Amazon Syren
@amazonsyren.bsky.social
Unusually Tall.
Queer, leather femme. Poet, pagan, glamazon, and kitchen witch. Not-so-secretly a sea monster. (She/Her)
https://allisonlarmstrong.wixsite.com/writer
Queer, leather femme. Poet, pagan, glamazon, and kitchen witch. Not-so-secretly a sea monster. (She/Her)
https://allisonlarmstrong.wixsite.com/writer
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America's first ever esports champion was Rebecca Heineman, a trans woman. She went on to found some of your favorite video game studios and worked on your favorite video games. Next time you see somebody rail about 'woke' and 'DEI'
Remember that.
Remember her.
Remember that.
Remember her.
"I code so others can dream."
Gayming Icon and LGBTQ+ video game pioneer, Rebecca Heineman, has sadly passed away after a short, tough fight with aggressive cancer.
Read our obituary to this true industry trailblazer: gaymingmag.com/2025/11/gaym...
Gayming Icon and LGBTQ+ video game pioneer, Rebecca Heineman, has sadly passed away after a short, tough fight with aggressive cancer.
Read our obituary to this true industry trailblazer: gaymingmag.com/2025/11/gaym...
Gayming Icon and LGBTQ+ games pioneer, Rebecca Heineman, has died - Gayming Magazine
Rebecca Heineman, a trailblazing figure in the video game industry and a celebrated icon within the LGBTQ+ gaming community, has died.
gaymingmag.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:11 PM
America's first ever esports champion was Rebecca Heineman, a trans woman. She went on to found some of your favorite video game studios and worked on your favorite video games. Next time you see somebody rail about 'woke' and 'DEI'
Remember that.
Remember her.
Remember that.
Remember her.
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A doorway to, or from, the Iron Age…?
Looking out from the doorway of Carn Liath broch to the world beyond, I guess the view, stone, sea and sky, hasn’t changed too much in 2000 years.
Enchanting, and chilling, sometimes to glance through ancient eyes.
#Echolands
#Portal
Looking out from the doorway of Carn Liath broch to the world beyond, I guess the view, stone, sea and sky, hasn’t changed too much in 2000 years.
Enchanting, and chilling, sometimes to glance through ancient eyes.
#Echolands
#Portal
November 17, 2025 at 8:45 PM
A doorway to, or from, the Iron Age…?
Looking out from the doorway of Carn Liath broch to the world beyond, I guess the view, stone, sea and sky, hasn’t changed too much in 2000 years.
Enchanting, and chilling, sometimes to glance through ancient eyes.
#Echolands
#Portal
Looking out from the doorway of Carn Liath broch to the world beyond, I guess the view, stone, sea and sky, hasn’t changed too much in 2000 years.
Enchanting, and chilling, sometimes to glance through ancient eyes.
#Echolands
#Portal
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November 18, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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For the first time, one of my books will be available in the UK!
PSYCHOPOMP & CIRCUMSTANCE hits UK stores 27th Nov. Pre-order from Afrori Books, a multi-award-winning bookshop celebrating Black authors and offering a welcoming space.
afroribooks.co.uk/products/psy...
#Blackbooksky #booksky
PSYCHOPOMP & CIRCUMSTANCE hits UK stores 27th Nov. Pre-order from Afrori Books, a multi-award-winning bookshop celebrating Black authors and offering a welcoming space.
afroribooks.co.uk/products/psy...
#Blackbooksky #booksky
November 18, 2025 at 10:44 AM
For the first time, one of my books will be available in the UK!
PSYCHOPOMP & CIRCUMSTANCE hits UK stores 27th Nov. Pre-order from Afrori Books, a multi-award-winning bookshop celebrating Black authors and offering a welcoming space.
afroribooks.co.uk/products/psy...
#Blackbooksky #booksky
PSYCHOPOMP & CIRCUMSTANCE hits UK stores 27th Nov. Pre-order from Afrori Books, a multi-award-winning bookshop celebrating Black authors and offering a welcoming space.
afroribooks.co.uk/products/psy...
#Blackbooksky #booksky
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If destroying our life support system were human nature there would be no need to corrupt governments, deny science, and weaken media to keep the fossil fuel industry going.
If war were just human nature, it would not be so deeply long-term traumatizing to participate in war.
If war were just human nature, military training would not amount to psychological torture.
If war were just human nature, there would be no need to pump literal billions into pro-war propaganda.
If war were just human nature, military training would not amount to psychological torture.
If war were just human nature, there would be no need to pump literal billions into pro-war propaganda.
November 18, 2025 at 1:05 PM
If destroying our life support system were human nature there would be no need to corrupt governments, deny science, and weaken media to keep the fossil fuel industry going.
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The PM is talking about nation-building. We need to be talking about being a nation where people aren't dependent on food banks and are able to live in affordable homes.
A nation where people are not left behind.
This is my latest.
substack.com/home/post/p-...
A nation where people are not left behind.
This is my latest.
substack.com/home/post/p-...
True Nation-Building in a Time of Rising Economic Insecurity
Wherever I travel across Canada, I am overwhelmed by the positive energy and determination of Canadians to defend our sovereignty and national values.
substack.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:10 PM
The PM is talking about nation-building. We need to be talking about being a nation where people aren't dependent on food banks and are able to live in affordable homes.
A nation where people are not left behind.
This is my latest.
substack.com/home/post/p-...
A nation where people are not left behind.
This is my latest.
substack.com/home/post/p-...
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Now too excited to work for the rest of the day...
Want to walk into and through an actual Iron Age house…and UP THE STAIRS?
Of course you bloody do.
Come with me.
Carn Liath broch, just sitting quietly beside the A9 as thousands whizz by without stopping. Their mistake.
Far too excited to wait for #HillfortsWednesday
Of course you bloody do.
Come with me.
Carn Liath broch, just sitting quietly beside the A9 as thousands whizz by without stopping. Their mistake.
Far too excited to wait for #HillfortsWednesday
November 17, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Now too excited to work for the rest of the day...
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If we don’t signal our virtue every now and again - then so many believe they are utterly alone - “virtue signalling” is not there to say “aren’t I good” but “there are more of us than you might imagine” and “fuck you for demanding that only the brutal and the bullies may speak”
November 17, 2025 at 11:31 AM
If we don’t signal our virtue every now and again - then so many believe they are utterly alone - “virtue signalling” is not there to say “aren’t I good” but “there are more of us than you might imagine” and “fuck you for demanding that only the brutal and the bullies may speak”
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if you're in Ottawa and want to attend the ottawa small press book fair pre-fair reading on Nov 21, come hear me read with fellow honourable features: Liam Burke and Stuart Ross. It's gonna be great! and then come to the fair the next day! www.facebook.com/events/13388...
pre-small press book fair reading, November 21: Stuart Ross, Liam Burke + Amanda Earl,
Event in Ottawa by Rob McLennan on Friday, November 21 2025
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November 16, 2025 at 3:00 PM
if you're in Ottawa and want to attend the ottawa small press book fair pre-fair reading on Nov 21, come hear me read with fellow honourable features: Liam Burke and Stuart Ross. It's gonna be great! and then come to the fair the next day! www.facebook.com/events/13388...
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Just for my own edification, if you are BIPOC and living in Canada and write gothic horror do you mind saying hi to me on this thread?
Off the bat respectfully I know of Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Premee, Nalo Hopkinson, I love all of their work and have their books.
Off the bat respectfully I know of Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Premee, Nalo Hopkinson, I love all of their work and have their books.
November 16, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Just for my own edification, if you are BIPOC and living in Canada and write gothic horror do you mind saying hi to me on this thread?
Off the bat respectfully I know of Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Premee, Nalo Hopkinson, I love all of their work and have their books.
Off the bat respectfully I know of Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Premee, Nalo Hopkinson, I love all of their work and have their books.
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Why do we let them call themselves “conservatives” when they’re not trying to conserve things as they are but rather go back to how things were in an earlier time or, more commonly, push us towards a world that never existed.
November 16, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Why do we let them call themselves “conservatives” when they’re not trying to conserve things as they are but rather go back to how things were in an earlier time or, more commonly, push us towards a world that never existed.
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Exemplifying the "yes, you can just do things" approach @prisonculture.bsky.social encourages, @thellpsx.bsky.social, @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social and Alice Wong started Crips for Esims for Gaza. Unpaid, and w no formal organization, they've raised $3,000,000 US chuffed.org/project/crip...
Crips for eSims for Gaza
Crips for eSims for Gaza is a collaboration between Jane Shi, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, and Alice Wong.
chuffed.org
November 16, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Exemplifying the "yes, you can just do things" approach @prisonculture.bsky.social encourages, @thellpsx.bsky.social, @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social and Alice Wong started Crips for Esims for Gaza. Unpaid, and w no formal organization, they've raised $3,000,000 US chuffed.org/project/crip...
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“We—humanity—are made whole by a series of interacting acts of love. Love is an act of hope and defiance. Love helps keep us alive.”
My latest newsletter is a musing on love in the midst of struggle: thorncoyle.kit.com/posts/to-lov...
#photography
My latest newsletter is a musing on love in the midst of struggle: thorncoyle.kit.com/posts/to-lov...
#photography
November 16, 2025 at 3:32 PM
“We—humanity—are made whole by a series of interacting acts of love. Love is an act of hope and defiance. Love helps keep us alive.”
My latest newsletter is a musing on love in the midst of struggle: thorncoyle.kit.com/posts/to-lov...
#photography
My latest newsletter is a musing on love in the midst of struggle: thorncoyle.kit.com/posts/to-lov...
#photography
Crow Card for today:
the Hermit
I'm here for it
the Hermit
I'm here for it
November 16, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Crow Card for today:
the Hermit
I'm here for it
the Hermit
I'm here for it
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Mutual aid in difficult tasks is a form of mutual aid! Humans are stronger when they help each other no matter what the task is.
props to WSJ for once on a useful notion, ADMIN PARTY for everybody
November 15, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Mutual aid in difficult tasks is a form of mutual aid! Humans are stronger when they help each other no matter what the task is.
Someone on etsy is selling plexiglass tablet weaving cards, so I bought myself a set rather than making a set out of a deck of playing cards or similar.
They hypothetically arrive in mid-December.
They hypothetically arrive in mid-December.
November 15, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Someone on etsy is selling plexiglass tablet weaving cards, so I bought myself a set rather than making a set out of a deck of playing cards or similar.
They hypothetically arrive in mid-December.
They hypothetically arrive in mid-December.
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It's time to talk about income inequality in Canada. We can't build a truly democratic nation when so many people are relying on food banks and can't afford where they live.
Inequality is a breeding ground for extremist ideologies.
@meidascanada.ca @meidastouch.com
www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7h7...
Inequality is a breeding ground for extremist ideologies.
@meidascanada.ca @meidastouch.com
www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7h7...
ECONOMIC INEQUALITY IN CANADA - A WARNING!!
YouTube video by Charlie Angus
www.youtube.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:20 PM
It's time to talk about income inequality in Canada. We can't build a truly democratic nation when so many people are relying on food banks and can't afford where they live.
Inequality is a breeding ground for extremist ideologies.
@meidascanada.ca @meidastouch.com
www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7h7...
Inequality is a breeding ground for extremist ideologies.
@meidascanada.ca @meidastouch.com
www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7h7...
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Emergency cute (good idea!) ... Tufted Titmouse
November 14, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Emergency cute (good idea!) ... Tufted Titmouse
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Here are things that do in fact constitute death threats, by the way.
"We should take away people's snap benefits to encourage them to work."
"It should be illegal to allow teenagers to access puberty blockers or transition care."
"Homeless shelters should turn away people until they're sober."
"We should take away people's snap benefits to encourage them to work."
"It should be illegal to allow teenagers to access puberty blockers or transition care."
"Homeless shelters should turn away people until they're sober."
November 14, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Here are things that do in fact constitute death threats, by the way.
"We should take away people's snap benefits to encourage them to work."
"It should be illegal to allow teenagers to access puberty blockers or transition care."
"Homeless shelters should turn away people until they're sober."
"We should take away people's snap benefits to encourage them to work."
"It should be illegal to allow teenagers to access puberty blockers or transition care."
"Homeless shelters should turn away people until they're sober."
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ZOMG LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT THE SHALE
Okay, so the Burgess Shale is a fossil bed in British Columbia that contains a whole bunch of fossils of weirdass creatures from the Cambrian era, over 500 million years ago. But the great thing about the shale is that it has fossilized SOFT PARTS!
Okay, so the Burgess Shale is a fossil bed in British Columbia that contains a whole bunch of fossils of weirdass creatures from the Cambrian era, over 500 million years ago. But the great thing about the shale is that it has fossilized SOFT PARTS!
November 14, 2025 at 1:12 AM
ZOMG LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT THE SHALE
Okay, so the Burgess Shale is a fossil bed in British Columbia that contains a whole bunch of fossils of weirdass creatures from the Cambrian era, over 500 million years ago. But the great thing about the shale is that it has fossilized SOFT PARTS!
Okay, so the Burgess Shale is a fossil bed in British Columbia that contains a whole bunch of fossils of weirdass creatures from the Cambrian era, over 500 million years ago. But the great thing about the shale is that it has fossilized SOFT PARTS!
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Lots of folks captioning aurora photos like "for a few minutes we didn't think about politics"
guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation
guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation
November 13, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Lots of folks captioning aurora photos like "for a few minutes we didn't think about politics"
guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation
guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation
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The UFW stands w/ @sbworkersunited.org workers going on strike today.
For nearly 4 yrs, Starbucks baristas have been fighting for a fair union contract, just like the fight that farmworkers face, far too often, when up against greedy employers. Join us in our support.
#NoContractNoCoffee
For nearly 4 yrs, Starbucks baristas have been fighting for a fair union contract, just like the fight that farmworkers face, far too often, when up against greedy employers. Join us in our support.
#NoContractNoCoffee
November 13, 2025 at 5:09 PM
The UFW stands w/ @sbworkersunited.org workers going on strike today.
For nearly 4 yrs, Starbucks baristas have been fighting for a fair union contract, just like the fight that farmworkers face, far too often, when up against greedy employers. Join us in our support.
#NoContractNoCoffee
For nearly 4 yrs, Starbucks baristas have been fighting for a fair union contract, just like the fight that farmworkers face, far too often, when up against greedy employers. Join us in our support.
#NoContractNoCoffee
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you can help the people who lost their jobs during Teen Vogue's zombification here: www.gofundme.com/f/help-laido...
Donate to Help Laid-Off Teen Vogue Staffers Recover, organized by Lex McMenamin
More than half the team at Teen Vogue was laid off this week by our parent com… Lex McMenamin needs your support for Help Laid-Off Teen Vogue Staffers Recover
www.gofundme.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:45 PM
you can help the people who lost their jobs during Teen Vogue's zombification here: www.gofundme.com/f/help-laido...
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“Terry Dactyl” weaves together the COVID-19 and AIDS crises, intergenerational queer community and NYC’s ’90s club culture.
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore on the link between the COVID-19 and AIDS crises | Xtra Magazine
Sycamore’s new novel “Terry Dactyl” shirks nostalgia, instead showing how queer history often repeats
xtramagazine.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:06 PM
“Terry Dactyl” weaves together the COVID-19 and AIDS crises, intergenerational queer community and NYC’s ’90s club culture.
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Effectively immediately, B.C. employers "cannot ask for a sick note for a worker’s first two health-related, short-term absences of five consecutive days or fewer in a calendar year."
news.gov.bc.ca/releases/202...
news.gov.bc.ca/releases/202...
New rules on sick notes eliminate unnecessary paperwork
Effective immediately, new rules limit when employers can ask for sick notes and will allow more time for health-care providers to spend with patients.
news.gov.bc.ca
November 12, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Effectively immediately, B.C. employers "cannot ask for a sick note for a worker’s first two health-related, short-term absences of five consecutive days or fewer in a calendar year."
news.gov.bc.ca/releases/202...
news.gov.bc.ca/releases/202...