Kim Mannix (she/her)

UPDATE...my baby got the job!!!

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My 14-year-old keeps singing 'Danny Boy' loudly to annoy me.

Why does she even know this song?

Alberta teachers’ strike begins, affecting around 700,000 students About 51,000 teachers walk off the job after province’s offer rejected by 90 per cent of union members

And the membership is united. The province can't push this aside as a greedy union. Recall how important teachers and education were to these governments during the pandemic. It is time to treat teachers and their work environments with the value they deserve.

Thinking this morning of how many teachers I know who are married to other teachers, and raising kids, and the financial stress that a prolonged strike could bring. But still, they are fighting for public education, for all of our kids, and ultimately a better world.

#Solidarity #Respect #ABEd

Why learn big words when you can productatiously contrivicate your own?

If you’re apprehensive that what you say or do now could come to haunt you in a more authoritarian environment in the future then this is your absolute cue that you absolutely must say or do something now.

Yay! ❤️

If you're in #YEG, please come out to celebrate Jen's amazing book!

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What a totally beautiful human being right to the end. An important gift left behind. Will need a box of Kleenex to watch this.

They're beautiful!

a woman wearing glasses and a red shirt says i want to go to there Alt: a woman, actress Tina Fey playing Liz Lemon on the show 30 Rock, is wearing glasses and a red shirt says 'I want to go to there'

There is some alternate Earth where political decisions are not funded or influenced by oil companies and billionaire tech bros and...

Close up of the head of a brown torbie cat with green eyes

Maybe your #caturday needs a pretty little Cate face.

#CatsOfBluesky

A collage of three photos showing a rainbow in a grey sky and brilliantly lit gold and orange leaves

Nice twilight show in the sky and on the trees, #ShPk ❤️

Includes or is cosmic horror: The Worm and His Kings, Even the Worm Will Turn, Song of the Tyrant Worm, Your Mind is a Terrible Thing, Unfortunate Elements of My Anatomy, Cruel Angels Past Sundown, A Light Most Hateful, A Game in Yellow, All the Hearts You Eat, No Gods for Drowning No cosmic: Cranberry Cove, Teenage Girls Can Be Demons, The Ghostlands of Natalie Glasgow I don't think it's cosmic but many disagree and refuse to explain, is it the p***y tentacles, the rebuilding of a mind from the inside, what is ittt

Gee, I wonder why people went from calling me a queer horror author to a cosmic horror author.

The fun part is how few were on purpose (Worm trilogy + Game in Yellow) vs how much is cosmic by accident because I'm a weirdo (the rest of it 😅)

Nonetheless, make horror gay AF 🌈 including cosmic horror

YouTube video by Owen Jones Israel KIDNAPS Flotilla: Piracy Denounced As “TERRORISM"

Israel KIDNAPS Flotilla: Piracy Denounced As “TERRORISM" youtu.be/nwOLE25HpMA?... via @YouTube

The cover of poet Natalie Lim's book Elegy for Opportunity. The abstract, watercolour-like image is swirling waves of galaxy-like blue and planets/orbs.

I had the pleasure of interviewing poet Natalie Lim about her debut poetry collection Elegy For Opportunity for the @oncreativewriting.bsky.social podcast! The book is stellar, and I think our conversation was pretty interesting too! :)

Listen here: www.oncreativewriting.com/podcast-1/ep...

I'm so excited too! Your book is amazing! 🔥

Poetry Launch: Jennifer Bowering Delisle | Audreys Books Edmonton's Oldest Independent Bookstore selling new books for adults and children

No attempts at clever advertising today. I'm just really excited about this book launch, and I love this book. Please join us on Oct 5 at 2:00 PM!

The UCP is willing to spend millions of dollars A DAY to fight against better classroom conditions. How many EAs could they hire a year for one week of spending on this - because I bet it’s more than the 1500 EAs they offered.

Which means this isn’t about budget -it’s about power and spite. #AbLeg

“A Day in the Life” with: Poet and Author Kim Mannix Kim Mannix is a journalist, poet, and storyteller whose work spans poetry, short fiction, and community arts involvement.

Big thanks to @calgaryguardian.bsky.social for doing this fun feature and q & a with me!

calgaryguardian.com/calgary-arti...

I know there’s a lot going on with *gestures to everything* but as of today, October 1st:

🚩Alberta officially has the LOWEST minimum wage in Canada

🚩AISH recipients in social housing will pay hundreds more in rent

Cruel UCP choices are making life more expensive.

It doesn’t have to be this way.

APTN News Brief: September 30, 2025—Many of TRC's 94 calls to action remain unanswered since 2015 final report Our lead story: on the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, some note how few of the TRC’s 94 calls to action have been answered since the commission delivered its final report in 2015.

On the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, some note how few of the TRC’s 94 calls to action have been answered.

Hear more on APTN News Brief:

A poster with brightly colored apples with the words "I support AB teachers."

#AlbertaTeachersStrike #Alberta

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This is something we disabled people call "inspiration porn". It's incredibly degrading. Because it shouldn't be about whether this disabled person can make it up this step. It should be why is it inaccessible in the first place, so they have to struggle?

Don't cheer us – help make it accessible.

A golden retriever type dog is seen sitting on the back of a motorcycle, partly obscured by another car. He is wearing silver goggles and a black helmet. He is looking toward the camera.

And this is blurry, but he totally caught me taking his pic.

A golden retriever type dog is seen sitting on the back of a motorcycle, partly obscured by another car. He is wearing silver goggles and a black helmet. His hair is blowing in the wind.

Since it's Monday in the hellscape, I think you all need the best thing I saw this weekend...and maybe ever: This dog on a motorcycle, being cool AF

Terrifying, apocalyptic.

And yet many of us remain inert and elect officials to pour more citizens’ money into yet more pipelines and extraction, mine and burn coal, and watch the daily unreality show put on by one of the world’s worst.

People hate the disabled because we demonstrate the fact that people need people. All of you are interdependent on each other, and we make you face that. You're terrified of us for making clear that you cannot survive alone. You want us out of sight so you can keep pretending