Adèle Barclay

Mark Zuckerberg is building a data center in Louisiana that will use 3x more electricity than all of New Orleans.

Oligarchs want YOU to pay for these data centers with higher water & electric bills.

Americans must fight back against billionaires who put profits over people.

Still haunted by the time there was a Secrets-themed reading and every single reader got up and was like “here’s my poem about discovering my dad’s secret family”

There’s a bully in my workplace and every few years people file complaints and the higher ups just shrug their shoulders and say “she bullies us too”

THEY CAN PRY THE EM DASHES FROM MY COLD DEAD HANDS

Can someone explain to me the phenomenon of straight men never posting photos of their wives

the university where I work axed their studio art program about a decade ago, which is sad for a number of reasons, chiefly there is now a severe lack of whimsy without random sculptural installations popping up around campus

congratulations to the city of vancouver, who will now have one year of absurd austerity, overfunding of a useless police department, and likely several years more of undoing all the damage this shit is going to do

this is going to harm so many people. vancouver is going to be recovering from this harmful budget for years.

R.I.P 🦋 Elissa Barclay 🦋
November 21 ⚔️ 1980-2019

missing my dear friend ellissa today listen to her 🎶 tunes www.elissabarclay.com
check out the album her sister put out for her this year.. it is very cool to have some new material..she was the best🥀🥀🥀

🔗 elissabarclay.bandcamp.com/album/tales-...

2,400 year-old skeleton mosaic reads:

“Be cheerful, enjoy your life”

Discovered in Turkey

bluesky is twitter on benzos and substack is twitter on coke

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Whenever a face wash is called “a milk” I’m like “ah yes, the milk of human kindness“

All my students learn this in first year.

The winner of the 2025 Edna Staebler Personal Essay Contest is Adele Barclay for "Perhaps a Wolf & Lamb"

Congratulations to this year's winner, @adelebarclay.bsky.social

I bring a certain “we’re gonna watch each other die” to the friendship

The trick is to never have coffee so in the rare time you do you feel invincible even as the inevitable headache ensues

📚 #NMAReadingList

🏆 Cobra Blue Mustang Strat – @fiddlehd.bsky.social

In this lyrical, searing essay, @adelebarclay.bsky.social explores memory, trauma, and sisterhood through art and loss.

Gold winner, Columns & Essays.

#NMA25 #Essays #CreativeNonfiction

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Recently my ex accidentally sent me money and then later a sext and in both cases I politely let them know they had messed up… and now THEY have unfollowed ME

I’m so warbled by grief that when someone posts a sentimental photo with music and a long caption I’m like “oh no that person died” but then they’re just wishing a friend good luck on their move to Berlin

What if dudes’ torso pics were just them being kitties coyly showing their bellies?

just found out my grandma used teenaged photos of me for one of her catfishing accounts… what kind of flavour of fucked up is that

Thank you to @fiddlehd.bsky.social & @canadamediaawards.bsky.social for granting “Cobra Blue Mustang Strat” Gold. Having this work about my older sister Elissa, grunge music, teen girl grit, and the legacy of domestic abuse be celebrated on a national scale makes me feel like these stories matter 🎸❤️‍🔥

Way to go @adelebarclay.bsky.social !

Aww thank you so much for publishing! 💜

Congratulations to the #NMA25 Gold-winning @adelebarclay.bsky.social for @fiddlehd.bsky.social in the category of Columns and Essays for "Cobra Blue Mustang Strat"

Perfectly acceptable so long as you don’t take the songs to Broadway

I’m begging you: not everything needs to be turned into a musical

The Big Wintersleep

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