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@therealmo.bsky.social

🏳️‍⚧️Sapphic Nonbinary/Trans Fem, she/her. Musician, writer, general creative and worker in the arts. 🇨🇦Made in Canada, eh? Posts about living life (often mine), transition, creating music and art, learning, courtship, kink, kindness.

The Trump regime has made explicitly clear that they view info-ops in target countries as a key tool of influence. With that in mind, any serious defence of Canadian sovereignty has to grapple with American oligarchs owning major Canadian media outlets.

Jeremy Appel 🍉@readtheorchard.org · 4w ago

NEW from me: I took a deep dive for @ricochetmedia.bsky.social into the American hedge fund-owned Canadian newspaper chain that’s pushing anti-trans, pro-genocide and climate science denial narratives down our throats. ricochet.media/media/dumpst...

A new study out of Canada looked at four youth gender clinics. Out of 445 patients only four who started gender affirming hormone therapy ceased taking it, and only one did so due to a re-identification with their birth sex. assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

A New Study from Canada Again Finds Less Than 1 Percent of Trans Youth Detransition - Assigned Media

Out of 445 patients across four gender clinics only one who started hormone therapy stopped due to a change in gender identity.

assignedmedia.org

this is an example of the thing i talk about in that it sucks how trans people are constantly forced to be diplomats to cis people because there's a good chance you might be one of the only trans people they've consciously met, but precisely for that reason there's an outsized humanizing effect imo.

Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief@katie.bzky.team · 5d ago

just had a 7:45 am random quest on my way to getting a coffee. a couple of older tourists were standing around with exclamation marks over their heads who were lost about the transit connections. local hero, katie tightpussy, to the rescue.

me: i remember when i was a kid, before they invented smartphones... my elf gf: When I was a child, Selarenréoþ had yet to sing the forests into being. me: oh my god 🙄 i get it. you're sooo much older than me. you still good with pizza tonight by the way? her: I am ever ready for pizza, sapling.

Sorry i meant to say we need more celebrities to donate $100 million to suicide hotlines so we can call someone who will beg us not to kill ourselves when the state takes away our medication and housing, and then send the cops to our home if we say the wrong series of words. My bad.

The business minded folks always try to reframe tax as a personal investment they expect some kind of return on, not an obligation to follow. i would argue that they benefit more from tax-paid benefits like roads, etc than most of us do so yeah, they can pay more.

Rachel Gilmore@rachelgilmore.bsky.social · last wk.

Very cool that Shopify’s CEO thinks the poor should have far less of a vote than the rich. Still worth that ad read money, folks?

Shopify CEO Tobi Lutke says “good system.” In response to the following proposal: 

“Interesting... what about weighted voting proportional to the level of income tax you pay? (no income tax paid - O vote, $1-100k - 1 vote, $100-200k 2 votes and so on... cap it at 5 votes for $500k+. For those that constantly complain about the wealthy not paying tax/fair share they'd have nothing to worry about right? Why not reward representation of taxation and build a democracy around those that foot the bill?”