M
@trinlisabeth.bsky.social
Cranky queer elder on the west coast of Canada.
I did 35 years in the US so don't tell me about the joys of privatized healthcare.
Library and public transit enthusiast.
It was ADHD all along.
She/they (gendermeh)
I did 35 years in the US so don't tell me about the joys of privatized healthcare.
Library and public transit enthusiast.
It was ADHD all along.
She/they (gendermeh)
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Results are in for Iowa City’s two-year pilot of free public transit…
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...
Iowa City Made Its Buses Free. Traffic Cleared, and So Did the Air.
www.nytimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Results are in for Iowa City’s two-year pilot of free public transit…
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...
Good introductory site about puberty blockers: "Withholding puberty blockers is not a neutral option. Health care providers who refuse to provide puberty blockers to youth can cause additional distress leading to an increased risk of mental health issues." www.transcarebc.ca/hormone-ther...
Puberty blockers | Trans Care BC
Learn about the effects, costs, benefits and risks associated with puberty blockers.
www.transcarebc.ca
November 22, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Good introductory site about puberty blockers: "Withholding puberty blockers is not a neutral option. Health care providers who refuse to provide puberty blockers to youth can cause additional distress leading to an increased risk of mental health issues." www.transcarebc.ca/hormone-ther...
"Maybe it’s important to them to create spaces that are accessible because the next several years are going to require community - and they want that community to include everyone and to be healthy enough to respond and act."
Why Are People Wearing Masks in 2025?
A Mental Health Professional’s Perspective
misfitmentalhealth.substack.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:49 PM
"Maybe it’s important to them to create spaces that are accessible because the next several years are going to require community - and they want that community to include everyone and to be healthy enough to respond and act."
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Bingo
Every "population crisis" article in western media is just "WHERE ARE THE WHITE BABIES" in disguise and we absolutely do not have to give any credence to any of them
November 14, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Bingo
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Thomas Jefferson was 44 when he started in creeping on 14-year-old Sally Hemings. And Sally, who was enslaved, shared a father with Martha Wayles Jefferson—Tom's wife.
He's been dead literally centuries and the US refuses to reckon squarely with what this meant for definitions of American greatness
He's been dead literally centuries and the US refuses to reckon squarely with what this meant for definitions of American greatness
November 13, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Thomas Jefferson was 44 when he started in creeping on 14-year-old Sally Hemings. And Sally, who was enslaved, shared a father with Martha Wayles Jefferson—Tom's wife.
He's been dead literally centuries and the US refuses to reckon squarely with what this meant for definitions of American greatness
He's been dead literally centuries and the US refuses to reckon squarely with what this meant for definitions of American greatness
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Teen Vogue eliminated all their Black and trans staff today.
It's resegregation in real time.
It's resegregation in real time.
today’s information came out piecemeal, and people should be able to share their own situations on their own time, but I could share this much ^ as it is pretty cut and dry on the facts.
Teen Vogue also no longer has any trans staffers as of today.
Teen Vogue also no longer has any trans staffers as of today.
November 4, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Teen Vogue eliminated all their Black and trans staff today.
It's resegregation in real time.
It's resegregation in real time.
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October 26, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Long ago, the actor Peter Ustinov described Toronto as "New York run by the Swiss."
October 26, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Long ago, the actor Peter Ustinov described Toronto as "New York run by the Swiss."
BIG RED FLAG
seeing further discussions on here today about who "counts" (& doesn't count) as "working class voters" who Dems should be pursuing, and it's basically a variant of this dynamic:
...here is that passage, the TL;DR being: whenever someone describes someone or something as "divisive", they are telling you about the imagined "one-ness" they favor (which inevitably excludes others). more about Excluded can be found here: juliaserano.com/excluded.html
October 25, 2025 at 6:25 PM
BIG RED FLAG
As queer barista in the '90s, this checks out. It also explains the coffee shop-to-library pipeline.
From self-expression to sober spaces to labour organizing, there’s a lot more to the queer barista phenomenon than the meme suggests. @jillmwebb.bsky.social investigates:
Why are queer people so drawn to the coffee industry? | Xtra Magazine
From self-expression to sober spaces to labour organizing, there’s a lot more to the queer barista phenomenon than the meme suggests
xtramagazine.com
October 22, 2025 at 3:02 AM
As queer barista in the '90s, this checks out. It also explains the coffee shop-to-library pipeline.
He did not call for a general strike but that's an interesting headline from HuffPost.
love to see it. curious which unions will respond
October 20, 2025 at 12:41 AM
He did not call for a general strike but that's an interesting headline from HuffPost.
Remember when Action4Canada was just a COVID-denial grift? A couple years later, the group pivoted to being anti-trans+ and suddenly there were bible verses on every page of the site, among the many DONATE buttons.
Alberta schools are at the centre of the growing culture war, and the book bans and school pronoun policies can be traced back to far-right activist groups.
How far-right groups brought the culture war to Alberta schools | Xtra Magazine
Many of the most vocal groups in developing Alberta’s school policies have no affiliation to kids or the education system
xtramagazine.com
October 18, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Remember when Action4Canada was just a COVID-denial grift? A couple years later, the group pivoted to being anti-trans+ and suddenly there were bible verses on every page of the site, among the many DONATE buttons.
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"That's why your kids don't like you... and your wife is f***in on you..." 🔥
(I think the woman is 🇯🇲? She is also brave *AF* here.)
(I think the woman is 🇯🇲? She is also brave *AF* here.)
She gets all the flowers. I mean ALL of them. If we see her, we immediately have to give her flowers.
October 16, 2025 at 1:19 AM
"That's why your kids don't like you... and your wife is f***in on you..." 🔥
(I think the woman is 🇯🇲? She is also brave *AF* here.)
(I think the woman is 🇯🇲? She is also brave *AF* here.)
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Those who understand SARS-CoV-2 (Covid) causes neurological, endothelial, cardiovascular, and immune system damage, and that damage from repeated infections is cumulative, mask. And those who don’t will soon find out.
I don’t “live in fear” typically means, I prefer to “live in denial.”
I don’t “live in fear” typically means, I prefer to “live in denial.”
October 14, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Those who understand SARS-CoV-2 (Covid) causes neurological, endothelial, cardiovascular, and immune system damage, and that damage from repeated infections is cumulative, mask. And those who don’t will soon find out.
I don’t “live in fear” typically means, I prefer to “live in denial.”
I don’t “live in fear” typically means, I prefer to “live in denial.”
I hope other countries as well as the new regional health systems in the US pick up as much of this work as they can.
Dr. @angierasmussen.bsky.social has the must-read of the week, but you're not going to like it: The Death of Public Health open.substack.com/pub/rasmusse...
The Death of Public Health
Another Friday night massacre, but this time it's not just an essential federal public health agency that will die
open.substack.com
October 11, 2025 at 5:22 PM
I hope other countries as well as the new regional health systems in the US pick up as much of this work as they can.
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I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:
www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...
www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...
October 11, 2025 at 2:53 PM
I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:
www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...
www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...
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Sending this back around because it's so dang good.
Do yourself a favor and enjoy this queer musician who played a pro trans song at a straight pride festival in Boise over the summer.
Do yourself a favor and enjoy this queer musician who played a pro trans song at a straight pride festival in Boise over the summer.
Hetero Awesome Fest - Guerrilla Performance - Boise, Idaho - Boy
🚨 A QUEER PERSON HAS SNUCK ONTO THE STAGE AT HETERO PRIDE THIS IS NOT A DRILL 🚨
🚨 A QUEER PERSON HAS SNUCK ONTO THE STAGE AT HETERO PRIDE THIS IS NOT A DRILL 🚨
October 11, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Sending this back around because it's so dang good.
Do yourself a favor and enjoy this queer musician who played a pro trans song at a straight pride festival in Boise over the summer.
Do yourself a favor and enjoy this queer musician who played a pro trans song at a straight pride festival in Boise over the summer.
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![Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.
There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.
What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.
It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lzlqyldh7nfc34pfffvd24ko/bafkreiap6asa64jdjb2vlv4c2sdritjrntsibvsv7baj6o4cgwcfgsjeny@jpeg)
October 10, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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The kids are alright.
Wow, the University of Washington's Psych 201 class does *not* play
go fuckin Huskies
Nazi UW students fuck off
go fuckin Huskies
Nazi UW students fuck off
October 3, 2025 at 4:47 AM
The kids are alright.
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old article, resolved with the family reuniting in Canada. follow-up article published 6 days after the one you shared.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Haitian family allowed into Canada after spending two months in ICE detention | CBC News
A Haitian family's ordeal of spending nearly two months in ICE detention in Texas after being turned away by CBSA, only to have their case redetermined and accepted, is an example of wrong decisions b...
www.cbc.ca
October 2, 2025 at 5:32 PM
old article, resolved with the family reuniting in Canada. follow-up article published 6 days after the one you shared.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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If you read anything today, let it be Nikole Hannah Jones’ essay on how Charlie Kirk’s death is doubling as an invitation to transform white supremacist views into normal political discourse www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/m...
What the Public Memory of Charlie Kirk Revealed
www.nytimes.com
September 28, 2025 at 6:40 PM
If you read anything today, let it be Nikole Hannah Jones’ essay on how Charlie Kirk’s death is doubling as an invitation to transform white supremacist views into normal political discourse www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/m...
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Another Sunday, another interview in the New York Times where two cis men politely discuss if trans people are actually human or not. No consensus reached! Oh well!
September 28, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Another Sunday, another interview in the New York Times where two cis men politely discuss if trans people are actually human or not. No consensus reached! Oh well!
One of my favourite films. I was fortunate to see it in a theatre in England with a friend who whispered explanations of the lines in Urdu that had much of the audience giggling.
Gay far-right sympathizer falls in love with young Pakistani man in Thatcher’s London: The magnificent 40th anniversary of ‘My Beautiful Laundrette’
Daniel Day-Lewis, Hanif Kureishi and Stephen Frears were almost unknown when they burst onto the scene with this low-budget English film
english.elpais.com
September 22, 2025 at 5:15 AM
One of my favourite films. I was fortunate to see it in a theatre in England with a friend who whispered explanations of the lines in Urdu that had much of the audience giggling.
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Get in losers, we’re grieving
September 22, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Get in losers, we’re grieving
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this charlie kirk deification is some of the weirdest shit i have ever seen
September 21, 2025 at 1:32 AM
this charlie kirk deification is some of the weirdest shit i have ever seen