bell 🌧️

@bellhasabat.bsky.social

I'm a writer! Author of Electric Bones and Always Raining Here Member of comic team HAZEL + BELL Lead Writer at Split Narrative Art by @raspberryhazel.bsky.social rep: @kurestinarmada.bsky.social

sometimes I search Always Raining Here in the local library systems and right now a bunch of cities have all their copies checked out and have holds on them 🥰 let's go summer reading!!

Canadian arts and culture folks: the federal government has launched a (methodologically flawed) survey on "the Cultural Sector's readiness for Artificial Intelligence". If you're ready to resist or refuse genAI, here's your chance to let them know. pch.research-recherche.ca/f/s.aspx?lan...

National Survey on the Cultural Sector’s Readiness for Artificial Intelligence

Powered by SimpleSurvey.com | Build and manage your own online survey, voting, form and panel management applications.

pch.research-recherche.ca

Sometimes I wish I could have grown into someone more gentle and thoughtful like my mother or elegant and dignified like my grandmother but I have been an impolite little mud goblin addicted to making people laugh since I was like, four.

I called my MP and used this script to stand for internet privacy in Canada! Bill C-22 is being voted on today. It will allow the government to force companies to create backdoors to break encryption which violates our privacy, and make our information less secure. iclmg.ca/call-to-stop...

Call to stop C-22 and protect your privacy! - International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group

Since you’re here… … we have a small favour to ask. Here at ICLMG, we are working very hard to protect and promote human rights and civil liberties in the context of the so-called “war on terror” in C...

iclmg.ca

There is STILL time to tell MPs to vote NO on #BillC22! Civil society, academic experts, Apple, Signal, VPN companies – all have told government this legislation circumvents encryption and breaks 🇨🇦 privacy! Please join your voice to them if you haven't already here: www.openmedia.org/StopC22

Stop the Surveillance State: Stop Bill C-22!

🚨 Bill C-22 forces every Canadian internet provider, messaging app & cloud service to build surveillance backdoors and store a year of your data. Foreign state hackers exploited similar legislation in...

action.openmedia.org

I had such a wonderful time at TCAF this year. We had so many unique experiences- Word Balloon Academy keynote, the Queer Romance panel, the Collaboration panel- and exhibiting of course! 🥹 Thank you everyone who made it possible, and everyone who stopped by to say hi! 💗

ELECTRIC BONES will be at TCAF 2026! We will have books, prints and merchandise at this year's Toronto Comic Arts Festival! we will be debuting this print of Magician Ezra and his human assistant ⚡ Come by this weekend and say hi!

poster for TCAF 2026 featuring characters from the webcomic Electric Bones

ALWAYS RAINING HERE will be at TCAF 2026! Bell and I are Featured Guests at this year's Toronto Comic Arts Festival🩵We will be promoting Always Raining Here and Electric Bones, with books and merch! hope to see you there!

Bild

🚨 Bill C-22 forces every Canadian internet provider, messaging app & cloud service to build surveillance backdoors and store a year of your data. Foreign state hackers exploited similar legislation in the US. Shut the backdoor: openmedia.org/StopC22-bsky #BillC22

Stop the Surveillance State: Stop Bill C-22!

🚨 Bill C-22 forces every Canadian internet provider, messaging app & cloud service to build surveillance backdoors and store a year of your data. Foreign state hackers exploited similar legislation in...

openmedia.org

Hey, Vancouver! There's a protest against those friggin data centers on saturday! I cannot make it due to a prior engagement doing a different kind of worker solidarity, but I encourage you to check it out! Lots of good people will be there.

Pink poster from @no.ai.vancouver on Instagram. It says:
"Say NO to AI DATA CENTERS in VANCOUVER.
PROTEST MARCH.
MAY 23rd at 1PM
STARTING AT WATERFRONT STATION"