Nicole Maunsell

if you see a bird art share your bird art!!!! i was born for this moment!!!

Let us all take pleasure in appreciating a movie or a book or a sport or a historical fact today. Not only will we get the inherent benefits, we’ll get the added benefits of doing it for spite.

The cover of Many Drops Make a Stream by Adrian Harley. Illustrated in classic fantasy paperback style, the cover shows a giant roc carrying a young woman above a Venice-like city.

Many Drops Make a Stream is a queer fantasy adventure in which a shapeshifter vigilante must team up with a seemingly normal human on a rescue mission. Features memory-stealing blood mages, friendly rats, and at least one goose attack.

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I love the bookseller recommendations so much! Definitely helps me figure out what to listen to.

ANALYSIS | Why OpenAI wants to help Canada build homegrown artificial intelligence | CBC News OpenAI wants to help Canada build a sovereign digital infrastructure for artificial intelligence, putting the country in a tough spot as it tries to distance itself from overreliance on U.S. tech comp...

I am once again asking Canadian journalists to ask the most basic-ass question of "on whose land will these be built?" How is it that every other major industry must consider Indigenous rights but with tech it's like "meh".
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The Emergency Response Rooms in Sudan is the kind of organization that *should* receive the Nobel Peace Prize. Absolutely fantastic work that should be a model for civil society and humanitarian work everywhere.

wake up, hosers

new petition just dropped

e-6818 is calling to strengthen the Canada Health Act to stop provinces from privatizing health care and to force provinces to account for how and where they used health transfer money

I am begging Canadians to understand that Canada Post, like public transit, should not be a business - it's a service.

Canada Post is a lifeline for rural, remote and Northern communities and overall, we need to re-evaluate why people think they "need" random shit delivered ASAP.

If you’re like most Canadians, you don’t know that all of your parcels get delivered by Canada Post if you live in rural Canada. The big couriers don’t go there. They drop them off at the post office and letter carriers take them the rest of the way. Ending home delivery cuts them off.

I already am! 🍹

Done! Happy birthday!

💖 Does writing a five-star review of them count?

if there’s anything i know at this point in my life it’s that it is a gift to have trans people in your life, and it is a privilege many many cis people do not fucking deserve

May every single human being on this planet be safe.

May every single person be protected from harm.

May we bring into being a time in which we are all free from those who do evil— together, speedily and in our days.

Asexual flag made from photos of galaxies

Non-binary flag made from photos of galaxies

New Pride flag made from photos of galaxies

Transgender flag made from photos of galaxies

Happy Pride month, all! Way back in 2018 I made these galaxy pride flags. They were shared many thousands of times, featured on Vice, and even made their way onto book covers and into video games.

Here are the original ones I created (in no particular order!) so Bluesky can have them too. 💙

If you prefer to support wildfire evacuees more directly, Blue Feather Street Team does great work in the community.

A four panel comic by Pseudonym Jones. Panel 1: Spätzle the duck is standing next to They/Them the sheep. Spätzle looks frustrated and, in two separate word bubbles, says, “PRIDE is so FRUSTRATING Queers could do So much more COOL SHIT if we'd stop fighting about LABELS” Panel 2: Spätzle draws a big rainbow over her head while They/Them drinks what looks like boba tea through a straw from a clear and green striped cup with a black lid. Spätzle says, “this month should be about the BEAUTIFUL AMBIGUITY of LIFE” Panel 3: The sheep continues to sip while Spätzle continues, looking proud with a little star over her head, saying, “about taking PRIDE in the strength required to deny the categorization of CISHETERONORMATIVE PATRIARCHY!!” Panel 4: looking slightly irked, They/Them says, “‘Queer’ is a SLUR” Angrily, Spätzle replies, “ALL THE WORDS FOR US WERE SLURS”

At the beginning of this pride month, I give you one of my fave @pseudonymjones.bsky.social pieces. I always think about this, because we are not clean cut and easy to define, and that is what makes us beautiful.

And I will always point out: every word for us has been used as a slur.

How We Fight For Our Lives by @theferocity.bsky.social

new gender neutral greeting just dropped

I did a workshop with Bianca through the Believer in the early COVID days that meant a lot to me. Please help share!

this is my impression of a cat sending an email. ok, here I go:

"purr my last email"

thanks

MEDIA RELEASE: New Government, Same Emergency - Citizens' Climate Lobby Canada Calls for Bold Action - Citizens' Climate Lobby Canada

OUR ELECTION 2025 MEDIA RELEASE:
The majority of Canadian ridings once again were won by parties with serious plans to cut global warming pollution, but progress remains at risk—making public engagement in climate policy essential.

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Please help us correct misinformation!

Our hotline is being incorrectly shared as "Canada's national suicide hotline open toll free for Americans".

We are not a general crisis hotline, we exist exclusively to support the trans community.

Find out more @ translifeline.org

Didn't register to vote? You can still do so on election day | CBC News It's not too late for Canadians looking to cast their ballot who haven't yet registered to vote — Elections Canada allows voters to register on election day at their polling station.

Didn't register to vote? You can still do so on election day

Voters need to prove their identity and address, or another voter can vouch for them #Canada #FederalElection #CanadaVotes 🍁 #April28th

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For nearly 60 days, Israel has blocked food from Gaza. Palestinians struggle to feed their families For nearly 60 days, no food, fuel, medicine or other item has entered the Gaza Strip, blocked by Israel.

For nearly 60 days, no food, fuel, medicine or other items has entered the Gaza Strip, blocked by Israel.

Aid groups are running out of food to distribute. Markets are nearly bare.

Palestinian families are left struggling to feed their children.

If you weren’t one of the many people who voted early (thank you!), let’s make sure we vote on Monday! 🇨🇦

Do you perhaps have many responsibilities in your life that compete for your time and energy? I get “animals I need to keep alive” dreams when there is Too Much to keep on top of.

The Fellowship as different penguin species

The Fellowship of the Ring as Penguins! 🐧

They are all a different species that matches them! 🧵 below: