Rain Shadow
@rainshadow6.bsky.social
🏳️🌈 They/Them 🇨🇦
Sometimes reader, sometimes writer, sometimes artist. :)
This account will mostly be to follow my favourite authors and artists.
Sometimes reader, sometimes writer, sometimes artist. :)
This account will mostly be to follow my favourite authors and artists.
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As always folks, if you can get a flu shot/COVID shot, it’s not just yourself you’re protecting—it’s everyone who can’t.
Psst, might be a good idea to get a flu shot
Children’s hospitals face flood of flu visits as physicians urge Canadian families to get vaccinated | CBC News
An early start to Canada’s flu season is hitting children hard, sending a flood of young patients into multiple pediatric hospitals as medical teams warn that emergency visits and admissions could kee...
www.cbc.ca
December 6, 2025 at 2:50 PM
As always folks, if you can get a flu shot/COVID shot, it’s not just yourself you’re protecting—it’s everyone who can’t.
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Our holiday party is today!
Come by for tasty treats, book bundles, recommendations, and sales!
Can't make it? You can also enjoy 10% all books on our website, today only. www.bakkaphoenixbooks.com
Come by for tasty treats, book bundles, recommendations, and sales!
Can't make it? You can also enjoy 10% all books on our website, today only. www.bakkaphoenixbooks.com
December 6, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Our holiday party is today!
Come by for tasty treats, book bundles, recommendations, and sales!
Can't make it? You can also enjoy 10% all books on our website, today only. www.bakkaphoenixbooks.com
Come by for tasty treats, book bundles, recommendations, and sales!
Can't make it? You can also enjoy 10% all books on our website, today only. www.bakkaphoenixbooks.com
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Update on the ongoing winter sculpture that is owning a husky who refuses to give up on his outdoor water bowl.
December 5, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Update on the ongoing winter sculpture that is owning a husky who refuses to give up on his outdoor water bowl.
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I could change USPS to Canada Post and the United states to Canada and federal agency to Crown corporation and the sentence is still 100% true
USPS subsidizes a *lot* of shipping in the united states and characterizing it in terms of profit and loss is fundamentally a bad faith exercise given how many of it’s benefits are truly universal in a way that not all federal agencies are
December 5, 2025 at 9:06 PM
I could change USPS to Canada Post and the United states to Canada and federal agency to Crown corporation and the sentence is still 100% true
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Just imagining how much better it would be if ALL news stories about vaccine-preventable illnesses were illustrated with pictures of people with the disease, not pictures of needle injections. If you must show something that people will find scary & unpleasant, make it the disease, not the cure.
I'm so tired of measles.
I'm also tired of people using needle shots on stories like this.
Show what measles looks like.
I'm also tired of people using needle shots on stories like this.
Show what measles looks like.
Gallatin Co. reports 2nd measles case, warns of exposure sites nbcmontana.com/news/local/g...
December 2, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Just imagining how much better it would be if ALL news stories about vaccine-preventable illnesses were illustrated with pictures of people with the disease, not pictures of needle injections. If you must show something that people will find scary & unpleasant, make it the disease, not the cure.
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Canada Post has been screwing its union over for *two years now* because Canadians can’t grasp this either 👇🏼
The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
December 5, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Canada Post has been screwing its union over for *two years now* because Canadians can’t grasp this either 👇🏼
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We're getting pretty close to our last call for these!
COMMON BONDS 2 Late Pledges close on December 10! Don't miss your chance to get your copy alongside all of our backers!
💚 science fiction and fantasy
💚 aromantic MCs
💚 a focus on platonic relationships!
Publication in 2026; preorders through late pledges: www.kickstarter.com/projects/cla...
🌈📚
💚 science fiction and fantasy
💚 aromantic MCs
💚 a focus on platonic relationships!
Publication in 2026; preorders through late pledges: www.kickstarter.com/projects/cla...
🌈📚
December 4, 2025 at 11:53 PM
We're getting pretty close to our last call for these!
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Today is your very last chance to snap up my complete Harwood Spellbook romantasy boxed set along with 9 to 11 other fabulous fantasies in the Leading Ladies Fantasy @storybundle.bsky.social.
Grab it before it's gone! storybundle.com/fantasy
Grab it before it's gone! storybundle.com/fantasy
December 4, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Today is your very last chance to snap up my complete Harwood Spellbook romantasy boxed set along with 9 to 11 other fabulous fantasies in the Leading Ladies Fantasy @storybundle.bsky.social.
Grab it before it's gone! storybundle.com/fantasy
Grab it before it's gone! storybundle.com/fantasy
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Huh, turns out having your body match your gender identity has significant mental health benefits.
So weird.
So weird.
Conservatives on gender-affirming care:
✅ cis men
❌ trans men
It's the exact same surgery. The only difference is transandrophobia.
✅ cis men
❌ trans men
It's the exact same surgery. The only difference is transandrophobia.
Exclusive | Meet the men getting breast reductions — which is now the most popular plastic surgery among guys in the US
“It looked very much like [I had] a pair of women’s breasts,” one gynecomastia patient told The Post.
nypost.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Huh, turns out having your body match your gender identity has significant mental health benefits.
So weird.
So weird.
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Hey yall! We're looking for ✨youtubers or streamers✨ who'd be interested in playing the cooperative card game Prosper with Dragons on their channel.
Reply or DM if you're interested or know someone who could help this game find its audience! 📣
More info: www.kickstarter.com/projects/115...
Reply or DM if you're interested or know someone who could help this game find its audience! 📣
More info: www.kickstarter.com/projects/115...
Prosper with Dragons
A cooperative, post-apocalyptic, Afrofutures card game (with dragons!)
www.kickstarter.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Hey yall! We're looking for ✨youtubers or streamers✨ who'd be interested in playing the cooperative card game Prosper with Dragons on their channel.
Reply or DM if you're interested or know someone who could help this game find its audience! 📣
More info: www.kickstarter.com/projects/115...
Reply or DM if you're interested or know someone who could help this game find its audience! 📣
More info: www.kickstarter.com/projects/115...
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COMMON BONDS 2 Late Pledges close on December 10! Don't miss your chance to get your copy alongside all of our backers!
💚 science fiction and fantasy
💚 aromantic MCs
💚 a focus on platonic relationships!
Publication in 2026; preorders through late pledges: www.kickstarter.com/projects/cla...
🌈📚
💚 science fiction and fantasy
💚 aromantic MCs
💚 a focus on platonic relationships!
Publication in 2026; preorders through late pledges: www.kickstarter.com/projects/cla...
🌈📚
December 4, 2025 at 4:02 PM
COMMON BONDS 2 Late Pledges close on December 10! Don't miss your chance to get your copy alongside all of our backers!
💚 science fiction and fantasy
💚 aromantic MCs
💚 a focus on platonic relationships!
Publication in 2026; preorders through late pledges: www.kickstarter.com/projects/cla...
🌈📚
💚 science fiction and fantasy
💚 aromantic MCs
💚 a focus on platonic relationships!
Publication in 2026; preorders through late pledges: www.kickstarter.com/projects/cla...
🌈📚
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Historian of eugenics here. I don't normally like to retweet bad arguments, but this is such a fundamental misunderstanding of eugenics, I think it's important to point out. I don't have time to debunk all of the ways this is inaccurate, but I'll highlight a few things and then recommend some books🧵
December 4, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Historian of eugenics here. I don't normally like to retweet bad arguments, but this is such a fundamental misunderstanding of eugenics, I think it's important to point out. I don't have time to debunk all of the ways this is inaccurate, but I'll highlight a few things and then recommend some books🧵
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Hi I'm Bex! I'm based in the UK and I make "Palaeoplushies" - Palaeontologically Accurate Plushies! I also make other animals (mostly fish).
Check out my work here: www.palaeoplushies.com
Check out my work here: www.palaeoplushies.com
December 3, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Hi I'm Bex! I'm based in the UK and I make "Palaeoplushies" - Palaeontologically Accurate Plushies! I also make other animals (mostly fish).
Check out my work here: www.palaeoplushies.com
Check out my work here: www.palaeoplushies.com
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Signed up for this, and it's probably the last time my books will get that low on Smashwords, given the new royalty rates.
Indie Readers, mark your calendars! December 8th, thousands of titles will be on sale at the Smashwords End of Year Sale!
Be ready to fill your ereader with new books to enjoy this holiday season! #eoysale25
Be ready to fill your ereader with new books to enjoy this holiday season! #eoysale25
December 4, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Signed up for this, and it's probably the last time my books will get that low on Smashwords, given the new royalty rates.
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Self-ID for left handed to be ended.
Will now require a ten year wait and the opinion of three psychologists.
Firstline treatments to include breaking all the fingers on the left hand with a mallet.
NHS to offer sinister hand amputation to persistent cases.
Move praised by charity Right Matters
Will now require a ten year wait and the opinion of three psychologists.
Firstline treatments to include breaking all the fingers on the left hand with a mallet.
NHS to offer sinister hand amputation to persistent cases.
Move praised by charity Right Matters
December 4, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Self-ID for left handed to be ended.
Will now require a ten year wait and the opinion of three psychologists.
Firstline treatments to include breaking all the fingers on the left hand with a mallet.
NHS to offer sinister hand amputation to persistent cases.
Move praised by charity Right Matters
Will now require a ten year wait and the opinion of three psychologists.
Firstline treatments to include breaking all the fingers on the left hand with a mallet.
NHS to offer sinister hand amputation to persistent cases.
Move praised by charity Right Matters
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@judedoyle.bsky.social explores a pressing question: Why do the arguments of men’s rights activists and TERFs sound so … similar?
‘Biology’ is backlash | Xtra Magazine
Why do the arguments of men’s rights activists and TERFs sound so … similar?
xtramagazine.com
December 3, 2025 at 9:06 PM
@judedoyle.bsky.social explores a pressing question: Why do the arguments of men’s rights activists and TERFs sound so … similar?
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people who say this to me are not looking for permission to watch the thing or read the books. no one can stop them from doing that. they are looking for a hearty thumbs up, a pass on their guilt, but you can't stop me from thinking you're a fool who's not to be trusted
when that show comes out i better not hear a fucking word about it. no memes. no edits. "it was so important to my childhood--" okay well human rights are important to my adulthood??
December 3, 2025 at 4:08 PM
people who say this to me are not looking for permission to watch the thing or read the books. no one can stop them from doing that. they are looking for a hearty thumbs up, a pass on their guilt, but you can't stop me from thinking you're a fool who's not to be trusted
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Also, I've been struggling to compile this, so if you work at an indie bookstore that will take books direct from authors/any distributor that isn't Ingram or the Big 5, can you please let me know below?
I have a small list but would love more!
I have a small list but would love more!
December 3, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Also, I've been struggling to compile this, so if you work at an indie bookstore that will take books direct from authors/any distributor that isn't Ingram or the Big 5, can you please let me know below?
I have a small list but would love more!
I have a small list but would love more!
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If you see your favourite indies, especially those who are wide or avoid Amazon, raise their prices... We all just had two emails in less than 24h:
- Smashwords is cutting down its royalty rates, especially at lower price points
- Ingramspark is raising most of its printing costs again
- Smashwords is cutting down its royalty rates, especially at lower price points
- Ingramspark is raising most of its printing costs again
December 3, 2025 at 3:35 PM
If you see your favourite indies, especially those who are wide or avoid Amazon, raise their prices... We all just had two emails in less than 24h:
- Smashwords is cutting down its royalty rates, especially at lower price points
- Ingramspark is raising most of its printing costs again
- Smashwords is cutting down its royalty rates, especially at lower price points
- Ingramspark is raising most of its printing costs again
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Terracotta stirrup jar with octopus (Mycenaean culture c 1200 BCE) A stylized octopus flanked by fish covers each side of this stirrup jar, named for the shape of its handles. Mycenaean pottery often reflects Minoan-inspired themes and techniques
December 3, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Terracotta stirrup jar with octopus (Mycenaean culture c 1200 BCE) A stylized octopus flanked by fish covers each side of this stirrup jar, named for the shape of its handles. Mycenaean pottery often reflects Minoan-inspired themes and techniques
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I'm auctioning off a Dinosaur Comic about YOU, to help support TCAF! Never done this before, may never do this again, such is my love for the Toronto Comic Arts Festival! Starting bid just 30 bux :0
www.torontocomics.com/product-page...
www.torontocomics.com/product-page...
December 2, 2025 at 11:36 AM
I'm auctioning off a Dinosaur Comic about YOU, to help support TCAF! Never done this before, may never do this again, such is my love for the Toronto Comic Arts Festival! Starting bid just 30 bux :0
www.torontocomics.com/product-page...
www.torontocomics.com/product-page...
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So, none is is ever entitled to politeness or a good mood from marginalized people in the position of having to educate you on being on the receiving end of anything from microaggressions to outright violence and hate. Even when you’re "just asking questions" or "trying to understand."
December 1, 2025 at 6:30 PM
So, none is is ever entitled to politeness or a good mood from marginalized people in the position of having to educate you on being on the receiving end of anything from microaggressions to outright violence and hate. Even when you’re "just asking questions" or "trying to understand."
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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
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That's right.
Our actions are mending. We mend it with love.
Our actions are mending. We mend it with love.
Just 2k more to go, people. And this project has been fighting for 8 months. I have seen projects funded overnight - but THIS should be funded now. Translations. Black/African stories. In a world fraught with hate, we mend it with love.
ko-fi.com/africantrans...
ko-fi.com/africantrans...
Support African Translation Project
African Translation Project / Rally Weekend - let's close this up! / please see - please share / After eight months - let's complete funding for the translation of Zvinobvinza to: The Crocodile Doesn'...
ko-fi.com
November 30, 2025 at 2:11 AM
That's right.
Our actions are mending. We mend it with love.
Our actions are mending. We mend it with love.