If you're not trans, I don't think I can fully explain how important this is. It's so powerful that one of the most circulated science media publications in the world has come out and said "trans children are real and providing transition care improves their lives." That's groundbreaking.

Look man I don’t think the people being poisoned by data centers really care if you remove the generated assets before shipping, and I don’t really care if you “only” use the machine that stole my shit and convinced teens to off themselves for internal PowerPoints. Cool motive. Still bullshit tho.

I applaud Skate Canada for taking a principled stance to support figure skaters and oppose Smith's awful, awful legislation. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

This is extremely true and super important to remember. The goal of every oppressor is to remove all joy from you. Even little laughs are an act of resistance.

Since Polygon is leaving it out of the headline: Epic Games partnered with The Game Awards to put money into the pocket of a bigot who uses her wealth to further the genocide of trans people through lawsuits and legislation. Every 'free' game gives money directly to JKR, and they are complicit.

Epic pays for licensing fees for the games they give away for free as promotions. Which means even if YOU aren't paying for it, you're giving money to JK Rowling to harm transgender people AND elevating her stature by giving her franchise higher numbers. NO TERF WIZARD GAME. NO TERF WIZARD SHOW.

Trans and non-binary people in Canada experience higher rates of poverty compared to their cisgender peers, according to a recent Statistics Canada report. From labour reporter @isaacphannay.bsky.social: thetyee.ca/News/2025/12...

If you’re not already following @tyolsen.bsky.social for Fraser Valley flood updates, now would be the time to do so.

On this day 36 years ago, 14 people died at a Montreal university because some fragile fucking man couldn’t handle a woman “taking his place” in the engineering program. Male rage isn’t a new problem. Entitled men aren’t a new problem. And women are entitled to every ounce of anger we carry.

Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨

Any #MBMBaM fans in the metro Vancouver area? I'm giving a talk on the 'Art of Plato's Rave' Thurs, Dec. 11 (6-7pm) at Crescent Beach Community Gallery in #SurreyBC! Free, 13+. We'll talk about the art pitch, research & illustration process. Should be fun! 🎟 RSVP: buytickets.at/itsbeenartal...

For my newsletter, I wrote about that college essay scandal that's gone viral and what everyone is seeming to miss: It's about ATTACKING TRANS PEOPLE!!! www.burnsnotice.com/that-viral-e...

I switched from Spotify to Deezer recently. It was easy, it had all but 4 of my 1000ish likes songs when I copied over my library, AND it's cheaper. Should've done this years ago — Spotify's certainly been an awful company that long.

I know people are closely following what's going on the US and the horrors of ICE, but do you know how Canada is quickly and quietly is growing its deportation machinery? Canada plans to increase deportations by 25 percent over the next two years. 25 PERCENT!!! Here are 5 other things to know:

It's Trans Day of Remberance, I wanna remind every cis person trans people have ALWAYS been here and WILL always be here. Make sure your trans friends and community members are safe and stick around! Especially now: Inaction is compliance. Support your friends. TRANS RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS 🏳️‍⚧️

If you have a younger kiddo who loves to draw, I'm hosting a free cartooning workshop for ages 6-12 this Saturday, Nov. 22 (2-3pm) at Crescent Beach Community Gallery in #SurreyBC! ✍️🏽 8 seats left!! More info & RSVP: www.tickettailor.com/events/itsbe... #surreyarts #surreyevents #freekidsevents

Your refusal to use alt text on this app (WHICH TAKES 30-60 SECONDS MAX) is an overt communication to all that you do not give a shit about people with disabilities & their ability to be in community. And framing this discussion as nanny-state "alt-text scolding" is telling on yourself, a lot.

Ladies, Gents and all between and beyond. Desert Bus 2025 is now departing for fun, joy, hijinks and a whole lot of hope! Let’s prepare to get silly for a good cause! desertbus.org

the new york times relies on its immensely popular games to both drive subscriptions AND generate ad revenue from non-paying subscribers. stop playing wordle, even if it's free.

For any art fans in the Vancouver area, my incredibly talented partner @mijoburch.com has a gallery show with five other local women opening on Nov 21! They're also doing a bunch of free workshops on all kinds of topics that will be really cool! Details here: www.mijoburch.com/art-exhibition

"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk

Zohran Mamdani has won the New York City mayoral race, with a campaign that was explicitly supportive of trans rights. Back when he won the primary, I made a video about why that’s such a big deal xtramagazine.com/video/zohran...

Don't forget that Zohran Mamdani spent his entire campaign standing proudly beside the trans community. He went to trans rights rallies just to show support. He proudly waved trans rights flags without hesitation. He refused to back down in support of trans rights. That makes me happy.

No matter the platform you should have your default feed be reverse chron of who/what you follow and curate and diversify that feed. You’ll be better informed and less prone to disinfo and group think. This is a hill I will die on.

Jfc I thought my Internet was just being awful.

Compared to someone like Gwen, I haven’t spent nearly as much time monitoring Nazis. It’s alarming how quick that shit will poison you and also desensitize you to some really horrible things. Same goes for monitoring war/genocide footage.

You should know the difference between LLMs and other forms of AI. Their goal is to blend the two in order to divide workers and make you less sure of who to be mad at

these survey questions are such sour ass can't wait for AI to collapse just as the canadian government burns the civil service to the ground and replaces it with chatbots

Canadians: The federal government is seeking public input on how AI should be developed and used in business, research, and the military. If this scares the shit out of you, please let them know:

Eight thousand iterations of this discourse later, there is no political utility in calling fascists fat. All you're doing is propping up the brutal hierarchy which lets people like them work up from deniable social torture to state violence.

Hey a thing I really don’t want to get lost here is that while Tylenol doesn’t cause autism, IT’S FINE TO BE AUTISTIC. Let’s not grant them the premise that autism should be eradicated in our way to correct the science, okay? Okay.

I do not think ChatGPT should have the power to call the cops. I think, personally, that would be a bad thing

Reminder Fellow Canadians: We dont get to be smug Alberta plans to use notwithstanding clause to suspend the human rights of trans people https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alberta-transgender-legislation-1.7637890

“There is no comparable requirement for boys to confirm their gender,” said another parent. “Once again, the onus is placed on girls to be monitored and regulated, reinforcing the idea that female athletes are the ones who need to be verified.” edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...

This was from banning trans girls from girls sports. Just so you understand the reality of what's going on here.

Among other common right-wing guy comments about Canada, Charlie Kirk wrote that residential school graves investigations were a "hoax."

Trans rights are human rights. There is no room for debate or ceding ground about this.

I am teaching students in a game writing course this fall who have no memory of GG. I’m very, very careful in how I handle that history *because* the playbook that was first used in GG is still active & aimed at folks like me — not because I teach & study games, but because I’m a professor at all.

There is a large portion of people who only really started to care about the Alberta book ban stuff when it was Margaret Atwood being pulled from shelves. I hope those same people are willing to stand up and defend queer and trans comics artists too, and call this what it is

This gets progressively funnier with every use of the term "floppy".

the way these things have all happened within the last 8 months

THE ELBOWS HAVE FALLEN

Canadians, this is a parliamentary petition, not a random online thing. Takes a minute to sign. An easy good deed for the day.

Hey Firefox users.

It still amazes me sometimes just how clearly these people say what their endgame goal is: it's never actually about fairness in sport, it's about abolishing trans peoples' existence altogether. Sports is just a convenient place to start.

I will die on this hill: it isn’t hard to say “at the height of the pandemic” or “at the start of COVID” during a podcast interview. Producers, hosts, don’t let your guests say “during COVID” like this thing is over. Correct them. Ask them to say the sentence again. This is your job.

“It couldn’t happen in Canada” babe they are actively trying to make it happen in Canada, we gotta be so vigilant

Trans people are worth protecting. Not because we are amazing people (although we are) or because we offer a great deal to society (although we do) or because we are fine as hell (we are). We are worth protecting because we are HUMAN BEINGS, and it’s amazing how often that simple fact is forgotten.

This is why I didn’t spread that Costco story earlier, by the way. People really need to start being critical of things, even (especially) if they feel urgent and important.

Sickening. Every journalist in America should think deeply about the fact that most American politicians are willing to accept and indeed facilitate the murder of our colleagues.