Lumine R-H
@mark-rh.bsky.social
Writer of queer fantasy, Dad, feminist, antifascist. Thinking a lot about what we can endure and what we must not tolerate, even facing the end. Settler in Moh'kinstsis, Treaty 7. Genderfluid. Land back, ACAB, trans rights, never use AI.
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The UCP is liable for the murder of trans youth all across Alberta.
November 26, 2025 at 12:49 AM
The UCP is liable for the murder of trans youth all across Alberta.
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Resource extraction at gunpoint, it’s the Canadian way
Four arrested as police enforce injunction at Upper Walbran blockade #Vancouver
Four arrested as police enforce injunction at Upper Walbran blockade - BC News
Dozens of police descended Tuesday morning on a blockade set up by old-growth activists in late August to prevent logging in the Upper Walbran Valley on Vancouver Island.
www.castanetkamloops.net
November 26, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Resource extraction at gunpoint, it’s the Canadian way
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Blink and you’ll miss it. The cruelty continues with the Alberta government not indexing ADAP to infalation “instead of being pegged to the "alberta escalator" (which was the lesser of inflation of 2%), benefits are now "the amount set out or determined in accordance with the regulations."”’
November 26, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Blink and you’ll miss it. The cruelty continues with the Alberta government not indexing ADAP to infalation “instead of being pegged to the "alberta escalator" (which was the lesser of inflation of 2%), benefits are now "the amount set out or determined in accordance with the regulations."”’
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Fuming whilst listening to Alberta UCP MLAs referring to the Cass Review ad nauseam to defend its bill... literally removing the right to life from trans youth.
November 26, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Fuming whilst listening to Alberta UCP MLAs referring to the Cass Review ad nauseam to defend its bill... literally removing the right to life from trans youth.
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This absenteeism is concerning, lament schools and workplaces who’ve been past tensing the pandemic since 2021 or 2022 while everyone lives in perpetual sickness.
November 25, 2025 at 11:15 PM
This absenteeism is concerning, lament schools and workplaces who’ve been past tensing the pandemic since 2021 or 2022 while everyone lives in perpetual sickness.
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Trans youth and their families in Alberta need our help. And they need it right now. Can we count on you to chip in?
www.momentumcanada.net/forthekids
www.momentumcanada.net/forthekids
November 25, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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I got needles behind my scapulae today & anyway my hot take is that massage, physiotherapy & chiropractic care (the musculoskeletal kind not the antivax stuff) should all be publicly covered because for all that we’d recoup the cost in terms of productivity, the well-being alone would be worth it.
November 24, 2025 at 11:55 PM
I got needles behind my scapulae today & anyway my hot take is that massage, physiotherapy & chiropractic care (the musculoskeletal kind not the antivax stuff) should all be publicly covered because for all that we’d recoup the cost in terms of productivity, the well-being alone would be worth it.
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Meta has carefully crafted a machine designed to make monsters out of men, and it must be destroyed. The people involved at the top of Meta are clearly villains, and in a world concerned with justice most of them would be in jail.
November 24, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Meta has carefully crafted a machine designed to make monsters out of men, and it must be destroyed. The people involved at the top of Meta are clearly villains, and in a world concerned with justice most of them would be in jail.
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"As we cross the 1.5C threshold into uncharted climatic territory, we the people must make the politicians fight wholeheartedly for fossil fuel phaseout. In the end, it is up to us to create a global politics that will finally save the world for our children."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Another Cop wrecked by fossil fuel interests and our leaders’ cowardice – but there is another way | Genevieve Guenther
The fingerprints of Russia and Saudi Arabia are all over the decision text in Brazil. But a group of nations led by Colombia and the Netherlands offer hope, says End Climate Silence founding director ...
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:28 PM
"As we cross the 1.5C threshold into uncharted climatic territory, we the people must make the politicians fight wholeheartedly for fossil fuel phaseout. In the end, it is up to us to create a global politics that will finally save the world for our children."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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New petition: www.stop-smith.ca?recruiter_id... and please follow @momentumcanada.net
November 24, 2025 at 1:04 AM
New petition: www.stop-smith.ca?recruiter_id... and please follow @momentumcanada.net
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‘Berta go Bragh!!! 🤣😂🤣
The separatist rubes hoodwinked by foreign actors. Oh, the sweet, delicious irony. Bunch of Tiddlywinks. 🤣
The separatist rubes hoodwinked by foreign actors. Oh, the sweet, delicious irony. Bunch of Tiddlywinks. 🤣
November 23, 2025 at 10:21 PM
‘Berta go Bragh!!! 🤣😂🤣
The separatist rubes hoodwinked by foreign actors. Oh, the sweet, delicious irony. Bunch of Tiddlywinks. 🤣
The separatist rubes hoodwinked by foreign actors. Oh, the sweet, delicious irony. Bunch of Tiddlywinks. 🤣
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With the disappointing progress at Cop30, evergreen reminder it isn't "we" or "humanity" failing to address the climate crisis — oil-producing nations and fossil fuel interests are actively obstructing action, despite heroic efforts by developing nations, Indigenous peoples, and many, many others.
End of fossil fuel era inches closer as Cop30 deal agreed after bitter standoff
Wealthy countries should triple funds for countries to tackle climate impacts, but deforestation and critical minerals blocked from final deal
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:45 PM
With the disappointing progress at Cop30, evergreen reminder it isn't "we" or "humanity" failing to address the climate crisis — oil-producing nations and fossil fuel interests are actively obstructing action, despite heroic efforts by developing nations, Indigenous peoples, and many, many others.
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Danielle Smith’s party will also consider changes to DEI in schools and the disclosure of students’ participation in gay-straight alliances at their annual convention
Alberta UCP to consider policy proposal banning Pride flags on public property | Xtra Magazine
Danielle Smith’s party will also consider changes to DEI in schools and the disclosure of students’ participation in gay-straight alliances at their annual convention
xtramagazine.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Danielle Smith’s party will also consider changes to DEI in schools and the disclosure of students’ participation in gay-straight alliances at their annual convention
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My first published story was in The Western Producer in 1985.
It took 40 years, but this is my best sentence:
"Democracy dies with a shrug, not a coup"
markhamhislop.substack.com/p/part-ii-th...
It took 40 years, but this is my best sentence:
"Democracy dies with a shrug, not a coup"
markhamhislop.substack.com/p/part-ii-th...
Alberta's Attack on the Idea of Canada
Democracy dies with a shrug, not a coup
markhamhislop.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:08 AM
My first published story was in The Western Producer in 1985.
It took 40 years, but this is my best sentence:
"Democracy dies with a shrug, not a coup"
markhamhislop.substack.com/p/part-ii-th...
It took 40 years, but this is my best sentence:
"Democracy dies with a shrug, not a coup"
markhamhislop.substack.com/p/part-ii-th...
Nothing like receiving a racist screed from the uncle you’d have previously not described as racist.
November 23, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Nothing like receiving a racist screed from the uncle you’d have previously not described as racist.
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Just about 30,000 people have signed the TransAction Alberta petition against Bill 9 and Premier Smith's use of the Notwithstanding Clause to erase the rights of more Albertans this week.
Will you be signature 30,000? transactionalberta.ca
#ableg #abpoli #canpoli
Will you be signature 30,000? transactionalberta.ca
#ableg #abpoli #canpoli
November 21, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Just about 30,000 people have signed the TransAction Alberta petition against Bill 9 and Premier Smith's use of the Notwithstanding Clause to erase the rights of more Albertans this week.
Will you be signature 30,000? transactionalberta.ca
#ableg #abpoli #canpoli
Will you be signature 30,000? transactionalberta.ca
#ableg #abpoli #canpoli
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Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand
In a normal world, this should be an immense scandal in Europe.
Le Monde has a long article describing the hellish life of Nicolas Guillou, a French judge at the ICC in The Hague, due to U.S. sanctions punishing him for authorizing arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant for war crimes in Gaza.
Guillou's daily existence has been transformed into a Kafkaesque nightmare. He cannot: open or maintain accounts with Google, Amazon, Apple, or any US company; make hotel reservations (Expedia canceled his booking in France hours after he made it); conduct online commerce, since he can't know if the packaging is American; use any major credit card (Visa, Mastercard, Amex are all American); access normal banking services, even with non-American banks, as banks worldwide close sanctioned accounts; conduct virtually any financial transaction.
He describes it as being "economically banned across most of the planet," including in his own country, France, and where he works, the Netherlands.
That's the real shocking aspect of this: the Americans are:
- punishing a European citizen
- for doing his job in Europe
- applying laws Europe officially supports
- at an institution based in Europe
- that Europe helped create and fund
and Europe is not only doing essentially nothing to protect him, they're actively enforcing America's sanctions against their own citizen - European banks closing his accounts, European companies refusing him service, European institutions standing by while Washington destroys a European judge's life on European soil.
Again, in a normal world, European leaders and citizens should be absolutely outraged about this. But we've so normalized the hollowing out of European sovereignty that the sight of a European citizen being economically executed on European soil for upholding European law is treated, at best, as an unfortunate technical complication in transatlantic
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You support the not withstanding clause? You’re no ally on Reconciliation.
November 21, 2025 at 5:12 PM
You support the not withstanding clause? You’re no ally on Reconciliation.
Submitted my canvasser form for recall. I think this is ultimately bad policy that will weaken our democracy and I don’t think we’ll succeed because they’ll either defund it or change the legislation even in the unlikely chance we can meet the threshold but I have no moral choice & no other options.
November 21, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Submitted my canvasser form for recall. I think this is ultimately bad policy that will weaken our democracy and I don’t think we’ll succeed because they’ll either defund it or change the legislation even in the unlikely chance we can meet the threshold but I have no moral choice & no other options.
I started a discussion of the impacts of bill 27 at my school council today. One parent was supportive. The rest were silent. The goal was just to get people thinking about it because I don’t think many people in south Calgary are, but it just left me feeling depressed. I worry they’ll never…
November 21, 2025 at 6:14 AM
I started a discussion of the impacts of bill 27 at my school council today. One parent was supportive. The rest were silent. The goal was just to get people thinking about it because I don’t think many people in south Calgary are, but it just left me feeling depressed. I worry they’ll never…
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Today, I proclaimed Transgender Day of Remembrance in Calgary. We honour those we’ve lost, and we stand with resolve for a city where everyone can live safely and authentically. We will keep fighting for every person’s right to be who they are: openly, proudly, and without fear. #yyccc
November 21, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Today, I proclaimed Transgender Day of Remembrance in Calgary. We honour those we’ve lost, and we stand with resolve for a city where everyone can live safely and authentically. We will keep fighting for every person’s right to be who they are: openly, proudly, and without fear. #yyccc
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its so cool that our two trans holidays are "please remember we exist" and "please stop killing us"
November 20, 2025 at 3:51 PM
its so cool that our two trans holidays are "please remember we exist" and "please stop killing us"
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On this Trans Day of Remembrance, I particularly want to stress that the violence we talk about trans people experiencing isn't just murder or domestic abuse or assault.
There is also legislative violence—far too much of it. And we lose lives to that every year too.
There is also legislative violence—far too much of it. And we lose lives to that every year too.
The Alberta government putting out a statement for Trans Day of Remembrance two days after using the Notwithstanding Clause to override trans kids rights feels like parody at this point
"Our government remains a dedicated partner of transgender Albertans.”
"Our government remains a dedicated partner of transgender Albertans.”
November 20, 2025 at 5:48 PM
On this Trans Day of Remembrance, I particularly want to stress that the violence we talk about trans people experiencing isn't just murder or domestic abuse or assault.
There is also legislative violence—far too much of it. And we lose lives to that every year too.
There is also legislative violence—far too much of it. And we lose lives to that every year too.