Knitwrit
knitwrit.bsky.social
Knitwrit
@knitwrit.bsky.social
I like books, art, the environment, science and antifascism :)

A better world is possible
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🇨🇦 All right, my fellow Canadians!!! 🇨🇦 What are we going to do when fascism begins to rule the USA? How will we take in refugees? How will we feed & shelter people? How will we deradicalize ppl? We need to start planning now. It will come quickly when it comes. What are you prepared to do, and how?
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Victoria crowned pigeon page
August 28, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Warhammer is harm reduction
if you’re an isolated, angsty, strange young man, please know that you can become a Kierkegaard scholar instead of joining fringe online communities
September 13, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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Do not underestimate the soft spoken, the kind, the gentle. It takes strength to be those things, sometimes more than you will ever know. If you look closely at someone who conducts themselves honorably, you will find something fierce inside.
September 21, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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if you're reading this 50 years from now I need you to know that this series of world events isn't as dumb as it probably seems, it's actually much, much dumber than you can possibly imagine
February 24, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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me in 2005: Jurassic Park is unrealistic because it's a movie about a dinosaur theme park

me in 2025: Jurassic Park is unrealistic because the rich CEO of the dinosaur park is not immediately handed complete control of the US National Park Service
March 10, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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Remember that a big part of necromantic #magic is awareness of the sort of ancestor you’d like to be for those who will one day call ~your~ name in times of trouble.

This is the moment when that future #ancestor is forged in fire and honed to a razors edge—make good trouble.
January 30, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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Even if you can’t always see it, you matter. Your smile, your eyes, your existence, all of it matters. Spreading happiness in a world that,at times, can feel hopeless 🌸

#flower #photography #pinkflowers #pink #pinkflower #flowerphotography #nature #mentalhealth #joy #hope #wednesday #wednesdayvibes
March 12, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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I've been screaming it for years: the right in Canada is headed down an American-style path on almost every issue because the right-wing media plays that tune, and the right-wing pretend media plays that tune. It's headed in one direction, and we have never had a clearer view of where that leads.
March 20, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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Can confirm 🫡
#ElbowsUp 🇨🇦
March 18, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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I'm old enough to remember back in the early 2020s when the US federal government provided free breakfast & lunch to children at all public schools for like two whole years, and also expanded the child tax credit causing child poverty across the entire country from sea to shining sea to fall by half
“Childhood hunger in the U.S. is solvable. There is no shortage of food, only of moral courage. But it shouldn’t require much courage to speak up on behalf of kids,” writes @billshore.bsky.social in an op-ed.
Op-ed: Food and Moral Courage Are Needed to End Childhood Hunger
Studies have documented the advantages to kids, schools, and the economy when students receive nutritious school meals.
buff.ly
March 20, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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The UK has now issued a travel warning for the US: possible arrest or detention for failing to meet entry requirements.
March 20, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Look I have zero excuses for this, but the idea popped into my head and now it's in your head, sorry
March 20, 2025 at 3:39 PM
@ryanmarino.bsky.social just wanted to randomly say your educational posts are super helpful and I hope everyone on #medsky can keep up the awesome #scicomm cuz I can read a lot more tweets than I can academic articles in a day 😊
(Also, where are all the non american mds on here???) 🌏🌍
November 10, 2024 at 3:10 PM
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A sobering empirical piece in JAMA.

Homicide has long been THE LEADING CAUSE of maternal/peripartum death.

Here they show:
* restrictions on divorce
* restrictions on abortion…
both correlate with pregnancy homicide (albeit differently, depending on age/race) 🛟🩺

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
November 10, 2024 at 3:18 AM
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if you hear someone say “your body, my choice”, you’re legally allowed to punch them in the face. after all: your body, my choice. i don’t make the rules.
November 8, 2024 at 2:37 AM
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For the next two weeks, we’re offering ten free ebooks for getting free

Another world is possible if we fight for it

www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/517-te...
November 9, 2024 at 8:22 PM
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Still one of my favourite historical TTC posters.

… And because it was made in the mid-70s, the number of lanes would be higher now.

(Source: spacing.ca/toronto/2013...)
November 9, 2024 at 11:40 PM
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Since Twitter died, I wanted to post my most popular one. Something like 120k likes.
November 8, 2024 at 5:33 PM
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If you lived on a planet more than 65 million light years away, if you had a powerful enough telescope, if you looked at Earth, you'd see dinosaurs roaming the world~
Quote this skeet with a random fact you love, that brings you joy, I'll start:

Otters have pockets. The skin under their armpits makes a natural fold that they keep things in.
an otter standing on its hind legs in front of a rock wall with imgflip.com written on the bottom
Alt: A sea otter being handed a ball, then storing it in a strange pocket under one arm.
media.tenor.com
November 6, 2024 at 2:00 PM
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Sometimes I like to draw a really hot bath and shut out the lights and pretend to be one of those deep sea worms that lives on hydrothermal vents at the bottom of the ocean. I call it my hot worm time.
November 6, 2024 at 2:23 AM
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“The left needs to have voices that speak to young people!!”

I know I should keep my mouth shut, but I’ve watched at least a dozen smart, passionate, popular left wing content creators get torn to shreds /by the left/ until they retreat either into obscurity or apolitical content.
November 7, 2024 at 3:45 PM
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I will say this though: Hope is not a mistake.
November 6, 2024 at 12:00 PM
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Today’s shirt. The thing I’m trying to remember today, tomorrow, and all the days to come.
November 6, 2024 at 1:23 PM
Good morning
November 6, 2024 at 1:24 PM
🇨🇦 All right, my fellow Canadians!!! 🇨🇦 What are we going to do when fascism begins to rule the USA? How will we take in refugees? How will we feed & shelter people? How will we deradicalize ppl? We need to start planning now. It will come quickly when it comes. What are you prepared to do, and how?
November 6, 2024 at 1:20 PM