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Elliot Rae
@heckiot.bsky.social
520 followers 870 following 76 posts
🏳️‍⚧️ they/them
♿ disabled & cute, trans & tired
📢 making good trouble in Calgary, AB
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🎧📘 They Both Die At The End by Adam Silvera
📆 Finished reading Feb 9, 2025

🌈🌍🪦

sad??? meh. idk, I wanted to like this one but I didn't.

#BookSky #WhatImReading
Cover art for audiobook version of 'They Both Die At The End' by Adam Silvera. The silhouettes of two people walk across a moonlit bridge, city skyline in the background in shades of blue. The people's shadow is a grim reaper figure.
February 9, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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🎧📗 I Hope This Finds You Well by Natalie Sue
📆 Finished reading Feb 5, 2025

😬💼☕

witty, tense, realistic

#BookSky #WhatImReading
Cover art for audiobook version of 'I Hope This Finds You Well' by Natalie Sue. Background is bright pink and orange with the title in 3D block letters over the scene of an office with a water cooler, overturned plant, desk in cubicle, email notification, and person lying on the ground behind the cubicle.
February 6, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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📙 A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers
📆 Finished reading Feb 3, 2025

🌊🌳😌

heartfelt, hopeful, relaxed

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Book cover of 'A Prayer for the Crown-Shy' by Becky Chambers. A warm sunrise or sunset over a tree-lined, hilly landscape. A bike wagon drives a winding path that runs through the hills.
February 4, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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🎧📒 I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
📆 Finished reading Feb 2, 2025

🎬🤱🏻🍝

emotional, candid, tense

#BookSky #WhatImReading
Audiobook cover for 'I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy, read by the author. The background is a pastel yellow. A photo of the author in a light pink dress peeks out of a darker pink rectangle in the lower middle of the page. She looks off into the distance holding a pink urn.
February 3, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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📘 Several People Are Typing by Calvin Kasulke
📆 Finished reading Jan 31, 2025

🧑🏻‍💻☠️👀

unsettling, absurd, timely

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Book cover of 'Several People Are Typing' by Calvin Kasulke. A computer motherboard in the background, with a sunset on top of it, and a stick person face down at its desk.
February 1, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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📕: The Wild Robot Escapes by Peter Brown
📆: Finished reading Jan 30, 2025

🚜👵🏻🪿

cute, quick, predictable

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Book cover of 'The Wild Robot Escapes' by Peter Brown. A variety of pipes in different sizes are pictured. The titular robot stands on top of a thick pipe near the top-middle of the cover.
January 30, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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📗: A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
📆: Finished reading Jan 27, 2025

🌱🤖🍵

comforting, reflective, funny

(Sidenote: Many people have recommended Becky Chambers' books to me. Now I understand WHY. Dedication: "For anybody who could use a break." YA OK. HEARD. 😅)

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Book cover of 'A Psalm for the Wild-Built' by Becky Chambers. Title and author name are written in blocky, all-caps text. A person on a bike wagon holding a cup of tea rests at the bottom of a winding path, surrounded by foliage. A silver robot stands near the top of the path, its hand outstretched toward two glowing butterflies.
January 27, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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📒 Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl's Confabulous Memoir by Kai Cheng Thom
📆 Finished reading Jan 23, 2025

💅🏻🪄🏳️‍⚧️

whimsical, surreal, heartfelt

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Book cover for 'Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl's Confabulous Memoir' by Kai Cheng Thom. Various cartoon images in pastel colours on a light pink background. Blue hands with long red manicured nails frame the title. One hand holds a cigarette. There is also a pocket knife, a slice of red velvet cake, two swarms of bees, and a mermaid tail.
January 25, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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📘 The Wild Robot by Peter Brown
📆 Finished reading Jan 23, 2025

🥲🤖🪿

charming, joyful, funny

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Book cover for 'The Wild Robot' by Peter Brown. There is a cartoon robot standing tall atop a pile of large rocks, surrounded by water and pine trees. The sun shines red in the background. The robot's eyes glow white.
January 24, 2025 at 6:28 AM
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📙 She of the Mountains by Vivek Shraya, illustrated by Raymond Biesinger
📆 Finished reading Jan 11, 2025

🌱💗✨

lyrical, heartwarming, subversive

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Book cover for 'She of the Mountains' by Vivek Shraya, illustrated by Raymond Biesinger. Geometric figures inspired by Hindu deities in shades of vivid green and black. The title text and author's name are magenta.
January 24, 2025 at 6:21 AM
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📗 Homes: A Refugee Story by Abu Bakr Al Rabeeah with Winnie Yeung
📆 Finished reading Jan 10, 2025

🌄🌛❤️‍🩹

earnest, authentic, captivating

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Book cover for 'Homes: A Refugee Story' by Abu Bakr Al Rabeeah with Winnie Yeung. There is a cityscape, presumably Homs, Syria based on the setting of the book, but not entirely sure, as the background.
January 24, 2025 at 6:09 AM
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📕 Next Time There's a Pandemic by Vivek Shraya
📆 Finished reading Jan 4, 2025

💐🥹🧠

reverent, introspective, hopeful

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Book cover for 'Next Time There's a Pandemic' by Vivek Shraya. Depicted are a grid of CRT television screens in technicolour hues. The uppermost screen has two photos of Vivek's eyes, made up with winged eyeliner. She is wearing a bindi.
January 24, 2025 at 5:47 AM
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How do you find the energy to create when it all feels so futile?
Four panels on the outside of a black concrete tiled building wall. Bold white text on black strips, stylized like a dictionary definition, reads as follows: "CREATE. [kree-yet] V.verb :to make or produce"
January 23, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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Me: *moves A LITTLE*

The Great Pumpkin: um scuse me. wot 🙀🦷
An orange cat laying on a white fuzzy blanket has his mouth open, perhaps captured mid-yawn. You can see his little sharp teeth and it kind of looks like he's screaming.
January 20, 2025 at 4:46 AM
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It's late. I'm doomscrolling. Tomorrow is gonna suck. I'm tired and hungry and I need to make something for dinner.

The Great Pumpkin 🎃🐱 has other plans for me.

When a #cat lays on you, you're not allowed to leave.

(A cat may or may not have written this post.)

#OrangeCat #CatSky #CatsOfBluesky
An orange cat lays curled up on a human's stomach. There is a fuzzy white blanket. He is sleeping soundly.
January 20, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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Went and saw Wicked tonight. Loved it. 💚💖
Then: saw a Cybertruck driving on 14 St. They're actually worse in person. It parked nearby and I thought about taking a photo, but Oliver hurried us along to avoid getting hate crimed. Probably for the best... 🙃
Two white transmasculine people wearing KN95 masks take a selfie on the bus. Both are in multicoloured winter clothing. One is holding a tiny stuffed brown and black dog named Beethoven. The other wears a handmade scarf based on a cute version of Haku from Miyazaki's "Spirited Away" with a head that has big eyes and bright yellow horns.
January 12, 2025 at 5:46 AM
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The Great Pumpkin update: more sleepy than sneezy today, and he's totally content or at least unbothered being my personal Zen garden. 😴 #CatNap
A picture of an orange cat who is sleeping. His face is turned away from the camera. There are lines in the fur on his back from being pet with raked fingers. Like a Zen garden but instead of sand, it's cat.
January 11, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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My best friend (The Great Pumpkin) isn't feeling well today. He's been having sneezing fits. 😢 He looks the way I feel spiritually. (Yes, we're going to the vet soon, and I imagine he's fine. Just look at how scrungly his little face is.) #OrangeCat #CatSky #CatsOfBluesky
A close up photo of a medium-long haired orange cat's face. He has white fur around his mouth. His eyes are a little squinty and have some crust around them. He just looks exhausted.
January 10, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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brb setting my alarm clock
January 9, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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Love my provincial NDP and love my new @naheednenshi.bsky.social bumper sticker. This one's new, though: usually when someone addresses me by the wrong name, it's the name my mom gave me or some weirdo feminized version of Elliot, like Elliette. Heather? Who is she? 🤣 #abpoli #abndp
December 22, 2024 at 10:46 PM
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Low point of today: The elevator inside H&M at Chinook Centre being used as a closet for rolling racks. WTF? If we'd both used our walkers today, we wouldn't have fit. I flagged down a staff member who dealt with it promptly, but it shouldn't have happened in the first place. #AccessibilityFail #YYC
December 16, 2024 at 5:02 AM
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High point of today: Our third annual photo at the sweetest holiday market in #YYC, Market Collective, with the best Santa in the biz: Lothar Malmberg. He's a friend (not kidding) and yes, his beard is the real deal. 🥹
December 16, 2024 at 4:53 AM
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I don't know why I ever believe that the people of the internet will retain their basic sense of humanity and respect for one another in the comment sections of ragebaity IG reels. 🤦🏻 Gross. (Context: someone was doing drugs on the c-train.)
December 10, 2024 at 6:55 PM
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Remember that this disruption is not the workers' fault. Blame #CanadaPost executives for not giving workers a fair deal. Enjoy a break from your conservative MP's propaganda mailer. Direct action gets the goods, y'all.

Practice mutual aid this season. No tax receipt, but I promise it's better. 2/
December 3, 2024 at 10:37 PM
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I remember reading something about all of the cells in the human body regenerating every 7 years.

I also remember reading that that's not true.

Tonight I'm choosing to believe it is, because it means none of the cells making up present-day Elliot Rae have had a drink. That's pretty cool, right? 🌤️🏆
A screenshot of a timer showing 7 years on the dot. The image in the background is of birds on a wire in front of a cloudy sky. The sky's colours have been edited to show shades of navy, purple, pink and turquoise.
November 26, 2024 at 6:42 AM