I’m a citizen scientist working to protect Nova Scotia’s forests. Tim Houston is threatening to put me in jail. Commentary by Nina Newington

September 30th / October 1st

On Truth and Reconciliation Day, the Houston government prepares to criminalize Indigenous land protectors reported by me

So Hoekstra literally makes my skin crawl, but it is pretty fuckin funny that a couple days ago he was like ‘Canada is the one who keeps obsessing over 51st state rhetoric, we haven’t talked about that in months!’ and then today Trump was like, ‘Canada really should be the 51st state tho’

That was it right there

Is that effective campaign messaging? I don’t know & I don’t care. It’s true. It’s my job to discover and say things that are true. The radicalization of the American right is *the* political story of my lifetime and the public should know about it. Politicians can do what they like with that.

BREAKING: At least 40 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza since dawn, medical sources in the besieged enclave's hospitals told Al Jazeera. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/co3mdm

My dearest wife, It is week two of the Siege of Portland, and still these barbarians will not yield to our troops. We have severed the cords of their latte machines but they are making cowboy coffee in their camps, where loud ukulele songs of resistance even now drift in on the breeze.

Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE. If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease! Donate at blinkingguy.com

Well yikes

RIP to the realest. What a woman.

Things make a lot more sense when you realize the world is run by and largely was shaped by wealthy people who earnestly stated "you wouldn't download a car" thinking the common person would agree with them.

I normally turn into a pumpkin at 9 pm but you best believe Flopsy and I are starting this one TONIGHT - thank you @keezyyoung.bsky.social for this hefty tome I’m so excited !

The United States remains in material breach of over five hundred treaties with Indigenous nations. At least three hundred breaches occurred by or under Democratic administrations. If you want a government that is held to its word, that's a good place to start.

Well this is absolute bullshit. I hope the public services union in Quebec threatens action over this. youtu.be/GtFYjpAwiTY?...

As the Nova Scotia government gives industrial forestry everything it demands, accelerating the destruction of what little healthy forest is left, this article on the immense health benefits of “forest bathing” is timely, even if it is months old. www.joanbaxter.ca/2025/09/24/t...

WOW i am so glad to exist what an unfathomable blessing to be given the chance to do good and to love and to work for a future. overwhelmed by the beauty of the world

*cough, cough* Pictou County pizza (the cuisine in general, not just one particular restaurant)

Taking a little break tonight because I needed a reminder of how beautiful the world actually is.

Recognition is symbolic. An arms embargo, though, is concrete and actually has the ability to stop the war machine that’s led us to this point in the Gaza genocide.

💯

Box of KD

I am not exaggerating when I say reading this in my email inbox flooded my heart with hope. If you’re trans, please read:

love cannot be stopped it is the inertia of existence itself

‘Whether you’re reading this on line at Blue Bottle or killing time before your 3 o’clock Zoom or staring at a glowing screen unable to sleep, we have all become characters in a story where our actions carry actual weight and consequence.’

Jesus fucking CHRIST

Down with the UCP. Down with fascism and Maple MAGA. [For context: this will shield Alberta's anti-trans laws — including a gender-affirming healthcare ban — from judicial review. An extreme escalation of attacks on trans rights in Canada.] www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/art...

Hey, uh, Titan of the Stars is horror!

behind the glitz and glamor of hollywood as an IDEA is something primal: the desire to create and express and connect. i do not believe this is something that will ever be toppled as long as humans exist, and while i understand the authoritarian strategy, i think it is a fumble. art and story wins

Someone asked me if my mother was my wife and my mother immediately chimed in, ‘Oh no, my daughter-in-law is MUCH better looking.’ (Which, for the record, isn’t true – the women in my life are just simply stunners.) Absolute chad behaviour on my mother’s part imo

Might get offline and stare wistfully into the distance for a few days

Journalists are out here crying crocodile tears for Charlie Kirk when how many journalists have been murdered in Gaza? Really shows you who they think their peers are.

Honestly? Gratitude. Leaning REALLY hard into noticing what’s good around me has been helping a lot. Things are shit all around but good things still happen

What the literal FUCK

The CBC article about the antisemitic vandalism in Halifax fails to mention the white supremacist gathering yesterday that was part of an attemped nation-wide event, and the recent anti-trans vandalism. We must make these connections to effectively combat hate & drive it from our communities.

endlessly grateful to exist, to trot with my buds and share stories. to look up at the moon and think about everyone else who has looked before. to have taste buds. to watch the seasons change. so many wonderful things are just GIVEN to us by existence, it can be hard to remember to say thanks

Ladyhawke

Excellent reporting and photos by @mmughees.bsky.social of Friday's protest of the Davis Cup in #Halifax www.halifaxexaminer.ca/world/drafth...

i wish i was still bothered by videos of people dying. Christchurch honestly just like burnt that part of my mind out for the most part. i had to watch that fucking thing so many times by the end of it my brain was different.

Ok I think its Tarzan, because in addition to just going so hard, Phil Collins himself recorded five different language versions of it and I sincerely respect his work ethic

using everything on multiply sort of forces you to draw like they used to have to draw. light colors first, dark last, limited 'light over dark' effects. i make heavy use of like the select tool and clipping masks as opposed to taping figures or whatnot, but it's the same thing conceptually!

bracing myself for the double whammy of "white straight cis shooter was just a good boy" combined with "mental illness is the problem" because it's the both the one and only thing that can make white straight cis boys into villains and a new reason to hate and fear people like me

Me trying to explain this to my very not-online family members is going to break all our brains

history continues to be pre-gamergate/post-gamergate

Just putting it out there now - I think it was a Swiftie who did it

Don’t fuck with witches is all I’m saying

Goodbye Charlie Kirk.