Nikki Reimer
@nikkireimer.bsky.social
Your favourite Baba Yaga's favourite Baba Yaga.
Digital comms in higher ed, MA in Comms student, grief writer, cat guardian. Latest book: No Town Called We (Talon Books, 2023)
Poet, artist, white queer non-binary disabled settler in Treaty 7.
Digital comms in higher ed, MA in Comms student, grief writer, cat guardian. Latest book: No Town Called We (Talon Books, 2023)
Poet, artist, white queer non-binary disabled settler in Treaty 7.
I don't know how anyone accomplishes anything, I am always in thrall to a headache and/or executive dysfunction and there are too many tabs open in my brain. You're all so accomplished!
August 5, 2025 at 1:18 AM
I don't know how anyone accomplishes anything, I am always in thrall to a headache and/or executive dysfunction and there are too many tabs open in my brain. You're all so accomplished!
My spouse shut the bedroom closet door before the thunder started so poor baby Amy, our 16 year old cat, has wedged herself under the bathroom sink cabinet with her face towards the wall so the bad thing can't get her.
I pushed the sheepskin and a laundry basket towards her for more protection 🥺
I pushed the sheepskin and a laundry basket towards her for more protection 🥺
August 4, 2025 at 9:14 PM
My spouse shut the bedroom closet door before the thunder started so poor baby Amy, our 16 year old cat, has wedged herself under the bathroom sink cabinet with her face towards the wall so the bad thing can't get her.
I pushed the sheepskin and a laundry basket towards her for more protection 🥺
I pushed the sheepskin and a laundry basket towards her for more protection 🥺
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Please read and share. Donate today if you’re able to. Don’t ignore. Shares are free.
August 4, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Please read and share. Donate today if you’re able to. Don’t ignore. Shares are free.
Other people have noted why the infusion of AI into everything has made grammar and spellcheckers effectively useless (because the tools are now checking against common usage by OTHER users), but can I vent for a second? 1/2
August 4, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Other people have noted why the infusion of AI into everything has made grammar and spellcheckers effectively useless (because the tools are now checking against common usage by OTHER users), but can I vent for a second? 1/2
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Please share and donate today if you’re able to. Don’t skip them. They really need your help.
August 3, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Please share and donate today if you’re able to. Don’t skip them. They really need your help.
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Don’t skip. Anything helps them right now. Let’s help them get something today. Shares are free. Donate today if you’re able to.
August 3, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Don’t skip. Anything helps them right now. Let’s help them get something today. Shares are free. Donate today if you’re able to.
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Please share and help if you’re able to. Don’t ignore. Don’t skip.
August 3, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Please share and help if you’re able to. Don’t ignore. Don’t skip.
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“The lessons he has drawn are often striking: #people are fundamentally #egalitarian but are led to #collapses by enriched, status-obsessed #elites, while past collapses often improved the lives of ordinary citizens.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Self-termination is most likely’: the history and future of societal collapse
An epic analysis of 5,000 years of civilisation argues that a global collapse is coming unless inequality is vanquished
www.theguardian.com
August 2, 2025 at 1:36 PM
“The lessons he has drawn are often striking: #people are fundamentally #egalitarian but are led to #collapses by enriched, status-obsessed #elites, while past collapses often improved the lives of ordinary citizens.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Please show Usama and his beautiful family the love and kindness they deserve
gofund.me/edee2aeb
gofund.me/edee2aeb
August 1, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Please show Usama and his beautiful family the love and kindness they deserve
gofund.me/edee2aeb
gofund.me/edee2aeb
Not to be like all ideating on main but between the genocides and the climate collapse and AI coming for our jobs and AI erasing all art I don't see myself willingly remaining topside much longer.
'The Wizard of Oz' (1939) vs 'The Wizard of Oz at Sphere' (2025)
Over 90% of the film has been 'touched up' with AI
Over 90% of the film has been 'touched up' with AI
August 1, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Not to be like all ideating on main but between the genocides and the climate collapse and AI coming for our jobs and AI erasing all art I don't see myself willingly remaining topside much longer.
A billionaire has a chance to do something useful for once...
Trump killed Sesame Street. He killed Elmo and Ernie and Bert, Kermit, Gonzo, and so much important culture. I am sickened. This beautiful project that expressed love to the children of the U.S. and that was translated and seen around the world.
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting is shutting down operations after loss of federal funding:
August 1, 2025 at 10:37 PM
A billionaire has a chance to do something useful for once...
Every day, Calgary. Every day.
Dumb thing that I get angry about: how many genuinely ugly parts of town my city has. Yes, these were choices. No, my anger changes nothing.
August 1, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Every day, Calgary. Every day.
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But @mark-carney.bsky.social is gutting services for women.
A small group gathered outside Vancouver's art gallery Thursday to remember several women who died recently in B.C. and call for changes within the justice system to prevent more such deaths.
‘Getting out of control,’ vigil held in B.C. to remember women who died
A small group gathered outside Vancouver's art gallery Thursday to remember several women who died recently in B.C. and call for changes within the justice system to prevent more such deaths.
cheknews.ca
July 31, 2025 at 10:53 PM
But @mark-carney.bsky.social is gutting services for women.
In case it helps anyone else, you can't do this. Your spouse has to get a credit check and create a new account and then move the numbers over? Asinine. Ask how many phone calls and how many hours on hold it took them to tell us this.
EVERYTHING IN LIFE IS LIKE THIS NOW.
EVERYTHING IN LIFE IS LIKE THIS NOW.
It took significantly less time, hassle and effort to GET A MARRIAGE LICENSE than it is taking to ATTEMPT TO SWITCH THE OWNERSHIP OF THE TELUS ACCOUNT FROM ME TO MY LEGAL SPOUSE.
Love me some Canadian telecommunications monopoly.
Love me some Canadian telecommunications monopoly.
July 30, 2025 at 10:48 PM
In case it helps anyone else, you can't do this. Your spouse has to get a credit check and create a new account and then move the numbers over? Asinine. Ask how many phone calls and how many hours on hold it took them to tell us this.
EVERYTHING IN LIFE IS LIKE THIS NOW.
EVERYTHING IN LIFE IS LIKE THIS NOW.
It took significantly less time, hassle and effort to GET A MARRIAGE LICENSE than it is taking to ATTEMPT TO SWITCH THE OWNERSHIP OF THE TELUS ACCOUNT FROM ME TO MY LEGAL SPOUSE.
Love me some Canadian telecommunications monopoly.
Love me some Canadian telecommunications monopoly.
July 30, 2025 at 9:37 PM
It took significantly less time, hassle and effort to GET A MARRIAGE LICENSE than it is taking to ATTEMPT TO SWITCH THE OWNERSHIP OF THE TELUS ACCOUNT FROM ME TO MY LEGAL SPOUSE.
Love me some Canadian telecommunications monopoly.
Love me some Canadian telecommunications monopoly.
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When Carney's first cabinet did not have a Minister for WAGE, my colleagues & I sounded the alarm that it was a huge 🚩; that he doesn't understand the importance of having gender based analysis.
Partisans called us hysterical.
Well, now we're looking at an 81% (!!!) budget cut.
Partisans called us hysterical.
Well, now we're looking at an 81% (!!!) budget cut.
‘It’s being levelled’: advocates worried about potential 81 per cent cut to Women and Gender Equality Canada’s budget by 2028
Women's advocates call the department's three-year forecast 'extremely shocking' and 'disproportional' for the small ministry. 'The level of support will be radically reduced,' says Katherine Scott, w...
www.hilltimes.com
July 28, 2025 at 11:49 PM
When Carney's first cabinet did not have a Minister for WAGE, my colleagues & I sounded the alarm that it was a huge 🚩; that he doesn't understand the importance of having gender based analysis.
Partisans called us hysterical.
Well, now we're looking at an 81% (!!!) budget cut.
Partisans called us hysterical.
Well, now we're looking at an 81% (!!!) budget cut.
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The Sameer Project has been doing crucial work to get food into Gaza. Gaza is facing mass, created starvation- people are dropping in the street from lack of food and water. Never again is now. Donate if you can and spread the ord. linktr.ee/thesameerpro...
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We are a donations based aid initiative for Gaza led by Palestinians,
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July 23, 2025 at 3:02 PM
The Sameer Project has been doing crucial work to get food into Gaza. Gaza is facing mass, created starvation- people are dropping in the street from lack of food and water. Never again is now. Donate if you can and spread the ord. linktr.ee/thesameerpro...
Feeling helpless about Gaza? @wawog.bsky.social have an online template that makes it easy to email editors of major English language pubs in the U.S. & Canada to demand they make the forced famine front page news. I'm working my way down the list now: www.writersagainstthewarongaza.com/action
Action — WRITERS AGAINST THE WAR ON GAZA
www.writersagainstthewarongaza.com
July 27, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Feeling helpless about Gaza? @wawog.bsky.social have an online template that makes it easy to email editors of major English language pubs in the U.S. & Canada to demand they make the forced famine front page news. I'm working my way down the list now: www.writersagainstthewarongaza.com/action
Everything Is Humiliating: A Memoir (of Life as a Late Diagnosed AuDHD Nerd with Multiple Chronic Illnesses, or, Why This Dork is Constantly Sick and Exhausted to the Point of Ideation and They Don't Fit In Anywhere)
July 16, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Everything Is Humiliating: A Memoir (of Life as a Late Diagnosed AuDHD Nerd with Multiple Chronic Illnesses, or, Why This Dork is Constantly Sick and Exhausted to the Point of Ideation and They Don't Fit In Anywhere)
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They aren’t getting much traction. Please share and help if you’re able to.
July 16, 2025 at 1:53 AM
They aren’t getting much traction. Please share and help if you’re able to.
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#Calgary: Vandalism at Raytheon Warehouse
"The vandalism includes smashed windows, a fire set within the warehouse and ‘Let Gaza Live’ spray painted in red across the exterior."
"The vandalism includes smashed windows, a fire set within the warehouse and ‘Let Gaza Live’ spray painted in red across the exterior."
Vandalism at Raytheon Warehouse in Calgary: Activists Escalating Protest Over Military Supply Chain and Calls For Arms Embargo on Israel – North Shore Counter-Info
north-shore.info
July 16, 2025 at 1:53 AM
#Calgary: Vandalism at Raytheon Warehouse
"The vandalism includes smashed windows, a fire set within the warehouse and ‘Let Gaza Live’ spray painted in red across the exterior."
"The vandalism includes smashed windows, a fire set within the warehouse and ‘Let Gaza Live’ spray painted in red across the exterior."
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Nobel Peace Prize for Francesca Albanese and the doctors of Gaza
Netanyahu just nominated Trump for the Nobel peace prize. Let’s show that the world thinks - Francesca and Gaza doctors deserve it instead!
secure.avaaz.org
July 13, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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