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Harper Jean Tobin
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Muppet Queen, Recovering Lawyer
(It’s an honorary title the Order Muppets came up with. The Chaos Muppets would never tolerate a real monarchy. So we compromised on an anarcho-syndicalist federation with a symbolic head of state for the fancy parties etc.)
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Duo, the green owl from the DuoLingo app, congratulates you for a Perfect Lesson. Duo inexplicably, incredibly resembles a classic manga magical girl complete with long braids, school uniform, and sparkles.
November 13, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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I am once again asking you to explain Canadian professional conference customs to me.
Conference badge for Ontario DEMCON / Continuity & Resilience Today conference. Next to my name in smaller purple letters is simply the word DEATH.
October 22, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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My favourite page from J H Williams III’s Dracula book.
Mina and Lucy sitting by the harbour’s unreally water.
October 1, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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Ran into @acorncanada.bsky.social having a “Poverty Picnic” at ODSP/OW offices today to protest below-subsistence level ODSP and OW rates.
Join turn for a tenants’ rights/anti-poverty action next week if you’re in TO!
Protesters outside ODSP office with red ACORN flag and shirts. Some are in wheelchairs, one stands with a drum and a sign reading “ODSP: Ontario Doesn’t Support People.” One sits on a picnic blanket with an empty plate. Flyer reads: JOIN OUR COMMUNITY COALITION TO PUT QUEENS PARK ON NOTICE RAISE THE RATES! FREEZE THE RENT! FOR MORE INFO AND TO RSVP SCAN HERE QUESTIONS? CONTACT TOACORN@ACORNCANADA.ORG OR (416) 461-9233 QUEENS PARK | THURS OCT 23 | 10:30AM | FREE LUNCH!
September 16, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Ran into @acorncanada.bsky.social having a “Poverty Picnic” at ODSP/OW offices today to protest below-subsistence level ODSP and OW rates.
Join turn for a tenants’ rights/anti-poverty action next week if you’re in TO!
Protesters outside ODSP office with red ACORN flag and shirts. Some are in wheelchairs, one stands with a drum and a sign reading “ODSP: Ontario Doesn’t Support People.” One sits on a picnic blanket with an empty plate. Flyer reads: JOIN OUR COMMUNITY COALITION TO PUT QUEENS PARK ON NOTICE RAISE THE RATES! FREEZE THE RENT! FOR MORE INFO AND TO RSVP SCAN HERE QUESTIONS? CONTACT TOACORN@ACORNCANADA.ORG OR (416) 461-9233 QUEENS PARK | THURS OCT 23 | 10:30AM | FREE LUNCH!
September 16, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Astrology queers, please caption this.
A red-costumed figure kneels against a black background, clasping the pale hand of an unseen figure. Hanging from the red figure’s arm is a large, good-colored, highly stylized ankh with the lines foreshortened. The red figure is saying “Virgo, how could you do this to me?”
August 29, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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Clasped hands meme: Arm labeled “Canadians” + arm labeled “DC residents” with clasped hands labeled “There’s only one 51st state, assholes.”
August 19, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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Baby’s first Canadian panel, next Wednesday in Ottawa and streaming:
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Capitale Pride AUGUST 20 AOÛT ADVOCACY IN ACTION ACTIVISME EN ACTION Arts Court/s des arts, 2 Daly Ave. Panelists / Panélistes Chris Kennedy (he/him) Vash Ebbadi-Cook (he/they) Quinn Blue (he/they) Terrie Foster (she/they) Harper Jean Tobin (she/her) 18:00 - 20:00 pflag Canada pflag Canada Pride at Work Canada Canadian Blood Services The 519 Community Centre Cropped photo of someone wearing a Keith Haring design on a t-shirt, showing a dancing person holding a heart.
August 13, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Strange to spend Canada Day and July 4 resting, reading, writing, thinking about the beautiful, diverse country & deeply unequal, increasingly xenophobic, settler-colonial quasi-petrostate I’m now living in, and the one I’ve just left amid its descent into authoritarianism. 1/x
Treeline in golden dusk, with a single prominent pine at right.
July 5, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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Please do this.
Also though every time someone says “born a woman” this is all I can think of.
Vase depicting Athena emerging fully-grown and -armed from the skull of Zeus, ready to do battle.
July 3, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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Post an image you saved because it made you laugh. (Maybe not the intended reaction for this one?)
A cow leaping through the sky with the captions IT’S NATIONAL DAIRY MONTH and the logo of Congressman Mark Pocan.
June 21, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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Thank you to my new neighbours in Ottawa, and to all my fellow Americans who stood up today - especially to my Angelenos and Minnesotans.
It’s been a heart-breaking week but we won’t stop standing up for each other.
All of us should be welcome here.
#NoTyrants #Ottawa
June 15, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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Timeline cleanse.
Snow on trees and reeds along the banks of the Charles River on a partly cloudy morning. The Charles River on a partly cloudy morning with snow on trees and logs, ice at the river’s edge in the foreground. And clusters of Canada geese in the distance. Closeup of a short, squat snow creature with fruit and vegetable eyes, smile, and pink conical hat. View from below of the trunk, branches, and needles of a conifer tree with s’ several inches of snow.
February 9, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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#NotAllWelshmen
Plain white tee shirt reading: “DON’T BLAME ME I VOTED PLAID ❎”
February 2, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Kierra Johnson at #CreatingChangeConference talking about moving beyond defining our agendas and demands narrowly in terms of LGBTQI specific problems and solutions rather than cross-cutting ones - ones that could achieve the same goals and more, maybe more successfully and durably.
Two Black queer activists converse on a large, rainbow-lit stage.
January 25, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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Wisdom from participants in the doc film “Can't Stop Change: Queer Climate Stories from the Florida Frontlines”
- slides by Vanessa Raditz of Queers for Climate Justice
A white person with shortish brown hair sits on a porch next to a small tree, in front of a large art piece depicting a butterfly, speaking to the camera. Text reads: "If you're separating the battle, the fight for LGBTQ and trans liberation, the fight for racial justice and the liberation of Black and brown people and immigrant people and the fight for the land, for the air and the water, it's because you're too close to the mosquito netting." - Lakey Love (they/them) "Si estás separando la batalla que la lucha por la liberación para las personas LGBTQ y trans, la lucha por la justicia racial y la liberación de la gente negro, y las personas de color e inmigrantes, y la lucha por la tierra, para el aire y el agua...es porque estás demasiado cerca a la mosquitera." - Lakey Love (elle)
January 23, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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Wisdom from participants in the doc film “Can't Stop Change: Queer Climate Stories from the Florida Frontlines”
A Black woman with short platinum hair and glasses wearing a multicolored top speaks to two other people in a garden. Text reads: "Your neighbor is your first responder. No big institution is coming. The government is not coming to your block. They ain't been here before the storm...It is always in the time of disaster where people should be realizing absorption into our movement and organizing of our people." - Valencia Gunder (she/her) "Tu vecino es tu socorrista.No viene ninguna gran institución. El gobierno no está llegando a tu bloque. No han estado aquí antes de la tormenta...Siempre es en el momento del desastre donde la gente debería darse cuenta absorción en nuestro movimiento y la organización de nuestro pueblo." - Valencia Gunder (she/her)
January 23, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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Thrilled to be at the #QueerClimateJustice institute at #CreatingChangeConference with so many amazing folks. So much vibrant energy in this room.
Presentation slide titled “Queer Climate Justice: Day-Long Institute,” illustrated with a vibrant landscape and in the foreground the arms and legs of a person bending to touch the earth.
January 23, 2025 at 5:55 PM