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harrisonmooney.bsky.social
Author of INVISIBLE BOY: A Memoir of Self-Discovery, winner of the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize, and BITTERSWEET: A Memoir of Recovery, coming fall 2026 from Greystone Books. Associate editor at The Tyee. 🥚
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I didn’t know you could win an Oscar for Succession, but my guy Kieran Culkin deserved it

The fact that we have stories up today on coal tariffs, group sex and Mark Carney will tell you everything you need to know about @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

I like how people are told there's an ethical source of infants/children in case you ever want to buy one and most of y'all never think twice about that.

Striking how easily you can get millions of people to vote for a boot on their own face just by lying to them about the boot going on someone else's face.

I miss the days when billionaire vanity projects were, like, commissioning nude sculptures and buying sports teams… instead buying every means of communication we can think of

I am ordering all of my opinion-writing employees to only write about the importance of personal liberty, if they don't want to write on the assigned topic, they will lose their jobs

Bezos destroying the post opinion pages is just another reminder: Conservatives think free speech is when they can say what they want and when you can say what they want.

For fuck’s sake. Can we please rise up against the billionaires now?

Wednesday’s NYT crossword is too clever by half, which is actually my favourite kind of clever. I want to print a copy for everyone I know, just to watch most of them get frustrated and quit well before realizing how masterfully constructed it is

Literary community: I need to disappear for two weeks and make a real dent in this next memoir draft. Where are the good BC writer's retreats and/or isolated Gulf Island cabins

Today I learned that, according to Stan Berenstain, Mama Bear is 27 years old.

from the Orphan Train movement to Indigenous boarding schools to Georgia Tann and the Tennessee Children’s Home, punishing marginalized people by “rehoming” and “reparenting” their children is a through-line in US history.

The Paddington films are the best adoptee movie trilogy ever made 🥚

“I want the reader to feel something. To be moved. The best reason to read a novel is to feel life more fully.” @harrisonmooney.bsky.social interviews author Jack Wang. 

“I think part of what has helped me in the development of this book and in living with this mental health struggle: The discernment of when my anxiety is being destructive and when it’s actually trying to help.” @davidarobertson.bsky.social sat down The Tyee's @harrisonmooney.bsky.social.

This lawsuit misspells workforce as “workface”

Why isn't everyone talking about this new Elton John single, my god, to still be making smash hits at 77

Before folks start comparing this to European autocracies, pause and ask why so many folks - Black and white - didn’t know about the Tulsa Race Massacre. Or the Wilmington Coup. Or the Colfax Massacre. Or the Elaine, Arkansas massacre. Erasure has been a key tactic of white supremacy. Right here.

Only one boy has the motive and means. This was Peter T. Hooper

Hi, I am @motherjones.com' disability reporter. In the following weeks, I am very interested in hearing how tariff nonsense impacts getting your meds and medical equipment. My email to get in touch is [email protected]. Reposts appreciated.

“Reading Indigenous children’s literature has taught my family about struggle, solidarity and the hard work of growing up.” What do you read your kids, asks @harrisonmooney.bsky.social?

Reading The City We Became like, wow, Staten Island sucks

In his new book “Power Metal,” Vancouver journalist and author @vincebeiser.bsky.social takes a critical, sobering look at the metals required to power the digital devices and systems we’re relying on to save the planet. @harrisonmooney.bsky.social interviews.

Emperor says latest fashion backfired: “When the clothes are invisible… you don’t look dressed”

I need a doctor on call just for creative writing questions. Doctor Science, can I use the phrase “phlegmy epiglottis”? No, I will not ask my editor

1975: “So, you subscribe to Playboy?” “Yes, but for the articles” 2025: “So, you subscribe to @nytimes.com?” “Yes, but for Spelling Bee”

I lost wordle

Every parkade needs more living room lamps

Someone make sure to gif the part where Trudeau and Obama walk away hand in hand, surrendering us all to hell, still handsome

Today’s wordle

I like the Skytrain stations that could be the name of a character in a murder mystery. Joyce Collingwood. Richmond Brighouse. VCC Clark.