Meanwhile in Alberta, the UCP and Premier Smith continue to crib straight from the US GOP playbook, diminishing and outright attacking the rights of the marginalized, misogyny edition

My friend Liz just lost their job after sending a kid to college. A 3k goal to keep themselves secure and the kid in school is super reasonable if you can send a couple bucks!

khōréō is at $12035 out of their $16500 goal with FOUR DAYS left! Donate and share! Let's get them there! www.kickstarter.com/projects/kho...

I say again: has anyone found his phylactery? This is important, people!

HOORAY! lol I can’t reply or qt but I’m stoked!! Thank you @clairewillett.bsky.social and @romancingthevote.com 🙏✨

I will also tell you who my Confirmation saint is, why I chose them, and drop the link for my favorite ABSURDLY comprehensive online catalog of Things There Are Patron Saints For to let you pick your own so you can post them in the chat (patron against headaches? patron of Maryland? patron of cats?)

We are incredibly close to breaking the $30k stretch goal on Claire's talk, at which point she will probably have to just do a second schism and become pope.

Reviewers! I’M HERE TO HELP (Oct 27) is on NetGalley!!! Meet Melody, devoted wife & mother and trusted small-town therapist. But underneath her calm veneer, Melody is raging. She knows the secrets, the bad behavior, the awful cruelties that lurk behind closed doors & she’s tired of playing along...

"executives with no understanding of the industry" seems to be an endemic problem across industries: higher education, medicine, you name it, a bunch of suits with MBAs and unearned arrogance are destroying everything around us, and for some reason, we're supposed to accept that they know best

RIP Bonnie Tyler. And RIP Tandi Iman Dupree. This remains the best stage entrance by a drag queen of all time, even some 25 years later, and the best use of Tyler’s “Holding Out for a Hero” ever. youtu.be/IHQA5vqn6rw?...

If you want to help push this over the $250k mark, you can still register for @clairewillett.bsky.social's Book Club for Haters & enjoy her hating hard on JD Vance's new book. bsky.app/profile/clai...

We are closing in on a sweet quarter of a million dollars raised for VoteRiders and the Southern Coalition for Social Justice in this year's @romancingthevote.com auction, and I love everyone in this bar. 💓

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Jul LGBTQnation GLAAD finds Hollywood continues reducing the number of LGBTQ+ characters; even worse, GLAAD found ZERO trans characters in 225 films last year and ZERO LGBTQ+ ones in animated and family films. www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/07/holl...

Writer Beware is currently receiving an incredible volume of reports of impersonation scams: publishers, editors, literary agents, production companies, conferences, & more. I started keeping a list in 2024; in recent months it has more than doubled. writerbeware.blog/2024/03/15/t...

While at the Fred Rogers Institute, was not prepared for the feelings of seeing the last cardigan the mom of Mister Fred Rogers ever knit for him 🥹🩶✨

Reminder that we are still sending out anti-ICE whistles to anyone who needs them! Any quantity from 100-3000. Free. linktr.ee/3Dwhistles

Wait wait wait wait wait so you're telling me the ucp government isn't all-in on hand-counting for important tallies... that it depends on what result they want from the vote or question at hand..? Isn't...isn't there a word for that...

I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again, if the premise is we have to ignore sexist and racist things from WM because “it’s a phase they all go through” then I reject the premise and maybe WM needed to be excluded from politics until they get their shit together

Mmm I don’t think Quebec is gonna be the province to cave to external pressure from any state of a country threatening their sovereignty

I just scrubbed my little red kettle to a shine and it just feels good to literally see a difference I’ve made, even such a tiny one. The constant reminders that we are never considered worthy of humanity is exhausting but this tiny task defiantly reminds me that I am worthy of joy. And so are you.

Dunno who needs to know this but statistics, polls, surveys, referendums [stares in Albertan]…are not objective. The responses/results are naturally skewed by the questions asked, the ones unasked, & by how the summary is presented. Critical thinking = clocking bad-faith skewery = why it’s attacked

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Watching The Sandbaggers* and among the many great things (& also problematic things, yes), it provides ample proof that no one had good hair in 1978 * @runwithskizzers.bsky.social you should try it if you like cerebral spy stuff. on britbox, 3 seasons

All of this, but also please remember that Laura Ingalls Wilder was edited by her daughter Rose Wilder Lane, who is regarded as one of the three mothers of libertarianism and Ayn Rand's besties, and the books have been shaped to reflect her ideology.

Nostalgia bait shows have a place, don't get me wrong. I'm a sucker for a good one. But I think we should be discerning about what we're nostalgic *for*, and the height of forcible ethnic cleansing of Native people and child marriages just isn't something that I think we should be glorifying.

One of the best #yeg Fringe experiences I ever had was an outdoor performance of Testicles [tes-tik-lees] and the Sack [dramatic pause] of Rome. Still recall its utter hilarity and joy, 25yrs on! RIP✨ to Paisley, of “North America's largest, oldest and longest-running fringe theatre festival”

This is the creep running for US Senate against @jamestalarico.bsky.social. If you want to help destroy his political career, please consider tossing some bucks at the Talarico campaign. Here's a fundraising page for Talarico & a bunch of other good candidates: secure.actblue.com/donate/pakpi...

I know I keep bumping my GoFundMe, and please let me say again: 1. Thank you for bearing with me. I know it's probably annoying! I so appreciate all of the shares, kind words and support. 2. And please know that there is a real need at the moment... and I feel guilty asking for help.

I could say a lot of things about the big brains in the pundit class & beyond who are telling on themselves & reconfirming their appalling misogyny. BUT instead I'll shout out @romancingthevote.com => on track to raise a quarter of a MILLION bucks for voting rights this year. GETTING SHIT DONE 🔥💚🔥🗳️

We are processing your donations once a day and sending confirmation emails. If you DON'T get a confirmation email within about a day and a half and HAVE paid, please reach out to us so that we can make sure we've correctly applied your payment to your invoice. Thank you!

Good evening! We've officially crossed 200K donated on the ActBlue account.

In case you'd like some fantasy novels about the power of friendship and musical theatre right now. Currently 25% off at Smashwords! www.smashwords.com/books/byseri...

Hoist ‘pon your own petard 2026 edition, American

Ha! Past-me was actually a genius because it’s too hot to cook today

Uncanny Magazine Issue 71 Part 1 also features essays by Ryka Aoki and Lizbeth Myles; poetry by Chisomaga Umenyi and Gwendolyn Hicks; Caroline M. Yoachim interviewing P. Djèlí Clark; and Ejiwa “Edge” Ebenebe’s Flower Crown as the cover! buff.ly/621EVvi

Guess who misremembered her proving times and will now be baking bread til midnight lol

Was told I have “administrative fortitude” and honestly? I’m not mad.

I want to be candid - and I keep deleting this, since it's so hard asking for this - $30K is my stretch goal because it helps get me out of this hole. It's been really, really hard. I feel like I haven't slept for months, all because I made that one choice to call for help. gofund.me/e79e90d89

Hey, all: I want to credit @countmystars.bsky.social for encouraging me to speak up here. I have a hard time asking for help, but I also want to be clear about the current goal and stretch goal. I currently have a GoFundMe with a $20K goal. We’re now 79.1% of the way there.

It took two separate batches cooked up in my wee dutch oven to use up 8lbs of berries! Final result? 11.5 8oz. jars ☺️

It’s been such a great experience as a first-time donor and wee volunteer for @romancingthevote.com! Thanks to everyone who boost and bid and encouraged the heck outta this effort!! ❤️‍🔥

bidding on ZOOM BOOK CLUB FOR HATERS is now closed, with a total of 200 live and 502 recorded slots sold. Grand total = $27,550 raised for voting rights! thank you thank you thank you to the heroes of @romancingthevote.com for organizing this and raising almost $233,000!!!!

a special thanks to Pope Leo for the schism that was a real one

THANK YOU ALL so much -- donors, bidders, watchers who reposted things even if you couldn't participate. This is a huge community undertaking and we all did this!

You know about the Admins (Courtney Milan and Kit Rocha) but everyone spend a moment to appreciate the RTV Lieutenants, Akeisha & Lee-Sien, who have already pre-composed the 50 million emails we will be sending out over the next several weeks to solicit payments, connect donors, and follow-up!

Reminder that the auction end date is 7:00 PM CDT + extended bidding. Extended bidding means that if someone makes a bid in the last 5 minutes of the auction, the end time for that item gets extended by 5 minutes. This can happen over and over until we hit exactly 7:30 CDT and then it all stops.

Mmmm about 95min left in the auction, guys! Can we get a few more bids on this..?

There are no babies in my life, but if there were I'd 1000% bid on this! It's SO CUTE. www.32auctions.com/organization...

TWO MORE HOURS of @romancingthevote.com and I am baffled to report that my shitpost of a picture book is currently raising $100 for democracy! Keep bidding you glorious #booksky weirdos www.32auctions.com/organization... www.32auctions.com/organization...

We are down to the last ... 2 hours 38 minutes, if you want this unique item!