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Mel 🍉

@melly253.bsky.social

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She/her/teetotaler. No one is free until we are all free. Eat the rich. Abortions for all. Trans rights are human rights. If you think you know me, no you don’t.

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Mel 🍉 @melly253.bsky.social · 6d

Reference guide for being my friend:
1 Trans|2SLGBTQIA++ rights=human rights
2 Free Palestine|Congo|Sudan
3 Abortions 4 all
4 Indigenous & Black Lives Matter
5 AI slop=destroying Earth
6 Gender is a social construct
7 Fascism/capitalism=bad
8 Defund police/füçk ICE
9 Billionaires shouldn’t exist

Mel 🍉 @melly253.bsky.social · 1h

Betrayal doesn’t even begin to describe…

T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 3h

To Carney, "Elbows up" means buying American jets, building a pipeline to sell our oil to the US, joining a US missile defence system, opening our markets to more American dairy, and kissing the American president's ass at every opportunity.

This is what you voted for, is it?

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 1d

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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Mel 🍉 @melly253.bsky.social · 20h

I was at Costco yesterday and our cashier (who was truly lovely) had just been told to go F herself and was threatened to be beat up. What the actual hell is wrong with people? You went to Costco on a Friday long weekend … what did you expect?

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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 1d

I was 21 years in Canada's parliament and I have 2 simple questions:
1. Who the fuck is @vgasparro.bsky.social ?
2. Why did @mark-carney.bsky.social let him ban the Irish group @kneecapceol.bsky.social?
If there is a fund to sue for damages, count me in.
Seriously.

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Mel 🍉 @melly253.bsky.social · 1d

A lesson in double negatives.

Anti= opposed to; against

Antifa = anti fascist

Anti-antifa = FASCIST

So when you see all this trump bullşhit rhetoric about the “terrorist” antifa, remember: this is propaganda so you don’t realize that he’s actually saying he’s a fascist.

Mel 🍉 @melly253.bsky.social · 1d

Oh no. That must be a fatality then. Awful.

Mel 🍉 @melly253.bsky.social · 1d

It’s still closed? Yikes. That was several hours ago.

Mel 🍉 @melly253.bsky.social · 1d

I noticed this today at a breakfast spot and thought the exact same thing.

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Mel 🍉 @melly253.bsky.social · 1d

Already suspended!

Mel 🍉 @melly253.bsky.social · 1d

Buy books because digital print can be altered. Buying books is an act of resistance, especially banned books. I support indie bookstores and I also buy every banned book I see.

Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 1d

I fucking love buying books.

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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 1d

What’s happening in Nova Scotia?

Mi’kmaq land protectors have held their ground for over a month. But a new law could change everything.

APTN’s Angel Moore reports from Hunters Mountain and Veldon Coburn explains what’s at stake for Indigenous rights.

Listen to the latest APTN News InFocus:

InFocus: On the ground in Unama'ki: Land protectors sound alarm over Indigenous rights in Canada

On this edition of APTN News InFocus, host Cierra Bettens looks at a new law in Nova Scotia that could threaten Mi’kmaq treaty rights. Land protectors at Hunters Mountain in Unama’ki have preve...

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Mel 🍉 @melly253.bsky.social · 1d

Antoinette’s as well! Vegan, gluten free and keto.

Mel 🍉 @melly253.bsky.social · 2d

Hello five day weekend.

Mel 🍉 @melly253.bsky.social · 2d

I know we’re all having a laugh but this is actually completely füçking terrifying. How did we get here? And how do we make it stop.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

RFK Jr: "Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman at 8 months pregnant -- she's an associate professor at the Columbia Medical School -- and she is saying 'F Trump' and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta. The level of Trump Derangement Syndrome is now a pathology."

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alexis simpson @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 2d

"the tylenol and antifa were in the placenta making autism and i saw the autism and the autism looked at me"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

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Mel 🍉 @melly253.bsky.social · 2d

In other news, water is wet and the sky is blue.

CBC Bot posting select CBC RSS Feeds @scrubfire84.bsky.social · 2d

Halifax house prices much higher on average than what households can afford: report

A recent report found that house prices in Halifax are, on average, 74 per cent higher than what the typical household can afford.

#cbc #cbc-canada-news #Canada

A row of houses is seen from the back of the buildings

Mel 🍉 @melly253.bsky.social · 2d

Same. And window fan is on

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Mel 🍉 @melly253.bsky.social · 2d

Folks putting on the heat and we still have our AC in!

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Mel 🍉 @melly253.bsky.social · 2d

Once I finished writing my trilogy, I rewrote the ENTIRE thing from another character’s POV 😂

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Mel 🍉 @melly253.bsky.social · 3d

Because you’re living in a fascist dictatorship? But seriously, I hope you’re ok.

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Kim @kimisayswhat.bsky.social · 3d

Did you need further reasons to avoid travel to the US right now? Consider that their air traffic controllers aren't being paid during govt shutdown. A stressful, safety-critical job and these folks are expected to still show up, with some working second jobs
www.cbc.ca/news/world/g...

An air traffic control tower was unstaffed. Is this the U.S. government shutdown breaking point? | CBC News

Burbank's air traffic control tower was temporarily un-staffed Monday, one of many incidents in U.S. airports caused by staffing shortages during the U.S. government's shutdown.

www.cbc.ca

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Mel 🍉 @melly253.bsky.social · 4d

Is that what this is??? Ugh.

Mel 🍉 @melly253.bsky.social · 6d

Unfortunately the queue can be unpredictable so it’s better to be too early than too late!

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Mel 🍉 @melly253.bsky.social · 6d

I’ve never watched! I’ve seen episodes but never watched it fully.