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peer support ✧ literary arts ✧ she/they ✧ #yyc
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My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but
October 10, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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one unfortunate outcome of this recent AI scam bubble is that it has absolutely killed my interest in AI's in fiction. the Alien tv show doing the whole "is AI a human" routine we've been doing for the last hundred years but now I'm like no, it's a shitty chatbot that destroys fresh water
September 9, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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When I die, I want people to think back lovingly about me and say "oh, I thought she was already dead"
July 24, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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It's called manifesting, look it up
September 1, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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I dont know who needs to hear this but the "brain stops developing at 25" thing is a total hallucination. straight up fabrication
August 23, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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If you build it, I will fall off of it.
August 18, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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To answer the question everyone has been asking all day: On Strom Thurmond's grave.
April 1, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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Also this gives me the opportunity to post one of the greatest photos ever, of Kurt Cobain standing under one of Holzer's text pieces on a Times Square theater marquee in 1993
March 24, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Downloads of the new Sprawlcast after one day. This is wild to see! Now just need to get all these listeners to donate (hint, hint): sprawlcalgary.fundjournalism.org/donate/
March 23, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Public library energy is the best energy. Like here is all the knowledge we could find, it's been meticulously organized and catalogued and it will cost you nothing today, welcome to the absolute pinnacle of human civic evolution, feel free to pull up any bean bag chair you like :) 📚❤️
March 21, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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If there's one thing that domestic violence research has taught me, it's that abusers set up no-win scenarios. They punish you whether you cooperate with them or whether you push back.

The only way out is to strengthen ties with people outside of the relationship who can create new, better options.
March 18, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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🖖 CAW is thrilled to announce the new anarcho-trekkie podcast Resistance is Fertile, w/ carla joy bergman and Elia Ayoub!
@joyfulcarla.bsky.social & @ayoub.bsky.social are mapping the stars to get the first episode ready, but look for it soon on our platform!

www.cawshinythings.com/resistance-i...
Resistance is Fertile
A NEW PODCAST!
www.cawshinythings.com
March 12, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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funniest emoji has to be this guy: 🙂 totally unaware of societal problems, just happy to be here. not a single thought in that empty pate. my man
March 9, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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two modes:
-cannot fall asleep because something could happen
-have to fall asleep because cannot handle one more thing happening
March 6, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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As Canada installs a fentanyl czar, it is also:
-closing safe drug consumption sites
-gutting drug decriminalization
-forcing drug users into treatment
-restricting safe supply
With Trudeau leaving, I wrote about the end of progressive drug policy: hatchetmedia.substack.com/p/manisha-kr...
Manisha Krishnan: A Fentanyl Czar and the End of Progressive Drug Policy
Like previous crackdowns, this will likely make the crisis worse
hatchetmedia.substack.com
February 26, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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This is such a dangerous moment for people who use drugs in Alberta.

As @daniparadis.bsky.social and I reported in October, a private recovery corp has been quietly collecting their personal health info for 2-3 years with provincial funding. 2/
www.aptnnews.ca/national-new...
First Nations in Alberta delay implementing addictions plan
Indigenous addiction treatment centres in Alberta are delaying a program developed for the province because of a lack of consultation.
www.aptnnews.ca
February 24, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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How to Travel Pockets-Only – Jeremy Maluf
/// Jeremy Maluf
jeremymaluf.com
February 16, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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February 12, 2025 at 3:53 AM
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Writing is an act of rebellion.
Writing is an act of creation.
Writing is an act of salvation.
Writing is an act of exploration.
Writing is an act of emotion.
Writing is an act of confession.
Writing is an act of speculation.
Writing is an act of reflection.
Keep writing.
December 16, 2024 at 8:08 PM
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Sometimes irl it's enough to just sit and make random noises for a while. Don't let people brainwash you with all that "art of conversation" elitist bullshit
December 2, 2024 at 1:36 AM