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Vanessa R. Bradley @vanessarbradley.bsky.social · 5d

One of my favourite projects I’ve begun in the last few years is a Snail Mail Poetry Club.

Every month, all of us mail poems to each other — monthly, I get 3-6 poems in the mail with a little note, and it is a JOY.

If anyone is ever interested in joining the Snail Mail Poetry Club, DM me!

Vanessa R. Bradley @vanessarbradley.bsky.social · 6d

Mad respect for running to get your book signed!! Lovely to meet you IRL

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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · Feb 1

With science falling under increasing attack, this medical historian is here to remind people of the power of #vaccines. THREAD🧵

Hard-hitting polio advert from 1958. In the first half of the 20th century, polio was the leading cause of death in children and young adults. 1/7

An advertisement for the polio vaccine which reads: "they all got vaccine except dad...don't take a chance...take your polio shots!" It depicts a photo of a family gathered around a father who is in an iron lung.

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Vanessa R. Bradley @vanessarbradley.bsky.social · 14d

This is so lovely and sweet and it looks like the perfect location. I love a vow renewal! Congrats!

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Vanessa R. Bradley @vanessarbradley.bsky.social · 28d

Made me cry on this Thursday morning, I recommend you read and maybe cry a little too:

Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 29d

While it’s still September 10 & Mary Oliver’s birthday—she would have been 90—I thought I’d share this thing I wrote on the day she died, in January of 2019

Mary Oliver and Opening Doors

Musicals and Memoriams

amalelmohtar.com

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Vanessa R. Bradley @vanessarbradley.bsky.social · Sep 4

Teen Vogue is doing incredible journalism, and this piece feels so hopeful amid such hopelessness.

Teen Vogue @teenvogue.com · Sep 4

Arkansas ranks as the second most at-risk state after Florida due to extreme heat, tornadoes, and minimal investment in climate adaptation projects from its Republican-led legislature. Here's how young people in the state are addressing climate anxiety to take care of themselves –– and each other:

Young People Are Using Parties and Free Menstrual Cups to Fight Climate Anxiety

A 2024 survey of 15- to 25-year olds found that 60% are "extremely worried" about the climate crisis; more than 40% say climate anxiety affects their mental health.

www.teenvogue.com

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Tony Davis @tony-davis.bsky.social · Sep 4

More than 80 people crowded into a room at the Charlottetown Library Learning Centre to offer feedback on the amendments MLA Brad Trivers is proposing to the rental act.

There were tense exchanges,shouting, jeering and one person providing feedback via a middle finger.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Tenants blast MLA Brad Trivers's suggested rental act changes at heated meeting | CBC News

Tenants aren't happy with a private members bill from MLA Brad Trivers suggesting changes to the P.E.I. Residential Tenancy Act.

www.cbc.ca

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Terri Windling @terriwindling.bsky.social · Aug 10

From Kate DiCamillo's lovely essay On Writing:

"You have no business wanting to be a writer unless you are a reader. You should read fantasies and essays, biographies and poetry, fables and fairy tales. Read, read, read, read, read."

I couldn't agree more.

www.katedicamillo.com/on_writing-2/

The image above is "Lisbeth Reading" by the Swedish Arts & Crafts painter Carl Larsson (1853-1919), depicting one of the artist's daughters reading a book.

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Dr. Hello Bonjour @hellobonjour.bsky.social · Aug 9

Teen climate activist (my son) needs Canadians to respond to a 2-minute survey to help him build data to bring to local Cdn politicians to urge them to make it easier for Canadians to donate used electronics for reuse (after wiped clean) and recycling. Pls share: marketing4health.formaloo.me/b8j3vp

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Vanessa R. Bradley @vanessarbradley.bsky.social · Aug 3

Plugging @justinesnacks.bsky.social! Made this INCREDIBLE halibut with sungold tomatoes tonight and it’s 10/10. Recipe here: justinesnacks.com/breaded-hali...

Plate with a piece of halibut over stewed tomatoes topped with basil & crispy breadcrumbs, next to a fluffy fresh leaf lettuce salad!

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Vanessa R. Bradley @vanessarbradley.bsky.social · Aug 2

This essay on community, group work, and the human condition hit a chord in me: open.substack.com/pub/folkists...

The Idea is Not the Hard Part

On Meitheals, Group Projects, and Becoming a Maker

open.substack.com

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Vanessa R. Bradley @vanessarbradley.bsky.social · Aug 1

It sounds like such a cool book, and then I saw that and was like… oh, dang, that changes things 🥲 (interesting that it’s viewed negatively in the book, since author says she’ll keep doing it lol)

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Vanessa R. Bradley @vanessarbradley.bsky.social · Jul 31

I was looking this up in curiosity and saw that the author used ChatGPT to write about 5% of it, which gives me very conflicting feelings about reading it

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Vanessa R. Bradley @vanessarbradley.bsky.social · Jul 31

Have dog bed, but will lie on the floor in the office

Husky with a blue harness lies on an office floor, directly beside her dog bed

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Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · Jul 30

Killing Eve poetry meme

Villanelle / (Every other genre): “You’re a lot today.”

Eve / (Poetry): “I’m a lot every day.”

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Chris Baraniuk @chrisbaraniuk.com · Jul 4

And so. When AI turns around in the year 2025 and spews words at us, often stupidly, you know what I think of?

I think of the grub, fat with words, comprehending nothing.

þēof in þȳstro

Thief in the dark.

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · Jul 29

If you're also feeling salty that 5% of our GDP is going to defence and as a result, the Ministry of Women and Gender Equality's budget is being slashed, you should contact your MP and give them hell.

But you should also participate in the pre-budget consultation!

Link here :

Pre-Budget Consultations 2025 - Canada.ca

Pre-Budget Consultations 2025

www.canada.ca

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · Jul 29

Totally!

And periodic reminder that Canadians can send mail (ie: letters, postcards, etc) to MPs for FREE.

Ask anyone who has been a staffer and they'll tell you that personalized correspondence is always more effective than a form letter.

Call! Email! Write! Make some noise, folks.

Karen Racine @klracine.bsky.social · Jul 29

Canadians need to get noisy about this betrayal. Call, write, tell your friends. Show up.

It's exhausting. We're all sick and tired of having to fight our own govt reps to treat us well and make our lives easier and better, but here we are ... so we continue to do it. I'm tired and I'm angry.

Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · Jul 29

"Pre-election, the Liberals promised to “never” compromise women’s rights in Canada. Now the government is talking about cuts so deep that they will exceed those that laid waste to the women’s sector during the Harper years."

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · Jul 29

"Pre-election, the Liberals promised to “never” compromise women’s rights in Canada. Now the government is talking about cuts so deep that they will exceed those that laid waste to the women’s sector during the Harper years."

Cuts to Women and Gender Equality Canada will take us back to the Harper days - CCPA

On April 28, women voters delivered a major victory for the Liberal party, turning around the electoral fortunes of a party that had been trailing its major opponent by 25 points in the year leading u...

www.policyalternatives.ca

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Vanessa R. Bradley @vanessarbradley.bsky.social · Jul 29

This is such trash and I’m also not sure what to do as a single person — do I email? Do I call? Not sure if you have any thoughts on that but maybe someone does?

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Tony Davis @tony-davis.bsky.social · Jul 21

A video that shows a man tearing down a string of Pride flags outside a store in Prince Edward Island is going viral across social media, and police are looking for the culprit.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Security footage showing man ripping Pride flags from P.E.I. storefront goes viral | CBC News

A video that shows a man tearing down a string of Pride flags outside a Charlottetown store is going viral across social media, and police are looking for the culprit.

www.cbc.ca

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Vanessa R. Bradley @vanessarbradley.bsky.social · Jul 21

SECONDED

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Rainesford Stauffer @rainesford.bsky.social · Jul 17

Stop what you're doing and read this extraordinary essay by Rümeysa Öztürk: "I am free, but my true freedom is interlinked with the freedom of many women I lived alongside in ICE prison."

“Even God Cannot Hear Us Here”: What I Witnessed Inside an ICE Women’s Prison

Tufts University doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk opens up about her 45 days in a South Louisiana processing facility—and the generous and compassionate women she met.

www.vanityfair.com

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🕷️Gory Thing🕷️ @korybing.bsky.social · Jul 14

This is why I don't like AI use for ANY reason, even if it's just to dunk on AI. Any use takes up resources and energy that could be better used doing literally anything else. Any "good potential use" for AI is annihilated by how much energy it takes to make it. Throw it in the trash, it's no good!

Draculanna 🧛🌿👁️ @annacwebs.bsky.social · Jul 14

A regular reminder that using Grok is actively poisoning my former home of Memphis, Tennessee, a relatively poor and majority Black major city in the American South. Allowing the DoD to use it will escalate this dramatically.

www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

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Dr. Carly Maris @vintagehistorian.bsky.social · Jul 10

“I asked Chat GPT” “I asked Grok”

Ok well I asked Sappho and she said

…….
…….
..[b]osom

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