Years ago I was walking down the street eating a banana and someone coming toward me brightened when they saw it and held up their own banana. Over a decade ago and I still smile fondly thinking of it.
"Your contribution is invaluable. These funds will go toward food for those affected, buying tents and mattresses, hygiene products, baby formula, equipping spaces with basic infrastructure, and more."
www.chuffed.org/project/1719...
The planet Jupiter with its cloud bands seen in shades of pink, rusty red, blue, and purple. The Great Red Spot is a deep navy blue, surrounded by bands and swirls of pink, and light blue.
Hubble's ultraviolet view of Jupiter shows the planet in hues of pink and blue.
jupiter wishes you a very happy trans day of visibility 🏳️⚧️
I will be ordering all my books from here now: www.booksellers.ca
I've been off Amazon for a long time and mostly buy local, but now there's an online Canadian option and I can cut Indigo out of my life as well.
I like local Canadian entrepreneurs.
Cover of There’s No Such Thing as an Easy Job by Kikuko Tsumura. A woman wit long dark hair and a striped shirt sits at a desk face down. An open laptop computer is off to one side.
Cover of the audiobook of White Magic: Essays by Elissa Washuta. Gold and white text on a background of concentric circles, alternating black and black with white dots that could be stars.
I made progress on these for #MarchStash as well!
Cover of An African History of Africa by Zeinab Badawi. Gold text on a dark blue background, with a circular green border featuring concentric colourful patterns.
Cover of the audiobook for The Light Eaters : How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth by Zoë Schlanger. Dark background with a photo of a plant in pink light, making it appear pink, green and blue.
Cover of First Love: Essays on Friendship by Lilly Dancyger. Photo of the author and two friends on a fire escape, dressed in black, smoking and conversing.
Cover of Let this Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care by Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba. Orange and yellow background; shadows of people holding hands and raising their hands triumphantly in the bottom third of the image.
And! I made progress on several books that I will finish one day. I often take a long time to finish non-fiction and really let it sink in. #MarchStash
Cover or Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor. Tagline: the future of storytelling is here. The bust of a black woman with braids in profile is superimposed over a read and blue background of computer chips in a geometric pattern.
Cover of The Raven Scholar by Antonia Hodgson. A line drawing of a raven on a purple background with gold and silver text.
I also started two books for #MarchStash, both of which I’m savouring.
I’m a book grazer, always reading multiple books, love reading a chapter here and there. The time pressure of library deadlines means I finis those more often, even though the ones I buy are often the ones I’m most excited about!
Cover of the audiobook for Exhalations: Stories by Ted Chiang. Black with scattered stars that make up the text.
Cover of the audiobook for Sharks Don’t Sink: Adventures of a Rogue Shark Scientist by Jasmin Graham. Sepia illustrations of sharks juxtaposed with photos of the author smiling, the author doing fieldwork with a partner, and a boat of scientists.
Cover of the audiobook for Lucky Day by Chuck Tingle. A grotesque representation of the King of Hearts with the sword going through his heads instead of behind it. The top king has an x for an eye and there’s an eyeball on the tip of his sword. The bottom king has snake-like purple creatures coming out of his skull, one of them holds an eyeball in its mouth. The top king has rabbit heads pierced through the tip of his crown; the bottom king has 4-leaf clovers. Disembodied hands hold the sword, one with a finger sawed in half. The top king has green hair and the bottom king has blue. “A scream” and “All Bets Are Off” also appears in text.
Reporting in on the last day of #MarchStash to say that I finished 3 books! I suspended all my library holds and only read books I already own.
There are a million ways to be or look trans. There is no end point or goalpost. You aren't a storyline, there is no A to B roadmap. There are versions of yourself you haven't even met yet, an ocean of self still unexplored. It's not over until you're dead. You're not dead yet.
a medieval style digital drawing of an androgynous brown-skinned knight on horseback on a hill, stabbing a long gold spear into a blue dragon on the ground. the knight has a gold halo behind their head and wears a suit of silver armor with a nonbinary flag striped tunic and a trans flag as a cape. their horse is white, with blue tack with trans pride trim. there is black gothic text at the top and bottom of the image reading “A world without trans people has never existed and never will.” there’s an ornate pale blue border around the image, filled with pink and blue scrollwork, gold hearts filled with colorful flowers, a smiley bat, two smiley moles, and two smiling frogs holding up trans flags.
a world without trans people has never existed and never will
Being trans rules. I'm genfer fluid!!!!! I highly recommend being the ultimate version of yourself. Fruit syrup, not from concentrate, do NOT dilute!!!!
Today os #TransDayOfVisibility and as the world gets more hostile towards us i refuse to let that scare me into hiding
That being said i could use some help if anyone is able to
www.paypal.me/HayleyNicole...
Absolutely gorgeous!
Today, MSF is going public with something we've been fighting behind closed doors for months: Gilead will not sell us their new HIV drug, lenacapavir.
The sticking point isn't even price, they just refuse to sell.
Open letter linked + explainer 🧵1/
www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/gilea...
Preordered from @libro.fm, so that I get to support an author I ride for, a social purpose audiobook company, and a local bookstore in one swoop!
We're fundraising for public libraries again! 📚This week, when you donate $15 USD or more to your public library, friends of a library organization, or the @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social, you'll receive a free audiobook credit 💓
Last year, we raised $55,000. How much will we raise this year? ⏬
You can test new tech ideas using the Seinfeld Test
Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs)
Good tech.
Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales)
Bad tech.
In 2021 Canada five big bnaks commited to reducing the climate-related emissions from their portfolios. ... Today they remain among the largets financiers of fossil fuels globally.
The climate criis is financial risk. It is time to legislated It is time for the Climate Aligned Finance Act Sign Our Open Letter to the Senate of Canada
A collection of the best ideas canvassed from international and national experts, the Climate Aligned Finance Act (CAFA Bill S238) works to align banks investments with our climate commitments.
Graphic promoting climate-aligned finance. Text reads: “Tax dollars are not enough to fund the green transition alone. We need our banks to stop financing the fire. Support Senator Galvez’s private members’ Bill S-238 #CAFA.” Below the text is a collage of many people in a video call holding signs that say “Support CAFA,” “Pass CAFA Now,” and similar messages, showing broad public support. Citizens’ Climate Lobby logo appears in the upper left.
📌 An Open Letter to the Senate: Advancing Financial Alignment with Canada’s Climate Commitments. Please sign by midnight Thursday, January 22
🖊️ Sign here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
🔥It is time our banks stop fueling the fire.
#CAFA
*scuttling across the floors of silent seas* man I should've been a guy who can't decide how to wear his pants
GenAI has polluted image search results, especially for animal pics. It’s now basically impossible to find accurate art references.
Enter this: a repository of open-access, AI-free images of wild & exotic taxa. Artists creating *without AI* have blanket permission for derivative/transformative use.
A still from Disney's ROBIN HOOD featuring an anthropomorphic fox in a feathered cap with a bow and many arrows
Brian Bedfords headshot. He is light skinned with dark eyebrows and dark hair that hangs past his collar. His collar is large.
Brian Bedfords IMDB credit for Robin Hood
Brian Bedfords IMDB spouse listing, which cites Tim MacDonald - July 2013-January 13 2016 (Bedfords death)
Tonight I learned that the voice behind the Robin Hood Fox was ONE OF US
if you see a bird art share your bird art!!!! i was born for this moment!!!
Let us all take pleasure in appreciating a movie or a book or a sport or a historical fact today. Not only will we get the inherent benefits, we’ll get the added benefits of doing it for spite.
The cover of Many Drops Make a Stream by Adrian Harley. Illustrated in classic fantasy paperback style, the cover shows a giant roc carrying a young woman above a Venice-like city.
Many Drops Make a Stream is a queer fantasy adventure in which a shapeshifter vigilante must team up with a seemingly normal human on a rescue mission. Features memory-stealing blood mages, friendly rats, and at least one goose attack.
duckprintspress.com/product/many...
I love the bookseller recommendations so much! Definitely helps me figure out what to listen to.
I am once again asking Canadian journalists to ask the most basic-ass question of "on whose land will these be built?" How is it that every other major industry must consider Indigenous rights but with tech it's like "meh".
www.cbc.ca/news/busines...
The Emergency Response Rooms in Sudan is the kind of organization that *should* receive the Nobel Peace Prize. Absolutely fantastic work that should be a model for civil society and humanitarian work everywhere.
wake up, hosers
new petition just dropped
e-6818 is calling to strengthen the Canada Health Act to stop provinces from privatizing health care and to force provinces to account for how and where they used health transfer money
I am begging Canadians to understand that Canada Post, like public transit, should not be a business - it's a service.
Canada Post is a lifeline for rural, remote and Northern communities and overall, we need to re-evaluate why people think they "need" random shit delivered ASAP.