Writing is my deepest passion. It's my absolute favorite thing to do. Aside from, apparently, every single chore in my house and every mindless little app on my phone and also laying on the couch staring up at the ceiling

AGREED Putting pronouns in my bio helps me get a lot less "Dear Mr. Mohamed" or just "Mohamed" because Anglo speakers can't necessarily parse 'Premee' as a gendered name

the thing I love about Zohran’s campaign is that instead of “this place fucking sucks and I alone can fix it” his message is “being a New Yorker rules, we live in the best city in the world, let’s make it even better together” show some damn pride in the places you want to govern

There are still good, kind, decent people in the world You just need to know where to look www.newsweek.com/florida-loca...

Trump proposes to rescind AIDS funds. Congress rejects the proposal. So Trump and his henchman Russ Vought just refuse to spend the money and try to hide that decision from Congress and the public. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/h...

Six recommendations from NYRB's Horror & the Supernatural sale. readersretreat2017.wordpress.com/2025/08/23/n...

29 years ago today, Jamiroquai released the music video for 'Virtual Insanity'

He was very good in person with his trans fans too. Growing up going to SF cons, I met many trans people before I even knew what trans meant. I gave my parents very little they needed to accept in their child, so they had lots left over for everyone else. 😉 www.thepinknews.com/2021/08/06/t...

Actual text from me to my bestie, 11:45 pm: "I am trying to decide whether to read a tragic French novel about a dysfunctional mother-daughter relationship or a Sapphic romance novella about a Victorian chicken breeder." So much to read, so little time!

Health Canada has authorized the LP.8.1 variant adapted Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for individuals aged 6 months and older. The updated COMIRNATY® vaccine targets the Omicron LP.8.1 variant, one of the most recently circulating SARS-CoV-2 lineages. It will be made available this Fall across Canada.

This helped me today. Small Kindnesses, by Danusha Laméris

Reminder: striking workers ordered back to work by the government are STILL ON STRIKE. They are working under duress. I encourage Work to Rule tactics to resist their exploitation. TL;DR: This is bullshit.

A few study highlights: Increasing number of vaccinations further decreases Long COVID 23–36 % Remdesivir reduced Long COVID by 69 %. Paxlovid (Nirmatrelvir/ritonavir) reduced Long COVID by 95 % - effect was independent of up to three vaccination doses. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Conservative Carney wasting no time busting this strike. Never let anyone tell you they give a shit about the little guy or wealth equality if they systematically attack and dismantle one of the only means of supporting both!

Brown University is caving to Trump. They are banning trans women from female bathrooms, dorms, locker rooms, and sports across campus. They're also cracking down on trans care for minors, though that is unlikely to be broadly impactful since it's a university. president.brown.edu/president/br...

No. GAI might have some place in some fields and use cases but i fail to understand this rush/push to force it nonconsensually into every field in existence, while people who do not study or work in our fields condescendingly tell us how AI will be good for us

Sashing the CBC, one of Canada’s few remaining shared cultural unifiers, at a time of existential national crisis, will only weaken the country. These moves, like Carney’s overall agenda, are the product of an out-of-date conservative economic ideology that is utterly unsuited to today’s world.

As I wrote yesterday, It's when you assemble the whole picture that you have to raise the question if the intention is to destroy this country and whether this country is in fact being destroyed. Here's some more destruction.

You’d think someone might ask why distributing aid in Gaza has proceeded like the opening twenty minutes of Saving Private Ryan, every day, for weeks. Is it normal to fire machine guns at starving civilians trying to collect flour? Because we are currently at one, two or three massacres *per day*.

the lesson of this isn't that tucker carlson is actually good but that you should ask these people basic factual questions instead of bullshit about politics

Yes, he's trampling on the Charter, steamrolling Indigenous rights, bending the knee to Trump, planning to cut public services, going backwards on climate, and signaling that we'd be dragged into war with Iran, but presumably it's still too soon to criticize Carney.

If covid vaccine was wasted, it was because the government arbitrarily withheld access and deliberately undermined the promotion of its necessity from Albertans.

Like I'm here in LA in the middle of the shit and things are Very Bad

The guy who claimed Indigenous bands “asked for” residential schools has a seat in Parliament. Ugh

democrats need to call this shit what it is: Weird

They received an average of 2100 calls a day... www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

It was disturbing to be in court today. As I wrote: [I]n an alarming sign for LGBTQ people, it was clear that at least three of the justices believe that describing queer people accurately — acknowledging their equal existence — amounts to taking sides or trying to “influence” children.

I don't really care what the "political consequences" are of fighting for the proposition that *everyone* is entitled to due process before they are removed from the United States and sent to a Salvadoran prison. It's not really a principle if you only adhere to it when it's politically expedient.

I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.

This article by @naomiaklein.bsky.social and @astra.bsky.social might destroy your day with facts. It analyses the growing spread of a new form ‘end times fascism’. This ideology is espoused by religious fundamentalists and secular figures as Trump and Musk. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

this is Mohsen Mahdawi, the green card holder who was just arrested by ICE for rendition at his citizenship interview

It's wild to me that people who bought Teslas like yesterday are all 'oh but no one knew Elon was evil then' when in fact that was VERY well-documented. The labor abuses at the Fremont factory alone have been the subject of MULTIPLE investigative pieces for YEARS now. You knew you just didn't care.

🚨 EMERGENCY PRESS CONFERENCE Columbia/Barnard faculty, Jewish community leaders, immigrant advocates, and rabbis are demanding the immediate release of Mahmoud Khalil from ICE custody. We will not be silent or cower in the face of American Fascism. #FreeMahmoud

On March 27, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith will be speaking alongside Ben Shapiro at PragerU’s east coast gala.

The coolest thing I’ve seen today is that a bunch of volunteer public health professionals and developers have restored the CDC website from before January 20th 2025. This differs from an archive in that they want to rebuild the links between pages and replicate the full website.

1. Major news in transgender care. Germany, Switzerland, and Austria have just released their trans youth care guidelines. They strongly recommend trans youth care and slam the Cass Review in England. Europe is not "pulling back" on trans care. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Listening to radio ads right now is like "Canadians are strong. Canadians are tough. Canadians never back down. Canadians deserve the best. That's why at Bob's Lube Garage, we know your tire lube should smell like poutine and Lake Erie fish,"

Please consider joining the fight against the #nspoli government’s disastrous Bill 12, which threatens to end university autonomy, interfere in academic freedom, & gut Nova Scotia’s ability to innovate and usher in development. This is the most retrograde #cdnpse bill I’ve seen. www.ansut.ca/bill-12

Please vaccinate your children. Please get yourself vaccinated if you haven't been. "An unvaccinated New Mexico adult who tested positive for measles has died, the second death in a growing measles outbreak centered along the West Texas-New Mexico border, officials said Thursday."

As a professor of English, allow me to try, humbly and with the proper respect, to offer an appropriate response to the President’s address: Fuck you, you fucked-up fuck, and fuck all the fuckers who willingly fuck with you, especially. You can all fuck all the way off, and then fuck off some more.

Easy to lose this in the noise of the day, but the prime minister of Canada just said the US president, leader of the global hegemon, wants to soften us up economically so he can annex us. That is one of the most remarkable statements, and realities, in our history.

Let's rip up the contract that's providing rural Ontario with literally their only option for internet service - and a lot of rural Ontarians, my family included, are willing to ride this out hoping for an alternative - but Dougie sacrificing his vacation? Don't be hasty.

A is for Authorization B is for Bargaining Unit C is for Certification D is for... duty of fair representation! (took me a bit) E is for Escalator Clauses F is for Fair Share G is for Grievance H is for Housecalls I is for...informational picketing! yeah thats it J is for Just Cause

Did not expect Rick Astley covering ‘Pink Pony Club’ when I opened TikTok and this cover is extremely good!

Hey @jacobeantragedy.bsky.social - I need you to message me because I can't message you lol

Just look at how we view hoodies. On Mark Zuckerberg, the hoodie is a symbol of whiz kid meritocracy breaking norms and developing the New Economy. On people like Trayvon Martin, the hoodie is sometimes seen as proof of criminality. Again, it's about the bodies beneath the clothes.