Ali Grotkowski
@alikira.bsky.social
Information Professional, Parent, Librarian, Kiwanian, Writer, Board Gamer, Geek, Contest Entrant and more! She/Her
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Dungeons and Dragons, a game primarily about bands of vigilantes liberating excess wealth from aforementioned 'Dungeons' and 'Dragons' is now apparently woke in an era when the ultra wealthily are building private compounds hidden under ground or on islands to hide their excess wealth in.
November 30, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Dungeons and Dragons, a game primarily about bands of vigilantes liberating excess wealth from aforementioned 'Dungeons' and 'Dragons' is now apparently woke in an era when the ultra wealthily are building private compounds hidden under ground or on islands to hide their excess wealth in.
First driving lesson in a long long time, and I am impressed how much I improved with only a couple hours of practice.
November 30, 2025 at 2:02 AM
First driving lesson in a long long time, and I am impressed how much I improved with only a couple hours of practice.
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![Comic. Panels up to the 10-year point are grayed out. New panels since the Ten Years comic, which chronicles the first ten years of PERSON 1's journey with cancer: (1) [two people in bed] PERSON 1 (woman): One more chapter? PERSON 2 (man): Don’t we both have to get up early? PERSON 1: Nnnnnggggh PERSON 2: Sure, good point. (2) [many people wearing masks, walking while looking at graphs on their phones] (3) [birds landing on people] PERSON 2 in beanie and scarf: Hah! They like *my* seeds best. PERSON 1 in scarf holding phone with a bird sitting on it: Wait, how do I take a picture of this one? (4) [two people rowing boats with tree landscape] (5) [Person 1 carries overflowing stack of things to Person 2 in bed] PERSON 1: I brought you honey lemon tea, more pillows, a cinnamon roll, Tylenol, another blanket, a– PERSON 2: It was just Appendicitis, I’m really– PERSON 1: *It is my turn to take care of you and I am going to do it right!* (6) [Two people in car] (7) [still in car) PERSON 1: Oh my god. PERSON 2: Oh my god. (8) [car driving] PERSON 1: Pull over! PERSON 2: I am! (9) [both people get out of car] (10) [Large colored panel of aurora borealis over water with both people looking on] (11) [Person 1 sits against tree while Person 2 lies on the ground] PERSON 1: Fifteen years. No sign of the cancer. (12) I *am* having some weird symptoms. Joint pain. Fatigue. I think I’m losing my close-up vision. PERSON 2: Yeah. Me too. (13) PERSON 2: I think we’re getting old. (14) PERSON 1: I guess that’s okay. PERSON 2: It’s all I wanted.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreihwhjblp5lyiwp63ouar7ocfea7evmckytoeo7rkfuoo4gw5rnrra@jpeg)
November 26, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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Okay, the crowd going nuts like someone just scored a touchdown at the Super Bowl all *through* the KDH performance is a hell of a thing to see hear/see:
November 27, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Okay, the crowd going nuts like someone just scored a touchdown at the Super Bowl all *through* the KDH performance is a hell of a thing to see hear/see:
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I wonder how common it was for settlers in North America to tell their kids they must be part indigenous when the family tree seemed to be missing branches.
www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/d16edc7...
www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/d16edc7...
Inconvenient Indian author Thomas King says he is not part Cherokee
Writer ‘still in shock’ after a whistle-blowing organization showed him genealogical evidence that he wasn’t part Indigenous, as he originally assumed
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:26 AM
I wonder how common it was for settlers in North America to tell their kids they must be part indigenous when the family tree seemed to be missing branches.
www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/d16edc7...
www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/d16edc7...
Winterval was a lot of fun this year! Plus I made it into this video coverage of the event!! www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/vid...
Downtown Edmonton takes festive turn for Winterval
104 Street was filled with festive lights, music and winter patios on Saturday for the third-annual Winterval festival.
www.ctvnews.ca
November 24, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Winterval was a lot of fun this year! Plus I made it into this video coverage of the event!! www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/vid...
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Wow! Our first-week ticket sales BLEW MY HAIR RIGHT OFF!! Hope it grows back in time for the tour!
November 24, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Wow! Our first-week ticket sales BLEW MY HAIR RIGHT OFF!! Hope it grows back in time for the tour!
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“Once you’ve seen how these systems are cobbled together – the biases, the rushed timelines, the constant compromises – you stop seeing AI as futuristic and start seeing it as fragile.” How AI is trained: garbage in, garbage out. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Meet the AI workers who tell their friends and family to stay away from AI
When the people making AI seem trustworthy are the ones who trust it the least, it shows that incentives for speed are overtaking safety, experts say
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 11:30 AM
“Once you’ve seen how these systems are cobbled together – the biases, the rushed timelines, the constant compromises – you stop seeing AI as futuristic and start seeing it as fragile.” How AI is trained: garbage in, garbage out. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Wow it's true! Run don't walk, Canadian cartoonists on stamps! Webcomics alum! Two Tradewaiter picks!! And just in time for Holiday cards 🤩
November 21, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Wow it's true! Run don't walk, Canadian cartoonists on stamps! Webcomics alum! Two Tradewaiter picks!! And just in time for Holiday cards 🤩
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There is no reason for gender or sex to be on identification. The only people who need to know are your health care professionals and people you choose to be intimate with. Most other reasons to categorize are for bullying and discrimination.
"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
November 21, 2025 at 3:12 PM
There is no reason for gender or sex to be on identification. The only people who need to know are your health care professionals and people you choose to be intimate with. Most other reasons to categorize are for bullying and discrimination.
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Today is the day to repost this meme about International Men's Day, one of the most unironically wholesome memes that has ever been made.
Shoutout to all my fellow champs, chiefs, and kings. ✊
Shoutout to all my fellow champs, chiefs, and kings. ✊
November 19, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Today is the day to repost this meme about International Men's Day, one of the most unironically wholesome memes that has ever been made.
Shoutout to all my fellow champs, chiefs, and kings. ✊
Shoutout to all my fellow champs, chiefs, and kings. ✊
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To Alberta’s trans community, and especially our trans youth: it’s deplorable that our government is abusing the notwithstanding clause to harm you.
We see you. You are beautiful and precious, and we are fighting/donating/protesting for you, and sending you all our love & support.
🩷🤍🩵 💜💛🤍🖤
We see you. You are beautiful and precious, and we are fighting/donating/protesting for you, and sending you all our love & support.
🩷🤍🩵 💜💛🤍🖤
November 18, 2025 at 10:40 PM
To Alberta’s trans community, and especially our trans youth: it’s deplorable that our government is abusing the notwithstanding clause to harm you.
We see you. You are beautiful and precious, and we are fighting/donating/protesting for you, and sending you all our love & support.
🩷🤍🩵 💜💛🤍🖤
We see you. You are beautiful and precious, and we are fighting/donating/protesting for you, and sending you all our love & support.
🩷🤍🩵 💜💛🤍🖤
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This could not be more disgusting. Claiming that the most important thing the government needs to be doing is preventing families from deciding on their own health care, endangering kids with abusive parents, and inspecting kids' genitalia so some kids can't play sports at all.
Doing this two days before TDoR is particularly vile.
Alberta invokes notwithstanding clause on trio of transgender laws
The Alberta government has invoked the Charter’s notwithstanding clause for the second time in less than a month in this case to protect from legal challenge a trio of laws affecting transgender youth...
www.ctvnews.ca
November 19, 2025 at 3:05 AM
This could not be more disgusting. Claiming that the most important thing the government needs to be doing is preventing families from deciding on their own health care, endangering kids with abusive parents, and inspecting kids' genitalia so some kids can't play sports at all.
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Awful stuff.
Alberta invokes notwithstanding clause on trio of transgender laws
www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/art...
www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/art...
Alberta invokes notwithstanding clause on trio of transgender laws
The Alberta government has introduced legislation to use the Charter’s notwithstanding clause to prevent legal challenges to three laws impacting transgender and gender-diverse youth and adults.
www.ctvnews.ca
November 19, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Awful stuff.
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I wish men truly understood how often their peers only pretend to cultivate women's talents because they want to fuck us. I am a short Canadian nobody and it happened to me when I was starting out my screenwriting career no less than four times before I turned 26
November 17, 2025 at 3:22 AM
I wish men truly understood how often their peers only pretend to cultivate women's talents because they want to fuck us. I am a short Canadian nobody and it happened to me when I was starting out my screenwriting career no less than four times before I turned 26
Oh gosh I am so hopeful.
November 15, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Oh gosh I am so hopeful.
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![4-panel vertical comic. (1) 100 Years Ago [two people standing next to bicycle with small car nearby] PERSON 1: It’s too dangerous riding a bike with these cars around. I should get a car, too. (2) 50 Years Ago [two people between smaller car and bigger car] PERSON 2 with short hair: Small cars are less safe in collisions with larger vehicles, so I should get a bigger one. (3) Today [two people between big car and even bigger car] PERSON 1: Everyone has huge SUVs now. If I don’t get the biggest one, I’m putting my family at risk. (4) Soon [two people next to large armored car with spiked clubs attached] PERSON 2: If I don’t install more whirling spike clubs, I’ll be destroyed by all the other drivers who...](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreiby6can6k76yzfmv2czxs4pu2l7zie7bqbrpswi7h3ifmiadkuqvu@jpeg)
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Would we love to see a huge number of sci fi fans descend on Edmonton? Why yes, we very certainly would! Support the bid!
We want to bring Worldcon, the World Science Fiction convention, in 2030 to ᐊᒥᐢᑿᒌᐚᐢᑲᐦᐃᑲᐣ (Amiskwacîwâskahikan), more commonly known as Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Yes, Edmonton.
@edmontonin2030.bsky.social
You can support us, and get involved, here:
www.edmontonin2030.org
Yes, Edmonton.
@edmontonin2030.bsky.social
You can support us, and get involved, here:
www.edmontonin2030.org
Bidding To Host Worldcon in 2030 | Support Our Bid
We are bidding to host the World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon) in 2030. Looking forward to welcoming the science fiction fandom world to Amiskwacîwâskahikan (Edmonton).
www.edmontonin2030.org
November 14, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Would we love to see a huge number of sci fi fans descend on Edmonton? Why yes, we very certainly would! Support the bid!
On the topic of the Northern Lights in #yeg today: it was so wonderful to be able to show them to my kid for the first time -- it isn't often that the kid is still awake when it is dark enough to see them!
November 12, 2025 at 3:42 AM
On the topic of the Northern Lights in #yeg today: it was so wonderful to be able to show them to my kid for the first time -- it isn't often that the kid is still awake when it is dark enough to see them!
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My thoughts on the FDA announcement today about MHT vajenda.substack.com/p/reaction-t...
Reaction to the FDA Announcement on MHT
Removing the Black Box Warning was Served with a Side of Serious Misinformation
vajenda.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:03 AM
My thoughts on the FDA announcement today about MHT vajenda.substack.com/p/reaction-t...
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I have made the incredibly difficult decision to close down Quindrie Press at the end of 2026. Please read my full statement, along with information about what's next at Quindrie and an FAQ, here: quindriepress.com/closing
November 10, 2025 at 10:00 AM
I have made the incredibly difficult decision to close down Quindrie Press at the end of 2026. Please read my full statement, along with information about what's next at Quindrie and an FAQ, here: quindriepress.com/closing
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The diff in tone of the responses to my manspreading post on X and Bluesky? So predictable.
To be clear: ZERO anatomical justification for manspreading!
Perhaps those who feel the need to manspread should request an accommodation from gov to help with this fragile condition?
To be clear: ZERO anatomical justification for manspreading!
Perhaps those who feel the need to manspread should request an accommodation from gov to help with this fragile condition?
November 9, 2025 at 8:15 PM
The diff in tone of the responses to my manspreading post on X and Bluesky? So predictable.
To be clear: ZERO anatomical justification for manspreading!
Perhaps those who feel the need to manspread should request an accommodation from gov to help with this fragile condition?
To be clear: ZERO anatomical justification for manspreading!
Perhaps those who feel the need to manspread should request an accommodation from gov to help with this fragile condition?
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Every day they tell the world how scared they are of dying, of fading into the darkness which inevitably consumes all of us
They think they are Colossi straddling the world, but really, they are sad little boys whistling in the dark, self-radicalizing in group chats, and shitting bricks about aging
They think they are Colossi straddling the world, but really, they are sad little boys whistling in the dark, self-radicalizing in group chats, and shitting bricks about aging
A 450-foot Prometheus. A 500-foot George Washington. Tech investors are racing to build colossal monuments celebrating Western power.
America’s Tech Right Is Obsessed With Building Giant Statues
With proposals for a 450-foot statue of Prometheus on Alcatraz and a 650-foot George Washington, MAGA adherents are racing to build America’s largest statue.
bloom.bg
November 9, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Every day they tell the world how scared they are of dying, of fading into the darkness which inevitably consumes all of us
They think they are Colossi straddling the world, but really, they are sad little boys whistling in the dark, self-radicalizing in group chats, and shitting bricks about aging
They think they are Colossi straddling the world, but really, they are sad little boys whistling in the dark, self-radicalizing in group chats, and shitting bricks about aging
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“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”
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November 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”
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