I'm glad an increasing number of writers, activists, and people I admire are leaving twitter, closing the comments on their articles/vids, and coming over to Bluesky so I can finally just say nice things to them where they'll hear it.

Quite possibly the best poorly-translated safety warning I've seen in years

Hey, if you're feeling like life has passed you by and you're too old to start something new, remember that John Brown was 55 before he killed his first pro-slavery settler in the Kansas Territory. It's never too late to follow your dreams.

And then you see it. As it strangles and beats your friends to death... the sweetest most courageous people in the world. You see the fear and power in its eyes. Then you *know*. That the bourgeois are not human.

Folks talking about how Gen Z and younger folks in general aren't equipped for the violent collapse of the violent western empire need to give this based rant a listen

I’m sharing this video again because people don’t really get what these data centers and ai are doing to our planet and our communities. Especially Black communities because they were strategically placed there. I need you to listen to these people. STOP USING AI. STOP SUPPORTING AI.

My mom reminded me that milk safety was foundational to why the Women's Institute was formed. Pasteurization has always been a feminist issue!

Had a nice convo with an old lady while delivering her parcel. I explained to her why her mail is late this winter (Canada post is delaying it by denying overtime and then refusing to staff). Then she started going off about "nazi-communists" and chemtrails. Ooooh boy 😆

Fantastic stuff as always by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.

Convinced Taco and his flock to leave the heated coop and venture out into the run. Looking forward to putting a roof over this during the spring

Decades later, Michael Parenti’s "Inventing Reality" remains one of the best-written critiques of mainstream media. It’s a masterclass in how news is shaped to serve power. A must-read for anyone seeking the clarity to cut through the mainstream media’s manufactured narratives.

Outstanding 👏

New polling shows that taxing the wealthy maintains majority support, even among the wealthy themselves. That should be reflected in international priorities. By @dylandusseault.bsky.social. @policyalternatives.ca #wealthtax www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

Every winter I'll deliver mail to residents who'll chat about how rough it must be to do my job in the winter. I really don't mind! What's the worst is the summers where your truck is over 50 C and not all the trucks have AC but have illegal tracking devices instead

I think I need to start listening to this. The reading of JRR Tolkien's take on aircraft is fantastic. I knew Tolkien's work was informed by an anti-war sentiment but didn't know this dude went so hard on it. Is Tolkien based?

Rhymes with boycott Ubisoft (and Microsoft, imo)

"For three decades, the goal of tech development has not been to improve our lives or to serve the public good, but rather to maximize shareholder value and to increase the power of the companies that control it...We need to recognize that was a choice, and we can choose to take a different path."

The lawlessness of the US government provides even further justification for collective efforts to boycott the United States, to make it feel some degree of consequences for its illegal and destabilizing behaviour globally. That means avoiding travel, boycotting its companies, and similar actions.

🎯 This US jingoism is about oil and imperialism. Don't buy the old line about "freedom and democracy." If the US cared about democracy they'd have one that functioned and wouldn't have a reputation of coups, assassinations, and installing monarchs and dictators (see: Shah of Iran). Solidarity with🇻🇪

There’s no getting around the fact that generative AI resides on a foundation of theft and counterfeiting on a previously unimaginable scale.

I mean when they put it that way it's pretty convincing. So when are we smashing up data centres?

And when the billionaires leave us on our dying planet, we'll hold hands and look at all of the AI pictures, internet searches, kids that drones killed, and the banal work we streamlined and say "yeah, this was worth it. I hear it's actually called Global Cooling, btw" Please stop using AI lol

I'd watch this

Why We're Boycotting Xbox: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ybj1...

Very weird feeling waiting for the president to announce an illegal war based on total bullshit that they made up right in front of our faces on TV, almost like I've lived through this moment before

A heated coop and yet Taco the rooster has led the whole flock into the covered dust bath to huddle for warmth 😆

I love that they made him a fan of AI 😂

We used to be a society

Delivering mail in the winter isn't that bad. If the snow is falling it's quite cozy. The bummer part is the ice everywhere and the boss being butthurt when if we didn't finish our route [even though we pay their salaries and they contribute nothing to society ]because of said ice.

don’t you remember…

The working class during #givingtuesday

Why don't you like the pain machine? Asks head of pain machine.

The Battle of Algiers, the movie that Leo's character Bob Ferguson was watching in One Battle After Another, is on Youtube in full and for free and it's a banger. Pro tip: use a browser like Duckduckgo to block YT ads and trackers for free

This is brilliant. Paris Marx outlines some tips in this piece and the whole Bsky thread about how, should you choose to buy tech for people, you avoid making your loved ones unwitting members of the surveillance state

I hope the consumer AI bubble bursts, but what worries me even more than it being used to replace white collar knowledge laborers is AI's role in the military and in state surveillance/fascism

Looking for a budget summary and you aren't an oligarch or the owner of a mid-sized company? Check out what the @ccpa has put together: www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

halloween is the best holiday because it’s the one that’s the most community focused. also because it’s the horniest

The music cuts off awkwardly before the end, but this is an incredible NYC Halloween costume compilation.

Justice for Workers does some fantastic work, btw

Today is a good day to remind everyone that the US narrative claiming the President of Venezuela is a drug trafficker is 100% lies. The Trump administration knows this, the Nobel committee knows this... it is a campaign to manufacture consent for invasion. Don't fall for it.

Canada Post doesn't pay mail carriers to deliver mail if there is no mail to deliver. The letter writer might also want to think about getting real.

Today is the anniversary of the Al Aqsa Flood and the acceleration of the decades long occupation and genocide of the Palestinians. May I live long enough to see the fall of US empire and a free Palestine. Long live the resistance 🍉 ✊

Highly recommend this @upstreampodcast.bsky.social podcast with Chris Gilbert on Venezuela and socialist communes - communal forms of social production that form the basis of a socialist and anti-imperialist national project. And now under direct military threat from the US.

"*I* didn't crash the bus, *I* only let go of the steering wheel. If the passengers didn't want to crash, they should've leaned harder into that last turn."

Between Tranjan getting a piece in the Star and the recent editorial by @lindamcquaig.bsky.social about postal banking 💰 📮, I feel like I'm living in a bizarro world where good faith discourse on the public good is coming back.