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Theresa Therrien
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Shouty writer. Half deaf.
These two things may be related.

SAINT JOAN BLACKHEART Spring 2027 Sourcebooks Fire
Rep’d by Rachel Letofsky
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ICYMI
the key to happiness is living each day in hope, as though IT may happen at any moment
But you imagine where you might be, eventually, when you learn IT has HAPPENED.

Maybe you will wake up, anxious and scared and angry (i.e., normal).

Then, out of nowhere, the push notification from THE NEWS: “Breaking: IT Has HAPPENED.”

What will you feel like? When IT HAPPENS?
When It Happens
It’s been so long, you sometimes forget that eventually, IT will HAPPEN. It’s impossible to say when IT will HAPPEN. But it can’t be too long until...
buff.ly
November 16, 2025 at 2:36 PM
oof, right in the feels
As parents, we're supposed to remember the first time we did stuff with our kids, but the last time is equally as significant, if not more.

This poem is from Whatever You Do, Just Don't (HappenStance Press, 2023), my second full collection...
November 16, 2025 at 12:14 PM
They keep trying to normalize and minimize, but that fact is inescapable.
I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here
November 16, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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Yet again we’re being warned that if we ask billionaires to pay their fair share of tax they might leave. So it’s definitely worth trying.
November 15, 2025 at 6:09 PM
It’s that time of year again! Follow the gift link below to read how I try to channel Martha Stewart (badly) and make everyone, most of all myself, crazy in the process:

www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/c26a02b...
The annual Christmas tree hunt was a tradition I took too seriously for too long
It’s the mistakes, the goofs and the glitches that make memories
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:18 PM
too 1970s?
this joke is so dad it got drunk and fell asleep on the couch with a lit cigarette
This joke is so dad it will turn this car around, I swear to god
November 12, 2025 at 2:07 PM
this joke is so dad it got drunk and fell asleep on the couch with a lit cigarette
This joke is so dad it will turn this car around, I swear to god
This joke is so dad it takes the kids to the bowling alley
November 12, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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the internet and its wonderful people have given me so many lovely things ⚾💙
November 11, 2025 at 4:05 PM
This thread!! 100%
1) An entire generation of young people is being destroyed right now. They can't find jobs, they can't afford to have children, they will never be able to afford a house, their minds are being fried by social media. If we as a culture cannot rise up against the forces making--
November 10, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Sleepy Joe ain’t got nuthin on…
November 9, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Here it is, my 249th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Add more below in comments, please share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️

blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...
#ScholarSunday Thread 249 (11/9/25) – Black and White and Read All Over
Here it is, my 249th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Add more below in comments, please share as widely as...
blackwhiteandread.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Japanese maple looking very Canadian this morning.
November 9, 2025 at 11:59 AM
I’m sorry to report that sitting in my favourite chair drinking coffee is not, in fact, yoga.
November 9, 2025 at 11:53 AM
bit ‘o truth for your friday morning
The lesson of the 20th Century turns out to have been that a hundred years can go by and no one will have learned a damn thing.
November 7, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Ever just go to the privacy of your car on a country road for the sole purpose of releasing primal screams?

Oh, no, me neither.
November 5, 2025 at 11:39 PM
I’m so proud of you, America!
The oligarchy came out in full force against Zohran Mamdani's fight for a more affordable NYC.

It didn't matter.

Let his victory in the face of Big Money serve as a reminder that people have the power.
November 5, 2025 at 10:13 AM
or we could eat half the uber wealthy and cut them by 50% instead
November 2, 2025 at 11:33 PM
@pinksky.app hey, do all
Bluesky accounts automatically have a pinksky profile, or is someone impersonating me there?
November 2, 2025 at 12:16 PM
can someone please explain pinksky to me? do you automatically get an account there if you have one here?
November 2, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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November 2, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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November 1, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Bwahahaha
"I don't feel like we have an abundance of affection from women. I feel like the women are very unloving to the men."

-- Nick Fuentes to Tucker Carlson, revealing a little too much about his inner psychology
November 1, 2025 at 10:32 AM
one day he might just disappear in a puff of spray tan and this will be like a distant bad dream
Wow. He looks like shit. Am I imagining it, or does it look like he’s losing weight rapidly and not in a good way?
October 31, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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Just a couple of days left to apply.

Yes, that’s me in blue. I love working with other disabled writers.

#disability #disabled #writer #author
Last chance to apply to our Breakthrough Mentoring Programme for Disabled Writers.

Four talented writers will be awarded nine months of mentoring from a published author-mentor and a tutorial with a literary agent.

Apply by 2 Nov: www.curtisbrowncreative.co.uk/course/break...
Breakthrough Mentoring Programme for Disabled Writers
Four talented disabled writers will receive nine months of mentoring from a published author, plus a tutorial with a literary agent.
www.curtisbrowncreative.co.uk
October 30, 2025 at 5:26 PM
cowards
October 30, 2025 at 10:46 AM