A purple, pink, aqua, and yellow playful graphic that is advertising for Spectrum on the Spectrum. It has a group of three people in the middle, standing closely and embracing. This group is for autistic people who are also a part of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community. It takes place on Sunday at 6:30 - 8:30 PM.

Are you a 2SLGBTQIA+ person with Autism looking for a space to be yourself in Waterloo Region? Stop by next Sunday, Sept. 7, 6:30 - 8:30PM for Spectrum on the Spectrum! Want more info? ourspectrum.com/events

From theoi.com: A Greek vase detail showing Dike beating Adikia, who is depicted as a tattooed barbarian woman.

Today's deep-cut deity: Dike, the goddess of justice, good laws, rights and customs. She is shown here beating her counterpart Adikia (injustice) with a mallet. May all your rights be upheld and all your laws just. And failing that, may Dike come to your aid with a very large cosmic hammer.

Happy Canada Day. All “developed” countries are built on incredible violence. Boarders are one of humanity’s greatest failures. Our identities are only meaningful in relation to that which is foreign to us. No one is illegal. Arms embargo now!

My ugly words are coming to you with love ✌️ 🍁

"Be kind to yourself! It’s fucking pride and you’re a gay person"
- a dear friend who is actually so real for this

It’s June, you know what that means?

Time to gay the pray away. 🌈

Shaxs from Star Trek Lower Decks is pictured. He's a cartoon, because Lower Decks, besides being the best effing show ever, is a cartoon. Shaxs is a big burly man wearing his gold Star fleet uniform and also an apron over the front like he's doing some sort of art project or baking a nice sourdough. In each hand he's holding a broken bottle like that thing you do where you take a bottle and break off the bottom and then use it as a weapon. His eyeballs are bulging large, his brow is furrowed, and he looks absolutely unhinged with rage and anger. Closed caption reads, "Fighting fascism is a full time job!"

It's the weekend, baby

#BookSky

Treading Theatre Festival spotlights Kitchener's theatre scene The inaguaral Treading Theatre Festival features five site-responsive productions in intimate and unconventional performance spaces.

All five shows in the Treading Theatre Festival are covered in this thoughtful and thorough overview from @intermissionmag.bsky.social

All these hard working artists should feel very proud. Last day of the run is today.

www.intermissionmagazine.ca/reviews/trea...

Mirror images of Hapi, the androgynous Egyptian god of Nile flooding, pictured with ceremonial beard, swollen breasts and belly.

In honor of Pride, a nice Psychology Today post about gender fluidity & intersexuality in myths around the world, reminding us that gender & sexuality have been understood as spectrums for the entirety of human history. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/hide...

Our first community ride of the year will be on Monday May 19th!
We will meet at the Iron Horse Trail near Catalyst137 at 3:30PM
During the ride we will highlight key linkages through the city between home, work, and all your favourite shops and destinations.

www.eventbrite.com/e/cyclewr-ma...

eight leatherbound books all titled "FERNS" volumes 1 through 8

Everyone in the past was neurotypical, which is how we got things like this single-author, eight-volume encyclopedia of ferns

i keep thinking about this

“History repeats itself, first as a tragedy, second as a farce.”
— Karl Marx

I got a job in a factory that makes Dracula figurines.

There’s only two of us on that line, so I have to make every second count.

Took my kiddo out to see the Minecraft movie today. It was h’EXPENSIVE.

All y’all should go to live theatre more often. Not only is it supporting your local economy, it’s also often cheaper and also better. If you live in or near a big enough city, there’s something for every taste.

Our community is set to be the fourth most impacted in Canada by tariffs. Mike has a track record of working across party lines to produce results on a variety of issues, each time ensuring he is amplifying local voices in Ottawa, leading to Kitchener Centre-focused solutions.

As soon as tariffs became a threat, Mike started meeting with concerned community members, hosting a round-table with local businesses to gain local perspectives and advocate for them to be included in a Team Canada response.

Mike sent personalized, Kitchener Centre proposals for the tariff response to the appropriate Ministers, pushing for the unique response we need to protect our community's workers, families, and businesses.

For months, Mike has been pushing for a Team Canada tariff response that puts Kitchener Centre at the top of the list. Because for this and every other issue, Mike puts Kitchener Centre first.

With our community set to be the fourth most impacted in Canada by tariffs, Mike has and will continue to push for solutions that protect our jobs, families, an businesses in our community - ensuring our needs aren't lost in a national response.

Find Mike's proposals at the link in bio.

Stone carving showing Nanshee flanked by two large birds, probably geese, but could also be swans or cormorants.

A terracotta shard showing Nanshe seated with a goose next to her.

Last week's turkey god got me thinking about other bird-related deities. Here's Nanshe, the Sumerian goddess of justice, dreams and marshlands, whose sacred bird was most probably the goose, as seen in the art! The Canada geese in Boston will be happy to hear they have proper god rep.

Out loud said "Easy there cowboy" as I was waking up and painfully moving my arm I slept weird on

I'm in a constant state of thinking about strawberry season

this too shall pass, but what the fuck

My Cool Friend Michelle Other kids called Trachtenberg a bitch, but in our group of child stars, we all wanted to be like her.

I wrote about my kind, funny childhood friend Michelle Trachtenberg, and the group of friends that saved my life when I was a kid.

www.vulture.com/article/mara...

Last night, Israel launched airstrikes across Gaza – killing over 400 Palestinians and shattering the ceasefire.

Canada must end its complicity in this genocide.

Men only feel comfortable performing whimsy when it's St. Patrick's Day

unpopular stance: ACAB includes Scully but not Mulder, because there's absolutely no way Fox Mulder understands what the law really is or that his job is to enforce it. he has less capacity for moral cognition than a K9 unit.

what will it be, boss? the comfort of misery or the pain of change?

Today's deep-cut deity: Cybele, the Phrygian Mother Goddess (equivalent to Rhea). She was originally born a hermaphrodite named Agdistis, but the gods feared such a male/female being would be too powerful, so they "cut off the male organ." Stories of gender change & fluidity are as old as humanity.

#art #BluSkyArtShow #artyear

Reading By Moonlight
This is my biggest piece so far at 13”, it took a little over a month to complete. I love the details the most. Especially Frida’s scissors.

All hand stitched with a double hoop. #handembroidery #spotlightart #doublehoop

At dinner, son Patrick, now 26: "Yeah, I didn't like my second grade teacher, but that was during my Goth phase."

I’m George Takei and I approve of this message.

Feeling morose and lonely in these long snowy days? Want to meditate on something simple and easy but developed with meticulous care?

Read my play, TOUCH.

👉 www.canadianplayoutlet.com/pages/search...