Bronwyn Douwsma
@ninesnowboots.bsky.social
43 year old trans femme in Halifax, NS. Mostly human at times. AuDHD. My posts do not represent my employer.
Pronouns: they/them. MDNI.
http://linktr.ee/ninesnowboots
Pronouns: they/them. MDNI.
http://linktr.ee/ninesnowboots
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Reintroduction time: I'm Bronwyn (they/them), a 43 year old trans femme in Halifax, NS.
Looking to connect with fellow queerdos, local folk, exvangelicals, bald ladies and theydies, AuDHDers, and SNL nerds.
Looking to connect with fellow queerdos, local folk, exvangelicals, bald ladies and theydies, AuDHDers, and SNL nerds.
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Every Thanksgiving, my family has a tradition of watching one particular episode of Northern Exposure.
Cannot tell you how angry it makes me to wake up to this. 🤬
Cannot tell you how angry it makes me to wake up to this. 🤬
ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
www.seattletimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Every Thanksgiving, my family has a tradition of watching one particular episode of Northern Exposure.
Cannot tell you how angry it makes me to wake up to this. 🤬
Cannot tell you how angry it makes me to wake up to this. 🤬
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"Left on the economy, right on the culture," is just fascism in the end. Also it will never take you left on the economy in the long run, because a machine built for eating people will keep eating people.
"Left on the economy, right on culture" is also, as needs repeating a hundred thousand time, the central lie of fascism.
OF COURSE it appeals to the in-group who thinks their well-being AND their prejudices will be pandered to.
OF COURSE it appeals to the in-group who thinks their well-being AND their prejudices will be pandered to.
The thing about "left on the economy, right on culture" is it's based on analysis of swing voters. Those voters are often low attention and their politics are often not especially coherent. Which is fine for them, it's not their job to run the country, but, you know, the government is
November 27, 2025 at 1:22 PM
"Left on the economy, right on the culture," is just fascism in the end. Also it will never take you left on the economy in the long run, because a machine built for eating people will keep eating people.
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They pulled an autistic teen out of a pond yesterday after a search. He didn't make it.
Elopement is a real issue around the holidays because changes in routines and large gatherings can be overwhelming.
Please make sure your family tag teams who's keeping an eye out for autistic family members.
Elopement is a real issue around the holidays because changes in routines and large gatherings can be overwhelming.
Please make sure your family tag teams who's keeping an eye out for autistic family members.
November 27, 2025 at 2:46 PM
They pulled an autistic teen out of a pond yesterday after a search. He didn't make it.
Elopement is a real issue around the holidays because changes in routines and large gatherings can be overwhelming.
Please make sure your family tag teams who's keeping an eye out for autistic family members.
Elopement is a real issue around the holidays because changes in routines and large gatherings can be overwhelming.
Please make sure your family tag teams who's keeping an eye out for autistic family members.
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happy thanksgiving, les nessman youtu.be/BGFtV6-ALoQ?...
WKRP Turkey Drop
YouTube video by Brian Henigin
youtu.be
November 27, 2025 at 11:43 AM
happy thanksgiving, les nessman youtu.be/BGFtV6-ALoQ?...
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One deeply underappreciated aspect of MAHA is how much it's often a fig leaf for domestic abuse. I'm not surprised doctors on the ground belive men are withholding kids' vaccines as a way to control and terrorize their wives. They obviously are!
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/o...
November 27, 2025 at 2:14 AM
One deeply underappreciated aspect of MAHA is how much it's often a fig leaf for domestic abuse. I'm not surprised doctors on the ground belive men are withholding kids' vaccines as a way to control and terrorize their wives. They obviously are!
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/o...
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There's a direct causal link between what Nuzzi did and multiple kids dying of measles.
She shouldn't just be out of the profession. She shouldn't be able to walk down the street without getting screamed at.
She shouldn't just be out of the profession. She shouldn't be able to walk down the street without getting screamed at.
November 26, 2025 at 10:55 PM
There's a direct causal link between what Nuzzi did and multiple kids dying of measles.
She shouldn't just be out of the profession. She shouldn't be able to walk down the street without getting screamed at.
She shouldn't just be out of the profession. She shouldn't be able to walk down the street without getting screamed at.
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Dear friends
Nothing has improved. We’re living between cold, hunger, and despair as if the war never ended.
What hurts most is feeling forgotten as support fades.
Please donate or share to help us hold on and keep hope alive 🙏❤️
chuffed.org/project/1520...
Nothing has improved. We’re living between cold, hunger, and despair as if the war never ended.
What hurts most is feeling forgotten as support fades.
Please donate or share to help us hold on and keep hope alive 🙏❤️
chuffed.org/project/1520...
November 18, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Dear friends
Nothing has improved. We’re living between cold, hunger, and despair as if the war never ended.
What hurts most is feeling forgotten as support fades.
Please donate or share to help us hold on and keep hope alive 🙏❤️
chuffed.org/project/1520...
Nothing has improved. We’re living between cold, hunger, and despair as if the war never ended.
What hurts most is feeling forgotten as support fades.
Please donate or share to help us hold on and keep hope alive 🙏❤️
chuffed.org/project/1520...
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Okay so what I’m reading here, if this account is to be believed, is that Lizza and Nuzzi are complicit in withholding major dark political actions that have had insane implications for like, everybody. Journalistic malpractice doesn’t even begin to cover it
While there are often some ethical issues with making free PDFs of paywalled content, in this case it seems entirely justifiable, given the author, the subject, and the journalistic imperative to provide the widest possible audience for the verb "Michael Wolffed"
gofile.io/d/Ap4v35
gofile.io/d/Ap4v35
November 26, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Okay so what I’m reading here, if this account is to be believed, is that Lizza and Nuzzi are complicit in withholding major dark political actions that have had insane implications for like, everybody. Journalistic malpractice doesn’t even begin to cover it
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I am a little tired of being yelled at for this but apparently not tired about: heroin addiction is not RFK’s problem. He’s a sociopath. Most addicts aren’t. Honestly, walk into an NA meeting, grab the first person with a few years to be head of HHS and they’d probably do a better job than Bobby.
This is what happens when you put a privileged, 14 year heroin addict in charge of health. Duh
November 27, 2025 at 12:15 AM
I am a little tired of being yelled at for this but apparently not tired about: heroin addiction is not RFK’s problem. He’s a sociopath. Most addicts aren’t. Honestly, walk into an NA meeting, grab the first person with a few years to be head of HHS and they’d probably do a better job than Bobby.
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anyway. conde naste should fire Nuzzi, fire the hack editor at vanity fair, reverse its gutting of teen vogue, and apologize to all of us for this nonsense.
November 27, 2025 at 12:17 AM
anyway. conde naste should fire Nuzzi, fire the hack editor at vanity fair, reverse its gutting of teen vogue, and apologize to all of us for this nonsense.
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The Freep probably wants to be more accurate ... CIJA is an Israeli organization, not a Jewish organization. Conflating the two, making it look like Jews in general want to stop the CMHR from talking about forced displacement of Palestinians, could feed anti-Semitism.
A national Jewish organization has launched a campaign targeting the Canadian Museum for Human Rights over an upcoming exhibit about the 1948 forced displacement of an estimated 750,000 Palestinians in what is now Israel.
National Jewish organization takes human rights museum to task over Palestinian exhibit
A national Jewish organization has launched a campaign targeting the Canadian Museum for Human Rights over an upcoming exhibit about the 1948 forced displacement of an estimated 750,000 Palestinians in what is now Israel.
www.winnipegfreepress.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:39 AM
The Freep probably wants to be more accurate ... CIJA is an Israeli organization, not a Jewish organization. Conflating the two, making it look like Jews in general want to stop the CMHR from talking about forced displacement of Palestinians, could feed anti-Semitism.
I've been watching SNL season 14 for my reviews, and a lot of my copies of the original broadcasts come from WLBZ Bangor, which used to be the affiliate carried on cable in the Maritimes.
November 27, 2025 at 12:28 AM
I've been watching SNL season 14 for my reviews, and a lot of my copies of the original broadcasts come from WLBZ Bangor, which used to be the affiliate carried on cable in the Maritimes.
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If this is true she should never work as a journalist again.
Hey, congratulations to all of Olivia Nuzzi’s horny media critic defenders. Heckuva job!
November 26, 2025 at 10:43 PM
If this is true she should never work as a journalist again.
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I think if Canada wants to have a strong cultural identity we need to go back to doing what we're best at, making the weirdest fucking TV shows you've ever seen
November 26, 2025 at 7:33 PM
I think if Canada wants to have a strong cultural identity we need to go back to doing what we're best at, making the weirdest fucking TV shows you've ever seen
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I need everybody to read this and understand what’s going on. These are spouses of US citizens in the country legally. They have entry clearance and green cards, they’ve passed background checks and have no criminal records. ICE is taking them anyway.
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:40 PM
I need everybody to read this and understand what’s going on. These are spouses of US citizens in the country legally. They have entry clearance and green cards, they’ve passed background checks and have no criminal records. ICE is taking them anyway.
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
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Canada made weird tv shows because it was all being done with government funded art grant money so they fell in this wacky middle ground between “shoestring budget” and “no expectation to generate shareholder value” which is really the best way to make art
November 26, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Canada made weird tv shows because it was all being done with government funded art grant money so they fell in this wacky middle ground between “shoestring budget” and “no expectation to generate shareholder value” which is really the best way to make art
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Anyone else surprised to learn that Maggie Smith was only 58 in SISTER ACT (1992)?
November 26, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Anyone else surprised to learn that Maggie Smith was only 58 in SISTER ACT (1992)?
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"The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles. The master class has had all to gain and nothing to lose, while the subject class has had nothing to gain and all to lose—especially their lives."
- Eugene Debs, 1918 (this speech landed him in prison)
- Eugene Debs, 1918 (this speech landed him in prison)
November 26, 2025 at 9:30 PM
"The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles. The master class has had all to gain and nothing to lose, while the subject class has had nothing to gain and all to lose—especially their lives."
- Eugene Debs, 1918 (this speech landed him in prison)
- Eugene Debs, 1918 (this speech landed him in prison)
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Though it's a hard truth, it's also very difficult to handle the fact that in a sea of "Finding a Solution to the Trans Question" articles, the rare mainstream media piece to treat us like humans is usually premised on "you should probably flee the country, and soon".
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
When Is It Time to Flee?
Trans people and their families are facing hard questions and choices as threats to their safety and rights proliferate.
newrepublic.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Though it's a hard truth, it's also very difficult to handle the fact that in a sea of "Finding a Solution to the Trans Question" articles, the rare mainstream media piece to treat us like humans is usually premised on "you should probably flee the country, and soon".
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
I'm glad I live in Halifax but I'm too tired to enjoy it.
November 26, 2025 at 5:39 PM
I'm glad I live in Halifax but I'm too tired to enjoy it.
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David's right.
- AI manufactures deepfakes and worsens the epistemic crisis
- is being used to create a global surveillance state
- encourages people to turn their brain off and stop thinking entirely
- AI manufactures deepfakes and worsens the epistemic crisis
- is being used to create a global surveillance state
- encourages people to turn their brain off and stop thinking entirely
ok: 2025 "AI" is built and funded by fascists for fascist purposes, and that should be the first thing anyone talks about when mentioning it in any regard.
that's my view as a technologist.
that's my view as a technologist.
November 26, 2025 at 2:26 PM
David's right.
- AI manufactures deepfakes and worsens the epistemic crisis
- is being used to create a global surveillance state
- encourages people to turn their brain off and stop thinking entirely
- AI manufactures deepfakes and worsens the epistemic crisis
- is being used to create a global surveillance state
- encourages people to turn their brain off and stop thinking entirely
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It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 12:19 PM
It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.
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Stripe's TOS. This shit has got to stop. Please contact them too
July 25, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Stripe's TOS. This shit has got to stop. Please contact them too
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Give us your Qs! We wanna give you some As!
November 26, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Give us your Qs! We wanna give you some As!