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Jocelyn Pitsch
@jprimrose.bsky.social
“Radical softness as a boundless form of resistance” -genderfail

N95-wearing anti-racist feminist; theatre scholar; poet; flâneuse. she/her. settler on stolen territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations (Vancouver, BC)
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Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.
November 11, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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I gotta give it up to the writers tho. If NYC elects a Muslim mayor on the day Dick Cheney died, that is one hell of a slow played story arc. Every time you want to fire 2025's writers room they give you a little narrative resolution as a treat.
November 4, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Over the past week, the president said the DOJ should pay him a quarter billion dollars, bulldozed half the White House to build himself a gaudy ballroom, bragged about murdering civilians in international waters, pardoned some more criminals, directed federal prosecutors to indict his opponents ...
October 23, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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Thanksgiving in Canada has nothing to do with Columbus!

We are a colonial country with a million things to atone for but Thanksgiving is not one of them.

Our Thanksgiving is timed with the harvest and it's literally just "Be grateful for harvest"

US Imperialism has brain rotted too many of you.
October 12, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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LMAOOOOO

A bunch of comedians tried to make up for their participation in the Riyadh comedy festival by donating their pay to Human Rights Watch and Human rights Watch was like “nah bitch we don’t want your dirty blood money” 😂😂 I’m dying
Human Rights Watch Doesn’t Want Any Riyadh Comedy Festival Money
Taking money from those who took money from Saudi Arabia would impact perception of the org’s independence.
www.vulture.com
October 10, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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This sounds like a bit but I’m being serious: kids using chat gpt for their homework are denying themselves the invaluable experience of learning how to bullshit their way through a problem. You drink some caffeine the night before and figure it the fuck out. That’s a skill. You need it in life.
June 18, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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Nobody has Long COVID, but everybody has brain fog, cognitive decline and memory loss. I talk about the overwhelming scientific evidence that COVID damages the brain, and the overwhelming social unwillingness to acknowledge it in my latest:

www.thegauntlet.news/p/when-will-...
When Will the Lion Concern Himself
Joking memes make light of the uncomfortable reality: everyone's got a little of that post-COVID brain damage these days
www.thegauntlet.news
October 5, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin ✨ figured out what stars are made of ✨ when she was just 25. 🔭🧪

Her PhD thesis basically established the Harvard astro department — at a time when Harvard didn't officially allow woman students.

I wrote this little profile to mark the 100th anniversary of her thesis:
September 24, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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You wonder what disabled Canadians, subject to coercion into assisted dying because governments keep disability supports well below the poverty line, need to do to get anywhere near the attention paid to ostriches.
September 24, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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Second Amendment activists in shock as Charlie Kirk shot instead of just schoolchildren
Second Amendment activists in shock as Charlie Kirk shot instead of just schoolchildren
OREM, UT - Americans who champion the right to bear arms were shocked Wednesday as controversial commentator Charlie Kirk was shot and killed, as opposed to the ordinarily acceptable trend of mass shootings in schools.
www.thebeaverton.com
September 11, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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healthy ideological opponents are people who challenge each other on *how* we achieve collective liberation, not people who want to debate whether or not we *should*
September 12, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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It isn’t “grace” to pretend to hand-wring over a man who called for violence, praised gun culture, dehumanized trans folks, and led young people into violent nationalism. It is disingenuousness at best, rank cowardice at worst. And it does harm.

If your words whitewash a fascist, stop speaking.
September 11, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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Sex work is 1000% more honorable and socially beneficial than working as an ICE agent.
August 28, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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It's anti-human on a fundamental level to say any one of us MIRACLES of creatures & our children cannot freely walk about this ONE SOLE ONLY little tiny MIRACLE of a planet it is spiritually wicked to keep us from each other all across our ONE HOME, the only PLANET in the UNIVERSE known to have LIFE
August 7, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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"A lot of men have trouble with the idea of buying clothes based on joy, or self-fashioning, or looking good," @dieworkwear.bsky.social said when @harrisonmooney.bsky.social called him to talk performance tech for @thetyee.ca.

My greatest achievement as an editor maybe

thetyee.ca/Culture/2025...
Welcome to the Golden Age of Testicular Technology | The Tyee
Lululemon’s ABC pants won’t leave you hanging. But beware of lawsuits.
thetyee.ca
July 9, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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We should have listened when the modems screamed at us.
July 22, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Talk about The Wire, Sopranos, Game of Thrones all you want, but the greatest US television program ever made is Sesame Street. It's not even close. 50+ years of treating kids across class, ethnicity, religion not as mini-consumers...but as citizens with a stake in this world.
July 18, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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And on E. B. White's birthday!
July 11, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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I'm just another common working man from Ontario who lost his job, and came to Alberta to steal one from someone who rightfully earned theirs. #cdnpoli
July 3, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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Well, we've already lost vaccines, colleges, cancer research, citizenship, disaster relief, and even weather forecasting, why not medical insurance and all the rest too? Have to feed those billionaires . . .
July 1, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Hey Toronto Covid Cautious friends! I’ve got a young CC friend going into 2nd year out there looking for potential clean air roomies. Pls dm me with any leads!!
June 30, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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I gotta say I find a lot of AI discourse around higher ed very confusing. "if ChatGPT can write your essays is college even worth it?" did people think math teachers were assigning problem sets because *they* couldn't figure out the answers?
June 30, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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If you are younger than 83, you have never seen the US drop a single bomb as a formally declared act of war according to its constitution.
June 18, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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the Lord is my shepherd, He shaves my entire body to make sweaters
June 11, 2023 at 4:58 PM
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If you don't want to be compared to the Gestapo, one neat trick is to not engage in a campaign of terror around the country wherein you kidnap people off the streets to slave dungeons in accommodation of an autocratic fascist and his nationalist movement's desire for racial purity.
May 19, 2025 at 10:25 AM