is it blasphemous to say i blame heated rivalry for giving me unrealistic expectations for what being in love would be like

“we didn’t even kiss” 😭😭😭

so many more cops rampaging in whalley lately

these closures aren’t just siloed as closures either. they come with escalated theatrics of police violence against ppl profiled for a combo of race, class, Madness, disability, drug use, and so on. showing up to oppose this as witnesses and as interveners is what keeping each other safe is also

If you read one thing on migration in Canada this week—this month!—read this. This is everything: it is smart and heartbreaking and lays it out there. shado-mag.com/articles/opi...

the mainstream narrative regarding extortions and “journalists” leaning into that narrative = manufacturing consent for deportations

hey so if anyone cares they’re really ramping up the police state in so called “surrey, bc”especially w targeting migrants (think of the parallels to what’s happening on lands elsewhere rn) www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/national/pro...

good thing ppl can’t access prescription dillies (dilaudid / hydromorphone) without being witnessed taking their dose, and extra good thing that ppl can’t sell their prescription dillies so ppl will know the content of what they’re using! this is so much better !!!! /s

🎵 get your chicken elsewhere 🎵 *Clap clap clapclapclap*

Eby is amending our provincial policy DRIPA over moral panic that doesn't impact private property owners. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

i feel like i’m screaming into the void about this but the bc govt and sps / rcmp collaboration on the extortion task force — including bringing in more police officers and justifying have more police presence in undefined “high risk” areas — is a very pressing threat to Black/brown im/migrants

Along w/ this, the “COVID protections” era was about whether disabled people should be allowed to participate in public life & lots of people decided no & threw their masks away, refused to learn, adapt or clean the air, & went anti-vax. The killing spread to everyone because it stopped for no one 🤷🏾‍♀️

bumping !! currently the most pressing need is more folks in the care web to provide a place to sleep a couple nights a week or so until karen has access to more stable housing 🙏🏽 pls share + if you’ve benefited from karen’s work / advocacy / knowledge sharing, consider joining the care web

Spending 4 years justifying covid deaths as "taken from the future' and demanding "back to normal", defending and excusing IOF murder of babies, journalists and health workers had already turned journalists into joyful collaborators in state violence, centrist liberalism already made them fascists

@kwardvancouver.bsky.social has become houseless in the past week. she is an incredible and badass human who has given so much life to movements rooted in care especially in the dtes. she could really use some financial support while she’s in this volatile spot. etransfer: [email protected]

article im reading starting off strong w this banger: "From a cultural perspective, Prozac (fluoxetine; Eli Lilly and Company) has replaced Freud as shorthand for talking about what ails us."

the way that “extortions” keep getting framed as something every single person in the south asian diaspora in surrey or abby is at risk of vs. the reality of the wealthy business owners — most if not all of whom are involved in exploitation and / or harassment of their workers — is intentional.

'neurodivergent' was coined to be a socio-political identity / movement marker but has become largely co-opted in clinical settings. it’s meant to highlight the harms of having the imaginary 'neurotypical' which creates social stratification of "un/desirable" bodyminds

three new poems from Jane Shi, allegedly! theseventhwave.org/publication/...

Hi. shit remains bleak and I have a bill to pay this week so I can live indoors, and I need to ask for help. Please if you can pitch in, I greatly appreciate it e-transfer: [email protected]

Me: an “experiment”? so the government is not even trying Drug policy academics: ooh we’ll do science research and publish terrible articles. Will there be grants Government: oh yes Academics: yay and you’ll make polices based on the Evidence we produce Government: lol bsky.app/profile/ctvn...

hmm almost like decrim was never actually decrim to begin w and ended up being a mechanism of social control and control of public space — especially for those who are already deemed “undesirable” aka houseless folks if anything so-called “decrim” created more laws criminalizing drug use

this brings me so much joy 🥹 all my solidarity to the ‘no mild food’ movement across punjabi restos

the interesting thing about the focus on “extortion” atm is that it places high earning business owners as “victims” but the ongoing exploitation of im/migrants and ‘temporary foreign workers’ these same businesses (and beyond) engage in goes unchecked

i hate being in academia because it rly does force me to change the language i think and speak in. like just lemme speak in my surrey jack accent and verbiage n shit fkn rights

the discussion around the expansion of involuntarily treatment in so called ‘bc’ is weakened by perspectives which only centre its expansion and not the totality of disappearing disabled Mad ppl — it is this category which expands but is often neglected in these “liberation” discourses

anyways everyone needs to watch heated rivalry hollanov 4 ever ❤️‍🔥🏒

im predicting the bc extortion task force will also be used to quell dissent along with delegating ICE-esque activity

bc minister of public safety and solicitor general praising police for taking shoes and warm clothing items from people, esp when it’s so cold outside. safety for who exactly???

bruh cbc passive voice is so tryhard lol “bystander dies after collision with surrey bc police bullet officials say collision occurred while bullet was leaving police gun “

current ‘surrey first’ city councillor and mayoral candidate linda annis is the executive director of metro vancouver crime stoppers which adds up w her desire for increasing the police state within surrey bc