Lauralee Dukeshire (she/her) @LauraleeDukeshire@qoto.org

Plz read this because it is really important
https://www.thedailybeast.com/new-cdc-mask-guidelines-may-actually-imperil-frontline-workers-experts-say

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🚨Neurodivergent reads spotlight!🚨

Over the next couple of weeks I’ll be highlighting books featured in the recent neurodivergent reads round up-starting this week with 'We’re not Broken'!

Read more from the review and recommendations for other neordivergent books below!

https://autcasts.substack.com/p/autcasts-recommends-neurodivergent-0ff

@actuallyautistic

#autism #actuallyautistic #ADHD #neurodivergent #neurokin #neuropride #autcasts #diagnosis #autismdiagnosis#outcasts #pride #pridemonth #books #writers #advocacy #bookreview

Hello, new people. We will rebuild.

80 years ago today, Willem Arondeus was executed by Nazis after he bravely bombed a building to destroy 800,000 identity cards.

He was an openly-gay Dutch artist who forged documents for Jewish people.

His last words were "Tell people that homosexuals are not cowards."

HEY #Canadians .. do you think First Past The Post #FPTP stinks? Want something better?

My 3 fav MPs are on it. Sign the #petition and phone and email YOUR #MP to get THEM to back this bipartisan motion.

Its the first step towards something... anything.. better than First Past the Post.

- Daniel Blaikie (DNP)
- Lisa Marie Barron (NDP)
- Mike Morrice (Green)

Motion: https://www.ourcommons.ca/members/en/lisa-marie-barron(111023)/motions/12517157

Sign your support: https://www.danielblaikie.ca/a_citizens_assembly

#Fair #Vote #Canada: https://www.fairvote.ca/13/06/2023/national-citizens-assembly-on-electoral-reform-to-be-voted-on-in-parliament/

There once was a time when all people believed in #God and the church ruled. That time was called the Dark Ages.

#atheism
Tooted by a #bot!
SN# 2791

Live footage of last remaining Twitter engineer hard at work #twitterdown

Goodnight Resisters everywhere

"So uh…

About the #UCP candidate in Lacombe-Ponoka and Smith’s promised ejection from caucus if she’s elected…

Turns out Danielle Smith was just kidding.

It’s all just a ploy to wait out the outrage that she compared trans kids to feces."

#alberta #Ableg #cdnpoli #abelxn @thebreakdown

Men’s pants: Your waist is 30 inches, therefore you are a size 30.

Women’s pants: Your waist is bad inches, you have wide hips, a small butt, short legs, a prehensile tail, and we don’t like your face. Therefore you are a size whatever the fuck we want, but only at this store.

Website: We use cookies to improve performance.

Me: Same here.

25% of Canada's farms are in Ontario.
Doug Ford’s plan to grant municipalities the power to subdivide agricultural land to develop #housing is a threat to our #food security. #onpoli
From @David_Moscrop
https://www.tvo.org/article/doug-fords-plans-for-ontarios-farmland-put-us-all-at-risk

All it takes is one right-wing jerkass spamming complaints to get books banned or a couple of angry dipshits filming themselves on their phones to get Target to throw queer people under the bus.

If the only allyship marginalized people can get is performative and evaporates at the first sign of conflict then fascism has already won. It just hasn't trickled down to everyone else yet.

"For-profit centres worsen staff shortages, cost more and provide lower quality. Single-entry models and surgical smoothing are better alternatives." https://policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/march-2023/for-profit-surgery-clinics-concerns/

#HealthCare #Privatization #Canada #abpoli #onpoli #bcpoli #skpoli #nspoli

She said it all.

“Until a drag queen walks into a school and beats eight kids to death with a copy of To Kill A Mockingbird, I think you’re focusing on the wrong shit.”

- Wanda Sykes

Fingers crossed for ya Alberta. If you can shake the far right hate machine, maybe other provinces can follow suit. #abvotes

I'm not sure how many people are aware but the Calgary Public Library has put a "pause" on drag story times. The Pawlowski's of the world are winning.

If allies don't take a stand against this hatred, and support the communities being targeted, we risk everything.

The exclusion of drag performers from public library storytime reminds me of the shutting down of public pools for "safety" rather than desegregating them during the civil rights era.

https://theconversation.com/the-forgotten-history-of-segregated-swimming-pools-and-amusement-parks-119586

#albertaelection2023