For anyone interested in why there was a strong protest against Frances Widdowson showing up uninvited to ULethbridge today, check out this article from @aptnnews.bsky.social #yql #Alberta #Canada #abpoli www.aptnnews.ca/investigates...

Be the wrench you want to see in the works.

FEED THEM TO THE SOIL, WHERE THEY WILL FINALLY BE OF USE TO BILLIONS OF LIFE FORMS FOR THE FIRST TIME IN THEIR LI— EXISTENCE

Of all the easy things you can do to help the environment, conserve water for communities not corporations, not perpetuate scams, support the labor and rights of creators... *not* using generative AI is the fucking easiest. You absolutely deserve to be shamed for using it for image and text creation

If you want to feel hope flowing through your body, read the comments in here

Racist grifter Frances Widdowson showed up at the U of Lethbridge campus today, “just asking questions” about this. The students SHOWED UP and for about 7 hours made such a ruckus she could do nothing but glower.

Are we ready to acknowledge yet that the problem is not with a handful of bad people, but a massive systemic crisis rooted in colonialism and the resultant trauma it instilled in everyone involved in it?

fund research on menopause you cowards

Whoever is making the online bots pumping up Alberta separatism needs to use Wikipedia and not ChatGPT.

Groundhog predicts there are only 9 springs left

Canadians, Please consider signing this petition asking for renewable energy to be funded equally well as fossil fuels via subsidies. www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

This is who runs this account.

NO ICE AT THE OLYMPICS. Sign the petition: secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/...

The thing that bothers me so much about Carney's joke about greenlighting the Heated Rivalry show is that it furthers the narrative that it's a needle in a haystack. Anyone who reads Canadian books and watches Canadian film knows that we could have dozens more HRs with enough funding.

They went from deriding safe spaces and demanding fierce debate to insisting the entire academy be their safe space from hearing anything about race and gender

husband and I are hanging in the kitchen listening to Mitch & Mickey songs from “A Mighty Wind” and having a bit of a cry.

It’s nearly Imbolc! We are almost halfway between the winter solstice and the vernal equinox!

On the 54th anniversary of Bloody Sunday we are reminded that all oppressed and occupied peoples are brothers and sisters and we are all working in service of the same victory, however dim or bright the hope seems in any moment, from Derry to Gaza to Iran to Minneapolis

Albertans do not own Alberta. It is the land of the Indigenous people. If people wish to join the USA, there are ways to do so. Although, they may want to check how they treat immigrants.

Alberta has been quietly removing books from school libraries, but not listing which ones. Turns out most titles have themes related to 2SLGBTQ+ people A great scoop by @readtheorchard.org www.readtheorchard.org/p/here-are-t...

Safety and moderation tools are fine and good but we won't really be free on this app until we can call brands and newspapers bitch-ass pieces of shit without getting flagged as abusive. You can't abuse a corporation, Bluesky

Since the international student flow has gone down to zero schools can’t fund their departments as well and therefore quality goes down for EVERY student. The moral of the story is that I believe this was fueled by racism

Cutting Health, funding to Indigenous peoples, Food Inspection, environmental monitoring....to boost funding to defence and technocrats is certainly a choice.

Canadians, Ford celebrated a contract from Roshel for armored vehicles being sent to ICE in the US. Here's a template you can use to email the following people: [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] and then include your MP and MPP. There ya go! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

It's only TUESDAY.

If you are Canadian and posted something snarky about ICE today, then you also have to read & share this new piece from Other Eric.

every new baby born gets a birth certificate with a blank gender field and an IWW card

Roshel armoured trucks in action. Elbows up, Canada?

sobbing

got my first of two shingles vaccines today! *cue TPOH “I’m an Adult Now”*

Remember: The insane tyrannical shit you're seeing in the States right now, there is a not insignificant percentage of people in Alberta who want to bring that north.

we need a health care State of Emergency in Alberta! click here to send a letter to the Premier stateofemergency.ca

Once again, TikTok as a whole has not been sold, not even the US part in its entirety, just a part of their US operations. Even the ads and ecommerce features are AFAICT still under Bytedance, so the US operation seems to mostly be user data and custom training for the ‘algorithm’

solidarity forever

The HEI Network is proud to announce the 13th Annual On Cinema Oscar Special. Host New Heidecker has sworn his departure from On Cinema, but Head Buff Gregg Turkington wants the show to go on... Will this be the last Oscar Special ever? Only one way to find out!

People don't get that continually allowing your government to dehumanize people "over there" who maybe don't look like you inevitably leads to them dehumanizing people here who *do* look like you, because they *are* you. None of us is free until all of us are free.

Hey, if you're Canadian and aren't an asshole, this is worth signing. Remember you will need to confirm from the email you use. www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

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I truly hope you or your loved ones are not among the people who are suffering or experiencing a worse outcome while waiting for care in an Alberta ER and/or hospitals. However, if you are/were, please consider sharing your experience - use the form at the bottom of this story. #AbHealth #AbLeg

Mafia goon: Nice house you got here...it'd be a shame if something happened to it Media outlets: Mafia goon rules out use of force. Expresses regret at the mere thought of it

"if you think everyone rallying under a Canadian flag is gonna work, heh, good luck with that. Your national unity is a facade that will crumble the moment you run out of eggs and toilet paper. Your national myths won't save you when you face even minor inconveniences" jeff.doctor/blog/we-can-...

museums are cool because the people who work there are like look at this neat thing and you're like wow that is neat and you just do it over and over again until it is time to go

The guy who ate the A.I. "artwork" in an act of protest might turn out to be a milkshake duck, but I think we should follow his example nonetheless. A.I. has no place in the arts, and all such "art" should be destroyed. *Eating* an A.I.-generated image is art; *generating* the image is not art

I just signed a petition demanding the federal government Ban X/Twitter in Canada. Join me in signing here: you.leadnow.ca/petitions/ba...

I’m seeing increased use of this word and I just want to gently suggest that if there’s one word you can manage to remove from your vocabulary it should be this one. It was coined by a eugenicist who used it as a diagnosis to forcibly institutionalize and sterilize mentally disabled people.

« Canada used to do diplomacy […] If we concede that diplomacy is for pussies and fighting is for Real Men, then we will find ourselves in a fascist trap. »

"New year, new me", I say as I get a new me out of deep freeze and bury the old me in the woods

Important shit that I’m still trying to learn.