Alex
@alexplatt.bsky.social
Reader living with depression, cat lover, she/her. Canadian.
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Holy shit, what a cover of Seven Nation Army! Twenty One pilots did right by the White Stripes at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
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Twenty One Pilots - Seven Nation Army Cover - The Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame 2025 HD
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November 10, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Holy shit, what a cover of Seven Nation Army! Twenty One pilots did right by the White Stripes at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
youtu.be/U10LnbIf72k?...
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Have Twenty One Pilots always gone this hard?! GD they’re good. ❤️🔥
November 11, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Have Twenty One Pilots always gone this hard?! GD they’re good. ❤️🔥
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people all morning have been pointing out that Joyce Carol Oates is not a good person. yes she is an awful person which comes out pretty often but that is why she is such a brutally effective poster. she is not a friend she is a writer, which is a type of poster. stay away.
November 11, 2025 at 8:04 PM
people all morning have been pointing out that Joyce Carol Oates is not a good person. yes she is an awful person which comes out pretty often but that is why she is such a brutally effective poster. she is not a friend she is a writer, which is a type of poster. stay away.
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it’s dark out. the freaks are entering the chat.
November 12, 2025 at 1:05 AM
it’s dark out. the freaks are entering the chat.
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Capitalism says productivity is the most important metric in determining value
That you must “earn” everything, even food, housing and healthcare.
How do you earn it? By working until you die.
It teaches people to see children, the elderly & disabled as expendable.
It enriches the wealthy only
That you must “earn” everything, even food, housing and healthcare.
How do you earn it? By working until you die.
It teaches people to see children, the elderly & disabled as expendable.
It enriches the wealthy only
November 11, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Capitalism says productivity is the most important metric in determining value
That you must “earn” everything, even food, housing and healthcare.
How do you earn it? By working until you die.
It teaches people to see children, the elderly & disabled as expendable.
It enriches the wealthy only
That you must “earn” everything, even food, housing and healthcare.
How do you earn it? By working until you die.
It teaches people to see children, the elderly & disabled as expendable.
It enriches the wealthy only
Forgive me, I deleted my previous mutual aid post because I was having issues with PayPal. That has now been resolved. I'm a disabled woman living in deep legislated poverty in Ontario. Any help is greatly appreciated. Again, my apologies for showing up twice! ko-fi.com/frownfrump
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November 11, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Forgive me, I deleted my previous mutual aid post because I was having issues with PayPal. That has now been resolved. I'm a disabled woman living in deep legislated poverty in Ontario. Any help is greatly appreciated. Again, my apologies for showing up twice! ko-fi.com/frownfrump
What I will add is that these politicians are living in a reality so far removed from what mentally ill unemployed people are going through. They do not comprehend that we value the ability to support ourselves through work but haven't had the chance because we face lack of employment. ahhhhhhhhhhh
November 11, 2025 at 6:23 PM
What I will add is that these politicians are living in a reality so far removed from what mentally ill unemployed people are going through. They do not comprehend that we value the ability to support ourselves through work but haven't had the chance because we face lack of employment. ahhhhhhhhhhh
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Jesus christ, Joyce
“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”
November 11, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Jesus christ, Joyce
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Do people still think our current economic and political system is a civilized one?
Disabled and homeless, Sudbury senior lives in a broken tent share.google/3mggMCGIyI5c...
Disabled and homeless, Sudbury senior lives in a broken tent share.google/3mggMCGIyI5c...
Disabled and homeless, Sudbury senior struggles to survive in a broken tent
Kristine Robert, 60, has been living in a tent at a homeless encampment in Greater Sudbury since April. Struggling with mental health and physical challenges, her struggles became worse in recent days...
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November 10, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Do people still think our current economic and political system is a civilized one?
Disabled and homeless, Sudbury senior lives in a broken tent share.google/3mggMCGIyI5c...
Disabled and homeless, Sudbury senior lives in a broken tent share.google/3mggMCGIyI5c...
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I don't delete my bad posts because why should I suffer alone.
November 9, 2025 at 6:50 PM
I don't delete my bad posts because why should I suffer alone.
Half the people in this deeply cursed province couldn't even be bothered to vote. There is no hope.
I feel completely dismissed and invisible. The system in place has failed to care for or even acknowledge me and many others. It’s unfair and there should be stronger advocacy and support. Who else is going to do this advocacy though? People are wrapped up in their jobs and families.
November 11, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Half the people in this deeply cursed province couldn't even be bothered to vote. There is no hope.
I feel completely dismissed and invisible. The system in place has failed to care for or even acknowledge me and many others. It’s unfair and there should be stronger advocacy and support. Who else is going to do this advocacy though? People are wrapped up in their jobs and families.
November 11, 2025 at 1:23 AM
I feel completely dismissed and invisible. The system in place has failed to care for or even acknowledge me and many others. It’s unfair and there should be stronger advocacy and support. Who else is going to do this advocacy though? People are wrapped up in their jobs and families.
I think the other problem is that many people are in DEEP poverty but are doing things to mask how dire the conditions actually are out of shame. Someone may APPEAR to be scraping by but they just aren’t. I wish I had more to offer but most days I feel like I’m floundering myself.
November 11, 2025 at 12:37 AM
I think the other problem is that many people are in DEEP poverty but are doing things to mask how dire the conditions actually are out of shame. Someone may APPEAR to be scraping by but they just aren’t. I wish I had more to offer but most days I feel like I’m floundering myself.
Had a really nice meal tonight and as is increasingly the case, I think about those who do not have this. Who are being deprived of food in 2025. What are we doing here, as human beings? We’ve lost the plot.
November 11, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Had a really nice meal tonight and as is increasingly the case, I think about those who do not have this. Who are being deprived of food in 2025. What are we doing here, as human beings? We’ve lost the plot.
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This is absolutely true.
I don't know about other countries, but public health experts here minimized this the same way they did COVID.
It is as if they think their job is to keep the public calm rather than to inform them.
I don't know about other countries, but public health experts here minimized this the same way they did COVID.
It is as if they think their job is to keep the public calm rather than to inform them.
This was clearly the trajectory we were on in the Spring.
We could see this coming.
Rather than ring the alarm bells, too many PH officials jumped on every opportunity to minimize this, even last month here in Ontario.
It’s shameful.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
We could see this coming.
Rather than ring the alarm bells, too many PH officials jumped on every opportunity to minimize this, even last month here in Ontario.
It’s shameful.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
November 10, 2025 at 8:48 PM
This is absolutely true.
I don't know about other countries, but public health experts here minimized this the same way they did COVID.
It is as if they think their job is to keep the public calm rather than to inform them.
I don't know about other countries, but public health experts here minimized this the same way they did COVID.
It is as if they think their job is to keep the public calm rather than to inform them.
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Hang on, when did reading become so performative?
November 10, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Hang on, when did reading become so performative?
I didn’t think a book first published in 1934 would be such a page-turner but I’m already over halfway through. Silly me. I believe Carson was younger than me when she wrote this. Astonishing.
So thrilled to find this locally. I’ve known about Persephone Books for years but didn’t know how to access their titles in Canada. Thanks to @radzpandit.bsky.social for writing about this book on her blog!
November 10, 2025 at 5:34 PM
I didn’t think a book first published in 1934 would be such a page-turner but I’m already over halfway through. Silly me. I believe Carson was younger than me when she wrote this. Astonishing.
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I've listened to the new Florence+ the Machine album at least three times per day for the last ten days. I can now confidently declare all other music is cancelled, also my plans for this evening are cancelled I have to go listen to it again bye.
November 10, 2025 at 12:31 AM
I've listened to the new Florence+ the Machine album at least three times per day for the last ten days. I can now confidently declare all other music is cancelled, also my plans for this evening are cancelled I have to go listen to it again bye.
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lol she got his ass and he knows it
November 9, 2025 at 3:36 PM
lol she got his ass and he knows it
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The first snow of the year has begun. Give me all your snowstorm novella recs, please.
November 9, 2025 at 6:45 AM
The first snow of the year has begun. Give me all your snowstorm novella recs, please.
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Mark Carney was talking about attracting foreign investment to Canada and listed reasons Canada is a good place to invest. A reporter pointed out that the U.S. has those things, too. What sets Canada apart? Carney responded, "Well, we have rule of law."
November 9, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Mark Carney was talking about attracting foreign investment to Canada and listed reasons Canada is a good place to invest. A reporter pointed out that the U.S. has those things, too. What sets Canada apart? Carney responded, "Well, we have rule of law."
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New on the blog today, I've written about CROOKED CROSS by Sally Carson.
A brilliant, terrifying novel about the rise of Nazism, the falling apart of a country’s codes of decency & the moral fortitude required to oppose persecution. Frighteningly timely. 💙📚
jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/11/09/c...
A brilliant, terrifying novel about the rise of Nazism, the falling apart of a country’s codes of decency & the moral fortitude required to oppose persecution. Frighteningly timely. 💙📚
jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/11/09/c...
Crooked Cross by Sally Carson
For a novel first published in 1934, Sally Carson’s Crooked Cross feels remarkably timely, charting, as it does, the rise of Nazism in the early 1930s, the falling apart of a country’s fundamental …
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November 9, 2025 at 7:17 AM
New on the blog today, I've written about CROOKED CROSS by Sally Carson.
A brilliant, terrifying novel about the rise of Nazism, the falling apart of a country’s codes of decency & the moral fortitude required to oppose persecution. Frighteningly timely. 💙📚
jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/11/09/c...
A brilliant, terrifying novel about the rise of Nazism, the falling apart of a country’s codes of decency & the moral fortitude required to oppose persecution. Frighteningly timely. 💙📚
jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/11/09/c...
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As the owner of an independent bookstore, I must ask all of y'all to do the opposite of this forever and ever, amen.
I am not allowed to buy more books until I read the ones I already own
November 8, 2025 at 9:17 PM
As the owner of an independent bookstore, I must ask all of y'all to do the opposite of this forever and ever, amen.
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People love to tell disabled folks to “take responsibility”.
Take responsibility for what exactly?
For being sick?
For not getting better?
For needing social supports?
What they really mean is “we don’t want OUR taxes helping YOU survive”
Take responsibility for what exactly?
For being sick?
For not getting better?
For needing social supports?
What they really mean is “we don’t want OUR taxes helping YOU survive”
November 8, 2025 at 3:35 AM
People love to tell disabled folks to “take responsibility”.
Take responsibility for what exactly?
For being sick?
For not getting better?
For needing social supports?
What they really mean is “we don’t want OUR taxes helping YOU survive”
Take responsibility for what exactly?
For being sick?
For not getting better?
For needing social supports?
What they really mean is “we don’t want OUR taxes helping YOU survive”