Sorry, servers of AI. We are a human-powered organization. #CdnMedia #GenerativeAI

This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu

In this past decade of mass death, there were timid steps in the right direction - at first. But the most coherent, passionate response from the state (and its various apparatus) has been to smash DULF, hire more cops & roll back what little harm reduction we had won.

What establishment Dems tried to do to Mamdani, the BC NDP successfully did to Anjali Appadurai. She was poised to win the leadership race by actually getting people to join the party. The old guard didn't like that, so they crushed the next generation to maintain their grip on power.

Sunrise over the Salish Sea. November 4th, 2025.

worth applying to politics as well. when you're criticizing an action people take "taking the better action next time" is only one of the alternatives people will consider, and worth remembering that "not bothering at all" is another.

CBC News put together an excellent story on yesterday's memorial for Kulbir Kaila at SFU Burnaby, with words from her family. Please take a few minutes to watch and share. Justice for Kulbir. Never again. SFU must end the contracting out of low wage work NOW. www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

Thank goodness for the AI search recommendations: "it looks like you're searching for a particular author who appears in our catalogue. Would you like to search for some gibberish instead?"

losing my mind at “paper-based”. Do you mean fucking paper

Out now! Organize Your Library! Developing the Collective Power of Library Workers from @alaeditionsns.bsky.social Grateful for all the library unionists who spoke to us for the book, and to co-authors @kellymce.bsky.social @mkahn.bsky.social and Angelo Moreno! alastore.ala.org/oryrlib

After the death of a janitor at Simon Fraser, her coworkers say the university, employer and union have all let them down. My latest for @thetyee.ca

For the hundredth time: THERE IS NO ANCIENT ISRAEL! This is a Zionist fantasy. Why is SFU platforming such historically bankrupt hasbara?

Today, the #scholcommlab published a Statement of Support for PACBI Principles. With it, I reject my university's (SFU's) complicity in the ongoing genocide in Gaza, and call them out for restricting my ability to direct the work of @pkp.sfu.ca in a principled way. www.scholcommlab.ca/pacbi/

Border and Rule is available for free download! I wrote a book spanning ICE & borders, Palestine & policing, colonialism & global fascism - in service to internationalist struggles. I can no longer travel to US, but this book (as well @silkys13.bsky.social & @micahh.bsky.social 's) can come to you

Free ebooks from @haymarketbooks.org, including Border and Rule by @harshawalia.bsky.social, which is one of the most important books I've ever read. Download and read, fam.

Read @garthmullins.bsky.social's "Crackdown" over the weekend. Urgent, powerful, and filled with so much love. (If you work in a library, please check to make sure this one is on your shelves) www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/700597...

Librarian here. Got an email from a patron about our "poor selection" of books on AI, w/ list of new books that we HAD to get so ppl could stay informed about this important subject. Title, author, synopsis. Of 11 titles on the list, 10 Did Not Exist. At all. "Yeah, I got it from Ch*tGPT, why?"

I went into my library's database of Chicago area newspapers to confirm this isn't fake, and it's not. @chicago.suntimes.com Why the hell are you using ChatGPT to make up book titles? You used to have a books staff. Absolutely no fact checking?

It brings me no joy to share this, but here's an open letter to the leadership of the Public Knowledge Project (PKP) on what is to me a very serious issue with it's autonomy and political scope. (Note: I've worked for and with PKP for decades). ahemnason.notion.site/open-letter-...

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

people in canada - pay attention to what's unfolding here, and not just w/Trump. Poilievre is promising to criminalize protest, deportations for pro-Palestine activism, withhold $ from universities, deny existence of trans people, implement three strikes laws & huge privatization. fight fascism here

Join me and @belantara.bsky.social as we launch our new book Ways of Knowing: The Worlds Words Create. We'll be joined by series editor @violetbfox.bsky.social. May 8th at 7pm ET! litwinbooks.com/book-launch-...

Vancouver is leading the progressive pushback against the rising right! What an honour to be fighting alongside leaders like municipal by-election winner @seanorr.bsky.social. #cdnpoli #vanpoli #vancouver #vancouvercentre

Every time a fellow academic uses the word "unprecedented" to describe not being able to travel to the US for a conference, I cry in Muslim Ban/brown-people-travelling-to-the-US. Not minimizing the current situation AT ALL, but am old enough to remember 2017/always.

Press Release: BCCLA condemns UBC Profs’ perverse interpretation of University Act bccla.org/2025/04/medi...

One thing I wish people understood about authoritarianism is life often looks more or less the same. Troops aren’t marching down the street every day; people go to restaurants, have their office jobs. But everyone knows that stepping out of line, even slightly, can derail your life with no recourse

Here's a table of how well the seven main candidates in Vancouver's byelection did by polling station. Green for top 2, yellow for 3rd, red for under 10%. I think it tells a number of interesting stories!

Thank you to the people of Vancouver who showed up for democracy, despite everything. #vanpoli #EvictKenSim

Just wow! Amazing work, Vancouver!! @seanorr.bsky.social on more than half the ballots cast! Huge thanks to all the @copevancouver.bsky.social volunteers. Don't you just love some socialism with your morning coffee? ❤️❤️ #EvictKenSim

Beautiful day to stay in line and get @seanorr.bsky.social & @lucymaloney.bsky.social elected to city council!

A University of Virginia professor enlisted students to document the messages—profane, hopeful, despairing—left on library carrels by previous generations and you can browse all 3000+ of them. daily.jstor.org/graffiti-lim...

I love leftie love. Looking forward to voting for both @seanorr.bsky.social & @avilewis.bsky.social this month!

Lost Lagoon sunrise.

It's still early days, but I suspect these will be two of the best books I read this year.

Next week ❤️💗💛🖤

We need to raise about $11,000 by the end of the weekend So please, if you're able to, it's time to dig deep and get @seanorr.bsky.social elected www.copevancouver.ca/support_sean...

This is happening. Due out in November. This research has changed the way I see almost everything about the institutions that are essential to American democracy-libraries, archives and museums. www.fordhampress.com/978153151193...

Fickle March Franz Johnston 1928

BCCLA: Vancouver Public Library's policy is an attack on free expression. While the attacks "claim to be grounded in principles of neutrality, they are anything but neutral. Each of these moments paints a broader, frightening picture of systemic repression on free expression."

Librarians doing anticipatory obedience 😡 🤢 💔 classweb.org/approved-sub... 151 Denali, Mount (Alaska) CHANGE HEADING 151 McKinley, Mount (Alaska) [sp 85082617 ] 151 Mexico, Gulf of CHANGE HEADING 151 America, Gulf of [sp 85084621 ] 📚

new Library of Congress subject heading changes. goodbye “Mexico, Gulf of.” could we be living in a stupider timeline? don’t answer that. this one is bad enough. 📚

Oh, just reading about how this college president uses AI in academic leadership and wondering why, exactly, they need such salaries?

HE'S BACK

We are sorry to learn of the death of philosopher Sandra Harding, who has worked with us on many books over the past several decades. Our condolences to her family, colleagues, friends, and students. buff.ly/UPtMrBQ

SFU is the only Canadian uni member of the NCAA. This latest is a policy of hate & exclusion. I’d like to see my uni admin oppose this absurd ban, or withdraw from the NCAA in protest, but given that they opted for “political neutrality” in the face of genocide, I’m not holding my breath…

Canadians all onboard with boycott, divestment, and sanctions all of a sudden. Huh.

Sunrise over the Salish Sea. March 6th, 2025.