Yvette Ironside
@yvettethebard.bsky.social
Disabled, trans writer, gamer, dog caretaker, and politics junkie. Listing lazily (further) to the left every day.
I use no LLM or AI content.
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Find my current novels, being released as serials, at https://www.patreon.com/FuriousVirtueSerials
I use no LLM or AI content.
She/her.
Find my current novels, being released as serials, at https://www.patreon.com/FuriousVirtueSerials
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Hey, everyone. I've been working on a new series of short vignettes focusing on the average person in the world of the Purity novels.
I'm giving away the first for free. Please take a moment to check it out, and share it if you like it.
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I'm giving away the first for free. Please take a moment to check it out, and share it if you like it.
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"The left is propagandizing the kids and making them think socialism and defunding the police is cool!"
Nah. They just grew up watching how unchecked corporate greed and unlimited LEO budgets stole their rights and resources and they're resoonding reasonably.
Nah. They just grew up watching how unchecked corporate greed and unlimited LEO budgets stole their rights and resources and they're resoonding reasonably.
November 22, 2025 at 7:11 PM
"The left is propagandizing the kids and making them think socialism and defunding the police is cool!"
Nah. They just grew up watching how unchecked corporate greed and unlimited LEO budgets stole their rights and resources and they're resoonding reasonably.
Nah. They just grew up watching how unchecked corporate greed and unlimited LEO budgets stole their rights and resources and they're resoonding reasonably.
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The UCP "jumps from possibility to inevitability to endorsement..., as if legal permission settled the matter. It doesn’t. Just because something is possible doesn’t mean we have to do it, & just because we do it doesn’t make it a good idea."
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Can they? Must they? Should they?
Three questions to answer about the UCP's use of the notwithstanding clause
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November 18, 2025 at 11:30 PM
The UCP "jumps from possibility to inevitability to endorsement..., as if legal permission settled the matter. It doesn’t. Just because something is possible doesn’t mean we have to do it, & just because we do it doesn’t make it a good idea."
drjaredwesley.substack.com/p/can-they-m...
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Have some self-respect. You are citizens of a republic, not Donald Trump's courtiers. Stand the fuck up.
November 19, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Have some self-respect. You are citizens of a republic, not Donald Trump's courtiers. Stand the fuck up.
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Alberta under Daniel Smith just used the notwithstanding clause (overriding the Constitution of the country) to deny trans children access to healthcare.
Unreal levels of cruelty and a violation of human rights
Unreal levels of cruelty and a violation of human rights
November 19, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Alberta under Daniel Smith just used the notwithstanding clause (overriding the Constitution of the country) to deny trans children access to healthcare.
Unreal levels of cruelty and a violation of human rights
Unreal levels of cruelty and a violation of human rights
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New lo-fi horror short fiction collection from Dim Shores, available for pre-order now.
Dim Shores is proud to present THE MAIDENS OF MIDNIGHT AND OTHER LOST MEDIA, a short story collection by Rhiannon Rasmussen, hauntingly illustrated by Lucia Retamales.
12 dark tales and 13 illustrations. 168 pages. Limited to 150 copies.
Coming December 2025, Pre-order now! bit.ly/3XyScs6
12 dark tales and 13 illustrations. 168 pages. Limited to 150 copies.
Coming December 2025, Pre-order now! bit.ly/3XyScs6
November 18, 2025 at 9:25 PM
New lo-fi horror short fiction collection from Dim Shores, available for pre-order now.
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It's up! Pre-order my debut short story collection The Maidens of Midnight today: lo-fi horror, unfinished films, undeveloped photographs and lost histories
Dim Shores is proud to present THE MAIDENS OF MIDNIGHT AND OTHER LOST MEDIA, a short story collection by Rhiannon Rasmussen, hauntingly illustrated by Lucia Retamales.
12 dark tales and 13 illustrations. 168 pages. Limited to 150 copies.
Coming December 2025, Pre-order now! bit.ly/3XyScs6
12 dark tales and 13 illustrations. 168 pages. Limited to 150 copies.
Coming December 2025, Pre-order now! bit.ly/3XyScs6
November 18, 2025 at 8:53 PM
It's up! Pre-order my debut short story collection The Maidens of Midnight today: lo-fi horror, unfinished films, undeveloped photographs and lost histories
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Finally!
My new book Boarding Schools and the Indigenous Story is a comprehensive history of the efforts of the US government to remove native children from their families, from colonization to today. For middle grades, but for everyone.
You can pre-order here: www.rhcbooks.com/books/744961...
My new book Boarding Schools and the Indigenous Story is a comprehensive history of the efforts of the US government to remove native children from their families, from colonization to today. For middle grades, but for everyone.
You can pre-order here: www.rhcbooks.com/books/744961...
November 18, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Finally!
My new book Boarding Schools and the Indigenous Story is a comprehensive history of the efforts of the US government to remove native children from their families, from colonization to today. For middle grades, but for everyone.
You can pre-order here: www.rhcbooks.com/books/744961...
My new book Boarding Schools and the Indigenous Story is a comprehensive history of the efforts of the US government to remove native children from their families, from colonization to today. For middle grades, but for everyone.
You can pre-order here: www.rhcbooks.com/books/744961...
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Apropos UK Labour deciding, in lieu of attacking their actual opposition, to attack the people they revile, here's evidence this doesn't work.
Somehow missed this 2022 UK paper exploring responses to radical right parties (RRP) and whether accommodation - i.e. "beat" them by repeating a version of their tale actually worked electorally.
Short version: Nope.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Short version: Nope.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Does accommodation work? Mainstream party strategies and the success of radical right parties | Political Science Research and Methods | Cambridge Core
Does accommodation work? Mainstream party strategies and the success of radical right parties - Volume 11 Issue 1
www.cambridge.org
November 17, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Apropos UK Labour deciding, in lieu of attacking their actual opposition, to attack the people they revile, here's evidence this doesn't work.
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Starting soon for real this time! Come hangout in the SandBox!
www.youtube.com/live/h4iYMVc...
www.youtube.com/live/h4iYMVc...
Canadian Shenanigans Livestream Nov 16/25
YouTube video by Left of the Box
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November 16, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Starting soon for real this time! Come hangout in the SandBox!
www.youtube.com/live/h4iYMVc...
www.youtube.com/live/h4iYMVc...
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The takeaway IMO is aggro centrism is an astonishing historic disaster. Not only does it not work - it delivers very little for the public, doesn’t address core problems of the era and disillusions the public with democracy itself - but it actively aids the far right and prepares the way for fascism
November 16, 2025 at 5:55 PM
The takeaway IMO is aggro centrism is an astonishing historic disaster. Not only does it not work - it delivers very little for the public, doesn’t address core problems of the era and disillusions the public with democracy itself - but it actively aids the far right and prepares the way for fascism
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A 20 year old woman in Minnesota was murdered at work by a coworker this week. Why? He didn't like the way she looked at him. And people are judging her gender presentation in an effort to justify her murder. America hates women. And children. It hates Black, Indigenous, Latine and Asian people too
November 16, 2025 at 1:42 AM
A 20 year old woman in Minnesota was murdered at work by a coworker this week. Why? He didn't like the way she looked at him. And people are judging her gender presentation in an effort to justify her murder. America hates women. And children. It hates Black, Indigenous, Latine and Asian people too
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Coercive sterilization in ICE detention. Eugenics.
"They tried to shut me up by deporting me."
www.npr.org/2020/12/22/9...
www.npr.org/2020/12/22/9...
Dozens Of Women Allege Unwanted Surgeries And Medical Abuse In ICE Custody
More women are coming forward to say they were pressured to have reproductive surgeries they did not want or understand, offering a glimpse into alleged medical abuses at an ICE detention center.
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November 15, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Coercive sterilization in ICE detention. Eugenics.
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I cannot fathom why they thing INDIGENOUS PEOPLES would aid them in this horror show.
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
ICE looks to WA tribes to house detained immigrants
The Nisqually Tribal Council said it was not aware of talks between a staffer and ICE about detaining immigrants. It has now rejected that notion.
www.seattletimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 10:12 PM
I cannot fathom why they thing INDIGENOUS PEOPLES would aid them in this horror show.
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
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![just because i can survive harsh conditions doesn't mean I should have to
[a pic of a Tardigrades]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:dbzmdmsaz6lkhb4tv3culzme/bafkreigfneemnfp6d65jmiuh4i7pijvcn3edvxza2eibvlenks6k3tkv7u@jpeg)
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Alice Wong's Teen Vogue articles were archived before their removal, for anyone looking.
Alice Wong's Teen Vogue articles were archived before their removal, for anyone looking.
Disability Visibility - Latest
Get the latest on Disability Visibility from Teen Vogue. Find articles, slideshows and more.
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November 15, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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Alice Wong's Teen Vogue articles were archived before their removal, for anyone looking.
Alice Wong's Teen Vogue articles were archived before their removal, for anyone looking.
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Magica Riot: Full Bloom’s now sold over 300 copies in less than a week of sales, if you were ever doubting that trans books can find audiences
November 16, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Magica Riot: Full Bloom’s now sold over 300 copies in less than a week of sales, if you were ever doubting that trans books can find audiences
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Actual causes of death in the US and media coverage of same.
And then we wonder why people have such a skewed understanding of the world.
@ourworldindata.org is a treasure. Thanks, @hannahritchie.bsky.social and colleagues.
ourworldindata.org/does-the-new...
And then we wonder why people have such a skewed understanding of the world.
@ourworldindata.org is a treasure. Thanks, @hannahritchie.bsky.social and colleagues.
ourworldindata.org/does-the-new...
November 16, 2025 at 5:26 AM
Actual causes of death in the US and media coverage of same.
And then we wonder why people have such a skewed understanding of the world.
@ourworldindata.org is a treasure. Thanks, @hannahritchie.bsky.social and colleagues.
ourworldindata.org/does-the-new...
And then we wonder why people have such a skewed understanding of the world.
@ourworldindata.org is a treasure. Thanks, @hannahritchie.bsky.social and colleagues.
ourworldindata.org/does-the-new...
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When the obituaries are written for higher education in the West, significant space will be devoted to how they burned their universities to the ground to prop up a bloodthirsty genocidal regime on the other side of the world over their own students, faculty, staff and future generations.
Universities across the West have gone out of their way to repress speech against the israeli genocide in Gaza, says a university lecturer
Universities in West go out of way to repress speech against Gaza genocide, Zionism: Lecturer
Harry Pettit, who was forced to leave Radboud University in the Netherlands due to a Zionist witch-hunt, says that universities in the West have gone out of their way to repress speech against the ong...
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November 16, 2025 at 2:29 PM
When the obituaries are written for higher education in the West, significant space will be devoted to how they burned their universities to the ground to prop up a bloodthirsty genocidal regime on the other side of the world over their own students, faculty, staff and future generations.
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It's that time of year again... time for #DisabledInSTEM 2026 Mentorship applications! I'm so excited to be running this program for the sixth year and seeing the growth over the years!
Mentee form: forms.gle/um5DvYnBi3tn...
Mentor form: forms.gle/BvaxnQm8uhUR...
Applications due December 5th!
Mentee form: forms.gle/um5DvYnBi3tn...
Mentor form: forms.gle/BvaxnQm8uhUR...
Applications due December 5th!
October 20, 2025 at 4:44 PM
It's that time of year again... time for #DisabledInSTEM 2026 Mentorship applications! I'm so excited to be running this program for the sixth year and seeing the growth over the years!
Mentee form: forms.gle/um5DvYnBi3tn...
Mentor form: forms.gle/BvaxnQm8uhUR...
Applications due December 5th!
Mentee form: forms.gle/um5DvYnBi3tn...
Mentor form: forms.gle/BvaxnQm8uhUR...
Applications due December 5th!
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Need $300 for an Epi-pen (thats with GoodRX pls hold that advice) ASAP.
Hoping its not immediately needed (unsure) but we DO need one on hand like now.
linktr.ee/wylder
Venmo.com/u/MousePounder
Venmo.com/u/WishMage
Cash.app/$WishMage
PayPal.me/MousePounder
PayPal.me/WyldWish
linktr.ee/wylder
Hoping its not immediately needed (unsure) but we DO need one on hand like now.
linktr.ee/wylder
Venmo.com/u/MousePounder
Venmo.com/u/WishMage
Cash.app/$WishMage
PayPal.me/MousePounder
PayPal.me/WyldWish
linktr.ee/wylder
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November 14, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Need $300 for an Epi-pen (thats with GoodRX pls hold that advice) ASAP.
Hoping its not immediately needed (unsure) but we DO need one on hand like now.
linktr.ee/wylder
Venmo.com/u/MousePounder
Venmo.com/u/WishMage
Cash.app/$WishMage
PayPal.me/MousePounder
PayPal.me/WyldWish
linktr.ee/wylder
Hoping its not immediately needed (unsure) but we DO need one on hand like now.
linktr.ee/wylder
Venmo.com/u/MousePounder
Venmo.com/u/WishMage
Cash.app/$WishMage
PayPal.me/MousePounder
PayPal.me/WyldWish
linktr.ee/wylder
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Alice's death reminds me of this.
Support your disabled comrades. We tend to die without community support.
PS: @wylder.bsky.social is a dedicated, experienced organizer who needs urgent survival funds. Check them out, share, comment, donate if you can afford it.
Support your disabled comrades. We tend to die without community support.
PS: @wylder.bsky.social is a dedicated, experienced organizer who needs urgent survival funds. Check them out, share, comment, donate if you can afford it.
November 15, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Alice's death reminds me of this.
Support your disabled comrades. We tend to die without community support.
PS: @wylder.bsky.social is a dedicated, experienced organizer who needs urgent survival funds. Check them out, share, comment, donate if you can afford it.
Support your disabled comrades. We tend to die without community support.
PS: @wylder.bsky.social is a dedicated, experienced organizer who needs urgent survival funds. Check them out, share, comment, donate if you can afford it.
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One of the great heartbreaks of being in the disability community is how often we lose people and how many of our most powerful voices have gone silent. We must live our lives loudly and joyously in their honor and remember that our very existence is resistance.
Oh no I just heard we lost Alice. This is terribly sad. She was an incredible, talented, powerful voice of the disability community. She stood strong for herself and for all of us. She will be missed immensely.
‘Death remains my intimate shadow partner. It has been with me since birth, always hovering close by. I understand one day we will finally waltz together into the ether. I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, & full of love.’
—Alice Wong
—Alice Wong
November 15, 2025 at 4:45 PM
One of the great heartbreaks of being in the disability community is how often we lose people and how many of our most powerful voices have gone silent. We must live our lives loudly and joyously in their honor and remember that our very existence is resistance.
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My local record store is hosting a lil listening party and record signing for my album AMAB/ACAB. Come have brunch and hang! www.facebook.com/events/24924...
November 15, 2025 at 4:06 PM
My local record store is hosting a lil listening party and record signing for my album AMAB/ACAB. Come have brunch and hang! www.facebook.com/events/24924...
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"Landlords should be free to charge as much as they want, employers should be free to pay as little as they want, corporations should be free to fire as many people as they want, and if you can't thread the needle between these freedoms for the rest of your life, it's all your fault."
The woman whom the House Ethics Committee determined Matt Gaetz paid for sex when she was 17 years old was living in a homeless shelter, working at McDonald's, and needed the money for braces www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
November 14, 2025 at 4:48 PM
"Landlords should be free to charge as much as they want, employers should be free to pay as little as they want, corporations should be free to fire as many people as they want, and if you can't thread the needle between these freedoms for the rest of your life, it's all your fault."
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this is fucking ghoulish
November 14, 2025 at 11:51 PM
this is fucking ghoulish