Good night, Bluesky.
Here is your (super late) weekly reminder to take your HRT, medications, and vitamins.
Bluesky still deserves better leadership.
Trans rights are human rights. 🏳️⚧️
Unban Link.
How quickly he forgot Trudeau.
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happy birthday weed
also congrats to drugs for winning the war on drugs
1996: my mom finds my weed and I get in a ton of trouble
2026: my mom asks if I can bring her some more weed
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Cover of AE: The Open Persuader by Auctor Ignotus, set against a colourful cosmic background promoting queer speculative fiction in The ArQuives collection.
Queen Horizons: a bi-monthly look at some of the queer fantasy, science, and speculative fiction found within The ArQuives collection. In our latest feature, we dive into AE: The Open Persuader - a bizarre and provocative early work of gay transhumanist utopian fiction.
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The ArQuives Job Alert YCW Archives Assistant The Archives Assistant position will expose the student to various archival situations designed to improve skills and enhance public access to our rich holdings of 2SLGBTQIA+ heritage. The successful applicant will be responsible for the arrangement & description of records. Full-time, 15-week contract 37.5/week, $23.50/hour Open tot hose eligible for Young Canada Works only.
Are you 30 or under and interested in 2SLGBTQIA+ heritage? There's a position open at @arquives.ca!
Hours and salary: 37.5h/week, $23.50/hour
Deadline to apply: 7 May 2026
Learn more and apply: arquives.ca/ycw-archives...
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just write it terrible for five minutes and see where it goes. or write questions to yourself into the draft—“what the fuck goes here, i don’t know, but it’s something about blah blah this will sound smarter later” is acceptable rough draft material
People considering ditching substack, this might be of interest.
PS: ditch substack
Congrats!
He... didn't deny it though? At least not in this clip.
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A grid photo of 16 different characters all played by the legend Tim Curry.
Tim Curry, the absolute legend, turns 80 today. This man took huge swings.
In the @thestar.com I write about how Toronto lags behind other cities & the dismal watering down of yongeTOmorrow. A big chance to catch do something really great, yet thwarted by status quo inertia. There’s hope w the Church St pedestrian plan but both need your vocal support. Read & share. 💪
it's so cool how comfortably employed legacy journalists can just follow a bunch of independent journalists, rip off their stories, and still pretend they are better than the rest of us.
A tattooed man seated in a red armchair in a Toronto living room. He's naked except for small checked yellow briefs. There's a slight smile on his face. This photo was taken in 1955.
Hunky men including himself, I'm not shy to say.
I like this one in particular. He looks quite sweet here.
Three hunky men waterskiing on Lake Ontario. They're topless and wearing tight swim trunks. Photo taken in 1955.
There are more than 700 photos shot over nine years and, well, I've drawn some conclusions based on his preoccupation with photographing hunky men.
Very cool!
A tattooed man sitting on a lawn in Toronto, naked except for checked yellow briefs. His face is in shadow. This photograph was taken in 1953.
I mean, just look at this 1953 beefcake.
An archivist at the City of Toronto Archives led me to the photographs of a soldier who posed for physique photos and I'm making a case for how and when one can use terms that signify identity analytically, here using visual analysis.
It's sexy stuff.
Research is fun.
Idk, I've been catching up on queer YA, and there's quite a few graphic novels in there too. It's not all history and critical theory -- I have ecclectic tastes, haha.
Still shaking my head in wonder at how much worse email is than it was 15 years ago. I now have three different levels of inbox to sort the mostly spam and general junk from my inner sanctum inbox which *still* is mostly populated by stuff I don’t want or need to read.
Man, I feel like a slacker for only having read 57 books so far this year.
lol, who saved this.
We can do better, folks. Let's make it 💯.
Pantscurious erasure.
Pantscurious erasure.
We can do better, folks. Let's make it 💯.