Who was the anthropologist on the other site who would constantly talk about the “Britainese”? This has the same energy and I love it.

People act like Washington state west of the Cascades are uniformly progressive and open but lemme tell you, I saw a guy with a Nazi rune bumper sticker driving around in Seattle of all places. This doesn’t surprise me one bit.

The follow up is also really funny because the guy got dragged badly enough that he deleted his last post and then came back with some mealy mouthed, equivocating post that basically says nothing but somehow still tries to insult his opponents.

Racist settlers: “The Natives are proof that mass immigration is bad and should be controlled!” Natives: “Cool! So you’ll be going back to Europe, right? That’s what you said immigrants should do, go back to where they came from!” Racist settlers: “GOOD LUCK NOT HAVING COMPUTERS, YOU S*VAGES”

Me seeing people on Facebook unironically say that Giorgia Meloni should run for president because she pushed back against Trump:

Hey, where’s that one dude who was telling me about how solar panels are bad and we should be using nuclear energy for everything?

I don’t know that Burnham is gonna be any better. But Corbyn made Zionists feel big sad which was enough to get him removed as the leader of Labour.

Racist Canadian settlers: “Stop bringing in immigrants and refugees! We have our own homeless people to support!” Also Racist Canadian settlers: “Why do my taxes go toward providing services for those lazy addicts on the street! Throw them in jail!” Can’t lose if you keep moving the goalposts, eh?

Translation: “You miserable little shits let a Black man win the presidency twice so we decided to support a fascist, look what you made us do.”

The backlash against the potential banning of dogs from Minnehaha Park over concerns of Indigenous burial site desecration is yet another example of the ways in which self appointed allies of Indigenous peoples will quickly turn on us when their comfort and privilege is threatened.

Up early to fly back to the West Coast, but feeling very grateful to have spent the last five days working with this wonderful group of interns. Indigenous excellence continues to shine!

Day 5, and the final day of my week at the RVCC internship: The interns finished analyzing soil samples, and then created hand made maps. They also showcased their Storymaps, and I wrapped things up with a lecture on the applied nature of Indigenous geographies. Now, off to Kansas City for BBQ!

Me spending time making some super cool maps using QGIS, and then struggling with running a Python script to pull land use maps off of the USGS website: (To be fair, it wasn't my fault....mostly)

Ope, Trump is not gonna like this:

Kristi Noem got banned from all tribal lands in South Dakota…I hope she’s not expecting a warmer welcome from First Nations in the BC interior…

RVCC Internship, Day 4: Interns took in situ soil readings across the Haskell campus, took larger samples back to the wet lab, and analyzed them along with the Konza Prairie soil. We also got to hear some wisdom from the amazing Dr. Dan Wildcat about climate crisis, and relationality!

“Inflation isn’t too bad when you exclude the key sectors that allow society to continue to function”

The Venn diagram of people laugh reacting articles on Facebook about that 1 year old Black child getting shot and the people who moved heaven and earth to get people fired over not showing grief over Charlie Kirk is a single circle.

🎓 Fully funded PhD scholarship! 🎓 Research the impact of AI-driven data centre expansion on the energy transition with me. The project will be co-supervised by one of the world's top experts in AI, Prof. Barry O'Sullivan, from UCC's School of Computer Science.

RVCC Internship, Day 3: A trip to Konza Prairie, where our host, Dr. Eva Horne (Kansas State University) took us on a tour of a prairie in active restoration. We saw bison, took a tour of some of the facilities, and took soil samples!

Day 2 of my week of the RVCC internship: We spent the morning taking water samples from a variety of lakes, rivers and wetlands near Lawrence, analyzed them in the wet lab at Haskell, and pulled out the microscopes to take a closer look! We also met a snake friend at the Haskell Wetlands.

Sage advice in a local parkade.

We’re probably leaving BC in the next month or two, so I’m enjoying sights like these for as long as we possibly can:

Gripping, must see television:

The Spurs are gonna blow it, aren’t they?

Jasper (Land Elephant) says Happy Pride!

Of course, because in Trump’s America, being Somali is a much bigger crime than preying on children. “Protect the kids” indeed.

Me seeing that Argentina is playing Algeria in Kansas City next week, wondering how much tickets might cost since I'll be about 45 minutes away all of next week, and then realizing just how cooked we are as a society when the cheapest ticket for that match is $897 (USD).

Now, I may be a bit of a stickler on this point, but if you get a Nazi tattoo and know what the design is called, that’s probably something that should disqualify you from elected office. I don’t care if he’s anti-Trump. Being anti-Trump doesn’t magically make someone a good human being.

Weird seeing Cons make a point of “sticking it to Carney” by not doing their census forms. This came last month and I did it right away and was happy to get to do so.

For my academic and professional friends on here — backpack or messenger bag? I'm looking about getting something new for the upcoming academic year, but I'm not sure what direction folks generally go in for a work bag.

Once again, The Economist decides that the best thing to do is to be loudly wrong. They did gift us the new buzzword/dog whistle that pseudo-intellectuals on the right will be using over the next few months, so there is that.

Me watching the Federal Liberals and BC NDP falling into the dangerous trap of relying on Conservative incompetence to cover for their bad decisions:

I am going to say something controversial: Pabst Blue Ribbon is not good. I know that’s part of the hipster charm of it, but I have never fully understood why it is considered trendy and cool to drink liquor that does not even taste good. Same with Malort.

My fall classes: -Intro to Turtle Island -Ojibwe History -Genealogy and Clan Systems It’s going to be a great term!

This but my course syllabi, and the best/worst part is that students are REALLY good at finding those errors.

An official card carrying ̶N̶D̶N̶ Indigenous Studies faculty member!

A underrated part of living in Duluth was getting to hear boats salute the lift bridge at all hours of the day—not that there was any shortage of wonderful things about living there. I’m excited to just be a few hours’ drive away again, in just a couple of months.

A fellow from Germany wrote a book arguing that going to space and doing capitalist things are actually good! He cited my 2020 essay about settler colonialism in space and sent me this e-mail, offering to send me a copy of the book:

Discovery is gonna be WILD in this lawsuit. Knowing Weiss, she’ll probably blunder her way into spoliation too.

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I’d imagine these panels also provide shade, no? So, active electricity generation, passive cooling—what’s not to like?

A very pleasant surprise—my nation is working to bring back mashkode-bizhikiiwag (bison) to our territories. If a herd gets established, I want to do collaborative work with the Band and my research group/Indigenous Studies students.

New York Post and Fox News: “COMMUNIST DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST ZOHRAN KWAME MAMDANI BANS BEDTIME, NYC GOVERNMENT TAKING PARENTAL RIGHTS AWAY!!!!”

Happy Pride month, from this Two Spirit Ojibwe!

Connecting at YYC for my flight to Minneapolis. Just saw a white lady scream at a CATSA screening officer and storm off because her bag got pulled for a secondary search. I would never be able to get away with something similar, nor would I try. Airports do bring out bad behaviour, don’t they?

I know that being a professor is not my entire identity, but I still am in very pleasant shock that I will get to be a professor on my people’s homelands starting this fall, doing teaching and research that is very close to my heart.

Speaking as someone who’s on the governing board of my nation’s college, having an opportunity for Indigenous students to attend college or university close to home is a huge game changer. It’s also why I’ll always offer at least a few of my BSU Indigenous Studies courses online/hybrid every year.