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Lee-Anne Poole

@pooledriveprivate.bsky.social

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An Open Letter to Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston and Hants East MLA John A MacDonald - Halifax Examiner Your actions in the form of these budget cuts are mean and hateful and tell African Nova Scotians that we do not matter in the eyes of your government.

An Open Letter to Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston and Hants East MLA John A MacDonald
By Sherri Borden Colley

27.02.2026 21:19 — 👍 24    🔁 9    💬 2    📌 3

Here’s the full list of Houston’s cuts Have a look at show your friends. There are pages and pages, everything from R&I for the Brain Repair Centre and Acute and Primary Health Care to Hope Blooms, the Domestic Violence Court, and the NS Apprenticeship Agency Program.

26.02.2026 03:02 — 👍 17    🔁 15    💬 0    📌 3
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Here's the full list of the Houston government's grant cuts to organizations. Tell us what you think. - Halifax Examiner The Houston government has cut $309 million from grants it gives to community organizations and universities. You can read the entire 13-page list of cuts here. The Halifax Examiner would like to hear...

Here’s the full list of the Houston government’s grant cuts to organizations. Tell us what you think.
By @timbousquet.bsky.social

25.02.2026 15:57 — 👍 11    🔁 6    💬 6    📌 4
Nova Scotia austerity budget eliminates publishing fund - Quill and Quire The Atlantic Publishers Marketing Association said Wednesday that publishers in the province received letters on Feb. 24 from the Department of Communities, Culture, Tourism and Heritage informing the...

Nova Scotia austerity budget eliminates publishing fund.

In a press release from the AMPA reacting to the news, Nimbus Publishing manager Terrilee Bulger called the move “drastic and devastating.”

quillandquire.com/omni/nova-sc...

25.02.2026 21:54 — 👍 11    🔁 10    💬 0    📌 1
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📣 Shoulder to Shoulder Rally - Tuesday March 3, 12 p.m. at the N.S. Legislature! 📣

In Nov, hundreds of people from communities across Mi'kma'ki/NS came out for the Shoulder to Shoulder rally to call on the Houston government to respect Treaty Rights and democratic processes.

24.02.2026 16:06 — 👍 12    🔁 10    💬 1    📌 0
Screen cap of a light blue report cover with black text that reads 'Account Closed Without Notice: Debanking adult industry workers in Canada.'

Screen cap of a light blue report cover with black text that reads 'Account Closed Without Notice: Debanking adult industry workers in Canada.'

What's behind the debanking of adult industry/SWers in 🇨🇦?
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New report out from @internetmaggie.com and me!
We review banking infrastructure/policies & offer recommendations to support financial inclusion for all:
www.valeriewebber.com/adult-indust...
www.internetmaggie.com/debanking

11.02.2026 16:44 — 👍 10    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0
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Warming up for #hourlycomicsday on Feb 8 and moving my #dailyart doodles with @littlefoible.bsky.social from Insta to here.

29.01.2026 14:09 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

I’m re-upping this because this cause is so important

17.11.2025 22:06 — 👍 26    🔁 20    💬 0    📌 0
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It’s that time of year and I am once again selling the grapevine wreaths I've been making! If you like to start decorating early, I'm taking orders now and any orders made before Nov 10th can be delivered on Nov 12th - 16th. $40 each 🎄🎄DM to book

06.11.2025 20:29 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Mayworks Artistic Director with CUPE 3912 president on picket line.

Mayworks Artistic Director with CUPE 3912 president on picket line.

Mayworks Artistic Director with CUPE 3912 member on picket line.

Mayworks Artistic Director with CUPE 3912 member on picket line.

#Solidarity with striking members of @cupe3912.bsky.social ✊🏼

27.10.2025 16:27 — 👍 9    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0
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Welcome to Big Tech, corporate-owned chatbots, and the totalitarian fantasy of AI gurus - Halifax Examiner Sam Altman notes that GenAI blurs the border between the authentic and the artificial, and this is the point: democracy cannot function without truth, reality, expertise, and facts, and the AI industr...

AI = fascism

Yesterday, @tjheffernan.bsky.social echoed some of my own thoughts about AI. I have more to say about this.

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21.10.2025 11:11 — 👍 61    🔁 36    💬 3    📌 5
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Grateful for @suegoyette.bsky.social

09.10.2025 23:07 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Greta Thunberg in Greece:

I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me, but that is not the story.

06.10.2025 15:57 — 👍 1766    🔁 611    💬 24    📌 81
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AI is fascism - Halifax Examiner Eventually, fascism runs its course, just as the AI hype machine will. It's just a question of how much damage will be done before it's over.

AI is fascism

Morning File by me

01.10.2025 14:41 — 👍 30    🔁 18    💬 3    📌 1
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Sex, Money, and Censorship: Battles Over the Deplatforming of Sexual Expression in Games (2025-10-02) In July 2025, following a campaign by the Australian anti-pornography organization Collective Shout and ensuing pressure from payment processors including Mastercard, Visa, PayPal and Stripe, videogam...

Save the date! 🗓️
Oct 2, 12-2pm EST
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Panel on payment processors, deplatforming, and sexual censorship in games w/ @jeanketterling.bsky.social @acvalens.net @kenzitronic.bsky.social Ashley Guajardo Caroline Bem & myself - info and registration here:

irdl.info.yorku.ca/event/smc-pa...

19.09.2025 14:10 — 👍 40    🔁 28    💬 4    📌 2

Still waiting for the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs and Halifax Mayor Andy Fillmore to say something, *anything*, about their earlier jump to blame Palestinians for this.

17.09.2025 19:52 — 👍 54    🔁 21    💬 3    📌 0
"A computer can never be spiteful or horny
Therefore a computer must never make art"

"A computer can never be spiteful or horny Therefore a computer must never make art"

Reminder

28.03.2025 03:20 — 👍 14842    🔁 3900    💬 9    📌 3
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Final performance of How To Knit at the Halifax Fringe tonight, 8:30pm at The Bus Stop Theatre. www.halifaxfringefestival.ca

07.09.2025 16:12 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Hugo Dann receives Merritt Award | Wayves Magazine

In March, long time Halifax actor, writer, organizer and activist Hugo Dann was honoured with a Theatre Nova Scotia Merritt Award - his second. Here's the presentation by Lee-Anne Poole, and a call for friends and colleagues to visit and tell stories.

wayves.ca/hugo-dann-me...

18.07.2025 12:35 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Hugo Dann receives Merritt Award | Wayves Magazine

thank you to @wayvesmagazine.bsky.social for helping to celebrate Hugo Dann. I was honoured to presentt him with The Theatre NS Legacy award and here are those words, presentstion, & song (we milked it! As i recommend you do with any moment worth milking!)

www.wayves.ca/hugo-dann-me...

17.07.2025 23:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Good @danielmacivor.ca

08.07.2025 02:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Sex Work A-Z: A discussion on sex work in academic writing, performance and zines Join us for the launch and celebration of two new works: the anthology, Sex Work Today: Erotic Labor in the Twenty-First Century, and Cam Girls Wanted, a zine-memoir about webcamming in the early to m...

Save the date! Join @pooledriveprivate.bsky.social and me on June 18th to talk sex work writing, celebrate the anthology Sex Work Today, and launch my new zine about the early days of camming 💃🏼 ⚡️ 📹

At Venus Envy Halifax/online:
venusenvy.ca/collections/...

19.05.2025 16:20 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 2
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Talking About Laughter Amid A ‘Horrendous Cocktail of Emotions' in Casey & Diana - The Way I See It Theatre & Music Blog Casey & Diana opens on Friday April 25th, 2025 at Neptune Theatre’s Scotiabank Studio Theatre. The play, written by Canadian playwright Nick Green, was originally commissioned by the Stratford Festiva...

Opening tonight

25.04.2025 11:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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26.01.2025 15:09 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Can’t wait! Congratulations

26.01.2025 15:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I don’t know how to use this app yet… but I’m going to dive in and post post post, cause I truly wanna delete the others and have somewhere else to be. Look at my chickens!

26.01.2025 15:07 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0