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Bronwyn Douwsma

@ninesnowboots.bsky.social

43 year old trans femme in Halifax, NS. Mostly human at times. AuDHD. My posts do not represent my employer. Pronouns: they/them. MDNI. http://linktr.ee/ninesnowboots

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Notorious Miramichi serial killer Allan Legere dead at 78 | CBC News Miramichi serial killer Allan Legere has died at the age of 78. Correctional Service Canada confirmed in a release that Legere died on Monday while serving a life sentence at the Edmonton Institution ...

I didn't move to Miramichi until a decade after Legere was caught, but I have friends who remember the year Halloween was cancelled.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

10.03.2026 11:53 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
A dramatic image with bold text about Idaho House Committee's passage of a social transition ban, set against a grayscale domed ceiling background.

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BREAKING
Idaho House Committee Passes Extreme Social Transition Ban
HB 822 is alarming government overreach that would allow Idaho politicians to decide how youth dress and act.

A dramatic image with bold text about Idaho House Committee's passage of a social transition ban, set against a grayscale domed ceiling background. Transcribed Text: BREAKING Idaho House Committee Passes Extreme Social Transition Ban HB 822 is alarming government overreach that would allow Idaho politicians to decide how youth dress and act.

BREAKING: An Idaho House Committee passed HB 822. This dangerous and unconstitutional bill would require trusted adults, such as teachers and counselors, to monitor children for signs that they are not conforming to gender stereotypes. Learn more about the bill: buff.ly/7kw0CXu

09.03.2026 23:26 β€” πŸ‘ 689    πŸ” 360    πŸ’¬ 69    πŸ“Œ 189

Man.

The world fucking is on fire.

So go be as corny and cringe as you wanna be without hurting people.

Live whats left of your only life.

If you can’t be free in your body at least go be free in your mind and soul.

Fuck the haters.

10.03.2026 00:42 β€” πŸ‘ 3126    πŸ” 1022    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 15

John Brown and his sons famously hacked 5 pro-slavery men to death in Kansas. Using broadswords. Contemporaries credit them with scaring the fuck out of the slavers at the realization that some of the "free men" were also willing to be brutally violent.

10.03.2026 02:11 β€” πŸ‘ 401    πŸ” 82    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 4

Look, again, as I've said over and over and over, it would be one thing if the people obsessing over trans people in sports were interested in some sort of compromise. But they're just... not. www.readtpa.com/p/fine-lets-...

09.03.2026 16:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1736    πŸ” 386    πŸ’¬ 54    πŸ“Œ 0

Pete Hegesth seems to be cut from the same cloth as the guy responsible for the mass shootings in Nova Scotia 6 years ago.

08.03.2026 23:43 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Schmutzie’s March 2026 Playlist 🎡 ShiverYourTimbers.ca 60% of the songs on this playlist are from 2025/2026, and it covers 14 genres across 7 decades on 8 platforms: Apple Music, Spotify, Tidal, Qobuz, Deezer, Amazon Music, YouTube Music, and Last.fm.

Your new weekend playlist? It probably should be πŸ€˜πŸ§‘β€πŸŽ€πŸŽ§ #NewMusic #NowListening #MusicSky

06.03.2026 23:00 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
A blue t-shirt that says tax me daddy proud supporter of public services in yellow text

A blue t-shirt that says tax me daddy proud supporter of public services in yellow text

Tax Me Daddy update!

We sold 49 t-shirts! And thanks to @hfxshippingnews.bsky.social providing the shirts at cost and volunteering their labour AND a donor matching every dollar raised we were able to raise $1750 for African Nova Scotian Road to Economic Prosperity anseconomicprosperity.com

08.03.2026 20:26 β€” πŸ‘ 147    πŸ” 35    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 2

Outsourced call centre work is a special kind of torture and should be banned completely.

08.03.2026 21:34 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Outsourced call centre sweeps Centrelink customer privacy breaches β€˜under the rug’, staff allege Workers accuse government-contracted Telco Services Australia of fabricating performance statistics, denying adequate breaks and penalising staff for taking leave

The welfare system is not safe for welfare recipients and not safe for the workers employed in it.

08.03.2026 21:23 β€” πŸ‘ 29    πŸ” 17    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
1910 Women could wear pants
1920 White women could vote
1963 Women gained equal paid rights (sort of)
1965 Black women could vote
19 69 Women were allowed to initiate divorce
1972 Women could get birth control, without a man
1973 Women could choose to get an abortion, legally
1974 Women could buy a home, without a man
1988 Women could own their own business, without
Nomesticial protection agains
2022 Women lost the constitutional right to abortion

1910 Women could wear pants 1920 White women could vote 1963 Women gained equal paid rights (sort of) 1965 Black women could vote 19 69 Women were allowed to initiate divorce 1972 Women could get birth control, without a man 1973 Women could choose to get an abortion, legally 1974 Women could buy a home, without a man 1988 Women could own their own business, without Nomesticial protection agains 2022 Women lost the constitutional right to abortion

Strong reminder: women have not been independent for as long as some folks would like you to believe. We’ve lost rights that we never should have lost.

08.03.2026 15:35 β€” πŸ‘ 2218    πŸ” 1026    πŸ’¬ 27    πŸ“Œ 23
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March 7, 2026 – Ryan Gosling / Gorillaz (S51 E14) bloodsnlreviews.com/2026/03/08/m... #SNL

08.03.2026 17:56 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

It is absolutely insane that the US appears to have targeted desalination plants first – putting them onto the board. Iran seems to have already retaliated against one in Bahrain. This is one of the most obvious ways this could spiral.

08.03.2026 08:52 β€” πŸ‘ 3146    πŸ” 1005    πŸ’¬ 96    πŸ“Œ 43

International Women’s Day means we bring down all the empires and end their genocidal wars

08.03.2026 14:06 β€” πŸ‘ 58    πŸ” 25    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
08.03.2026 13:55 β€” πŸ‘ 350    πŸ” 108    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 4

Unthinkably depraved

08.03.2026 12:42 β€” πŸ‘ 274    πŸ” 68    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 1

Where are my fellow bald baddies at?

08.03.2026 10:27 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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CPAC Head Says Iranian Schoolgirls Are Better Dead Than β€œin a Burqa” Leading Republicans don’t seem to care about the bombing of a girls’ school in Iran.

Disabled people tried to warn you.

We said the β€œbetter off dead” narrative being weaponized against us would be used for other groups of people.

The fascists won’t ever stop. They see everyone else as less than. Expendable. Not worthy of life.

Its eugenics on a massive scale

08.03.2026 09:39 β€” πŸ‘ 581    πŸ” 304    πŸ’¬ 27    πŸ“Œ 16

As always Mary Shelley was correct

08.03.2026 01:31 β€” πŸ‘ 43    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
Bronwyn, a bald trans femme wearing a red shirt.

Bronwyn, a bald trans femme wearing a red shirt.

This bald baddie managed to get out to do a few things today, including buying a new couch (my old one is over 20 years old) and picking up my prescriptions.

08.03.2026 01:54 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

H.R. 7661 would harm so many publishers, authors, and readers. Only the smallest sliver of human experience would make it onto shelves. If you think kids deserve the world, you are against this bill - please read this article and call your reps.

06.03.2026 21:13 β€” πŸ‘ 433    πŸ” 337    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2

Imagine getting a Masters in White History from Florida State University

07.03.2026 22:11 β€” πŸ‘ 26    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 3

That ABA had its origins as a conversion therapy for boys who were deemed pathologically "effeminate," and it wasn't until homosexuality was removed from the DSM in the 70s that O. Ivar Lovaas, who is on record as saying Autistic children are not fully human, turned his Skinnerian torture on us.

07.03.2026 20:11 β€” πŸ‘ 125    πŸ” 56    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

Mamdani literally put out a 2 min ad when trying to get elected about the history of trans activists in NYC and promising to protect trans people.
Taking away trans rights cannot keep being seen as an "acceptable capitulation" for Dems, especially not one who ran on protecting those rights!

07.03.2026 16:59 β€” πŸ‘ 91    πŸ” 28    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

as long as liberals think that β€œchildren are people” sets them against Moms for Liberty but does not oblige them to give critical reconsideration to systems that benefit *them*, i’ll remain unimpressed with liberals πŸ€·πŸ»β€β™‚οΈ

07.03.2026 19:01 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The obvious wisdom and effectiveness of Housing First is obscured by the fact we've made "a tiny, no-frills apartment" an expensive status symbol in huge swathes of the country by creating an artificial housing shortage

07.03.2026 16:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1731    πŸ” 437    πŸ’¬ 17    πŸ“Œ 6

Bought a new couch; gonna need someone to help me take the old one out.

07.03.2026 16:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

something i've been thinking about for weeks is how to say that i think writers should get paid for our writing but if they won't pay us, actually it's important we keep writing anyway

don't want to advocate giving away labor for free but the alternative, where we don't write, seems catastrophic

07.03.2026 15:47 β€” πŸ‘ 198    πŸ” 22    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
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Health care or arts and culture? It's not as simple as that: Open letter from a Cape Breton community health centre - Halifax Examiner Health truly begins in community, when people can feel connected to their neighbourhoods, their environment, and their culture.

Health care or arts and culture? It’s not as simple as that: Open letter from a Cape Breton community health centre

by Josie Robinson

06.03.2026 14:06 β€” πŸ‘ 43    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
An homage to a panel from the Achewood web comic. Phillipe, a young and eager otter, who is wearing a shirt and tie and a helmet for some reason, is happily singing a song to himself as follows: 

Born... in the USA! I went to school and I got an... A!
I ate a hamburger and said hooray!
Maybe it will happen today!
 
The final line is obviously my addition. The art was redrawn by me and is not just a copy of the original panel. Done in black lines and halftone shading on a toned paper background. 

You do not need to trouble Chris Onstad about this.

An homage to a panel from the Achewood web comic. Phillipe, a young and eager otter, who is wearing a shirt and tie and a helmet for some reason, is happily singing a song to himself as follows: Born... in the USA! I went to school and I got an... A! I ate a hamburger and said hooray! Maybe it will happen today! The final line is obviously my addition. The art was redrawn by me and is not just a copy of the original panel. Done in black lines and halftone shading on a toned paper background. You do not need to trouble Chris Onstad about this.

16.05.2025 13:30 β€” πŸ‘ 4493    πŸ” 1011    πŸ’¬ 19    πŸ“Œ 16