The point of the AI project is to provoke despair in creative people. They haven’t produced profits or anything anyone wants, just a steady stream of articles about how us artistic types can’t do the thing we’re already doing, making art. Jokes on them, we’re even better at despair than they are.

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

You can read Roussel's article, "Exhibiting Dawson: Visual Narratives of an Interconnected Past," from our Visual Cultures of the Circumpolar North Part V series, here: niche-canada.org/2025/11/20/e... #envhist #cdnhist #museums #visualculture

Our NiCHE Conversation with Patricia Roussel is now on YouTube! Roussel joined @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social to discuss the centrality and evolution of Dawson City, Yukon’s heritage industry and how collaborative heritage is being employed there. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kr0b... #envhist #cdnhist

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"The Center for Anthropocene History ... is largely an extension of #envhist ... into the complex & rapidly evolving field of Anthropocene practice & thought. History is part of defining our time, as it should be." - S. Sörlin Notes from the ICEHOUSE - liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...

Tams and I are baking this afternoon for the Bake It Happen event this Saturday! Details below. #yxe #saskatoon #treatysix @surjyxe.bsky.social

As former editorial director at @electricautonomy.com (2019-24), I’ve been awaiting Carney’s revamp of Canada’s EV policies with some trepidation. At first glance, I’m relieved. He’s reinstated sales incentives and only moderately relaxed adoption targets. www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/1760cd5...

New @chacruna.bsky.social Chronicle! - "The Tangled Web of Psychedelics and Memory" by @hoodooalphabet.bsky.social Ali McGhee uses a story on recovered memories during MDMA use as a jumping off point for highlighting controversies around psychedelics and memory. chacruna.net/the-tangled-...

Call for Papers – Towards a Critical Canadian Studies Journal of Canadian Studies Guest Editors: Kristine Alexander, Phil Henderson, Will Kujala, Miranda Leibel Abstracts due: March 1st 2026 niche-canada.org/2026/02/03/c... #cdnhist #cdnstudies #canada

This conversation was based on Piercy's video essay, "Controlling Catastrophe: Indoor Gameplay to Support Sensory Dysfunction" - www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAEF... #frostpunk #videogames #sensoryregulation #neurodivergence

Our NiCHE Conversation with @adelinekpiercy.bsky.social is now on YouTube! Piercy joined @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social to discuss Frostpunk and the sensory role of indoor gameplay. www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-53... #envhist #envhum #videogames #sensoryregulation

Had a great time chatting with @saskculture.bsky.social about @skhistoryfolklore.bsky.social’s communication strategy today! Not pictured, our SHFS executive director, communications extraordinaire, and co-interviewee, Kristin Enns-Kavanagh. Podcast episode out soon! #skhistory #saskatchewan

बाउ को धुरी छैन “Father Has No Roof over his head” An #OtherEverests #ConfluenceCollective exhibition in Kalimpong 21-27 February 2026 shorturl.at/YrbVv Lost archives & hidden histories of Indigenous high-altitude workers from the 1920s & 1930s. @nichecanada.bsky.social @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social

2026 Reading Challenge: 13/50 🔸 One Fancy Day by Elle Stephens, illustrated by Dave Aikens 🔸 ⭐️⭐️ 🔸 Review on StoryGraph 🔸 Random House, 2023. 🔸 #wearereading #bookstagram #childrensliterature #spongebobsquarepants #librarybook

Today we are highlighting the research that @danitaburke.bsky.social conducted at the Laurier Archives for the @sealsandsurvival.bsky.social project. niche-canada.org/2026/02/02/s... #envhist #cdnhist #arctic #archives

NiCHE’s series on environmental histories of colonial schooling in Canada, edited by Crystal Gail Fraser and @jdunkin.bsky.social, continues to draw readers in. Our editor-in-chief, @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social, has the lowdown. www.youtube.com/shorts/5PKX8... #envhist

Today’s Recipe: Pumpkin and Almond Bread 🔸 Rating: Do Not Make Again 🔸 Recipe from HEALING FOODS: Cooking for Celiacs, Colitis, Crohn’s and IBS by Sandra Ramacher 🔸 #cookingwithdewitt #baking #recipe #glutenfreebread #glutenfreerecipe

2026 Reading Challenge: 12/50 🔸 Maple and Willow’s Christmas Tree by Lori Nichols 🔸 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🔸 Review on StoryGraph 🔸 Nancy Paulsen Books, 2016. 🔸 #wearereading #bookstagram #childrensliterature #willowandmaple #librarybook

2026 Reading Challenge: 11/50 🔸 The Tooth Fairy 🔸 ⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🔸 Review on StoryGraph 🔸 #wearereading #booksky #peppapig #childrensliterature #librarybook

2026 Reading Challenge: 10/50 🔸 Sharp Ends by Joe Abercrombie 🔸 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🔸 Review on StoryGraph 🔸 Orbit 2016 🔸 #amreading #bookstagram #thefirstlaw #fantasy #librarybook

2026 Reading Challenge: 9/50 🔸 George’s New Dinosaur 🔸 ⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🔸 Review on StoryGraph 🔸 Scholastic Inc., 2014. 🔸 #wearereading #childrensliterature #librarybook #booksky #peppapig

2026 Reading Challenge: 8/50 🔸 Peppa Goes Apple Picking adapted by Meredith Rusu 🔸 ⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🔸 Review on StoryGraph 🔸 Scholastic Inc., 2017 🔸 #wearereading #childrensliterature #booksky #librarybook #peppapig

Successfully finished the StoryGraph January challenge. Read every day last month! I’m @ jmariedewitt over there if you want to connect.

2026 Reading Challenge: 7/50 🔸 Baby Beluga by @raffic.bsky.social, illustrated by Ashley Wolff 🔸 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🔸 Review on StoryGraph 🔸 Knopf Young Readers 1997 🔸 #wearereading #childrensliterature #boardbook #raffi #babybeluga

Latest podcast! We talk to Simone Kenyon, choreographer + artistic creator of the place-sensitive performance piece Into the Mountain, inspired by the lyrical & embodied prose of Nan Shepherd’s 1974 book shorturl.at/ac6QE @nichecanada.bsky.social @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social @tinaadcock.bsky.social

2026 Reading Challenge: 6/50 🔸 The Music of Dolphins by Karen Hesse 🔸 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🔸 Review on StoryGraph 🔸 Scholastic 1998 🔸 #amreading #bookstagram #childrensliterature #librarybook #psychologicalthriller

Tonight’s Recipe: Hungarian Goulash 🔸 Rating: Excellent 🔸 Recipe by My Pure Plants 🔸 mypureplants.com/hungarian-go... 🔸 #cookingwiithdewitt #foodgram #cooking #stew #goulash

Holy moly this chart: Cumulative US measles cases

ICYMI: In its alternative budget for 2026, @policyalternatives.ca laid out how a tax on Canada’s richest could be used to fund the federal public service and create new projects. [https://www.policyalternatives.ca/news-research/alternative-federal-budget-2026-taxation/] rabble.ca/labour/thous...

2026 Reading Challenge: 5/20 🔸 Putting Down Roots: Métis Agency, Land Use, and Women’s Food Labour in a Qu’Appelle Valley Road Allowance Community by Cheryl Troupe 🔸 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🔸 Review on StoryGraph 🔸 @umanitobapress.bsky.social 2025. 🔸 #envhist #metis #skhistory #canadianhistory #womenshistory

New @chacruna.bsky.social Chronicles out today! "A Call for Women’s Representation in Psychedelic Research" by Alexandra Nigri Nigri weaves scientific findings w/ clinical experience to show how gender differences are frequently left unanalyzed in psychedelic research chacruna.net/a-call-for-w...

This conversation will be based on Gilmore's NiCHE and @urbanhistorya.bsky.social article, "Remnant: Urban Prairie Teaches Lessons in Loss" - niche-canada.org/2026/01/15/r... #envhist #urbanhistory #yxe #grasslands #urban

Our next NiCHE Conversation will be on Thursday, January 29th, at 11am EST on Instagram Live @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social will be joined by Carmen Gilmore to chat about Saskatoon's urban prairie and what it teaches us about ecological loss Follow NiCHE on Insta here: www.instagram.com/niche.canada

NEW: One of Pope Leo XIV’s top U.S. allies, Cardinal Joseph Tobin, is calling for the defunding of ICE. Tobin says the “lawless organization” is a “machinery of death.” This marks the first time a senior Church leader has called for ICE to be defunded. More are expected in the coming days.

This hit so fucking hard today.

Following the Kent State massacre in May 1970, a Gallup poll showed that 58% of Americans thought the shootings were justified. The night *before* the killings, Ohio's GOP governor described the student protesters this way: "They're the worst type of people that we harbor in America."

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Note how there's no violence or chaos when the cops aren't rioting.

Here’s my short and simple feedback for the city budget, in case you need some inspiration. @jeremycaradonnayyj.bsky.social @davethompsonvic.bsky.social @susankimyyj.bsky.social #yyj

New @chacruna.bsky.social Chronicle from Virgilio Bomfim, Igor Fernandes Antunes, and Henrique Fernandes Antunes, "Caring for the Vine." "Sustainability ... flourishes on coordinated strategies of cultivation, conservation, and responsible management..." chacruna.net/ayahuasca-co... #conservation

But when I asked an organizer what they wanted to see out of press coverage, they told me they wanted people to see the beautiful things they are building here, and not just the worst stories of the worst of ICE's crimes. What people are doing here is beautiful. It's a tragic beauty, but a real one

I have been actively involved in protest movements for 24 years. I have never seen anything approaching this scale. Minneapolis is not accepting what's happening here. ICE fucking murdered a woman for participating in this, and all that did is bring out more people, from more walks of life.

Tonight’s Recipe: Cracking Christmas Carrots 🔸 Rating: Very Good 🔸 Recipe by Courtney Roulston 🔸 recipekeeperonline.com/recipe/89qsp... 🔸 #cookingwithdewitt #foodsky #recipe #carrots #cooking

Registration if open for @chacruna.bsky.social's Diversity, Culture, and Social Justice in Psychedelics course! It begins January 26th. chacruna.net/press-releas... #psychedelics #medicine #science #socialjustice

2026 Reading Challenge: 4/50 🔸 The Berenstain Bears and Too Much TV by Stan & Jan Berenstain 🔸 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🔸 Review on StoryGraph 🔸 Random House 1984 🔸 #wearereading #childtensliterature #booksky #berenstainbears

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Tonight's Recipe: Bengali-Style Fish in Yogurt Curry 🔸 Rating: Excellent 🔸 From Flavors First: An Indian Chef's Culinary Journey by Vikas Khanna recipekeeperonline.com/recipe/PzpW0... #cookingwithdewitt #cooking #recipe #fishcurry #curry