have more in common with each other than we do with either of our governments, which have far too much in common with each other. We honor her memory and oppose the war.

I’m sorry to ask again. But they made me put $250 down on my $2500 hospital bill for the mental health stay. I don’t have it. I just need some help this month. My car payment is due and they’re charging me $20 extra for being late. If you can help, Venmo is QuiaraH and PayPal.me/Quiara. Thank you.

In other news, I have sown many seeds - but sewn no seams (yet) - today. Bless my girlfriend for bringing me to get topsoil. Bless my friends for giving me seeds saved from their garden, last March. Oh! @metuiteme.bsky.social the lupin you gave me is blooming at last!

Just write down whatever words you want and then you repeat that process forever.

$100 received but stalled out, please help

GOOD NEWS! A personalized mRNA vaccine, known as mRNA-4157, has shown promise in keeping melanoma, a deadly skin cancer, from returning. FIVE years later, NEARLY 70% of people in the vaccine group are CANCER-FREE. The vaccine also cut a person’s risk of the cancer metastasizing by NEARLY 60%.

A company that makes a no-tech, repairable tractor is having trouble keeping up with demand from farmers sick of John Deere's repair monopoly and simply want a tractor that turns on and works: www.404media.co/demand-is-bo...

hey loves 💜 we're out of food stamps and running on fumes if you have anything to spare for your favorite disabled middle aged transsexual survivors we would love you forever vmo: ellemeff $fionasnapple paypal.me/ellemeff we're down to wearing dirty clothes b/c we cant afford laundry 😅 help plz💜

Pride

📚 I blurbed this book because I loved every word of it. The Tongue I Dream In is poems, stories, and essays by Sheree Renée Thomas. The wisdom, the humor, the dreaming forward. You read it and something in you shifts. Preorder is open. Out August 25 from PM Press.

Urgent. I don't know if her phone is even charged.

Someone actually did a study a while back that showed the most effective way to get women out of TERF groups wasn’t people trying to change their minds, it was them getting literally any benign hobby, like learning other languages or taking up needlework

For those in/near #Leamington ON

Happy pride.

Are you a queer author? Could you use $100 to help you with your writing journey? Apply for our LGBT+ Writer's Grant today! Or, y'know, anytime this month. 🏳️‍🌈 Full details here: sliceduppress.com/lgbtwritingg...

$640/$854 we have until Friday! please share! please help! #mutualaid

If you're watching the repeat of BBC Digging for Britain with @profaliceroberts.bsky.social featuring Black Loch of Myrton, you can read Anne Crone's case study: scarf.scot/thematic/den... Better still, you can download the open access book. 📚 #archaeology www.sidestone.com/books/black-...

June 27 Join Ottawa Anglophone Poet Laureate David O'Meara on an engaging nature walk through the Bill Holland Trail & the Fletcher Wildlife Garden. Ft new work from eight poets! $20 - Proceeds to the Ottawa Wildflower Seed Library. Tickets & full details here: www.verseottawa.ca/en/event/pla...

In which I do a little progress-report on Druid School (Dedicant's Year) and yammer about my garden. #WitchSky #PaganSky

Do me a favour? Since I missed #BandcampFriday, please recommend five songs, preferably by different artists. Any genre, but I’m getting tired of nihilistic gloom. Bonus points if the singer: • is female; or • doesn’t sound exactly like Robert Smith, Ian Curtis, or Carl McCoy. 𝘕𝘰 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘤𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘴. 🖤

A few more foxes because can there ever be too many foxes on your timeline? #wildlife #fox

My girlfriend took me out to buy topsoil today. <3

"I’m crying into my thunderstorm. I don’t think we have the same tastes in apocalypses." #TodaysPoem #poetry I Wish I Thought of Everything First Kathryn Mockler (@themockler.bsky.social) The Purpose Pitch (2015 Mansfield Press) lemonhound.com/2018/03/15/k... & mansfieldpress.net/2015/03/the-...

Huzzah! The power came back on!

Spent 20 minutes this morning sitting with my 12yo and asking the new Google search questions about Pokémon. After laughing at all the bullshit and wrong answers, we had a serious discussion about the power of his human brain and the necessity of using trusted sources like Bulbapedia.

This enchanting novella is a lyrical, fairytale ballad of sisterly and romantic love, with a little bit of a bite. Appended with a twisty story excerpted from @amalelmohtar.com's new short story collection, which I'm looking forward to. #JustRead

To be clear, "ignored local zoning" here means, "this land is not part of the city of Vancouver or subject to its jurisdiction," so the Squamish nation can write its own zoning laws. But yes, this is awesome, and the buildings built so far are the coolest looking things in the Lower Mainland.

The Squamish people of what is now Vancouver were illegally dispossessed of their land 100 years ago. They sued, got the land back, and used their sovereignty to ignore local zoning and build 6,000 new homes over the loud objections of nearby wealthy NIMBYs. Now other tribes are getting in the game.

Yes, yes, yes! airesistlist.org#resist-list

GOOD NEWS! Researchers at Stanford University have developed a UNIVERSAL vaccine known as GLA-3M-052-LS+OVA, that protects against a wide range of respiratory viruses, bacteria AND even allergens. The vaccine is delivered intranasally AND provides broad protection in the lungs for several MONTHS.

Being an artist is so weird and scary because you have all these huge feelings to make art with but then you are supposed to be very cool and detached with how people might hate it but also constantly be a song and dance man shouting about how great it is and also you have to stay alive??

To bring a smile to your face A 2,000 year-old figurine of two ‘Dancing Dogs’ 🐾❤️ Blackware ceramic, Colima, West Mexico, 200 BC - 200 AD. 📷 Princeton University Art Museum #Archaeology

More roommates detected?

Big thx to @antiheroinchic.bsky.social for publishing my latest poem

the familiar ink and watercolor sketch with digital alteration, ~4x5 inches prints: www.inprnt.com/gallery/mxmo...

I switched to DuckDuckGo when I almost got scammed for hundreds in fees by a third party travel site posing as a direct hotel booking page by paying Google for higher placement than the hotel I searched for by name. Very happy with it. AI functions available, but not insistent and easy to disable.

The Indigenous community is mourning the loss of Criss Derksen, a Cree composer and Juno nominated cellist, who has died at 45-years-old.

A squiddy for today's #TransArtMay... was always fascinated with old scientific illustrations of squid which often depict them in what seems to be an upside down manner which feels absurd as we all know squid will need to be right side up when they walk out of the ocean to take over the world 🤷🏻‍♂️🦑

ALOCASIA is now open for applications for the 2026 ALOCASIA Microgrant for Queer Nature Writers! Two recipients will receive $500 each to help incubate their future creative endeavors. Deadline: July 31st, 2026. More: alocasia.org/alocasias-mi...

Recording my workshop on Writing Queernormative Worlds on Saturday for the WriteHive conference in July and I do not have time this week for shenanigans 🌈📚

#Thornapplepress sent me a copy of @fishgottaswim.bsky.social's "The Art of Looking Back" in exchange for an honest review. As a figure model I was excited to get my hands on this one. Full review chez Syrens. #ArtsCanada #modeling #FigureModels #stalkingawareness #bookreview #books #canlit

War as a moral metaphor is limited, limiting, and dangerous. By reducing the choices of action to “a war against” whatever-it-is, you divide the world into Me or Us (good) and Them or It (bad) and reduce the ethical complexity and moral richness of our life to Yes/No, On/Off.

We cancelled Ghomeshi. That man was *the* Canadian media darling. He was not convicted on any of the charges he faced. But we all collectively sent his ass packing. We've cancelled abusers before and we can do it again. So, why don't we?

In anticipation of VILLAIN’s release tomorrow, here’s a review I wrote of HENCH 5 years ago. amalelmohtar.com/review-hench...

About 2 weeks left to submit toward new volume of poetry and micro-prose on themes of "modern midwest monsters"! Deadline is Jun. 2, 2026! www.middlewestpress.com/2026/03/send...

There are days I am convinced that COVID is to humans as toxoplasmosis is to rats. It just blew up our society-wide risk assessment abilities, our social threat perceptions, our cooperative skills, our effective communications skills, and it'll kill us eventually.