Eve Rickert (she/her)

Hey! Today is my and @andreazanin.bsky.social's book birthday! More Than Two, Second Edition, is out now! To say it took a LOT to make this book happen is an understatement. But I'm so glad it's finally here. Please read, review, share...I hope you love it! thornapplepress.ca/books/more-t...

Lula winning is great for the planet, great for Brazil, and great for people who aren't revanchist assholes everywhere in the world, but let's not forget that it's also going to make some of the worst people on Earth extremely sad and mad. We should enjoy that, as a little treat.

Fuck yes, Brazil. I needed that today.

300,000 fewer people in BC voted in 2026 than in 2024. 197,000 people voted Green. The NDP got 250,000 fewer votes than in 2024. The Green Party got 20,000 more. I'm getting real tired of people blaming a party that consistently gets its voters to the polls just because their party can't. #bcpoli

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Polyamory is often portrayed as a more "evolved" approach to relationships, but that doesn't make it immune to toxic or even abusive dynamics. In this episode, @everickert.bsky.social explores the darker side of polyamory. www.sexandpsychology.com/blog/podcast...

Thanks for the great review @amazonsyren.bsky.social! 🥰📚 Cc @everickert.bsky.social

My recent research found that across Canada, publicly funded surgeries performed in for-profit facilities are 1.5-3x more expensive than performing them in public hospitals www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc... #bcpoli

Conservatives propose additional health care privatization in full platform: patients to receive a voucher for a private surgery if waits exceed the benchmark Why not reduce surgical waits in the first place rather than pay 2-3x premium for privatized surgeries? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #bcpoli

Go to your camera roll and search "boat" and then post a picture of a boat you like.

Ooo! Check this event out if you’re in Toronto!

Toronto pals! The New More Than Two is coming out in a beautiful new paperback edition, with a new afterword from the incomparable SF/F author Nalo Hopkinson. On Thurs, Oct 22, 7-9 pm, I'll be in conversation with Eva Dusome at @comeasyouareco.bsky.social ... www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1...

It does appear the "data center eliminated Nazi and otherwise fuckface bots" narrative is basically wishcasting, it does show you how popular getting rid of this shit would broadly be, and that maybe a smart person should run on it.

The accounting is in: In Oregon there are 111 data centers. The TOTAL number of people employed at data centers is just 2,630, or 0.1% of the labor force. Those 100 data centers consumer 23% of all electricity used in Oregon. Meanwhile, electricity rates skyrocket as more centers are built.

Canada. Hmm. Sounds Trumpian. "The federal government has quietly stopped evaluating whether new gas power plants and oilsand facilities will damage Canada's rivers and lakes, air quality and species on the edge of extinction." www.nationalobserver.com/2026/09/10/n...

nothing makes me feel saner at the supermarket than having to remember which brands want my friends dead

I know it’s hard to watch all these beautiful things be carried away by time and see the wrong things growing in their place. But listen. Listen. We have to be the beautiful things now. It has to be us. It has to be us. Courage.

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EVERY STORY ABOUT BEAVERS FOR THE LAST DECADE READS LIKE: WE RELEASED A DOZEN PADDLE TAILED LITTLE FREAKS AND THEY IMMEDIATELY BEGAN A TERRAFORMING PROJECT THAT REVERSED A CENTURY OF ECOLOGICAL DAMAGE IN THREE WEEKS.

ICE has stopped publishing detention and deportation data. www.themarshallproject.org/2026/07/15/i...

Thornapple Press authors Ashley Speed and @polyrolemodels.bsky.social are seeking contributors to an anthology on nonmonogamous families with children. Please share with your groups and networks! thornapplepress.ca/call-for-con...

Thornapple Press authors Ashley Speed and @polyrolemodels.bsky.social are seeking contributors to an anthology on nonmonogamous families with children. Please share with your groups and networks! thornapplepress.ca/call-for-con...

🧵LORENZO SALGADO ARAUJO Better organized thread of vigils/protests for Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. •Always check date/time •Pls lmk about events I haven’t listed If you were enraged by the executions of Renee Good & Alex Pretti, you should be enraged by the execution of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo.

I really enjoyed Supergirl. Also, I want to know how many other Expanse fans imagined Kara saying "I am that guy" at the end of the final showdown.

ME: omg i have so much to do today BRAIN: best i can do is none of it so that you don't feel bad for only doing some of it ME: that doesn't make any sense BRAIN: don't tell me how to do my job

Add your name to tell Prime Minister Carney to protect our future over Big Oil profits: www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.

Fuck the reflecting pool. This has not gotten nearly enough coverage or generated the proper outrage. People thrown in prison for 30-50 years for the "crime" ofmaking zines and belonging to a book club!! This is straight-up totalitarian atrocity. Political prisoners thrown in a gulag to rot.

Thank you Feminist Press for giving “Coming Out Like a Porn Star” a second edition and so much support. The anthology is one of a number of books they offer on the subject of sex work. Great list @feministpress.bsky.social feministpress.org/blogs/news/7...

IDGAF if someone has an "unfair advantage" in children's sports because the point of children's sports is for children to move their bodies, play, and build team skills. They should be co-ed anyway, because in the big grown-up world boys and girls and thems need to work together.

I need y'all to understand that I teach high school and there are teenagers already planning to leave the U.S. to because they will be studying science or medicine. They are SO serious about it - saving money, learning extra languages, and looking to see if there are familial connections abroad.

What *actually* works — right here, right now — to address climate change? Here you go. This is the result of thousands of hours of painstaking research and analysis from the Project Drawdown team.

Could happen in Canada too. If we ask our politicians for it. Check out www.pluginsolarpower.ca. And send a politician a message. That Canadians deserve the ability to produce their own power. Even renters.

The BC NDP coming up with this dumbass scheme to bail out private developers with the same amount of money, or more, that used to go to purpose-built affordable rentals is especially galling. I truly don't know what's wrong with these people. It's such bad optics on every level.

It's 100% about bailing out developers who misjudged the market. Because it's not enough that we let developers basically run the housing market, to the detriment of pretty much anyone who isn't able to afford million dollar properties, we also have to protect the developers from their own mistakes.

FWIW, I interviewed with LabX Media last year for a marketing job with Discover. Ultimately it came down to “too much experience/too senior” like most of my interviews. I found the people I spoke with were professional and really nice. I hope this goes as well as it can, SciAm friends.