Brandee
@bcontroversial.bsky.social
Working towards a better world, one kindness at a time. Probably going to get political. Definitely going to post pics of my dog.
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Please help Nox stay safe, the holidays are rough on us all and being homeless is even worse.
#mutualaid #maboost #helpfolkslive2025 💕 💸
#mutualaid #maboost #helpfolkslive2025 💕 💸
$50/$160 so far.
Please help me stay warm and housed!
Writing commissions are still open! Custom fiction for Christmas!
See carrd for ordering form.
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#mutualaid
#helpsky
#bipocma
#survivalfunds
#transcrowdfund
#helpfolkslive2025
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Please help me stay warm and housed!
Writing commissions are still open! Custom fiction for Christmas!
See carrd for ordering form.
💕💸💕💸🏳️⚧️
#mutualaid
#helpsky
#bipocma
#survivalfunds
#transcrowdfund
#helpfolkslive2025
#blacksky
noxsynaid.carrd.co
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December 20, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Please help Nox stay safe, the holidays are rough on us all and being homeless is even worse.
#mutualaid #maboost #helpfolkslive2025 💕 💸
#mutualaid #maboost #helpfolkslive2025 💕 💸
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This is a timed offer & about to be lost.
Trying not to be crushed because this feels like a last chance. We just had last payment from partner's caretaking job, SSDI is asking if Im really me. We are on a cliff edge, being pushed closer to death by fascism & apathy.
Please help?
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Trying not to be crushed because this feels like a last chance. We just had last payment from partner's caretaking job, SSDI is asking if Im really me. We are on a cliff edge, being pushed closer to death by fascism & apathy.
Please help?
linktr.ee/Wylder
December 19, 2025 at 5:53 PM
This is a timed offer & about to be lost.
Trying not to be crushed because this feels like a last chance. We just had last payment from partner's caretaking job, SSDI is asking if Im really me. We are on a cliff edge, being pushed closer to death by fascism & apathy.
Please help?
linktr.ee/Wylder
Trying not to be crushed because this feels like a last chance. We just had last payment from partner's caretaking job, SSDI is asking if Im really me. We are on a cliff edge, being pushed closer to death by fascism & apathy.
Please help?
linktr.ee/Wylder
These are hilarious!
The most brutal way of telling someone they’re a few sandwiches short of a picnic that I’ve heard in French is t’es pas la truite la plus oxygénée de la rivière. It means “you’re not the most oxygenated trout in the river.”
* read on for similar insults from around the world (a thread)…
* read on for similar insults from around the world (a thread)…
December 19, 2025 at 5:53 PM
These are hilarious!
Carney and Ford sign deal to speed up environmental approvals—while First Nations fight back in court www.aptnnews.ca/national-new...
Treaty 9 is in Court with Ontario, as deal unfolds in Ottawa
Ontario moves to quash a Treaty 9 consent case as Ford signs deal with Carney for a 'single window' for environmental approvals
www.aptnnews.ca
December 19, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Carney and Ford sign deal to speed up environmental approvals—while First Nations fight back in court www.aptnnews.ca/national-new...
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I fear people don't know what it means to be part of a minoritized group. not being listened to/believed is a universal experience of minoritization
December 18, 2025 at 8:48 PM
I fear people don't know what it means to be part of a minoritized group. not being listened to/believed is a universal experience of minoritization
More of this, please ✊
To all the young people in New York and across our country who count on gender-affirming care:
I won't let this administration come for you, your doctors, or your lifesaving health care.
Your health care is still legal and protected.
I'll always fight for you.
I won't let this administration come for you, your doctors, or your lifesaving health care.
Your health care is still legal and protected.
I'll always fight for you.
December 19, 2025 at 12:02 AM
More of this, please ✊
“The AB govt. is looking at attracting data centres because it wants a resource-intensive industry that can consume natural gas, in particular, locally, instead of having to ship it off to somewhere else to create demand for its fossil fuels,” @parismarx.com www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/16/n...
Alberta towns see AI data centres as 'second coming of oil' — but some worry at what cost
Municipalities across Alberta are trying to figure out whether they can — or should — try to cash in on the influx of AI data centre developers looking to set up shop in the province. For some council...
www.nationalobserver.com
December 18, 2025 at 4:47 PM
“The AB govt. is looking at attracting data centres because it wants a resource-intensive industry that can consume natural gas, in particular, locally, instead of having to ship it off to somewhere else to create demand for its fossil fuels,” @parismarx.com www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/16/n...
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More than 600 pages of records show Alberta officials delayed a coal mine pollution study — and seemingly stopped the lead scientist from speaking publicly thenarwhal.ca/alberta-stal... #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
Alberta officials stalled coal mine pollution study | The Narwhal
An Alberta government scientist was prevented from speaking publicly about his coal mine pollution research, emails show
thenarwhal.ca
December 17, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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"The BC Human Rights Commissioner, in her November 2025 statement, was unequivocal: the toxic drug crisis is a human rights violation driven by toxic supply, structural inequities, and systemic discrimination, not by voluntary use of substances."
idpc.net/news/2025/12...
idpc.net/news/2025/12...
"We refuse": Health workers against involuntary care
The joint letter warns that expanding involuntary treatment in British Columbia would violate medical ethics, endanger patients, and deepen human rights harm, calling instead for evidence-based, volun...
idpc.net
December 14, 2025 at 10:55 PM
"The BC Human Rights Commissioner, in her November 2025 statement, was unequivocal: the toxic drug crisis is a human rights violation driven by toxic supply, structural inequities, and systemic discrimination, not by voluntary use of substances."
idpc.net/news/2025/12...
idpc.net/news/2025/12...
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Fucking ghouls. They know this will kill people, and that's - of course - their desired outcome.
Alberta government to close Calgary's sole supervised consumption site in 2026 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/drug-consumption-site-alberta-government-9.7015065
𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁
𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁
December 14, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Fucking ghouls. They know this will kill people, and that's - of course - their desired outcome.
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the state of this world is unconscionable. no one should have to experience such horror.
i can’t help thinking about how mark carney was just over playing nice with uae leaders enabling this genocide.
i can’t help thinking about how mark carney was just over playing nice with uae leaders enabling this genocide.
So, El Fasher looks like one of the worst single event atrocities to happen this century so far, but the evidence has come in such a trickle it seems to only now be getting verified
At least 60,000 murdered in Sudanese city, which resembles ‘a slaughterhouse’
Satellite evidence shows extent of paramilitary massacre in El Fasher
www.irishtimes.com
December 13, 2025 at 1:21 PM
the state of this world is unconscionable. no one should have to experience such horror.
i can’t help thinking about how mark carney was just over playing nice with uae leaders enabling this genocide.
i can’t help thinking about how mark carney was just over playing nice with uae leaders enabling this genocide.
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It's so fucked up to have been a kid during the D&D is the devil freakout and the Tipper Gore dirty lyrics freakout and live to see the teen suicide machine get such a pass.
December 12, 2025 at 5:40 PM
It's so fucked up to have been a kid during the D&D is the devil freakout and the Tipper Gore dirty lyrics freakout and live to see the teen suicide machine get such a pass.
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Friends, Romans, countrymen, I read a lot of comics this year and these were the best ones
The Best Graphic Novels of 2025
www.nytimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Friends, Romans, countrymen, I read a lot of comics this year and these were the best ones
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A long standing problem where the UCP supports O&G. 😡
"Albertans risk being on the hook for billions of dollars’ worth of cleanup of the oil sands under current rules that govern security payments for the massive mining operations, according to a new report from the province’s Auditor-General."
"Albertans risk being on the hook for billions of dollars’ worth of cleanup of the oil sands under current rules that govern security payments for the massive mining operations, according to a new report from the province’s Auditor-General."
December 12, 2025 at 2:57 PM
A long standing problem where the UCP supports O&G. 😡
"Albertans risk being on the hook for billions of dollars’ worth of cleanup of the oil sands under current rules that govern security payments for the massive mining operations, according to a new report from the province’s Auditor-General."
"Albertans risk being on the hook for billions of dollars’ worth of cleanup of the oil sands under current rules that govern security payments for the massive mining operations, according to a new report from the province’s Auditor-General."
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So rarely hear the phrase “legitimate concerns” being used with climate change protestors, hunger striking peace activists, trans people who want to live without fear, and on and on
For so long , many who could have challenged bigotry & bullying have bowed down meekly to the notion of “but these people have legitimate concerns” - at the same time they have found it easy to attack and belittle progressiveness - still the cowardly kids that cheer the bully
December 11, 2025 at 3:04 PM
So rarely hear the phrase “legitimate concerns” being used with climate change protestors, hunger striking peace activists, trans people who want to live without fear, and on and on
"The B.C. government declared a public health emergency in 2016 as deaths started to climb and since then, at least 15,000 people have died. " My god. 💔
The former chief coroner for British Columbia says the provincial government didn't seem influenced by evidence or expert advice on preventing overdoses because it ignored recommendations to create a safe drug supply.
Former chief coroner describes years of calls for changes to help toxic drug crisis
The former chief coroner for B.C. says the provincial government didn't seem influenced by evidence or expert advice on preventing overdoses because it ignored recommendations to create a safe drug supply.
cheknews.ca
December 11, 2025 at 12:12 AM
"The B.C. government declared a public health emergency in 2016 as deaths started to climb and since then, at least 15,000 people have died. " My god. 💔
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Important constitutional analysis of UCP government’s forced abstinence legislation, by AB Civil Liberties Research Centre at UofC.
It simply does not hold up.
www.lawnow.org/albertas-com...
It simply does not hold up.
www.lawnow.org/albertas-com...
Alberta’s Compassionate Intervention Act and Charter Rights - LawNow Magazine
Some say Alberta's Compassionate Intervention Act, which allows for involuntary drug treatment, violates several Charter rights.
www.lawnow.org
December 10, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Important constitutional analysis of UCP government’s forced abstinence legislation, by AB Civil Liberties Research Centre at UofC.
It simply does not hold up.
www.lawnow.org/albertas-com...
It simply does not hold up.
www.lawnow.org/albertas-com...
"...if you believe literally all of these recent uses by Alberta, Ontario, and Quebec are justified - not legally valid, not ‘constitutional’, but morally or normative justified - the truth is you simply don’t care about minority rights."
NEW POST: The parallels between Trump's pardons and Danielle Smith's use of the notwithstanding clause emmettmacfarlane.substack.com/p/the-parall...
The parallels between Trump's pardons and Danielle Smith's use of the notwithstanding clause
I was reading about yet another round of Trump pardons and it is blazingly apparent the extent to which Trump has exercised this presidential power in a way that fundamentally strips away the importan...
emmettmacfarlane.substack.com
December 10, 2025 at 5:12 PM
"...if you believe literally all of these recent uses by Alberta, Ontario, and Quebec are justified - not legally valid, not ‘constitutional’, but morally or normative justified - the truth is you simply don’t care about minority rights."
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This is something that I wish I could get across to people. How ever many infections it takes before you get long COVID, once you get it you may never recover. I know people who have survived four infections without lasting consequences. How many bullets are left in that chamber? We can't know.
Your reminder that EVERY. SINGLE. "long covid" impact is STILL lasting "at least" as long as this pandemic has existed.
There is NO CONFIRMED UPPER BOUND to how long COVID damage lasts
There is NO CONFIRMED RECOVERY from severe long COVID
There is NO CONFIRMED RECOVERY for your T-Cells
MASK. UP.
There is NO CONFIRMED UPPER BOUND to how long COVID damage lasts
There is NO CONFIRMED RECOVERY from severe long COVID
There is NO CONFIRMED RECOVERY for your T-Cells
MASK. UP.
SARS-CoV-2 Leaves a Lasting Mark on the Immune System
A landmark new study shows COVID-19 isn’t ‘just a cold’: One infection left people with long-lasting immune damage, and those with heart disease lost up to 70% of key immune cells. Reinfections may wo...
johnsnowproject.org
December 10, 2025 at 3:30 AM
This is something that I wish I could get across to people. How ever many infections it takes before you get long COVID, once you get it you may never recover. I know people who have survived four infections without lasting consequences. How many bullets are left in that chamber? We can't know.
“It is ironic that those on the right complain — without good evidence — about bias in media and academia, and then push something like this that is clearly a ‘This is my perspective’ approach.” (Timothy Caulfield)
“Smith, and her chief of staff, Rob Anderson, directly intervened with Alberta’s Advanced Education Ministry in an attempt to help Peterson’s higher-education business venture.”
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
thetyee.ca/News/2025/12...
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
thetyee.ca/News/2025/12...
Jordan Peterson’s School Isn’t Accredited. Smith Offered Alberta’s Help | The Tyee
The premier met with the controversial psychologist and tried to help his business, finds a Tyee investigation.
thetyee.ca
December 10, 2025 at 2:35 PM
“It is ironic that those on the right complain — without good evidence — about bias in media and academia, and then push something like this that is clearly a ‘This is my perspective’ approach.” (Timothy Caulfield)