@paulinezed
Writer, teacher, mom, watcher of film, reader of comics, player of hockey, connoisseur of pop culture, fan. Citizen, settler, socialist. LGBT+ and FN ally. BLM. Trans women are women. 🏳️⚧️ Free Palestine. She/her.
Photo of a fluffy tabby and white cat in a cat carrier, with a little pink nose and alert green eyes.
🚨 URGENT! 🚨 Marcy needs your help!
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When some amazing rescuers scooped this fluffy, friendly cat up from a Baltimore alley yesterday, they thought she was just really pregnant. But it soon became clear that something was very, very wrong… 1/6
I would absolutely read fic about Bucky from you. Just sayin’. 😁
Carney keeps finding new ways to disappoint. 🤨
Noooo!!!
Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads: The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same... - Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist
Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.
Here’s the kind of statement I would have hoped for from our PM.
The Christophers was one of the best films I saw at TIFF. I’ve been hoping it got distribution! Go see it!
I miss Visions! That was a great con.
That classmate was our mutual friend, of course. ❤️
Blake’s 7, in zines. I was 26, in film grad school, and a classmate on the TV side had an article about fic on his desk.
If she runs again, I am going to campaign so hard for @jennie1ofmany.bsky.social
🎬 Film reveal - 26/02/2026
Score: 169
Top 1% of players today
Got my best score ever on film reveal due to my vast knowledge of obscure dodgy Sean Bean films.
If you have an opinion on Toronto’s garbage bins, benches and bus shelters, take this survey!
Man, I miss Esther’s Soups. I used to go there for lunch at least once a week pre-pandemic, when I worked in the neighbourhood. Always had my fingers crossed for either leek and potato or butternut squash.
This sums up every feeling i have about AI.
Incredible victory! After years of organizing across Canada, Scotia Bank has divested from Elbit Systems!
Elbit is Israel's largest weapons company, arming the occupation and genocide of Palestine.
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Guess it's that time of the year to wheel this out... 😏
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
Wim Wenders has made some of my very favourite movies, but right now he’s a fucking coward.
Please, here is how you can help. Cathy
Would love to see the Canadian left act on all of this too.
My uncle worked at the CiL Nobel plant for decades. And died of a pretty horrific blood disorder that I always thought likely stemmed from his work there.
This report gives the historical background I didn’t know about.
a facebook post from Ashon Crawley on February 13, 2021. It reads: i am sympathetic to folks that say *the* reason why the black panther party of self defense was a threat was because of the breakfast program. i am also sympathetic to the folks that say that is too reductive, that they were more than a breakfast progrum.* i think it’s in the middle: the BPP was a threat because they practiced care. and care showed up *as* a breakfast program, yes, but also as health clinics, as armed defense, as reading groups. care work as political organizing. care as the grounds for its emergence. care. one reason i’ve focused on care in my own work for years now is because black feminist thought informs my own, and black queer critique. and because care is often considered the antithesis of “serious things” and i’m just fundamentally against this. if care is soft or frilly or whatever, we need to have a preferential option for softness. care is something white supremacist capitalist patriarchy cannot give nor withhold, even when it tries to privatize care as an industry that is primarily about making money and exploiting workers. care is not private property, it only exists when it is shared. care is the antithesis and alternative to white supremacy, to riff on cedric robinson, because it must be. but it is so much more. it exceeds the logic of reactive response to practices of violence. it precedes the violence and political economy of extraction and exploitation. care, even if soft, ain’t easy. it takes courage. and conviction. and clarity. (i’m a former preacher, so the alliteration is a throwback lol.) you only have care when you share it. and sharing it is difficult precisely because the political economy of racial capitalism wants us to privatize and hoard what we consider it to be. care. let it flower and bloom. selah. 🌸💕
Five years ago @ashoncrawley.bsky.social posted a thing about care that feels really timely again. www.facebook.com/ashon/posts/...
Dear Mr. Nadeau: As long as there is one upright man, as long as there is one compassionate woman, the contagion may spread and the scene is not desolate. Hope is the thing that is left to us, in a bad time. I shall get up Sunday morning and wind the clock, as a contribution to order and steadfastness. Sailors have an expression about the weather: they say, the weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of our human society — things can look dark, then a break shows in the clouds, and all is changed, sometimes rather suddenly. It is quite obvious that the human race has made a queer mess of life on this planet. But as a people we probably harbor seeds of goodness that have lain for a long time waiting to sprout when the conditions are right. Man’s curiosity, his relentlessness, his inventiveness, his ingenuity have led him into deep trouble. We can only hope that these same traits will enable him to claw his way out. Hang on to your hat. Hang on to your hope. And wind the clock, for tomorrow is another day. Sincerely, E. B. White
I just stumbled across this and thought some of you might like to see it. A letter from E.B. White to a man who'd written he'd lost all hope:
Canadians! Sign this!
Party leaders should absolutely have & maintain top security clearance it’s such a basic, obvious step.
Happy Birthday! Hope you have a fabulous day!
I will never, ever forgive Blair for what he had his police force do during the G20.
He was on CBC that day saying he was not going to allow dissent. I’ve never stopped being furious about that.
Thank you for that PSA. I had somehow neither unfollowed NOR blocked him. That’s fixed now. 😬
This is what I’ve been telling my workplace for over a year now. 🤨
