Throwing this out to ether in hope of clarification: What options will voters have? -Yes [to whole 2-part qn] vs No [to whole 2-part qn]. This makes no sense bc qn contains contradiction. -Stay in Canada vs Initiate binding ref'm (forced choice btn two alternatives). #alberta #abpoli #cdnpoli

"The Round Table was just a lot of people telling jokes and telling each other how good they were. Just a bunch of loudmouths showing off, ... There was no truth in anything they said. It was the terrible day of the wisecrack, so there didn't have to be any truth". (Dorothy Parker, 1956 interview).

From the Department of Sh!tty First Drafts! -a phrase from a dream -raccoons appearing in Edmonton -Moten and Harney's The Undercommons (2013), about (among other things) radical communion in shared condition of debt northofhere1.wordpress.com/2026/04/06/r...

@aircanada.bsky.social Air Canada, you’ve delayed flight AC295 this morning by more than four hours, which means I will miss my connection to Edmonton on AC 2076 at 13h20. Please re-book me to get me to Edmonton this afternoon.

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I am so so so tired of the infantile performative demands for “respect” emitted by Republicans. I learned a long time ago that respect can’t be ordered, it can only be earned; and that if you haven’t earned it you won’t get it by insisting that people put on a performance of subordination.

NO ONE AT UALBERTA: ABSOLUTELY NO ONE AT UALBERTA: PRESIDENT OF UALBERTA: We must get rid of EDI because outcomes > acronyms & bold excellence striding into the future & it might make the UCP like us! Sometimes I’m proud of where I work; other times not so much. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

No. Abolish ice.

UNMASKING ACADEMIA explores how faculty and students managed increasing demands for EDI committee labor, coinciding with the pandemic's weight and continued exposure to racialized violence. Who belongs, and who is tasked with fixing the system? https://bit.ly/3M7SJPe ##RacialJustice #HigherEd

“The bulk of the work was performed by faculty and their department heads, who altered hundreds of syllabi. Deans forwarded 54 courses to the president & provost for final review. The president granted 48 exceptions”. I’d love to hear abt dept heads & deans who said screw this, I will not comply.

Whether or not journalists ever achieve a gotcha moment where a DHS goon says on a hot mic “yes we are Nazis”, these posts & memes move the visual Overton window, licensing other right-wing groups to use more and more ethnic nationalism images. It’s aesthetics creep.

Everybody’s sick (again). Hospitals are buckling (again). But Albertans aren’t getting the shots that could change the game. Why not? #abhealth #abpoli #influenza #vaccination #covid #sociology

These out-of-context slightly-manic snips are lowkey mesmerizing - like if mansplaining and beat poetry had a baby.

This is a #yeg complaint abt juxtaposition of bloated affluence & crappy public services in #edmonton. Sitting in stalled bus stuck behind delivery truck for high-end furniture which is wedged in snow. Another bus stuck in front of us. Giant SUVs zooming past, passengers gawking at plebs on buses.

how can we exist in a world ran by people who don’t think this shit is a problem

now this is how you write a simile by golly! #protoindoeuropean @lauraspinney.bsky.social

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

This is the most pusillanimous and craven thing I’ve ever seen in Jeff Bezos’ @washingtonpost.com, and that’s quite the high bar. Glad my subscription expires next month. @nytimes.com all the way.

Okay this is even more ominous than usual: an unnamed “private donor” gave Trump $130 million to pay the military. So who do the soldiers who work for now?

Good reminder, relevant to #abpoli, that the right doesn’t have much of a track record on “compromising” on their aversion to trans people existing (unless you count “they should not exist” as a compromise position). Centrist and left can’t just cede a little bit of ground and hope for detente.

@aircanada.bsky.social Here I am complaining on X and Facebook bc you cancelled my flight on Aug 17, promised to refund me in 5-7 business days, & deflected/ghosted me when I tried the normal customer support channels. You own this problem, you need to make it right. x.com/amykaler/sta...

Many things to recoil from following Kirk shooting, including the (apparent) expectation in some quarters that Americans in public eye shd perform grief at Kirk's death - which is v different from just not being a gleeful jerk. Coercive theatre of emotion = bad news for democracy & public sphere.

#Edmonton #yegdt needs many things (safe transit, public toilets, any signs of life downtown) & a giant sports playpen for the wealthy is none of them. Why did #yegcc throw >$100 million at it? @AshleyASalvador just lost my municipal vote for supporting this giveaway. globalnews.ca/news/1135140...

The anti #transgender nonsense in #alberta just keeps pounding away. Here’s why I think the latest gender-verification requirements for girls are #Handmaid’sTale bad. It’s a grand time to be a sociologist. #abpoli #bill29 #schools northofhere1.wordpress.com/2025/08/31/y...

Half-Light is one of four finalists for @abbookpub.bsky.social’s Regional Book of the Year! Winner announced at big fancy gala on September 18.

Today @mmaroto.bsky.social @amykaler.bsky.social and I are featured in the @thetyee.ca to discuss the mistake employers are making by mandating workers back to the office.

The #AirCanada strike puts Canadian workers’ rights into focus - we show how everyone benefits when workers have the right to take sick leave & access workplace flexibility policies. Mandatory back-to-office rules create more problems than they solve.

🧵Why are seasonal childhood vaccination rates falling after the initial stages of the COVID-19 pandemic despite a mass increase of viral illness? @mmaroto.bsky.social @amykaler.bsky.social and I add some new understanding to this in our new paper published in The Sociological Quarterly

#Vaccination & social trust in #Alberta: new research from @mmaroto.bsky.social @andiewinnipeg.bsky.social & me. #Measles outbreaks make this especially timely. @picardonhealth.bsky.social of interest to your readers? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Exactly.

Southern Saskatchewan at the peak of a wet summer.

Canada is facing rising infectious disease rates — and US cuts to CDC data are making it harder to track and respond. Experts warn this could impair pandemic readiness and fuel health misinformation across the border. Read more. @amykaler.bsky.social www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...

San Diego neighborhood makes ICE agents retreat

Extreme tech is like extreme woo or extreme natural-health: the political right and left dissolve into each other. The "Abundance" push for deregulation and endless growth seems not that different from Thiel et al wanting to do away with liberal states altogether. newintermag.com/abundance-bi...